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- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 4 weeks ago:
Well, I’m just not going to agree with the LLM then
- Comment on Google Gemini might soon handle your WhatsApp calls, notifications, and more (APK teardown) 2 months ago:
Part of what I’ve hoped about Gemini is that Google would actually take advantage of its Cloud infrastructure and build Gemini in a way that makes it truly cross-platform compared to the Google Assistant with a consistent set of features across the web, the speaker, and anywhere else they choose to cram Gemini into.
Instead they choose to channel everything through WhatsApps Android app.
- Comment on Apple is still standing in the way of Epic’s app store 2 months ago:
I don’t want more app stores I just want something like a cross platform version of obtainium
- Comment on Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not 3 months ago:
I use Bing. Partly because it’s the only real option if you want to search from the windows start menu. But also because I do like how it presents info a bit better, and also like its knowledge graph a little better than the one Google has.
That being said, the engine does have a lot of issues with relevancy. And its image search is almost unusable. So I often find myself needing to go to. Other than that, I’m fine with changing it to my default across everything I own. I just wish MS would fix its most blatant issues instead of bullying old people into using it.
- Comment on Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not 3 months ago:
Bing images is simply terrible
- Comment on Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not 3 months ago:
It’s like Google and starts off by showing you the most relevant answer you wanted through an info card. But then it goes on longer and longer under things that are less and less relevant.
Like, one of their examples is “What is a spaghetti western?”, And it starts with the answer you were probably looking for
A subgenre of western films produced by Italian filmmakers
But then it just starts going on and on with increasingly less relevant things like “History and origins”, “Best and most influential movies”, and then “Music and Soundtracks” before then getting the actual search results.
It’s literally designed to keep you from leaving the site. And all the sources seem to require quite a few clicks on mobile.
- Comment on Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back 4 months ago:
My emails seemed to go through pretty well. It’s been blocked by Discord and steam. But other than that, emails seem to go through pretty well.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
Consumer disapproval of AI use in customer service is unlikely to keep firms from deploying the technology as the cost savings are just too great
So much for the market determining what goes
- Comment on Butterdog, the inverse 4 months ago:
The dog with the butter on them
- Comment on ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text 4 months ago:
Many people now use ChatGPT like they might use Google: to ask important questions, sort through issues, and so on. Often, sensitive personal data could be shared in those conversations.
- Comment on Living in a forest without any technology also works, since you will have no internet access anyways. 6 months ago:
That’s why it’s important to build a personal security and privacy model and a good idea of what you are and are not willing to give up. Instead of blindly chasing after the things that everyone else does. Since for most people, that idea of living in a forest is usually unobtainable
- Submitted 7 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on Telegram founder says the company will become profitable next year | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
Personally with XMPP, I think it’s right now because of the lack of decent looking clients (especially on iOS), as well as a lot of the same friction that people have suffered with mastodon.
Also, Signal is built towards a completely different audience that places privacy first over modern messaging features (things like API’s, sending messages through voice assistants, etc.). And for SimpleX, I’m not really sure if sharing a QR code/link with someone else is the best route to go in UX just to message a friend
- Comment on Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly. 8 months ago:
I always feel like whenever someone complains about fedi not being fully decentralized because they perceived too many instances as being held under a single place, they miss the point a little bit in terms of prioritizing infrastructure over user governance.
Aside from the potential disasters happening at them, it just really doesn’t feel like a problem if most people are hosting an instance on a popular cloud platform. These are companies that are just providing infrastructure, and as long as you aren’t trying to abuse their network or spread anything that they consider to be harmful, they won’t really care.
Instances operated under Home and business ISPs aren’t particularly immune to this either. And can still cut off an instance if they decide to.
- Comment on Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
Although Talk to a Live Rep is similar to the Pixel’s “Hold for Me” feature, Google says there are some differences, noting that while some of the underlying technology is the same, Talk to a Live Rep goes one step further.
Mood
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 9 months ago:
They can live their childhood as they should do, focus on their learning and enjoy the real world without having to spend their life scrolling, which we all know is not good for them
Older people forget that the norm of childhood has changed. And assume that children should do the same things they did instead of learning how to moderate what they do
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 9 months ago:
The goal is to change the norm, Fernyhough said, so that when children come to the end of primary school, the class “bands together and says, ‘Let’s all delay until at least 14.’
Yeah right that’s going to happen: p
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 9 months ago:
I fear for the digital literacy of Gen Alpha
- Submitted 9 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 57 comments
- Comment on Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible 9 months ago:
Well you’re in luck, there’s the Pleroma and Misskey family of apps out there that are ActivityPub compatible. Pleroma also has Akkoma as well, and there are far too many Misskey forks to count. Both of them support S3 I believe.
- Comment on Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard 9 months ago:
Oh yay another model I can’t run on my computer :'(
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 9 months ago:
You can, but that’s not the point. The idea is to ask users to choose upon opening the app for the first time. It’s an already common statistic that most people never actually change any settings beyond basic personalization. It’s part of why Google spends so much money on setting Google Search as the default engine.
- Comment on Vivaldi explains why they will not embed LLM functionality in their browser 9 months ago:
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 9 months ago:
The clickbait in this article is so bad, I thought it was a security vulnerability or something, but it’s just something else related to Mozilla again.
I’m still genuinely curious if Mozilla is going to actually accept a renewal for the search deal with Google, or if they’re actually going to start practicing with a praise and try implementing that search engine selection screen.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 9 months ago:
I have no idea what you mean by stack, but you definitely don’t deserve downvotes for this. You can use whatever you want.
- Comment on Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL 9 months ago:
Because Mozilla really doesn’t care about what people think anymore. They’re an incredibly bureaucratic group dealing with a lot of red tape placed as a force for good that doesn’t always meet the mark. It’s mainly the reason Firefox doesn’t have a lot of things (that it honestly should have)
Also, Firefox is a completely original browser but it doesn’t have a “chromium” version the browser like Google Chrome does. Both of the Firefox commercial product and the source code compile to the same thing.
- Comment on Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI 10 months ago:
I feel like anymore, artists just look through companies work just to go point out AI art and whine about it
- Comment on Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data 10 months ago:
I think it would be better to enforce open, readable training sets that anyone can browse through to submit legal requests
- Comment on Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 10 months ago:
Why does it matter if Steam uses Chromium on Linux. It’s not like Gecko dropped embed support or anything
- Submitted 10 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments