Syntha
@Syntha@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
“It doesn’t happen to me, so it must not be a real thing”
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 3 weeks ago:
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources
So as I understand it, under the OSI definition of the word, anything distributed under a copyleft licence would not be open source.
So all software with GNU GPL, for example.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
The plural of anecdote is not data
- Comment on Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know 2 months ago:
Last.fm is really great for tracking, it’s been around for forever too, no idea why it isn’t more popular.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 5 months ago:
The argument isn’t that they’re “evil”, it’s that they could be used as tools by strategic rivals.
- Comment on Waymo Robotaxis Are Giving 100,000 Rides a Week. It'll Soon Be More. 5 months ago:
How much more does it cost to the alternatives?
- Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why? 6 months ago:
Ahh yes, I misread your comment
- Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why? 6 months ago:
That’s not the case, quantum computing can only break specific types of cryptography.
- Comment on Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company 9 months ago:
Same. I read the name and thought, wow they’re posting something unrelated for once if it’s on Technology.
Nope lmaooo
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 9 months ago:
mental illness
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 9 months ago:
What a sad view
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 10 months ago:
I don’t think I was being wrong, technically, I do think you can write that way if you want to be a bit facetious, but I’m not a native speaker so, maybe not.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 10 months ago:
Some AI, namely, LLMs, can hallucinate, but not AI in general. I just had a bit of fun in how I worded it, I guess I should’ve expected someone to become annoyingly nitpicky about it.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 10 months ago:
No, the model isn’t “thinking”, no model in use today has anything resembling an internal cognitive process. It is making a prediction. A covid test is predicting whether you have the Covid-19 virus inside you or not. If its prediction contradicts your biological state, it is wrong. If an object recognition algorithm does not predict there being a firetruck, how is that not being wrong in the same way?
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 10 months ago:
When I use “AI” I’m using computer science terminology. Artificial intelligence is a subfield of CS, in that sense, any model that comes of that field is, by definition, AI.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 10 months ago:
Yeah, well it’s not the same. Models are wrong all the time, why use a different term at all when it’s just “being wrong”?
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 10 months ago:
Besides generative AI, what models can hallucinate?
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 10 months ago:
AI is not prone to hallucinations, LLMs are. I doubt Amazon is building a chatbot to optimise packaging.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 10 months ago:
This seems like further confirmation of that theory that I saw posted on here that the Saudi oil barons funded Elon’s purchase of Twitter for the sole purpose of destroying it.
Then why does it still exist? Musk took Twitter private, they could’ve just pulled the plug if they wanted to.
- Comment on Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal 1 year ago:
I think the 3rd party apps very a nice bonus but considering the timing I’m pretty sure the AI boom was the main reason.
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- Comment on 'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends 1 year ago:
You look lonely. I can fix that.
- Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 1 year ago:
It’s a Turkish name
- Comment on Universal Music says that it will pull its song catalog from TikTok tomorrow at midnight, as the companies are unable to reach a deal on rights. Huge implications. 1 year ago:
In this case there is. Background music is not fair use.
- Comment on Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it 1 year ago:
They’re not publishing scientific papers, along with their data, which others can verify;
Not that I think this is really relevant here but I’m pretty sure Meta has published scientific papers on Llama and the Llama 1 & 2 models are open and accessible to anyone.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 1 year ago:
I don’t know where you have your ideas about Getman rent from but I assure you that, barring some rent-control, the German rental market is free.
- Comment on Project Kuiper: Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink passes 'crucial' test 1 year ago:
There is no real danger of Kessler syndrome because these satellites burn up in the atmosphere after a few years anyways.
- Comment on A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive 1 year ago:
From what I understand the problem with Vasagel isn’t it’s efficacy but with the reversibility. You can remove it from the tubes easily but the sperm might not perform as before.
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 1 year ago:
Take your pills man
- Comment on Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 1 year ago:
Well, it only took me one comment to contribute nothing, you needed like two dozen comments for that