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- Comment on Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades 2 months ago:
Exfat if you wanna use your usb drive on Macos or Linux.
I have Windows so I’m OK with Ntfs.
- Comment on Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades 2 months ago:
About 10 years ago, my usb drive was Fat32 by default. I changed it to Ntfs due to Fat32’s 4-GB cap. 1080p movies that were 4+ GB were getting more widespread then. I’m using Ntfs till now.
- Comment on Exploring Emerging Tech 2 months ago:
I’m awaiting the day that a firm will make a practical quantum computer. I’ll be stoked on that day. Idk how folks will write programs for it, or does the idea of “program” apply to it at all? Will it make things faster? Like compiling code or frames per second in gaming?
- Comment on Does anyone know what happened to the Surface Duo? 2 months ago:
Was the tablet’s touchscreen as responsive as iPad’s? What was the operating system? If Windows, I can see how it failed. Previous versions of Windows were mouse-and-keyboard-first. I think Windows 8 was the 1st to truly consider touch and iPados was still better.
Microsoft had an Arm Surface device a few years ago. It had a 💩 chip.
- Comment on Gemini AI platform caught scanning Google Drive files without user permission 3 months ago:
These news articles support my idea that Google doesn’t care re privacy. I’ve been using a Samsung phone, which has Android. Android has permissions re cam, location, 🎙 and others, but I won’t be :o if Google can bypass all the privacy features if it wants my data.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text 4 months ago:
We mustn’t enter any private info in a large language model (llm) in the 1st place. The conversations are probably used to train ai models.
There should be 2 disclaimers in all llm –
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The llm’s responses aren’t always based on facts. It can say wrong info sometimes.
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Users mustn’t enter any private info in the llm.
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- Comment on Should I use Microsoft Copilot? 5 months ago:
Please try Copilot, Claude 3 opus and Gemini. Please use whichever you prefer. :) I prefer Claude 3 opus.
- Comment on "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded 5 months ago:
I guess Altman thought “The ai race comes 1st. If Openai will lose the race, there’ll be nothing to be safe about.” But Openai is rich. They can afford to devote a portion of their resources to safety research.
What if he thinks that the improvement of ai won’t be exponential? What if he thinks that it’ll be slow enough that Openai can start focusing on ai safety when they can see superintelligence’s approach from the distance? That focusing on safety now is premature? That surely is a difference in opinion compared to Sutskever and Leike.
I think ai safety is key. I won’t be :o if Sutskever and Leike will go to Google or Anthropic.
I was curious whether or not Google and Anthropic have ai safety initiatives. Did a quick search and saw this –
For Anthropic, my quick search yielded none.
- Comment on Qualcomm and Intel can't sell chips to Huawei anymore, report claims 6 months ago:
Huge blow to Huawei, which is a firm I dislike.
It seems they can’t buy x86-architecture processors from Intel and Amd. How can they make x86 💻?
If Windows arm will succeed in the far future (this is a big if for me), I wonder if Huawei can buy Mediatek chips for Windows arm 💻. I did a quick search. It seems Mediatek wanna design arm chips for 💻.
A Reuters article said Huawei paid Qualcomm to use some of Qualcomm’s 4g tech. I guess not being able to buy from Qualcomm isn’t a big issue for Huawei. Huawei has their own 5g tech.
- Comment on Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership was born from Google envy 6 months ago:
Heavily investing in Openai was 1 of Nadella’s best decisions.
- Comment on Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership was born from Google envy 6 months ago:
We don’t know. Maybe someone else would, maybe not. Before Chatgpt 3.5, ai was just a buzzword. It’s a bigger buzzword now, but at least tech firms have large-language models that they can market.
- Comment on YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking 7 months ago:
I googled. I read that Youtube took down Vanced. True? Can Youtube use the way they took down Vanced for Revanced?
- Comment on YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking 7 months ago:
I use Revanced. Out of curiosity, I tried going to youtube.com on Firefox + Ublock origin on my Samsung a70. Full screen, “double tap to forward 10 seconds”, “double tap to back 10 seconds” and captions work.
- Comment on YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking 7 months ago:
I googled. Isn’t it 45% Youtube and 55% vid producer?
- Comment on Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" 7 months ago:
There’ll probably be no more diskette makers in the future, so the train operator should stop using diskettes. I did a quick googling.
In January 2024, Japan announced it will no longer require floppy-disk copies of government submissions.
I searched amazon.com. You can buy diskettes there.
I’m assuming the folks doing the upgrade know what they’re doing. Train operation is key, so to be sure, they may need to slowly move away from diskettes and slowly integrate ssds or whatever the replacement will be.
- Comment on AI Has Lost Its Magic 7 months ago:
I still use large-language models for fun. My fav phone reviewer is Marques Brownlee. I looked up his best big phones in his phone awards and compared his list to Claude 3 opus’ list. I wanted to see the similarities and differences for fun.
I’ve been :) with the tight competition too. Claude 3 is making Gpt and Gemini sweat.
- Comment on Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit. 7 months ago:
I asked Claude 3 opus to summarize –
Intel disclosed deepening operating losses of $7 billion for its foundry business in 2023, a significant increase from the $5.2 billion in losses the previous year. The company’s chipmaking revenue also declined by 31% in 2023, leading to a 4.3% drop in Intel’s shares after the SEC filing. CEO Pat Gelsinger expects 2024 to be the worst year for operating losses in the chipmaking business, with the goal of breaking even by 2027. Intel’s turnaround plan involves investing $100 billion in chip factories across four U.S. states and persuading outside companies to use its manufacturing services.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.
That’s what Duckduckgo is saying.
I use it for pic searches. I can easily go to the link of the pic. On the other hand, Google takes me to the site containing the pic.
Another concern of mine re Google is this –
Say I’m searching re a car. The search results are riddled with carmechanic.com, carexpert.com, moderncar.com, carstoday.com and others. Idk if those are legit. There’s a lot of misinformation on the Net so I’ve been careful.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Chrome is worse now? What did you experience?
My main browser is Firefox. My secondary is Chrome. I’m still :) with Chrome as a secondary.
- Comment on China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover 8 months ago:
👍 article.
Electric vehicles are 👍 if the energy used to charge the 🔋 is from renewable sources. If most of the energy used for charging is from fossil fuels, wide electric vehicle adoption doesn’t aid much in resolving climate change.
A long time ago Veritasium said that vehicle making had a big environmental impact, so it was eco-friendly to use your old vehicle as long as possible. I did a quick search and didn’t find any relevant info. I asked Bing copilot and didn’t get a definite answer. But the joy that a new electric vehicle brings is sure. I may lean on buying a new 1.
- Comment on The Lifeblood of the AI Boom 8 months ago:
Applications such as Chatgpt and DALL-E have captured the world’s imagination, but ai companies are focused on something else.
This can be improved. the author’s point is that 3 of the things that the tech world is focused on now are –
- more chips for ai
- develop own chip to decrease reliance on Nvidia
- higher demand for electricity due to the ai boom
But the tech world is focused on making better ai chatbots and pic generators too.
Anyway, 👍 article. I learned that Nvidia is the backbone of the ai boom.
Chip components have been getting tinier. I hope ways to work with or around the quantum behaviors will be discovered.
I hope there’ll be more research re higher-output (megawatt) renewable energy plants and cheaper renewable energy.
- Comment on Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED 8 months ago:
Tech Youtuber Marques Brownlee has liked Red cinema cams. Nikon wants that sweet Marques cash. :p
- Comment on Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED 8 months ago:
The process of buying a sensor for a phone then developing computational photography is different from making a digital cinema cam. I wasn’t :o that the cam in the Red phone wasn’t as good as an iPhone’s cam.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 8 months ago:
Idk Mx chip. I googled. Is it a chip for smart home devices?
The demand for gaming 💻 has been high. Firms made names like Rog, Legion and Predator as they’ve wanted to give a considerable amount of focus to folks buying gaming 💻.
Also, there can be high profit in high-end gaming 💻.
There’s high profit too in thin and low-mass 💻. For example, enterprise sales. Say a firm with 10000 workers buys 💻 from Asus. High profit.
Idk which generates more profit.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 8 months ago:
I appreciate Dave2d’s “M2 Macbook air versus Windows” vid. Hope he’ll make an M3 Macbook air versus Windows.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 8 months ago:
Apple’s focus on polish makes them a not-1st-mover. The Apple vision pro isn’t the 1st virtual or augmented reality device. The Airpods max isn’t the 1st pair of wireless headphones.
- Comment on F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 8 months ago:
I viewed Wendover’s Boeing vid – y2u.be/URoVKPVDKPU
The vid showed that Boeing seemed to have questionable quality control. The focus was maximizing profit. Boeing outsourced the ✈’s parts to different firms but seemed to have a loose grasp on the whole thing. As the main firm, Boeing must have keenly supervised the crucial things. It’s a key part of quality control.
Also, some knowledgeable Boeing folks left Boeing. Brain drain.
- Comment on Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records 8 months ago:
I think this is exciting for some, but I value sustained real-world performance more. For example, the fast processors tested by Gamers nexus.
- Comment on Lemmy helping Lemmy World - Youtube without Ads 8 months ago:
Youtube works 👍 on Firefox Windows 11 for me. I could view 1440p. No major issue.
- Comment on IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible 8 months ago:
I can tell Chatgpt to use scientific sources only, right? :)
