BrianTheeBiscuiteer

@BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Direct Link to settings: myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

  Their dumb redirect link didn’t work for me, probably because of adblock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point but nuclear will probably always have the disadvantage of initial cost and time to market. It’s a huge risk for investors and public officials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating similar service to AlternativeTo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As I’ve found out recently, finding true alternatives can be difficult. Take bread for instance. I just discovered Bimbo Bakeries own at least 26 brands. So when you’re on the bread aisle you probably have a moderate to high chance of buying one of their products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With everything he does the issue is the implementation. Deport criminal aliens? I’m all for it, but most of the deportees have no criminal record or they accuse them of crimes as if it’s the same thing as a conviction.

  Part of Trump’s grand plan is to make federal elections span only a single day. So maybe you check your status the day before and everything is fine, but the day of voting a glitch in the system says it can’t verify your citizenship. That’s it! No votes for you this year!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re so ass backwards my go-to thought was the censored version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “You’re firing me for using AI to read and respond to your email?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same at my company. The frustrating part is they want us to use coding assistance, which is fine, but I really don’t code that much. I spend most of my time talking to other teams and vendors, reading docs, filing tickets, and trying to assign tasks to Jr devs. For AI to help me with that I need to either type all of my thoughts into the LLM which isn’t efficient at all or I need it to integrate with systems I’m not allowed to integrate with because there are SLOs that need to be maintained (i.e. can’t hammer the API and make others experience worse).

  So it’s pretty much the same as it’s always been. Instead of making a gallon of lemonade out of one lemon I need to use this “new lemonade machine” to start a multinational lemonade business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But there’s no such legislation or required identification for my kids to see graphic violence and gore. We’re a pretty bass ackwards society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me: Sup

  AI Summary: What is going on my friend?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people who clean up your TikTok feed are starting to fight back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we should start posting violence-sandwich videos. Decapitation followed by Union advocacy followed by disembowelment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of this money was also “allocated” but not really spent. So at least to Bidens credit money wasn’t thrown away, it just sat there not doing what it was supposed to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the point of that? Don’t soldiers work alongside civilian contractors all the time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The tech reservists will serve for around 120 hours a year. Because of their private-sector status, each will carry the rank of lieutenant colonel.

  There will be other dispensations for the technology officers. They will have more flexibility than the average reservist to work remotely and asynchronously, and will be spared basic training.

  This pisses me off so much and I hope it makes the military livid too. Most people put their heart and soul into the work they do in basic training and officer training and even break into tears when they receive their new rank. These assholes are gonna take a fitness test and become officers?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many people forget that specialized, purpose-driven software is often if more effective and efficient. LLMs and other AI are nice when you don’t have a properly defined spec or a flexible algorithm but you pay, literally, for the convenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump signs orders to bolster US drone defenses, boost supersonic flight⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guarantee he heard “supersonic” and thought, “Wow! That sounds really cool. We gotta get more of that.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They think he’s a tech god because he has money to burn, knows how to make himself look smart, knows how to slave drive, and knows how to cut corners without pissing off the wrong people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope the drift issue is fixed. Ran into the issue with two of mine. The paper under the joystick hack didn’t work and one of the brand new replacement joysticks I installed isn’t responsive. 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glance says it will retain the biometric data used to create your digital avatar for 12 months from your last interaction with the service or until you manually delete your account. The company claims that your images won’t be used for any other purpose or shared with third parties without your consent.

  Thousands of pictures of regular people’s faces, not just professional models, is valuable data. They’re definitely selling that shit or using it for their own AI training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have concerns about this but it’s really all about the usage, not the AI itself. Would the AI version be the only version allowed? Would the summaries get created on the fly for every visitor? Would edits to an AI summary be allowed? Would this get applied to and alter existing summaries?

  I’m totally fine with LLMs and AI as a stop-gap for missing info or a way to coach or critique a human-written summary, but generally I haven’t seen good results when AI is allowed to do its thing without a human reviewing or guiding the outputs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s a result of Wikipedia trying to be more of an “online encyclopedia” vs a digital information hub or learning resource. I don’t think it’s a problem on its own but I do think there should be a simplified version of every article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s part of the reason Teslas are not well-suited for this. One camera, each direction, with no other sensors to help make decisions, is a really bad way to ensure safety.

  Humans normally have two “front facing cameras” (i.e. two eyes) so we have depth perception. We also process light differently than cameras do so infrared light (for one) doesn’t affect our decisions. We also have ears so the sound of a loud motorcycle engine tips us off if we just see a spec in the distance. We also use context clues to help our decisions, like if other drivers change lanes quickly we are extra observant of road obstacles.

  Not that technology can never be as good as a human at driving, but we use a lot more than a single “moving picture” to decide what we should do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And because we’re all represented by corpses they can’t be bothered to use AI tools to cross check the bullshit being thrown their way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think at most of the disdain comes from the business side. Sure I can opt out of AI at home but at work I’m constantly getting asked how AI has helped my productivity and potentially “graded” on how much or how effectively I use it. Business doesn’t care about your personal fulfillment, just your productivity, and if they grind you into dust to w acchere you no longer find any joy or motivation in your work they’ll get the next college graduate that’s already used AI for 80% of their assignments and wonder why quality has tanked, integrations are failing, security breaches are up, and energy costs have doubled.

  A coworker that regularly uses AI code assistants asked me to review 78 brand new files he made. That really puts my back against the wall. Do I spend a day going through everything “the old way”? Do I ask AI to summarize each function to bridge the gap in knowledge? Do I ask it, file by file, if it sees any issues? Or do I just rubber stamp it because I should the million-dollar product my boss thinks I should use more than Google or official docs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putin’s dream of a state-controlled internet is becoming a reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Controlling the Internet this way is brilliant from an authoritarian standpoint. To have a revolution you need motivation and communication. Can’t be motivated to change your government if you’re not informed and you can’t organize in great enough numbers if you can’t communicate. Take note America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These are a good alternative to RPis. Just be aware some of these are sort of haphazardly assembled so they might have cooling issues or bad power supplies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This should be cause for contempt. This isn’t much worse, IMO, than a legal briefing mentioning, “as affirmed in the case of Pee-pee v.s Poo-poo.” They’re basically taking a shit on the process by not verifying their arguments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My kids have missed it more than me (which I don’t) but they’re easy to distract with one of the other streaming services I still have. The last price hike did it for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to drive one into a brick wall. Not with me in it or anything. I figure I could do it just by setting it to auto-drive into a painting of a tunnel Looney Tunes style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Online pregnancy test

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sentencing is still part of the carriage of justice. Fake statements like this should not be allowed until after all verdicts and punishments are decided.