darkevilmac
@darkevilmac@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 3 weeks ago:
It’s super hit or miss, odds are it’s using azure though and not just running a model locally.
- Comment on Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah Zen is really nice, was going to try Arc one time but was immediately turned off by the account requirement.
- Comment on Bluesky’s upcoming premium plan won’t give paid users special treatment 3 weeks ago:
To be completely honest I think most sane people are going to be okay if bluesky ends up as even a slightly better version of what Twitter was.
- Comment on Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters. 3 weeks ago:
Of all the sources to use for accurate info on current events I’d say Reuters is probably one of the best. I’m not so naive as to think that these deals aren’t basically just trying to stall any meaningful cases on the legality of these models.
If nothing else though at least these companies get to be propped up for their work in a small way.
- Comment on I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age. 1 month ago:
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
- Comment on DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. 2 months ago:
I like the concept and generally it works well, unfortunately I’ve had to disable it because of how sluggish it can make a lot of pages feel. The playlist view in particular becomes hard to use when the extension is enabled.
Hopefully they fix stuff like that longer term so I can turn it back on.
- Comment on Intel’s Troubles Complicate U.S. Chip Independence 2 months ago:
Intel’s current CEO is Pat Gelsinger, he’s an engineer who was the chief architect of the i486.
It’s not just who’s at the top, the issue is that the company has gotten too big. There’s a reason why AMD with such a lower staff count has managed to leapfrog Intel.
- Comment on NVIDIA's Dominance In ADAS Chips Under Threat From Chinese OEMs, Huawei's HiSilicon All Set To Announce A Breakthrough Development 2 months ago:
…who asked?
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s annoying as hell, wish they’d stop killing their own OS. I honestly think the first few builds of Windows 11 were a decent step in the right direction in terms of actually getting everything feeling relatively cohesive again. But the AI push and everything that happened right after release has started to let the rot creep back in again.
Next GPU I get I’m just going to run Linux as my main OS and have a VM with a GPU pass through so I can stop losing my mind.
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated 2 months ago:
I think this is likely to be what I saw others mention on earlier posts. Lots of enterprise or business software that hooks into the control panel.
So even if Microsoft does migrate all the Windows options over to settings there’s still going to be software that uses control panel to manage their own settings.
Unless Microsoft is going to make it possible to hook into the new settings app just as easily then they’re going to have to keep the old one around even though they keep crippling it.
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 2 months ago:
Yeah as much as this sucks I honestly hope that Microsoft will actually take advantage of this and start moving legacy support into more specialized options.
A lot of the reason windows is so janky at times is because of the insane obsession they have with backwards compatibility.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
They’re just going to push people to the cheaper units at this point.
I was looking at sous vide cookers a few months back and was considering ANOVA but they were too expensive. Opted for a generic one instead.
The fact that they’re more expensive and require a subscription for what’s essentially a set of presets that my cheap unit has for free is just ridiculous.
- Comment on Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to the US 2 months ago:
Wasn’t aware of his history before Megaupload really.
- Comment on Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to the US 2 months ago:
You ignored the adware distribution, if you want to see him spreading misinformation feel free to check his Twitter. It runs the gamut from antivaxxer to literal Russian propaganda.
- Comment on Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to the US 2 months ago:
It’s hard to feel any sympathy for the guy at this point, he went from odd eccentric file sharing site founder, to adware distributor, all the way to misinformation spreading conspiracy theorist.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
To justify the salaries of their product managers
- Comment on Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn 4 months ago:
The locomotives yearn for the tracks
- 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:
Yeah they’re pretty impressive for some at home stuff and they’re not even that costly.
- 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:
I skimmed the article, but it seems to be assuming that Google’s LLM is using the same architecture as everyone else. I’m pretty sure Google uses their TPU chips instead of a regular GPU like everyone else. Those are generally pretty energy efficient.
That and they don’t seem to be considering how much data is just being cached for questions that are the same. And a lot of Google searches are going to be identical just because of the search suggestions funneling people into the same form of a question.
- Comment on Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle 6 months ago:
Yeah Telus in Canada has been doing this recently as well. We’re just back to cable packages except now you have like 4 different apps to worry about.
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 6 months ago:
The difference from the perspective of the US is that it’s spyware from a potentially malicious foreign state. China bans US tech companies as well, TikTok took advantage of the US having a much more open market and the state decided that they were acting in bad faith.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
Tesla owns over 50% of the electric car chargers in the US. It makes more sense for other companies to be compatible with the largest network than for the largest network to make itself work with everything else.
Whether you like Musk or Tesla or not, this just made more sense for the sake of adoption.
- Comment on A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist 6 months ago:
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
Pretty sure last time around there were potential buyers. I think Walmart was one of them, and so was Oracle.
I imagine we’ll see the same names pop up again.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I believe part of the DMA means that they’re allowed to use their own engines. Whether they have that ready right now I’m not sure, but I’m sure it’s in the works.
- Comment on The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China 8 months ago:
Main concern is the lack of regulation on the actual materials being used to make the products.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Docker desktop has a license that restricts commercial use depending on the size of your company/employer.
Use Colima to be on the safe side.
- Comment on Previously paid Nintendo DS emulator app on Android goes free (DraStic DS) 8 months ago:
It’s silly, all the legal precedence we have for emulators were for commercial offerings. If Nintendo wants to hit you with so many invalid lawsuits that you’re forced to fold then this certainly won’t stop them.
It’s just bullying and it’s going to keep happening until there’s laws in place protecting it.
Some of the best inventions in history came from people reverse engineering the work of others. If we want to keep moving forward then we can’t let companies bully people out of innovating. It’s shooting ourselves in the foot.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 9 months ago:
If you have to run power to it, you might as well run some data as well. Never really the best idea to have mission critical equipment at the mercy of a congested wifi network.
- Comment on Qualcomm CEO says that the next version of Windows is due in mid 2024 - place your bets on Windows 11 24H2 or Windows 12 9 months ago:
Windows 11 is weird to me, I feel like I’ve only heard negative things about it but actually using it on a daily basis has been fine with a few tweaks. Using nilesoft shell and ear trumpet was basically all I needed to be satisfied.
That’s not really unique to 11 though, I’ve had to tweak things on basically every windows version. Whether that was classic shell with 8, or clover for tabs in file explorer for 7.
At the very least Windows 11 seems to have a more consistent design language across the OS. It feels a lot less half baked than the style changes they did on 8 and 10.