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- Comment on where? 3 hours ago:
5 and the seat beside it would both be free sure to Kevin Smith being kicked off the plane (at least if the fight was United)
- Comment on Someone should make a strip mall with 80s/90s stores that no longer exist 3 days ago:
They’re no longer in business for a reason,
Fuck that. Bring back Blockbuster and Radio Shack. I’ll take rentals over streaming any day, and electronics kits are da boss!
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 5 days ago:
Work laptop: MS Teams is taking 1.2 gigabytes of fucking RAM just to exist. I’m not in a call. I’m not transferring files. Just the basic interface with chats (which still somehow manages to suck more than chat inferences from decades ago).
- Comment on Dumb glasses 5 days ago:
Not a brick. Infect it so that it seems to work but continually screws up or corrupts data in weird ways. The user will eventually assume the product is a PoS and shelve it, probably without buying another
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 6 days ago:
The LLM will do whatever they tell it to, including making shit up in order to suit the narrative. They’re the ultimate “yes-man” that’s not even human.
Unfortunately for CEO’s, it turns out that yes-men - or yes-machines - aren’t particularly good developers or legal strategists
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 1 week ago:
Governments wanting to identify and regulate speech under the guise of protecting children
- Comment on My glasses 1 week ago:
It took me about 5 seconds to get the joke (about the time to grab and put my glasses on so I could read all the text)
- Comment on NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, seriously. Nvidia is too busy fucking over the consumer PC market to be interested to produce a CPU that’d sell in that same market. My bet is that any CPU they release would be targeted at cloud/AI as well.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 2 weeks ago:
Yup, but those are the cases that make the news. There’s always gonna be some stupid/lazy ones
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 2 weeks ago:
AI in the legal field could be useful for assisting an actual legal professional in compiling precedent based against on-the-books laws, so long as it cites sources and they verify them.
In the medical field, it could be useful for spotting anomalies between multiple images such as X-rays or cross-referencing medical documents WHEN USED BY A PROFESSIONAL.
But the thing is, it should be a tool - carefully used - to enhance the existing profession, not replace actual professionals.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 weeks ago:
“I have usernames older than you” is actually a pretty sick burn
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 2 weeks ago:
What’s the common way for updating these? I have some similar devices that use Wi-Fi but local stores seem to use some sort of nearby transmitter pointex towards the shelves, maybe infrared/optical
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 2 weeks ago:
Probably more timed towards certain times and demographics, but yeah it just takes a couple seconds to update and there are plenty of customers running “loyalty points apps”
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 3 weeks ago:
You won’t open the content, and you’ll have absolutely 0% privacy because all of your processing and data will be on somebody else’s system.
AI will go from making cute GIF’s to fully automated surveillance and ensuring nobody uses those systems for anything not approved by the regime.
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah PXE boot has been a thing for decades, and with network speeds going from 10/100, gigabit, and now potentially 5-10gbit it’s pretty viable for home environments. It’s great for common libraries, and mine has an emulator plus a bunch of GoG etc games which I’ve been tinkering to make run nicely.
My preference though is still “thick” clients which use the network for boot and OS/storage, but still have their own CPU and RAM.
Other than storage and networking, the server side requirements aren’t huge. My plan is to make a portable environment which people can patch into and play classic games together.
(If anyone has experience with OpenSpy and getting it to work sans-Internet I’d love to pick your brain, as I really want to get BF2142 and other classics running fully without internet)
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, to make it work,he’ll only need to open the firewall to the Internet for dozens of MS subdomains and thousands of IP’s in ranges that can randomly change from day to day. Totally more an issue for systems which might have been segregated from the Internet before!
/s
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah ironically one of the reasons I used an Anycubic, because while they may have issues with FOSS compliance, the firmware I did load on there (Rinkhals) isn’t
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 3 weeks ago:
Just waiting for them to bring back Clippy as an AI agent…
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 3 weeks ago:
To play games coded by a shitty AI, full of bugs and as many microtransactions as possible …
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 3 weeks ago:
It’s not like that even try to hide a lot of the shit they do.
Stuff like:
- locking authors into exclusivity contracts with Kindle Unlimited/Audible (monopoly abuse/anticompetitive*
- Advertising items as “on sale” - especially around Prime Day/Black Friday etc after jacking up the price a few weeks in advance
- Items with “free Prime shipping” but the exact same item without Prime is less about the shipping cost
- Stuff like Kindle ebooks shown with a discount price when no other medium exists, it was never sold at the listed “regular price” to begin with, and/or it’s only available from Amazon in the first place
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 4 weeks ago:
Second to worst for that is the excessive use of Google stuff, including Chromebooks replacing PC labs, and a bunch of G-software
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 4 weeks ago:
Their dick probably didn’t look much better. Even with lube that’s gonna chaff after awhile and probably took off at least a layer of skin
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing 4 weeks ago:
Yeah my first thought was that Frame should be ok since my intended use-case was “connected to Steam PC via the wireless transceiver” but then I AI remembered it can run standalone so would also need storage, RAM, and a strong enough processor to handle all that.
Now I’m kinda thinking it would be cool if the Frame was more like an updated Index with wireless, local tracking etc etc and an optional daughter-board - for standalone gameplay functionality - that could be connected later or even allow upgrades.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t watched STSF yet but yeah there’s ton of stuff in Trek that would quality as “woke” right back to ToS, as well as a bunch of stuff that “broke” from an intellectual level.
I think my biggest issue with Picard is the latter… with the “fireworks in space” celebration (complete with sound of course) just making me want to bury my head in my hands.
It’s never been perfect, but it’s still entertaining.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 5 weeks ago:
Frigate with a cheap “AI” accelerator (running visual models) FTW!
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 1 month ago:
What do you mean, isn’t possible?
There are plenty of subtitle formats that come as a separate file rather than burned or embedded into the video. If whatever software they were using for broadcast selected the wrong sub it’s quite possible, though obviously the timing wouldn’t sync up.
SOP isn’t that far off from TEL so the possibility of selecting the wrong sub file seems to have decent potential
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
Indeed, and now what GoG is pursuing stronger Linux offerings I may shop there more, but Valve had contributed more than just a shop and launcher. The Linux work with Steam Deck and Proton has been invaluable.
- Comment on Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from 1 month ago:
They fed them on the Internet including libraries of pirated material. It’s like drinking from a fountain at a sewage plant
- Comment on Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from 1 month ago:
Yeah, a lot of people seem to think that these companies built these AI’s by buying or building some sort of special training set/data, when in reality no such thing really existed.
They’ve basically just scraped every bit of data they can. When it comes to big corps, at least some of that data is likely from scraping customer’s data. There’s also scraping of the Internet in general, including sites such as Reddit (which is a big reason why they locked down their API, they wanted to sell that data) but many have also been caught with a ton of ‘pirated ’ data from torrents etc.
I’m sure there was a certain amount of sludge in customers’ synced files, and sites like Reddit, but I’d also hazard a guess that the stuff grabbed from torrents etc likely had some truly heinous materials that they simply added to what was getting force-fed to AI, especially the early ones
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 1 month ago:
Steam is big in there too. It makes sense for both companies because they make their money from content.
If an animation or game development team/studio can produce better quality content, cheaper and faster, that just means more money for the company providing access to said content.