kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 6 days ago:
Nazi trains a nazi “speak & spell”
Whoopty fucking do.
The problem comes when large portions of the population use it and accept what it says without any shred of critical thinking.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 6 days ago:
Who said that?
The strawman.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 1 week ago:
good luck doing anything online and avoiding AWS.
Don’t let perfect stand in the way of good.
It’s not possible in most cases to even know if a given online resource is using AWS behind the scenes, so it’s not something you can really control.
On the other hand, if you happen to be a web developer, that is a different story, but for normal users it’s not something you can do much about.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 weeks ago:
It appears to have support for the 4G and 5G bands that Rogers, Bell and Telus use
But the last time I was looking at Fairphine, they didn’t sell to Canada directly.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 4 weeks ago:
I believe LLMs are good at some things
The problem is that they’re being used for all the things, including a large number of tasks that thwy are not well suited to.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 4 weeks ago:
is like using a power tool as a table leg.
Then again, our corporate lords and masters are trying to replace all manner of skilled workers with those same LLM “AI” tools.
And clearly that will backfire on them and they’ll eventually scramble to find people with the needed skills, but in the meantime tons of people will have lost their source of income.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 month ago:
Mostly because the FOSS community doesn’t have a single point of leadership that is maniacally focused on becoming a total monopoly.
And that’s a good thing
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 month ago:
'It used to be this and I want it to be this way, hold my hand for an hour while telling me its not this way anymore
Yeah, but that already happens every time Microsoft does a major version “upgrade”.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 month ago:
Embrace, extend, extinguish will accelerate.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 month ago:
Increasing that price means less people will buy the product.
Unless your competitors are also facing the same forced price increase.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 month ago:
That is the least of his linguistic faults.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
her goal isn’t to get them to stop, it’s to get them to recognize what garbage writing is and how to fix it so it isn’t garbage anymore.
Sadly, that may be the best we can hope for.
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 2 months ago:
They already have - having Nukes.
That only defends against a sane leadership with a military chain of command that isn’t compromised.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 2 months ago:
Obama put in some regulations on the investment industry with the intent of preventing another sun-prime /derivative crisis.
And Trump removed those protections a few years later for no other reason that Obama had implemented it in the first place.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 2 months ago:
If it’s on private property who gives a shit
Fires don’t respect property lines.
Rescue workers still have to deal with the mayhem (and risks you have created) if you do something stupid on your own property.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 2 months ago:
See: Regulations around building structures on private property.
Even those are based on people doing it wrong in the past and endangering themselves and others.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 2 months ago:
The more judgement based exceptions you put in the regulations, the less compliance you have, and the more “rules lawyers” on your crew wasting time and energy trying to talk their way around some edge case loophole.
And the more often people will take the lazy option, rather then the safe one.
If you actually believe you can get everyone to do the appropriately safe thing in all varying conditions, I doubt that you’ve ever been in charge of a labour crew.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 3 months ago:
That time was back on November 6.
Or January 20.
- Comment on Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them? 3 months ago:
Google scans YouTube videos for information about what products appear in them
Yes, but not specifically looking for products. They’re scanning to try to learn everything about the video with the goal of better matching suggestions to the interests (as determined by watch history) of viewers.
The intention is (as always) to increase viewer session time because the more time viewers spend on the platform, the more ads they see and ultimately the more money YouTube makes.
Of course, that scanning and view history can also be used to target ads with the goal of increasing ad click-thru and conversion (ultimately also driving the profit goal)
- Comment on Inside A Fake WiFi Repeater 3 months ago:
Note, though, that it want the youtuber who submitted it to Hackaday.
I’ve had a couple of my videos show up thwre and I have no idea who the user was that submitted it, nor what their motivation was.
(Yes, I saw the username, I mean it was a complete stranger who did it)
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 3 months ago:
Zuckerberg wears t-shirts comparing himself to Julius Caesar?
Yet March 15 has come and gone yet again without Zuck having a bad day.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Starting with the late 70s then the election of Reagan
Also around that time televangelist Pat Robertson was an advisor to Reagan and even tried his own run for president.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 3 months ago:
Of you didn’t vote then you’re not a voter.
Most eligable voters stayed home
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 months ago:
I trust the library a lot more than I trust Staples or a similar for-profit business.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 months ago:
It’s not that hard to convert a cheap 3D printer into a pen plotter is you want to do some 2D printing.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 months ago:
That’s what we did.
For the few pages we need to print, I can use the machine at the library for $0.10/page.
- Comment on YSK: If your house has a split AC unit it probably could use a cleaning 4 months ago:
Compressed air combined with a vacuum cleaner to capture what the compressed air blows loose.
- Comment on YSK: If your house has a split AC unit it probably could use a cleaning 4 months ago:
No one is telling you to power wash or scrub
No, but some people get some carried away ideas when they hear “clean that machine”.
- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 4 months ago:
As a european working in the weapon industry, I love reading american people thinking we make no weapons or the weapons we make are worse.
American exceptionalism has been a major feature of the Americans self image for many generations.
It’s really tiring living beside them and having to hear them constantly blathering about it.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 4 months ago:
Desktop unless I’m away from home or in the shitter.