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- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 23 hours ago:
It's not the navigation that requires the server but the processing of the mapping data.
Which in itself is BS because most of these vacuums come with hardware roughly equivalent of a top of the line smartphone from about 5-6 years ago. They can easily do the raw data to map conversion, even if it's a bit slow and takes 20-30 seconds.
Also if you read the article it specifies that the damn thing is already running Google Cartographer which is a SLAM 3D map builder software - one of the better pro-grade mapping software suites, mind you. So the whole claim of cloud needed for processing is BS.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 day ago:
Source: I pulled it out of me unwashed arse
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 1 day ago:
Of course it ain't real users.
Reddit has had a major bot problem a decade ago and little has been done to mitigate it - beyond banning legitimate users who dared to be too loud about it.
I've moderated a relatively small sub, and pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you'd get 6 to 10 bot posts literally pulling an older post verbatim word for word, or maybe introducing a typo just to make detection harder...
Reddit's response to the issue? "Hey, why don't you pay us ~$25 a month just so you can continue using that open source automatic bot detection system we refuse to build into the site itself?".
- Comment on Truth in advertising 1 day ago:
If this was a unique instance of a potential Nazi dogwhistle I'd say let's give them the benefit of the doubt, and consider it a mistake. After all, who of us has never ever fat-fingered some typing and accidentally pressed a letter twice?
But the thing is, this is like, the hundredth Nazi dogwhistle around the orange turdsack to happen "accidentally" in the past few years. From the MyPillow 14.88 pricing, Kegbreath's very obvious negative space 88 tattoo, to multiple people close to the admin just randomly throwing Nazi salutes, etc., and that's not even counting the literal Nazi marches waving Nazi and MAGA flags together...
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 2 days ago:
Well, the loss of traffic is a knock-on effect of the misrepresentation. So is the fact that every other portal will try to sling shit at the ones affected by it.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 days ago:
I was hoping the sarcasm in the first sentence was dripping enough to be noticeable :)
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 2 days ago:
Apple had to turn it off for their sunmary mode after backlash, even though the option always had the "these summaries are generated by AI and can be inaccurate" warnings placed prominently.
Google doing this shit without warning or notice will get them in shit water. News portals and reporters are generally not too fond of their articles being completely misrepresented.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 days ago:
Oh no the local library is closed today, what do I do with my need for reliable information?
Dunno mate, have you tried asking Hitler?
- Comment on Questions about EU meat import ban due to FMD 3 days ago:
Or enjoy a nice hefty fine for badly declared goods when it goes through a scanner and the "clothes and stuff" gets flagged for being meat products.
Oh and also get the meat confiscated and destroyed.
Brilliant plan, genius.
- Comment on Questions about EU meat import ban due to FMD 3 days ago:
I don't see how that would get around the issue of properly identifying the meat. Any kind of import, regardless of its form, is subject to these bans.
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- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 4 days ago:
Given that Reddit started banning people left and right, I don't think the "banned from Reddit" bagde is one of shame.
- Comment on 18 days til the deadline btw 4 days ago:
mind you, any and all democrats will be un-redacted.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 4 days ago:
To streaming?
Never.
Streaming is a finite market that is already covered. The moment old money (aka existing media companies) jumped on it, it was done for.
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 5 days ago:
Plot twist: Jerome is with his wife at the "cinema"
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Based on this, Trump was old by the time he turned 20
- Comment on idk 6 days ago:
I'm generally pro-AI but I still think the disclosure is nice to have and should not be removed.
People have a right to informed decisions. If they want a product that had "no AI" in its making (although let's be honest, a game might not contain AI generated audiovisual assets, but a form of AI, even generative AI, is almost guaranteed to have been used during the creation of the game), they can vote with their wallets.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 days ago:
And more and more engineers use genAI to generate code. Hell, even I do, because it's superb at getting the boilerplate ready from standard definitions, allowing me to focus on the important bits.
LLMs are also pretty great at extrapolating a good working document from basic requirements.
They're really just a quite knowledgeable but inexperienced intern, and any software engineer that refuses to utilise them to some extent will be left behind - just like those who refused to move to IDEs with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and other helper tools.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 1 week ago:
I have already done so. We're now going door to door, showing the picture and ensuring that all drinks are covered. It's turning into the weirdest date of my life. Not complaining tho. Just didn't expect Kegbreath, Couchfucker and Temu Dracula to get me laid.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 1 week ago:
If you went back ~10 years and said this image from the next Austin Powers movie, depicting the new villains, people would believe you.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 1 week ago:
I instinctively went to cover the nearest drink. Now my neighbour thinks I'm a creep for busting her door down in a bathrobe.
- Comment on It came out dry. What did I do wrong? 1 week ago:
Yep, some Tsoukal-sauce should fix it right up
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
Joshuah the Messiah/Anointed, yes.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
See that wouldn't really work. The modern "Jesus" is actually quite far from the original old Hebrew/Aramaic name he would've used.
No, it would've been Yeshua or Yehoshua (the Bible has some shifting references as to when the longer form of the name might've gotten shortened to Yeshua).
Similarly, "Christ" isn't something used in Aramaic. It's not even technically his name, it's more of a title, from the Greek Χριστός (Christos, translating as "anointed), which in Hebrew would be mashiakh - or in direct English translation... Messiah.
Furthermore Yeshua was a quite common name at the time, in Nazareth alone you would've found a handful, even though the village was maybe a thousand people at the time.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 1 week ago:
The context doesn't matter. The bottom line is that FPGAs provide flexibility, not improved performance. Period.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
Imagine how shocked the world would be if it turns out the Arabic word for God comes from a black box recording that got swung back in time after a plane crash, with the last bit of the recording being stuck...
that last bit of recording? copilot waking up right before the crash, calling out to the pilot called Allan, but halfway through the word it turns into a scream. All-AAAAAAAH! BOOM.
And the whole world is just stuck on this otherwise insignificant fact. Never mind that someone just dug up carbon-dated 2000-ish year old (carbon-dated) contemporary technology, proving time travel is possible, or that people 2000-ish years ago managed to somehow make that tech work enough to influence the third largest language in a very significant manner... No, it's the fact that the Arabic word for God came from a guy named Allan.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 1 week ago:
Would you look at my peonies! They've grown MASSIVE this year.
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 1 week ago:
Even yesteryear's code completion systems (that didn't rely on LLMs) are technically speaking, AI systems.
While the term "AI" became the next "crypto" or "Blockchain", in reality we've been using various AI products for the better part of the past 30 years.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 1 week ago:
I'm very much aware of FPGA-style attempts, however I do feel the need to point out that FPGAs (and FPGA style computing) is even more hardware-strained than emulation.
For example, current mainstream emulation FPGA DE10 Nano has up to 110k LE/LUT, and that gets you just barely passable PS1 emulation (primarily, it's great for GBA emu, and mid to late 80s, early 90s game console hardware emulation). In fact it's not even as performant as GBA emulation on ARM - it uses more power, costs more, and the only benefit is true to OG hardware execution (which isn't always true for emulation).
Simply said, while FPGAs provide versatility, they're also much less performant than similarly priced SoCs with emulation of the specific architecture.
