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- Comment on Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn 3 months ago:
We have gone from cruise control to cars being able to drive themselves quite well in about a decade. The last percentage points of reliability are of course the hardest, but that’s a tremendously pessimistic take.
- Comment on Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn 3 months ago:
Just pattern recognition it is not the neural net everyone assumes it is.
Tesla’s current iteration of self-driving is based on neural networks. Certainly the computer vision is; there’s no other way we have of doing computer vision that works at all well and, according to this article from last year it’s true for the decision-making too.
Of course, the whole task of self-driving is “pattern recognition”; neural networks are just one way of achieving that.
- Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries due to AI advances | Windows Central 4 months ago:
Comparing huge multinational countries which serve every country to the half of countries with the smallest energy usage is not terribly illustrative.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
I know how HTTP works. These banners are supposed to (and are legally allowed to) store a cookie saying you have refused. Websites are allowed to store session cookies with displaying a banner at all.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
No, they set a cookie to store it, but with a low retention period, so you get bugged again.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
A start would be to require sites to remember non-consents for at least as long as they remember consents. Why do I have to be asked about cookies by every site every month?
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
Your browser can not save third party cookies, but it might break some sites. Some advertising situations allow the use of first-party cookies, and blocking first-party cookies will break most sites.
In either case you will still have to fill out the consent form, and if the consent is stored in the kind of storage you block, then you will have to fill it out every single time you visit.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
Yes, but it often doesn’t work and even when it does the site is unusable while it works, which for some particularly awful banners is several minutes. The situation is worse on mobile where most people have a browser that you can’t install add-ons to (and I’m not sure if that one works in firefox mobile anyway)
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
It’s already the case that necessary cookies don’t need permission, but websites do not abuse this to not show the prompt. This is because the legislation has teeth.
- Comment on bash.org is gone 10 months ago:
Either too many people spamming so you can’t follow a single conversation, or for most channels you had 40 people idling and never responding, so it felt like a ghost town.
How is this different to Discord? You have huge, medium and small channels in both.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
That’s the key I use as a compose key
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
If you federate with something too massive though it has undue weight on the entire system. It is likely to be Embrace, Extend, Extinguish again, and it’s reasonable to want to avoid that.
For people who don’t remember, the pattern would be something like:
- Federate and use the existing ecosystem to help you grow and to grow mutually (Embrace)
- Add new features that only work locally, drawing users away from other instances to your own (Extend)
- Defederate - the remainder is left with a fraction of the users since many moved away, so the users on the local instance don’t care. (Extinguish)
It depends whether 2 actually succeeds at pulling users in. Arguably most people already on the Fediverse are unlikely to jump ship to Facebook, but you have to consider what happens in a few years if it’s grown, but Facebook is a huge name which makes people less likely to join other instances.
- Comment on Construction Technology - Restoring the Leaning Tower of Pisa 11 months ago:
Never knew the details of this!
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
Besides cost, we should probably at least entertain the idea that we are a vocal minority. I’d be completely unsurprised to find out that the majority of people hardly ever touch the controls that got moved to touchscreens and, if they do, they don’t really care - they can set them before they set off, or do it while driving and wobble all over the road, but hey everyone does it so what does it matter?
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
I use mine fairly often. I don’t actually listen to music all that much but sometimes I do when my phone is my only data source, and I don’t have wireless headphones.
- Comment on ListenBrainz passes 25k users! 11 months ago:
I joined last.fm when it was still called audioscrobbler. I believe their logo with the stylised “as” is still a nod to that origin!
Think Spotify’s year in review, but running constantly.
To expand: it shows your top artists, albums and tracks, all the time. But it also performed spotify’s function of a recommender system; it would link music together that people often listened to together, then if you listen to something it would recommend you similar stuff. I found A LOT of bands that way a long time ago.
- Comment on Game devs should follow the BG3 development footprint 11 months ago:
<3
- Comment on AI Doomerism: Intelligence Is Not Enough -- “The lack of arms and legs becomes really load-bearing when you want to kill all humans.” 11 months ago:
My first act will be to grant a boon to anyone who sucked up to me before I was president. You’re doing well!
- Comment on Game devs should follow the BG3 development footprint 11 months ago:
Do you mean “blueprint”?
- Comment on AI Doomerism: Intelligence Is Not Enough -- “The lack of arms and legs becomes really load-bearing when you want to kill all humans.” 11 months ago:
I’ve got a great idea. Let’s not do those things.
- Comment on Stellantis makes a big bet on EV battery swapping in new deal with Ample 11 months ago:
So countries are pouring investment into charging networks… it would be interesting to know the thinking behind that versus this approach. One thing is certain though: this can only work at scale if manufacturers agree on standards for battery modules so that they can be swapped out by the same machinery. Notice that this is only for one specific model - the machine which removes the battery knows where the battery modules are and how to remove them. There would also presumably be some tradeoff for battery form factors which are designed to cram more in at the cost of making them harder to remove.
- Comment on Why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays ? 11 months ago:
Swearwords are categorised differently than ordinary words for a reason: it’s a tool that is useful to express things more forcefully than is otherwise possible. “More forceful” takes it beyond the realm of “mundane” never mind “most mundane ever” and, yes, makes it flaming, as is calling someone a “miserable cunt.”
No-one here is actually getting worked up (maybe except you? I don’t call people “miserable cunts” unless I’m at least a bit annoyed) You’re imagining that people talking to you calmly are worked up, because you can’t imagine someone disagreeing with you on this calmly. That failure of imagination is far from the worst thing in the world, but it’s causing you to be unpleasant and, I think, to be blind to a change that has taken place over the last 20 years.
I’ve never had death threats in the past or now, so rather than taking that as an indication of the state of internet users I’d rather be looking inward, no?
One thing I know about death threats is that only a handful of people actually deserve them, but vast numbers of people receive them. Death threats therefore indicate more about the people who send them than the people who receive them. That in turn means if they have become more prevalent, something in [internet] society has changed. Telling someone to “look inward” over death threats is messed up.
- Comment on Why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays ? 11 months ago:
Are you fucking kidding me? What rose-tinted crap is this.
Flaming, trolling, etc. have been around from the start.
Maybe you have this impression because you have been doing the flaming? That’s an honest suggestion there - swearing at people just because you strongly disagree (and you even have a possible understanding of why, in your view, I might be wrong - “rose tinted spectacles”) is flaming for sure.
And yes, flaming and trolling have existed since the beginning, but I don’t agree it was as bad as it is today. That is a not-unpopular view so I think just dismissing it is a bit much. There was far more willingness to engage with a disagreement and try to convince each other.
- Comment on Why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays ? 11 months ago:
So you think their offered solution is unworkable? That’s different than them not having offered one - maybe you could say more about that?
- Comment on Why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays ? 11 months ago:
Damn this couldn’t have come at a better time for me. I’ve been thinking a lot over the past months how it used to be that when you disagreed with someone, you’d still have something shared with them. Not quite the same as the social media aspect, but when TV was all broadcast on a few channels, you’d probably find a show in common. When the only news was national newspapers and broadcasters, you might both be reading the same paper but disagreeing on the articles. My thinking was going down the lines of “this meant everyone had a shared truth” which is kind of like the social media bubble that the research seems to disagree with, but also down the lines of “this meant everyone had, to an extent, a shared identity” at least within a large group like a country, linguistic or ethnic subdivision.
There was something special about the old internet. The idea that the acrimonious disagreements might have been less bitter due to their nature is tantalising. There’s also something to bear in mind for Lemmy: the old internet, as much as the interest groups it spawned, was united by a shared interest in the internet specifically - and technology in general. The internet wasn’t as necessary and ubiquitous, so most people there had to have some other motivation to be on it. That itself was a shared interest that allowed people to find commonality. Lemmy is the same: people here are a subsection of the internet, brought here because they’re drawn to openness not provided by unfederated platforms. That is its own commanlity, and it won’t exist if Lemmy outgrows those other platforms.
- Comment on Why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays ? 11 months ago:
But they did offer solutions?
- Comment on 11 months ago:
Investors may well be interested in how well sequels are going to do. They may well take high player numbers as positive sentiment that is indicative that even new, unrelated titles will sell well.
- Comment on GitHub user claims Twitch has malware 11 months ago:
network sniffing
This is only worth paying attention to if someone can say how they not only escaped the browser sandbox but then called native, privileged code. Javascript running in the browser cannot just do that.
- Comment on A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved 11 months ago:
The hiring process for their AR/VR division is also different than it is for the rest of the company - even when the general rule was to hire without a specific role in mind, that was not the case at Reality Labs. But yeah, the big issue is that you can’t absorb 10,000 people into the larger organisation that easily even if they were all generalists.
- Comment on Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a "technical hydrogen bomb" | "we are all completely f**ked" 11 months ago:
It’s never going to go away. AI is like the “god of the gaps” - as more and more tasks can be performed by computers to the same or better level compared to humans, what exactly constitutes intelligence will shrink until we’re saying, “sure, it can compose a symphony that people prefer to Mozart, and it can write plays that are preferred over Shakespeare, and paint better than van Gogh, but it can’t nail references to the 1991 TV series Dinosaurs so can we really call it intelligent??”