atrielienz
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- Comment on Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline 1 day ago:
And the people who use Tik Tok don’t see this as a red flag.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 1 day ago:
After a couple of years? No. But 25 years isn’t an unreasonable amount of time to want to own a vehicle if you take care of it. We treat vehicles these days like they’re disposable and honestly I don’t think a 25 year old battery pack is going to be particularly desirable.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 1 day ago:
On thing that worked for me was recording the lesson so that I didn’t necessarily have to take notes right away and could absorb more information being told to me, have time to think about that information and ask questions in the moment. Then I could go home, re-listen to the lecture, write out some notes, and then fine tune those notes by reading the source material and other learning aids. This worked better for me especially having ADHD than trying to write notes and missing parts of the lecture as a result. Being able to take photos of the board was also useful, especially when diagrams and or visual information was being relayed.
I do think it’s important to experiment with what you have available and find strategies that work for you. Not everyone learns the same way.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 1 day ago:
It’s stupid from a comsec perspective even if it wasn’t stupid for any other reasons. Compartmentalization is a good strategy as we continue to upgrade outdated and vulnerable systems. But of course, this “leader” is an idiot. So he wouldn’t know that.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 1 day ago:
I would argue that even if you did get a used one with new batteries, you’d still face degradation down the line and additional problems that would or could be mitigated in older ice cars which are much more likely to have replacement parts available (even if those replacement parts don’t come from the same type or brand of vehicle). For instance. I know for a fact that there’s a trend of using Honda engines in older first Gen mini coopers. Buying a rebuilt engine has the potential to be pretty cheap.
- Comment on Meta is going to stuff Midjourney AI images into your feed 1 day ago:
What feed. Mm y Facebook exists to face tank all the photos my MIL shares. That’s it. I don’t like… Use it. Open it? Scroll the feed? Absolutely not. Don’t have insta. Don’t have messenger.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 1 day ago:
I didn’t care. Mostly because WWE already have examples of what classes were like without them and the people who are reliant on them now will adapt and learn to cope if they’re taken away.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 days ago:
The average car in the US is 12 years old. That average is higher in other countries. But regardless, that’s not because cars are unfixable. It’s because most people opt to buy a new or newer car when they feel like the vehicle they currently own is more expensive to fix than they’d like and a lot of that has nothing to do with the longevity of the vehicle and everything to do with how vehicle purchase can be financed vs how car repair can be financed.
It also has a lot to do with people who don’t or won’t fix things before they snowball, and or become astronomically expensive problems. Taking care of a vehicle is about doing regular maintenance (which most people don’t do), and getting at the very least an annual inspection (which most people also don’t do unless they’re forced to).
I won’t be buying a new car ever. I can say that with absolute certainty. I have rehabbed my current car in just about every way I can. Machined/honed block, new valves, new piston/lan rings, new head gasket, new water pump, new thermostat housing, new valve cover, new injectors, rebuilt transmission with new clutch, all new hoses, all new gaskets, new HP fuel pump. I will continue to do so because to me it’s worth it. Doner cars are readily available, but I probably won’t need one specifically because my car is considered and enthusiast car. I have walked into a dealer and ordered parts and my car is 15 years old. I also owned a 20 year old version of this car with the same ability to order parts directly from the dealer.
Most people aren’t buying used unless they have no choice. They will continue to buy new cars regardless of the controversy surrounding them.
I think it’s a bit disingenuous assume that older cars will not be available. Especially considering that the EV’s that are new right now aren’t going to survive 25 years without costly repairs of their own. I’d salvage an engine from an older car. I wouldn’t salvage a battery pack from an older car.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 days ago:
Not worth the cost of admission. The amount of money it costs to refurb that battery pack is still too high.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 days ago:
It is a reason to not buy a new car which means people who aren’t buying new cars won’t be buying EV’s.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 days ago:
Lemmy should steal piedays.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 week ago:
I have fiber internet. I don’t understand this question. Are you suggesting that nowhere in the US has this technology? Like. This situation (where a private company sues a state, county, municipality etc to stop the rollout of fiber internet (or even another private company) happens so frequently that it’s unreal.
There’s plenty of places that already have fiber. And those private companies for the most part want to continue growing that user base by rolling out fiber in new markets.
And if it’s the state actually controlling the rollout that’s better than them just paying a private company to do it? If this weren’t a threat to Musk and Starlink he would t be suing.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 1 week ago:
Yeah. GROK and Twitter have entered the chat. Seriously though, we’ve regressed pretty far in what the general. Public deems acceptable.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 2 weeks ago:
I feel like porn websites have money and lots of reasons to want to burn Florida.
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I like you.
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Yeah. That makes it splash resistant, not water and grime proof. I have a pair of bone conduction headphones I wear at work with that flap and I still have to use contact cleaner on that port like at least once every couple of weeks.
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I can’t imagine how filthy the port would get on mine. Industrial work plates and open ports are not conductive to the healthy life of electronics.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
Some cars brake for you as soon as they think you’re going to crash (if you have your foot on the accelerator, or even on the brake if the car doesn’t believe you’ll be able to stop in time. Fords especially will do this, usually in relation to adaptive cruise control, and reverse brake assist. You can turn that setting off, I believe but it is meant to prevent a crash, or collision. In fact, Ford’s Bluecruise assisted driving feature was phantom braking to the point there was a recall about it because it was braking with nothing obstructing the road. I believe they also just updated it so that the accelerator press will override the bluecruise without disengaging it in like the 1.5 update which happened this year.
But I was thinking you were correcting me about autopilot for planes and I was confused.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
Part of the reason that air travel is as safe as it is is because governments held both airlines and manufacturers accountable for planes crashes or other air travel incidents, especially those leading to death or expensive property damage/mishap. You have to have significant training and flight hours to be a commercial pilot.
In the cases where Boeing has been found (through significant investigation) to be liable for death or injury, they have been held accountable. That’s literally why the 800 maxes were grounded world wide. Literally why they were forced to add further safety measures after the door plug failure which was due to their negligence as a manufacturer.
apnews.com/…/boeing-ntsb-door-plug-737-alaska-air…
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you’re correcting. The autopilot feature has adaptive cruise control and lane keeping assist, and auto steering.
Adaptive cruise control will brake to maintain a distance with the vehicle in front of it but maintain the set speed otherwise, lane keeping assist will keep the vehicle in it’s lane/prevent it from drifting from its lane, and combined with auto steering will keep it centered in the lane.
I specifically explained that a planes auto pilot does those things (maintain spee, altitude, and heading), and that people don’t know that this is all it does. It doesn’t by itself avoid obstacles or account for wether etc. It’d fly right into another plane if it was occupying that airspace. It won’t react to weather events like windsheer (which could cause the plane to lose altitude extremely quickly), or a hurricane. If there’s an engine problem and an engine loses power? It won’t attempt to restart. It doesn’t brake. It can’t bland a plane.
But Musk made some claims that Teslas autopilot would drive the vehicle for you without human interference. And people assume that autopilot (in the pop culture sense) does a lot more than it actually does. This is what I’m trying to point out.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
I agree. I hate auto braking features. I’m not a fan of cruise control. I very much dislike adaptable cruise control, lane keeping assist, reverse braking, driving assist, and one pedal mode. I drive a stick shift car from the early 2000’s for this reason. Just enough tech to be useful. Not enough tech to get in the way of me being in control of the car.
But there’s definitely some cruise controls out there even before all the stuff with sensors and such hit the market that doesn’t work the way lots of people in this thread seem to think. Braking absolutely will cancel the set cruise control but doesn’t turn it off. Accelerating in some cars also doesn’t cancel the cruise control, it allows you to override it to accelerate but will go back to the set cruise control speed when you take your foot off the accelerator.
I absolutely recognize that not being able to override the controls has a significant potential to be deadly. All I’m saying is there’s lots of drivers who probably shouldn’t be on the road who these tools are designed for and they don’t understand even the basics of how they work. They think the stuff is a cool gimmick. It makes them overconfident. And when you couple that with the outright lies that Musk has spewed continuously about these products and features, you should be able to see just why Tesla should be held accountable when the public trusts the company’s claims and people die or get seriously injured as a result.
I’ve driven a lot of vehicles with features I absolutely hated. Ones that took agency away from the driver that I felt was extremely dangerous. On the other hand, I have had people just merge into me like I wasn’t there. On several occasions. Happens to me at least every month or so. I’ve had people almost hit me from behind because they were driving distracted. I’ve literally watched people back into their own fences. Watched people wreck because they lost control of their vehicle or weren’t paying attention. Supposedly these “features” are meant to prevent or mitigate the risks of that. And people believe they are more capable of mitigating that risk than they are, due to marketing and outright ridiculous claims from tech enthusiasts who promote these brands.
If I know anything I know that you can’t necessarily make people read the warning label. And it becomes harder to override what they believe if you lied to them first and then try to tell them the truth later.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
Nope. I’m correcting you because apart most people don’t even know how their cruise control works. But feel however you feel.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
Because it still basically does what’s they said. The only new advent for the autopilot system besides maintaining speed, heading, and altitude is the ability to use and set a GPS heading, and waypoints (for the purposes of this conversation). It will absolutely still fly into a mountain if not for other collision avoidance systems. Your average 737 or A320 is not going to spontaneously change course just because of the elevation of the ground below it changed. But you can program other systems in the plane to know to avoid a specific flight path because there is a known hazard. I want you to understand that we know a mountain is there. They don’t love around much in short periods of times. Cars and pedestrians are another story entirely.
There’s a reasons we still have air traffic controllers and even then pilots and air traffic control aren’t infallible and they have way more systems to make flying safe than the average car (yes even the average Tesla).
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
No. Press the brake and it turns off. Press the accelerator in lots of cars and it will speed up but return to the cruise control set speed when you release the accelerator. And further, Tesla doesn’t call it cruise control and the founder of Tesla has been pretty heavily misleading about what the system is and what it does. So.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
There are other cars on the market that use technology that will literally override your input if they detect that there is a crash imminent. Even those cars do not claim to have autopilot and Tesla has not changed their branding or wording which is a lot of the problem here.
I can’t say for sure that they are responsible or not in this case because I don’t know what the person driving then assumed. But if they assumed that the “safety features” (in particular autopilot) would mitigate their recklessness and Tesla can’t prove they knew about the override of such features, then I’m not sure the court is wrong in this case. The fact that they haven’t changed their wording or branding of autopilot (particularly calling it that), is kind of damning here.
Autopilot maintains speed and heading or flight path in planes. But the average person doesn’t know or understand that. Tesla has been using the pop culture understanding of what autopilot is and that’s a lot of the problem. Other cars have warning about what their “assisted driving” systems do, and those warnings pop up every time you engage them before you can set any settings etc. But those other car manufacturers also don’t claim the car can drive itself.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 4 weeks ago:
Most of what I watch on YouTube are science videos, history videos, and cooking videos. I don’t get the “jailbait click bait” and I have never gotten that. My biggest problem with YouTube besides their ad BS is the random right wing propaganda videos that creep in.
I don’t watch a lot of shorts but if I happen to see one it’s most definitely not “jailbait”.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 4 weeks ago:
I mean. Let’s be real here Vine did it before Tik Tok was even a sperm in Bytedance’s ballsac. And it’s not like YouTube didn’t start out with short form videos. It’s just that they didn’t make it a separate video feed until 2020.
I can certainly understand not liking shorts (I often don’t have that kind of attention/need something more substantial than a 60 second clip). And yeah. Hatred for YouTube. I hear you. I get that too. But like this isn’t a new phenomenon.
- Comment on LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name 5 weeks ago:
You know that’s not what I’m saying. They would have been content to leave this woman without her account except that the threat of them looking worse in the media was held over their head. That’s the part that shouldn’t have happened. No company should be allowed to terminate an account used in the professional sphere while leaving no recourse to reclaim the account or appeal the decision in a straightforward and relatively low effort way.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 5 weeks ago:
I don’t like the way this article is written. There are concepts that it tries to convey that have major caveats it glosses over. Additionally it posits some ideas for alternatives that aren’t new currencies and doesn’t explain how most of them would work. It also seems to ignore the fact that content creators very often get paid in ad revenue by the very same companies that are exacerbating this problem with their GenAI models, as well as companies that are being hit hard by the lack of actual ad generated revenue due to loss of clickthroughs and impressions.
That being said it does actually somewhat explain a lot of the problem with the internet being sustained via ad revenue and ads.
Several of the companies who’s business model is built around ad aggregation are either investing in or developing/have launched GenAI products that are in opposition with their current business model.
They seem content at the moment to starve other places on the internet of the very ad revenue they rely on to make money. This will hurt them in the long run but they are focused on the short term profits they will make in the meantime and they do not seem concerned about the future so long as they can be seen to be on the cutting edge of the new technology.
I don’t really know if this will lead to a downturn in creator made content. A lot of paid creators are so invested in that eco system that they’d rather hop from one service to the next forever than give it up and go get a 9-5.
The pay as you crawl system is going to be difficult to implement, especially when crawlers already ignore the .txt file. The startups are not in a position to necessarily pay to license data and I question if they’d be able to pay as they crawl either. Meaning there will be big conglomerate gate keepers like Meta and Google and MS. The pay as you crawl system also only works if it’s regulated in some way so that normal users and small creators don’t get caught up in being victimized by bots/crawlers ignoring such rules or laws, with those victims unable to have their case taken seriously or heard at all.
As for determining where the information came from and providing attribution. Most people still aren’t going to click through to those pages. This is in part because a lot of them don’t want to see ads in the first place (for security reasons and because ads are an imposition on their increasingly limited time, energy, and attention). It’s also because they already have the information they need. You don’t care if Wikipedia gets your ad revenue so long as you can prove you were right about Brad Pitt’s height or his first job to your friend you made that bet with at the bar last night.
They say sources would be compensated. By who? And how? We have already established that people don’t think there’s a lot of value in pay for chatbots. The vast majority of Gen AI LLM users have shown (through polling, and introductory costs that go up in price later) that they aren’t interested in and don’t find value in pay for them. So conglomerates (many of whom run chatbots at a loss) would be on the hook both for paying for their crawlers and for providing such services to their consumers (corporate or not)? That most definitely not sustainable.
The other option is licensing but a lot of data has already been crawled and continues to be crawled without licensing or compensation.
I’m not sure that changing this business model will lead to anything good.
- Comment on LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name 5 weeks ago:
For it to have happened as a matter of course, and not when they faced the prospect of bad press over it, for a start.