JohnEdwa
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 1 day ago:
adding a query parameter
udm=14to the url of your Google searchesIt’s also the same as selecting “Web” from the bar that has images, video, maps etc.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog 3 days ago:
The current ad-supported basic Kindle is $109 USD, which is just $12 more expensive than it was back in 2012, adjusted for inflation ($70 in 2012 would be $97 today).
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 week ago:
If it’s your personal info, you can ask for it here.
If it’s your own website you want delisted, that’s here.Now do the same for bing, ddg, startpage, yandex, yahoo, kagi, barive, ask, ecosia etc etc…
- Comment on Elon Musk's X temporarily down for tens of thousands of users 1 week ago:
Any symbol they would have chosen would have ended up as the Nazi symbol. Just like the name Hitler or that specific mustache style.
But the swastika specifically ending as the Nazi symbol you can mostly thank to Heinrich Schliemann and Émile-Louis Burnouf finding swastika adorned pottery at a Troy excavation in the 1870’s, and declaring them to be the ancient symbols of the Aryans.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 2 weeks ago:
They fold. So apparently they are - at least supposed to be - durable enough.
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 2 weeks ago:
They’ve technically had autopilots for over a century, the first one was the oil tanker J.A Moffett in 1920. Though the main purpose of it is to keep the vessel going dead straight as otherwise wind and currents turn it, so using modern car terms I think it would be more accurate to say they have lane assist? Commercial ones can often do waypoint navigation, following a set route on a map, but I don’t think that’s very common on personal vessels.
- Comment on Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark 2 weeks ago:
Phone cameras have very good IR filters. They aren’t perfect which is why they can still see the LEDs, but they aren’t anywhere near as bright.
I have an old RasPi camera with the IR filter removed, a remote control looks like someone used an old-school camera flash in pitch darkness. Which is how you can control your TV sometimes even from the next room over - especially at night with no ir from the sun - shine the remote at the wall, and the wall blinks bright enough for the TV to see it, often even after a few reflections.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 2 weeks ago:
And this is why the UK has separated hot and cold water taps.
Your hot water used to come from a rainwater tank on the roof, and it was illegal to pipe it to a mixing faucet because if something went wrong with the cold water site it could pull undrinkable hot water from these tanks and faucets and contaminate all the drinking water. - Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 weeks ago:
Blocking all 3rd party cookies tends to break quite a few things, as websites often use different domains to handle things like logins.
I’ve found addons like Cookie Autodelete to be a more functional option, it allows those cookies to exist until I close the tab, and if the domain isn’t on a whitelist, they get deleted five minutes later. And it works for first party cookies too.
It does take a while to build that whitelist, and sometimes you forget to set it and wipe something you’d rather have kept. - Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 weeks ago:
You do not need to ask for consent to use functional cookies, only for ones that are used for tracking. Most websites could strip out all of the 3rd party spyware and by doing so get rid of the popup entirely.
They’ll never do it because money, obviously. - Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
That’s the benefit of using AI and machine learning - once you have enough source material, you can throw it all in and it’ll eventually spit out a model.
Which is exactly what Meta did with their Massively Multilingual Speech project which supports text -to-speech and speech-to-text for 1107 different languages.Is it actually any good in 99% of them, I don’t have a clue, but it exists.
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 3 weeks ago:
Maximum GDPR fine is 4% of your revenue. For Lufthansa, that would be ~$1.4 billion, Air France ~$650 million, which is roughly their entire net income for one year.
Not sure if anyone has been hit with the maximum ever though, as everyone just keeps track of the dollars and not percentage of revenue.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 3 weeks ago:
Fully driverless cars are not legally allowed yet - they all need to have a driver in the drivers seat supervising
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 3 weeks ago:
FSD (Supervised) is not for situations where there is no driver - it’s for situations where the driver wants to just supervise while the car drives itself.
The “(Supervised) Full Self Driving” isn’t for situations where the car is Full Self Driving, yes, because Tesla has no functionality that meets SAE level 3/4/5 requirements for Full Self Driving. If you must supervise the driving, then it’s not full self driving.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 4 weeks ago:
But still down 20% from the start of the year.
It’s not going to survive this high for long with the abysmal sales figures coming from the rest of the world, even if the Musk cult currently still keeps pretending everything is going great. - Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 4 weeks ago:
Supervised self driving would be fine. “Full self driving” means SAE level 4 or 5, which the Tesla autopilot isn’t, and they don’t need “supervised” in the name as they are specifically for a situations where there simply is no driver - like a robotaxi - so there can be no supervision.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 4 weeks ago:
The actual answer: It should be Level 4 autonomy. It is capable of full self driving, but only in certain conditions, and the driver still has to be ready to take over if something goes wrong.
Do note that Tesla autopilot is actually only SAE level 2, so it’s just a straight up lie :)
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
economies of scale
And competition. AFAIK, E Ink Corporation holds all the patents, so they can ask for as much as they want for the tech.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
The same as the M in ATM machine and N in PIN number, V in HIV virus and C in UPC code!
Oh, the dreaded RAS syndrome!.I’m off to read some DC comics.
- Comment on Prompt engineer : The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete 5 weeks ago:
They were paying people to try to make them answer the questions correctly because getting an LLM to do what you want it to was excruciatingly difficult just a few years back (and kinda still is).
Especially when what most companies want (factual, accurate, intelligent answers to difficult tasks or questions) is not something LLMs are actually made for (slapping words together using probability in a way that makes a reader to think it might have been written by a human).But yes. Professional google searcher, just from back in very early 2000’s when there were TV quiz shows about people being given a question and trying to find the answer as fast as possible. as it was an actual skill.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 1 month ago:
Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it’s used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.
Now, forget cutting off the internet, if you’d get the death penalty for getting caught pirating music, it would prove to be a very effective deterrent at stopping it. I guarantee, zero piracy after a few years.
A lot smaller population left to buy the legal media too, though, but hey, no pesky pirates! - Comment on The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AI 1 month ago:
Also AI isn’t only LLMs and image generation, it’s a massive field that’s been used in different things for decades. “No AI” would mean “back to snipping movies using practical effects together from spools of film”, as basically every CGI and editing software uses something “AI” in it these days.
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 1 month ago:
They do for the freedom of expression, as do most EU (and ex-EU) countries:
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
- Comment on CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun 1 month ago:
7.4 billion, which is around 0.7% of GDP. 0.66% of GNI.
For comparison, the US might win out on pure billions, but compared to the size of the economy, it uses a whopping 0.24% of the GNI on foreign aid, a figure that is almost certainly going to drop in the near future.
- Comment on CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun 1 month ago:
And why, for the love of god, does it have a separate numbering scheme?!
Because they want the ability to reference other vulnerability sources - like JVN - and not just CVE.
The EUVD service builds upon the CVE system and vulnerabilities in the scope of the CVE numbering service receive a CVE. In addition, the EUVD data aggregates and enriches the vulnerability information and lists an EUVD ID on top of the CVE when new vulnerability entries are created. To allow further cross referencing, the CVE identifier and additional vulnerability identifiers are listed when available. -https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/faq
And because, you know, standards.
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 1 month ago:
Yes. You have to bring up the power menu and then use either virtual keyboard commands or the AutoInput plugin to tap the reboot button.
- Comment on Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners 1 month ago:
That’s exactly it, he knows what it means - all. L5 is easy like that.
He’s delusional thinking that he could ever actually achieve that, but that’s why L5 is so much simpler of a concept than L4, as with L4 you can argue about semantics and details about what exactly it has to be able to do to qualify. Level 5 has no exceptions, it has to be completely autonomous with zero human interaction required other than telling it where you want to get to. If it can’t do it, it isn’t L5.
- Comment on Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners 1 month ago:
Level 5 is easy to understand even for musk, it’s a fully autonomous robot that requires no human supervision or intervention yet is capable of navigating every single possible traffic situation.
And as long as he insists that the only sensors a tesla has are cameras, that goal is simply impossible, with cars driving under semi-truck trailer and through walls with pictures of the road behind it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
snap "it’s illegal. "
-But… But nothing changed?
Since when has the Trump administration cared about following the law?
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 1 month ago:
In a few years most of the world won’t even be able to. It took Chinese cars decades to come to the worldwide and especially the EU market because nobody in China was developing and manufacturing cars that would pass western safety regulations.
If the only way for Tesla to stay competitive is to loosen the US regulations, they’ll end up with an ecosystem that can only be sold and used in the US. For example, the Cybertruck.
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