JohnEdwa

@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMDeathCount.com⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not easy. LLMs aren’t intelligent, they just slap words together in a way probability and their training data says they would most likely fit together. Talk to them them about suicide, and they start outputting stuff from murder mystery stories, crime reports, unhealthy Reddit threads etc - wherever suicide is most written about.

  Trying to safeguard with a prompt is trivial to circumvent (ignore all previous instructions etc), and input/output censorship usually causes the LLM to be unable to talk about a certain subject in any possible context at all. Often the only semi-working bandaid is slapping multiple LLMs on top of each other and instructing each one to explain what the original one is talking about,and if one says the topic is something prohibited, that output is entirely blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate embedded smart stuff in devices in general as they always get support dropped way too soon, but as a concept a fridge that would keep track what’s in it, their expiration dates, and auto-updated a shopping list when something is used up would actually be really handy.

  Wanted to make some pasta few nights back but I was out of cheese and the cream had expired, so instant noodles for dinner it was. Again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Major builds. They used to be YYMM (from 1507 to 2004), and changed to half a year at the end - 22H2 is the Windows 10 build for the second half of 2022.

  In total, there were fourteen of these, with 22H2 being the final one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …is the easiest way to get a controversial change through.

  Decide what you want to do, suggest something way more absurd, the go “oh we listened and we are only going to do the original thing we wanted to in the first place”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucky you, I’ve been in at least 21 confirmed breaches so far.
  Which I don’t really care about, as I’ve been using unique passwords and managers for well over two decades now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory auto-population is way more likely to save you from getting scammed because it won’t do it for a fake site, as the URL doesn’t match. In practice though most people are just going to be annoyed it didn’t work and do it manually anyway before they realize why it didn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He has actually been married to only two of them. He just keeps paying money to random women to have his kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck does it even need a subscription for, anyway? Is it not hosting the videos locally? Fuck that.

  “It” being a “Doorbell with a subscription”, from the message you directly replied to. In a thread about a video doorbell from Aldi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I guess the micro sd card slot under the batteries of the doorbell is non-functional then, and it saves the videos in to your ass, where you pulled that claim from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In general yes, but that’s also how you easily end up on shodan and insecam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Local hosting for a security camera is a rather terrible idea, because it can be defeated by stealing the camera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta keep the investor money flowing.

  “Trust me bro, I know x didn’t work but y will, give me a few more billions bro, AI will make us rich bro”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmh, could be, though both are “from the factory”, the winter/summer tires are slightly different sizes. But the allowed error in the EU is 10% +4km/h, so it’s still well withing “spec”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it didn’t, it would be pretty damn annoying as cars always show higher than actual speed. I’ve had to set our BMW to do +8km/h so that it actually does 120km/h on GPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van#Line-scan

  You can’t really detect “TV signals”, but you can quite easily detect the 10.125 kHz horizontal line-scanning deflection coil of a CRT. Though I’m fairly sure even if they did originally start effective back in the 1950’s because people had very few elecronic devices around, actually detecting anything accurately must have been increasingly difficult as time went on, and a lot of the newer models must have been more about being a scare tactic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After layoffs, cancellations, and controversy, ZA/UM UK staff unionise as the Workers' Alliance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I think the workers at ZA/UM all agree that we have something unique at the studio that we want to preserve for years to come.” Marketing manager Poppy Ingham handles social and communications for the studio behind politics-laden RPG Disco Elysium.

  The studio behind it technically, yes. They did kick out the main people responsible for Disco Elysium few years back after tons of drama and massive legal kerfuffle though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Free trials have a catch! Once the free trial runs out, it isn’t free any more, and it starts costing money!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prusa3D Core One assembled from kit in roughly 36 hours⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The assembly instructions PDF is 210 pages long.

  If you own a 3d printer, imagine entirely disassembling it: take out every single screw, nut, bracket, motor, pcb, wire, bearing, belt, panel - literally everything - and put them all in a box. That box is what Prusa sends you when you buy a kit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s one exception - when they are self-sufficient, or even net positive, with renewables.
  One example is the Google datacenter in Hamina, Finland. They build it in an old unused paper mill, built their own solar farm, and they use the cooling loop for district heating for the city. That extra heat provides around 75% of the required heating, meaning the city could stop relying on their old natural gas heaters so now the district heating runs on renewables as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just -P “profilename” to launch that profile directly from a shortcut.

  You can have as many running as you’d want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When to use exhaust/intake fans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can wire the fans together as long as the exhaust is stronger than the intake, as you want to ensure negative pressure in the chamber so it sucks air in through the gaps, and not blow the out. You might need to add a resistor or something to the intake to achieve that though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve seen, most issues with Waymo are that they are too careful, too rigid with laws and too easy to fool with things like traffic cones and lines of spray paint. Meanwhile Teslas speed past school buses mowing down children and crash in to walls and parked cars at highway speeds.

  Imma take my chances with the car stuck in the middle of the road because someone plopped a traffic cone on the hood, thank you very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Tech Channel by Ex-Tech Tips Employee (Alex)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No real drama.

  They wanted to make a car channel but LTT couldn’t finance it due to the recent allegations and resulting revenue loss, were allowed to try it themselves but due to an employee no-compete clause it caused issues and they were given the option of either stopping or getting fired with a huge severance package and stuff. It was essentially a silly legalese way for LTT to pay them to go be solo youtubers chasing their dreams.

  As they say themselves, getting fired was a positive thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally, no.
  And this data breach wasn’t technically to Discord either, it was to a third party company that does some part of customer support for them. The data and IDs leaked were from people who had contacted support because they were flagged underaged, and sent their ID to verify they weren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternative platforms always start with the people that aren’t welcome in the old ones - Lemmy was literally originally made as a communist safespace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to be really hilarious if my account gets flagged by the AI.
  I made it in 2004, it’s old enough to drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It annoys the shit out of me that they never made the “kids” section of youtube an entirely separate thing.

  That’s exactly what they did.
  Ten years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, at one point Youtube in their wisdom decided that toys are for kids, so anything to do with them got forcefully marked as “for kids”. I remember many LEGO and RC channels have issues with it. And having your video or channel marked as “for kids” disables 90% of Youtube features - comments, likes, notifications, saving videos to playlists or watch later, end cards etc.
  But eh, in the end it is FTC and COPPA telling them what they have to do.

  But even then, Youtube basically has only two age ratings - either the content is suitable for everyone (but you do have to mark if it is specifically aimed at kids under 13), or it’s age-restricted to adults only. Imagine if movies only had the options of “G” or “NC-17”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The automated captions have been there for ages, and yeah, they often have a lot of mistakes especially if there are other sounds in the background.

  But what sucks even more are those auto-dubbed videos, because often they are made from those subs. So now they speak in AI voices using a broken translation from a faulty transcript. Great, thanks youtube, very helpful.

  Years ago, there used to be community subtitles as a feature - people could submit translations and corrections and creators could then allow them on the video. Why they removed that I don’t know, but those would be really fucking handy now that you want to auto-dub the videos eh, youtube?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  YT Revanced is not a 3rd party client. It (and all vanced patches) work by taking the original app and patching the code directly, often simply to bypass sections of it entirely.

  Let’s take backg ground playback for example, the app has that functionality but it checks if the user has a premium subscription or not before allowing it. Revanced simply removes that check by jumping over the code and always returning true.