fubarx
@fubarx@lemmy.world
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 3 hours ago:
The browser is one of the few places users interact with the internet. To train models, you need data and here you are getting a firehose of data including destinations, clicks, messages, everything. You can’t really get that from a browser extension because it’s not always running for every window and tab.
The only stream missing are user interactions via apps. They already offer SDKs for embedding inside apps, but they need to sweeten the deal to encourage adoption. That will come through offering ad embedding services or revenue-sharing with devs.
If they truly wanted to get every interaction, they could offer discount ‘smart’ WiFi routers, and either cut deals with telcos or create MVNOs to have visibility into those data streams as well.
It’s not Man-In-The-Middle if you invite them in. 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 5 days ago:
Advantages of running things locally:
- Saving on electricity, bandwidth, and processing
- Able to customize for individuals or families
- Enhanced privacy
- Option for future federated/mesh applications
- Keeps running when network/cloud goes down (Hello, AWS!)
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 5 days ago:
AWS salespeople, meeting customers today.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 6 days ago:
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 6 days ago:
Subscription service. This is why you get an MBA.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on US | Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones 1 week ago:
In San Francisco, self-driving cars had a small, usability issue. Let’s hope these don’t.
- Comment on Stocks IRL 1 week ago:
Only if you’re doing it right.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Kora fighting Aang? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Completely tone-deaf.
- Comment on Amazon’s giant ads have ruined the Echo Show 2 weeks ago:
Amazon Leadership Principles: www.aboutamazon.com/…/leadership-principles
- Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 2 weeks ago:
Bullshit filters.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Someone I know just got a job offer and pasted that offer letter and his current job’s offer letter into ChatGPT to compare.
That cow may well have left the barn.
- Comment on Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech 2 weeks ago:
the raw audio data is run through digital signal processing using a Wiener Filter, where you can start to hear some information.
Oy, no tittering in the back.
- Comment on Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, a foundation for network security, fall to physical attacks 3 weeks ago:
The communication channel between the main processor and the TPM is the easiest point of attack. The Chip Whisperer has been able to do this for years. Once someone gets their hands on the hardware, all bets are off.
Don’t see how this is new?
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 3 weeks ago:
The unbridled enthusiasm is the same.
In the dotcom era, I had friends working at e-commerce startups selling items you could easily find at a store. They even had to buy from the same wholesale suppliers, and try to undersell retail, even though they had additional shipping cost (offset a little by not having to pay local sales tax). So they ate the losses because VCs told them they had to show the only metric was positive customer growth (not profit). All business ideas were “add e-commerce to X.”
In the 2008 crash, even though it was triggered by real-estate debt, a lot of the same tech dynamics were at play, except “add mobile to X.”
A lot of present day AI companies are following the same path. “Add AI to X.”
What’s different this time is that there’s a lot more hardware involved, in the form of GPU and data center expansion. After dotcom, we were left over with a lot of fiber, telco, and home internet expansion which was still usable. This time, it’s not clear what the data centers will be good for if AI crashes out. Maybe crypto-mining.
- Comment on I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge 3 weeks ago:
Drinking water vs. animal/human effluent/carcass water?
- Comment on What would you name this New vehicle outta science fiction movies 3 weeks ago:
Penny Trike
- Comment on oui oui 3 weeks ago:
Picnic-ready, self-contained baguette. Comes with a way to cut it. The other end (off camera) contains foil-wrapped cheese wedges.
Pain vraiment complet.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 4 weeks ago:
A lot here. I have two suggestions:
- Create, then
- Share
Channel everything you want to do and is rattling around your brain into creation. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Nothing is. Get feedback from people you trust, then push them out without caring if anyone looks at it or reacts.
And keep learning. Especially things outside your comfort zone.
Eventually you’ll figure it out.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 4 weeks ago:
Have done it both ways. Will never go back to bare metal. Dependency hell forced multiple clean installs down to bootloader.
The only constant is change.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The FT has used AI tools to identify these mentions of the technology in SEC 10-k filings and earnings transcripts, then to categorise each mention. The results were then checked and analysed to help draw a nuanced picture about what companies were saying to different audiences about the technology.
So… using AI to find out who is using AI and warn of underuse of AI.
- Comment on NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks? 4 weeks ago:
Yet another take: open.substack.com/…/that-secret-service-sim-farm-…
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
Hard D. No, wait…
- Comment on What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive 5 weeks ago:
The next three steps in the code are:
-
Enabling IBRS (indirect branch restricted speculation)
-
Untraining the return stack buffer
-
Clearing the branch history buffer
These are there to mitigate against speculative execution attacks, such as spectre (v1 and v2), and retbleed. Speculative execution is an optimization in modern processors where they predict the outcome of branches in the code and speculatively execute instructions at the predicted path. When done accurately, this significantly improves the performance of the code.
It’s like one time someone came through your house and stole all the valuables from every room. Now you have to lock/unlock every single interior door as you walk from room to room.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
-
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 5 weeks ago:
I’ve had my share of botched tech demos, so I can empathize. Steve Jobs, during an early iPhone demo legitimately blamed the Moscone Center wifi (I was there).
But this was just bad demo planning at every level. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t stop laughing.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds 5 weeks ago:
Coming soon: “The Chimp Diet book.”
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft and Google both prototyped it. FWIW, they didn’t take it to production once the data was collected.
IIRC, cooling worked fine if placed in the right place with circulation, but maintenance and part replacement was a major issue.
