finalarbiter

@finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, any developer who suggested that probably got the same answer I get at work: “Testing costs money, so unless we absolutely have to, no.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair. I’m certainly not one to defend msoft, nor do I really have the technical knowledge to rebut. Is it possible that ‘trying’ the driver as you suggested could damage the drive or corrupt data? Just wondering if there’s a legitimate reason they wouldn’t go for a seemingly easy win aside from being a generally dumb organization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Using this driver, however, is fraught with risks. Not all NVMe SSDs support it, and if incompatible, it could break Windows 11 boot.

  Probably why it isn’t standard, especially since there’s a driver that does work even if it’s suboptimal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, let’s give the group that has extensive abuse and corruption issues with nigh zero accountability new ways to hurt people.

  If anything, we should be advocating against remote vehicle control for the myriad security and safety issues that would introduce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The default at least in most of the US, is to treat a malfunctioning light as an all-way stop sign, with traffic alternating in each direction. The waymos instead stopped and blocked intersections, failing to reach the basic expectation for human drivers. Should we not hold these machines to a higher standard, if not at least the same standard as human drivers? Self-driving vehicles are supposed to be safer and ‘better’ than human drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel that. I got a 50" 4k Sceptre from walmart maybe 4 or 5 years ago that has absolutely no smart features. They’ll have to pry that out of my cold, dead hands before I consider ‘upgrading’ to a so-called smart tv.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure my bathroom qualifies as a brownfield site

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  By that logic, it’s also a hostile activity to close the bathroom door when I’m taking a fat shit. Privacy isn’t just for criminals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ads that pretend to be normal content are literally the fucking worst kind of ad and anyone who suggests implementing them should be dragged out back and shot.

  Not surprised that stack exchange is doing this, given that they seem determined to drive away their entire userbase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: ‘We See The Direction The Industry Is Headed’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. There should be no confusion when we go for their fucking heads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will? Already have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Proton Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I comment this on many of their LinkedIn posts. I think they’ve blocked me at this point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m having thermodynamics flashbacks. It’s just under 500 rankine I think? Been a few years since I even thought about that unit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you’d have a little freezer I think. Isn’t the freezing point of water (at normal atmosphere) approx. 274 K?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how Valve’s strategy is basically just ‘don’t piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potentially life-changing if you're eligible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IGOT GOUT

  Also works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rant: Reddit has a huge problem with mods falsely reporting “report abuse”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does this have to do with a shitposting comm or Lemmy in general?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta - There's Levels To This Shit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly my one critique of this is that if they manage to infect you with that ‘biotracker’, then they must already know where you are to do so. If not, how would the person they want to track be the only person infected with it? So then this tracker doesn’t really provide any new information. Maybe I’m overthinking it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMDeathCount.com⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really equivalent. Most videogames don’t actively encourage you to pursue violence outside of the game, even if they don’t explicitly have a big warning saying “don’t fucking shoot people”.

  Several of the big LLMs, by virtue of their programming to be somewhat sycophantic, have encouraged users to follow through on suicidal ideation or self-harm when the user shared those thoughts in chat. One can argue that OpenAI and others have implemented ‘safety’ features for these scenarios, but the fact is that these systems have already lead to several deaths and continue to do so through encouragement of the user to harm themselves or other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm unsure what to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t do a whole lot right now, partially because I’m just not sure what I want to run or how much risk I want to take on in terms of security (for exposed services) and data recovery. I started with pihole to get better ad blocking on my tv, and recently started hosting a dinner vtt server for my d&d group. Some time in the future, I might spin up a nextcloud instance to replace my dropbox or immich for google photos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 20 Most Guru Bought stocks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you keep posting these thinly-veiled ads in a shitposting comm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same, but there is a similar tool under ‘viva insights’ in teams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3155: Physics Paths⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really thought this was just going to be a link to the same comic. Shame on me for doubting ig

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tried makin nookie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Nyockie’ isn’t a word either, you’re looking for gnocchi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This meme has been floating around for at least a decade at this point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave launches 'Ask Brave' feature to fuse AI with traditional search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As if the various bits of fraud over the years wasn’t enough of a reason to avoid it like the plague

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m torn between D and G. I love Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican/Central American cuisines, not to mention American barbecue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.

  I think they’re actually making the opposite claim- American wages are just that fucked, rather than Dickens being wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could have had it all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a tiny bench