RightEdofer
@RightEdofer@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 3 days ago:
Googles push for everything is aggressive. Their apps constantly push Chrome on me.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 5 days ago:
Probably more to do with the fact that every app is now designed to gather as much data as possible to build an ad profile on you.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Businessmen milking talented dead people for as much as possible. Exactly what it’ll be used for.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 week ago:
Did you get your entire idea of the art world from memes or something?
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 week ago:
Comments are wild. Amazes me how much of the tech world is completely oblivious the fact that art is interesting precisely because of the context and people involved.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 week ago:
How is it sampling when you don’t even know where it came from, don’t know who wrote the code to find it, and the actual companies barely even know how their own product works. Apples to dinosaurs.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 1 week ago:
This reads like an AI generated influencer fever dream. Insane1! MPV is a good project but I recently ended up not using it because Jellyfin for video has so many more features- kind of apples to oranges. I can’t imagine an MPV setup would ever approach a Jellyfin/Infuse setup - especially for non-technical family members. I ended up going Navidrome for music because of outside network access and the ability to download music offline which MPV can’t really do to my knowledge.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure this happens but with batteries the companies really are just desperately trying to get more capacity and life out of them. The chemistry just isn’t at all where they want to be.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 3 weeks ago:
Why would you ever give the benefit of the doubt to the largest ad company to ever exist whose entire existence and history depends on tracking user data. They literally just had too settle a lawsuit for tracking users when they said they wouldn’t in incognito mode.
There are plenty of little hints in Android that they want to enable tracking (eg. Bluetooth and exact location permissions being linked despite there being no real need to). Y’all need Graphene yesterday. And we all need a new total alternative since Apple is quickly chomping at the bit for ad income.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
Save your soul for only 20.99 a month… wait I guess this isn’t really that new.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s not but it has had non-destructive adjustment layers for years before Gimp. It’s fine for a lot of things with a much better interface.
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 4 weeks ago:
This is the worst take I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 month ago:
Yes, but that’s like saying cutting trees is the same game when it went from handsaws to today’s harvesters. Technically they do the same thing, but the scale and efficiency is a world apart.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 1 month ago:
I agree although I suppose using AI may allow for even more distracting and “engaging” videos since they don’t need to follow the rules of reality or time. There can also potentially be way more content produced than is possible with a human population. Ugh.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 2 months ago:
Unlikely. Millennials are internet-native, more savvy than Gen Z if anything. They grew up with more platform changes. I think the next big divide like that is more likely when the next big medium shift happens (maybe AR?) and both millennials and Gen Z don’t jump on the train.
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s totally worth destroying most cultures on the planet to improve water usage just long enough for the machine to find another way to waste it. Terrible take.
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 2 months ago:
Unfortunately it doesn’t have to be better than the worker, we all know this sucks at most of the things it’s being touted as great at.
It just has to convince management who make decisions that it’ll save money (or that they can spin it that way) for the next quarter. That alone is enough to destroy people’s lives.
- Comment on Data centers are drying up the Port of Marseille: ‘They consume enormous amounts of electricity’ 2 months ago:
Can you imagine if the rich only had to live with 5 or 6 times the money everyone else has?!
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 2 months ago:
“a lot of these college people” 🙄
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 months ago:
Not a static target. What we consider a profile today is vastly more comprehensive than what was deemed sufficient a few decades ago. Ad networks today would put intelligence agencies back then to shame. They can always get more info. In a few more decades people might be talking about if Google and governments should be allowed to read your thoughts. The tech making this possible is already being developed and further along than many might expect.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 months ago:
There is a lot of information in the way you type and the topics you choose to discuss. More than we suspect.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 months ago:
Sure but it would be trivial for a company to build profiles on people using public apps like Lemmy.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 months ago:
Like everything he has ever said about it? lol wtf is this comment.
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 4 months ago:
There’s an argument that increasing friction can help people addicted to their tech not get pulled in. Lots of apps designed to do that popping up with hard time limits and locks the last few years. Apple and Google are definitely aware that their design choices put them in the crosshairs at schools and employers. These sort of things pass the buck back.
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 4 months ago:
Comically, Vista was criticized at the time for aping Apple’s Aqua. This clearly takes a lot from Aqua honestly.
All the major designers are borrowing from each other constantly. All roads eventually lead to NeXt.
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 4 months ago:
This is incredibly reductionist. Wow.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Identify Cops. 4 months ago:
China demoed tech that can recognize people based on the gait of their walk. Mask or not. This would be a really interesting topic if it wasn’t so scary.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 6 months ago:
Terrible argument. You can’t ignore scale. Algorithmic timelines increase efficacy and precision of ads tremendously. These platforms know exactly who to target with what ad, at what time, with what frequency to get the desired result. It’s like comparing a horse and buggy to a sports car.
Generative ads will be even worse because they can be made specifically to each individual.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 7 months ago:
If the units are set to inches for length. You can just type G (grab), X (or Y or Z), and 1 to move an inch in any direction. I think it used to be worse.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 7 months ago:
But without the plants and blue water.