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- Comment on One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes. 1 day ago:
You miss 100% of the Nobels you don’t take
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I find that chatgpt and claude try to give you one answer and sounds mildly to very certain about themselves without giving references.
Perplexity actually gives reference links for each claim it makes, which I find better because I can check it’s work and fork off and explore further myself at any point along it’s reasoning.
As a definite AI Hater, I find it to be a good middle ground LLM / search engine
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
An American worker spending 1hr each way commuting to an 8hr+1hr lunch job is spending 2 out of 7 of their free hours in this machine. It’s understandable that the demand for their vehicle to not be an oppressive environment would arise.
But I do agree that not all cars should be packed with these superfluous amenities
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 3 weeks ago:
Like the .nfo files of old? Also reminds me of the sick 8 bit songs on the keygens
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 3 weeks ago:
Yes this was also where my understanding was at it’s lowest before figuring out what was going on
- Comment on How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything 3 weeks ago:
Do you use the *arr apps? Radarr lets you set profiles that can prioritize file size as well as codec. Then the process of acquisition is more automated but still prioritizes your preferences
- Comment on PinePods Release v0.8.0 - "Mobile apps and massive perfomance bumps" 4 weeks ago:
I like Pocket Casts, I don’t think it’s owned by big tech.
Though I’m not liking their pivot to subscription, I still think it’s a good app
- Comment on Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Is this a common enough occurrence that you’d pay a subscription for an app to do this? I can’t think of many use cases
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
me too …
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
I’ve recently moved away from Spotify and to Pandora, ironically.
Pandora premium let’s you play whichever track you want, they are not longer exclusively stations, but their station algorithm is the reason I decided on them over other spotify alternatives
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Nope. At some point spotify forced FREE users to shuffle play playlists. You couldn’t pick which specific song you’ll hear first. And with ads, obviously.
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 1 month ago:
My understanding is that prison is waaaay worse. Needlessly cruel, you might say
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 1 month ago:
This is the entire point of LLM, it creates something that has the right ‘shape’ statistically of what you ask for, but the content is not guaranteed to be accurate, true, appropriate, or up to date.
So, if a random person asks for a legal document, and they receive something that “looks right” it is very impressive to them because they can’t see the flaws that a professional or expert would see. And for some applications that’s Good Enough, but it’s nowhere near being PhD levels smart
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 1 month ago:
Too true. The real steal of the century is convincing the commons that their lack of success is a personal failing rather than a system designed to keep then down
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 month ago:
This $8k tv has no bezel and no cables /s
- Comment on Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years 2 months ago:
Can I use my current google speakers with homeAssistant? Can they still do the ‘grouped speakers’ things? Can I still ‘cast’ media?
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 2 months ago:
CF panel? You’re light bulb??
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 2 months ago:
I mean, those are kinda two sides of the same coin. Both ways to limit the compounding of wealth in few hands.
I’m open to all these ideas, and more
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 2 months ago:
Putting the 2 statements side by side implies they are connected. For the media illiterate it can be very misleading.
Initially I wanted to defend the headline because it’s not ‘literally’ suggesting any AI wrongdoing, but I can say that because I know headlines are written to be this way so I know what to dismiss. It’s a manipulative practice and that’s a shame
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
I’m technophobic. Fucking clankers
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 months ago:
They’re not issues so much as nit-picks.
On the now playing screen, I try to swipe the album image to skip (like Spotify) but it doesn’t. Yes, the skip button is right there, but when driving it’s needlessly distracting to have to find the small button.
There’s no obvious way to see your play history when it’s on auto play or radio.
You can start a station from a single song, and you can add song variety to a single-song station, and you can let a playlist end and it will autoplay songs, but you can’t create a station from a playlist directly. These seem like the same function but are treated differently.
You can ‘collect’ or ‘👍’ a song from radio/autoplay, and it’s implied that it influences the station to do the latter, but all the 👍 songs go to their own playlist and sometimes a ‘songs you liked from this station’ playlist separate from the station and sometimes in the station page. It can unintuitive.
There’s no API so there’s no way for TuneMyMusic to import my playlists from Spotify.
Adding a song to a playlist often fails the first time, I can mash it but it doesn’t go, but if I back out and add it again it works.
Some of these can be chalked up to user error, I haven’t gotten used to the paradigm change, but the app still feels rigid and “less polished”. Like I said, nitpicks.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 months ago:
I tried Tidal, and now I’m on Pandora. The ‘radio’ feature of Pandora more closely matches the way I want to listen to music (I feel like playing this, stay in this mood, but vary the artists), but I’m disappointed by the android app. I should also try Qobuz, maybe even Deezer, but the real pain point is that I have literally thousands of playlists on Spotify. I can pay TuneMyMusic again, I guess
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 months ago:
I used to use and praise Spotify and their algorithm, but I was starting to find that it would insist on playing the same 20 or 50 songs regardless of the playlist I was trying to generate music suggestions from. I read a rumor somewhere that it was a way to decrease the load on their servers and rely more on the cached songs already on the device, and got sick of that enough to switch to Pandora after over 10 years of Spotify
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 2 months ago:
What if their claim was this this site was an echo chamber of tech literate but disagreement.
By denying it’s an echo chamber you prove the point, but then it is an echo chamber and it’s no longer disagreement, so then it can’t be an echo chamber…
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
If you’re doing this through Google or whichever company is facilitating, then I would say that’s the party doing all of the things listed
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
Seems like the underlying tension is wether being surveiled at all is inherently a violation.
If it is, then your partner doing it might feel like a lack of trust.
for my benefit Its not a benefit if you don’t like being tracked
If not, then it’s just a practical tool, might as well use the data if it’s getting captured anyway.
- Comment on Calling something "a joke" feels meaner than calling something "a bad joke" 3 months ago:
A bad joke doesn’t necessarily imply [negative attribute], though.
Could just be ironic or surprising amount of [neutral attribute].
So it’s poorly executed but earnest
- Comment on Curiosity has not killed any Martian cats 3 months ago:
What other secrets is Big Universe keeping from us
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 3 months ago:
😏