hendrik
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- Comment on Why are some shows so dark? 1 week ago:
That’s your motivation to buy a new TV with OLED, high contrast and a smarthome with nice automatic blinds for the windows.
But seriously, I thought that was mainly over by now? I had a lot of those shows 5-10 years ago. But seems they still do it.
- Comment on [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)? 1 week ago:
I think the entire origin story of Amazon and why they outcompeted other bookstores, online- and mail-order companies was automation and their more streamlined processes. Afaik they’ve made sure from early on to have that chain of automation go end to end and that’s been their huge advantage.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and super weird to write something like this about Star Trek of all the fiction out there. I can’t remember any episode where stupidity is portrayed as good or acceptable?! I mean the whole point of TOS is all the characters who are lined up on that picture, being clever in very different ways and combining that to have some fun in outta space…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Well the reasoning in the article has nothing to do with the audience being conservative. It’s: Star Trek has a mainly male audience. Males are conservative. Then they show some picture how males went more conservative some 50 years(!) after it aired for the first time…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Hilarious. The Republicans are watching progressive shit promoting liberalism, equality and ethics?
- Comment on ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says 4 weeks ago:
[…] said the company has now been able to mitigate the serious mental health risks and […]
Wow. So they don’t just ignore all the warnings about detected suicidal thoughts any longer? As far as I remember from the news stories, that specific teenager got flagged hundreds of times by their systems for spiralling towards suicide. It’s just that OpenAI didn’t do anything…
- Comment on CAPTCHAs make me lowkey mad 4 weeks ago:
Reportedly, this training of bots is a thing of the past. Google used to do this, make people put in the street numbers from Street View or blurred words from book scans. But from what I read this isn’t really necessary any more, AI and computer vision got better and what we see these days is just wasted effort, it doesn’t contribute to anything except tell if you’re able to solve the challenge. I wonder why they still do all the zebra crossings and motorcycles and fire hydrants, though.
- Comment on The documentation links in PlatformIO are all bit [dot] ly short links 1 month ago:
Guess they’d have to click on it first.
- Comment on The documentation links in PlatformIO are all bit [dot] ly short links 1 month ago:
Wtf? I hope my commandline version of PlatformIO doesn’t do annoying things like that.
- Comment on My instance is lagging behind 14 hours of federated content... 1 month ago:
Seems it caught up a bit since. Now it's less than 2h, maybe less.
- Comment on Um if I upload a pic of my dog can someone cartoonize it like smoking a blunt or cigar or cig?? Don't really know how it works here because the mods post shhoow. Any help will help?? 2 months ago:
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 2 months ago:
Idk, does AI have anything to offer on the empathy side, except sycophancy and repeating what I just said?
- Comment on LLMs aren’t world models 2 months ago:
Oh well, LLMs are notoriously bad at chess. Other tasks as well. Maths, especially counting... But I'd say this is because they're not very intelligent. And not trained to be a chess computer. So a clever middle-school kid will outperform them at chess. Or a kindergarden kid at counting letters in words. But that doesn't directly lead to the conclusion they're not world models. That'd conclusion needs some qualifying, quantification and a mathematical proof. This is just opinion.
- Comment on Man, I really got hit with a "All men are predators, it's in the studies". 2nd wave feminism is a scourge on feminism itself. 3 months ago:
Maybe ask for the studies? I mean if that's phrased as a fact... Why not read up on it? Maybe they're mistaken, or you are.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 3 months ago:
I believe my WebOS version is so old, they stopped any update or data collection servers. I had developer mode running before. That's perfectly alright. Just a bit annoying to constantly refresh, and somehow my attempts to automate it failed. So one day I rooted it and now I have full ssh access, a homebrew channel... And I would have liked to use that to run an Ambilight, and that requires root. Sadly it requires a newer operating system version so I still don't have any LEDs in the background.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 3 months ago:
Youtube-webos is the single reason why I've resumed watching YT in the livingroom. I had stopped when they introduced the second pre-roll ad and a lot of things became unskippable. Now my old TV is rooted, it doesn't really phone home, it doesn't show ads and it's a breeze. Let's hope it stays that way, because Google is already trying to fight the adblockers for some time now.
- Comment on Shitsharing 4 months ago:
Correct. We currently have some sentiment against liberal spaces and DEI programs and so on. And some people think it's the war against straight white men. But having a men's groups or women's groups or safe-spaces to talk freely about whatever topics isn't authoritarian. The opposite of it is equally true. You can't discuss certain topics without the correct space for it, and not allowing them to discuss how they like is authoritatian as well!
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 4 months ago:
Concerning the IQ: App development and regular programming aren't that hard. It needs some time and dedication, and willingness to learn how all these things work and tie together, but I think everyone with an average IQ could do it. It's other domains where you need a high IQ, like writing advanced signal processing algorithms. Or detailed security audits. But App development is just moderately complex, you can get away with basic math... So I'd say it's doable. Still needs quite some time and effort though. At least several weeks to months. And the Kotlin book I have has like 800 pages filled with information, and that just takes some time to work through. None of it is magic, though. You do one chapter at a time.
- Comment on WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family 4 months ago:
I think there is an entire meme genre about Apple AI notification summaries and the sometimes hilarious results.
- Comment on Explainable AI (XAI), Decoded: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Fails 4 months ago:
Is it just me, or does the article just throw some words at me like LIME, SHAP, and ELI5 but doesn't really explain what they do and how they contribute? I mean there are quite some interesting things in there. But concerning the tech, I didn't learn much. How does a colorful map of the activations tell me what it did and how it got there?
- Comment on Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project 4 months ago:
Hope they still continue Common Voice so at least others can build upon their efforts towards TTS.
- Comment on Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI 5 months ago:
I think the dataset/benchmark "FrontierMath" is out there. Just no evidence of this "secret meeting" taking place, or the results of it. At least nothing I can find by clicking on random links in the article.
- Comment on Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI 5 months ago:
Is this an exercise in creative writing or real? Surely FrontierMath or one of the mathematicians must have written an announcement, paper or blogpost?
- Comment on I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse. 5 months ago:
I'm pretty sure hilariouschaos used to hand-pick instances they federate with. I'm not sure if they still do it but that's why their content isn't available at some places. In addition to that some instances chose not to federate with them so it goes both ways.
- Comment on How do I rent a botnet? 5 months ago:
I think unless you want to send some money to a shady self-proclaimed hacker, you'd just go with a regular computer security company. They can do it and they'll have people who know what to look for. And before you yourself launch a large DDoS attack on "your" rented virtual server, contact your hoster and give them a heads-up, since that's really their servers and netwoking infrastructure.
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 5 months ago:
It is misrepresenting the facts quite a bit. I think microwave links might be able to do a bit more bandwidth. And laser can do way more than ChatGPT attributes to it. It can do 1 or 2.5 Gbps as well. The main thing about optics is that it comes without electromagnetic interference. And you don't need to have a fresnel zone without obstacles, and you don't need a license. The other things about laser being more susceptible to weather, etc should be about right.
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 5 months ago:
Sure. I think we're talking a bit about different things here. I didn't want to copy it, just know how it's done 😆 But yeah, you're right. And what you said has another benefit, if they want to protect it by law, we have a process for that: Patents. And those require to publish how it's done...
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 5 months ago:
Nah, all it takes is one person buying it, disassemble it and look at the mechanics to see whether there are things like motors and mirrors inside the transmitter. And I mean physics, lenses and near infraread lasers along with signal processing are well-understood as well. I think it won't be a big secret once it turns into a real thing... I mean as long as it's hype only it might be.
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 5 months ago:
I wonder what they did, though. Because the article is omitting most of the interesting details and frames it as if this as if optical communication in itself was something new or disruptive... I mean if I read the Wikipedia article on Long-range optical wireless communication, it seems a bunch of companies have already invested 3digit million sums into solving this exact issue...
- Comment on The number of manipulative, disinformation posts on lemmy is too damn high 5 months ago:
I don't think it's as easy as that. The developers hold that resentment. But that doesn't mean it translates to the users. Also Lemmy as we know it today has be very much shaped by the Reddit exodus. So even if it had been marxist at some point (which I'd argue it didn't), that's long gone.