Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 1 hour ago:
Can someone explain me how xai raised so many billions that they could have purchased xitter for an even more ridiculous amount of billions?
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They are not a public company so there’s no stock manipulation
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They are not selling API access to the public
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They don’t have some sort of crypto coin scam that they could print when need some cash flow
Where those billions come from? It’s just melon charging ridiculous prices to his own companies? Like if Tesla needed some sort of ai api Key they’re going to pay xai 100000% over the market value? Isn’t that illegal, money laundering or something like that?
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- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 1 hour ago:
Especially denying/deporting refugees that will otherwise be killed for having helped the American government (example: Afghanistan)
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 1 hour ago:
For fdroid the app is compiled on fdroid servers when dev tags a new release on GitHub. So the app matches the source, it’s not possible to put a tainted APK to download
Now, if the malicious code is slowly added to the source over the course of an year like it happened with the xz utils, this won’t change the result, but it’s easier to do so with a compiled binary. Release clean source and infected binary, it will take a longer time to get caught
For the closed source app stores, on iOS there’s the manual inspection (which is not infallible especially if they timebomb or geofence the bad feature) and for Google there’s the automated inspection (which fails often seeing the news) that should find problems
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 10 hours ago:
No it’s a thin layer of steel hot glued to a plastic shell
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 18 hours ago:
AND complete it 1-2 months before release date to allow manufacturing and shipping.
They complete it 1-2 months AFTER release date now…
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 18 hours ago:
The worst part is that it’s technically possible to do that using the bd-live 2.0 specification
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 1 day ago:
When I saw the process to add Google drive support to an app I thought: “wouldn’t be easier to just discontinue the public APIs?”
If I was a dev I would immediately remove the integration instead of paying the required thousands (yearly!) to keep it. Then in the app explain the situation to the customer, add a referral link to Dropbox, onedrive or other competitors
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 1 day ago:
You get apps a couple days earlier
But it comes with a huge downside: if dev goes rogue or gets hacked, you could install a malicious version of the app that doesn’t match the source
- Comment on Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal 2 days ago:
But then they counted how many zeroes there were on the check, and suddenly they were totally fine in assisting genocide
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 days ago:
This is pure speculation, the language in the t&c describes what happens now: the console and/or the account gets banned from online gaming
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
Inb4 Trump invents tariffs on foreign coded software
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 week ago:
It automatically encrypts the drive only if admin has a Microsoft account (to backup the key on their cloud servers for easier
LEO accessdata recovery) and the PC is a prebuilt - Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 week ago:
The decryption key is saved in the Microsoft account, the error message explains that
I also almost got a panic attack when my Lenovo updated the bios and i was locked out
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- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
There were alpha versions of windows 8 with less glaring/annoying bugs than windows 11, though
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Power move by the zucc by first asking how much genai is used at Microsoft then refusing to answer his own question at Facebook 😂
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 190 comments
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 2 weeks ago:
I tried it on my car but it doesn’t turn on anymore. Deceiving news
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 2 weeks ago:
Wtf is that website? Why there are no ads at all, the article is well written without evident use of a LLM and it’s extremely thorough in writing? Without even a pause “article continues in the next ad-ridden page”. I didn’t know that it was technically possible to make websites like that
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just tpm 2.0 support, but simply Intel 8th gen or higher or Ryzen
Intel 6th gen CPUs could totally support tpm 2.0 but they decided to cut them off because $$$
There is no real technical reason, management wanted the line to go up so they had meetings and meetings with the engineering teams in order to find a somewhat reasonable excuse to send to the landfill millions and millions of perfectly usable computers
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 weeks ago:
That Gemini chat in messages is also completely useless, as they didn’t implement a memory so the bot will lose context and give irrelevant responses immediately at the first reply.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 weeks ago:
I am so sick of that meta ai button that can’t be disabled in WhatsApp that I constantly paste the bee movie script just to let them pay hundreds of thousands of useless tokens. Hopefully one day they will block me or let me block that shit
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 3 weeks ago:
As an European i don’t understand at all those open trucks. The back side is completely wasted space, is unusable, stuff will get stolen when you park (or even at the traffic light), or will get soaked in rain. It also lowers aerodynamic efficiency. That one time in my life when i would need to move a fridge or a mattress i could just rent it for 3 hours
- Comment on This is real 3 weeks ago:
A service that proxies and cleans xitters content so musk doesn’t get the money from the few advertisers left in that cesspool
- Comment on The good old days 4 weeks ago:
According to Gemini, this photo is 100% real because “The image caption states it’s from 1948. AI image generation technology as we know it today did not exist at that time.”
Because we all know that’s completely impossible to write a fake caption over an image
- Comment on The good old days 4 weeks ago:
less irritating
Have you ever saw an ad like “our restaurant just gives you a mild food intoxication” 😂
- Comment on Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US) 4 weeks ago:
To add more to ridiculous is that the diy edition originally came from factory with the RAM installed (for testing and certification) but then they pay someone to remove it
- Comment on Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US) 4 weeks ago:
I like the concept, but I hate that the four USB modules aren’t included in price. It’s ridiculous to be almost forced to pay €40 for having 2x glorified 3 cm cord extensions on each side
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 5 weeks ago:
unless you stumble on a brick, fall down and accidentally install a rp2040 on the switch, then accidentally flash picofly when trying to understand what’s going on
- Comment on Peak Trump Performance 5 weeks ago:
“Perfect as always sir, right on the green!”
