besselj
@besselj@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is it a big deal if my phone hasn't had a security update in 5 years? 4 days 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 week 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 2 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 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Whole IT teams would crumble without furries
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Tools for
HumanitySurveillance - Comment on Snapchat scraps ‘simple’ redesign as it loses users in North America 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Good.
- Comment on WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history 1 month ago:
Don’t use WhatsApp if privacy is something you care about.
- Comment on WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that cannot be turned off 1 month ago:
The good news is that WhatsApp and other products owned by zuccerberg are also optional.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 1 month ago:
A product that has a warranty which depends on any “predictive” metric is probably a scam, tbh.
- Comment on Why exactly are STIs spreading more and more across Australia? 1 month ago:
Are koalas being counted?
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 1 month ago:
Paying protection money not to get broken up for being monopolies. No amount of money will protect them from the whims of a mad king.
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 1 month ago:
Bootlickers. At least this makes it easy to know what companies not to support
- Comment on ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' 1 month ago:
The solution is quite simple: don’t voluntarily give any private information to chatbots. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when using chatGPT or any LLM hosted online.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 1 month ago:
I have relatives with aspergers and none of them are facist assholes
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t expect a person peddling snake oil to understand or care that autism is a spectrum
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
So glad I’m not in the market for a new TV
