tarknassus
@tarknassus@lemmy.world
I’m weird
- Comment on ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends? 4 days ago:
Did you win?
- Comment on Apple Vs The Law 4 days ago:
I was intrigued by this point:
We replied saying that there’s a lot of scam apps on the App Store, and that there isn’t an easy report scam button. We should have clarified that the relevant button only shows after installing an app, as well as being located at the bottom of the page - a text link saying “report a problem”.
And Apples reply?
Gary … replied with what sounded like, and hallucinated like, a Gen AI answer: “it’s on every single product page for every single app that’s available on the App Store, very prominently”.
No it’s not. The button does indeed only appear on installed apps, which is a problem if you’re already aware of issues with the app.
And it’s not prominent - it’s placed right at the bottom and in the small text like the privacy of policy link above it. You could easily miss it as you could just perceive it be part of the privacy/terms links - and who has time to read those??
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 week ago:
Aww. Please celebrate - don’t give the orange turd the satisfaction of destroying yet more American culture. Also, I won’t be happy posting my favourite annual meme:
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 2 weeks ago:
Ding! Any gains in productivity will mean more work for less people.
Anyone who can’t see this coming - I have several bridges for sale.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
The enshittification process in a nutshell.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks 5 weeks ago:
To the surprise of nobody… 😆
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 1 month ago:
They were doing a business.
- Comment on Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers — Now the fintech CEO wants humans back after $40B fall 1 month 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 1 month 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 ? 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Assuming we had friends in the first place - something I haven’t had for about 25-odd years now…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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 1 month 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 🤣
