FrostyTrichs
@FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 8 months ago:
Tech is a boogie man to many executypes. I’ve seen plenty of IT pros that were in over their head but smooth enough con men. If they keep coming up with things to throw money at/trim money out of convincingly they have long and successful careers.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
Enjoy training on my -checks notes- DELETED POST HISTORY YOU FUCKING CLOWNS.
Stay ForeverFucked™ spez.
- Comment on Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds 9 months ago:
Pretty soon probably.
- Comment on The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same 10 months ago:
I’ve been to several coffee shops through the years that also had local artists that helped with the decor, and local musicians playing a couple days a week.
For whatever reason I’ve never really looked at a coffee shop as a bar/pub for daytime folks but I guess that’s what a lot of them kind of were.
- Comment on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy Juniper Networks in $14 bln deal 10 months ago:
Good to know. Fuck both companies.
- Comment on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy Juniper Networks in $14 bln deal 10 months ago:
HP flashing that ink subscription money around.
- Comment on It's more of a suggestion really. 10 months ago:
Fuck it we’ll fix it in the future.
- Comment on Nerds of equal standing. 10 months ago:
Meanwhile, LOTR nerds:
- Comment on EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anyway 10 months ago:
A Subscription Is Required to Continue Reading
Interesting.
First of all apparently ublock, no script, or some combination of my add-ons kept me from seeing the message and I’m able to view the entire article.
Even more interesting is this text at the end of the article-
This story was originally published by Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice, and solutions.
So this source basically spun an article from Grist and put it behind their paywall.
Following the link from Scientific American, the first line of the Grist article is-
This story was co-published with WIRED.
It’s clowns the whole way down, yaaaaar.
- Comment on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage. 10 months ago:
You’ve been hacked. Pay 500 BTC to regain control of engines and landing gear.
- Comment on I don't think I am... 11 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model. 11 months ago:
We have a great tool to automate the automation.
We have the idea of a great tool. Right now we’re kind of square wheeling our way through it.
- Comment on Four years after Apple, Google will finally kill third-party cookies in 2024 11 months ago:
If it does I’m not aware of it but I’d love to learn of one.
- Comment on Four years after Apple, Google will finally kill third-party cookies in 2024 11 months ago:
It would be nice to have the option to not just block your data from being accessible to a 3rd party but also feedback junk data into the system. Pollute the data stream until it’s no longer useful to the powers that be while still retaining functionality for the user.
One can dream.
- Comment on How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest 11 months ago:
If I did that I’d feel obligated to remove the user accounts I’ve blocked from my list before posting it and frankly that isn’t worth the time or the trouble since I’d have to manually recheck all the accounts to see why I blocked them. No thanks lol.
I think it’s pretty easy to replicate what I did with minimal effort though. All I really did was change the ‘all’ page in my Lemmy app (Boost) sorting to the newest posts. It becomes obvious pretty quickly when a couple communities have 4+ most recent posts, by the same accounts, etc. Most of the bots that exclusively repost reddit content are very obvious with just a couple clicks.
Once I had the worst offending reddit reposters blocked I noticed certain community/instance/users were either spamming content I’ll never care about or were NSFW bots, or were too region specific, etc. so I blocked them too. I spent a day or two doing more blocking than browsing.
After that I changed the sorting on the ‘all’ page to active posts, which at that point was mostly posts by real people again. From there I’ve only had to block the odd account here and there like I would on any other social platform. Every so often I’ll notice a bot post that’s slipped through but if the community is active someone else has usually posted something similar that’s getting more interaction anyways, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out on much I’d be interested in or the stories that are actually newsworthy.
- Comment on How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest 11 months ago:
It took a couple weeks but I’ve found that blocking some bot accounts and adjusting the sorting on the app I use has plenty of fresh content with active posts. It isn’t exactly the same as reddit in its prime, but I shouldn’t expect it to be either.
It’s causing me to branch out into other topics and conversations that I probably would’ve missed on a gigantic platform like reddit. I think reddit made it easy to see interesting content because of how long it had to develop into a community. Lemmy is still a bit jumbled and fragmented, but the community seems to be sticking around and forming a new identity apart from reddit.
- Comment on Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language 11 months ago:
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!
- Comment on Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections 11 months ago:
“Write the article in the style of a junior high student” probably gets close enough to be believable, who needs an editor!
- Comment on Save thousands 11 months ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on this AI thing 11 months ago:
Using AI in this way is what finally pushed me to learn databases instead of trying to make excel do tricks it’s not optimal for anyways.
I tried a bunch of iterations of various AI resources and even stuff like the Google Sheets integration and most of them just annoyed me into finding better ways to search for what I was trying to do. Eventually I had to stop ignoring the real problem and pivot to software better optimized for the work I was trying to do with it.
- Comment on New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman “was not consistently candid” 11 months ago:
The amount of idiots willing to die for another man’s ego
US Military has entered the chat
- Comment on Amazon unveils Q, its AI chatbot for workers 11 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff 11 months ago:
The whole thing sounds like some cockamamie plot derived from chatgpt itself. Corporate America is completely detached from the real world.
- Comment on Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI 11 months ago:
Why the hell can’t we just have both? One of the biggest problems with smart speakers and voice assistants is that they’re so damn stupid so often. If A.I. were to become smart enough to be what the current assistants/speakers aren’t, surely that would drive device sales and engagement astronomically higher right?
- Comment on Microplastic overdose 11 months ago:
Hold on what was that you mumbled at the end?
- Comment on Exxon will mine lithium for electric vehicle batteries in Arkansas 1 year ago:
Exxon comes in to help pay for podiums.
- Comment on Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business 1 year ago:
Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.
- Comment on Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years 1 year ago:
I tried so hard, and got so far. But in the end, I still got assassinated.
- Comment on Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up 1 year ago:
Reddit will continue to do things that push the users away. As apps and accessibility to Lemmy improve, hopefully quality posts and comments will continue to grow.
- Comment on Am I Doing This Right? 1 year ago:
Sisko = The cooler murderous criminal
Come on now, The Thong Song isn’t that bad.
