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- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 1 day ago:
Its maybe a small thing, but being packaged in linux repos would ve huge for me
Being able to type
$sudo apt install winamp
Would be so cool
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 4 days ago:
If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Some people think this is a desireable feature
I personally hate having 96kbps “live” recordings from someone’s cell phone suddenly injectef into my stream. But i havent used youtube music since shortly after they became youtube music
RIP google play music
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
Had no idea about the user base numbers. I withdraw my objections lol
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, i paid like $3, 10 years ago… So, not a great revenue stream for the developer
Obviously selling to an ad company is not good, but i’m not sure what the alternative is in a world where everyone expects everything for free
- Comment on Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, i hate how LLMs are getting lumped into actually useful machine learning stuff that has been in development for years without all the hype and idiot CEOs trying to use it to layoff useful employees
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 4 weeks ago:
Can it outrun a kenyan in a marathon?
Or the real question is if a battery can be made small enough to fit in a human sizef robot that can keep it running over 42km
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 weeks ago:
I just found out there was a series off “Wallace and Gromit” adventure games from Telltale (RIP)
bought them all on steam and playing the first episode now. So far the writing and visuals are spot on
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 1 month ago:
I’m not a developer, but I use AI tools at work (mostly LLMs).
You need to treat AI like a junior intern… You give it a task, but you still need to check the output and use critical thinking. You cant just take some work from an intern, blindly incorporate it into your presentation, and then blame the intern if the work is shoddy…
AI should be a time saver for certain tasks. It cannot (currently) replace a good worker.
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 2 months ago:
“Deeply unlikely” sounds like a stylistic mistake by a bad LLM. I’ve never heard that one.
“Highly unlikely” is the more common expression
- Comment on Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches 2 months ago:
I think it was in the matrix where humans nuked a bunch of stuff to kick up enough dirt to block out the sun (the robots were solar powered)
The robots still figured out how to survive…
I’m sure a sufficiently advanced AI could build a backup power source or trick a human into doing it
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 2 months ago:
Thats ok… Idiotic hiring practices will filter out the worst companies
- Comment on Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024 2 months ago:
Yeah, buying phones that old is dumb advice
- worn out battery that probably wont charge fully or last another 2 years
- outdated OS that wont get security updates
I’m 100% all for keeping old phones running for many years, but buying a note 9 in 2024 is not how to go about doing that
- Comment on “In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI 2 months ago:
Yes. There is a newer test called Voigt-Kampf that can test advanced AI
- Comment on Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton 2 months ago:
I’m using proton bridge on debian…
Downloading a .deb file is admittedly not ideal and not “the debian way” but it works
Their VPN services should be accessible by any linux client (but i’ve not tried yet)
- Comment on Data Brokers Help Spam Chemo Patient With Cremation Services Because That’s How Things Work Now 2 months ago:
Or “targetted ads are bettet than random ads! I dont mind my data being mined!”
- Comment on Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance 2 months ago:
They used .af because it stands for “as fuck”
As in “queer. As fuck”, meaning VERY queer
- Comment on Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray 3 months ago:
Worse is when any level of gov’t uses it… “Join our community consultation meeting about city planning live on facebook.”
Fuck that. I can choose to do business or not with most companies. But i cant choose to opt out of civic participation (no, i’m not going to live off grid as a sovereign citizen)
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec. 3 months ago:
The digital signature thing doesnt work when the device signing the photo has the built in capability to significantly manipulate the photo using AI (which is what samsung and friends are putting forth as a feature)
- Comment on Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend 3 months ago:
I mean… I hate capitalism as much as the next guy, but this isnt “money from nothing”… People bought or worked for shares…
The dividend money comes from worker exploitation, sure. But in order to get the dividend from those shares, you had to believe in the company and invest…
Disclaimer: i own no shares of meta and i dont have a facebook account
- Comment on Honda announces a new line of electric cars, the Honda 0 4 months ago:
Better than Mitsubishi Zero
- Comment on Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI 4 months ago:
Isn’t “AI” being applied to deep learning more accurate than calling LLMs “AI”?
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 4 months ago:
Nextcloud can be self hosted… It’s not really “the cloud”. Can be LAN only if you want
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 4 months ago:
I’m speeding through a school zone at 60km/h… I didnt INTEND to kill anyone, but i didnt see the crosswalk and mowed down a bunch of pedestrians.
This is not an accident. Entirely preventable. Intent doesnt matter
The vast majority of car collisions are entirely avoidable.
- Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence 5 months ago:
I would buy one in a heartbeat if it was smaller… My S22 barely fits in my pants pocket, and barely usable with one hand.
Still waiting for compact phones to return…RIP sony xperia
- Comment on Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling 5 months ago:
You’re being downvoted making everyone else google an easy fact for you and then continuing to doubt
- Comment on Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling 5 months ago:
GPUs havent been mining bitcoin for a long time now. Probably almost 10 years.
The last big coin mined by GPU was ethereum but that stopped last year
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 5 months ago:
I dont mind it when it makes sense… Like ad boards in fifa games make sense…
But if it breaka immersion, then it’s stupid
- Comment on Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it 5 months ago:
My mom has a 2013 macbook pro which is still chugging along, except apple stopped updating the root certs, so some https sites are breaking
- Comment on Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it 6 months ago:
I dont’t understand how anyone is skimping on memory… All the memory fabs (micron, samsung, etc)took huge hits this year because of low prices and low sales
Shouldn’t companies be filling their devices to the brim with RAM? Is this just greed? What happened to the saying “cheap as chips”?