Flisty
@Flisty@mstdn.social
Just another Twitter migrant. Enjoying it here! Mostly a reader not a poster.
I live near Cambridge (the UK one not the Boston one), I like active transport and I read books to pay the bills.
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- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
@CmdrShepard49 @dukemirage If ten people want to store or listen to the same original album at the same time then the creator gets to sell ten copies. Then they might hand them on, but ten copies are still out there. Maybe an eleventh person wants one but they're all in use - they're going to have to go back to the creator and buy a new one. If someone pirates one copy and gives it to nine people for them all to have at the same time then the creator only sells one copy, forever.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
@BananaTrifleViolin @dukemirage a huge proportion of the stuff people watch on Netflix/listen to on Spotify is really old media you could get second hand on CD/DVD for pennies. I mean how much is a Friends box set going for nowadays
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 2 weeks ago:
@FreedomAdvocate @IzzyJ because you can't establish whether they're in the country illegally without a fair trial.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
@TheGrandNagus @Cosmonauticus i can see a very dull future of filling in individual details for all minor-brand/non-US/homemade items in your fridge because the fridge doesn't have the details in its catalogue. Or the company changes the size but leaves the branding intact (hi, shrinkflation) so the fridge gets confused...
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
@TheGrandNagus @Cosmonauticus how would a smart fridge know whether a box of something or a carton of something was full or empty? Weight-sensitive shelves? Would you have to show it everything you put in or took out to make sure it registered? Seems like a faff.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 2 weeks ago:
@Jason2357 @funkajunk I mean that was the initial selling point for Gmail wasn't it? Don't worry about deleting or archiving anything, ever, you can just search for it... Basic file management skills sidelined.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
@BitsAndBites @Lushed_Lungfish also also, if you're local library uses overdrive/Libby you can just have free books, easy peasy
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues 1 month ago:
@boatswain @egrets same as firing staff only to use more expensive contractors to do the same job, or selling a building you own only to rent the same building from someone else. It doesn't come from the same budget line, because it's lower risk, in the sense that you could in theory just stop paying the money if your strategy/situation changes, and you won't have ongoing expenses just from "owning" the thing. In reality you're usually still locked in, just paying more.
- Comment on 'X' Marks xAI's Spot: xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. 6 months ago:
@daddy32 @aesthelete yup I'm sure it's worth quite a lot to some larger private investors
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 months ago:
@dogslayeggs I know you were only talking about cars. My point is you can't only think about cars because there are too many other factors, including drivers of other cars who don't know whether or not they can go if the other "driver" doesn't indicate whether they've seen them or not. It's not about "banning people for not waving", it's that if someone doesn't let the other person through, nobody moves. The endpoint will be everyone hating Waymos and always going first.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 months ago:
@dogslayeggs this is not a good solution unless you're expecting to mandate that all pedestrians, cyclists, scooter riders, guide dogs, whatever, wear them too, and that all existing cars are retrofitted with them. Kind of dystopian.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 months ago:
@ripcord unpredictable but maybe not standard practice? Just a guess, could be a bad assumption! British driving culture is reliant on eye contact and waves and nods and flashes - you have to signal if you're giving way (to other drivers as well), and say thank you; lots of places where there's only room for one vehicle on a two way road and someone has to decide who's going. Might be my failure of imagination but I don't know how that works with no driver.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 months ago:
@MoreFPSmorebetter @vegeta I just can't see this type of tech working in places with a more pedestrian-first culture / more unpredictable human behaviour, i.e. countries without jaywalking laws. If you tried to drive this through London and people realised it will just have to automatically stop for you (and also *won't* stop for you out of politeness if you wait hopefully) then everyone will just walk in front of it. What's the plan, special "don't stop the Waymo" laws?
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 months ago:
@Curious_Canid @vegeta this is the case for the Amazon "just walk out" shops as well. Like Waymo they frame it as the humans "just doing the hard part" but who knows what "annotating" means in this context? And notably it's clearly more expensive to run than they thought as they've decided to do Dash Carts instead which looks like it's basically a portable self-service checkout. The customer does the checking. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133029/amazon-just-walk-out-cashierless-ai-india
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 months ago:
@meco03211 @Jayk0b cars can't either - it's a false premise. Not everything is drive-thru. How far is, say, the bakery section from your car when you go to the supermarket?
- Comment on China is practicing ‘dogfighting’ with satellites as it ramps up space capabilities: US Space Force 7 months ago:
@NotSteve_ @alphabethunter the funniest ones are people who go "to Europe" on holiday and then get confused when they can't get exactly the coffee they are used to. I do think the algorithm pushes this stuff in people's faces though. I left after the day the US wasn't on it and I suddenly got shown Aussies and Canadians and English-speaking Africans and Europeans. Made me realise quite how bad the feed was normally.
- Comment on China is practicing ‘dogfighting’ with satellites as it ramps up space capabilities: US Space Force 7 months ago:
@NotSteve_ @alphabethunter spent some time on TikTok between the election and the inauguration and the defaultism is reeeeally apparent on there. There was a big thing about Robbie Williams being "some guy who was big in the UK" at Christmas, and recently another one about how jacket potatoes and baked beans are "war rations". And endlessly recurring takes on how the US is more culturally diverse than Europe because it is ... bigger. The video element makes it all so much more *out there*.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 7 months ago:
@GoofSchmoofer @Bronzie I've been watching and I think quite a lot has already been happening, it's just not well covered by the news. A lot of big, furious town halls are just organically happening (Rs are scared to turn up). 50501 and Indivisible have organised a lot of stuff. And some of the Tesla Takedowns have been huge.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 7 months ago:
@Bronzie @GoofSchmoofer I get it, from the UK. We've had the same uncanny valley experience with Brexit going on for years and the same incompetence from politicians (who STILL pretend a massive majority voted "no deal" rather than 52% voting "mystery box"). If it's any consolation, after a really dragged-out leaving process where we didn't see any effects for years, most people now think it was a terrible idea. Hopefully the swift insanity going on in the US means minds will change quicker.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 7 months ago:
@surph_ninja urgh
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 7 months ago:
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 7 months ago:
@catloaf @thebeardedpotato I go one further and subscribe to feeds in mastodon (feel a bit like an impostor though 👀
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 7 months ago:
- Comment on Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery 7 months ago:
@JacksonLamb @SPRUNT 'American cheese' is a specific type of cheese. I think the closest thing we have in the UK, we'd call 'plastic cheese' but even Kraft cheese slices/Kraft singles aren't 'American cheese' as they have extra milk in.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 7 months ago:
@Ulrich @ggppjj does it help to compare an image generator to an LLM? With AI art you can tell a computer produced it without "knowing" anything more than what other art of that type looks like. But if you look closer you can also see that it doesn't "know" a lot: extra fingers, hair made of cheese, whatever. LLMs do the same with words. They just calculate what words might realistically sit next to each other given the context of the prompt. It's plausible babble.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 7 months ago:
Slushy the rich?
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 8 months ago:
sorry, I'm viewing this from mastodon so the setup's different.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 8 months ago:
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 8 months ago:
@btaf45 @nossaquesapao thank god someone had pointed this out because I'm old and I've been getting confused. Nokia 3310 all the way