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- Comment on Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June 1 day ago:
They gonna change the company to something other than Meta now?
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 1 day ago:
Crony capitalism at its finest.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Ha, yeah, I started on a Raspberry Pi 4 and now have spent over $2k on my server.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 day ago:
I didn’t see the “says their time is over” part anywhere that he allegedly said. Guy’s still a piece of shit, but not seeing anything out of line he said in this specific instance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I had like 10 repos and nothing of much value in the DB, so it was quick to create the repos and push them up.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 2 days ago:
In addition to not trusting the privacy of stock firmware, OpenWRT provides a lot of useful features for self-hosting like local DNS for your services and a feature-rich firewall to, for example, block devices you don’t trust from phoning home.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I just spun up Forgejo and pushed up all my repos by hand because I’m lazy.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 days ago:
The obvious solution here is to replace judges with AI. /s
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 days ago:
- Comment on Lawn mowers make great but usually impractical fart silencers. 3 days ago:
I recently discovered that blowing into a plastic tube (like aquarium tubing) with the other end placed under the armpit, or better yet, the kneepit, makes a realistic fart sound. Try rubbing some water on your skin first for a better effect.
- Comment on YSK What are you eating 4 days ago:
Lately, I have been buying less from the corporate grocery store in my neighborhood and more locally produced foods. When I do go to the store, I’m picky about what I buy. Even so, a lot of the food sold here in the US is still toxic. For example, I’ve been buying imported Italian flour, because grains grown here are soaked in glyphosate. There is even research suggesting gluten allergies could actually be due to glyphosate: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3945755/
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 5 days ago:
Latest version of Windows eliminates the C drive, leaving only OneDrive for users to store their files.
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- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 5 days ago:
I gladly more for my local fiber connection than it would cost for Xfinity. Fuck these greedy corporate shithead monopolies with their shitty service. I’ll pay whatever it costs to support a local company instead.
- Comment on Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong 6 days ago:
I think the “AI industry” is already doing a fantastic job proving they got it wrong.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 6 days ago:
Catherine Tate’s guest appearance was always the funniest one:
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 6 days ago:
- Comment on 13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station 6 days ago:
Reminds me of a post on Lemmy a while back about a guy wearing a shirt like this:
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 6 days ago:
I’m sure it’s true that a lot of marketing departments are useless, but adept at marketing themselves. At the same time, you’re right that marketing also can and does work, and the marketing that works best is when you’re not even conscious of it. For example, most of us here are well-aware of the upcoming Steam Frame and Steam Machine. How so? Marketing.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 6 days ago:
the thing that marketing departments are best at is marketing their own importance to company management
That’s quite an interesting insight.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 1 week ago:
Are the app’s servers hosted on Epstein island? A father and son sharing chicken choking habits just sounds creepy.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
It’s at least 30 seconds
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
Yes, and no. For example, my Samsung TV makes me wait while it tries to recognize whatever I have plugged into the HDMI port. Annoying as hell.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
🙈
- 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:
The intention is to describe humans serving machines instead of machines serving humans. The term centaur doesn’t necessarily describe servitude and there’s probably a better term that is more apt and more readily understood.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
Women Preferences Expands Nationwide
The original title only makes sense to people seeing it listed on Uber’s website who are familiar with Uber’s “Women Preferences”. That exact title without modification doesn’t provide enough context for a random post on Lemmy, IMO.
I do agree that it’s annoying when posts change the title in a way that didn’t accurately reflect the linked article, but I don’t think that’s necessarily the case here.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Looking forward to Jellyfin getting a LLM to train locally on movie preferences so everyone’s library is fair use. Wait, is this why LLMs are being shoehorned into everything?
- Comment on Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package 1 week ago:
Nice cover photo. At least he looks grateful for his better part of a billion in blood money.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 1 week ago:
they are using Chatbots because they can’t afford healthcare
Even if they do spend their limited resources on healthcare, there’s a good chance it’s going to be a waste of money.
before we get out the tiny violins for MDs
A lot of MDs are pretty useless, and that’s a big part of the problem. Just because someone can memorize and regurgitate information well, that doesn’t mean they’re going to be effective at their job. It’s often necessary to shop around to find someone who doesn’t suck, which is especially difficult for anyone who can’t afford it.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 1 week ago:
In the US especially, medical professionals are overworked and simply don’t have the time and energy properly diagnose. If you have a more complex, chronic issue, there’s a good chance you’ll be waiting months at a time to see various specialists who are only going to spend about 10 distracted minutes thinking about your case and might not even have any useful insights, or they might misdiagnose you and make your condition worse. You basically have to do your own research and show them studies. If you’re a person of color or a woman, etc., there’s a good chance you won’t even be taken seriously. In an ideal world, it would work like it does on TV, but in the real world, it’s all about maximizing profits and the patients be damned. Sure, LLMs are unreliable, but they do at least provide ideas to research.
