Mbourgon
@Mbourgon@lemmy.world
Instead of a “renaissance man”, I’m a “renaissance nerd”. Pinball? Sure. Sci-fi? Of course. video games? Natch. 70’s Italian Prog-rock? A raison d’etre.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 days ago:
I have a friend who put the money into Screen Protector & AppleCare instead of a case
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
What’s the quote? “It’s so vicious because the stakes are so small”. Yeah, block/ignore and carry on. These types existed before, and it may be that it’s worse here because we all left Reddit for ideological reasons. But yeah, ignore and find the other conversations.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Thank you for providing a perfect example of what OP is talking about.
- Comment on It's a mysteria 4 days ago:
Thank god , I was worried there was something I’d missed on cold brew coffee and I should be bleaching more things between runs
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 1 week ago:
No, that’s quite literally the reason that Apple is so big. They successfully made MP3’s easy to get from CD, add to device and play. , I owned an early MP3 player, and ripping mp3s from CD and loading sucked compared to the first iPod/iTunes. Of course, over time it got better on the PC side, but it was trivial to teach somebody like your parents how to get their music on an iPod.
It’s why Slashdot still gets mocked for their iPod review. While there were other MP3 players that had more storage or battery life, the cohesiveness of iPod/iTunes was unmatched, and that’s why few remember the nomad but every one remembers the iPod
- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, much appreciated!
- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 2 weeks ago:
Can you please share a simple prompt? I’ve heard of RAG, but was unaware how you could use it in this case. Is this something you can only do with a local LLM? Or can you plug this into GitHub copilot or the like?
- Comment on noyb sends Meta 'cease and desist' letter over AI training. European Class Action as potential next step 2 weeks ago:
Unsure what NOYB is, even after skimming this, but an interesting bit in there about how people wouldn’t have the right to be forgotten once the AI has been trained.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
Looking for iOS recommendations, preferably without a subscription that can read epub/pdf
- Comment on Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous Decline 4 weeks ago:
I was honestly hoping that’s where phones would go - watch for calls and standard phone stuff, tablet for anything big. Now I think there’s a place for glasses instead, and def for all the various things we do when standing around bored
- Comment on Welcome to 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, just a bit concerned that this weakens things a bit.
- Comment on Welcome to 5 weeks ago:
How’s this differ from lemmy.world/c/comicstrips ?
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 1 month ago:
I wonder if it has anything to do with them possibly having to sell off Chrome
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 1 month ago:
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 1 month ago:
It’s just too “inside golf” for us outside the niche. ‘Scool.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 1 month ago:
I believe he’s making a joke about using PBR shaders to do so, but my knowledge of this is zero.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“They’re not sending the best or brightest”
- Comment on Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances 1 month ago:
Facepalm. Yeah. Him.
- Comment on Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances 1 month ago:
No relation to Chris Krebs the security nerd. (Seems obvious, but I gotta get some dopamine^w upvotes today)
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 month ago:
I would quite honestly be surprised, they have been vocal in the past about having no such thing.
- Comment on "Cheers", but set in a fantasy tavern. 1 month ago:
Callahan’s!
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 1 month ago:
Betteridge’s law of headlines, for once, is wrong.
- Comment on Just a moment... 2 months ago:
Thank you for that, that’s hysterical! And I wouldn’t have caught on with the handshake. They need him as a guest on the Katering Show!
- Comment on Just a moment... 2 months ago:
It’s Red Green’s cousin from down under! Where’s Harold?!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
One potential issue is that you have no idea what they’re selling from that (I assume that’s part of the business model). But in general, there’s weirder stuff out there - just make sure that whenever it’s “choose friend or AI”, choose friend.
- Comment on The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital 2 months ago:
An interesting/useful article, if only because I was unaware of the Mac equivalence of Launchy (Linear, Superhuman,etc). The biggest problem is that a Conversational interface could excel at certain tasks, but just using it Willy-Nilly is asking for disappointment, plus the voice recognition still needs to get better, especially with context clues, which would require more integration (watching whatever you’re watching, hearing whatever you’re hearing, what page are you looking at, etc. )
But if you’re in front of a keyboard, then directing the computer to do something has got to require less context switching then just bringing up on the keyboard. Even if it’s only 60 words a minute, if all you’re doing is typing in a handful of strokes, then it’s probably faster than coming up with all the keywords necessary to tell the computer to do it.
- Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips? 2 months ago:
Yup. I desperately wanted Apple to support the PowerPc clones back in the 90s, and there are still times I wish that they were more open, but they have their place.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 months ago:
That…makes a horrible amount of sense.
- Comment on Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current methods. 2 months ago:
PARTS of AI have been far from auto-corrupt for years. This autocomplete and LLM stuff is far newer.
- Comment on ‘Audible enclaves’ could enable private listening without headphones. 2 months ago:
WHAT?!
