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- Comment on TIL Press win + k to quickly connect to a bluetooth earphone in Windows 10 1 year ago:
Win + I brings a way busier screen but it shows the Bluetooth devices with their connect button right there.
Works in Windows 10 as well but there it requires an extra click to select the device so that the “connect” button is shown.
- Comment on Ford lays off 700 who were building electric version of F-150 | CNN Business 1 year ago:
Ford? More like the whole Western auto industry.
- Comment on YouTube Enhancement Megathread: Tools and Extensions for All Devices 1 year ago:
Feel free to whitelist creators you like. My favorite (Red Letter Media) don’t give a fuck thanks to Patreon.
It can also skip intros and other repetitive aspects and a hotkey allows you to unskip segments.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 1 year ago:
We have a grim, and painful life to look forward to. At least it will be brief so there’s that.
So you rather die grinding in the factories, in prison, as emperor-corpse food or horribly in battle? Tough choice.
- Comment on Netflix to Open Stores Where Fans Can Play, Shop and Eat in 2025 1 year ago:
Netflix and chili
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
It allows Windows to create and store cryptographic keys and validate OS and firmware components haven’t been tampered with.
- Comment on Strike talks break off between Hollywood actors and studios 1 year ago:
I hope they get the compensation and rights they deserve. I have so much to catch up on anyway.
- Comment on Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone 1 year ago:
Like corporations would pass on literally tens of billions of dollars (yearly) just because they are big.
Unless Apple had it’s own competing search service they have no reason to pass on that much money unless it becomes a huge liability.
- Comment on Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS 1 year ago:
Or not quite half a Twitter (pre-Musk).
Space stations cost less than what some “send a short message” platform does… insanity.
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
Botnets and malware rejoice!
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
I second MBR2GPT. With a guide it’s quite straightforward to migrate from BIOS to EUFI but probably too scary for the average user.
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
It’s not arbitrary. Securing an OS today is a huge challenge and Microsoft wants to leverage this tech to facilitate this. New hardware supports it, a lot of older hardware supports it and they strongly encourage this as the new standard.
Yes it means some people won’t update without workarounds but they are setting a standard moving forward and for supported hardware, they were quite aggressive with the upgrade (I had to make sure the TPM was disabled in BIOS on a machine I didn’t wish to upgrade early on).
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
Strange about your motherboard. I have an older one and just had to enable it via BIOS. I’ve heard some support it as an add-on module.
- Comment on The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation 1 year ago:
The one with a rocket program. Oh wait…
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
But replacing Youtube is sadly much harder.
I bet we’ll just get better ad blockers.
- Comment on New Report Makes Disturbing Allegations Against The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Developer - IGN 1 year ago:
Maybe having licensed such a big IP they aimed for the stars.
- Comment on BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content 1 year ago:
It’s not an excuse, relax, it’s just how it works and I don’t see where I’m endorsing it to get your news.
- Comment on BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content 1 year ago:
Yes. The LLM doesn’t know what year it currently is, it needs to get that info from a service and then answer.
It’s a Large **Language ** Model. Not an actual sentient being.
- Comment on What technological mega project is practical to build today? 1 year ago:
Don’t sweat it, we are in agreement except I’m certain the engineering won’t hold up. It’s not just building a wall, they need to build all the infrastructure inside of it (somehow).
Will they shove some sand around and start pouring cement and waste a bunch of money before moving to the next shiny CGI project? Very likely. So it doesn’t really matter, they aren’t ever even going to try to finish this.
- Comment on What technological mega project is practical to build today? 1 year ago:
I don’t buy for a second that catastrophe can actually be built.
It’s 100% pure “CGI engineering”. All the effort went into a snazzy presentation to sell it to petro-billionaires ego-blimps with no consideration for feasibility.
- Comment on What technological mega project is practical to build today? 1 year ago:
What part of that is practical?
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 1 year ago:
They tapping into the juicy “afraid to commit” market.
- Comment on How the Assassin's Creed Mirage logo and its celebration of Arabic calligraphy came to life 1 year ago:
And the shitty militantism was accented/triggered by Christianity’s shitty militantism. Thanks crusades, the gift that keeps on shitting on.
- Comment on Remedy says its Max Payne remakes are ‘a big, big project’ | VGC 1 year ago:
Blame Rockstar for 3.
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
There’s an edge case for Switzerland with 4 official languages but German being the majority. Many websites and documents “forget” to translate into other minority languages.
- Comment on Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power 1 year ago:
They cry about the “free market” and then run to the Government to ask for “protection”.
- Comment on Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power 1 year ago:
And the tools to emulate the good parts of streaming with a home setup have never been better.
- Comment on Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec 1 year ago:
No, the data will influence the model.
Some of the data may be found in the model itself (i.e. the AI generated images outputting mangled author signatures from the original works that were used during training) but not in the traditional form of a database. You can’t directly retrieve that data back in its original form even if some models can be coerced to do something similar.
It’s basically a statistical model built from training data.
The training of these huge models also cost a fortune. Allegedly in the millions of $ in a data and processing-intensive process.
- Comment on Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec 1 year ago:
“AI” doesn’t use databases per se, they are trained models built from large amounts of training data.
Some models run fine on small devices (like the model running on phones to make better pictures) but others are huge like Open AI’s LLM.
- Comment on Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec 1 year ago:
Having “AI functionality” doesn’t mean they can just get rid of their big/expensive models they use now.
If they are anything like Open AI’s LLM, it requires very beefy machines with a ton of expensive RAM.