kinsnik

@kinsnik@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Suffering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well, with 2 trolleys it is the same amount of suffering as with 1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the techbros that think that with sufficiently advanced AI we could solve climate change are so stupid. like, we might not have a perfect solution, but we have ideas on how to start to make things better (less car-centric cities, less meat and animal products, more investment in public transport and solar), and it gets absolutely ignored. why would it be different when an AI gives the solution? unless they want the “eat fat-free food and you will be thin” solution to climate change, in which we change absolutely nothing of our current situation but it is magically ecological

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Elon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  snowballing

  yeah, it is not snowballing, it is Network Effect. for the people who want to use a twitter-like social network, the value is in the many other people using it.

  but, as you are doing, telling people to leave is the correct move. because for every person that the network loses, the network loses value for everyone (the network effect going in reverse)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  legit, if youtube ever beats ublock origin, i’ll just stop watching youtube

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit would probably ban “paywall evasion” subreddits. They have shown that they have no problem shitting on their more loyal users with the while taking control of subreddits that were protesting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear that the only job that can be replaced with an LLM is CEO. The output will be equally shitty, but it would cost a lot less…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any advantage to tying game logic to frame-rate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  also, if a game relies in a complex physics engine, the physics simulations has to be done with a stable interval and FPS, which means it had to be decoupled from the rendering (which was not stable and depends on what you are drawing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're in the right place⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  for when you want to rock a Jesus’ cosplay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take That, Conspiracy Nuts!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you move, you actually stay in the same coords (0,0,0) and the world is moved around, avoid bugs with lost precision at large values. Twinkling stars? Glitches in the rendering of far away objects

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i used fdroid when i used Android, but now i feel like it is a false sense of security. like, yeah, the apps themselves might not have telemetry, but the whole OS itself is a giant spyware made by the largest ad company in the world, so unless you are using a rooted, custom rom that has taken all the google apis out of the way, i still feel that my data is safer in ios than android with fdroid. the only real way to have data fully safe is too minimize the use of apps completely thou

  i would use apps from an ios version of fdriod, if i had the chance, thou, so i think your point is valid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting, because for my iPhone that is true. I was a bit concerned with the walled garden, but made the switch from Android because of privacy (not that Apple is perfect, just much better than Google). I can’t recall a single time when i wanted or needed more than what the iPhone offered.

  But with my iPad there are multiple times when i wished i could run a local web dev environment, or run MacOS apps (it is using the save M1 as my computer after all)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo AI Chat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still use DDG (for search, none of the other bs they’ve been adding) because they are definitely better than Google or Bing. Is there a better alternative?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo AI Chat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they are using GPT-3.5 and Claude, that means that they are sending the chats to Open AI and Anthropic, right? How can they assure that the chats are private and not being used in training if they don’t control what other companies do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or like the blockchain 5 years ago

  Or like VR 10 years ago

  Or like 3D 15 years ago

  It is the hot new thing that you have to use for the VCs to fund your company and for investors to buy your stocks, regardless of the actual utility. AI does seem to have at least more possibilities of usage than those technologies, but it also have an incredibly higher possibility of misuse that is being completely ignored by these companies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The End of an Era: Women Who Code Closing - Women Who Code⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  f***. i came out to my manager literally today (as non-binary, so maybe I’ll be spared?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish to give this many fucks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that the fireman was so polite and whisper, so to not disturb him during his relax time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wouldn’t that have all the bad things about not having personalized recs (ie: seeing only popular clickbaity videos) while getting none of the benefits (ie: making harder for google to track you)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Red Team is a hacking term that refers to people who try to sabotage or use the system to create harmful content, as a way to test and discover problems before it is usable by any external users

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  94% of the population of China lives in east of the heihe-tengchong line, which means that for 94% of the population the timezone is at most 1 hour off of the “true” time, which is pretty normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is planning to raise prices… again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as a company sells shares it takes the route of infinite growth which is impossible

  yeah, the stock market makes that a company that is stable and generates a reliable income each year is seen as bad, but a company that has large grow in obviously unsustainable speed, which doesn’t have plans on how to ever become profitable is good (i am not specifically taking about netflix here)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do modern phones have device encryption on by default, but computers do not? Why doesn't computers also get encryption on by default?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  if you don’t trust microsoft, why would you use windows at all?