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- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 5 hours ago:
Please don’t tell Keir Starmer.
- Comment on UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure 9 hours ago:
Keir Starmer has said he wants to “mainline AI into the veins” of the UK.
What an insufferable man he is.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 2 days ago:
“I’m terrified our product will be just too powerful.”
- Comment on DNA cassette tapes could solve global data storage problems 2 days ago:
Is this how we get the first computer virus that can jump species into humans? Imagine humanity being taken down because someone’s college essay, when zipped, happens to encode a plague.
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- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 4 days ago:
A well aimed laser should be able to fuck the camera up.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 4 days ago:
So Microsoft’s in trouble because AI is not worth the money they spent on it, and management are all out of ideas?
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 4 days ago:
Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.
- Comment on Beer drinkers are mosquito magnets, according to a festival study 4 days ago:
Results Amongst the 465 included participants, mosquitoes showed a clear fondness for those who drank beer over those who abstained from the liquid gold (Fold Change 1.35, 95% CI 1.12–1.63, PFDR<0.001). Attraction was also contagious: participants that successfully lured a fellow human into their tent the previous night also proved more enticing to mosquitoes (FC 1.34, 95% CI 1.14–1.58, PFDR=0.002). Meanwhile, skipping the morning showering routine and using sunscreen reduced mosquito attraction (FC 0.52, 95% 0.38-0.70, PFDR<0.001). Streptococci were more abundant on the skin of highly attractive individuals (Puncorrected=0.017), and the overall abundance of malodour associated bacteria was high – possibly reflecting the container’s smell.
Reading that paragraph makes me feel like I’m actually there in the mud at Glastonbury.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 4 days ago:
The key differentiator is almost always the people, though that’s not as sexy as cutting edge technology.
Evidently you haven’t worked with me. I’m actually quite sexy.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 4 days ago:
grammar
Mind your capitalization, fellow pedant.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 4 days ago:
It depends how you’re using it. I use it for boilerplate code, for stubbing out classes and functions where I can tell it clearly what I want, for finding inconsistencies I might have missed, to advise me on poss, and as a supplement to the documentation when I can’t find what I’m looking for. I don’t use it for architecting new things, writing complex and specialized code, or as a replacement for documentation. I feel like I have it fairly well contained to what it does well, and it isn’t really eating away at my coding brain because I still do the tricky stuff.
- Comment on Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject 1 week ago:
It’ll cost you.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
I chased high resolution for a while then realized my eyes are not so good. Now I just save money by using low-res displays. The same thing with my ears saved me from a creeping case of audiophilia.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
I suspect Google won’t care if they “accidentally” lock VPN users out of YouTube Premium.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
Where would the money come from?
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
I found a little workaround called Newpipe.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 1 week ago:
Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration’s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings.
This willingness to let billionaires offer tech solutions to social problems is a sickness, and this is the clearest example yet.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 week ago:
The forums suggest there are quite a lot of bugs and the device is slow. I hope Sailfish OS continues to improve but for a daily driver I’m leaning towards Graphene OS as the best option for now.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 week ago:
Side loading will still be possible but the apps themselves will need to be signed by the developer through Google, so Google ultimately still controls what can be installed. Maybe someone will crack it.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 week ago:
It actually looks decent, and their C2 phone looks reasonable though not premium (8GB RAM, a 1600x720 screen and no fingerprint reader are not brilliant specs, though it’s a nice looking phone). The OS subscription might put some people off though: you get one year of updates and then have to pay about €5 per month.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 week ago:
I’ll be looking at the Fairphone 6 with the de-Googled e/OS option.
- Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawaterwww.zmescience.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 48 comments
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
The fact that they haven’t gone for this approach that delivers age verification without disclosing ID, when it’s a common and well known pattern in IT services, very strongly suggests that age verification was never the goal. The goal is to associate your real identity with all the information data brokers have on you, and make that available to state security services and law enforcement. And to do this they will make it impossible to use the internet until they have your ID.
- Home Office ‘backdoor’ seeks worldwide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirmwww.computerweekly.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 weeks ago:
Then what would make them Republicans? Just the bigotry?
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
There are at least two generations of us who are disappointed at the contrast between tech’s possibilities as envisioned decades ago and the corporate surveillance crap we have to put up with today.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
I moved to pCloud + Cryptomator for general cloud file storage and Cryptpad for online document editing. These cover some of the main functions of Google Drive.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
I actually installed WordPerfect 6 for DOS and MS Word for DOS recently. They’re very relaxing for writing compared to the Windows versions. Very fast too. Then I use LibreOffice to convert the documents to more modern formats if needed.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
There are other ways, if you have to use it but don’t want to give Microsoft money. One way is just not to activate it. Almost everything still works.
A better way is not to use Windows, but not everyone can avoid it all the time.