stephen01king
@stephen01king@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 6 days ago:
When did they do that?
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
Thanks for the answer. How does it compare against other Android forks in terms of security update speed?
Also, isn’t Fairphone once also criticised for falling behind on Android security updates or was I misremembering this?
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
Can you explain?
- Comment on Hundreds of Video Game Workers Join New Union as Trump Attacks Labor Rights 1 week ago:
Gamers are part of the group spreading the DEI misinformation, so yes, they can be pretty stupid.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
But the comment I replied to didn’t just deny the confirmation that AI is thinking, it also denied that AI “thinks” at all. That puts him in a position of making an unproven claim. In fact, he is directly making that claim, while the article he is denying only alludes to saying that LLM “thinks” like a human. That makes his unproven claim even more egregious than the article’s.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t calling it thinking. I’m saying people claiming it’s not is just jumping the gun. It’s also funny you’re simply claiming I am pro AI without needing any proof. This is what I meant when I said people who are anti-AI should strive to be better than the AI they criticise. Acting based on non-facts makes you no better than AI with their hallucinations.
Its also funny that you’re calling me out when I’m just mirroring what the other guy is doing to make a point. He’s acting like his is the correct opinion, yet you only calling me out because the guy is on your side of the argument. That’s simply a bad faith argument on your part.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
Anybody who claims they don’t “think” before we even figure out completely how they work and even how human thoughts work are just spreading anti-AI sentiment beyond what is considered logical.
You should become a better example than an AI by only arguing based on facts rather than things you hallucinate if you want to prove your own position on this matter.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 4 weeks ago:
That’s another result of people not having enough money to be experimental with their movie choice. If movies are too expensive for you to go regularly, of course most people would choose those that they know are gonna be safe for them to enjoy instead of giving unknown original movies a try.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 1 month ago:
Might be his only joy in life. Let him be, as long as he’s not too rude about it.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 2 months ago:
Anyone blindly saying a tool is ineffective for every situation that exists in the world is a tool themselves.
- Comment on idijt 2 months ago:
And so does the internal surface of a diamond.
- Comment on idijt 2 months ago:
By that logic, glass mirrors also work by refraction, because it refracts out of the glass before it reaches your eye.
- Comment on idijt 2 months ago:
Isn’t it caused by internal reflection? That, by definition, is what happens when the light doesn’t refract out of the diamond.
- Comment on idijt 2 months ago:
But isn’t their shine mostly due to the internal reflection rather than external refraction? That’s why the gems are cut angularly, to help with the internal reflection.
- Comment on DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers 2 months ago:
Tell me where in this thread are anyone expecting privacy from any online LLM service, or anyone saying encrypted traffic guarantees privacy?
- Comment on DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers 2 months ago:
Yes, so not only are they doing something shady, they’re doing something shady and exposing your data to anyone wanting to snoop it. What’s dumb about criticising the latter part?
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
But with less people, the chance of you finding the subsets that interests you or fit your interests better is much lower, and that’s one of the main issue.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
And that’s fine. What the exodus to Bluesky is doing is making it easier for people to stomach switching to similar platforms, so if Bluesky also went to shit, the inertia is much lower for people to abandon it.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
And how many users does Mastodon have?
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 4 months ago:
How many people has all the waste we’ve produced kill up to now?
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 5 months ago:
No, the average person understands how to make a Gmail account. They don’t understand email whatsoever.
- Comment on Capsaicin 5 months ago:
Because our brains are amazing and can just fill out the missing word while reading.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
I think those places need more support systems to reduce the number of people that becomes desperate enough to do that.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
Who’s coping here when you’re the one completely dismissing my own experience with using Linux. That’s not a good look for someone supposedly giving ‘good’ advice.
That experience I had was from earlier this year, btw, so don’t tell me that whatever I want will work out of the box. This is why I hate whenever people say “just switch to Linux” without taking any responsibility. You don’t know what hardware people have and going to install Linux on.
You also claimed Linux is good for people with no money to buy new hardware, yet barely care to even make sure the people you tell this to doesn’t have hardware that might not be supported. What are they gonna do after your advice made the only hardware they have no longer connect to wifi or ethernet? I doubt you’d go out of your way to help them, then.
As for simplicity, I don’t see how W11 is any more complicated that Ubuntu. More resource heavy, yes, but that doesn’t affect the user experience much. Give me concrete examples on how they’re easier to use.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
That’s hilarious. Just because you have experience with Linux doesn’t make it easier to use, either. And 90% of people in the workplace has experience with Windows and Windows only, so that means the majority of people already can use Windows easier even if both OSes are equally easy to use.
Considering all my experience with using Linux has been painful, I don’t believe you when you say Linux is easier. I can Google any issue to do with Windows and find the solution without delving too deeply. You know what happened the last time I tried to find the driver for the wifi card in my laptop for Linux? I had to find an obscure website that lists third party drivers for Linux only to find that it doesn’t exist for my specific card. The card that works flawlessly in Windows.
Imagine not having that knowledge before jumping all in on installing Linux. Most of the people in my office would’ve already sworn off Linux forever the moment they encounter such setback, especially if they were being lied to about the level of difficulty they would face.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
What are you referring to here?
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
No, it’s useless advice for people who don’t already have knowledge about Linux.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
Trust me, if you’re used to the AutoCAD workflow and UI, BricsCAD is just different enough that it can be a bit jarring and a huge drop to your productivity.
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 5 months ago:
The only way I could think of is the ease of setting up a collaborative spreadsheet.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 5 months ago:
It just sounds sarcastic to me.