CeeBee_Eh
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- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
They’re tech entertainers, and Linus is the clown jester.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad idea.
No, this is a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea.
What you said is like saying “well, I need surgery, having the monkey from the forest come at me with a knife is better than nothing.”
Microsoft has proven themselves over and over to be the last company you should trust with your data. Even recently they’ve been responsible for losing a life’s worth of data because of OneDrive
They’re already uploading people’s data off of their computers to OneDrive without consent, then deleting the local copies.
Plus their tech work culture is lacking. When they screwed something up with Office 365 and Outlook wasn’t available for over 18 hours (for basically the whole world), their response was a tweet that it’s fixed.
Whereas CloudFlare messed up something for only an hour, they released a comprehensive breakdown on their blog of what happened, what the root cause was, and what they’re going to do to prevent it from happening again.
Which company seems reliable to you?
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 3 weeks ago:
My simple rule is that if it uses a neural network model of some kind, then it can be accurately called AI.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 3 weeks ago:
Ya, I knew there were analogue “upscalers”, but I’m not familiar enough with them to confidently call them an upscaler vs a signal converter.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 3 weeks ago:
Well, the algorithms that make up many neural networks have existed for over 60 years. It’s only recently that hardware has been able to make it happen.
AI gives it bit of marketing sprinkle to something that has been a solved problem for years.
Not true and I did say “any upscaler that’s worth anything”. Upscaling tech has existed at least since digital video was a thing. Pixel interpolation is the simplest and computationally easiest method. But it tends to give a slight hazy appearance.
It’s actually far from a solved problem. There’s a constant trade-off beyond processing power and quality. And quality can still be improved by a lot.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 3 weeks ago:
without their explicit consent.
By signing up to this service you agree to allow us to alter or modify your content as we require for efficient operation or to increase content engagement
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 3 weeks ago:
They don’t require AI neural networks.
Sharpening and denoising don’t. But upscalers worth anything do require neural nets.
Anything that uses a neural network is the definition of AI.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
You’re putting words in my mouth. I was speaking in generalities about physical connections, not specifically about fibre.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
Where? In the US? It’s already been paid for multiple times over, through government grants and subsidies.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
It’s still worthwhile.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
Fibre deployment is getting cheaper and easier. Both in terms of cost of materials and in the equipment and labour skills.
It’s also much more secure from interference and disruption.
For populated areas, there’s zero justification to rollout wireless over fibre lines. And most major cities already have fibre in most, or many, areas. And the thing with fibre is that the physical lines can be used to deploy faster speeds with upgraded endpoints.
Tech bros would have you think physical connections aren’t a good choice anymore, because laying down fibre isn’t sexy enough for that VC money.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
With cable here I’m “supposed” to get “up to” 1000mbs down but my upload speed is at best 40.
Man, you get 40 up? I’m stuck on 30 up. And the funny thing is that just on the other side of the creek on the other side of my street is where they stopped the fibre rollout.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
somewhere, between you and the server you are connected to, the bandwidth is shared.
But the difference here is that on a fibre connection the shared portion goes over higher speed trunks which gives you most of that 1Gbps bandwidth. A wireless connection has a limited number of slices in the same band that it can share.
It’s the same issue with too many people on a single WiFi connection.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
Musk wants control over the entire internet.
This is the number one reason my friend and I refused to even consider StarLink. We don’t live in the US and do not want all our traffic going through there.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
Technically, S0aceX should be nationalized by the US based on the volume of money they’ve received in contacts.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
it’s cell internet.
Physical lines first.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 4 weeks ago:
Those were tech nerds. “Tech bros” are jabronis who see the tech sector as a way to increase the value of the money their daddies gave them.
- Comment on Interview: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Director Talks Challenges Of Shooting Kirk’s First Time In The Big Chair 4 weeks ago:
about laying the backstory for TOS.
I wouldn’t really look at it like that. There was even a nurse Chapel and doctor M’benga in TOS. This story is about Pike, but we already know what happens to him, just not the exact “why” or “how”.
And obviously when Pike’s accident happens Starfleet wouldn’t just replace the whole crew. So there has to be a sense of continuity from one captain to the next. Technically, we’re still on our 2nd chief engineer and Scotty is just a technician. We haven’t met or even heard of a McKoy, Chekov, or Suli.
This story is about Pike, and all the main crew of the Enterprise when Kirk took command would have known Pike and even worked with him.
I think this show is being done brilliantly and is the first real Trek since Voyager (I haven’t watched lower decks yet, and Picard was very odd feeling).
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t even catch that the first time. But what should we expect from garbage software?
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 5 weeks ago:
Not a fan of Snaps, though.
I’m the same and decided to give Tuxedo Linux a try. So far I really like it.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 5 weeks ago:
If you’re a noob, what made you go with Debian in the first place?
I want to be clear, there’s nothing wrong with that, just not the usual path for a new Linux user.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 5 weeks ago:
Games were once created by gamers
This is the biggest issue. I tend to focus on Indie games lately. There’s the odd bigger game that I’ll pay for, but they are few and far between.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
No, snake oil is extremely bad. It’s a highly exploitative practice that preys on the desperation of sick people.
That’s what “snake oil” refers to. Exploiting someone by playing their emotions.
The placebo effect actually works.
The placebo effect sometimes works. But only in very specific circumstances. A placebo will not cure cancer or heart disease.
It can help with things related to pain, as mental and emotional state can directly affect the severity of pain. And a placebo can sometimes marginally improve symptoms by reducing stress levels. But that’s why placebos are used during drug trials. If a drug produces the same results as a placebo, then it doesn’t work. And that says a lot about what the placebo effect actually is. It’s just a mental state change that gets expressed as reduced physiological stress.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
They are clueless, yet they think they know what we need.
AI make money line go up. It’s not clueless, he’s trying to sell a kind of snake oil (ok, not “snake oil”, I don’t think AI is entirely bad).
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 month ago:
80% full. It drastically helps extend battery life
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 month ago:
In all fairness, in the early days of Google Assistant it really was useful. It actually worked. Somehow in the last 5 years it plummeted. As in it stunningly and noticeably kept getting worse year after year.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 month ago:
The only thing close to a decision that LLMs make is
That’s not true. An “if statement” is literally a decision tree.
The only reason they answer questions is because in the training data they’ve been provided
This is technically true for something like GPT-1. But it hasn’t been true for the models trained in the last few years.
it knows from its training data that sometimes accusations are followed by language that we interpret as an apology, and sometimes by language that we interpret as pushing back. It regurgitates these apologies without understanding anything, which is why they seem incredibly insincere
It has a large amount of system prompts that alter default behaviour in certain situations. Such as not giving the answer on how to make a bomb. I’m fairly certain there are catches in place to not be overly apologetic to minimize any reputation harm and to reduce potential “liability” issues.
And in that scenario, yes I’m being gaslite because a human told it to.
There is no thinking
Partially agree. There’s no “thinking” in sentient or sapient sense. But there is thinking in the academic/literal definition sense.
There are no decisions
Absolutely false. The entire neural network is billions upon billions of decision trees.
The more we anthropomorphize these statistical text generators, ascribing thoughts and feelings and decision making to them, the less we collectively understand what they are
I promise you I know very well what LLMs and other AI systems are. They aren’t alive, they do not have human or sapient level of intelligence, and they don’t feel.
But “gaslighting” is a perfectly fine description of what I explained. The initial conditions were the same and the end result (me knowing the truth and getting irritated about it) were also the same.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 month ago:
This happened to me the other day with Jippity. It outright lied to me:
“You’re absolutely right. Although I don’t have access to the earlier parts of the conversation”.
So it says that I was right in a particular statement, but didn’t actually know what I said. So I said to it, you just lied. It kept saying variations of:
“I didn’t lie intentionally”
“I understand why it seems that way”
“I wasn’t misleading you”
etc
It flat out lied and tried to gaslight me into thinking I was in the wrong for taking that way.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 month ago:
The funny thing about not specifically dealing with misinformation in an LLM is that not trying to account for misinformation will lead to very wild responses in terms of accuracy, and I don’t mean things relating to politics, but things like putting glue into a pizza recipe.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 1 month ago:
am i the weird one here for only putting effort into services i have other users for or actually enjoy doing?
Absolutely not.