HyperfocusSurfer
@HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 3 days ago:
Yeah, 8.1 took like 800 megs ootb, while 10 wanted about 3 gigs to itself (not sure about earlier versions, tho; mb enshitification happened gradually)
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 1 week ago:
this is false
So far
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
Applies anything too “smart” for its own good. Too many cases of those having obvious backdoors like trying to reverse ssh home, not to mention stupidest vulnerabilities imaginable nobody fixes
- Comment on The market for spyware is growing – and it’s being used differently against women 1 week ago:
I literally can’t imagine how boring of a life one should live to care if sb they don’t even know had an abortion or bathes while not cosplaying a tent. Those nutjobs should get a hobby or something.
- Comment on X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties 1 week ago:
Well, duh. Antisocial media needs ppl to keep consuming to keep consuming to generate ad revenue. Currently far right are the trending clowns, so that’s one explanation. Another’s that twatter has always been a cesspool, while tiktok just shows whatever’s popular among brain-damaged individuals.
Jokes aside, might as well be a demo of the multiple testing problem, so implying that algorithmic feeds in general do this is premature (not that the article does this, so just a note).
P.s, not defending current algorithmic feeds either; I’ve personally all but cut those out of my life for good, and advocate for using white-box approaches instead, like what’s done in reccomend_from_archive that recommends tracks based on AA’s spotify scrape data and listening history/playlist exports.
- Comment on Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester’s True Identity 1 week ago:
Except you don’t have to use their browser version and can instead use their apps or their bridge or even a 3rd-party bridge like hydroxide, which makes injections quite a bit harder. They can still get incoming and outgoing plaintext (i.e. not pmail ←→ pmail) emails, tho
- Comment on [beta] degoog - search engine aggregator 1 week ago:
Have you tried 4get.ca? Quite usable, if somewhat childish.
Also, the documentation link in the readme is wrong: contents of () and [] are swapped here
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 1 week ago:
Yap, newer models use those strips, my bad. Although, I disagree the inability to source stuff from the manufacturer isn’t a big deal: batteries made of chinesium tend to fail really quickly, up to the point I started replacing just the cells myself with known good quality ones after a couple of batteries failing in like half a year. However, I suspect apple should sell batteries for said newer models, since they’ve made 'em replaceable.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the device, I suppose, but incorrect for the m2 version at least, where you have to use adhecive remover: www.ifixit.com/Guide/…/156551. I wouldn’t go as far as to call this “difficult” as they did, but def. time-consuming.
Also, you can’t source just the battery from apple.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 2 weeks ago:
Battery: discussions.apple.com/thread/256043979 Angle sensor has since been solved, apparently: hackaday.com/…/beating-apples-secret-lid-angle-se…
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 2 weeks ago:
Noice. Would also be wonderful if they stopped pouring a shit ton of that nasty black underfill under the bga chips and used some regular red/clear compound around the corners instead like literally everyone else.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, like being forced to replace the topcase when the battery dies or having to repair the angle sensor 'cause it’s paired to the motherboard. But fuck sustainability and heil consumerism, I guess.
Not to say that I’m not an apple hater – because I certainly am – it’s just that there are quite a few reasons to be one.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 2 weeks ago:
Regarding the last point: it’s more of a bias, tho, so it may even be a good thing. E.g. asking Kent Overstreet’s opinion on your bcachefs setup is probably useful, while getting relationship advice from him is ill-advised.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 2 weeks ago:
As always with crapple, the specs are solid… For smth that costs half as much as what they ask.
- Comment on Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware 2 weeks ago:
Ha-ha, classic
- Comment on iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information 2 weeks ago:
They also then started working on age verification on the device level. And, as the saying goes, those who give up privacy to get extra security, get neither.
- Comment on It's me again. My Kubernetes devolver has reached the astral plane. 3 weeks ago:
Next step: convert docker to nspawn/portable sysd services
- Comment on Researchers have found the cause of hallucinations in LLMs, H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs 3 weeks ago:
So, their approach can be used to flag likely hallucinated output and warn the user?
- Comment on An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution 3 weeks ago:
Also kupfer (pmos but arch), ubports (ex Ubuntu touch) and droidian (similar to ubports with being halium-based but Debian and conventional DEs, hence, it’s supposed to actually run software). Mobile-nixos, to some extent, although it’s more of a PoC, in my experience
- Comment on Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, sure, semantics: when laydudes think about “vpns”, they expect exactly a set of features provided by a proxy, so it’s pretty much a marketing term nowadays. Nobody really cares whether the packets between their PC and the endpoint are wrapped in wireguard or socks5, unless some protocol happens to be blocked.
- Comment on I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day 3 weeks ago:
Forbid this, forbid that… How about actual fucking parenting instead? As a “zoomer” who used to use antisocial media back when I was 15 but didn’t end up encountering all this objectification crap 'til much later on in life despite being having better computer skills than my parents, let me testify that having hobbies helps. And most of my hobbies developed with considerable help from my parents whom I was able to ask for help/advice.
- Comment on Storyden: A forum for the modern age. 4 weeks ago:
Also on cromite. Both disable webgl by default, iirc.
Not like a forum has a reasonable use case that requires webgl, tho.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 4 weeks ago:
Well, IMO, “public access” includes semi-restricted stuff, like the requirement for an account. E.g. rutracker is closer to public than to private, compared to REDacted. As for downloading, there’s not much technical difference between it and streaming, I.e. nothing really prevents you from playing into a virtual soundcard or even reverse-engineering the protocol and saving data directly (moreover, there are such projects on github)
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 4 weeks ago:
More like scraped. You can’t really leak smth that’s already publicly accessible
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 5 weeks ago:
Thanks, that actually looks like a nice android alternative to cinny
- Comment on AI could rebalance power between people and the services they use 5 weeks ago:
Sooo, how about we research actually improving accessibility of said “paying energy bills and booking healthcare appointments” instead?
- Comment on Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, a very unpopular opinion here, but how about you actually read stuff? I mean, yeah, there’s the whole seo prioritizing ai slop walls of text, but there’s also a close tab button (I personally can’t remember a single helpful slop article, and the overgeneralized advice they give doesn’t even worth summarizing). Dog knows how much it pisses me off that the internet turned into a place where the info gets rewritten by bots to appease other bots and then once again to make it fucking readable.
Then, there’s that “memory” stuff. Just why exactly do people need it? Make a base prompt editable only by the user and adjustable on a per-conversation basis, and that issue goes away (probably along with a significant portion of your electricity bill wasted on processing literal garbage not relative to the current conversation).
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 5 weeks ago:
What functionality are we talking about? Genuinely curious here, since I use discord like a couple of times a year.
From what I’ve noticed, matrix can do basically the same, except for the voice chats which are a pain to setup (and are better handled by jitsi anyways).
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 5 weeks ago:
Do they seriously expect discord moderators’ faces to fit into a picture not taken from like 15m?
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 5 weeks ago:
I mean, “fuck new thinkpads then”
