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- Comment on Friend or Foe: The Confusing Reality of AI "Friends" 1 week ago:
Closest continuer doesn’t really apply if the agent wasn’t sentient in the first place
- Comment on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected 1 week ago:
Who’d have thought not having explosions going off inside the car constantly would cause less wear and tear
- Comment on Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of AI Datasets Now [404 Media] 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is going to be exactly the same, super easy to scrape as it’s all standardised and open
- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 4 weeks ago:
What is the thing being shared here?
- Comment on Researchers: Educating young people about social media would be far more effective than a ban - Finland can show us how 4 weeks ago:
I think educating people on the dangers of social media is akin to educating crack addicts on why crack is bad for them
The vast majority are already addicted and already know the dangers
I stayed away from social media till around 18 because everyone told me how harmful it was, all that did was socially exclude me, and delay the addiction til later in life
- Comment on Apple Pay, Cash App, and other digital wallets will be regulated more like banks now 4 weeks ago:
Do people store their money in these things? I use Google pay quite often, but it draws the money from the bank at the time of payment
- Comment on Windows 11 takes a break on updates until 2025 | Digital Trends 4 weeks ago:
This sounds like the account of someone that hasn’t actually used the technology recently
I’ve not had any misunderstandings by Google assistant or Alexa in ages, and LLM produced code works great for me now provided you’re explicit enough in the way you instruct it (meaning you still need to understand what you want it to do)
Image generation is great for if you want a quick illustration, inspiration or a meme, not much practical benefit besides that imo
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s been a thing but it’s not been a thing it’s been many little bits that nobody’s pulled together and marketed properly yet
No idea if this is the product to do thay but eventually someone’s gonna do it
- Comment on Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse 5 weeks ago:
“when we try to use a tape measure to hammer in nails it doesn’t really work, so tape measures are useless”
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 5 weeks ago:
Fact of the matter is that it will become the norm m because cheap > quality in our system
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight 1 month ago:
What is the actual evidence trump wants to end democracy? I’ve only seen an out of context clip so far
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Where’d all the comments go
- Comment on [Hetzner maintenance] Expected lemm.ee downtime when this post is 13 hours old. 1 month ago:
True a few minutes for one host but the way it was phrased sounds like the entire thing is going down for aa significant period of time
- Comment on [Hetzner maintenance] Expected lemm.ee downtime when this post is 13 hours old. 1 month ago:
I’ve been meaning to get a hetzner server, they seem pretty good overall
- Comment on Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor 1 month ago:
Makes it work universally, even if the gui isn’t made with a standard toolkit
Also it’s ai they don’t care about efficiency
- Comment on [Hetzner maintenance] Expected lemm.ee downtime when this post is 13 hours old. 1 month ago:
What kind of web hosting service needs to entirely shut down to do maintenance? Surely they could do a gradual rollout once they’d found a solution to the issue
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 2 months ago:
I believe just passing through external images is the way to go, it’s always the one I opt for it I can
Hosting those images is gonna get expensive and that kinda sucks for a donation run platform when that money could be far better spent elsewhere
I think also using external image sources is more in line with the idea of decentralisation, Lemmy isn’t an image host it’s a link aggregator and forum - I believe most image hosting sites will be far better at loading images quickly than Lemmy’s implementation could ever be
- Comment on Anon's body is a machine 2 months ago:
piss enjoyer yiffit.net
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 2 months ago:
Just because you can take a hammer to it doesn’t mean that’s the best solution
In the right situation I imagine it could be a useful tool, much more subtle than just smashing the thing, less time consuming than taking it apart
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 2 months ago:
Not that I know of, I meant it could be put in a pressurised spray bottle, for example a deodorant can
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 2 months ago:
If it’s bolted to a wall and unattended neither of those things are an option
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 2 months ago:
You don’t necessarily need to put it into the air supply, could just bathe the specific device you want disabled in helium from a deodorant can or something
- Comment on If Bethesda released Skyrim today, they would have made it woke 2 months ago:
Does seem that way
I’m not sure real people can be compared to fictional in that way, as your friend has infinitely more character because he’s a real person
If you were to ask your friend what his favourite food is, or what his opinion on pineapple on pizza is, or what he has for a desktop wallpaper he’d have answers for all of those questions or a reason he doesn’t have an answer
If you were to take one of these hollow characters I’m talking about and ask them that question the answer would just be made up on the spot
If your friend showed up in a TV show for 5 minutes just as himself in a situation he would realistically be in I can guarantee he’d feel real and natural because he is a real person with a history
- Comment on If Bethesda released Skyrim today, they would have made it woke 2 months ago:
The issue is the intention behind it, if the intention is comic relief they might not add much to the plot, but generally are still relevant in some way and make the film more entertaining
I’m not a huge fan of poorly fleshed out characters in general if they’ve got any amount of screen time
If they haven’t got much screen time and aren’t fleshed out it’s even worse if the one defining character trait they have is that they’re gay, black, trans, etc etc
Imagine if some adventurers go into a tavern, they talk to the generic hooded loner on their own in the corner, they give the adventurers the quest as usual and then for some reason mention that they’re vegan or something, no relevance to the story and it becomes kinda obvious to the viewer that they were only given that character trait to check a box
Kaos is one of the good examples I’ve seen recently sorry if I already mentioned it, there’s a trans character in the underworld who was part of a female only Amazon tribe and was thrown out and eventually killed for transitioning to male, but they don’t even mention any of that until he’s already been well established for a couple of episodes and they do it in enough detail that it doesn’t feel forced
I’m all for representation in media I should clarify I just want it to be done well, there are a fair few good examples but also a good number of bad ones
- Comment on If Bethesda released Skyrim today, they would have made it woke 2 months ago:
Background noise isn’t an issue for me, if there isn’t an unnatural amount of attention being drawn and the pace of the story isn’t interrupted that’s just adding interest
The problem lies for me when said character isn’t fleshed out in other ways and their only defining trait is that they’re x, or that they don’t give them any character flaws because they’re too afraid to offend that group. Results in a character that doesn’t feel natural to the story
- Comment on If Bethesda released Skyrim today, they would have made it woke 2 months ago:
It only feels shoe horned when they don’t write the character well.
There are a lot of cases where the person isn’t allowed to have any flaws or character development because they’re too scared to make them look bad in any way, which also means none of their achievements feel earned, and others where they just don’t care enough to waste screen time on things that aren’t highlighting whatever group they’re a part of
Have been a fair few shows I’ve seen where they’ve done it right, the character just happens to be whatever group they are and that’s only one of many chatacter traits, rather than that person’s only defining character trait being that they’re LGBT or disabled or whatever
The recent doctor who special is one of the bad examples, most of the time the woman in a wheelchair is onscreen it’s because they’re drawing attention to the wheelchair (oh no, a ladder, oh no a set of stairs etc etc) and not to develop her character in any way besides that
- Comment on If Bethesda released Skyrim today, they would have made it woke 2 months ago:
I wish all representation was done as well as when it was done out of creative choice rather than trying to win progressiveness points
- Comment on Chinese company busted showing off humanoid robots that actually have humans inside 3 months ago:
Did the people there actually believe they were robots? Impressive acting of course but you can see they’re costumes in the video and I imagine it’d be more obvious in person
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 3 months ago:
Ah right, wild guess says it’s designing systems for them and not attempting to teach 5 year olds c++
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 3 months ago:
So teaching/tutoring or something different? Had thought schools were a lot more balanced gender wise nowadays, at least from what I remember