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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its uses are way more subtle than the hype, but even LLMs can have uses, occasionally. Specifically, I use one to categorize support tickets. It just has to pick from a list of probable categories. Nice and simple for it. Something humans can do just as easily, but when you have a history of 2 million tickets that need to be categorized, suddenly the LLM can do it when it would drive a human insane. I’m sure there are lots of little tasks like that. Nothing revolutionary, but still valuable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course everyone’s ears are different, but for me, my Jabras lock in. They aren’t going anywhere. They are designed to be twisted into place, causing a literal lock into your ear. I can force them out without touching them, but it takes work to do it, they aren’t falling out on their own, and if they start to come loose, I’ll know instantly because the seal is broke and I can hear that they aren’t settled in right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Opens Its AI Models for the (U.S.) Military⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs aren’t it, but AI, as in the computer science field, has been helping the medical industry since it has existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nag, if you are racking computers, and they don’t have built in lights out management, you open them up and connect remote triggers to the power button leads, allowing you to remotely start them if they get shut off. I’m sure lots of companies do have Mac farms for Mac and iOS development, but I doubt Apple give a crap one way or another about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful, some tech bro will take that and get a billion dollars in venture capital for “eScorts: Uber for hookers”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stockholm syndrome was made up by the media to discredit women who criticized them. It’s not a real thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another fun fact: On the backend, Teams uses SharePoint to store files, and Exchange to store message. The whole M365 stack is a house of cards built on ancient tech. It’s a wonder it works at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the genie is out of the bottle on this one. I can do voice cloning with consumer hardware and available models. That can’t be undone, but good legal protections would be nice.

  That said, the Johanson case is a bad example because it really didn’t sound much like her at all. It was a chipper yound white lady sound, but to my ear sounded nothing like Johanson. It did sound kinda like a character she voiced, but I would not gave confused the two. They cloned the voice of someone they paid to give a similar inflection as the voice from Her. That’s far removed from cloning Johanson herself. It is closer to people making music “in the style of”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just for a moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve experience it a few times in VR. For a few fleeting seconds, my world is the world being projected onto my eyes. It rarely lasts long, but it is mind bending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Submit Your Cool Site/Blogs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of StumbleUpon. An old way of sharing and finding content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JWST Has Spotted Six Rogue Planets, Without a Star to Call Home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, but I’m a big fan of cowboy and mafia planets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"REM sleep is the next AI"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, in the case of Ender’s Game, that was the point. Trick kids into thinking they were playing a game and they wouldn’t think twice about being as brutal as necessary to win. So if your goal is to have cars murder people, having people control them with their dreams is a pretty good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not diagreening with that. Although it could be useful, I often forget where I saved things, and something that let’s my search my worn history would be rad, but there’s zero chance this won’t be abused by a large list of people, including but not limited to Microsoft, spouses, bosses, malware, governments, every random application, Facebook, and Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shadow copy is a completely different thing. Shadow copy creates snapshots(used for version history, among other uses) of files. Recall is a screen recording software, that includes OCR and maybe some AI stuff. At this time, at least, it too is all local. It just isn’t secure in the least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generate images with self hosted models, or integrate it with art programs? Because yes to both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully this time NC’s gridscale battery factory wont go bankrupt when the Russian oligarchs founders take the money and run. charlotteobserver.com/…/article167970747.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for - The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got an ad like the a month ago, made me start looking at alternatives. I haven’t found one besides Apple TV that supports all the streaming services, is made for a TV, and doesn’t have worse ads. I could handle content ads for streaming services I didn’t have, but just straight TV commercials on my hopepage? Get fucked Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Financially? Yeah, AI is a bubble for sure. Gobs of money are being poured in with few results to show for it. That bubble will burst. But just like the dotcom bubble, that doesn’t mean the technology is useless or won’t change the world, just not instantly over night with a single investment, which is what the investment groups expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is interesting. That Windstream came to town about 15 years ago, buying the local phone company and almost instantly made the service worse. I did not know they went bankrupt, but it doesn’t surprise me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same thing happened with Windows 7 and XP. People will still with EOL 10 until their current machine dies. A few people might choose to explore other options, but for the average Joe not getting updates seems like a good thing, because the computer will stop rebooting over night or taking several mintss to boot post patch. Of course they don’t think about the security implications, but that is true about most people in most cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be done, but it makes a worse product. EVs are built to fit batteries and motors in the most optimal place. Likewise with ICE cars with engines and transmissions. What you end up doing is shoving batteries in the engine compartment which is shaped wrong and you significantly change the balance of the car. You leave much of the expensive parts of the ICE car, while adding more expensive parts. It just doesn’t work well in practice. If you are going to spend time engineering, it is better to engineer a proper EV than try to shoehorn an EV into a size 6.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was basically the plot of the later seasons of West World. Right down to the AI using Fiverr to get its work done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An FYI for Windows users, check out Everything for searching your harddrive. It is insanely fast. Like, search your entire harddrive in real time as you press the letters fast. Compared to the crap Windows has built in, it feels like magic, until you realize that searching a database at fast speeds has been a solved problem for decades and yet Microsoft still continues to struggle because they want to throw in every possible piece of metadata and contents every time you search when most people just want to type a name in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prusaslicer: Auto Arrange, You Have Literally One Job⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call it a shameless ripoff, it’s a fork. Which Prusaslicer was as well. I’m actually glad they did that rather than making yet another closed source slicer. That means that enhancements that Bambu puts in can very likely be ported over to Prusaslicer, and vice versa. It’s a win for everybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe's biggest 3D-printed building rises in just 140 hours⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are several companies doing 3D printed concrete. It generally is concrete, just formulated and mixed for being piped and coming out of a 4" nozzle. Ifyouu search YouTube you can find more detailed breakdowns, but the principles are the same as desktop FDM, just scaled way up. That said, don’t expect to be doing this in your backyard unless you have heavy equipment and large scale building tools laying around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨O365 email local cache⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  M365 is doing away with all legacy authentication, do not be surprised if IMAP is completely unusable in the next 12 months. If you simply want to keep a copy of everything, a store and forward SMTP proxy would probably be the solution, so all email going to your domain would hit that first, then send off to M365.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At that size they are certainly targeting enterprise and cloud servers. Cool that they are getting that big, but they probably cost as much as a house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CDPR has some interesting history. My understanding is that they got their start bootlegging games that couldn’t be got legally in their area, and transitioned to making games for their isolated market. GoG felt like a way to he true to their roots, distributing the old games used to bootleg legally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is specifically not true of Apple. They don’t make drivers for Linux, and often change components which means there are several Apple devices that are really hard to run Linux on. The touchbar MacBooks are a nightmare for Linux, and the ARM Macs are slowly getting support, but it is sub par last I looked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a place for using LLMs to fluff up text or help with translation, but you shouldn’t by copy/pasting blindly, or just scripting it out 100%.

  The true failure here is Amazon, who takes no responsibility for what they sell. They let anyone anyone create a product listing with no oversight.