Jhex
@Jhex@lemmy.world
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 4 days ago:
I hate headlines like this. I’d love to hear the REASONS WHY Plex are doing all of this.
- Greed… do you really need 3 more?
Before someone says “the reason is money” we need to ask: do the developers of Jellyfin not use money? Why won’t the same thing just happen to them too?
Plex is a private company wanting money… Jellyfin is a voluteer-drive effort
Before someone says “enshittification,” we need to ask: does this mean Jellyfin will soon have the same problems?
Enshitification happens to privately develop products due to <checks notes> greed… Jellyfin is not a private company pushing a product for profit
We all seem to love Jellyfin so I think we need to understand the actual reason why, or this will just continue happening.
Back to “greed”
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 1 week ago:
I’ve been waiting for this!.. I have a couple of personal spreadsheets with Google but that’s it.
Now I can completely move to Proton (not the best but at least better) and spend my day filling and removing my Google Drive with garbage tehehehe
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
hahahaha good additional details on the analogy
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
It’s more like offering a plumber a room in your house to stay in 24/7 so they can be on-call when you need them.
Again I get your point… but no reasonable plumber would make that mistake.
If I invite the dumbest plumber alive into my home, show him the leaky tub and say “I have to work but do whatever you need”… they would understand the context to mean “do whatever you need to fix the tub”… I doubt they would go make themselves a sandwich, grab a beer from the fridge and invite their buddies for a BBQ at my place and then say “but you said I could do whatever I needed”
I absolutely understand what happened here. The point is there is no benefit to these Agentic AIs because they need to be as supervised as a monkey with a knife… why would I ever want that? let alone need that
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
Loving my Linux wife… 15 years of computer bliss and counting! hehehehe
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
This is EXACTLY the YouTube woodworkers dilemma…
TONs of YT channels to show people how to do woodwork would normally showcase $50K worth of equipment to show how to make a cutting board.
The thing is, people with access to such equipment, already know how to make a cutting board and are learning nothing from you… on the other hand, newbies who what to know what is this “sanding” thing they have heard, will not benefit from the vid since they do not have those tools, they’d have crappy manual tools at most.
Therefore, those videos are completely useless for learning… at best, they made for good background noise while people eat their lunches in their cubicles
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
Absolutely… this just illustrates that these AI tools are, at best, some assistance that need to be kept on a very short leash… which can only be properly done by people who already know how to do the work the AI is supposed to assist with.
But that is NOT what the AI bubblers are peddling
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
No, not at all
I get what you are saying but any reasonable entity would understand that telling someone at the door “come in”, does not mean “come in my wife’s ass”
Specifically the “without permission” in the title, relates to the fact the AI did not ask about it… it simply took a previously granted right to run commands and ran any/all commands without warning.
If you and I were working on a project together and nothing is working right, I could say “hmm let’s start over” and you would know it means “let’s start the project from scratch”, not “let’s wipe the data centre”
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
AI bullshit
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
ask Microsoft, they want to give their access to your entire computer… and you’ll love it or else…
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
That implies the user understands every single code with every single parameters. That’s impossible even for experience programmers
I wouldn’t say impossible but I would say it completely defeats the purpose of these agentic AIs
Either I know and understand these commands so well I can safely evaluate them, therefore I really do not need the AI… or, I don’t really know them well and therefore I shouldn’t use the AI
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
hmmm when I let a plumber into my house to fix my leaky tub, I didn’t imply he had permission to sleep with my wife who also lives in the house I let the plumber into
The difference you try to make is precisely what these agentic AIs should know to respect… which they won’t because they are not actually aware of what they are doing… they are like a dog that “does math” simply by barking until the master signals them to stop
- Comment on Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act. There is another bill in the works. 1 week ago:
just openly bribe the idiot king
- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 1 week ago:
THAT’s a feature I recognize from Microsoft
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 1 week ago:
… and nothing of value was lost
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 week ago:
The example I gave my wife was “expecting General AI from the current LLM models, is like teaching a dog to roll over and expecting that, with a year of intense training, the dog will graduate from law school”
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 1 week ago:
Why them? don’t you need or will need those healthcare professionals?
It’s up to all of us
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 1 week ago:
But many will, everyone today who is used to constant ads will.
wouldn’t it stand to reason, many current users are engaged because chatGPT produces faster shitty search results without ads? compared to the alternative shitty slower search results with ads?
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 1 week ago:
Absolutely! and having tattoos I care extra… the devil is always in the details
In the society we live in, I’d guess the difference is minuscule so they hide the details to justify the headline
Anecdotally, I live in Canada and tons of people have tattoos; health benchmarks are pretty decent here even if politicians have been trying really hard to dismatle our healthcare system… I feel we would have seen/suspected this before if it were significant (I work in healthcare)
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 2 weeks ago:
how low? weakened by how much?
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 2 weeks ago:
Republicans, defending a pedophile as president, should get a full swing of a bat in the teeth every single time they say anything “… for the children”
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 2 weeks ago:
Here is a frog, please help me split its hairs
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 2 weeks ago:
why do you want those people in your life even if they are relatives?
If they can’t take a “sorry uncle Bob, but I disagree with everything you think of X. Why don’t we just avoid this and enjoy dinner”, then they are too emotionally immature/toxic to have in your life
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 weeks ago:
agreed 100%
ps: I re-read my original post and realized I came across as if I was fighting you… I just really wanted to point out this issue is a matter of greed and not a consequence of EPS tech
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 weeks ago:
yeap but then we lose warranty…
this would be easily addressed through legislation but our govs are just too corrupt to function
- Comment on AI is not killing jobs, US study finds - Financial Times 3 weeks ago:
the only value pumping the AI bubble’ current prize is substituing labour en masse… the bubble is about to pop
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
also all car with EPB works that way, this is not uniquely hyundai
partial bullshit… it’s definitely a trend but 2 years ago I did the breaks on my buddy’s Ford Explorer 2021 (not 100% on the year). It had EPB but also a dash sequence to enable maintenance mode
Hyundai is not the only brand for sure but the paywall is just unnecessary bullshit
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
they dont charge those paywalls to dealers, this is just a way to force consumers to service their cars with expensive partners
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
you are on lemmy pointing media bias as novelty? next you are going to shock us by telling us Reddit is mostly bots and sad power crazed admins
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 weeks ago:
wHy ARe yOu nOT iMprEssEd?