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- Comment on Rise of the AI Soldiers 14 hours ago:
I dunno, clones can think creatively. You will find them immensely superior to droids.
- Comment on Do people actually need a place to confess things anonymously? 2 days ago:
You mean an internet venue? Hell no, absolutely not needed, we got by without it for thousands of years and it was fine.
- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 4 days ago:
I wonder if it can also convert binaries. Put a copy of Oracle through it and watch the shenanigans.
Also wonder whether they can generate movies the same way. Put in a DVD and a completely new movie comes out, with the same plot, characters, etc., but with all the names and dialogue changed and the actors are replaced by deepfakes that look different.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
But getting it published is a very difficult proposition. Indie artists struggle like hell, even if they do their own site and distribution.
Getting retail distribution beyond your locale is difficult, making a profit is very difficult, but publishing in its own right is quite easy ;).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
We can’t find out whether a story is stupid til after it’s written. But wasn’t the Harry Potter series about a wealthy superhero who spent his early childhood in privation as a plot device?
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 5 days ago:
They can’t help themselves.
- Comment on Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine 6 days ago:
Lol, person omitted the link, but I recognized the picture from last time (a few days ago).
- Comment on Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine 6 days ago:
No we had this link before. Unless that guy can explain what happens in a Bell experiment whose endpoints are in separate galaxies, there’s still a mystery.
- Comment on Tech Feed Collection 6 days ago:
JS is enabled but matrix may be blocking your script. Thanks.
- Comment on Tech Feed Collection 6 days ago:
On insidestack I can see only 3 or so entries. Could we have a page with more entries and no javascript?
- Comment on What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens? 1 week ago:
I don’t see a plus. It says “FreeOTP version 2.0.6 (48) © 2013-2023 - Red Hat Inc, et al”. But I think I’ve gotten updates more recently than2023.
- Comment on What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens? 1 week ago:
I’m using FreeOTP from F-droid and it suffices if you’re going to use a phone app at all. The ability to back up OTP keys in principle defeats the concept of 2FA but it’s hard to live without, once you have enough keys. The thing about retain last N backups is hard to enforce without special arrangements in your backup scheme.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Quit reddit, problem solved.
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 1 week ago:
There are some Lemmy instances without downvoting, but none without upvoting. That affects what gets posted.
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 1 week ago:
For algorithms, anything that isn’t a straightforward scrutable way of presenting user content is bad, IMO. Algorithms that promote engagement, monetization, and sycophants are bad.
I would say scrutability in itself doesn’t automatically make an algorithm good. “Demote everything that doesn’t support Trump” is perfectly scrutable but leads to a skewed discussion.
In fact I would say any content boosting algorithm at all leads to skew and what you call sycophancy. That includes upvotes/downvotes that affect what posts users see first. So I would get rid of all that stuff and just show purely chronologically.
- Comment on Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives 1 week ago:
Useless article. No dates, prices, specs other than the capacity, etc. It does mention this is a new HAMR platform that might reach 100TB in a drive someday.
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 1 week ago:
Delay line memory in gigabytes? Bold indeed.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
Maybe they can enhance it to play the whole game instead of just the end.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
Add mustard.
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 1 week ago:
What are you saying here? Lemmy has algorithms too, and while it has some good points, it’s disappointing in lots of ways too.
- Comment on NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel 1 week ago:
They get fairly close from what I understand. But while they are more power efficient, they’re still behind in pure speed. The X925 goes for speed at the cost of power, at least per this:
- Comment on Chinese carmaker, BYD, introduces new battery technology with 621-mile range, 620K-mile lifespan, 5-minute charge, and lower prices 1 week ago:
No the battery is LFP, fairly conventional. The new thing is the super powerful charger and the cooling system.
- Comment on NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel 1 week ago:
This is more about the Arm X925 core than about Nvidia. The X925 is a new superscalar ARM core that’s the first one competitive with current x64 at single threaded compute.
- Comment on New gel electrolyte points to stronger, safer anode-free lithium batteries 1 week ago:
Article is very uninformative. No interesting data.
- Comment on I’ve spent many hours walking down memory lane with the Commodore 64 Ultimate, and it’s wondrous if sometimes intimidating 1 week ago:
Finally a Commodore 64 with 128MB of RAM! I guess 64K wasn’t enough for everyone after all.
- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 1 week ago:
Nice. The 4g module is $17.90 from digikey, much less than last time I looked. I wonder if there’s a 5g version. I also wonder if there’s any issue using retail sim cards and making LTE voice calls.
- Comment on Call the Doctor: As Hollywood Gigs Dry Up, Actors Are Playing Fake Patients in Real Hospitals 1 week ago:
Tldr it’s for doctor training. The actors roleplay patients with different weird or embarrassing symptoms and the doctors practice bedside manner and diagnosis. Actor pay is $25-30/hr. IDK how that compares to barista work if you’re getting tips.
- Comment on CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U 1 week ago:
What does the CPUID instruction say?
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Same price as the cheapest iPhone I think. It tells you something.
- Comment on What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government? 2 weeks ago:
Supposedly this is what elections are for.