buddascrayon
@buddascrayon@lemmy.world
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 2 days ago:
Yeah a couple of weeks ago Google secretly activated Gemini on every Pixel user’s phone. I ran into the same problem, my phone suddenly activated and Gemini popped up interrupting a song that I was playing while I was away from my phone. Ended up screwing up the song and having it repeat over and over and over.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 week ago:
I don’t agree with Israel at all. But Iran is a theocratic ethnostate as well. One that has pretty loudly proclaimed that the day they have nuclear weapons is the day before they use one on Israel. There’s nobody out there who’s in a morally high position.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
And when SpaceX does it with real full size rockets and they explode scattering debris and chemicals everywhere, the nearby towns pay the price.
I don’t see any towns being decimated by Honda’s approach.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
That is not why starship fails. Starship fails because like everything that Elon does lately it emphasizes style over practicality. Starship is a very badly designed rocket that looks cool to Elon. Not unlike the Cyber truck which has been an abject failure in every way possible.
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been looking everywhere for somebody to explain it. Like, there are dozens of articles outlining exactly what happened. Which I don’t need because I was there. I know what happened. I just have been wondering why and finally you have provided a link that actually gives me a reason.
So, thank you kind stranger.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m going to make sure I don’t take any new drugs for a few years. As it is I’m probably going to have to forgo vaccinations for a while because dipshit Kennedy has fucked with the vaccination board.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that it’s not actually counting anything. It’s simply looking for some text somewhere in its database that relates to that word and the number of R’s in that word. There’s no mechanism within the LLM to actually count things. It is not designed with that function. This is not general AI, this is a Generative Adversarial Network that’s using its vast vast store of text to put words together that sound like they answer the question that was asked.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’ll be like the machine that you find in museums where you put in a quarter and get an injection molded toy hot out of the mold. You just hook your arm up to an IV and it starts extracting your blood and then when it gets enough of the plastic it melts it and pushes it into the mold and spits out a little toy dinosaur.
- Comment on Most American headline 3 weeks ago:
Just a reminder that the same people who are against free school lunches for children are the ones who stand in front of abortion clinics screaming about how abortion is murder.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 3 weeks ago:
Then you’ve led a charmed life cause most of us get hired on a handshake and a nod.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 3 weeks ago:
Most people aren’t working on a contract. And in the U.S. most states are at-will employment (something companies lobby heavily for) meaning you can be fired for any reason whatsoever, but is also means you can quit at any time you like in whatever manner suits you.
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 3 weeks ago:
Most accurate depiction of corpo pride month attitude.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, the town nearby is being decimated by these explosions. The environment around there is becoming a desolate wasteland and Musk was given license by Trump to gut the EPA and the FAA is being run by a sycophant who worships the ground Elmo walks on.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
Are you using the free version of Plex or the paid for version?
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
It’s the recent “We all hate Plex now” because they implemented a price in regards to the way we access content remotely because it was costing them too much to maintain for free. So anything that smells even remotely like they are trying to make money is getting the shocked and dismayed reaction. Usually followed by a dozen or so people talking about how they’ve ditch Plex ages ago for a truly free platform like jellyfin/Kodi/etc.
- Comment on No looky for you! 4 weeks ago:
The one we have is a Bosch and IMO it’s the worst. If I had been in charge of replacing our old one I would have chosen something way better.
It’s indicator for the cycle being done? A tiny beep that goes off like every 5 minutes or so for maybe an hour. Otherwise, the first person to open the door gets to see the clean dishes indicator light. After that it’s anyone’s guess. And the wash cycle is extremely quiet (this is actually a nice feature if it weren’t for the fact that it’s impossible to tell if it’s in the middle of a cycle or fully done other than the afore mentioned faint intermittent beep).
- Comment on No looky for you! 4 weeks ago:
I’m actually more pissed off that here in 2025 we haven’t developed a dishwasher that has a blow dry cycle. Like, just have a small water tight door that flips open to reveal a fan that circulates warm air to dry the dishes.
But no, instead we have the dubious development of dishwashers that no longer have a cup for the prewash soap (which is still 100% necessary) because those stupid pods exist and on some models all the indicator lights have been relocated to the inside of the door where you can’t see if the cycle is done unless you open the door which, if the dishwasher is still in the middle of washing, will disrupt the cycle.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 4 weeks ago:
LoL, this just reminded me of the movie “Shoot 'em Up” with Clive Owen’s character being a stone cold badass while munching on carrots he grows in his garage.
BTW, though it is a cartoonishly ridiculous action flick, “Shoot 'em Up” is a terrifically fun movie to watch.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 4 weeks ago:
This is because “The Drug War” is just a device for political persecution of the people that whoever is in power wants to harass or outright remove. It’s the Nixon Playbook and it’s not just Republicans who use it.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 4 weeks ago:
Not only that, Wall-E got crushed and was able to be rebuilt and booted up like nothing ever happened.
- Comment on Is Washington state falling out of love with Tesla? 4 weeks ago:
These Tesla owners who love their cars but hate his involvement with government are a bit ridiculous because one of the biggest reasons he got in loved with shilling for the right is that the government was looking into regulations and investigations concerning how unsafe Tesla cars are.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
What if we just fed TimeCube into the AI models. Surely that would turn them inside out in no time flat.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
I believe that’s a close-up of the inside of a pitcher plant. Which is a plant that sits there all day wafting out a sweet smell of food, waiting around for insects to fall into its fluid filled “belly” where they thrash around fruitlessly until they finally die and are dissolved, thereby nourishing the plant they were originally there to prey upon.
Fitting analogy, no?
- Comment on Star Citizen Loses 'Integral Staff' Responsible for Server Meshing 5 weeks ago:
Wow yeah, I just looked into the Wikipedia entry for this game. It looks like they make a lot more money as an unreleased project than they would ever make as a fully realized game.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 5 weeks ago:
I mean, if you look up “gamergate” and see the real reason why these little whiny bitches had such a shit fit. You can see that a lot of male gamers are a bunch of whiny little bitches who throw idiotic tantrums whenever anything highlights women in the gaming world.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 5 weeks ago:
I play XBox games on my computer. My computer is more than 10x faster then my XBox so games often play way better.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 5 weeks ago:
Show me how to use the Xbox app in Linux and I will switch today.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 1 month ago:
I’m not entirely unsympathetic since property values have skyrocketed ridiculously mostly due to the super rich and hedge funds buying up housing like it’s candy.
However, these people got an assessment for doing some renovations without replacing the walls or a major overhaul of the property, then promptly added a whole second floor to the building when they said they were just replacing the roof. They gambled that the assessors wouldn’t take note and lost.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 month ago:
I think the point is that they often eventually remove Denuvo and it becomes a moot point.
- Comment on Google to Integrate Gemini AI into Android Auto for Smarter In-Car Experience 1 month ago:
Good thing I don’t use android auto either then I guess.