WanderingThoughts
@WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
- Comment on Fake It Till You Make It? Builder.ai’s $1.5B AI Scam Exposed 2 days ago:
And the places that do code with generative AI all have quality issues. Their management blames it on the remaining developers not checking and rewriting the AI code enough.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 3 days ago:
And sometimes you get so used to there being brightly colored ads,
corporate propagandamotivational messages and various warning signs everywhere, that you develop a blindness for everything too flashy and ignore it until you encounter a roadblock that doesn’t yield. - Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 4 days ago:
And many delivery robots are helped along by a remote worker.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 1 week ago:
Journalists that are critical and environmentalists first. Then harass anybody with left leanings, make a few examples out of them. The usual authoritarian stuff. It’ll get worse once there are false flag operations.
- Comment on No looky for you! 1 week ago:
And it started leaking.
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 1 week ago:
Too big and entrenched
- Comment on Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps 1 week ago:
Switching the PC off when it was updating in the background and now the application will never run again on that PC, but continue to hold a license that can only be revoked from the application itself. Running out of hard disk because it for some reason fails to update the application and is now busy downloading it again for attempt #73, of course without cleaning up anything because that only happens after a successful update. Blocking applications daily or weekly because of updates, and of course you urgently need them now.
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 1 week ago:
That´s standard enshittification. They know they´ve got users locked in without any alternative.
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 1 week ago:
The article is very light on details. There are better articles with some real numbers.
Chargers for a phone draw 0.1W roughly. That’s 0.9 kWh per year, and with a price of €0.35/kWh would be €0.32 / year / charger you leave plugged in. That’s not even a rounding error compared to what my heat pump uses.
Devices with an indicator light barely use anything more. The ones with a display or clock do use more power, usually a few watt, what then comes down to maybe €10 / device / year using napkin math.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 week ago:
And then the subscription price goes up, repeatedly.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
Respec the AI with lots of points into Charisma and Legal Dexterity. It also needs a large amount of Gold to get started.
- Comment on Is Washington state falling out of love with Tesla? 1 week ago:
¨Shall we then donate a substantial amount of money to programs for minorities to show you are not a racist nazi, sir?¨
¨I think not.¨
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 2 weeks ago:
Players: it’s not unique enough and that makes it boring. It’s like they rushed this one with some standard stuff.
- Comment on Business Insider is tracking employees’ ChatGPT usage as part of a new AI push: An enterprise version of ChatGPT is now available to all staff, with 70% using the tool “regularly.” 2 weeks ago:
And in five years everybody has an app that parses the global raw data and uses its onboard AI to generate all the news and reports in your favorite format and style. It’ll cut out the middle man, like business insider.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
That’s something people have wondered since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Is a mechanically mass produced widget the real thing? People even make fun of the biological locally grown artisanal produced food and the recycled hand made furniture. Shein is quite popular with their fast fashion. Except the rich will have tailor made clothes of course.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 2 weeks ago:
It’s by definition trying to merge two opposite specs into one vehicle using the worst aspects of the two.
- Comment on Speak American 2 weeks ago:
A tourist wanted since directions so he asked: "Sorry, do you speak American.’
My buddy who can be a purist: “I understand American but I speak English.”
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
That’s going to be great fun when the AI bubble pops and the subscription prices go up exponentially.
On the other hand, there have been other opinions about education that say it should be about making or researching something. Give a student a goal and let them figure it out using chatbots or whatever.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 weeks ago:
Technically even 1950s computer chess is classified as AI.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 weeks ago:
Like the cliché goes: when it works, we don’t call it AI anymore.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 weeks ago:
Historically AI always got much better. Usually after the field collapsed in an AI winter and several years went by in search for a new technique to then repeat the hype cycle. Tech bros want it to get better without that winter stage though.
- Comment on New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report 2 weeks ago:
And it’s always used to harass a certain group, making that group nervous and causing things to happen so people from that targeted group can be arrested. That in turn is of course the proof they need to say the system is working.
- Comment on Wet your hands with clean, running water, turn off the tap, spread cheeks, and apply soap. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that one deserves the “instructions unclear” title.
- Comment on I am convinced the makers of those ads are on something strong and very illegal 2 weeks ago:
These ads always seem to me like someone was way too ambitious and made a feature length script with a full story and world building. That got cut up in just a few scenes that are filmed. The bosses said it’s still to long so those scenes got cut up in just a few fragments of a second each. In the end you get this fever dream kind of thing and nobody knows what’s happening.
- Comment on Viva la Revolucion (becomes cancer) 2 weeks ago:
We’re only pretending to be in control. It’s like being the spokesperson for an organisation trying to explain what all the different departments came up with. But on the other hand, if the spokesperson makes s compelling argument, the rest might fall in line.
- Comment on The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data? 3 weeks ago:
LLM are not going to be the future. The tech companies know it and are working on reasoning models that can look up stuff to fact check themselves. These are slower, use more power and are still a work in progress.
- Comment on Grow up 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows 3 weeks ago:
There are in fact flying cars for sale. They’re not as good as you hope and cost at least 10 times what a normal car costs. Of course you also need a pilot license. So basically
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 3 weeks ago:
Then give financial incentive to do so.
- Comment on Noncoders are using AI to prompt their ideas into reality. They call it 'vibe coding.' 3 weeks ago:
And get ready to haggle on price because “it’s just s few tweaks, the AI already did most of the work” even if you have to rewrite in from the ground up.