CeeBee_Eh
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think you were projecting with that “you’re insane” comment.
I have no idea what you’re trying to say this time. Maybe have a lie down?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well according to the doc that’s not a concern unless the same force is applied again.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Learning’s hard, eh?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
though they need to be in a sling.
Not true, my son got nurse maid’s elbow. He was crying almost non-stop for 5 hours between it happening to the doctor walking into the doctor’s room. The instant the doctor manipulated his arm he stopped crying and it was like nothing happened.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yup, that’s called nurse maid’s elbow. It’s incredibly common. It’s almost always caused by a kid trying to yank themselves away. And it happens because at that young the tendons aren’t strong enough to hold that amount of weight/tension.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Instead I do a lot of yelling / stern vocalizations to keep kids away from areas they shouldn’t be.
It’s a natural instinct to convey urgency of danger. It works for adults but it can be damaging to kids.
The truth is that in a life or death situation, you do whatever you need to do to keep kids safe.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My vote is that you’re lying about being a parent. But if you are a parent, then you’re letting social pressures and some very strange and warped perception of things limit what you do as a parent to protect your kids.
I won’t outright say that it makes you a “bad” parent, but I personally cannot fathom not taking every step I can to protect my child. And no, a leash doesn’t limit their development. It factually promotes it on the very basis that it allows them to be more active in walking around and exploring in situations where it would be unthinkable to let a child walk around (heights, dangerous areas, on a boat, large dense crowds, etc.).
Being stuck in a stroller 99% of the time is awful for kids that want to run around and explore. Some parents don’t have the physical strength or ability to carry a kid all the time.
Twins or even triplets that are very active and wild are a perfect example. You will never contain two very wild toddlers by just “watching them”. And if you try, you are a bad parent.
Ultimately you choose a very dumb him to die on. You are wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Good on your mom! And glad you were safe!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
children are people
Very good! I’d give you a sticker, but I don’t know where you live.
insulating them from small forms of possible harm doesn’t help their development.
And a leash doesn’t do that. Being a hover parent does.
if you pick a reasonable place for your child to play there’s no need for a fucking leash 99% of the time.
What? Is that how you people think using a leash works? You think a leash is put on the child in the morning and isn’t taken off until the end of the day? Are you for real with that? Forget it, you don’t get a sticker for saying the dumbest thing I’ve heard today. And I’ve already watched a video about a flat earther.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I find it very interesting that you have absolutely equated a leash with a pet and with degradation.
I have a cat, he’s not on a leash. Is he my child now? Or does that just mean he’s *not" my pet?
dogs are on a leash mostly for safety reasons for others.
That’s not entirely true. For example, dogs don’t understand traffic and that running across a street is dangerous (well, most dogs. Some dogs are just very smart). Keeping them on a leash minimizes the chance that it darts across the street because it sees something it wants to get. The owner put the dog on a leash because they understand that doing so will keep the dog safe from injury. The owner recognizes that the dog doesn’t understand the dangers involved.
An infant also doesn’t understand (can’t understand) the dangers. Putting them on a leash protects them from that danger. But it also helps the child develop independence, helps them exercise, helps them learn to walk better, helps their mental development from being able to explore and interact with the world.
Compared to just being carried or stuck in a stroller, which is ultimately boring and doesn’t help at all with the motor skills, and is far less impactful with mental development as they can only observe and not interact with.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is mostly copied from my reply to another comment:
Parents get tired. In fact, most parents have chronic levels of sleep deprivation which impairs things like concentration, reflexes, ability to pay attention, etc. Then you have parents who might be working multiple jobs, be dealing with health issues that affect sleep, etc. A leash would make that job to keep kids safe much easier.
No leash equals a non-abusive, even though not every situation can allow a parent to keep 100% focus on the child, but using a leash the parent suddenly becomes abusive?
Should a parent not give the kid a helmet when learning to ride a bike then also? Does using a helmet mean the parent is abusive?
I just don’t understand this. I cannot fathom that someone would criticize a thing that objectively and provably make life in the world safer for children. It’s just another tool to help kids get to grow up.
There are countless stories of children just walking away in the 3 to 5 seconds a parent looks away where the child falls off a height, falls into water (not every parent can swim, and not all waters are swimable), gets picked up by a stranger in a crowd, etc. Situations that a leash would 100% have saved the child’s life.
And when these people are confronted on why it’s abusive or “embarrassing for the child”, they don’t have an answer.
They might say something out of left field like “children aren’t dogs!”, to which I say “yes, you’re right. Children aren’t dogs. Very good! Now about the leash, why is it abusive?”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve met too many people like this.
Your kid is having an issue with something? “Well my kids never did that!” But said in a snide way that implies you’re doing something wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Again, it’s humiliating for children
A two year old didn’t get embarrassed.
as parent it’s you fucking job to Look after your offspring.
Parents get tired. In fact, most parents have chronic levels of sleep deprivation which impairs things like concentration, reflexes, ability to pay attention, etc. Then you have parents who might be working multiple jobs, be feeding with health issues that affect sleep, etc. A leash would make that job to keep kids safe much easier.
And I’m not sure how it works in your mind. No leash equals the parent keeping the kid safe, even though not every situation can allow a parent to keep 100% focus on the child, but using a leash the parent suddenly isn’t paying attention?
How do you think that works?
Should a parent not give the kid a helmet when learning to ride a bike then also? Does using a helmet mean the parent isn’t keeping the kid safe?
I’d like to know your thoughts on not utilizing safety equipment with children. I’m very curious.
A leash will not Help you, when you are on the phone and the children runs into danger.
Do you… do you not understand how a leash works?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
but If you are putting children on a leash, you are mostly seen as a bad parent and probably you are.
100% you aren’t a parent.
I’ve never put a leash on my kid because I didn’t frequent extremely busy crowds. But leashes are great for kids. It gives them the feeling of self autonomy to explore, while keeping them safe.
Anyone who says they’re bad has never experienced turning your back for 0.68 seconds and then realizing your kid is already gone off somewhere. They are fast.
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
So the guys on the street that scam tourists are high profile scammers?
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
I did acknowledge that it’s not exclusive to the US. And I didn’t say “it is”, I said “it feels like”.
FTX, Theranos, Fyre Festival, Enron, Bernie Madoff, Logan Paul’s CrytoZoo, Charles Ponzi (the OG Ponzi scammer), etc.
While scams exist everywhere, the US seems specially suited to embolden people to run scams. At least high profile ones.
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
It’s a whole hell of a lot harder to rig when your name is everywhere when you win.
This also sounds like a uniquely US problem. Not that there aren’t scammers everywhere, but it feels like it would be more prevalent in the US.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 5 weeks ago:
Plex (originally) and Jellyfin are a centralized way of managing your media with aesthetic and easy to use interfaces. I have one Jellyfin server and I have a Netflix/Display+ type interaction with my media. I have the same content on my phone, wife’s phone, my desktop, laptop, my TV, etc.
All watch history, recommendations, up next queue, and so on.
And with the right setup (Wireguard in my case) I can access that content from anywhere.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks ago:
You are the one basing your argument on an article from 2008 , not me.
… what? You literally linked the article from Android Authority, not me.
You are completely deranged.
Says the person claiming a model’s computational power usage scales with the number of classes trained.
Now come back with some hard evidence
Hard evidence for what? I’ve never once claimed phones are listening to people’s conversations. This whole thread has been about the technical viability of such a system. Not evidence of it’s literal existence.
You, on the other hand, have spewed nonsense this whole time.
So like I’ve said more than once, come back with something real or stay in your lane.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks ago:
I already did multiple times
No you didn’t, because you keep saying wrong things.
you just refuse to read it
I don’t need to read it, because I read it when it came out… back in 2008. I read their stuff regularly. I also read all the other stuff about this topic (AI tech). An article from 2008 is irrelevant at this point. Technology has advanced leaps and bounds in 17 years. AI wasn’t even a thing back then. Things like Picovoice didn’t even exist until recently.
It also says a lot that your source of truth is a near 20-year old article from Android Authority.
How often do you say Nike ?
Personally? Never.
More interesting would be “I will buy a pair of new shoes” now shoes can be mentioned in tons of context so you better have a way of separate it.
I don’t know about “interesting”, but I do agree that it would be much greater context to better target ads. But that’s not what the discussion was about. I said way back that I’m not positioning this idea of phone’s listening as an absolute certainty. My whole point was that at a technological level it’s well within technical means to accomplish the whole “our phones listen to what we say” all while not draining the battery enough to be outright noticeable.
Another thing to note, is that most (if not all) of the anecdotal stories about people talking about a topic and then seeing ads about that thing are often generic conversations. Even in my own tests, which are anecdotal, confirm that. I never talk about boating. I never search anything about boats. I also never saw any ads about boats. Etc. So I did a little test on my own recently and openly talked about “getting the boat ready”, “can’t wait to go boating next week”, “need to get the boat in the water and ready for the season”, and so on. I did this for about an hour solid. Then waited and hour and visited some generic websites that show ads, and lo and behold there were lots of ads for buying a new propeller, ads for nearby marinas, ads for marina supply shops, ads for boating accessories, and so on.
Like I said, it’s entirely anecdotal and in no way conclusive, but it does lead me to believe that there might be truth to the rumours. And it’s the kind of thing I’ve heard from many other technical people who deliberately tried to trigger ads on topics they never deal with otherwise.
And also like I said before either come back with something real, or go away and concede you’re out of your depth.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 5 weeks ago:
You missed the joke.
I was making a joke as if kph and mph were physically distinct things and only one of them worked in each country.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks ago:
No you are wrong
Lol. “Nuh-uh” doesn’t work with me.
stackoverflow.com/…/effects-of-number-of-classes-…
Seems your making things up on the go
I speak from knowledge and experience. What do you bring to the table?
More wake words to listen to more battery drain. Fact.
1 trained class = 1 model
100 trained classes = 1 model
Tell me how running 1 model would drain more battery than running 1 model? I’ll wait…
You have ZERO context then. Completely useless .
The person said “NIKE” a few times, show them ads for shoes. The person said “mechanic” “car” “fixed” around the same time, show them ads for local car repair shops.
You don’t need the full context of what was said to get some context from just the words. The spacing in time and the revelations relationship between words can give you a whole lot of context. Plenty to target ads.
Now, either come back with something real, or go away and conceed you’re out of your depth.
- Comment on BitCraft Online an upcoming AAA mmo goes open source 5 weeks ago:
“Initial focus on PC”
I hope they’re using those words correctly and I can pay it on Linux.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 5 weeks ago:
It’s not gamification that’s the issue. That aspect really held my attention and gave me consistency.
It’s the push to a pay-to-win model that made me quit. They made the challenges harder and harder to complete without using boosts, and to use the boosts you had to use gems. And gems were really hard to get unless you bought them with real money. It doesn’t matter if you have a super subscription (or whatever it’s called), you still had to pay to get the gems.
And the prices for the gems were just as predatory and the disgusting mobile gaming industry. Never should there be an option to spend over $20 for in-game consumables, nevermind over $100. It’s sick.
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 5 weeks ago:
Give CodeBerg a look. It’s starting to pick up some steam.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.