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- Comment on Dangerous? Signal Blasts Google Effort to Use AI to Scan for Scam Phone Calls 5 hours ago:
It’s available on all phones, but they all have their own version, forked from long ago. Even the standard AOSP Phone app has long split from Google (who have ceased open source development of the app).
- Comment on Dangerous? Signal Blasts Google Effort to Use AI to Scan for Scam Phone Calls 8 hours ago:
I feel like this would require cooperation from the manufacturer, as Google doesn’t actually provide the Phone app (except when they are the manufacturer).
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 4 days ago:
Yeah, I think they normally do full embargoes for that exact reason.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 4 days ago:
Well normally they just tell you you aren’t allowed to talk about the game period. This is a slightly relaxed position from that stance.
- Comment on That one band... 6 days ago:
Completely aside but Diego Luna (the actor who plays Andor) always looks like :<
- Comment on Lemm.ee mod abuse 1 week ago:
Moderators don’t own the community, but they own the community address - they have absolute control over it and can set the rules. If the community don’t like that, they’re free to move to a new address and make their own, with blackjack and hookers, etc.
The admin owns the instance, which in turn can overrule the moderators. If the community don’t like that, they’re free to move to a new instance, with blackjack and hookers, etc.
Basically the whole system was set up so everyone will eventually have blackjack and hookers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Back in my day it was just boob edits.
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 2 weeks ago:
Data collection is theft. Every one of us is being robbed at least $50 per year. That’s how Facebook and Google are worth billions.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 3 weeks ago:
Yes I’m aware of that, and even quite fond of it, but it’s very dependent on geography (as you need a very large body of water so you can’t really just use a water tower) and also incredibly expensive. There are generally more effective and profitable uses for land.
Meanwhile BESS is tiny, something like 30MW per acre.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 3 weeks ago:
They keep it in line by curtailing or switching off generation. The generator typically still gets paid as if it were generating whatever it has available, which is perhaps an issue, but the total generation is reduced to meet the demand.
This is why there is negative pricing, it’s cheaper to sell electricity in the negative than to pay a generator to be offline.
They can’t direct excess generation to batteries if the batteries aren’t there yet. They’re being installed, but the overall capacity is still relatively low. Transferring it to other grids also has limits, and in particular if there’s an excess of solar in one region the neighbouring regions also probably have an excess, so there really is no other option but to curtail.
- Comment on Brb 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think so, it also includes at least 4 trackers.
- Comment on Brb 3 weeks ago:
WhoBIRD has been working well for me. Doesn’t have the visual ID stuff that Merlin has, but it’s FOSS and identifies by sound, based on location and time of year.
Granted, I don’t know enough to know when it’s wrong, and I bet it’s not great for identifying rare birds, but it’s fun.
- Comment on Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record 3 weeks ago:
Paywall :/
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 4 weeks ago:
That is not the case for all HOA’s. For some, they have gated communities.
Yes, but they still allow mail deliveries and visitors in some form or another.
After all, they aren’t building these amenities for everyone to use, just residents who either own property or are leasing property in a way that is approved by the HOA.
Yes, but there are other ways to manage that then setting up an HOA which can be expanded well beyond the management of that communal property.
You only have to look and see how other countries do it to see that HOA’s are uniquely an American problem, one that has no justification in being as bad as it is.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but what’s wrong with that? I mean, roads are already open to everyone - your mailman can access them, visitors can access them, etc. If you extend it to ponds and parks and stuff, it wouldn’t be the end of the world for those to be public, either.
Maybe with pools and such it’s a different story, but there are ways of managing those without setting up a mini government rife for abuse.
- Comment on A new inconvenient truth: Europe’s global plans all require money no one has 4 weeks ago:
Europe’s global plans all require money
no one hashoarded by the wealthy elite that no one is willing to properly tax and collectFTFY
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 4 weeks ago:
Nah they do have some valid purpose, eg communal roads and facilities - at least in a country where the state refuses to adopt basic infrustructure for new housing developments.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
Climate change was adopted because global warming doesn’t intuitively line up with winters being much colder on top of the average temperature being higher.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
Reality has a left-wing bias.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
The purchase itself was a leveraged buyout, they didn’t pay the entire $44bn as Twitter took out a loan to cover $13bn. Like all leveraged buyouts (eg Toys R Us) the purchase itself is meant to kill the business. Even before Musk started screwing the revenue there was little hope Twitter could pay the interest, let along the principle. Now, Twitter is worth less than the debt, by some estimates.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
There are extensions for that.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
The purchase itself was a death sentence. $13bn of the $44bn was a loan Twitter took out to buy itself on Musk’s behalf, even before Musk started tanking the revenue there was no way Twitter was going to be able to pay the interest on that without further cash investment.
Meanwhile, given that the business in unviable, Musk can try all sorts of crazy shit and are what sticks to the wall. Anything that proves successful can be adopted by whatever comes after Twitter or other social media. Charging for API access stuck, this is just the next attempt.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
This is just another attempt at establishing a new status quo for other social media before Twitter dies a death due to the insurmountable debt that Musk’s purchase saddled it with. We’ve had a bunch of things tried, so far the only thing that stuck was charging for API access (which reddit soon adopted). Let’s not have this as well, please.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 4 weeks ago:
Now? They’ve always been playing whack-a-mole against third party apps.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 5 weeks ago:
Can’t you disable SmartSense or whatever bullshit there is that scans
appsprograms when they’re installed? - Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 5 weeks ago:
The article says it’s only a specific Win7 version of VLC that’s blocked, so maybe that’s the case with these also.
- Comment on How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. 5 weeks ago:
On AI training itself on AI produced content:
“As long as you can get over the synthetic data event horizon, where the model is smart enough to make good synthetic data, everything will be fine,” Mr. Altman said.
- Comment on How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. 5 weeks ago:
If the linked article has a paywall, you can access this archived version instead: archive.ph/aeQhP
- Comment on Got a new windows 98 gaming PC, and boi she's huge!! 1 month ago:
True, but I think you can get some pretty decent high airflow 80mm fans these days.
- Comment on Got a new windows 98 gaming PC, and boi she's huge!! 1 month ago:
You could probably upgrade the fans.