TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI is not killing jobs, US study finds - Financial Times 2 days ago:
Because they’re a lot less capable than these companies are telling us they are.
Don’t get me wrong, you can frequently get some excellent results with them… but you can also get some really shit ones.
So not only does the bulk of this work require someone to do all the prompts, they also need to thoroughly check the work afterwards, meaning you’re not really gaining much, if anything at all.
Sooner or later, the venture capital propping up AI will realise that these enormous savings from laying people off en-masse isn’t going to materialise, and they’ll want their money back. The market correction will be huge.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 days ago:
Aw someone’s a wittle bit cwanky 🥺
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 days ago:
Do you think everyone other than you is lying? And that all the articles about issues in Windows are false?
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 3 days ago:
I’m staggered to see some people actually accepting that this really happened on Lemmy. Usually it’s a bit of a forbidden topic.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 3 days ago:
Let me get this straight - people buy a product advertised as having a feature, containing a part also advertised as having that feature, and then they disable it after purchase?
How is that legal?
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 3 days ago:
He’s usually right.
*On software. For the love of god don’t follow his ideas on consent, child sex, or bestiality.
- Comment on MI5 issues alert to MPs and peers over Chinese espionage 6 days ago:
There’s a strong tankie presence on this platform and on this community.
- Comment on Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 6 days ago:
Nope. Google didn’t get anywhere with ChromeOS and it’s unlikely they’ll get anywhere with this.
- Comment on Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator 6 days ago:
Because when humans see a robot with boobs, the comments turn into “hey this robot has tits”, and when they don’t, the comments turn into “humanity is going to be euthanised by the machines”.
- Comment on Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work 6 days ago:
Reading this seems… fair? And there’s evidence to back him up it seems?
- Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown 6 days ago:
A really nice move.
This legislation also looks at limiting ticket fees retailers can charge.
I’m sure people will complain because it won’t be 100% effective, but regardless this is still a win. We shouldn’t just do nothing because a solution isn’t flawless.
In the background, the CMA is currently investigating Ticketmaster for their surge pricing shenanigans.
Good moves are being made here.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I bought FH4 because I live very close to one of the castles there and have visited a handful of other places. It’s genuinely very cool to see those places.
But so many other aspects of the game are really overwhelming. I do a race then there’s crazy flashy animations, multiple progress bars going up in the background with strobe lights, my character doing some stupid Fortnite-like dance, then it makes me do multiple attempts at a slot machine mini game?
I look at the world map and there’s literally thousands of things there, with no option to filter out stuff that you’ve already completed.
Maybe I’m getting old, but it felt like one of those mobile games that goes over the top with praise and animations to keep people’s attention and keep them on a dopamine high.
I want that map, with a story where you start with a shit car, and work your way up to better cars by doing well in races. I don’t want any of the flashy nonsense or the 500 online features (that don’t exist anymore because MS shut down the servers - now it shows constant connection errors)
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 1 week ago:
Indeed.
I have an Immich instance running on my home server that backs up my and my wife’s photos. It’s like an open source Google Photos.
One of its features is an local AI model that recognises faces and tags names on them, as well as doing stuff like recognising when a picture is of a landscape, food, etc.
Likewise, Firefox has a really good offline translation feature that runs locally and is open source.
AI doesn’t have to be bad. Big tech and venture capital is just choosing to make it so.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
I don’t see that being the case, it’s relatively low end silicon, with meh levels of RAM and very poor levels of VRAM.
Seems to me like they’re targeting a lower price point, which I think is a good idea if they want to take market share from Microsoft.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
So do other Linux PCs on the market, but they can’t help Netflix’s shitty DRM.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
If you have a problem with it, tell us why.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 2 weeks ago:
The market can remain irrational for far longer than you can remain solvent
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 2 weeks ago:
Although it’s ambiguous how much of this is due to AI data centres and how much is the natural ramp-down of DDR4 production.
DDR3 also increased substantially in price a few years after DDR4 became available.
- Comment on Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions 3 weeks ago:
Nice addition!
- Comment on Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions 3 weeks ago:
Some extensions have a verified/recommended by Mozilla seal of approval, so these extensions would be checked by a human to see that they comply.
Obviously they can’t check every update of every extension in existence, but even just the above is an improvement and certainly not useless.
I don’t think this could be enforced by the API without also seriously limiting what extensions can do, which people would go crazy about if they did.
- Comment on Just Stop Oil activists who attempted to spray paint Taylor Swift's private jet spared jail 4 weeks ago:
The activists brought it up in their defence, though?
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 4 weeks ago:
No, but Amazon’s are very often the cheapest by far, easiest to find used (since more are sold in the first place). On Prime days they’re often very cheap.
I imagine most of the profit comes from buying/renting the books.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 4 weeks ago:
Open source is the exception, and it’s important to note that.
Now you may be thinking “well duh”, but I’ve seen plenty of people, even fairly techy people, refuse to use good FOSS software because they think they’re being monetised somehow and that because there’s no ads, it must be from secret data theft.
- Comment on Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’ 4 weeks ago:
Indeed. Unfortunately in the age of abundant air travel and being able to do basically everything online, including remaining in contact with people, it’s not hard to just move out of the UK if you’re super wealthy.
We absolutely can and should tax assets that can’t be moved out of the UK, though, like land. A multi-millionaire can move all kinds of things out of the country, but they cannot take their land with them. Land value would of course go down or stagnate, but I don’t personally see that as a bad thing.
That said, even if you took all billionaire wealth in the UK (while somehow simultaneously preventing a crash in the value of those assets), it’d last months. It wouldn’t be a permanent solution. State spending is £1.2 trillion, a small amount of billionaires aren’t going to plug the gap for long.
There’s no simple solution to the financial situation this country is in.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 5 weeks ago:
They didn’t even use an Xbox controller, they cheaped out and used an ancient Logitech clone
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 5 weeks ago:
I dunno.
Multiple people in my friend group are aware of the issues with big tech companies.
But the second you bring up FOSS with them, or Linux gets mentioned, they either disengage completely or get angry. One of these people heads an IT department.
I don’t know why they react that way. The weird part is, they’ll happily use FOSS software like VLC or something Minecraft launcher. The second you say it’s FOSS they actually seem less into the software, not more.
- Comment on UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows 5 weeks ago:
We know policies from their manifesto, and we can look at our dropping fossil fuel usage.
What exactly is this government doing to assist fossil fuels? I can’t think of a single thing.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 5 weeks ago:
Adding an optional extra search engine isn’t the end of the world.
They also have Google and Bing, which aren’t nice either, yet nobody was doing this performative outrage over optional search engine inclusions before.
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 5 weeks ago:
Oh he knows. But this lets him feel edgy and different
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 5 weeks ago:
There are plenty of these, yes. But there are also plenty of consumer-grade GPUs being used for it too.