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- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 9 hours ago:
I imagine even the fk_ai crowd appreciate the non-gimmick stuff as long as it is nothing like a chatbot
Tiny example from Gmail:
This is all over, and it can be super useful from time to time.
They say “f AI!” but I mean sure they don’t want better searches than were possible five years ago? If it’s not sycophantic and confabulatory etc. etc.
Good point on intrusivity
PS
PS: I translated news from Iran this week using AI tools and using traditional translators. Who would advocate for the garbage traditional translation—soon as I went the “AI” route, it was suddenly possible to understand what the journalists were trying to say. That doesn’t mean I want translators to lose their jobs, it just means I know what the best available technology is and how to use it to get a job done. (And does not mean just because it translates well that I will also trust it to summarize the article for me.)
- Comment on Become Ungovernable 22 hours ago:
So the other day I’m traveling in my pollen conveyance, right
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 2 days ago:
- Comment on Scheduled Upgrade to 0.19.11 - May 2nd 2025 @ 8PM EDT 2 days ago:
Missed this, thanks Dude!
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 6 days ago:
That sounds really interesting!
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 6 days ago:
Hey there I didn’t complain or downvote but also declined to upvote cuz of the two little tiny words of ad hom……
… (idea!) …
DINGUS! Dingus would’ve saved it!
ya dingus
Perfect, feels very Lemmy-appropriate—gets the insult with a perfect lulz factor so even the parent commenter could’ve kinda laughed (I hope ppl can take jokes!)
…sorry I know I’m not your mom, hope this doesn’t come across maximally prescriptive (just my 2c!)
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 6 days ago:
Really interesting— I don’t follow this nearly enough, so thanks
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Obviously this blue part here is the land…
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 6 days ago:
Also fines agricultural workers and CEOs the same for speeding on their way to work—except for that Nokia executive that one time & his countrymen
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 6 days ago:
Intriguing, care to say more?
- Comment on Life after 30 be like 1 week ago:
lurve le clurb
- Comment on xkcd #3104: Tukey 1 week ago:
- Comment on Classic dentist 1 week ago:
Booo
If you wanna try to send me your ZIP Code I can see if I can figure out which regulator has a snowballs chance of telling them to knock it off (if they care)
- Comment on PROGRESS 1 week ago:
poignant my mouf on each one
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 1 week ago:
Hey there we go, now I can be excited about their future… Nice
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 1 week ago:
Imagine Slate without Bezos
Would be so exciting
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 1 week ago:
Oh I still have to watch that, referenced in freaks and geeks I believe
- Comment on Reddit assemble 1 week ago:
Understand that!
Me personally -
Team Noblock here defending new Lemmings against apparent echochamber threads
- Comment on Reddit assemble 1 week ago:
most common thing in the world is unattained potential
Didn’t somebody say something like that?
- Comment on PROGRESS 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 week ago:
Appreciate for both of course!
- Comment on Sheeple 1 week ago:
alt-text
Zoolander gas fight gif
- Comment on I've got something special for you 2 weeks ago:
TIL QWERTZ
- Comment on What has he seen?? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 weeks ago:
Whoever came up with that deserves credit. Entirely lovely and harmless “superstition” as far as I can tell. No one is hoping for rain so they won’t be disappointed, but everyone has that line (“lucky it’s raining on your wedding day“ or whatever) ready just in case.
I wonder if there are other white lie kinda pro-social quips like that
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 5 weeks ago:
Ya @cattywampas@lemm.ee let’s send them complaints on this
They gotta give us a way to watch adfree without spying on us
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 month ago:
15% if you know about it, if you apply, if you get accepted
Good watch on this stuff, the recent court decision overall
Dude’s so vindicated. Apple lover who HATES their treatment of developers cases like this.
- Comment on Has Reddit acknowledged the existence of Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Ya b/c it’s not plastered with ads, what’s even the point of this place if the advertisers haven’t swarmed it? :)
- Comment on Japan hits different 1 month ago:
“Don’t we have any other way to motivate our workers?”
Ahaha!!
cool tool
Yeah we spent a ton of energy on that analysis but am necessarily so curious about the state of the art (I’mma tech person) and this was a suitable test case. UC Berkeley/others’s got a project
with SotA available free (but all data hoovered for research)
My other big test was right when it came out after reporting about scary good image analysis, on something where I had a legitimate question. tl;dr take pic of scene IRL, remove EXIF, hop on VPN, and upload to ^ & see if its response/analysis feels creepy or reverse image search is just as good or what
PS: adding missed disclaimer to previous comment
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 1 month ago:
😆
