alphabethunter
@alphabethunter@lemmy.world
- Comment on KIOXIA and Linus Media Group Set World Record for Pi Calculation 6 days ago:
The calculation technically only takes 12 straight days to compute, but they had many interruptions over the process, sometimes having to fully restart the whole calculation.
- Comment on The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists 1 week ago:
I unironically love this ai tune. This is what AI is supposed to be used for.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
I’m waiting to make a pc upgrade and buy new storage, then I’m switching.
- Comment on The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy 3 weeks ago:
You live in a bubble. As a teacher, a lot of young students have already been indoctrinated into religion by the age of 12, most of them will never escape.
- Comment on Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed 3 weeks ago:
It’s crazy that “lobbying budget” and “buying lobbyists” is a thing said in the openness and not illegal. Thanks for sharing this report, it’s a great (disgusting) read.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 3 weeks ago:
It’s a huge part of the business model. Social Media is valuable for its data on people, and for its ability to manipulate and influence people.
- Comment on Generative AI is reshaping South Korea’s webcomics industry 4 weeks ago:
For good chinese Manhua, take a look at Ancient Sovereign of Eternity (aka Ultimate of All Ages), possibly the best ever Xianxia/Cultivation story in comic format. Magic (or Demon) Emperor is also great. And Martial Peak is good for the first 2000 or so chapters. Chinese comedy stuff tends to be fairly good as well, like Top Tier Providence.
Also, Solo Leveling is typical op MC done as cliched as possible, just the art style that’s quite good, although a bit overdone these days. Everybody is trying to copy Redice’s art right now. Koreans have crafted some amazing wuxia manhwas though: Gosu, Legend of the Northern Blade, and Red Storm are examples of amazing completed works in the martial arts murim genre.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry. 5 weeks ago:
Billionaires are a
systematicrisk*. - Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 1 month ago:
Because of the early 2000’s movie Minority Report that has this exact same plot and is starred by Tom Cruise.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 1 month ago:
Hardly ever I come across a person more self centered and a bigger fan of virtue signaling as you. You ignored literally everything we said, and your alternative was just “sms”. Even to the point of saying that the other commenter should stop talking to their 47 friends and family members.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 1 month ago:
Lots of people. I need it because it’s how my clients at work prefer to communicate with me, also how all my family members and friends communicate.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 1 month ago:
Yes, there are. You just have to live in one of the many many countries in the world where the overwhelming majority of the population uses whatsapp as their communication app. Like my country. Where not only friends and family, but also businesses and government entities use WhatsApp as their messaging app. I have at least a couple hundred reasons to use WhatsApp, including all my friends, all my family members, and all my clients at work. Do I like it? Not really. Do I have a choice? No. Just like I don’t have a choice on not using gmail, because that’s the email provider that the company I work for decided to go with.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 1 month ago:
Right?! It’s literally just a messenger, honestly, all I expect from it is that it’s an easy and reliable way of sending messages to my contacts. Anything else is questionable.
- Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System 1 month ago:
Oh, that’s quite cheap! I was afraid it was going to be one of those “cool indie tech” that costs hundreds of dollars and which makes no sense for the consumer except as a cool gimmick. If they can make them a bit cheaper through mass production, this might actually be an alternative.
- Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System 1 month ago:
This is cool, but how much was it?
- Comment on China is practicing ‘dogfighting’ with satellites as it ramps up space capabilities: US Space Force 1 month ago:
Great! I hope he fucks America deep enough, it’s high time for that Empire to crumble. I just also hope rhat he doesn’t destroy the rest of the world with him, just the part of the world that voted for him. If he can take a few multi-billion dollar corporations down a peg with him might be even better.
- Comment on HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional 1 month ago:
From my experience, those last years. But they are indeed a bit expensive… I have had my eco tank for the last 5 years, only had to replace the b/w printer head after around 4 thousand prints, and I’m almost sure it was my own fault for using expired low-quality ink that I had bought in bulk for super cheap.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 2 months ago:
Around my region, South America, everybody used MSN as well. We went through a phase of using Skype, but it was too resource heavy in comparison with MSN. Later on, people who needed voice chat for games played around with several different apps, until we finally settled with Discord back in 2016. Say all you want about Discord, but I’ve been using it for almost a decade at this point, and if your need is to have voice and text chat and easy screen sharing for gaming, it’s basically the golden standard. The problem started when people started using it as a replacement for forums.
- Comment on Vo1d malware botnet grows to 1.6 million Android TVs worldwide 2 months ago:
Your monitor is “smart”?
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 2 months ago:
Voting for issues? We’ve had to vote for issues in my country in the past, specifically gun laws. People voted in favor of banning guns. It feels more impactful when you know your vote will directly correlate to a result, and compels people to discuss and think about their vote, and also to go vote. Voting for a politician is voting for the chance that the things you want them to do will actually be done. We could have legislators, professionals, responsible for writing legislation for certain issues, and people could read and vote. We could regionalize and localize politics even further, where each small local community should decide certain questions that pertain to their own community themselves. And leave less stuff to be solved at national level.
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 2 months ago:
No, that’s what Representative Democracy is. You can have democracy without representation, where every single individual is responsible for voting not for representatives, but for issues.
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 2 months ago:
Part of the problem is that they had to vote for someone. Representative democracy is a popularity contest. And the orange fuck had a lot of people rigging the popularity game in his favor.
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 2 months ago:
It’s crazy that in the age of information we still allow our democracies to be representative. Representation still made some sense 4 decades ago, it makes no sense today.
- Comment on Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes orders the immediate and full suspension of Rumble in the country due to noncompliance with court orders. 2 months ago:
I have the news in Brazilian-portuguese if you want.
Tl;Dr: repeat of what happened to Twitter basically, Moraes issued the takedown of a right wing/conservative brazilian influencer on Rumble on the basis of spreading misinformation and fake news (no surprise there), but Rumble has no legal representation in Brazil, which makes the company illegal to operate here. He ordered that they appoint someone as legal representation for the company in 48 hours, that was Thursday, feb 20, and they didn’t comply. Rumble was fined and Moraes ordered the platform to be thoroughly and completely blocked in Brazil until they pay their fines and appoint someone as legal representation.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
Essentially, just a giant W.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
Nothing else is changing. No account required, no ads, no tracking, no strings attached. Your data remains fully in your control, stored locally in plain text Markdown files. All features are available to you for free without limits.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 2 months ago:
Maybe the layout or that little nipple that could work as a mouse.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 2 months ago:
“Land of the thief, home of the slave (…) where the dollar is sacred and power is god.” -Brother Ali
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 months ago:
There’s literally porn ads on yt. Recently an acquaintance of mine got one of those “Look what she said when she saw the size of his dick. You can have a bigger dick if you just buy our product”, with plenty of suggestive imagery. And scam ads. My mother got scammed because of a youtube ad pretending to sell products in the name of a famous brand of supermarkets in my region.
- Comment on Data Show That X Continues to Lose Users in EU. 6 months ago:
Because a lot of times other people will share things whenever there’s enough controversy? Often things will also show up on the news? Not that uncommon for things on twitter to show up outside twitter?