kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 1 day ago:
Lemmy does not understand that people are leaving X cuz of Nazis, not cuz it’s a centralized corpo platform.
- Comment on A guy just got arrested in Houston US for allegedly being an ISIS member. I grew up in Reagan and 911 era are these people just saying this or are they actively buying bombs? 2 days ago:
People getting put on the no-fly list cuz of racial profiling, I guess?
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
They’re all towers. But the buttons are all pretty shallow with very light actuation force required.
And they all happen to be situated such that the corner which has the button is the corner furthest away from the desk, so when she jumps up onto the PC as a platform to get ready to jump onto the desk, her feet are all grouped up right in that corner.
And you can imagine that if she’s crouched down ready to jump, and I put my arm out to prevent her from jumping from the tower to the desk, that’s a lot of pressure all applied to her little toe beans.
It’s an unfortunate coincidence. But that experience, together with seeing this Mac Mini design, has made me wonder why we tend to put a button with such drastic effects right out in the open like this.
- Comment on Lemmy should have a community called lemmy_guess 2 weeks ago:
Go for it!
- Comment on Lemmy should have a community called lemmy_guess 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of potential here.
lemmy_check: crowdsourced fact-checking
lemmy_see: spot to compare pics of arbitrary stuff (lemmy see your favorite mug)
lemmy_know: ad-hoc polls, recommendations or requests for how-tos (lemmy know how you season your mac and cheese)
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
I’ll just stick with covering it up. Without fail, if I leave it uncovered my cat will press it. She’s even held it long enough for a forced shutdown twice that I can think of.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but even pushing it will bring up a prompt, which is annoying. And also my cat has held it down long enough to force a shutdown on my media server before, as well as on my wife’s PC during Overwatch.
- Comment on Nine trillion dollar investment in 'Super-AI' isn't that much, says SoftBank CEO. 2 weeks ago:
This is the dumbest timeline.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
As someone who has to use heavy/taped-on little toys to cover the power buttons on my PCs or else my cat invariably opens a shutdown dialog in the middle of something… Thank you.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
Sure. And you can buy a dirt bike cheaper than an ATV. Yet people still buy ATVs.
I’m not gonna do iOS dev or ML on a GMKtec no matter how cost-effective it is, just like I’m not gonna play x86 Windows games on a Mac even if I win a maxed-out unit in a giveaway.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
Is there even a better ARM SoC? All I know of is the Snapdragon X Elites, which are either on par or slightly below the M4. And you can only get them in a laptop form factor at this point, cuz they cancelled the mini-PC dev kit.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
True. It was just the first comparison I saw when I searched for M4 benchmarks.
Really, AMD isn’t even a fair comparison because we’re talking about an ARM SoC here. So maybe the Snapdragon dev kit that ultimately got cancelled?
It was supposed to be $900, for a special Snapdragon X Elite, 32GB RAM, and 512GB SSD.
cpubenchmark.net has comparisons to other X Elite chips, putting them pretty much on-par with the M4 or maybe just below it.
With the same amount of RAM and storage in a Mac Mini, you’re talkin $1200. So, $300 premium for a device that’s maybe 2-8% better, has retail support instead of being a dev kit, and… well, actually exists. It’s not a slam dunk for the Mini, but it’s clearly not a rip-off either.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
M4 reportedly outperforms Intel’s Core i9-14900KS by 16%. That CPU alone is over $600.
- Comment on Former OpenAI Researcher Says Company Broke Copyright Law 3 weeks ago:
This is where we need something other than copyright law. The problem with generative AI companies isn’t that somebody looked at something without permission, or remixed some bits and bytes.
It’s that their products are potentially incredibly harmful to society. They would be harmful even if they worked perfectly. But as they stand, they’re a wide-open spigot of nonsense, spewing viscous sludge into every single channel of human communication.
I think we can bring out antitrust law against them, and labor unions are also a great tool. Privacy, and a right to your own identity factor in, too. But I think we’re also going to need to develop some equivalent of ecological protections when it comes to information.
For a long time, our capacity to dump toxic waste into the environment was minuscule compared to the scale of the natural world. But as we automated more and more, it became clear that the natural world has limits. I think we’re headed towards discovering the same thing for the world of information.
- Comment on I won’t be reading the replies 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘Beyond failure’: WA teen loses legs at school-based work program. 3 weeks ago:
Every safety rule is written in blood. A 16-year-old is not old enough to evaluate whether a prospective employer truly understands that concept, and accept the risks if not.
- Comment on Steve Jobs Unveiled A PS1 Emulator For Mac Years Before Emulators Arrived On The App Store 3 weeks ago:
Found a neat quote from the judges in the Sony v Connectix case:
“For this reason, some economic loss by Sony as a result of this competition does not compel a finding of no fair use. Sony understandably seeks control over the market for devices that play games Sony produces or licenses. The copyright law, however, does not confer such a monopoly.”
Now, it’s worth noting that Connectix actually produced their own BIOS, so this is not quite the same as the common emulators of today.
But still: The idea that copyright does not confer a monopoly on hardware to play your games would be a very spicy take from a court in 2024.
- Comment on YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people 4 weeks ago:
Some products have discounted prices for Prime members.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
This just in: Author/professor/CEO whose books/classes/company are about manipulative technologies… voluntarily installs manipulative technologies.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
Not sure anyone actually read the article, cuz yall are talkin about apps vs. web sites, and data collection. Two points which are briefly covered, but ultimately shrugged off in favor of the larger thesis:
Smartphones … meant [companies] could use their apps to off-load effort. … In other words, apps became bureaucratized. What started as a source of fun, efficiency, and convenience became enmeshed in daily life. Now it seems like every ordinary activity has been turned into an app, while the benefit of those apps has diminished.
I’d like to think that this hellscape is a temporary one. As the number of apps multiplies beyond all logic or utility, won’t people start resisting them? And if platform owners such as Apple ratchet up their privacy restrictions, won’t businesses adjust? Don’t count on it. Our app-ocalypse is much too far along already. Every crevice of contemporary life has been colonized. At every branch in your life, and with each new responsibility, apps will keep sprouting from your phone. You can’t escape them. You won’t escape them, not even as you die, because—of course—there’s an app for that too.
It’s not simply the code delivery mechanism, and it’s not whether the data exchange is safe from prying eyes… It’s the fact that a digital UX has invaded every aspect of human interaction, including mourning.
- Comment on FTC Announces Crackdown on Deceptive AI Claims and Schemes 1 month ago:
Fake lawyers, fake reviews, and several pyramid schemes. Solid takedowns, FTC!
- Comment on Preference 1 month ago:
Got bills to pay and mouths to feed, there ain’t no
thin in this world for free. No I can’t slow down, I can’t hold back, though you know I wish I could. There ain’t no rest for the wicked… til we close our eyes for good.
- Comment on Online Multiplayer For Nintendo DS Games Is Coming To Delta | Retro Dodo 1 month ago:
My bad. I automatically think 3DS when I see DS.
- Comment on Online Multiplayer For Nintendo DS Games Is Coming To Delta | Retro Dodo 1 month ago:
“3rd-party servers”
Okay, but what 3rd party? Pretendo Online, I hope. That project deserves some love.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 1 month ago:
If we’ve learned any lesson from the internet, it’s that once something exists it never goes away.
Sure, people shouldn’t believe the output of their prompt. But if you’re generating that output, a site can use the API to generate a similar output for a similar request. A bot can generate it and post it to social media.
Yeah, don’t trust the first source you see. But if the search results are slowly being colonized by AI slop, it gets to a point where the signal-to-noise ratio is so poor it stops making sense to only blame the poor discernment of those trying to find the signal.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 1 month ago:
I recommend listening to the episode. The crash is the overarching story, but there are smaller stories woven in which are specifically about AI, and it covers multiple areas of concern.
The theme that I would highlight here though:
More automation means fewer opportunities to practice the basics. When automation fails, humans may be unprepared to take over even the basic tasks.
But it compounds. Because the better the automation gets, the rarer manual intervention becomes. At some point, a human only needs to handle the absolute most unusual and difficult scenarios.
How will you be ready for that if you don’t get practice along the way?
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Nor is losing your night vision to the glare of a car (it’s always a pickup) behind you with too-bright lights that fill your mirrors.
It really fucking is. Nothing is a bigger red flag to me than a pickup. 98% of pickup drivers are assholes.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 1 month ago:
Basically this: Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447
Description
Panic has erupted in the cockpit of Air France Flight 447. The pilots are convinced they’ve lost control of the plane. It’s lurching violently. Then, it begins plummeting from the sky at breakneck speed, careening towards catastrophe. The pilots are sure they’re done-for.
Only, they haven’t lost control of the aircraft at all: one simple manoeuvre could avoid disaster…
In the age of artificial intelligence, we often compare humans and computers, asking ourselves which is “better”. But is this even the right question? The case of Air France Flight 447 suggests it isn’t - and that the consequences of asking the wrong question are disastrous.
- Comment on xkcd #2988: Maslow's Pyramid 1 month ago:
Yep: scientificamerican.com/…/who-created-maslows-icon…
However, many people may not realize that during the last few years of his life Maslow believed self-transcendence, not self-actualization, was the pinnacle of human needs. What’s more, it’s difficult to find any evidence that* he ever actually represented his theory as a pyramid*. On the contrary, it’s clear from his writings that he did not view his hierarchy of needs like a video game-- as though you reach one level and then unlock the next level, never again returning to the “lower” levels. He made it quite clear that we are always going back and forth in the hierarchy, and we can target multiple needs at the same time.
- Comment on The three little pigs is actually just the aristocracy blaming the poor for their problems 1 month ago:
I legit have a copy of this story somewhere that ends with a “the moral is…” statement along the lines of “that’s why you should work hard and not be lazy”.
Like, what? We did not cover the work ethic of the pigs at all here. As far as I can tell, they each built an entire goddamn house! What about the wolf?