fierysparrow89
@fierysparrow89@lemmy.world
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 1 week ago:
Not with a DoD contract they won’t
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 2 weeks ago:
I agree, they start to sound desperate to keep their current momentum going. I think the bubble will burst soon. Things look solid until they’re not.
- Comment on A Ukrainian corps is battle-testing exoskeletons that can fold into a briefcase 2 weeks ago:
This seems just as toyish as did dinnerplate sized drones 2y ago. So chances are I’m wrong again.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 2 weeks ago:
I’d say not before the bosses and shareholders agree to take 50% of their compensation in the form of AI tokens.
These fucking leeches…
- Comment on MAGA has been swooning over an Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI 2 weeks ago:
It is quite obvious that it’s AI
- 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? 2 weeks ago:
I like how you make your point, but the soft power of the US is over. As pointed out by others, the current administration is a sympthom, not an aberration.
US may have military primacy and the reserve currency, but neither can restore the loss of the appeal it had between post-ww2 and 2020. When tourists get deported after months of incarceration and we see videos of masked federal goons shooting people in the face, that is something else. When allying with the US gets you humiliation, threats, or even missle and drone attacks, that just does not seems like the smart move. So, respectfully, with friends like the US who needs enemies?
Wishing you best of luck getting your country back tough.
- Comment on A name more fitting 2 weeks ago:
AI generated sh*t will be our doom but fck it, we’ll go down :rofl:
- Comment on Rise of the AI Soldiers 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks ago:
I think you may be right.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
😊😁😂🤣
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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.