fierysparrow89
@fierysparrow89@lemmy.world
- Comment on A name more fitting 45 minutes ago:
AI generated sh*t will be our doom but fck it, we’ll go down :rofl:
- Comment on Rise of the AI Soldiers 1 day ago:
But… they’ll operate on builtin mini nuclear reactors, just like submarines. They’ll go years without recharging!
– emusk (probably)
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
Yeah, and the next scene is where a bunch of obese federal goons climb out of their unmarked suvs to kidnap a few brownish kids and shoot some of the parents in the face.
No, wait those things did actually happen.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
This does not sound plausible.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
Whatever may come, there is one sure thing: nobody will trust the US ever again. It may take the old allies a while to find their footing and they may still be dependant on the US. But that relationship will be more like that of the abusive caretaker vs abused teen. Biding their time until they finally can exit the dependance.
- Comment on Europe’s ‘tech sovereignty’ ambitions carry security risks, military warns 3 days ago:
Seeing the source (FT) and the Rubio directive, that anonymous qoute from the “European military official” may have come from some hungarian puppet.
- Comment on I made a replacement for my broken fridge handle 4 days ago:
Very stylish, barely noticable repair 🤣
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 5 days ago:
Source code of what? Unfortunately, none of the above is anywhere near enough.
We need locally available ai models that can run off-line. Also: the ai context and history must be kept separately from the model itself.
If the ai model needs to communicate with the outside world, user needs 100% transparency and control what data the ai sends.
- Comment on Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work 5 days ago:
That’s easy. Just a matter of leaving them off. /s
Seriously, be careful what you wish for! Hw vendors have been trying locking people out of their own devices for decades. Throw in the current trends of big tech and in a dystopian, but possible future you may not be allowed other devices than approved by the powers that be. Russia’s Max(?) app, anyone? Or the Chinees counterpart? Different kind of computerless, but there you go.
In other words, this is a self-defeating wish. I hope not many people fall in the trap of adopting this standpoint. Wishing reality away is not a good strategy.
Of course OP may have just attempted sarcasm. Which is fine.
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 6 days ago:
I think you may be right.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 6 days ago:
Who knows, in a year or 2, when tech has moved forward, they FP may release a camera module with better specs. Because of the phone’s modular assembly, that camera could be swapped. I think this is a beutiful concept.
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 6 days ago:
Never too late to dicover a classic.
By sheer chace I came across Alpha Centauri (wikipedia) a sequel to the original Civilization on gog.com. Best purchase ever. Exceptional gameplay. The best 5$ I remember spending.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 week ago:
Subjectivity was implied, stating the obvious does not add new insights.
You could have, e.g. by pointing to some of the things you don’t like. This way other readers could decide if they care about the thing. For example, FP6 is does not have a folding screen, which would have been nice. On the other hand, that would have added anothe couple 100s of €s to the price and would have ruined servicebility. So I’m glad they decided to focus with an affordable phone that gives the owner the option to replace parts that they legit sell via their site.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 week ago:
Wel that is subjective, but I’m happy with my FP6. ymmv
- 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:
Based on the limited experience with a few devices (LG), the SoC in TVs are not new pieces of tech. At all. They seem old and underpowered crap. Similar to DVB-T sticks available for the price of 2 pizzas and a pack of gum on AliExpress.
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 1 week ago:
😊😁😂🤣
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 week ago:
I can recommend the Fairphone for those who appreciate actually owning the device we paid for
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
I tried to make clear that I’m talking about tech with potentially significant impact, case in point: blockchain. Are you suggesting that a quirqy twowheeler is somehow on the same level?
Unless trolling is all you’re about, I can recommend refraining from such offhand dismissive remarks. Sarcasm has its use, but rarely in an anonymous online discussion. It does not contribute to a meaningful exchange of ideas.
- 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:
This. Have played with similar devices in the past and I was surprised how many of these devices are running standard Linux kernel with some custom engineered distros. Projects like Buildroot, OpenWRT, Busybox and a few others are what the vendors use to roll their own builds.
A few of them agressively lock down the bootloaders in an attempt to (try to) prevent people from owning the device they’ve paid retail price for. Many don’t really bother. The good news is, that such measures are relatively easy for experts to circumvent and break down. This, of course, is not cheap, but needs to happen only once, often for more than a single model. Some kind of bounty-based system could provide incentive and financing for such efforts.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
The silver lining is that after the obligatory exploitation by grifters, every new technology of this caliber finally gets a more positive use in our lifes. Maybe somewhat naive, but I think we (ie. our societies) have payed ~50% of the tuition fee as far as crypto is concerned. So hopefully we’ll be able to absorb the tech in our collective lives soon.
Ps: Different topic, but using the same metaphor for AI, I’m afraid we’re just at the begin of its initial fallout.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
As with everything crypto this was a huge scam. Besides the obvious profiting from gullable idiots, the other use case is to illegally funnel money.
- 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:
Or, the PiHole can spoof whatever hardcoded IP. Sooo… Things change with DNSSec, but chances are they are not bothering with that in embedded devices.
Anyway, learned something new today; note to self: fron now on, always make sure that a TV works off-line before buying.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
I’m long past the point of even considering paying Google a dime for other people’s content.
I’m getting sick of titles like these “… this changes everything…”, “scientists are mystified”, “…nobody knew…”, or some ridicoulus question as title. Majority of creators are hinting lately that yt “suggests” how to title and organize the topic for maximum visibility and monetization. In effect mandating their enshittification features.
Nvm, the moment NewPipe stops being able to play a video in a normay way is the end of yt for me. Just like I left reddit for lemmy.
- Comment on A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator 2 weeks ago:
It occurred to me that what the US and even UK call capitalism is a lie, ie. their system is not capitalism. IIRC “market forces” and “equal chances” somehow play a central role in the economic definition of it. In reality these forces are distorted by tariffs, nepotism, legalized extortion and the general repression of equal chances.
- Comment on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown 2 weeks ago:
The innovation powerhouse ladies and gentleman 🤣 bravo ms (slow-clap…)
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 3 weeks ago:
Hard to interpret this amount any other way than permission to keep doing the same thing. $20M is like a rounding error for Big Tech.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 3 weeks ago:
I don’t mean existing manufacturers necessarily. Unfortunately there are no certainties, but I’d say give it some time. These chips are (or at the very least becoming) strategic commodities, so the greater the squeeze the more appealing the business case will be. Besides, both the US and EU want to grow their chip manufacturing capacity and it’s not like there is no investment money available. So at some point production capacity will grow.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 3 weeks ago:
Apparently there is a huge demand for storage, both RAM and disk. Oh, and GPUs… So what happens when large number of people are looking to buy stuff? In time, I think there is a silver lining here…
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 3 weeks ago:
Besides the critique towards the person have you any insights as to which of his statements could be biased?
I’m just going to leave this here for reference en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 3 weeks ago:
This is a ridiculus statement coming from a government official. Can’t imagine any other motivation than a clickbait equivalent intended to sling the topic in public limelight.
Given enough effort and time all software can be reverse engineered. So “jailbreaking” is plausible. But that is just one piece of this puzzel. Here is a more informed version www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X9ww6FtUhE