FauxPseudo
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 days ago:
Buddddiey
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 days ago:
Always read the fine print.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 days ago:
In plain English this means
Me “Have you checked for eggs recently? I just saw a bunch in the nesting boxes. Too many for one day.” Wife “Yeah, it’s been a while. Even Rose [the duck], who hasn’t laid an egg in five years, probably laid one.” Me “I haven’t seen our special needs cat, the one we trapped as part of a TNR run on our own property, in the last 12 hours. Have you seen that blessed dumb beast who walks like he is drunk? If you see him now could you bring him inside?”
Any sufficiently developed culture has its own language. In this house we go out of our way to make obtuse inside joke references to keep each other on our toes.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 days ago:
Or at least not in conversational English. Me “The cheese is old and moldy.” Wife “Roses eggs” Me “Bach unaccounted.”
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 2 days ago:
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 days ago:
Jokes on them. I don’t have phone conversations
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Always a tradoff
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have a tower to put the poppy drive in. I’d rather make sure that these end up in a good home.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A poor musician always blames their instrument.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
These came out in 98 And 99 so odds are they paid retail
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You are correct. Sorry about that everything after 8-inch floppy is a blur.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
I had that happen too. Couldn’t find something with DDG. Hopped over to Google and was shocked at how completely unusable it was.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 weeks ago:
I’m only going to focus on one part because it shows the disconnect between you and I.
If you have a working printer, toner, paper…
Who said anything about a printer? I said hard copy. Not printout. Write it down. Carve it into rock or shape it in clay. 3000 cycles and you keep limiting yourself. That 200 pounds of copper wire could be pounded flat and marked with a sharp tool to create a long lasting hard copy. So many options for a hard copy and you defaulted to the one option we can’t even get to work when everything is working.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 weeks ago:
90% of people would die within the first three months because they don’t know how to cook and we have a three day supply rule in stores relying on just-in-time delivery.
If you make it past the first 90 you probably have seeds in the ground to get you to the next 90. We don’t just inherit the environment, we shape it. We can start growing our own food within weeks, not reliant on ancestors
But let’s get back to the topic. 3000 charge cycles, your number, is a lot. All that time can be used to make hard copies of essential information. You can learn how to salvage wire and build new energy sources. An average 2100²ft empty house has almost 200 pounds of copper wire in the walls. 3000 cycles to learn.
But thanks for telling me who I am and what skills I already have.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 weeks ago:
The average hunter gatherer only worked for about 3-6 hours a day. They had more free time than we do.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 weeks ago:
Point is that 3000 cycles is more than enough time to find or make a replacement even if society doesn’t rebuild.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 weeks ago:
That’s… a lot of cycles. That’s almost a decade. Plenty of time to build an electric generator from scratch by traveling on foot to a copper mine and smelting the wire yourself. Unless you manage to pull an alternator from a car that can’t find gasoline and save yourself the trip. From that you could make a gravity battery or any number of other options.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 weeks ago:
The average laptop is 65W. So the 40 amp solar battery station I built with a 100w panel could run a laptop 7 hours a day without any issues at all. Plenty of time to get actionable information out of it.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 weeks ago:
The Amish are not self-sufficient. They are self-reliant. And it takes a minimum of 50 families for them to have a functioning community. What you’re describing is more of a frontiersman.
- Comment on Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations. 3 weeks ago:
How many of those orders are Americans trying to get around import restrictions and tariffs?
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 4 weeks ago:
Corporate sponsorship of luxury foods for people that can already afford to buy them.
Note for those reading this years from now. Eggs were the reproductive cells of birds. They would be eaten as a source of cheap protein and used in baked goods.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 4 weeks ago:
Probably going to be the first episode where they will need to beep out a swear word
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 4 weeks ago:
This has a CVE score of 10. The next Security Now podcast episode is going to be lit.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 5 weeks ago:
ZeroCool flavored Doritos.
- Comment on AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say 5 weeks ago:
Also companies understand that to create a senior dev they need a junior dev they can train.
We live in a world where every company wants people that can hit the ground running, requires 5 years of experience for an entry level job on a language that’s only been out for three years. On the job training died long ago.
- Comment on AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say 5 weeks ago:
But the only way to learn debugging is to have experience coding. So if we let AI do the coding then all the entry level coding jobs go away and no one learns to debug.
This isn’t just a code thing. This is all kinds of professions. AI will kill the entry level which will prevent new people from getting experience which will have downstream effects throughout entire industries.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 5 weeks ago:
Now this loophole will make sure everything is a cell phone or computer. Every toy will suddenly have gps a gig of ram and a touch screen. Micromachines are going to be lit.
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 5 weeks ago:
You expect me to remember 25 years ago?
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 5 weeks ago:
If you recognize that then you were a slashdoter. Once a slashdoter always a slashdoter.
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 5 weeks ago:
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things.
