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- Comment on Dull Men's Club: a place to share your dull life experiences. 1 day ago:
Posting in there would ruin it.
- Comment on STOP 2 weeks ago:
It’s gonna be really good
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 3 weeks ago:
But it gets the spirit right
/s
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 3 weeks ago:
Some examples
In this example, the speaker said, “as the um, the, her father dies not too long after he remarried….” while the program transcribes that as " It’s fine. It’s just too sensitive to tell. She does die at 65….”
In this example, the speaker said, “and after she got the telephone he began to pray” while the program transcribes that as “I feel like I’m going to fall. I feel like I’m going to fall, I feel like I’m going to fall….”
- Comment on Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companies 3 weeks ago:
If there were any doubts that this image was supposed to reference the Blade Runner movie, the lawsuit said, Musk “erased them” by directly referencing the movie in his comments.
“You know, I love Blade Runner, but I don’t know if we want that future,” Musk said at the event. "I believe we want that duster he’s wearing, but not the, uh, not the bleak apocalypse.”
…
But producers argued that defense is “not credible” since Tesla explicitly asked to use the Blade Runner 2049 image, and there are “better” films in WBD’s library to promote Musk’s message, like the Mad Max movies.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
There’s also the stuff that “you get to know before it becomes news”, which also won’t be on Mastodon because it lacks the “gossipers” and the mass of users that is needed for having people “everywhere”
It’s not the gossipers, it’s a trending view. Mastodon doesn’t tell users about active conversations as they happen. That makes it really hard to get breaking news, because you need to be following someone who is posting about it AND you need to recognize that it’s breaking news.
Maybe that has improved in the year or two since I used Mastodon.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
Yep, same problem Lemmy has vs reddit. Only the nerdiest tech nerds got on here. Not many communities from reddit or just in general here. For example, I had to go back to reddit for a good sized general anime community.
I’ve had the same experience. I still post here because I want the platform to take off, but Lemmy doesn’t fulfill my needs.
- Comment on Google Will Pause Ads Related To Elections After Polls Close On November 5th. 3 weeks ago:
This will include … ads that refer to US elections, their processes or outcomes.
Google is expecting Trump and co to publicly contest the election. They’re trying to stop the ad platform from being used to spread election misinformation.
Props.
The headline does not make this clear at all.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
we’ve been seeing these “twitter’s in biiiiiiiiig trouble now!!” headlines for how many years now?
this time it’s for realsies.
yet people refuse to just delete it
Many journalists want to feel connected, and since many politicians have a presence on Twitter, they feel like they can’t. That means Twitter gets referenced way more than necessary in news stories, which feeds its popularity.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
The reasons mentioned in the article:
One reason is that it seemed tech-savvy users heavily dominated the platform, making it difficult for regular social media users to find their way and feel comfortable on the platform.
I think that’s saying the content tends to be very niche and it’s hard to find people with similar non-tech interests.
and
Users have described their timelines (and even the explore tab) as “stale” because there’s often not much interesting content to consume or engage with.
This lines up with my experience: it’s hard to find people with similar interests. Even when you do, people aren’t saying much of interest.
- Comment on Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims 1 month ago:
[citation needed]
- Comment on I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age. 1 month ago:
I tried this with Gemini. Regardless of the number of rs in a word (zero to 3), it said two.
- Comment on Every phone call you make with just the mic near your mouth and the speaker near your ear, you are having a conversational 69 where both of you are placing your mouths next to each other's ears. 1 month ago:
Gotta keep those waves away from their delicate grey matter.
That or their phone has shitty palm detection and will unwittingly treat their face as a touch if they hold it too close.
- Comment on Is Pixel 9 worth it? (instead of Pixel 8) 1 month ago:
Check the reviews. I have a Pixel 8 Pro, and it’s good. The battery is excellent - I can usually get two days out of it (without disabling anything).
- Comment on DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow 1 month ago:
Kinda surprising that this comment got downvotes on this video.
- Comment on DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow 1 month ago:
His ideas aren’t monetizable. They’re a throwback to the golden age when tools and utilities were built for passion or need.
Now, tooling is built by for-profit corporations. It satisfies users enough that there isn’t enough room for passion projects. For-profit tooling tends to get usability right.
Look at the fediverse: it’s a workable system that users would be fine with, if more usable for-profit alternatives didn’t exist.
- Comment on [rant] I want computers to become personal again 1 month ago:
Counterpoint: before Gmail, I ran my own mail server and futzed with Mutt for a perfect email experience. It was a frustrating time sink.
Gmail came out and I now get a better end-user experience with virtually no cost of ownership. I’m comfortable with the ad-supported model. I’d prefer a low monthly fee, but not so much that it’s worth moving to Proton. Eventually, maybe I will.
I get this take, but it isn’t for me.
Now you would likely be fired if you refused to use Teams or Slack or whatever your company uses.
Why would I refuse? It’s company software running on company hardware. It isn’t my problem what the ToS is.
- Comment on [rant] I want computers to become personal again 1 month ago:
I’m not sure it’s devil’s advocate: I work with computers for 40 hours a week. There’s no way that I want to put any effort into a computer in my personal time
- Comment on Telegram has become a key tool for the Russian military. Why does Moscow continue to rely on a Dubai-based civilian messaging app? 2 months ago:
How do you market an encryption platform exclusively to criminals?
Apparently through word of mouth and suggestions by undercover agents.
innocents that downloaded this as a secure messaging system
The app wasn’t made available for download. The FBI bought a few thousand Pixels, flashed a custom ROM onto them, and then installed the messaging apps. In theory they cost thousands of dollars to buy.
It’s entirely possible some innocents used the system, but it’s unclear how selling rooted hardware to alleged criminals would induce them to commit crime.
- Comment on Telegram has become a key tool for the Russian military. Why does Moscow continue to rely on a Dubai-based civilian messaging app? 2 months ago:
Entrapment techniques like that make me sick.
What was the entrapment? The FBI sold phones to suspected criminals and monitored the conversations, didn’t they?
- Comment on Not a bad guess... 2 months ago:
I straight up do not want to see this movie.
- Comment on New Key Visual for ‘Terminator Zero’ 2 months ago:
Expectations are low, but hope is high.
- Comment on Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs? 2 months ago:
I have vivid memories of sitting through the copyright banner/FBI warning, waiting for the janky menu to load, trying to figure out which button had focus, starting the movie, sitting through ads for movies that came out years ago, and then the movie would play.
Maybe my memory isn’t accurate, but I don’t miss DVD menus.
- Comment on Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs? 2 months ago:
I feel the same way. I like the streaming/VCR experience of hitting play and seeing the media. Those old DVD menus that wanted me to mess with extras sucked.
- Comment on Lemmy shitpost rolls into the club 2 months ago:
They see me bowlin’
They hatin’
- Comment on Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber 2 months ago:
There are so many great reasons to hate on Disney. This one is so incredibly over the top.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 3 months ago:
Considering the lawsuits, now seems like a good time.
- Comment on hahaha shit 3 months ago:
I thought the whole deal with PhDs was that they were supposed to be new research that pushes the field forward. What field were you studying? What was the academic contribution the prof was expecting?
- Comment on Canadian Athlete Caught Using Performance Enhancer 3 months ago:
By Canada’s national broadcaster, no less!
- Comment on Sign of the times? 3 months ago:
Make sure you use food safe filament! You wouldn’t want to get cancer.