TechAnon
@TechAnon@lemm.ee
- Comment on Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things? 3 months ago:
With machines, just remember the “clicks” or “notches” to compare progress. You’ll never really know the real weight because who knows the maintenance on them and the amounts of friction per machine that are inherent let alone the pivot points that allow for leverage that can vary.
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 3 months ago:
The system could only display 400-something colors at a time. Once you reduce the number of colors that can be used, you lose gradients so one color doesn’t ease into another color. Due to this, art styles were typically different and used contrast to “pop” the characters and items visuals in game since being more realistic wasn’t an easy (or possible) option.
Now that we can have millions of colors, you can do whatever style you want.
A similar thing happened as polygon counts went up.
- Comment on The FTC is reportedly looking into Microsoft’s $13 billion OpenAI investment 6 months ago:
Their lead investigator will surely sniff this one out!
/I’m going to hell!
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 6 months ago:
🥵 ☕
- Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users 6 months ago:
It sucks as a whole. Imagine having everyone’s DNA. You can develop things that hurt a specific set of people only. It may or may not affect you directly, but it affects our communities. You’re right as an individual. No one really cares about your hair or spit and if they did, it’s very easy to get a hair sample in most cases without you even knowing it. As technology gets better there will be (maybe already are ways) to get your DNA that are less intrusive or need less material. AI trained on DNA and physical attribute could probably narrow it down A LOT using video alone.
- Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users 6 months ago:
I would think so. IANAL but I’m sure there’s a ton of precedence for cases similar to this. HIPAA laws are very good for the people.
- Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users 6 months ago:
Not a mistake, but their ToS change without consent probably wouldn’t stand up in court.
- Comment on Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same 6 months ago:
Respect upvote. Can we have this be our culture in Lemmy?
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 6 months ago:
Shout out to Streamio + realdebrid + torrentio! 🖤🏴☠️
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 7 months ago:
I’m guessing speaking or typing: “note” “pad” “notepad” “how do I write a note?” “Write something down” would all work.
To be fair this would probably be the same speed as me hitting windows key + R and typing “notepad”.
- Comment on Best Buy to end DVD & Blu-ray disc sales 8 months ago:
Ahoy, that’s alright with me, matey!
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
That’s a good idea. Another one that may be effective is Google has AI process the video and they drop links in the text below the video based on company $. For example, Cool Shirts Inc. gives ad money to Google for their t-shirts. AI processes all new videos and checks for Cool Shirt Inc shirts. If the video has the shirt in it then this is added in text below the video, “Dig the creator’s shirt? Get it here for: link.to.shirt.com/buynow”. Non-intrusive, fairly good targeting and if I do like something in the video I can check there to purchase or look into it more.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Hear me out: Google makes money by selling ads. People who buy from those ads don’t have an adblocker installed. People who are intelligent enough to block ads wouldn’t buy from them anyway. If Google allows it to be too easy to block ads then their model collapses. I’m ok with jumping through a couple hoops to continue to block and Google doesn’t lose anything while I get to still watch the content I like without wasting anyone’s time. It’s to Google’s benefit to serve videos to only people who will actually buy that crap anyway. If Google or anyone wants to sell to me, they simply have to make a great product. If they do, I’ll see it in use for it’s intended purpose and buy it. For example, I didn’t have to watch any ads to buy a Nintendo Switch years ago…
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 8 months ago:
Because of this comment, I’m converting. Thank you so much! Doesn’t seem to hard to figure out and there are plenty of articles online for this. I see a lot of them also add Real Debrid for higher quality and to remove the need for VPN. Anyway, you rock!
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 8 months ago:
Yo ho, yo ho… 🏴☠️
- Comment on Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec 8 months ago:
You just typed that question on one. See: GPT4All You can download many models and run them locally. They were about 5-16GB in size the last time I downloaded one. Pretty slow if you don’t have a hefty GPU, but it works!