MrAlternateTape
@MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee
- Comment on AI-powered 20 foot robots coming for construction workers' jobs 8 hours ago:
Yea, well…for the heavy lifting it could be nice. But I’m not letting AI build my house.
Lifting heay crap to the roof or something like that? Sure. That is what machines are good at.
Welding? Well welding robots have existed for long time, they just need to programmed perfectly. I’ve worked with a couple of them, the results are not always consistent and they required some quality checks. It is easier. Manual welding takes more skill and takes longer. I just don’t need the AI part though. That makes it unpredictable. And if I let a robot do something, it should be predictable.
I do woodworking and fixing around the house. Even when building new stuff, there are always issues that you have to solve on the spot. Walls that are not straight, angles that are not perfect, spaces you cannot reach et cetera.
As long as AI does not get it 100% right every time it is not touching my house. And yes, a professional doesn’t reach that rate either, but at least they know and doublecheck themselves and know how to fix things.
- Comment on Zuckerberg feared monopoly scrutiny and mulled Instagram split, files show 1 week ago:
It actually makes sense. I’ve seen big and small companies. Small companies are focused, flexible and people usually have a connection with the company.
At bigger companies, everything goes slow. And nobody gives a shot about anything. They do what they need to do in order to get paid, but not a step more. Everything is slow because at least 2 layers of management need to sign off on decisions.
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 1 week ago:
Mine already reboots every night. It’s a setting I can change on my OnePlus.
I enabled it long ago. A reboot will also kill anything that is running in your memory like a page mining crypto or a virus that has not yet gotten to your file system yet. Or at least I’d like to think so…
Anyways, the reboot also insured that if my phone is ever taken from me, after 24 hours max they will have to both enter my PIN and my phone security code. I wish them good luck. There’s not much interesting stuff on my phone, but that does not mean I want everyone to have free access too it.
- Comment on My imaginary children aren’t using your streaming service – Terence Eden’s Blog 1 week ago:
HBO also allows a code on profiles.
- Comment on China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech 2 weeks ago:
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The US have a shitstorm coming. That’s what you get when you let a toddler play with the control knobs of the country.
Another very interesting point is how China made themselves so powerful. Anything with electronics needs some sort of resource from China. China is a very big and powerful player.
We should wonder if we want t be this dependant on one country for all our tech needs. I think the answer is no…
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 5 weeks ago:
That is the problem with US adults. Half of them probably is dumber than AI…
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 2 months ago:
Just wait for something else that dominates the news and do it then, so nobody will notice. Very old trick.
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 2 months ago:
If it would not affect the life of so many people, I would enjoy seeing the country fall apart. Now I just feel sorry for all the poor bastards that have to live there.
I do suspect immigration won’t be an issue in a couple of years, because nobody wants to live there anymore. So that’s something to look out for.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 months ago:
Just the other day, I read an article about how much cases they are able to solve because of the footage. That is a good thing in my opinion.
The police also will ask for the footage, but you don’t have to give it. It’s entirely up to you if you want to do so.
Even so, I prefer not to be filmed at random by people’s door bells, thank you very much.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 5 months ago:
The problem is people are only going to change their behaviour once the consequences hit them, and with global warming, the consequences won’t really hit them until a long time later.
The second problem is the consequences are dramatic. And very hard if not impossible to turn around.
To really get people and companies to change their behaviour, we would need an immediate consequence to behaviour that is bad for the environment.
Bottom line is, some people try, some people don’t give a shit, and in the end we will have to deal with it.
I hope governments are watching carefully, we will need to keep a lot of water away from us in the future, and we’ll have to deal with the changing climate too.