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- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 5 hours ago:
Publicly making false statements using his name isn’t a crime by itself in his jurisdiction?
- Comment on From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: "Why I Made the Switch" 7 hours ago:
Nice! According to wikimedia stats, linux is already over 5% and growing! We can do it, people! We can take down microslops’s os monopoly
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 7 hours ago:
It would be nice if he decides to sue ars technica for that. Writers and publisher need to learn the hard way that you can’t use ai and trust that for publishing stuff that needs factual coherence. If not by ethics, let it be from fear of lawsuits.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 1 day ago:
- Comment on Considering that LLMs are trained on the whole of the internet, it's kind of amazing that they don't talk back to you like a condescending, smug asshole 3 days ago:
Maybe we underestimate people a bit. The assholes tend to be more impacting to us, but most people aren’t like that, and we tend not to notice the several neutral or good interactions the same way.
- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 3 days ago:
What? There’s no such thing as a hard definition of retro. It’s what people culturally feel like it is.
- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 3 days ago:
Any of the above prizes could buy much more bitcoin, if you wanted
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 3 days ago:
That wouldn’t push people into buying external sound systems. Do you want to see the economy crash? We got to keep it going up /s
- Comment on Too weird for the normal people, too normal for the weird people... 6 days ago:
Meanwhile, I’m too weird even for the weird people…
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 6 days ago:
Tapping with 2 fingers usually works as a middle click, but sometimes it fail for me, sending a single click instead
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 6 days ago:
Well… I use it. I find it faster to use than the middle click gesture in the touchpad and the touchpad’s buttons are awful to press, so I use the keyboard button and navigate with the touchpad
- Comment on DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech 6 days ago:
Not yet, that I know about
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 week ago:
And they took the place of a useful key to put that
- Comment on DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech 1 week ago:
It’s totally worth it. We can underestimate how much impact our small local groups can have, but they’re essential to build strong communities. It’s also much easier for people to switch to alternatives when in groups.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe 1 week ago:
If this case gets a closure against tiktok, it will become a jurisprudence and will allow to do the same to them
- Comment on TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe 1 week ago:
Just some guis/apps, and it’s mostly optional
- Comment on Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic. 1 week ago:
Somehow, people don’t get that if we ask something to them, it’s because we want their personal interpretation of it, otherwise, we would use the internet as well
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 1 week ago:
Ouch, that’s really a battery killer
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 1 week ago:
Well, my PSP had its battery inflate. I had replaced that battery a few years ago, used it a bit, then forgot about it. Recently found that the new battery is in oopsie state too.
That’s sad :(
Did you store it in a too hot place or leave it with zero charge for too long? I only had a few devices with inflated battery so far, and I scrape a lot of. My stuff and the stuff I get from people tend to be in a relatively good shape even after staying unused for some years. E-readers are the champions of battery preservation. I got one from a friend that was forgotten for more than 10 years, and it works well. He said that the battery originally lasted more than a week. Now it’s lasting only about 3 days, which is a huge difference, but not enough to make it unusable.
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 1 week ago:
People tend to exaggerate how much batteries degrade. Low power devices tend to work reasonably well even on degraded batteries.
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 1 week ago:
Breaking news: A journalist just discovered that the thing he stopped using while still functioning normally still functions after a lng time left in a drawer.
- Comment on The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat 1 week ago:
I’m eager for companies to put ai agents in customer support, so I can try tricking the system with “my grandmother” prompts, and make it refund all my orders
- Comment on The data windows collect about you goes to a company founded by someone who is in the epstein files 1 week ago:
What if they use doh/dot or hardcoded ips?
- Comment on Information based on lived experience is far less valued than a quick Google answer. 1 week ago:
Both have biases, and we should not diminish either of them, but weight accordingly.
When it comes to personal experience, we should consider the person’s background and personal beliefs. When it comes to information on the internet, we should consider the source’s demographics and the fact that it tends to be more generic and miss the more specific aspects.
- Comment on Proton's predictions for the internet, 2025 reviewed and 2026 projections 1 week ago:
People and businesses will ditch US platforms
That’s a bold one. Hope it’s true
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
640K ought to be enough for anyone
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
People tend to forget bitrate when talking about image quality, and arguably it’s even more important than resolution. Even a 480p video can look great at a small screen if encoded with a good bitrate, and even a 4k video can look like shit if encoded with too low bitrate
- Comment on The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not all the same. Application-specific ml models tend to be much smaller and demand much less resources than llms. They also tend to be more precise.
And the question “What is this thing?” covers a negligibly tiny percent of search requests.
I was just addressing the given example
- Comment on The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine. 2 weeks ago:
When you see something you have no idea what it is, you just take a photo and do the reverse search, finding other similar photos and the name of the thing. You don’t even need to spend time describing what you see and won’t have a chance of getting a wrong confident answer. Reverse image search exists for more than a decade and don’t use llms
