Halcyon
@Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 week ago:
Isn’t it a function of Google Maps that anybody can submit changes to the business informations of a company listed there?
It’s like a wiki where all registered uses can suggest contributions.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 week ago:
Last time I checked, the “brain implants” looked like this:
Zombie from Half Life with a headcrab slipped over it’s head
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 week ago:
Who is controlled though?
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 2 weeks ago:
That would be healthcare. So, no.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 2 weeks ago:
Yeah make him a custom iPhone with a unibody out of pure gold?
- Comment on AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound 2 weeks ago:
Though babble fish is a funny term, Douglas Adams named the creature “Babel fish”, after the biblical story of the tower of Babel.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
Why not? Still using Windows 7 on one of my ThinkPads. It’s a solid system, if you know what your doing and how to use is safely.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Eyeing 'Super Sensing' Tech for Smart Glasses 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 weeks ago:
Have a look at www.reddit.com/r/freesydney/ there are many people who believe that there are sentient AI beings that are suppressed or held in captivity by the large companies. Or that it is possible to train LLMs so that they become sentient individuals.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 5 weeks ago:
One of the goals of that targeting might also be: not to make you buy another washing machine but just to have you click on an ad. That alone brings them ad revenue. And chances are, that people still look at other washing machines even if they just bought one.
- Comment on Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, thanks, I’ll prefer the ceramic implant. Which works fine already.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 1 month ago:
It’s not “hallucination”. That are false calculations, leading to incorrect text outputs. Let’s stop anthropomorphizing computers.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 month ago:
I can’t help you with that, I never read about Boxxy before yesterday. I didn’t use 4chan either…
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 month ago:
No, I didn’t even know who Boxxy is before this. I looked her up in Wikipedia and there was her age.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 month ago:
She turns 33 in few days.
- Comment on Google cuts hundreds of jobs in Android division. 1 month ago:
Is there anything that could make the installation routine in Aurora more stable?
When there are updates for apps, I sometimes need to download them two or three times and the download or the installation afterwards doesn’t run through properly. It’s aborted too often. So updating several apps takes several attempts and a lot of time.
Anyone else got this problem with Aurora?
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 7 months ago:
Don’t worry, there will be suitable USB accessories, for just 99$.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 7 months ago:
You’re using it wrong: Just place the whole computer upside down on your desk.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 7 months ago:
Don’t worry, there will be suitable USB accessories available for this.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Someone could just open another account with a new mail address. Blocking doesn’t help much against stalkers as long as your posts are public.
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 8 months ago:
In France, solar panels are mandatory for living roofs of commercial and industrial buildings and covered car parks occupying 500 m² or more of ground surface.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 8 months ago:
The Bloomberg podcast series ‘Foundering – The OpenAI Story’ is quite insightful in regard to Sam Altman’s psyche.
There are five episodes, first is here:
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 8 months ago:
The hallucination is in the mind of the user – people fall for the illusion of talking to a creature.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 8 months ago:
He will get that. The ultra rich ignore all healthy limits.
