MusketeerX
@MusketeerX@lemm.ee
- Comment on Is social media fuelling political polarisation? 2 hours ago:
It’s a good point/observation.
Makes me wonder how different things might be if the mainstream media were more neutral and less prone to sensationalising everything and stirring outrage.
Social media just adds another layer on top of this.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
This would be a win for Facebook and Twitter/X.
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 2 months ago:
Damn, haven’t thought about that book for many years.
The concept behind the story seems a lot less fictional/unlikely than it used to 20yrs ago!
- Comment on Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital 2 months ago:
“Analyzing several high-profile accidents involving complex and automated socio-technical systems and the media coverage that surrounded them, I introduce the concept of a moral crumple zone to describe how responsibility for an action may be misattributed to a human actor who had limited control over the behavior of an automated or autonomous system. Just as the crumple zone in a car is designed to absorb the force of impact in a crash, the human in a highly complex and automated system may become simply a component—accidentally or intentionally—that bears the brunt of the moral and legal responsibilities when the overall system malfunctions. While the crumple zone in a car is meant to protect the human driver, the moral crumple zone protects the integrity of the technological system, at the expense of the nearest human operator.”<
Great. Humans taking the fall for technology.
- Comment on FOSS scanner app surpasses Microsoft for usability 2 months ago:
Thanks for sharing.
All too often the free and open alternatives (or these days even just the non-subscription alternatives!) involve compromising some features or convenience.
But not always.
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 2 months ago:
Same as Australian carriers. Mine is $A10 /day (about $7 USD). If you’re travelling for a long time the cost can eventually add up and it’s possible to get some cheaper travel sims. But it’s just so much easier to not do anything and use your phone as normal.
Big improvement from the old days of roaming.
- Comment on Adding TV to bedroom without using mainstream smart device 3 months ago:
For me, I think adding Projectivity Launcher over the top of it took it from a good device to a great one.
It’s let me customise the thing just how I want it.
As for voice, I find it handy rather than typing text with the remote when searching in YouTube etc.
- Comment on How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet 3 months ago:
It’s long, but well worth the read.
- Comment on Adding TV to bedroom without using mainstream smart device 3 months ago:
Sounds like you don’t want to do this, but I am loving my Nvidia Shield TV Pro.
I’ve installed Projectivity Launcher on it and all the apps I want. It’s such a smooth, clean experience.
Whether it’s Netflix, Tivimate, Kodi or Plex, it all runs super smoothly, no stutters, no ads. Highly recommend.
The backlit, voice capable remote is really nice too.
- Comment on My Review of Halloween (1978) 8 months ago:
Thanks for the review. Added to my ‘to watch’ list!
- Comment on Apartment furnishings should cost credits, not resources 8 months ago:
Totally agree. Wish I hadn’t chosen the dream home perk
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because it’s empty and I couldn’t be bothered mining resources and making stuff
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Because that house is in the middle of nowhere
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The Vanguard quest gave me a penthouse in New Atlantis which I like better
But of course that penthouse is also empty and I don’t even have the option to make a double bed for some reason (sorry Sarah!)
So I just use my room in constellation as home.
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- Comment on Kids and teens are inundated with phone prompts day and night 8 months ago:
Only kids and teens? Pretty much everyone around here has their head down starting at one.
(He says while scrolling through Lemmy on his phone…)
- Comment on Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI 8 months ago:
Is this a surprise to anyone?
This was already my understanding when I got the first pre-release one in 2014.
In that time, it has mainly learned how to"dim the living area lights to 50%" and “set the AC to 22 degrees”. That is about 99% of it’s use.
Wonder if that’s helped it’s AI much…
- Comment on Microsoft's mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
Nice, I’ve been using it for years and didn’t even know about this feature!
- Comment on Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight 9 months ago:
Train goes onto ship, ship sails out, train continues on the other end :)
- Comment on Instance Protectionism in the Threadiverse happens because of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (protecting one's own instance is currently more sensible than increasing overall discussion quality) 9 months ago:
When I first joined I mainly used all to find communities I was interested in and then subbed to them.
Now that I have nearly 100 communities subbed, I mainly use the subscribed view, occasionally I’ll take a look at all, very rarely local.