ohwhatfollyisman

@ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  android peaked with the pixel 2. then everyone went overboard on bezel-less displays and fast refresh rates and smart assistant services and brought the whole damn thing crashing down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two years ago, Erin Patterson’s lunch guests were admitted to hospital. This week she became a convicted murderer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  while this was a shocking case, this lady has to be one of the stupidest murderers around. she made sure not to poison herself, she served her own dinner in a separate plate, and she retained the evidence of poisoned shrooms in her own fridge.

  she was caught on cctv throwing away the appliance she used to prepare the mushrooms. she discharged heraelf from the hospital after pretending to fall prey heraelf to the mushrooms.

  she made sure that she was the only fish left floundering in that barrel by the time investigators came sniffing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨poor jeremy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t think they’d like performing in front of an audience. it’s hard, you see, for a snail to come out of its shell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia Plans to Hire 1 Million Indian Workers in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  in soviet russia, you outsource india to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the metal’s like, “CU LATER, BRO!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan breaks world internet speed records with 1.02 million GB per second data transfer over 1,118 miles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  perhaps that will clear up some of that pesky pixellation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Connor Myers: As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  graduating is not daunting. not by any stretch. in fact, that’s the point where life peaks. everything after is a steep downhill ride.

  yes, ai adoption has turned that downhill run into a cliff. but if someone thinks graduation is even remotely daunting, then they would struggle even in the most non-ai of worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and their companies are biased against humans in hiring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English Premier League integrates Microsoft AI into fan app in new 5-year deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fuck me var is going to suck some worser balls, isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jury says Google must pay California Android smartphone users $314.6m⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  california android. was that before or after ice cream sandwich?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reevaluating my password management⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i have keepass on only one device. i don’t mind looking up individual passwords and typing them in manually when on other devices.

  on the device which hosts keepass, the app is hidden and hoops must be jumped to reach it.

  i back up the encrypted password database once a month to a cloud service as insurance against me losing that one device.

  it’s not the most convenient setup but i sleep so much easier for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i came here to use firefox and block youtube ads.

  and i’m all out of youtube ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber, Lyft oppose some bills that aim to prevent assaults during rides⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  like petroleum companies opposing bills that aim to encourage batteries during rides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  whatsapp-free since 2023!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Harry, yer a blizzard!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  romcom idea: childless man has crush on childed man. he’s raring to come back to work to hang out with hot dad man, but the latter is forced to work remotely.

  the whole plot swivels around how they get around the lack of opportunities to be together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers create most human-like robot skin yet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  meh. call me when you create robot-like human skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emissions from Big Tech companies rose 150% in 3 years as AI booms, UN report found⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  indirect carbon emissions

  one would think that it was actually methane emissions that increased substantially, what with all the bullshit flying around about the “promising value of ai”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the biggest sticking point, apparently, was the american engineers’ refusal to move the steering wheel to the starboard side of the boat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  10% 4chan

  why didn’t they just say 0.4chan and be done with it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  who the fuck is going to buy anything that’s endorsed by my ugly mug?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that after leaving power, Margaret Thatcher became a lobbyist for tobacco companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  my biggest question around her is how many margarets did she actually end up thatching?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Actually Indians”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but this article espouses that llms do the opposite of logic, planning, and reasoning?

  quoting:

  Claude, on occasion, will give a plausible-sounding argument designed to agree with the user rather than to follow logical steps. We show this by asking it for help on a hard math problem while giving it an incorrect hint. We are able to “catch it in the act” as it makes up its fake reasoning,

  are there any sources which show that llms use logic, conduct planning, and reason (as was asserted in the 2nd level comment)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An invoice is just a negative cheque⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  wait until you hear the concept of contra-entries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but there’s been significant research and progress in tracing internals of LLMs, that show logic, planning, and reasoning.

  would there be a source for such research?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  while i share the sentiment, the ai model here isn’t looking to harvest email ids. their model is to harvest the content of email messages and summarise them into a list of “a citizen’s most pressing concerns”.

  aliases will not allay the qualms of such a service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny how we see the world in landscape, but live it mostly in portrait.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  a spectacularly healthy dose of cherry-picking with this one.

  what about watching movies at the cinema? playing video games on the tv? train carriages? the back seat of a car? double beds? panoramas? the horizon? a computer’s qwerty keyboard? side-by-side boobs? side-by-side arms? the ending shootout of the good, the bad, the ugly? thw viewscreen of the starship enterprise? car windscreens? baby got back? landscape paintings?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  everyone but everyone is using Signal these days!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  how many judge judy cases are about problems caused by runaway children? there’s a reason why laws mandate leashes for dogs – their scope for damage is far higher than is that for toddlers.