MondayToFriday

@MondayToFriday@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit: T-Mobile must pay for breaking lifetime price guarantee⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing promises effectively constitute a binding unilateral offer, for the purposes of contract law. When a customer signs up, you also have acceptance, consideration, and intention, thus forming a valid contract. Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company is the classic case in English contract law; the principles are basically the same in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More Robust⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Standardized by JEDEC earlier this year as JESD323, CUDIMMs tweak the traditional unbuffered DIMM by adding a clock driver (CKD) to the DIMM itself, with the tiny IC responsible for regenerating the clock signal driving the actual memory chips. By generating a clean clock locally on the DIMM (rather than directly using the clock from the CPU, as is the case today), CUDIMMs are designed to offer improved stability and reliability at high memory speeds, combating the electrical issues that would otherwise cause reliability issues at faster memory speeds. In other words, adding a clock driver is the key to keeping DDR5 operating reliably at high clockspeeds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Partly psychopathic manipulation, partly sleeping around for career advancement. It’s a tale as old as time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will self driving trucks hit the roads with nobody on board or will they keep a human supervisor?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see at least four big problems with having drivers that sit around to supervise the AI.

  • It’s a mind-numbing boring task. How does one stay alert when most of the stimulus is gone? It’s like a real-life version of Desert Bus, the worst video game ever.
  • Human skills will deteriorate with lack of practice. Drivers won’t have an intuitive sense for how the truck behaves, and when called upon to intervene, they will probably respond late or overreact. Even worse, the AI will call on the human to intervene only for the most complex and dangerous situations. That was a major contributing factor to the crash of Air France 447: the junior pilots were so used to pushing buttons, they had no stick-handling skills for when the automation shut off, and no intuition to help them diagnose why they were losing altitude. We would like to have Captain Sullys everywhere, but AI will lead to the opposite.
  • The AI will shut off before an impending accident just to transfer the blame onto the human. The human is there to serve as the “moral crumple zone” to absolve the AI of liability. That sounds like a terrible thing for society.
  • With a fleet of inexperienced drivers, if an event such as a snowstorm deactivates AI on a lot of trucks, the chaos would be worse than it is today.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-PD is a de-facto low-power DC voltage standard, with USB-C being the universal plug. Hurray!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Citation please? Apple was part of the USB-C Specification Working Group. Despite their obsession with the Lightning connector, they were also the ones who made USB-C-only laptops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The microblogging platform that once limited posts to 140 characters is now a “video-first” platform?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In aviation, an intentional accident is still an accident. A suicidal pilot can deliberately crash an airplane, and it’s still considered an accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The example where an interview of a victim of Hurricane Ciaran, originally in French, but deepfaked to be speaking English, was pretty scary. Some people will think that it’s just for convenience, but for me, it’s a step too far down the slippery slope. If they were to do the same for a politician, a slight nuance in how a phrase was translated could change everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy bans cultivated meat products⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since Italians take the authenticity of foods so seriously, Prosciutto di Parma and many other foods are already protected by DOP designation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you accept venture capital, you’re pretty much down the path to going public, because the investors have an expectation of realizing their gains if the company is successful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With no access to crypto, disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is now trading fish to pay for services in prison⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bernie Madoff cornered the market for Swiss Miss hot chocolate while in prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden’s Tesla blockade is spreading — Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix chargi...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Three days later, on November 20, the Seko union, which represents postal workers, will stop delivering letters, spare parts, and pallets to all of Tesla’s addresses in Sweden. “Tesla is trying to gain competitive advantages by giving the workers worse wages and conditions than they would have with a collective agreement,” said Seko’s union president, Gabriella Lavecchia, in a statement. “It is of course completely unacceptable.”

  Interesting that it is legal to withhold mail. In many countries that would be a crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads watchdog files FTC complaint against X, formerly Twitter, over unlabeled ads | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish people would just call it X. If that’s what Elon wants, let him reap the consequences of his crazy decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is planning a 400-500$ foldable for 2024⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so prone to cracking along the fold, though. You should either get the extended warranty or treat the phone as disposable, because it will likely not last more than a couple of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Signal tests usernames to avoid using phone numbers.' Great move?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, unless the username+suffix is already taken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Signal tests usernames to avoid using phone numbers.' Great move?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All the personal information you mentioned should be hashed or encrypted. For any given phone number, see how little information they have: just an account creation timestamp and a last access timestamp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Signal tests usernames to avoid using phone numbers.' Great move?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the current Staging implementation, you pick a username (which you can change), and the app picks a two-digit suffix to your username.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely private messaging with accounts that have no ties to real-world identities would open the doors to spam and all kinds of abuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. You still need to use a phone number to create an account. The proposed feature lets you pick a username so that you can have people contact you via the username, and you won’t have to tell people what your phone number is. You would be able to change your username at any time, and usernames all have a random two-digit number suffix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It shouldn't matter if people work multiple jobs. The former VP of HR at Microsoft shares how to react to double dippers — 'get over it.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What if a compile job takes a long time? Would that be a good reason to context switch?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mozilla is in the process of implementing passkeys in Firefox. This page tracks the status of various implementations of passkeys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What a pathetic excuse. You know what’s at the other end of a USB-A cable? A USB-B connector that didn’t have the symmetry problem. Also, Firewire existed around the same time (in fact, slightly earlier) and didn’t have the symmetry problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s zero chance that Google / YouTube don’t already know about the Vinegar Safari extension for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Kids these days. When I was small, I got to play with Lego 377: Shell Service Station.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Be sure to pronounce the “x” as in Chinese pinyin.