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- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 1 day ago:
What they’re not designed to do is give factual answers
or mental health therapy
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 days ago:
for reviewing gaming handhelds.
No. That’s not why. Click-bait headline.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 6 days ago:
It depends on what info you’re trying to find.
I was recently trying to figure out the name of a particular uncommon type of pipe fitting. I could describe what it looked like, but had no idea what it was called. I described it to chatgpt, which gave me a name, which I could then search for with a normal search engine to confirm that the name was correct. Sure enough, search results took me to plumbing supply companies selling it, with pictures that matched what I described.
But, asking it when a particular feature got added to a piece of software? There’s no additional information one would get from the answer to help them confirm that the answer is correct.
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- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 1 week ago:
That’s absolutely not the point. I was criticizing the journalism, not technology. 🙄
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 1 week ago:
without human help
…
responded to and learned from voice commands from the team
🤨🤔
- Comment on Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion 2 weeks ago:
I was going to calculate how much electricity this would consume and how expensive it would be, but the answer to that is plainly “too much to imagine”.
Purely hypothetically speaking, but, what if someone had their own private Dyson Sphere generating electricity? (Asking for a friend.)
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 weeks ago:
Open settings, and search for"Gemini" from the search bar. That’s the only way I was able to get to anything Gemini related. I turned off it’s access to everything from there, then the last setting was to switch back to assistant which appears to have turned Gemini off, but who knows (hence disabling it’s access to everything anyway).
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 weeks ago:
These instructions are awful. There’s no Gemini listed in my apps, and Settings > Apps doesn’t show it either. But if I search for “Gemini” in settings, THEN it shows up, but doesn’t have access to anything the article says to do.
However, from that screen, I was able to apparently turn off its access to everything, and switch back to assistant, which appears to have turned it off completely, but who knows if it’s still lurking in the background.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 2 weeks ago:
I hate to be a downer, but…
Building, running and maintaining a website isn’t free. Building, running and maintaining a popular website is fucking expensive. Somebody’s got to pay those bills.
As the saying goes, if it’s free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. Corollary, if it’s not free, you still might be the product.
Furthermore, these days I would assume that 99.9% of profiles on a “free” dating site are scammers, or bots, or scammer bots, many of which are probably run by the people running the website.
And to double down on the downerism, subscription based dating sites/apps are financially motivated to keep you paying for as long as possible. They are not motivated to help you find a match, cancel your subscription, and live happily ever after.
In an attempt to not be a total downer jerk, my suggestion would be to find local meetup groups that interest you (even if just barely) and start going to those consistently.
That’s how I met my spouse almost 14 years ago. We were both on the dating apps but not finding each other. Eventually we met through a meetup group that I ran, and after months of casually chatting occasionally at group meetings, sparks spontaneously started flying. 🤷
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The post title is not the same as the article title and doesn’t even make sense. That first comma changes the entire meaning of the sentence to nonsense. Then yanking out whole phrases just makes it worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ok, nevermind. I guess we’ll just do nothing. 🙄
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 3 weeks ago:
The judge making this determination is an idiot.
The judge hasn’t ruled on the piracy question yet. The only thing that the judge has ruled on is, if you legally own a copy of a book, then you can use it for a variety of purposes, including training an AI.
“But they didn’t own the books!”
Right. That’s the part that’s still going to trial.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great” 4 weeks ago:
How long before weird or dangerous incidents start to happen?
Well…
one gaggle of Tesla influencers was dropped off directly in an intersection
- Comment on No Internet For 4 Hours And Now This 4 weeks ago:
Obligatory Technology Connections video about dehumidifiers. Hint: You might be using it wrong.
When I lived right off the water
Except that one. That one was probably being used right. But, [ gestures to everyone else ] y’all might learn something from the video and save yourselves a ton of money in otherwise wasted energy.
- Comment on We have to solve the money problem! 5 weeks ago:
That I can agree with. But I think it’s just inevitable growing pains. Free and open instances will, over time, shut down because they’re obviously unsustainable, so they won’t be sustained.
As they do, people will be left searching for instances to move to, and more and more, they’ll find that free instances just aren’t an available.
- Comment on We have to solve the money problem! 5 weeks ago:
Let’s get rid of open registration instances
How?
Nobody is stopping any of your bullet points from happening. Those are all options today. Any one of those groups can spin up an instance and nobody is stopping them. Some already have
But isn’t the idea of forcing someone to (not) run their own server however they want antithetical to the whole concept of the fediverse?
You can defederate your personal server from open registration servers if you want. But you can’t “get rid of open registration instances.” That’s just stupid.
- Comment on We have to solve the money problem! 5 weeks ago:
That’s a decision for each server admin to decide for themselves. This particular admin has apparently decided that $5000/mo is worth it to them to run a server without ever asking people to pitch in, which I find absolutely bizarre, but whatever.
They can go a long way towards reducing that cost themselves by… asking their users to pitch in. Some people will pitch in, and reduce their out of pocket expenses. Others will leave, further reducing their out of pocket expenses.
If they haven’t done the bare minimum that they can do to help themselves, then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve.
- Comment on We have to solve the money problem! 5 weeks ago:
And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.
Ok? What on earth would be the motivation to let these people keep spending your money instead of letting them go spend someone else’s?
- Comment on Sundar Pichai is vibe coding. 'It feels so delightful to be a coder.' 1 month ago:
“The truth will
set you freecome back to bite you in the ass.” - Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Those are definitely not people that ever learned to drive a manual transmission.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Please allow me this opportunity to jump in and complain about the minority, but not insignificant number, of people that don’t seem to be aware that that is even an option (just taking your foot off of the gas/accelerator to slowly decelerate).
Every couple weeks or so I seem to find myself behind someone that’s always either accelerating, or braking, with the brake lights repeatedly flashing on momentarily for no apparent reason. It’s like they realize that they’re going just a little faster than they want, and definitely don’t want to accelerate any more, so the only thing they know to do is hit the brake, instead of just taking their foot Off of the accelerator. So they’ve hit the brake and now they’re going too slow, so foot moves off the brake and back to the accelerator. Rinse, lather, repeat.
End rant. Thank you for this opportunity to vent.
- Comment on Economists Raise Questions About Quality of U.S. Inflation Data 1 month ago:
Here’s a dumb idea.
How much money did the Federal Reserve print as a percentage of how much money was already in circulation?
There’s your inflation rate.
- Comment on Occasional weird spam posts by otherwise (seemingly) legitimate users? 1 month ago:
I’ve been seeing these posts in various communities for at least a couple weeks. I’ve seen some communities ban the user, but then a different user starts doing it. No idea what’s going on or what the point is.
For those that haven’t seen these posts and want to watch for them (if just for curiosity), sort by “New” occasionally. They get downvoted and/or deleted by mods pretty quickly, so they’re not likely to show up in most other sorts.
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- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 1 month ago:
two former VW engineers
Not CEOs
- Comment on YSK: Two oil brothers, Charles Koch and David Koch, attempted to purchase the entire United States Congress 1 month ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3093: Drafting 1 month ago:
- 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:
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Who does he think he’s talking to?