Whirling_Cloudburst
@Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world
- Comment on Shower thoughts are just thoughts but in a shower 1 week ago:
The shower is a pocket dimension. Dreams can spontaneously form in the steamy aether.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 1 month ago:
So, how will this work and comply with laws regarding its use in a medical institution?
What about its use in a company that has extremely valuable trade secrets that need to be kept that way?
What about the military?
Wouldn’t this make for an excellent target to harvest data for hackers?
I wonder if Win 11 LTSC will leave it out.
- Comment on Boomers Getting Tricked By AI On Facebook 1 month ago:
Good Luck!
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 2 months ago:
Teamgroup makes decent enough products.
- Comment on Is it true that addicts never stop being addicts, they just replace their addiction? 2 months ago:
The concept of addiction as a brain disease has been challenged in recent times. Its better to think of it as a learning disorder that can be corrected over time. AA and NA have also shaped public opinion on alcoholics and addicts with ideas that are not based on science.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
We will find a way. Never give up or give in. Screw your shareholders!
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 2 months ago:
There were so many times that updating Win7 was a nightmare. I used to do plenty of fresh installs on various PCs and I would have to wait a day or sometimes more to get the OS up to date. I would have thought we moved past this by now.
- Comment on Google might make users pay for AI features in search results 2 months ago:
Imagine me paying to give my data to feed their info beast. No thanks. I can run my own AI tools.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 2 months ago:
Its certainly similar in that CSI played a role in forming unrealistic expectations in student’s minds. But. Rather than expecting more physical evidence in order to make a prosecution, the students expected magic to happen on computers and lab work (often faster than physically possible).
AI enhancement is not uncovering hidden visual data, but rather it generates that information based on previously existing training data and shoe horns that in. It certainly could be useful, but it is not real evidence.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 2 months ago:
Unfortunately it does need pointing out. Back when I was in college, professors would need to repeatedly tell their students that the real world forensics don’t work like they do on NCIS. I’m not sure as to how much thing may or may not have changed since then, but based on American literacy levels beings as they are, I do not suppose things have changed that much.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 3 months ago:
Their children’s eyes will grow closer and closer together from one generation to another until no one has depth perception past the front of their face. /s
- Comment on To the top 1% truly smart people the other 99% are dumb as a box of rocks. But exactly how fucking stupid is that 99% ? 3 months ago:
The average American reads at the 7th- to 8th-grade level.
- Comment on Bangladesh teacher suspended after allegedly shooting student in exam 3 months ago:
Police said they seized his gun as well as a second pistol, 81 rounds of bullets, four magazines, two knives, and 10 daggers which they reportedly found in his bag.
It always pays to be prepared. You would think this guy teaches one of the tough classes in the U.S.
- Comment on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem 3 months ago:
I wish them both the worst of luck.
- Comment on Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont 4 months ago:
If they can pay the people with advanced graduate degrees enough that they seek other work elsewhere, it might succeed.
- Comment on Midjourney might ban Biden and Trump images this election season 4 months ago:
That’s nice, but without a law and some kind of real enforcement, nothing is going to change.
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- Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” 4 months ago:
Someone is going to be a high seas king after this for sure.
- Comment on FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines 4 months ago:
More info is needed. Here ya go folks:
Philips recalled the following devices made between 2009 and April 26, 2021:
A-Series BiPAP A30 A-Series BiPAP A40 (ventilator) A-Series BiPAP Hybrid A30 A-Series BiPAP V30 Auto (ventilator) C-Series ASV (ventilator) C-Series S/T and AVAPS DreamStation DreamStation ASV DreamStation Go DreamStation ST, AVAPS Dorma 400 Dorma 500 E30 Garbin Plus, Aeris, LifeVent (ventilator) OmniLab Advanced+ REMstar SE Auto SystemOne ASV4 SystemOne (Q-Series) Trilogy 100 (ventilator) Trilogy 200 (ventilator)
- Comment on Coinbase tells judge that buying crypto is just like collecting Beanie Babies 5 months ago:
I’d go to one of his dinner parties tho.
- Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader 6 months ago:
This looks fun. I got a Kobo. I wish it was opensource. It would be cool if some people were to team up with Fairphone and make a Fairbook project to make a light weight device with USB-C charging and long lasting battery life. There needs to be a bigger incentive if the firmware is ever going to get better. You could just use Linux as per usual tho.
- Comment on Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon 6 months ago:
It was a breath of fresh air for me.
- Comment on Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads 7 months ago:
Hold on. Let me check… Oh wait, I didn’t buy any Ubisoft games, I wonder why? I wanted to play AC, but there must be a reason.
- Comment on New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible 7 months ago:
Many emulators have been doing something like this for quite a while. Its called a “saved state.” In some cases, a saved state can introduce bugs into the game play and mess up your progression, but that is just in emulation.
- Comment on Omegle has officially shut down 7 months ago:
- Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline 7 months ago:
You can’t unless you form a small group like a non profit organization or a business. You can cheat the system legally going the NPO route as long as you find a way to fulfill legal requirements, but you need friends (it helps to know someone in law school too) and you have to do the legal paperwork and share all the cost. The price to do this will vary depending on where you live. The price for the volume license can vary a lot depending on where you get it from. Where your group is located effects this. In my local it is about $200-400 USD.
Your other alternative is the grey market. Its grey because it is legally ambiguous.
- Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline 7 months ago:
My machine running Win10 LTSC is getting updates until 2029. I also have machines running Debian. There is no way I am installing the regular version of Win11. Its trash made to pander to greedy shareholders. If they take the garbage out for LTSC, I might run it.
- Comment on Why OLED monitor burn-in isn’t a huge problem anymore 7 months ago:
This is a good read.
On a side note: Anyone remember the story of the guy that went on vacation and his buddy watching the place left the gay porn on pause on the plasma screen as a joke?
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 7 months ago:
I started blocking those from appearing when they first showed up. There are a number of ways to do it. The Blocktube extension is one.
- Comment on NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away 8 months ago: