Kissaki
@Kissaki@feddit.org
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 1 day ago:
I suggest we create a new international coalition called NUS for Not US and present a united front of all-or-nothing, so that Trump can’t put pressure on individual countries anymore.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 1 day ago:
Were you able to sign up and give feedback without verifying your identity first?
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 3 days ago:
The stake will be paid for through $5.7 billion in grants previously awarded to Intel under the 2022 U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, plus $3.2 billion awarded to the company as part of a program called Secure Enclave. It’s a formerly classified initiative that Congress appropriated funds for in 2024 after lobbying by Intel, Politico reported in 2024.
Including $2.2 billion in CHIPs grants Intel has received so far, the total investment is $11.1 billion, or 9.9%. Intel is valued at about $108 billion on the stock market.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 4 days ago:
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 6 days ago:
This energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth. It is then converted to electricity and delivered to the energy grid or batteries for storage.
How is the energy transmitted to Earth?
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 6 days ago:
I found the intro hook intriguing, but the reporting starts with a lot of media clips and other run-ups, which eventually made me leave.
It’s great they put in so much effort into genuine, on-site reporting, but the already long video report feels even more bloated/filled this way.
I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn’t find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
No, as per the article, their argumentation is that they are not web crawlers generating an index, they are user-action-triggered agents working live for the user.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 1 week ago:
Why did you link an image instead of the video?
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 1 week ago:
for example, “have seen revenues jump from zero to $20 million in a year,” he said. “It’s because they pick one pain point, execute well, and partner smartly with companies who use their tools,” he added.
Sounds like they were able to sell their AI services. That doesn’t really measure AI success, only product market success.
Celebrating a revenue jump from zero, presumably because they did not exist before, is… quite surprising. It’s not like they became more efficient thanks to AI.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 1 week ago:
I’m confused by the article suddenly changing to seemingly other semi-related topics and pieces.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
DNS is a listing of address resolution. Ignoring/Dropping records is not modifying existing entries/mappings. That’s a different thing in my eyes.
If the ruling were to declare published content must not be modified, I think there’s multiple levels to it too, and it may dictate to any degree between them.
- Interpretative tools (like a screen reader would be, or forced high contrast mode), which may be classified accessibility too
- CSS hacks that change display style but not what is shown (for example forcing a dark mode, reduced spacing, or bigger font sizes)
- CSS hacks or ad blockers that modify or hide content (block ads that would otherwise be rendered)
The biggest danger for a “copyright violation” would be the last point. Given that styling is part of the website though, “injection with intent to modify” may very well be part of it too, though.
It certainly would go directly against the open web with all of its advantages.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
So, I assume Perplexity uses appropriate identifiable user-agent headers, to allow hosters to decide whether to serve them one way or another?
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 week ago:
I’m working in a small software development company. We’re exploring AI. It’s not being pushed without foundation.
There’s no need to commit when you don’t even know what you’re committing to, disregarding cost and risk. It just doesn’t make sense. We should expect better from CEOs than emotionally following a fear of missing out without a reasonable assessment.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen anyone hate on forgejo.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 week ago:
and it has fewer large fluctuations now, it seems.
106 to 76 to 120 in the last four months is not large fluctuation? 30 % variance is quite high to me.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
But what we find is that it’s not just that this content spreads; it also shapes the network structures that are formed. So there’s feedback between the effective emotional action of choosing to retweet something and the network structure that emerges. And then in turn, you have a network structure that feeds back what content you see, resulting in a toxic network. The definition of an online social network is that you have this kind of posting, reposting, and following dynamics. It’s quite fundamental to it. That alone seems to be enough to drive these negative outcomes.
Trying to grasp it in my own words;
Because social networks are about interactions and networks (follows, communities, topics, instances), they inherently human nature establish toxic networks.
Even when not showing content through engagement-based hot or active metrics, interactions will push towards networking effects of central players/influencers and filter and trigger bubbles.
If there were no voting, no followable accounts or communities, it would not be a social network anymore (by their definition).
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
The linked article also includes an interview. At least in this case, it’s not only a rephrasing of the paper or paper abstract.
(Just pointing it out here so people don’t skip the article while thinking there’s nothing else there.)
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
no AI
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 2 weeks ago:
When they make up a significant amount of energy usage, the demands for amount and infrastructure like production and transfer increase.
They’re not a consumer like the others in that their impact is much higher than what they pay for in terms of paying consumed power.
The article mentions data centers containing as much power as entire cities.
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 2 weeks ago:
Can you not see how tech company driven ai search responses can influence broader culture and society? It’s not only about web search.
They also broadened from web search to other instances of full on convenience being detrimental to culture.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and it has been for many many years. In 2011 Adblock Plus deemed some ads acceptable, no longer blocking them categorically. Following that controversity, uBlock Origin became the popular standard.
Honestly, given that Adblock Plus has always had an “acceptable ads” system - I guess they simply decided now YouTube ads are acceptable. Not really surprising then.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
Extending and managing extension APIs and extensions also comes at a cost. I certainly wouldn’t be against that - but I’m not familiar with the technical details or cost of the features involved.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
no paywall archive.md/1lSRA
I got a captcha on the archive, but was able to read the original just fine. I guess archives are not necessarily lower barrier.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
“I wish that was treated as a teachable moment, not a law enforcement moment,” said Patterson.
Seems like the Gaggle CEO has a good view. They’re still an enabler in these situations. Be it poor guidance or training. With the impact they have, taking responsibility would be tracking and ceasing contracts that do not follow this soft response approach.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
No, I haven’t used tab groups.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t used it and it is enabled in
about:configfor me. - Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
In
about:config. Not very obvious or user-friendly tbh. - Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
How do you make browsling a good experience, other than performance?
I like the webpage translation it offers. I’d hate to lose it. And I’m sure debloating would inevitably mean losing features that are required to catch the average internet user.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
Smells like an opportunity to cause Apple brand damage.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
What is engraved on it? What is he saying?
