Bogasse

@Bogasse@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “Multi modal”

  Will it finally be possible to be productive with more that 3 windows open?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  About YouTube premium :

  1. I don’t like the idea of spending money for Google. I don’t find it very ethic to use their services in the way I do but no replacement has come up for years. I try to mitigate by donating to some content creators and I would love to pay a subscription to something like Nebula if there were at least 3 people I follow in there.
  2. I would use an adblocker even if I paid. On my phone Tubular is just a much better experience : multi platforms, aggregates my subscription, no addictive low quality suggestions and lightweight while still featurefull (and it integrates sponsorblock 🤫)

  Also on my previous phone the YouTube app was super slow and would regularly crash because of RAM shortages. This was 6 years ago though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna make a sarcastic comment on how surprised I was that a 5$ subscription is not enough for something so heavy that it requires building new nuclear plants.

  But holly shit, ChatGPT+ is 23€/months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My take of this is that their definition of socialism is “an economic system where all people appear to not be rich” while there their definition of capitalism has to be “some people are super rich”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Font Awesome API outage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the fuck would you call an external API for a static font?? O_o

  Does it have something to do with paid plans?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So he’s now over with AR honeymoon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah people often mention the funny phone designs from the 2000’s but they also praise the Nokia 3310 for its reliability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3114: Building a Fire⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t understand the 4th panel as an explanation of the joke but just an emphasis on how absurd it is that the character planned all along that his installation will be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Common PIN Codes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is your pin automatically updated to reflect inflation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea that RAGs “extend their memory” is also complete bullshit. We literally just finally build working search engine, but instead of using a nice interface for it we only let chatbots use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A quotes from my networking teacher, a few years back :

  WikiLeaks revelations on NSA are great news to as, now we can by cheap Chinese hardware as we know it won’t spy on us any more than american hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To sum it up even more : this looks like standard end-to-end encryption, but any app user have the same network traffic, completed with fake data if no communication is needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, working a bit on developing my photos from RAW over last years taught me how we actually expect a lot of magic from a regular camera. The brain does a lot of work and low/high light compensation, color balance, etc… are required to some extend. Of course sometimes it becomes a bit absurd : most smartphone pictures seems oversaturated, with clear blue skies and I one took a photo of a blue-ish mountain because (I think) some classifier thought it was part of the sky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any chance this is the same HDR technology that has been around for at least 10 years, but using latest marketing buzzwords?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind having a few screws to remove every few years when I need to replace my battery.

  Although there is another thing, I’m not sure but I wonder if it has any impact. My FP3 has made a few very bad falls and nothing ever broke. I wonder if its “bad” integrity makes it very good at dissipating the fall’s energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So mythical that it’s the first time I hear of this BS 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  while we work on making improvements

  🤣

  The fact that he tried to make it like there is a reasonable reason is delightful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think there was some efforts, until we found out that adding billions of parameters to a model would allow both to write the useless part in emails that nobody reads and to strip out the useless part in emails that nobody reads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how even this flagship feature is just one more lazy shortcut to another app that bloats the context menu 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't pay rent because devs just don't care⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  😮‍💨

  AI assistant tools probably won’t push us on the right direction for this one. (Or maybe they will by encouraging people not to import a different library for any 6-lines function they need?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did zuck say anything relevant to the market in the past 10+years?

  It’s a provocation but I’m also kinda curious, with the level of information and consulting he has access to he must be choosing the topics he is relevant about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My thoughts exactly. There are a lot of things that look like a newspaper but are just very long editorials. On the other end we still have a few kinda reputable sources that actually do some journalism work (debunking, actually investigating on site, arguing …).

  Journalism and all forms of counter power look super weak in my county but mixing everything up just makes the important work even weaker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no reason to believe it violates “democratic values”

  In my country the law is one of the pillars of democracy, but you do you 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And I think “vibe” means that they have no experience with programming so they can’t read the code they copy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it was Americans talking on an american platform. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had french Europeans leaders having occasionally this kind of discussions on Microsoft Teams or some Google chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On Signal you can verify user identify, and you should absolutely do it if we to discuss national security maters.

  This is not a hidden feature, I think it’s designed to prevent man in the middle attack. It also work against the “oops I accidentally added a journalist to my conversation no one should know of”, which is so dumb that no one saw this coming 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were to discuss national security maters with someone, please just verify your safety numbers, IRL or through another safe and verified channel 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top AI struggle to beat Pokémon game made for 5 year olds.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we stop benchmarking text generation models on things they’re not designed to do and start educating people on what they actually can do?

  Oh no we can’t, there’s already hundreds of commercial services…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly Preps Progressive Web App Support⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s easier to block trackers & ads on a PWA, and life made me very cynical about “the industry” 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump is giving Russian cyber ops a free pass – and putting western democracy on the line.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, we’re not even 3 months in (6%) and everyone is preparing for world war 3. Americans needs to step up now.