dantheclamman
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- Comment on Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China's EVs - CleanTechnica 22 minutes ago:
It was crazy visiting China last year. The EVs that everyday people are driving feel so polished and futuristic in many ways.
- Comment on What the heck is wrong with my succulent? 24 minutes ago:
The leaves look like they’re shriveling. I also see some aerial roots. That could either be a sign of not enough water, or too much, leading to the roots dying and the plant dropping leaves out of stress. I would gradually expose it to more light as well as it looks etiolated. So I would put it in a full sized real pot with good drainage so that it has a nice, regular amount of water delivery, and the greater light will ensure it can use that water adequately (and not get root rot)
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 3 weeks ago:
Yep, it lives up to the best of what immersive sims set out to be. You have point A, point B, and a million ways that you can go about getting from A to B
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 3 weeks ago:
To me, Ctrl Alt Ego is not well known enough. It is an immersive sim in the style of Prey. You play as a robot roaming a station, where your Ego (like a spirit) can pass into and control all sorts of objects to solve puzzles, evade or kill enemise. The graphics aren’t impressive (it was made by a 2-person team) but the gameplay is so interesting and the story is surprisingly compelling and funny!
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
If they did that, anyone could spin up an instance and start just fabricating votes and there’d be no way to know
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
I think part of the motive is to make brigading harder (show if users or bots are colluding to vote things up or down)
- Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 1 month ago:
It’s a tease for shareholders desperate for more and more elaborate ways to squeeze a few more cents per user
- Comment on What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲) 1 month ago:
I have to set literally everything up again on a new microSD for my Pi because the apt-get repositories no longer support the Raspbian version I’m on. I’m not mad; good for security to update, but I don’t have half a day free anytime soon for it.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 1 month ago:
I think it probably breaks even and fits with their strategy to abuse everyone until they pay for premium
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 1 month ago:
Haven’t had to email a file to myself since I set up syncthing
- Google.com pages found to have access to hidden Chrome API allowing hardware info such as CPU usage to be viewedsimonwillison.net ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 2 months ago:
They’re thinking quarterly. Improves OneDrive usage stats. They can also then coerce customers later by saying they’re running out of storage. I’m sure some users will pay, thinking they’re about to lose family photos and other important data
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 4 months ago:
That’s the rationale Google uses. “We’re the best, that’s why users pick us.” They built a moat of investment in search and the browser that other companies can’t compete with. But as a 5 am not willing to accept that argument. Ma Bell claimed the same thing. We’re a lot better off economically in a world where Ma Bell was broken up and Microsoft was forced to stop their anticompetitive activities. Google will be better off as separate companies, worth more than the sum of its parts
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 4 months ago:
If there were multiple sources of traffic, the pressure to optimize to one source would be lower, and the disruption caused by algorithm changes would be muted. Which would mean more interesting content less driven by a narrow set of metrics
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 4 months ago:
It’s an example of why monopolies are harmful. They create distorted economies that don’t serve consumers. Like ecosystems overcome by a monoculture, monopolies are inherently less resilient, less functional and prone to sudden disruption.
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- Comment on cancel culture has gone too far 5 months ago:
Same with leaded gas: it is a wonderful fuel additive; very effective and engines ran so well as they covered the world with lead microparticles. And CFCs: a really great refrigerant but it just also loves reacting with stratospheric ozone! Oddly enough, both commercialized by the same very evil man en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 5 months ago:
I feel conflicted about the whole thing. Technically it’s a model. I don’t feel that people should be able to sue me as a scientist for making a model based on publicly available data. I myself am merely trying to use the model itself to explain stuff about the world. But OpenAI are also selling access to the outputs of the model, that can very closely approximate the intellectual property of people. Also, most of the training data was accessed via scraping and other gray market methods that were often explicitly violating the TOU of the various places they scraped from. So it all is very difficult to sort through ethically.
- Comment on Fucking finally! 6 months ago:
I know time is relative but that’s going a bit too far
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 6 months ago:
it will be the start of the age of the insecure Windows 10 desktop
- Comment on Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek 6 months ago:
Frankly he looks like he’s thriving. I’m happy for him
- Comment on Vudu’s name is changing to “Fandango at Home” 6 months ago:
Wow, I had no idea of that feature!
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- Comment on India may block Proton Mail 6 months ago:
Yes, privacy and encryption are always the enemy of authoritarians. They enable dissent
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- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 7 months ago:
Was it It Takes A Thief? I remember that show; it was actually pretty interesting
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 7 months ago:
It’s not about profit. It’s about being compensated for one’s hard work which was appropriated without permission by giant corporations
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 7 months ago:
I have a long-running blog for fun, so you’re preaching to the choir. But some things can’t replace a dedicated journalist, particularly at local level, sitting in city council meetings, chasing leads, and interviewing people.
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 7 months ago:
We are barreling towards this issue. StackOverflow for example has crashing viewer numbers. But an AI isn’t going to help users navigate and figure out a new python library for example, without data to train on. I’ve already had AIs straight up hallucinate about functions in R that actually don’t exist. It seems to happen primarily in the newer libraries, probably with fewer posts on stackexchange about them