quirzle

@quirzle@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So what's you're proposed solution? Your directive to "fix that" was a bit light on details.

  This is a step in the right direction. The automated reviews will supplement, not replace, the reviewing triggered by manual reports you supported in your initial comment. I'd argue the pushback from police unions is a sign that it actually might lead to some change, given the reasoning the give in the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So fix that.

  Were it so simple, it would have been fixed decades ago. The difference is that having AI review the footage is actually plausible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant without Prime. Most of the time, my orders take 4-6 days to even ship anymore. I'll occasionally sign up for a month of Prime when they offer it for free again, and it's back to normal for that month.

  But yeah, there isn't free 2-day shipping anymore, just "free Prime shipping," which is slower than 2-day and faster than non-Prime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Start? They've already been doing that for at least a couple of years now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI CEO Altman says at Davos future AI depends on energy breakthrough⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is still a hardware limitation, just at scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblocker for TV - AdGuard is available for Android TV: here is how it works⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this doesn't seem to provide anything a better launcher + Pi-hole don't already provide. At least on mobile, the ad blockers help when I'm away from home and not going through the Pi-hole for DNS queries...but my tv doesn't leave the house much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A: Why would a washing machine have internet access?

  They can download customized wash cycles if you're into that sort of thing. They can also communicate through an app to do things like tell you when a load of laundry is finished, when it's time to run it through a self-cleaning cycle, and give specific details when it encounters problems (e.g., mine once notified me the hot water line was giving it cold water). They also allow you to start a cycle remotely, but tend to require enabling that manually via button press for some reason, so that feature's basically useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  tl;dr: Yes, but probably takes some effort for most content.

  Plex will play the files, but metadata is hit or miss. If it's something that's on thetvdb or themoviedb, it can be matched as a series or movie, respectively. With some effort, you could also probably include all the relevant metadata when downloading the videos, then have plex use local metadata, which could cover anything not big enough for the big metadata providers.

  I think it's also possible to find plug-ins/scripts that will pull metadata directly from youtube, but I've had bad luck relying on that stuff and then development stopping, so I avoid it these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Sony rootkit thing happened nearly 20 years ago. They're not just now making dick moves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grabbed a year on the Black Friday sale and, holy shit, it's so much better. Actual explanations and lessons is way better than the pointless gamification/leaderboards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally played it for the first time a couple of years ago when the initial covid lockdowns granted me large chunks of free time. I was playing for a while, but never found myself intentionally grinding. Unlike a lot of games of that genre/era, it varies up the environments/enemies and progresses the story enough to grant enough xp while going the things you need/want to do anyway.

  For a bit of context, just before Chrono Trigger, I tried playing through Phantasy Star II, a Genesis game from a few years earlier in the same genre/era...and I got maybe 15-20% through the game before realizing it was too grindy and just uninstalling it. I'm not coming into this with infinite patience or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showing the destination before the journey - Dragon Warrior⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. That weird free game started a lifelong appreciation for the genre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developer of Skyblivion, which remakes Oblivion in Skyrim, says they have received death threats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just guessing, but either:

  • I Would Kill A Mother Fucker, or

  • I Wipe Koala Asshole Against Face