SlopppyEngineer
@SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 10 hours ago:
It’s the country where the prime minister leaked the meeting ID of the unsecured cabinet meeting.. They really don’t get security.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 2 days ago:
Clicks.tech keyboard case of you really want to know
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 2 days ago:
It’s why somebody make this. They too were missing the keyboard
- Comment on Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better 2 days ago:
In modern context, with Musk censoring and banning everyone and everything he doesn’t like, having a backdoor into a country’s financial system and probably also deportation, that statement is ominous as hell.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 4 days ago:
It’s going to get worse. I suspect that this’ll end with LLM taking the part of a production programs. Juniors just feeding it scenarios to follow, hook the thing up to a database and web page and let it run. It’ll gobble power like there’s no tomorrow and is just a nightmare to maintain, but goes live in a quarter if the time so every manager goes with that.
- Comment on Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform 1 week ago:
A chess program is officially AI. Certainly not human level or general intelligence of course. Kinda like a wheelbarrow is a vehicle, but so is the space shuttle.
- Comment on Are Dating Apps Getting Worse? 1 week ago:
For a short time until they get enough market share and they switch on monetization.
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 1 week ago:
When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 1 week ago:
Seeing how Tesla sales took a nosedive after Musk went full Nazi and the eXodus is still ongoing, the everything app is not going to be popular.
- Comment on Jeep's annoying pop-up nags you to buy an extended warranty at every stop sign 1 week ago:
Who knows it will spawn an industry of standardized EV chassis you can buy and 3D print shops for the custom body when regular car producers go too far with spying and nagging.
- Comment on The End of an Era: Exploring the Final Sony MiniDisc Walkman Models 1 week ago:
It was both. They promoted the sound quality and ease of use of a CD, the reliability and ability to recording of cassettes and smaller form factor than both.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 1 week ago:
The issue isn’t the way of testing, but the two standards. If Musk blows up rockets in testing it’s a genius move with rapid iteration. If NASA does this it’s irresponsible handling of tax payer’s money on risky endeavors.
- Comment on Can The EV Charging Business Survive the Trump Administration? 1 week ago:
But the battle for public transportation has been fought and lost already.
- Comment on historical inaccuracies 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 weeks ago:
Microlino, Fiat panda grande, Renault 5, Citroën Ami and others. The smaller and more affordable versions are getting there.
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 2 weeks ago:
38% of the population as user. 20% daily active users. The classic way to grow is to squeeze the users and advertisers more and more with fees, subscriptions, tiers, … I guess the exodus at X has them spooked of what could happen if they continue with that plan, so they’re trying this AI thing.
- Comment on Did anyone else notice the similarity? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Did anyone else notice the similarity? 2 weeks ago:
There your go
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 2 weeks ago:
Meta is probably screwed already. Their user base is not growing as before, maybe shrinking in some markets, and they need the padding to cover it up.
- Comment on Before GPS There Was LORAN 1 month ago:
I thought it was called Hawaii
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 1 month ago:
Social media has a very good ratio of information spreading versus effort required. It’s also why it’s a popular thing for misinformation and influence campaigns.
In contrast, if a government agency wants to make a website for this, it probably needs a proposal, budget request, approval by a commission, a bidding process, and other bureaucatic procedures put in place by politicians that wanted to lower spending.
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 1 month ago:
It’s the owning class. They’re always treated differently from the wiring working class. Reminds me of history in Europe where the noble families ruled. Often these families were more inbred than any Southern stereotype ever was, and intellectual faculties to match, but they were they bosses. It’s also why every fairy tale starts with a beautiful princess to let you know it was fiction as in reality most princesses were inbred horrors.
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 1 month ago:
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 2 months ago:
What are platforms going to do about it? Start to demonetize AI generated videos and ban AI written fan fiction?
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 2 months ago:
Are AI models then going to train on the content they themselves created? What is the impact of that?
It leads to model collapse. The second AI starts to focuses on certain patterns in the output of the first AI instead of the actual content and you get degraded output. They are pattern matching machines after all. Repeat the cycle a few times and all output becomes gibberish. Think of it as data incest.
So the AI companies are pretty desperate for more fresh user data. More data is the only way they have currently to push through the diminishing returns.
- Comment on Cowboy 2 months ago:
That’s a City Slickers grade humor.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 2 months ago:
Yeah. The one that say the government should not interfere with companies except when another company inconveniences him.
- Comment on China's push for more babies as demographic crisis deepens lacks real incentives, analysts say 3 months ago:
Pay women a decent wage per child, like a good part of the average wage per child until the child turns 18. That’ll be a clear incentive to get children. Everything else is just ineffective tinkering. In a classic rural setting children were a labor force. In a modern urban setting they’re a very expensive hobby with lots of unpaid labor. In a quid pro quo world, pay up. Children are not free. If that’s not possible then a growing population is not economically viable in the current system. Better luck in the next system.
Some regimes have tried to force the issue, banning all abortions and contraceptives. The end result was a population that was shrinking more slowly and orphanages overflowing because children were dumped as people didn’t have enough money to support them.
- Comment on Only clean cars are target 3 months ago:
More fun, they have no butthole or a peehole. It’s a cloaca, what is basically the combination of both and what comes out of it is also the combination of both. Dinosaurs were built the same way.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You don’t want to live on Mars when Musk is in charge of the oxygen you breath.
