Quexotic
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- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 1 week ago:
Fair. I should really quit using autocomplete and stop using Gboard for privacy reasons. Honestly, I’m just a little bit away from de-googling and going graphene. Just gotta spin up immich and a few other servers.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 1 week ago:
For som reason, “ywars” changed your voice into that of a pirate, and it made me cackle. Thanks 💛
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 1 week ago:
“every safety regulation is written in blood” and I’d add, it’s often the blood of the poor or working class.
- Comment on Microsoft wants a version of USB-C that “just works” consistently across all PCs 1 week ago:
So I thought it couldn’t possibly be that bad! So I looked it up on Amazon. Guys, it’s way worse than that bad. $60 for a goddamn cable! It supports everything though… www.amazon.com/…/B084Z65YJQ
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI's ChatGPT will integrate MCP 5 weeks ago:
It makes sense that you don’t buy it. LLMs are built on simplified renditions of neural structure. They’re totally rudimentary.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI's ChatGPT will integrate MCP 5 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, but I don’t think you’re 100% correct either. The human mind is able to synthesize reason by using a neural network to make connections and develop a profoundly complex statistical model using neurons. LLMs do the same thing, essentially, and they do it poorly in comparison. They don’t have the natural optimizations we have, so they kinda suck at it now, but to dismiss the capabilities they currently have entirely is probably a mistake.
I’m not an apologist, to be clear. There is a ton of ethical and moral baggage tied up with the way they were made and how they’re used and it needs addressed, andI think that we’re only a few clever optimizations away from a threat.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 5 weeks ago:
So, if your VPN provider is sold, why would you keep them unless you had pretty intimate knowledge of the buyer. Is that a dumb question?
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- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 5 weeks ago:
This may explain why…
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 month ago:
I may never recover from this rabbit hole. ESPhome works with so much of the crap I already have.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 2 months ago:
Well, you’ve got me there, to be honest.
It is a trap. I guess you find work-life balance by eating the rich.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 2 months ago:
Dude, seriously! I totally expect to die before I can retire. Healthcare costs alone will prevent my being able to retire.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 2 months ago:
This has been my go to anymore, especially now that I can afford it.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 2 months ago:
I cannot upvote this enough.
Without Work-Life balance, you will be miserable and it won’t matter what you plan to do outside of work you won’t want to do it.
The fact that you’ve just left college and already have a job is a fantastic thing, but the ideal is to have a good work-life balance so that you can actually live life. It took me a long time, too long, to figure that out.
- Comment on Social Media Has Me Ducking My Friends And It Sucks - Aftermath 2 months ago:
I tried out bsky and I’m thinking about just deleting everything and closing it up. It’s made me more anxious and that’s about it. I’ve seen no real benefits from it.
- Comment on Don't sleep on Retroachievements, big competition coming to beehaw & RA soon 5 months ago:
🤣
- Comment on Don't sleep on Retroachievements, big competition coming to beehaw & RA soon 5 months ago:
Yep. That’s what I read. I don’t like the idea of an app that examines other apps memory unless it’s either the OS or antivirus.
- Comment on Don't sleep on Retroachievements, big competition coming to beehaw & RA soon 5 months ago:
This software sounds pretty sketchy, it must be allowed to view the entire system’s memory and it has a webserver? What could possibly go wrong?
This sounds like a fun idea, but hard pass!
- Comment on Never Forgive Them 5 months ago:
archive.is/20241217000702/…/never-forgive-them/
Just in case…
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 6 months ago:
Fairnuff.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 6 months ago:
Interesting point. I’ll keep it in mind.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 6 months ago:
Couldn’t it be weaponized right back at them. What’s stopping an individual?
- Comment on Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNN 6 months ago:
And they expect that a 16-year-old won’t figure that out…
I guess we’ll see what happens.
- Comment on Who wants a stretchable screen? 6 months ago:
Your scientists were so concerned about whether or not they could that they never stopped to think about whether they should.
- Comment on DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow 8 months ago:
I was at that talk. I’ve never been inspired by an in person speaker like that. Makes one want to unionize.
- Comment on We Put 7 Uber Drivers in One Room. What We Found Will Shock You. 9 months ago:
I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you! -Nobody
It disappoints me that the level of regulatory capture prevents these companies from being held to account.
- Comment on Intel: Laptop Processors, Future Chips Not Affected by CPU Bug 9 months ago:
I’ve got one of those laptop chips and I feel exactly the same. I’m going to be watching my temps very closely. My trust is absolutely gone
- Comment on ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan 1 year ago:
But if China sees chip making as a state asset, I wonder if, knowing this, they may now be able to prevent it.
Hmm
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They were exceptionally difficult to find to install the app. That alone will keep them from being successful. Add to that that the app is not particularly impressive… I’m not sure if their chances.
