Halcyon
@Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, there will be suitable USB accessories available for this.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
He will get that. The ultra rich ignore all healthy limits.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
There are other online shops besides Amazon. I find an alternative for almost everything that I order and it’s not more expensive. And finding the right product inside Amazon is so exhausting nowadays that it’s not more work to compare different web shops.
- Comment on World now has five times more PV than nuclear power 1 month ago:
Solar panels are fusion harvesters.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
- Comment on Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline 2 months ago:
Are you aware that Lemmy is social media too?
- Comment on Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline 2 months ago:
Spread it to Everybody from Brazil: Leave Xitter, JOIN MASTODON!
How to join Mastodon:
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
Vantawhite
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
Lemming Line
- Comment on Words truly matter 2 months ago:
Masaru Emoto’s “experiments” are not scientifically legit. They are at best artistic photography. But his so-called science in regard to water/ice crystals is rubbish and does not stand up to scrutiny, it is not reproducible. He makes a lot of money from common people at his events.
- Comment on No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 2 months ago:
The new technique distorts reality in a much larger way. That hasn’t been there before. When everybody has this in their smartphones, we will look at manipulated pics on an hourly basis. That’s unprecedented.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
This is alledgedly the location of Zuckerberg’s property on Hawaii:
- Comment on Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions 3 months ago:
The immense computing power for AI is needed for training LLMs, it’s far less for running a pre-trained model on a local machine.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
It’s hidden in the sense that the normal user does not see the cost on their energy bill. You perform a search and get the result in milliseconds. That makes it easy to imagine that it’s just a minor operation. It’s not like driving a car and watching the the fuel gauge and see the consumption.
Of course one can research how much energy Google consumes and find out the background – IF you’re interested. But most people just use tech and do not question or even understand.
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
I think the true use case for these AI technologies is yet to come. What most people are doing with the AI tools available today is just gambling around. But working with personal computers could be changing fundamentally in the coming years.
- Comment on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" 5 months ago:
Volt wants:
To make digital rights binding. They call for a “Declaration on European Digital Rights and Principles”.
Tax revenues from digital technologies where they are generated.
Guarantee net neutrality and reject contradictory laws.
Enact laws against the unethical use of AI.
- Comment on Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news 5 months ago:
Summer Social Media Sabbatical:
Join June/July’s journey to joyful jamming!"
- Comment on Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news 5 months ago:
Deleting Facebook forever reduces stress and desinformation long-term.
- Comment on Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon 6 months ago:
ITER will not be having the first full fusion before 2040. And that’s just a prototype for science, it will not be a fusion power plant for generating energy for the public grid. So: fusion is still not very near.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 6 months ago:
Simply pay, and you will never see ads.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 6 months ago:
Coincidence in the sense that the ad that you saw had absolutely no connection to your talk. It was just a random ad. No all advertisements are targeted precisely. I work in the field and a lot of campaigns on YouTube are just targeted to a selected YT-channel, or a topic like sport videos, or maybe an age group. That’s all. You see an ad because you watched a channel. Like on TV.
- Comment on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died 6 months ago:
He was sick in hospital with pneumonia, before he got MRSA though. In hospital ls there’s a higher chance to catch MRSA, especially if someone is already weakened by a severe lung infection.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 6 months ago:
Still a high chance for a coincidence. And the human mind tends to see patterns to structure the world. Shoe advertisement is not particularly rare in the web.