VeganCheesecake
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on She thirsty, not hungry 9 hours ago:
Your instance is the address behind the @. So yours is lemmy.world, his is, fittingly, yiffit.net.
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 3 days ago:
I wouldn’t even say that. Even if they had a truly unique LLM that ran partially locally with a custom co-processor, Android might still have been a good choice. It’s just hard to beat an open source base that’s already compatible with most mobile hardware, and relatively easy to find Devs for.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 4 will be delisted from sale this December, but thankfully remain playable 5 days ago:
For games like this it’s almost always licenses for cars or music. They probably weigh the cost off renewal vs likely future sales.
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 5 days ago:
Using Android as a base was honestly the most reasonable thing they did. No reason to reinvent the wheel. What they made with it is admittedly really shit, though.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 6 days ago:
Huh, I’ve been in that train. Sudden, random hit of Nostalgia.
- Comment on Terraforming 1 week ago:
I am very much pro space exploration, but the current plans many companies present for Mars colonies just seem like they would add very little value, while bringing tremendous danger and strife for the inhabitants, should anything ever be built.
I think we need to separate legitimate interest in space and related technology from bullshit marketing with scifi flavour.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 1 month ago:
Because telling them “I’m not allowed to answer that question.” isn’t going to make them look it up themselves anyway. I mean, you could lie to them, but I can’t imagine that being a popular policy.
Even if the sentiment behind this wasn’t so horrid, this is just stupid.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 month ago:
Can confirm, my brother is a furry and on bluesky.
- Comment on Head of PR at China's biggest search engine Baidu apologised after her comments glorifying a work-till-you-drop culture sparked public outcry 1 month ago:
Kinda sounds like her life’s miserable, and like she wants to make those of the people under her even more miserable.
- Comment on the struggle 1 month ago:
Yeah, but the point of all the criticism is that the test also reflects mood changes and recent experiences in ways that a proper tool to measure a person’s personality shouldn’t. I am not saying that people can’t change, just that the result of the test is rather superficial.
- Comment on the struggle 1 month ago:
This made me try that test again, and I got INTP-A. Got something different half a year ago, so yeah.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 1 month ago:
Was that in question? I thought it was clear from the beginning that it does pretty much everything in the cloud.
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 month ago:
So you’re from Estonia?
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 1 month ago:
Uh, I understand the sentiment, but the model doesn’t know anything. And it’s legit really hard to differentiate between factual things and random bullshit it made up.
- Comment on Edited in Signal 2 months ago:
They seem to point at the qualcomm privacy policy to show what’s being collected. It does seem strange that they’re not analysing the packets themselves, especially since claiming the data is unencrypted, and the article is quite sensationalist. In the end, they’re trying to sell their very expensive (one might dare saying overpriced) Pixels with preinstalled Graphene.
It’s still good to keep in mind that qualcomm seems to be collecting personalised data, which they’d likely hand over to US intelligence or law enforcement if requested to, and that at least some custom roms come with the proprietary packages that facilitate this.
- Comment on Edited in Signal 2 months ago:
I’m not talking about the CPU itself. If I remember correctly, phones with Snapdragon CPUs usually have packages from qualcomm installed, and there have been reports about them sending data to qualcomm.
- Comment on Edited in Signal 2 months ago:
And if it’s one with a Snapdragon CPU, the NSA probably knows too. And while China is rather Authoritarian, and I’d be worried if I lived there, currently I’m more worried about surveillance by a government that has more influence on the country I live in, and likely shares data with my countiries intelligence services.
- Comment on Just got texted a job offer. You guys think it's legit? 2 months ago:
Not great, still better than SMS.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I mean, isn’t the point of the fediverse that you can just jump to another instance? There isn’t a central authority like there is with reddit.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 months ago:
Pretty sure they really don’t like ads they don’t make any money from.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 2 months ago:
While WhatsApp is certainly useful, there are better alternatives, and a pullout would lead to bigger adoption of those. I think WhatsApp has its user base mainly because of inertia.
All hypothetical, I don’t think Meta is gonna give up the EU market any time soon.
- Comment on What 11in laptop do you suggest? 2 months ago:
In general, I tend to look at the business lines from the big laptop brands, and get them used. Never fared me wrong.
- Comment on Americans Sleeping Less, More Stressed 2 months ago:
German here. Same, mostly.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 2 months ago:
Well, Munich decided to switch back around the time Microsoft was negotiating about building their Germany HQ there. There have been allegations of backroom dealings, but I dunno if there’s ever been anything proven. There is a very big, very shiny building with a sign that says Microsoft near where I lived when I was there, though.
Though I also read some articles about them partially going back to FOSS, so who knows what they’ll do in the end.
- Comment on Google Podcasts is shutting down soon, users urged to move to YouTube Music 2 months ago:
AntennaPod is nice and FOSS. I went there when Pocket Casts started to introduce more and more subscription features after they went free to install, and never looked back.
- Comment on Tidal has found the right way to share music with friends. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Tidal has found the right way to share music with friends. 2 months ago:
There’s also song.link in case you don’t use Tidal.
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs 2 months ago:
I’ve got a Windows Partition that I need for a few proprietary programmes, and manged to get an Enterprise Edition license key for it. Definitely against their license agreement, so they could take it away if they ever felt the desire to, but holy shit, it’s so much nicer. Group Policy Editor isn’t the most uncluttered piece of software, but under Enterprise Edit on you can still use it to deactivate pretty much all annoying things Win11 does.
- Comment on Round 2 🚢 3 months ago:
Meh, I’ve seen a few of these pop up and get articles written about them over the years. They usually disappear soon after. Probably just trying to scam money from Investors.
- Comment on Meat. 3 months ago:
Sigh. Ramstein just doesn’t hit the same after the scandal.