Dojan

@Dojan@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know, on Pixel phones it’s integrated. Discovered that my work phone (Pixel 6) suddenly has it, I’ve never installed it, and I can’t remove it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My company has a policy to try to make use of LLMs for work. I’m not a fan. Most of the time I spend explaining the infrastructure and whatnot would be better spent just working, because half the time the model suggests something that flies in the face of what’s needed, or outright suggests changes that we can’t implement.

  It’s such a waste of time and resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a direct result of structural racism, as it’s a product of the treatment of white men as being the default. You see it all the time in medicine. There are conditions that disproportionately affect black people that we don’t know enough about because time and money hasn’t been spent studying it.

  Women face the same problem. Lots of conditions apply differently in women. An example of this being why women historically have been underrepresented in e.g. autism diagnoses. It presents differently so for a while the assumption was made that women just can’t be autistic.

  I don’t think necessarily that people who perpetuate this problem are doing so out of malice, they probably don’t think of women/black people as lesser (hell, many probably are women and/or black), but it doesn’t change the fact that structural problems requires awareness and conscious effort to correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mumbai, ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love dogs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mumbai, ID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea who they are but I’m hoping they’re enjoying their new life in India.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What I hate most about this is the lack of control over this it implies. Sure, maybe you don’t install this on your device, but all that’s needed for Google to access your messages now is for someone you message to have it installed and enabled, then anything you send to them will be gobbled up by Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic tested Claude's(LLM, AI Chatbot) ability to manage a physical “storefront” to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so funny. It fails miserably and they’re all “yeah so this is promising.”

  Sure, a world where your manager hallucinates meetings with you and assesses you poorly for not performing according to plans that were hallucinated through said meetings sounds like a fantastic idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoping this sets a precedent for the same kind of regulation about non-Chinese corporations. Otherwise it just comes across as sinophobic grandstanding and not actually about protecting the privacy of the end-user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds interesting. Would definitely like to try it out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A musical buttplug sounds interesting. Would definitely listen to Toxic with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capsaicin trigger nociceptors, tricking the brain into believing you’ve hurt yourself. It’s not a flavour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes. You obviously still can’t say “le dollar bean” without getting nuked from orbit. YouTube is a goodly Christian corporation after all, can’t have such content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microbiota⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kissing isn’t the only thing one should do like the French.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The rest of us will be stuck with those consequences also. When idiots are at work, third party always suffers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s honestly ridiculous too. Imagine saying that your whole business model is shooting people, and if you’re not allowed to shoot people then it’ll crash. So when accused of killing people, you go “nu uh” and hide the weapons you did it with, and the legal system is okay with that.

  It’s all so stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Through the years I’ve bounced between different engines. I gave Bing a decent go some years back, mostly because I was interested in gauging the performance and wanted to just pit something against Google. After that I’ve swapped between Qwant and Startpage a bunch. I’m a big fan of Startpage’s “Anonymous view” function.

  Since then I’ve landed on Kagi, which I’ve used for almost a year now. It’s the first search engine I’ve used that you can make work for you. I use the lens feature to focus on specific tasks, and de-prioritise pages that annoy me, sometimes outright omitting results from sites I find useless or unserious. For example when I’m doing web stuff and need to reference the MDN, I don’t really care for w3schools polluting my results.

  I’m a big fan of using my own agency and making my own decisions, and the recent trend in making LLMs think for us is something I find rather worrying, it allows for a much subtler manipulation than what Google does with its rankings and sponsor inserts.

  Perplexity openly talking about wanting to buy Chrome and harvesting basically all the private data is also terrifying, thus I wouldn’t touch that service with a stick. That said, I appreciate their candour, somehow being open about being evil is a lot more palatable to me than all these companies pretending to be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are search engines that do this better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At my old workplace we ended up getting like a thousand toilet seats delivered to us. We were a web publishing firm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it’s kirakira names in general. So weird made-up readings, pop culture references 光宙 (pikachuu falls under both), foreign words, and taboo/denigrating names.

  For example.

  • 皇帝 (koutei) meaning emperor, read as Kaiser
  • 光宙 (kou, light and chuu, space) read as Pikachuu
  • 愛保 (ai, to love, and go, to keep) read as Rabuho (love hotel)
  • 宝冠 (takara, treasure and kanmuri, crown) read as Tiara.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Positive reinforcement wins. You’re a good boy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might there not be a way to extract them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Much faster and less prone to ghosting.

  That said, I never took much issue with it. I didn’t have any of the very first e-readers so I’ve no idea if they’d bother me, but my first e-reader, a Kobo Touch from 2011 worked just fine and the refresh rate and ghosting wasn’t a problem.

  I think the biggest pro with modern devices (to me personally) is that they’ve gotten more compact. I like how slim and comfortable my Boox Color 7 is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI sees human interaction as a competitor to ChatGPT's super assistant ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dystopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think we've all been there.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Comglaturstion! We’re both going to die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You yiffing people are everywhere, I stg.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The agenda has been revealed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨faen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably is real. Google Translate gets updated and translations change over time. It used to translate “inglasat uterum” (Swedish) as “glazed uterus.”

  It means glass-encased veranda.

  It no longer translates it to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the road is marked as bus only, surely it’s still bus only? That’s how it works here at least, road signs etc. are applicable until removed. Doesn’t matter if it’s still there because government forgot to remove something. You obey the signs because they keep the roads safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What AI Thinks It Knows About You | What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Figures that a slop company’s CEO wouldn’t have words of his own, rather have the machine generate slop for him, but this stuck out

  We can’t stop the bus, but we can steer it …

  What a bullshit statement. It’s not that you can’t stop it, but rather that you won’t stop it. It’s an active choice you’re making, and not a compulsion like in the case of a kleptomaniac. Machine learning isn’t some natural force, it’s entirely man-made and we can stop whenever we want.

  No, you’re not uncontrollable kleptomaniacs, you’re just doing the same shit the rich elite has always done; you exploit the world around you and you get away with it scot-free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking here. I do not use any bridge between the two, but rather searched in separate communities for my answer. Would’ve been lovely if I could just use a search engine to search indexed forums or so, but since for some reason chat clients have taken the place of forums that’s just not doable.

  I’d like to move away from Discord but sadly a bunch of friends still use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent nearly three hours today between discord and matrix trying to figure out how to get these two pieces of software to talk using a certain protocol.

  Imagine if there were online indexable platforms where people could publish this information so it’s easily accessible rather than having to scour through message logs hoping to find the right keywords. Such a technology surely doesn’t exist already, right?

  I hate discord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots to learn here today! Thanks everyone!

  Lähdetään uimaan!