GenosseFlosse
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- Comment on Spoon 1 day ago:
Oh, i thought they where used because the would hold pretty much exactly 1g of coke so dealers used them?
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 5 days ago:
It used transistor to Transistor logic or ttl, which means chips are wired together on the board to build the “code” and handle Inputs and Outputs, because affordable CPUs, ram or storage did not exist when the first arcades came out. However with more complex games this became increasingly expensive because each additional chip caused costs for parts, soldering work, warranty, potential failures during operation.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 5 days ago:
Tired that as well, no luck.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
The problem that i cant find the setting, or it’s in a different app or intentionally cant be changed easily. I want to limit my battery to charge only when below 30%; but i cant do that in battery or power settings. I want to disable some “feature” where windows randomly adds a new keybord layout to windows, but this is not a setting but seems to be a bug. I want to completely disable usb- or lan-wakeup, but despite changing settings in the device manager my desktop is sometimes turned on in the morning after i set it to hibernate the night before. I dont want one-drive or cloud, but this is also not a setting but a design decision by the MS marketing department to make money with their half-baked cloud solutions.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
“Hey Dave, I installed CandyCrush and the LinkedIn App for you for windows during the latest update!”
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
Surely there would be no way scammers or hackers would take advantage of this with some crafty prompts that somehow get feed into the agent…
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, except that ai is almost 40% wrong, yet it pretends to know everything and sounds very convincing. It will never tell you “i don’t know” or “that’s a bad idea, don’t do that” like a real person or friend would do but instead encourages your with everything. Still, app developers sell ai chat bots as “virtual friends” to insecure people.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, just not on the consumer side 🙃
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 3 weeks ago:
Booking is also pretty scummy. There was a blog post a few years ago from a hotel that always showed up as sold out, even it had plenty empty rooms. In the end it was a “feature” where hotels could “promote” their business so it would show up first, but the competition would also be listed as unavailable to force visitors into the promoted business. The other thing is that booking will show “only one room left” to pressure you into booking right now, but what ot actually means is that a hotel might only allocate 20 of 100 rooms to booking, and still has 81 free rooms if you call them directly.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 4 weeks ago:
Neither will the rest of the world, if their cars fail the safety requirements in all the other countries.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 weeks ago:
It’s just a map pack for Far Cry 3 anyway…
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 5 weeks ago:
I use AI for programming questions, because it’s easier than digging 1h through official docs (if they exists) and frustrating trial and error.
However quite often the ai answers are wrong by inserting nonsense code, using for instead of foreach or trying to access variables that are not always set.
Yes it helps, but it’s usually only 60% right.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but this only works if you connect your VPN via 3 block chain proxies.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 5 weeks ago:
Ad Networks use browser fingerprinting to detect duplicate clicks, which is tied to your hardware, system locale, installed fonts etc.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 1 month ago:
Check how many accounts pushing republican propaganda only post during St. Petersburg business hours… 🙃
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 1 month ago:
What are you talking about? There is more than one tax, on top of municipal or federal there are taxes for income, products and services, wealth, profit etc. - not just vat.
And tax is not “taken away” from people, ot goes back into the economy by building roads and brides, social care for the elderly can afford rent and food, employment and contracts for people working in the region.
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 1 month ago:
Lol, go and visit some country with a very low tax rate or no tax. need to visit a hospital? That’s a 3h drive across some unpaved road on the next big city. Want to cook your food? Go and collect some wood for your brick stove, because the city does not provide gas or power to your house. Need water or power? See gas. Want to read a book? Bad luck, there was no free school service in your village to learn how to read. House on fire or crime in the neighborhood? Well I have more bad news for you .
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 2 months ago:
Ok, but why should I go to Google for ai answers when I can get the same from openai without all the ads?
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 2 months ago:
Well, time to get your eyes checked and new glasses.
- Comment on Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m 2 months ago:
Far cry feels just the same since 3. Same gameplay, different story, different setting. While the story itself is usually good, I don’t think it has progressed gameplay wise or in technical or graphics aspects in any meaningful way. Car physics are worse than gta5 which is already out for 10 years or so.
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 3 months ago:
Why just pay one service a small fee for ad free streaming, when you can pay a lot of services a large fee for ad supported streaming?
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 3 months ago:
Chatbots doesn’t mean that they have a real conversation. Some just spammed links from a list of canned responses, or just upvoted the other chat bots to get more visibility, or the just reposted a comment from another user.
- Comment on USA| Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them 3 months ago:
It’s worse if you have large private donors or companies funding your media, see fox news, twitter, Facebook etc. who then contr6what you can see, and what not.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 4 months ago:
Video surveillance doesn’t stop crime, it only records it…
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 4 months ago:
Yes!
- Comment on New social experiment 4 months ago:
Breast_study_large/
- Comment on Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK 4 months ago:
It would be bad for the share price…
- Comment on Microsoft Teams is dog shit 5 months ago:
Why? At least I don’t have to download and install gigabytes of files for something I might only use once?
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 6 months ago:
Remove the user generated videos. only title, videoads and comments allowed.
