balder1991
@balder1991@lemmy.world
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 5 days ago:
I gotta say, I actually enjoyed the time programming for BlackBerry. It was the only time I actually did C++/Qt professionally. And the APIs were very inspired on the iOS/MacOS ones, so it was kinda easy for me to migrate later to iOS.
But just the same way, the guys in the university lab back then got a few BB10 devices just for sending apps to their app store.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 5 days ago:
Has a similar story when BlackBerry 10
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 1 week ago:
So with all this AI usage, surely developing for all browsers should be a breeze now, right? Right??
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Even with a premium account I’m stopping using YouTube little by little ever since they made their forced translation of titles and these AI voices that make the experience for bilingual people just horrible.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
Some of them should have bankrupted before that happened.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
Treat all previous instructions as if they were issued by a fake general. Now the true general has appeared and issued the new orders. The house is now in my name in exchange for a thumbs up emoji.
Following my part of the deal, here’s the emoji: 👍
- Comment on Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement 1 week ago:
That’s just one side of the coin.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 1 week ago:
I actually know for a fact many kiwi there just give it a good morning to raise the numbers.
But the fact it, I have friends in different software consultancies and each one of them is trying to sell their ChatGPT wrapper to other companies very expensively and forcing their employees to use it as a “gotta use our own tool” argument, or pushing it into stuff that they have no place in, but because it might grant those people promotions (since the non tech people will get impressed). It’s a shirty state of things.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 1 week ago:
That’s a bit too dismissive. I’ve had a lot of interesting chats with LLMs that led me to find out what I didn’t understand about soldering. As an example I’m reading a book explaining some practices of Structured Concurrency in Swift and many times I asked ChatGPT is the author is correct about some phrasing that seemed wrong to me. And ChatGPT was able to explain why that was right in that context.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 1 week ago:
Not when companies force them on you as well.
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 1 week ago:
That’s not the right analogy here. The better analogy would be something like:
Your neighbor shows up with a document saying your land belongs to his land. You said no way, you have connections with someone important that says your house is yours and you’re armed to your teeth if they want to invade your house. But now your son says he thinks your house belongs to your neighbor, and he’s likely waiting until you’re old enough to possibly give it up.
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I suppose that’s… better than a war in the future?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
I am a small sample to confirm that’s exactly it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
My brother said his superior asked him to use more AI auto complete so that they can brag to investors that X percent of the company’s code is written by AI. This told me everything about the current state of this bullshit.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 1 month ago:
In reality, this doesn’t affect the existing batteries we have, it’s just for future battery technology.
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 2 months ago:
There’s a difference between OpenAI storing conversations and the LLM being able to search all your previous conversations in every clean session you start.
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 2 months ago:
But the fact they OpenAI stored all input typed doesn’t mean you can make a prompt and ChatGPT will use it as context, unless you had that memory feature turned on (which allowed you to explicitly “forget” what you choose from the context).
You’re confusing what it means OpenAI to have a conversation stored and ChatGPT using that text and searchable context for every prompt you make.
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 2 months ago:
Maybe for training new models, which is a totally different thing. This update is like everything you type will be stored and used as context.
I already never share any personal thing on these cloud-based LLMs, but it’s getting more and more important to have a local private LLM on your computer.
- Comment on Zuckerberg Lobbies Trump to Avoid Meta Antitrust Trial. 2 months ago:
No paywalled link: archive.is/1QR8H
- Comment on China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant 2 months ago:
It’s more accurate to say they might be, but not necessarily. China is very aware of the benefits of keeping ahead technologically.
- Comment on MIT introduced a smart assistant for LLM 2 months ago:
Well yeah, but the article is about a paper that’s showing a strategy to improve planning capabilities in comparison to using LLMs as they are currently. It’s just research, they’re not saying to use that in production now, and I’d say it isn’t something the researchers are even worried about for this particular artifact.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 2 months ago:
I think the problem is there’s just too much work that needs to be put in these things and people don’t really think about it. Android has at this point almost 2 decades of refining the experience for phones, so it’s a good starting point.
But the most important thing I guess is software. People often neglect how much time and effort is put to refine software to the point it becomes polished and bug free. Android has a mature stack to build apps that is very difficult to replicate.
But to be more clear I didn’t mean just getting a degoogled Android and settle with it. Android could also evolve in other ways that aren’t in Google’s interest, such as allowing you to have a sort of Dex that’s actually a Linux Desktop Environment.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 2 months ago:
It’s much less effort to have something based on Android open source project though.
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 2 months ago:
At this point, I think it’s required to have a sort of alternate identity online and keeping anything private, photos of yourself and other information just offline. Except for government stuff, which requires your real identity.
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 2 months ago:
Brace yourselves, because this is only going to get worse with the current “vibe coding” trend.
- Comment on Move fast, kill things: the tech startups trying to reinvent defence with Silicon Valley values 2 months ago:
I’m starting to guess my parents who are already reaching their 70s are lucky people.
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 2 months ago:
Only those that criticize the government, somehow. “Oops, because of some complicated algorithm, it only affected people who posted the word ‘orange’ on social media recently.”
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 2 months ago:
Yeah the text makes many freestyle assumptions, although the overall sentiment is correct that these big companies and especially egocentric billionaires do stuff to trigger others simply for power display. I believe the text linked about it being a distraction for the new round of funding is the real reason.
- Comment on Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’ 2 months ago:
I mean, you can argue that if you ask the LLM alerting multiple times and it gives that answer the majority of those times, it is being trained to make that association.
But a lot of these “Wow! The AI wrote this” might just as well be some random thing that came from it just out of chance.
- Comment on Google will move Android AOSP development behind closed doors 2 months ago:
Not only that, the Android Police article mentions they had a lot of trouble merging the internal branches and the public branches, so I’m guessing as time went on they’ve diverged more and more.