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- Comment on Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups 22 hours ago:
- Comment on stages of mitosis 4 days ago:
The hair clips are a nice detail.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I agree, seems more like an insightful reminder about inclusivity, product design, and data analysis; and a window into someone who’s probably incredibly frustrated trying to be positive.
- Comment on Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox: Not what the machine does, but who it does it to. 1 week ago:
For me, it’s more that it’s a vivid image. I have felt that “immiseration” so it immediately resonates; I don’t need a metaphor. But when people who don’t know technology are gushing about the latest agentic process, I wonder if having a somewhat grotesque, embellished counter will be useful.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
I clearly need to up my adblock game. But do y’all also use PeerTube, Nebula, Curiosity Stream? Happy to vote with dollars if there’s a good candidate.
- Comment on Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox: Not what the machine does, but who it does it to. 1 week ago:
Hadn’t heard “precaritized” either. Brings to mind some penultimate additions to pillow forts, though.
- Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox: Not what the machine does, but who it does it to.doctorow.medium.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 1 week ago:
We may start to see people realize that “have the AI generate slop, humans will catch the mistakes” actually is different from “have humans generate robust code.”
- Comment on First darn (and first time using a darning loom) 1 week ago:
OK, 2nd sock took 45 minutes. So a bit longer than it felt like, but an amount of time is easily spend scrolling/watching videos/etc.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
To save folks reading the long winded intro:
Reflect Orbital is a start-up company proposing a constellation of up to 50,000 satellites by 2035, to provide a sunlight-on-demand service to consumers. This would involve reflecting beams of sunlight with a diameter of about 5 kilometers onto Earth’s surface to provide lighting or solar energy to the customers.
- Comment on First darn (and first time using a darning loom) 1 week ago:
I bought the loom and then put it off for ages anticipating a big project, and then finished it up chatting while my kid picked up Legos.
- Comment on First darn (and first time using a darning loom) 1 week ago:
Gosh darn it, you’ll make me blush.
- Submitted 1 week ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 13 comments
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 2 weeks ago:
And how much power does it use?
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 3 weeks ago:
Is there a good place to see more without logging into something? I found some on threads, but it requires login after a bit; not interested in FB/X. Maybe time to buy a book!
- Comment on “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens 4 weeks ago:
From the article:
At least seven states with a total of about 35 million registered voters have publicly reported the results of running their voter rolls through the system. Those searches have identified roughly 4,200 people — about 0.01% of registered voters — as noncitizens. This aligns with previous findings that noncitizens rarely register to vote.
- Comment on AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution. 4 weeks ago:
And Ars published a piece about it — with AI hallucinated quotes attributed to the human maintainer. They have since retracted it.
I was having a discussion related to this with my team at work: some of them are letting through poorly-reviewed AI code, and I find myself trying to figure out which code has had real human consideration, and which is straight from the agents net. Everyone said they closely review and own all the agentic code, but I don’t really believe it.
- Comment on My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker 4 weeks ago:
Plot twist: the server giving worldwide access to send people electrical stimulation was also implemented by Claude.
Cool use of AI for spelunking, though.
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 4 weeks ago:
Sounds great. I can’t figure out what the status is. Working prototype? Manufacturing?
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 4 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s more like NiMH than LiPo, but higher power than NiMH (which I guess lines up with their claims of charging super fast).
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 5 weeks ago:
Chatbots are terrible at anything but casual chatter, humanity finds.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Over and over. Time to report & block.
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Best gas masks 1 month ago:
The one thing the article doesn’t cover is picking filters. Is there just a number, like N95?
Sounds like the mask might be used for paint/varnish fumes while out of lawless Federal officers’ throwing range.
- Comment on Best gas masks 1 month ago:
Illegal in the US sense of “for protesters only but fine for LEOs”?
- Comment on Best gas masks 1 month ago:
I found myself baffled as to what the hallmarks of a riot even were. I had thought that a crowd being tear gassed in the dead of night might be similar to a mosh pit at a concert, but riddled with fear instead of elation — a crowd pushing and shoving, overcome with heightened emotion. But I found that the people around me, even when they were screaming and throwing eggs and other produce at the feds, would apologize if they even slightly jostled me. I did worry about being trampled one time, while standing next to an underprepared television crew that had come without gas masks and kept panicking throughout the night. When did a gathering turn into a riot? Were riots even real?
Yeah, insightful writing about something that should be vanishingly uncommon.
- Comment on Israel’s West Bank Occupation Is a Danger to Women 1 month ago:
Yeah, I read the headline as “genocide is dangerous to women, even when Israeli genocide properties say they’re nice.”
- Comment on At Google - Organising at the digital arms dealer 1 month ago:
Since Donald Trump’s election, Google have moved rapidly to consolidate their position as the primary provider of the infrastructures of surveillance and oppression. In just the months following the inauguration, they have abandoned their pledge to not use artificial intelligence for surveillance or weaponry; they have begun work with US Customs and Border Protection to augment the southern border’s surveillance infrastructure (provided by Elbit) with AI capabilities; they have entered into an AI Lab partnership with Lockheed Martin, to use AI in targeted weapon systems; they have unveiled a collaboration with Palantir to accelerate the deployment of Google Cloud for sensitive government and military applications; and they have provided ICE with data about Palestine activists in the United States.24
Yep. Good work organizing, keep it up!
- Comment on Cold weather stud finder 1 month ago:
Old lath and plaster for me, so they don’t work that well.
- Submitted 1 month ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 11 comments
