tarknassus

@tarknassus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This worldcoin? Yeah, it’s looking real good right now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whilst that’s true, it’s a good opportunity to push Linux as a potential alternative in a few different ways - reduction of e-waste, free and private oriented alternative, simple (in some situations/distro) for certain basic users, or even someone who wants to get a little more technical. It’s good to promote the idea that there is more to computers than a monolithic monopoly called Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All our clients use it. It’s bloody annoying. I have dozens who use WhatsApp, and like three who use Signal. Ironically, the three that use Signal also use WhatsApp and guess which one they use to contact us?

  It’s a problem when it’s got mass market traction to get people to switch. I’m still trying to get off Messenger but some people insist on it… Going to have to get firm about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The enshittification process in a nutshell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To the surprise of nobody… 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They were doing a business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers — Now the fintech CEO wants humans back after $40B fall⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re aimed at achieving a new level of employee empowerment, enhancing both our team’s performance and the customer experience.

  To use an ancient acronym:

  ROFLMAO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They will probably use the YouTube model - “you’re wrong and that’s it”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe every time a wrong answer becomes a laughing point, the LLM creators have to manually intervene and “retrain” the model.

  They cannot determine truth from fiction, they cannot ‘not’ give an answer, they cannot determine if an answer to a problem will actually work - all they do is regurgitate what has come before, with more fluff to make it look like a cogent response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last update 2010. Makes me sad. Good times using IRC, I should find a modern program and get back on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DuckDuckGo has made A.I. results optional, which is a good move.

  Companies that are making it fixed can go swimming in lava for all I care (looking at you Google).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bots and scrapers are most definitely going after anything and everything - I’ve got about 10+ bots trying to scrape my site every day according to my logs. Quite honestly it shocked me considering I do zero SEO and it’s mostly random shit on my site.

  There’s stuff being developed - ai robots blocklists, ai tar pits, poisoning the images and other media.

  It’s a pita to implement a lot of this however, just for a small personal site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out personalsit.es too - a wonderful collection of small, independent websites curated under the banner of personal websites. A lot of tech people there, but some other little nuggets too.

  There’s also the indieweb webring which is a great old-school way to discover more sites on the indie web.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming we had friends in the first place - something I haven’t had for about 25-odd years now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg…

  Now let me stop you right there. The answer is no. It’s always no when Zuck is involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the fact that the information they can provide is basically a couple of reference points that takes up a quarter of a page 🤣