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- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 3 hours ago:
keyword detection like “Hey Google” is only used to wake up a device from a low power state to perform more powerful listening
That’s more applicable for something like a Google Mini. A phone is powerful enough, especially with the NPU most phones have now, to perform those detecting efficiently without stepping up the CPU state.
Is there some kink of roleplaying AI dev?
Is there some kink on your side in pretending you’re smart? You have no idea who I am or what I know.
Increasing the number of keywords to thousands or more (which you would need to cover the range of possible ad topics) requires more processing power
Again, you’re showing your lack of knowledge here. A model doesn’t use more power if trained on one class or a hundred. The amount of cycles is the same in both instances.
It’s usually smart speakers that have a low powered chip that processes the wake word and fires up a more powerful chip. That doesn’t exist in phones.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 hours ago:
I don’t have any questions. This is something I know a lot about at a very technical level.
The difference between one wake word and one thousand is marginal at most. At the hardware level the mic is still listening non-stop, and the audio is still being processed. It *has" to do that otherwise it wouldn’t be able to look for even one word. And then from there it doesn’t matter if it’s one word or 10k. It’s still processing the audio data through a model.
And that’s the key part, it doesn’t matter if the model has one output or thousands, the data still bounces through each layer of the network. The processing requirements are exactly the same (assuming the exact same model).
This is the part you simply do not understand.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 6 hours ago:
Just because you dont understand
Lol. My dude, I’m a developer who specializes in AI.
It would cost trillions
I have no clue how you came to that number. I could (and partially have) whipped up a prototype in a few days.
half the battery life
Hardly. Does Google assistant half battery life? No, so why would this? Besides, you would just need to listen to the mic and record audio only if the sound is above a certain volume threshold. Then once every few hours batch process the audio. Then send the resulting text data (in the KBs) up to a server.
The average ad data that’s downloaded for in-app display is orders of magnitude larger than what would be uploaded.
there are plenty of people that can find shit in the noise on wireshark
How are they going to see data that’s encrypted and bundled with other innocuous data?
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 11 hours ago:
Nevermind the why (I’m not entirely convinced it’s being done), I want to know what exactly would be seen in network traffic.
Ok, you said “voice collection” which I’ll assume is audio recording and then uploading to some server. That’s an astonishingly bonkers and inefficient way of doing it. You run a very small model (using something like Tflite) that’s trained against a few hundred keyboards (brand names, products, or product category) and run it on the background of your service. Phones already do essentially this with assistant activation listening. Then once a few hours of listening, compress the plain text detection data (10 MB of plain text can be compressed to 1 MB) and then just upload the end result. And we wouldn’t be talking about megabytes, we’d be talking single digits kilobytes. An amount that wouldn’t even be a blip on wireshark, especially since phones are so exceedingly chatty nowadays. Have you actually tried to wireshark phone traffic? It’s just constant noise.
It’s entirely possible to do. But that doesn’t mean that it is being done.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 18 hours ago:
You’re citing an image from a pop culture blog and are calling it science
I was being deliberately facetious. You can find similar diagrams from various studies. Granted that many of them are looking at modern AI models to ask the question about intelligence, reasoning, etc. but it highlights that it’s still an open question. There’s no definitive ground truth about what exactly is “intelligence”, but most experts on the subject would largely agree with the gist of the diagram with maybe a few notes and adjustments of their own.
To be clear, I’ve worked in the field of AI for almost a decade and have a fairly in-depth perspective on the subject. Ultimately the word “intelligence” is completely accurate.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 18 hours ago:
Ok, real question: what exactly would show up in network traffic?
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 21 hours ago:
Yes, but also no. You’re underestimating advertisers’ greed for data.
It’s actually trivial nowadays to build a background service like that.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 days ago:
So you’re saying your car is able to use mph when in the US? Fancy car!
Btw, I was trying to make a joke about mph being some different kind of “fuel” that’s not compatible with kph, in case that wasn’t clear.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 days ago:
How are you doing kph in the US?
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 2 days ago:
www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/10/6/254
What is this nonsense Euler diagram?
Science.
Did AI generate this?
Scientists did.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 5 days ago:
You mean arguing with people who show you’re wrong? Good move.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 6 days ago:
That’s the same as arguing “life” is conscious, even though most life isn’t conscious or sapient.
Some day there could be AI that’s conscious, and when it happens we will call that AI conscious. That still doesn’t make all other AI conscious.
It’s such a weirdly binary viewpoint.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 6 days ago:
Ok. I won’t.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 6 days ago:
No, it’s because it isn’t conscious. An LLM is a static model (all our AI models are in fact). For something to be conscious or sapient or would require a neural net that can morph and adapt in real-time. Nothing currently can do that. Training and inference and completely separate modes. A real AGI would have to have the training and inference steps occurring at once and continuously.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 6 days ago:
You have that backwards. People are using the colloquial definition of AI.
“Intelligence” is defined by a group of things like pattern recognition, ability to use tools, problem solving, etc. If one of those definitions are met then the thing in question can be said to have intelligence.
A flat worm has intelligence, just very little of it. An object detection model has intelligence (pattern recognition) just not a lot of it. An LLM has more intelligence than a basic object detection model, but still far less than a human.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 6 days ago:
You might want to look up the definition of intelligence then.
By literal definition, a flat worm has intelligence. It just didn’t have much of it. You’re using the colloquial definition of intelligence, which uses human intelligence as a baseline.
I’ll leave this graphic here to help you visualize what I mean:
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 6 days ago:
That’s why they’re calling it “AI”.
That’s not why. They’re calling it AI because it is AI. AI doesn’t mean sapient or conscious.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 6 days ago:
Torvalds be with you. Go in peace.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 6 days ago:
Sorry for trying to improve everyone’s lives. How selfish of us to share superior technology.
I guess we’ll just hoard all the good stuff and not let you guys have any of it from now on.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 6 days ago:
Windows is idiot proof, meaning that it’s kind of hard to ruin desktop windows during the normal operations.
Are you new? Windows will barf all over itself and all your files doing regular updates. Happened to my wife’s computer just recently. She has almost nothing installed on it aside from Steam and Chrome. Windows update turned itself into a hot mess, and it’s a known issue. The only option was to do a completely fresh install of Windows.
Idiot proof my ass.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
Almost any default text editor on Linux is better than Windows notepad, and many are straight up better than Notepad++
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 2 weeks ago:
If you want to stop endless troubleshooting, switch to Linux.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 weeks ago:
A part of my brain always reads AI as Al (yes, those are two different letters). As in Albert.
So it’s generative Albert. And “Albert is increasingly using more power”.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
The Galaxy S series and the Pixel devices cost about the same tbh
So? That’s not what the person you replied was even saying. You completely missed the point of their comment.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
looking at things i think i meamt Only Office. Any opinions there?
If I remember correctly, Only Office uses LibreOffice as its core and then adds or changes default stuff. I might be wrong about that. But ultimately I hear positive things about Only Office.
The hosting is on my old desktop which is running server 2016. I’d like to replace the OS on it too. I don’t keep the box online so I’m not keen on using it for anything other than game servers.
Sounds like a perfect situation for loading something like Proxmox and then visualizing the Windows Server 2016 instance. You would basically have the exact same functionality but with way more options like cloning and backing up the server.
Appreciate you not going aggro on me over it.
No worries at all. I think the automatic defensiveness from Linux people comes from old misconceptions being repeated often. Or sometimes it comes from how something is read and interpreted. Someone might say “I can’t switch because I need XYZ”, to which a very literal response is “you can use ABC which does the same thing, so you can switch”. When what the first person meant is “I can’t switch because I prefer XYZ”, which is a completely valid reason.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t going to berate you or anything. I was genuinely curious.
I am going to be trying out libreoffice and OpenOffice
LibreOffice is great. I use it on my work system at a medium to larger sized company (every single other person uses o365). I haven’t heard anyone complain yet about doc comparability and I haven’t had any issues myself.
Stay away from OpenOffice. It’s practically a dead product. When Oracle bought OpenOffice, the community forked the project which became LibreOffice. LibreOffice is where all the development and community focus and effort has gone since.
OneNote is my second most vital
I don’t have any recommendations here. I’ve never really found a “perfect” solution for this. Currently I use a few different solutions, but it’s all centred around markdown, so they’re all interchangeable.
OneDrive is probably my most vital.
I personally wouldn’t touch OneDrive with a hundred meter pole. MS does so much screwing around with your data that you can never be sure if the data stored is what you uploaded. They’ve been known to just up and delete files they scan and think is malicious, even if it’s a false positive. Then they’re known to scan all your documents for everything, including potential passwords, then use those passwords to open password-protected files and then scan them also.
Then there’s the situation from a year or so ago where they automatically switched everyone’s documents folder to a “cloud first” folder, where they just auto-uploaded everyone’s local files, deleted the local copies, and did it all without user consent or even informing users. And this resulted in all kinds of wild crap like people not having access to their documents because they were offline and were expecting local files. Then some people had their metered data connection getting maxed out. While others couldn’t even modify their files or even save a file to their “My Documents” folder because the default storage allocation was far less than the total data of their local files. So effectively the data was held for ransom.
it’s mostly running dedicated game servers that have no Linux option.
Most newer games that you can run your own dedicated server will almost certainly have a Linux option, which suggests you might taking about older games, in which case something like Lutris (Wine) might be an option.
But are you hosting these game servers on your desktop?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux).
They haven’t been for a while now. On some newer distros they’ll install the Nvidia drivers at the same time as the OS itself.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
Nvidia GPUs are not good in Linux at the moment
They’ve been perfectly fine for years. And now they’ve never been better for desktop DEs.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
What kind of things are holding you back?
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 3 weeks ago:
Three incoherent replies with jumbled run-on sentences.
the businesses with clean perfect sites tend to be the scams
Uhhh, no. Objectively no. A legit website is not going to have spelling mistakes and broken links. Looking professional and thorough is a direct lead to increased business. What you just said is completely false, and frankly idiotic.
Everything else you said (in all three replies) is just a jumbled mess of a brain dump that I’m not even going to try and address any of it.
