besselj
@besselj@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Russian lawmakers say 'security threat' WhatsApp should prepare to leave Russia 1 day ago:
Meta is a security threat outside of Russia too. No privacy should be expected when using their services
- Comment on Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users 2 days ago:
People who don’t use LLMs to write code:
- Comment on Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words lists 2 days ago:
You guys are paying for a website, rather than just buying a physical dictionary?
- Comment on Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving 2 days ago:
Joining a teams call from the car sounds miserable. Doubly so if there’s traffic.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 2 days ago:
How journalists sound when they compare an LLM to specialized software that plays chess
- Comment on OpenAI's ChatGPT-powered browser is codenamed 'Aura' 3 days ago:
Not much substance in that article, but I’ll remember to avoid installing any web browsers called “Aura”
- Comment on Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content 5 days ago:
Shrimp Jesus take the wheel
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 6 days ago:
They’re mad they can’t use cellbrite to snoop on properly configured GOS phones and that they actually have to do real police work to catch drug dealers
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 6 days ago:
The magic smoke comes out so that you know its working. It’s a very human design.
- Comment on Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions 1 week ago:
Y’all remember that #DeathTo Black Mirror episode?
- Comment on Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats 2 weeks ago:
This is one of many PR stunts by Anthropic. They’re about as credible as an LLM at this point.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 weeks ago:
It’s like the trump admin has never heard of the Streisand effect. Hopefully the developer lives outside of US jurisdiction and the service doesn’t get taken down for a while.
- Comment on Netflix teams up with NASA to show live rocket launches and spacewalks 2 weeks ago:
Are we gonna see Netflix logos on launch vehicles soon?
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 3 weeks 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.' 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Laughs in GrapheneOS
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Oh look, another centralized social media platform that will eventually get enshittified
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 weeks ago:
It’s all about weamwork 🤝
- Comment on Is it a big deal if my phone hasn't had a security update in 5 years? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Oh it’s Knightscope. Dont worry too much, those robots are pretty shitty. theverge.com/…/dc-security-robot-k5-falls-into-wa…
- Comment on Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad updates with new features begin rolling out to Windows Insiders 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- 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” 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
