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- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
They really think that malware developers will say “oh no! I need to submit a picture of an id card to sign my malware! It’s literally impossible to submit a jpg of a stolen id card, I’m ruined and out of a job!”
Which is irrelevant. They can block any malware - now impossible to do with sideloading of apps during pop-ups.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
Most Android owners don’t even know they have Android phones. They are not informed.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
You can just install Android. Only certified vendors will have the blocking activated.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
This involves paying a fee, agreeing to non-negotiable terms, and uploading personal government ID documents.
False.
There is no fee.
This article is garbage.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
You cannot sideload on Linux.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 2 weeks ago:
Except this is young fashionable people whinging about old people have the ringer setting on…
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 2 weeks ago:
I always do. How could I hear it otherwise ?
- Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation 2 weeks ago:
But gif is not an acronym its an abbreviation.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 2 weeks ago:
“If at first you don’t succeed, give up and blame the Jews”
watch that get downvoted
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 2 weeks ago:
Heh, they blamed the video game crash in 1984 on “people have got bored with Pacman and Space Invaders - the video game boom is OVER”.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 2 weeks ago:
The system relies on signals such as the types of videos a user searches for and watches, and how long their account has been active, to determine whether they are under the age of 18.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 2 weeks ago:
The system relies on signals such as the types of videos a user searches for and watches, and how long their account has been active, to determine whether they are under the age of 18.
That’s not actually AI is it ?
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 3 weeks ago:
Its sort of funny that the IT industry is investing their whole effort in a program that will… …destroy the IT industry ?
- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 3 weeks ago:
Slighter lower than LFP.
- Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 4 weeks ago:
Safe.
Down with the rave police !
- Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 4 weeks ago:
Not as rad as the Commodore 16 Starter Pack !
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 5 weeks ago:
No that’s only a tiny part of what LLMs do.
When you enter a sentence, it first parses the sentence to obtain vectors, then it ranks the vectors, then it vectors down to a database, then it reconstructs the sentence from the information its obtained.
Unlike most software we’re familiar with, LLMs are probabilistic in nature. This means the link between the dataset and the model is broken and unstable. This instability is the source of generative AI’s power, but it also consigns AI to never quite knowing the 100 percent truth of its thinking.
But what is truth ? As Lionel Huckster would say.
Most of these so-called “hallucinations” are not errors at all. What has happened is that people have had multiple entries and they have only posted the last result.
For instance, one example was where Gemini suggested cutting the legs off couch to fit it into a room. What the poster failed to reveal was that they were using Gemini to come up with solutions to problems in a text adventure game…
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
You can’t sideload in Linux.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
Because of people installing malware.
Its only recently that most Android phone owners even used the internet features, now you need apps just to park your car. There’s nothing stopping someone from having you install malware from a pirate QR code someone puts over the proper sticker. - Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
You can’t sideload on Linux.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
This isn’t a computer, its a phone.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t really trust Ed Zitron’s math analysis when he gets a very simple thing like “there is no real AI adoption” plainly wrong
Except he doesn’t say that. the author of this article simply made that up.
There is a high usage rate (almost entirely ChatGPT btw, despite all the money sunk into AI by others like Google) but its all the free stuff and they are losing bucketloads of money at a rate that is rapidly accelerating.
but most tech startups run at a loss for a long time before they either turn a profit or get acquired.
There is no path to profitability.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 2 months ago:
This particular model was advertised as being able to use tools, like calculators. And it includes a calculator tool in the package.
So, it should in theory, not have the probabilistic limitations of its native algorithms.
However, there are still the limitations created by multiple posts, where the model will change its answer in relation to previous inputs by users. This may have become even worse in model 5 because it supposedly remembers pervious conversations.
- Comment on The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age. 2 months ago:
No they didn’t.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 2 months ago:
Because it doesn’t prevent piracy. Are you dense ?
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 months ago:
Yes, but the legislation specifically rules out that technology. The purpose is to remove anonymity.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 months ago:
The purpose is to protect the mainstream media.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 months ago:
Australians will soon be subjected to mandatory age checks across the internet landscape, in what has been described as a huge and unprecedented change.
Search engines are next in line for the same controversial age-assurance technology behind the teen social media ban, and other parts of the internet are likely to follow suit.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US 2 months ago:
There is no price increase :
- Comment on In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties 2 months ago:
The average age of a groom in Britain in the 19th century was 27.
Men were generally unable to marry until they had obtained property.
And the average age was higher than the 20th century as well, because of the high infant mortality rate, it wasn’t a “society of young people” at all.