balder1991
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- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 2 days ago:
Possibly preventing being locked out of the EU.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 days ago:
In this particular case the RAM is part of the chip as an attempt to squeeze more performance. Nowadays, processors have become too fast but it’s useless if the rest of the components don’t catch up. The traditional memory architecture has become a bottleneck the same way HHDs were before the introduction of SSDs.
You’ll see this same trend extend to Windows laptops as they shift to Snapdragon processors too.
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 5 days ago:
I don’t currently use a VPN but my impression is that nowadays I’d be greeted with captchas everywhere, is that wrong?
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 5 days ago:
The creator is already compensated as of now. They earn more if a premium user watches their video than a free user with YouTube ads.
So the sponsor is giving them more money regardless of whether the user is premium or not.
- Comment on OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content 5 days ago:
It’s just how machine learning has been since ever.
We only know the model’s behavior by testing, hence we only know more or less the behavior in relation to the amount of testing that was done. But the model internals has always been a black box of numbers that individually mean nothing and if tracked which neurons fire here and there it’ll appear just random, because it probably is.
Remember the machine learning models aren’t carefully designed, they’re just brute-force trained for a long time and have the numbers adjusted again and again whenever the results look closer or further away from the desired output.
- Comment on Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds 5 days ago:
Doing that would require significantly more compute power, so there’s little economic incentive.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 1 month ago:
I don’t think this will affect StackOverflow website though? The blog implies that ChatGPT will use StackOverflow API to use as a knowledge source (and probably be paid for it).
OpenAI and Stack Overflow are coming together via OverflowAPI access to provide OpenAI users and customers with the accurate and vetted data foundation that AI tools need to quickly find a solution to a problem […]. OpenAI will also surface validated technical knowledge from Stack Overflow directly into ChatGPT, giving users easy access to trusted, attributed, accurate, and highly technical knowledge and code backed by the millions of developers that have contributed to the Stack Overflow platform for 15 years.
This seems to be exactly to prevent hallucinations when there’s a good vetted answer already.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 1 month ago:
Yeah maybe SO should have this kind of warning when you’re writing your problem or question, or maybe it does already (it’s been a long time I posted a question myself).
In any case, it is an interesting case about a tricky social problem to solve. I used to listen to the SO podcast many years ago, and they always had multiple problems to deal with. One of them was to show the experts good questions, because beginner questions really turn off the experienced people and too much of that would drive them off the website, and at the same time beginners don’t have the habit of searching duplicates etc. so it’s common to spam the website with duplicate.
At some point they also restricted questions about opinions, because they lead to never ending threads with no objective answers. I’m sure they had a reason for that based on SO history, so the baggage if restrictions start increasing for newcomers to understand the rules. It’s tricky to balance the needs of power users and casual users because they’re often conflicting.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s awkward, it’s kinda necessary.
The people who are answering questions there are doing for the ideal to have a knowledge repository. No one is helping you because they think you and your specific problem are so important to demand their time.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 1 month ago:
Ironically, without an ad blocker it’s hard to read the Android Police blog.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 1 month ago:
Yeah, the best way out of it is to get a few of the most recommended ones and test by yourself.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 1 month ago:
I’m not entirely sure because I’m not very knowledgeable about CPUs, but it seems this is a problem with ARM architectures snd their lack of standardization, isn’t it?
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 1 month ago:
A month ago I decided to paint a new door that was placed at home. It felt like a chore to me, even though I was satisfied with it at the end.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 1 month ago:
Not counting the “projects patterns” that would be invented because some manager thinks it’ll be cheaper and machines taking the fun part, leaving you to do the boring or frustrating part.
- Comment on Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook 1 month ago:
Well, at least in Brazil Meta has been very okay with following judicial orders and prevent anything that could get them ij trouble. Telegram is the one recently covering up Nazi groups and school shooters here.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think most people don’t realize how little money online ads make. Companies resort to it because people won’t pay for every little thing they use, but it’s not a lucrative endeavor. Reason why so many newspapers are shutting down and companies getting desperate after the VC money ran out.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Except that if Windows 11 market share is bad, Linux on the desktop is even worse.
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 2 months ago:
This is actually good. There’s finally more room for good services offered by smaller companies that care about users.
- Comment on Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images 2 months ago:
I suppose the AI images submitted are done so because they turned out good, so there’s still a human selection process there. It’s not as bad at automatically feeding random generated images into the training.
- Comment on Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images 2 months ago:
Data augmentation is a thing since a long time, but of course if the majority of your data is synthetic your model will suck on real world data. Though as these generative models get better and better at mimicking real world data and we select the results we want to use (removing the nonsense and hallucinations), we’re still feeding it “more data”.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see what effect it’ll produce on the future models.
- Comment on Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images 2 months ago:
Time to save the models we have now, cause they’ll never the quite the same.
- Comment on CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 5 months ago:
Shareholders: we can have the same profit without a CEO!
- Comment on CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 5 months ago:
This is only true if you ignore all the other variables. Which is, let’s say, another company hiring writers and now they’ll grow their market share in comparison with the shitty AI articles company.
Amazon has a lot of competition in Brazil and the more they make their service worse, the better for the competition. But so far Amazon only raised the bar (with fast deliveries), making all other companies try to catch up.
- Comment on Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language 6 months ago:
Not only did the AI predict elements of whale vocalizations already thought to be meaningful, such as clicks, but it also singled out acoustic properties.
This is an amazing use of machine learning models.
- Comment on More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking the trend seen on most other social media sites 7 months ago:
Whatever form of entertainment you want to see. TikTok algorithm quickly adjust the algorithm to show you what you like or don’t skip instantly, and it’s very good at it.
The problem is it’s all superficial content that will banish from your mind 3s later, so 2h scrolling on TikTok of Reels feel like 2 blank hours from your day.
- Comment on Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive 7 months ago:
If more people joined Lemmy you’d see the amount of spam this place would get. Now it’s only a bunch of nerds who will quickly report any spammy activity. It’s a small “friendly” community for now.
- Comment on Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive 7 months ago:
Right? People simply expect someone else to pay the bills.
- Comment on The ASUS Eee PC and the netbook revolution 7 months ago:
I think we only liked them as enthusiasts, but for the general public (say a student) they were very bad because being cheap meant they had crappy hardware just like modern Chromebooks. In fact, I’ve been interested in having a Chromebook lately that could run Android apps, but quickly realized a good one is as expensive as a good laptop in Brazil.
- Comment on 4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones 8 months ago:
Yeah… It’s a tool of capitalism. Nothing you said is a positive reason for the increased ownership of a device that delivers sorrow and does little to enrich a person’s life.
It is simply a tool. A large percentage of people have benefits from owning a pocket computer with access to the internet, and this is immediately obvious to everyone.
- Comment on 4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones 8 months ago:
All societies changed because of computers and smartphones. Lots of people forget that especially for poor people smartphones brought so much benefits that were not accessible before, such as online banking (not needing to go to a bank branch), being in touch with family even when moving away for work, much more access to information (despite the low barrier of disinformation nowadays), online courses, healthcare tips etc.