SnoringEarthworm
@SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 1 day ago:
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 1 day ago:
Signal CEO Whittaker said that in the worst case scenario, they would work with partners and the community to see if they could find ways to circumvent these rules. Signal also did this when the app was blocked in Russia or Iran. “But ultimately, we would leave the market before we had to comply with dangerous laws like these.”
This is why we need the ability to sideload apps.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 1 day ago:
Any chance this will lead Microsoft to re-evaluate its use of AI?
- Comment on Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home 2 days ago:
Launching October 1st, Gemini For Home is a suite of new AI-powered features for Google’s smart home hardware and software.
The biggest change: Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on all of Google’s smart speakers, all the way back to the original Google Home speaker. This LLM-powered upgrade, announced at Google I/O, will be available through an Early Access program at first, with a wider rollout planned for next year.
On smart speakers, Gemini brings an entirely new voice assistant that uses and understands natural language, can interpret context, and can pull in more real-time information. You still activate it with the wake words “hey Google,” but Google Assistant has been evicted.
“Gemini for Home is the intelligence for your entire home,” Anish Kattukaran, head of product at Google Home and Nest, tells The Verge. “It’s not going to just replace Assistant on speakers and displays, but it’s going to upgrade your other devices as well, your cameras and doorbells, where you interact with those devices, and bring those smarts collectively to your entire home.”
I’m not excited for Apple to invent smart homes after this, completing the duopoly of LLMs being in everyone’s homes even harder than before.
Long live Home Assistan
- Comment on Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home 2 days ago:
🫡
- Comment on Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home 2 days ago:
I downvote because it’s paywalled.
Paywalled links are just ads with extra steps.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 3 days ago:
How long until parliament decides to push the undo button on this stupid law?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Corporations don’t have stable political identities.
They’ll promote trans people if it makes them money.
And then sell trans people to ICE the next quarter if it makes them even more money.
And then use a shell company to sell trans merch to the people boycotting them.
- Comment on Excellent Arguement 4 days ago:
I feel like I grew out of Mushoku Tensei.
I think a Trash Taste episode convinced me it was going to be the GOAT of anime epic fantasy, and I bought into it. Watched every season of the anime, and then read the light novels.
I quit about ten volumes in, when I realized the women were not real characters.
Japanese light novelists just cannot write a woman into a scene without shining a spotlight on her boobs and her complicated feelings about a male character.
- Comment on even Crunchy roll is tired 4 days ago:
MDD is actually good, though
- Comment on Down Bad 4 days ago:
Never can be too sure with anime.
- Comment on [STATUS] Comick.io closes down. 1 week ago:
Why are we blaming discord users here?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Jones says that linguists and subtitlers are not necessarily against AI – but at the moment, it’s making practitioners’ lives harder rather than easier. “In every industry, AI is being used to replace all the creative things that bring us joy instead of the boring, tedious tasks we hate doing,” she says.
- Comment on AI chips are getting hotter. A microfluidics breakthrough goes straight to the silicon to cool up to three times better. 1 week ago:
Those are definitely words.
- Comment on Come watch Frieren 1 week ago:
Sien is the “Show me the perfect MILF. No, I meant the perfect MILF. Perfection.” of Frieren.
- Comment on Fooling a self-driving car with mirrors on traffic cones 1 week ago:
“We show that by exploiting the physics of specular reflection, an adversary can inject phantom obstacles or erase real ones using only inexpensive mirrors,” the researchers wrote in a paper submitted to the journal Computers & Security.
“Experiments on a full AV platform, with commercial-grade LIDAR and the Autoware stack, demonstrate that these are practical threats capable of triggering critical safety failures, such as abrupt emergency braking and failure to yield.”
I’d be fooled, too, at first - and suspicious (who’s fucking around with mirrors on the road?) - but I’d probably figure it out after a second.
My main concern is people could use these kinds of exploits to “jailbreak” robo-cars (or whatever we’re calling them) to behave in dangerous ways in real traffic.
- Comment on Why isn't there a Megumin sub-"lemmy"... 😣 1 week ago:
showed up here today to start immediately hornyposting about various canonically underage anime characters.
I don’t care as long as it’s fictional, marked NSFW, and posted in the appropriate communities.
We have weird porn here, too. I actually prefer that it’s mostly on its own lemmy (pornlemmy, lemmynsfw, etc) because users who don’t want that kind of content can just block the instance and go about their lives.
No need to gatekeep the fediverse.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It will not. The article is nostalgia and hopium-baiting.
Restarting a mass-manufacturing production line for something like once super-common CRT TVs would require a major investment that so far nobody is willing to front.
Meanwhile LCD and OLED technology have hit some serious technological dead-ends, while potential non-organic LED alternatives such as microLED have trouble scaling down to practical pixel densities and yields.
There’s a chance that Sony and others can open some drawers with old ‘thin CRT’ plans, dust off some prototypes and work through the remaining R&D issues with SED and FED for potentially a pittance of what alternative, brand-new technologies like MicroLED or quantum dot displays would cost.
Will it happen? Maybe not. It’s quite possible that we’ll still be trying to fix OLED and LCDs for the next decade and beyond, while waxing nostalgically about how much more beautiful the past was, and the future could have been, if only we hadn’t bothered with those goshdarn twisting liquid crystals.
- Comment on Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trump's UK state banquet 2 weeks ago:
Apple is one of the few companies whose cult I think could rival MAGA.
Tim Cook gets no brownie points from me for sucking up to 40-whatever-number-he-is.
- Comment on Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search 2 weeks ago:
Nothing
- Comment on Are You Under the Influence? The Tail That Wags The Dog 2 weeks ago:
The content was great. The furry art between every paragraph was completely inoffensive and sometimes cute.
Using a picture of your (I assume) furry avatar presenting their ass in my general direction as the header/thumbnail almost made me not click.
It’s not even a furry thing.
It’s a you-look-so-unserious-right-now thing.
- Comment on [WT!] Milky Subway : The Galaxy Limited Express 2 weeks ago:
The rest of the series has roughly the same tone and quality of writing, although I particularly liked the writing in episode 6.
If you bounced off episode 1, it might not be your cuppa, but the whole series (YouTube playlist) is less than 45 minutes long if you want to see for yourself.
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- Comment on Apple Photos App Corrupts Images 2 weeks ago:
Went to the comments to follow up on that URL and had a lesson in the history of unfortunate website names.
- Comment on I have no words, I feel bad. 2 weeks ago:
My Life as Inukai-san’s Dog
- Comment on I have no words, I feel bad. 2 weeks ago:
It can’t get worse after the dog anime. Can it?
- Comment on Fern on Internet 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ClockBench: Even the best AI models can't reliably read the clock 2 weeks ago:
ClockBench evaluates whether models can read analog clocks - a task that is trivial for humans, but current frontier models struggle with.
What do you mean trivial? Most humans I know can’t read the most basic white-background-big-black -numbers clocks.
Someone rigged the jury to get 90% on this:
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 2 weeks ago:
There’s a difference between
“A pedophile committed a crime in my house (but I had nothing to do with it).”
and
“Gee, the pedophiles seem to think my house is a great place to do crime, because they keep doing it, but that’s none of my business.”
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 2 weeks ago:
I imagine it’s because Second Life was never popular with children.
As bad as mostly-adult spaces can be, the worst kinds of humans seem to skitter around children’s spaces.
