exocortex

@exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei tr-fold review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you can dip your toes into using lineage os or graphene os?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes

  … for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but as long as we still have capitalism I support measures that at least slow down the destructiveness of capitalism. AI is like a new powertool in capitalism’s arsenal to dismantle our humanity. Sure we can use it for cool things as well. But right now it’s used mostly to automate stuff that makes us human - art, music and so on. Not useful stuff like loading the dishwasher for me. More like writing a letter for me to invite my friends to my birthday. Very cool. But maybe the work I put in doing this myself is making my friends feel appreciated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can Brazil rent out that judge to Europe for a Sec?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah that’s just ridiculous. omg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also a great example why these mega corps should be broken up into smaller pieces.

  If forced arbitration persists (and this argumentation from Disney is successful and then used as precedence) any service used from one company can be used to forever ban you from taking legal action against that company again even if the service and the reason for the legal action have nothing to do with each other.

  Am I right in understanding that this case is about someone dying from eating in a Disney owned restaurant that by accident was a Disney+ subscriber?

  If one company owns everything like Amazon, Google, Apple and in the future maybe even water supply, garbage collection, operates my car and is my insurer or bank account (and owner of one of the 4 remaining fast food chains in the country) how can people actually sue a company then ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I quit netflix recently after almost 10 years of continuous subscription. When they raised the price again it was a good Occasion although not the reason. I think so was done with it for a while now.

  I guess I’ll start reading books again - or watch a few films instead of stretched out series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using none of these. But what i use almost all the time : possibly = evtl (eventuell) maybe = vllt (vielleicht) kindest regards = LG (Liebe Grüße) e.g. /for example = zB (z.B.: / zum Beispiel) (i omit the dots and colons)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently Microsoft didn’t get the memo :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it let’s you use the iPod like a USB drive where you can play anything that you put on there. it can also play ogg vorbis or vorbis or a lot of at her formats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “machines mimicking living things” does not mean exclusively AI. Many scientific fields are trying to mimic living things.

  AI is a very hazy concept imho as it’s difficult to even define when a system is intelligent - or when a human is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  on the contrary! it’s a very old buzzword!

  AI should be called machine learning. much better. If i had my way from here on it would be called “fancy curve fitting” from here on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read a comparison of several newer file formats (avif, heic, webp) with jpeg-xl. The conclusion was that jpeg-xl was on par in terms of compression, sometimes better and very fast. also it can re-compress jpgs directly.

  here’s an article describing it cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has less to to with people having MBAs and much more to do with companies having shareholders. Once you’re a publicly traded company there are overwhelmingly strong external forces that compell companies to increase revenue. Even if the business model is perfectly solid and it doesn’t make sense to expect rising profits the shareholders only care about growth rates. On the stock market a companies value is only dependent on its growth.

  Take Netflix for example. They’ve had so many users some years ago when they were basically the only streaming service that one might have said they reached market saturation. That would’ve been a money making machine that people could be content with. But since the market always needs growth it isn’t enough and netflix is always trying to “innovate” or squeezie more monthly payments from the existing customer base.

  cory doctorow has coined the great word “enshittification” to describe this process. And its driven by the need to grow further even though its to the detriment of the service or the customers. In the end it’s the people with the MBAs doing it. But if they’re not doing it the shareholders replace them with those that do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it is possible now to copy your data to another account on another instance.

  in the future lemmy might even support something like having your account automatically backed up to another instance. Similar to a backup email address at your main email address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  everyday

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is making moves for Mastodon integration⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it be possible for the mastodon software to detect if users are connecting via threads and replace all images in posts with a different image - one that says e.g. telling people that Zuckerberg doesn’t care about raising tennage suicide rates through Instagram or something similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like Kurzgesagt is describing the Fediverse in their latest video?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  kinda. but compared to e. g. Twitter its much more splinteted. Twitter is more like one giant city. also your seeing mostly what Twitter decides. mastodon shows you what you subscribed to. things are less viral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also “Yeah what are people’s minds really?”. The fact that we cannot really categorize our own minds doesn’t really mean that we’re forever superior to any categorized AI model. The mere fact that right now that bleeding edge is called an LLM doesn’t mean that it cannot fuck with us - especially if it is an even more powerful one in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple officially unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max: 3 nanometer, Dynamic Caching GPU, more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What is “dynamic caching”? The article mentions that iris new, but nothing more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i wanna have fun programming again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to have some fun again, maybe program a little with artsy-fartsy shaders.

  Make a little blog that showcases them and write a little animation everyday - or twice a week.

  I’ve seen also “shadplay” which lets you easily write and run shaders using rust. There was also this other tool where people could live-code shaders, but I forgot the name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another spoken word album is coming from Bill Shatner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I missed it. Will listen. His Common People cover was so perfect. I bought the CD recently. Gotta give this one also a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t we buy it?

  Could this be a kickstarter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  !Who in their right mind makes that decision as a producer?!<

  Business-people obviously and sadly. I mean movies have always been a business first, but since there are now basically only 2 or three large companies left with a much larger share of the income they can much better predict the expected income. Everything becomes more efficient. With thousands of little studios competing each individual project is kind of hustling around at random. It’s hit or miss at random basically. But a small studio wouldn’t do focus-grouping in order to increase a movies financial success. Focus-grouping would be too expensive for a small project. Those things only make sense financially if your movie is fairly large OR your company already has a well oiled marketing-department that focus-groups for basically every movie automatically. But with focus-groups you obviously always aim for what most people like. It’s like the lowest denominator. That’s why so many things feel so boring in marvel/disney-productions. There’s no too room for random happy accidents.

  i still have hopes for cinema though, since the incredible rise of the A24 brand in recent years for me is a clear signal that people are fed up with this marvel/disney-monoculture-assembly-line that clogges up the cinemas. One major aspect of the disney-death-star is that Disney basically prevents other productions from materializing. They even prevent their own productions from. materializing as their planning shows them that N large movies a year is about the most they can extract from the movie-going audience. So they will not produce more big budget blockbuster because that would only waste money. Similar with competitors: They know that their big budget movie will have to compete with e.g. Marvels new this-and-that that weekend (or another Disney release at another time) and will not produce a movie. Disney is clogging up the cinemas with their grey goo.

  A24 simply made movies that are different and not aimed at everyone. That simple idea was e extremely radical.