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- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 day ago:
I feel like some sort of scheme will be invented to fuck your average person over when that time comes.
- Comment on SK hynix to spend $13 billion on the world's largest HBM memory assembly plant amid the worst shortage on record — South Korea facility to handle packaging and testing for AI memory campus 1 day ago:
On record.
We only started keeping records in 2006.
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 4 days ago:
Yeah, I described this more in another reply. And the more I described what I would want from an ai assistant the more it made me realize how bad it would be for society.
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 4 days ago:
That’s true, these supposedly intelligent systems are really stupid about this stuff still. Especially with limited room to store that additional ever growing context about you.
I wasn’t accounting for quality, and it’s bad right now for this. And I’m skeptical it will get better. The models need to be tactful about using accumulated knowledge about the person driving.
I can’t help be feel my descriptions getting more and more similar to just describing a competent person. And, I’m aware I’m being idealistic and what I’m OK with won’t be a product any time soon.
I guess it would be fully on device, encrypted at rest and have a perfectly good memory of our conversations and it would be tactful in bringing in knowledge into conversations. I dunno, I’m just describing the ideal personal assistant AI. And many people would make it a companion. And… yeah, anyway. Surveillance capitalism and pervasive advertising is bad.
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 4 days ago:
I would be ok with it being like a person, more like an acquaintance at work maybe. Specifically having the AI know about me only based on what I’ve said.
But none of this surveillance economy stuff. And the AI model can be no snitch to big ad tech.
- Comment on Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage 4 days ago:
Wow, 12 hours
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 days ago:
You guys were right. I’m on Voyager!
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 days ago:
That’s because you went to Lemmy.world/digg.com 😏
- Comment on Google Says Its New AI Shopping Protocol Will Not Use Data to Overcharge Consumers 5 days ago:
Just tell us how you are going to prevent this abuse, and how your policies forbid it. It’s easy Google. Just do that and you will quiet all concerns.
- Comment on How do you build revolutionary optimism in these dark times? 5 days ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on How do you build revolutionary optimism in these dark times? 5 days ago:
Can you be more specific about software? Because it feels like the consumer software I grew up loving is all a buggy mess of poor design decisions these days.
Am I just not able to accept the bugs anymore and they were always there? I can’t tell anymore.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 6 days ago:
I have the original Echo, and it still works. For some reason I had it running and it had an alert recently. So I asked what it was, and Alexa promoted being able to upgrade and told me how it’s so much better and stuff. And told me I just had to give it the go to upgrade.
So I did. And then AND THEN it told me my device is too old.
Fucking POS. I unplugged it again. I use it as a stand for my HomePod Mini.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 week ago:
But you launch Fortnite to access it on every platform. There isn’t an “Epic UGC” app. So this is what Fortnite has become. An umbrella for experiences that include Battle Royal.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 week ago:
Those in the industry know that the guy running the content in question is just using the most profitable techniques available to him.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 week ago:
It’s a very complicated compression algorithm.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 1 week ago:
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 1 week ago:
This one’s all on Logitech.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
huh, if there isn’t explicit content in the repos, the ban is nonsense. Makes me assume this will get resolved eventually.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
I like how the article just regurgitates facts from Wikipedia just like the the thank you email does.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 2 weeks ago:
None of that makes you look at mutilated children, though.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 2 weeks ago:
Moderation is the most difficult aspect of tuning social media platforms.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the people who are racing to download it all want to use it for profit. AI companies, companies that run databases, etc.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of unhappy gamers downvoting us.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
Some of the comments on this post sound really addicted to PC gaming.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Not feeling great about the opening saying keys are necessarily locked to a single device. If that was true, they wouldn’t be in active use.
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 4 weeks ago:
With a Japanese Apple ID and probally GPS spoofing too, sure.
- Comment on Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages? 4 weeks ago:
I always assumed some sites harvest what ever you enter in the first box. Especially if it’s an email address. But other people in this thread have the legitimate answer.
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 4 weeks ago:
Do YouTube next. Do websites next.
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 5 weeks ago:
“How can we compete with Apple TV’s prestige shows?”
- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 5 weeks ago:
There’s a chance most of the historical bullshit and nonsense (pre bots) was 16 year olds and younger…