besselj

@besselj@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No telling what else they do with your pictures once they’re on Meta’s servers. Literal spyware (as if it hasn’t already been for a long time).

  Imagine having your nudes accidentally ghiblified, with the originals stored indefinitely on Meta’s servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If the tools were as useful as MS claimed, they wouldn’t need to force people to use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is ruining houseplant communities online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I started them indoors out of caution. The seeds were pretty small. They sprouted and kinda looked like clovers, but I didn’t bother growing them further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is ruining houseplant communities online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom’s friend fell for one of those scams and paid something like $30 for some mystery seeds online because they were advertised on facebook as flowers shaped like cat faces. The website also claimed they were in the Bromeliad family, but the advertised flowers looked nothing like bromeliads. These scammers prey on people who take everything at face-value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Long enough for GOS to port Android 16 or get their own OEM, I hope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Laughs in GrapheneOS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. The bots to humans ratio will get even bigger if that happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, another centralized social media platform that will eventually get enshittified

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AGI achieved 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all about weamwork 🤝

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a big deal if my phone hasn't had a security update in 5 years?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer: yes You could give the hardware new life as a Linux phone with PostmarketOS if the hardware is supported and you’re willing to do some tinkering

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it’s Knightscope. Dont worry too much, those robots are pretty shitty. theverge.com/…/dc-security-robot-k5-falls-into-wa…

  metro.co.uk/…/police-robot-told-woman-go-away-tri…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad updates with new features begin rolling out to Windows Insiders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The upgraded snipping tool looks useful, but not impressed by the generative AI tools in MS paint and notepad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs have no more beliefs than a parrot does. They just repeat whatever opinions/biases exist in their training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out PostmarketOS for older machines/phones too. I got it working on an old Microsoft surface RT that would have been e-waste otherwise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So if I have two machines running the same local LLM and I pass a prompt between them, I’ve achieved data compression by transmitting the prompt rather than the LLM’s expected response to the prompt? That’s what I’m understanding from the article.

  Neat idea, but what if you want to transmit some information that an LLM can’t generate accurately?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So how close can you get your eyeballs to the sensor? Even if IR isn’t in the visible spectrum, that doesn’t mean it can’t damage your eyes at high power levels. If anything, its more dangerous because you won’t notice it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys actually allow websites to send you notifications? Pretty much every site that has asked me to allow notifications is one that I wouldn’t want notifications from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll tell my AI agent to go into the registry and disable itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whole IT teams would crumble without furries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m much more accepting of fursonas than plagairism machines that can’t be trusted to give accurate information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This happened less than a year ago. Doubt regulators have done much since then apnews.com/…/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-arti…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the flat-earthers or sovereign citizens of this century

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What you ask for is impossible to prove, let alone test, without a rigorous definition of “insightful” or “accurate”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altman-Backed Startup Rolls Out Eyeball-Scanning Tech Across US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tools for Humanity Surveillance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snapchat scraps ‘simple’ redesign as it loses users in North America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not the design. Its the ads, bots, and lack of privacy. I quit it more than a year ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of the companies that might buy Chrome, I hope DuckDuckGo gets it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan has been offline for over a week, and it's probably not coming back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll make a nice honeypot for extremists, if it wasn’t one already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan has been offline for over a week, and it's probably not coming back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t use WhatsApp if privacy is something you care about.