drspod
@drspod@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 1 day ago:
Only Pro models support reasonable speeds for USB-C, up to 10Gbps. Regular iPhones are capped at USB 2.0 rates, up to 480Mbps, which is no faster than Lightning. With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds – with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.
10Gbps is about 20x more than 480Mbs but 8secs times 20 is 160secs which is a lot less than 16minutes so what is going on with this calculation?
With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds
1GB / 10Gbps = 1GB / 1.25GBps = 0.8secs
with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.
1GB / 480Mbps = 1GB / 0.48Gbps = 1GB / 0.06GBps = 16.67secs
Wow what a great article, well done.
- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 1 day ago:
Exactly, it’s a Peter Principle crisis.
- Comment on Apple owes more than $700M in standard-essential patent royalties and interest to licensing firm Optis: England & Wales Court of Appeal 2 days ago:
Patents relating to 4G apparently.
Why are we building our global communication networks on patented IP that has to be licensed anyway? Isn’t this a huge barrier to entry to the telecommunications market for new businesses? Why is the market artificially protected in this way?
Lobbyists and bribes; I bet the answer is lobbyists and bribes.
- Comment on Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos 2 days ago:
- Comment on Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation 5 days ago:
This marks the end of the beginning of the end.
- Comment on Sycamore Gap tree destroyed in 'moronic mission', court told 1 week ago:
- They drove there in their own vehicle
- They were seen on CCTV cameras going there and back
- They turned off their phones around the time when the tree was cut down
- They filmed it being cut down
- They took a photo of a piece of the tree in the back of their car
- They discussed it over text messages and voice notes as the media coverage picked up
- ** They pled not guilty** 🤣
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 week ago:
ghoul
- Comment on Right-wing media generating hysteria over trans women running non-competitively in London Marathon 1 week ago:
Maybe we should ban right-wingers in sports.
- Comment on Ofcom announces new rules to keep children safe online 1 week ago:
- Effective age checks. The riskiest services must use highly effective age assurance to identify which users are children. This means they can protect them from harmful material, while preserving adults’ rights to access legal content. That may involve preventing children from accessing the entire site or app, or only some parts or kinds of content. If services have minimum age requirements but are not using strong age checks, they must assume younger children are on their service and ensure they have an age-appropriate experience.
That’s what it’s really about.
It’s not about protecting children, it’s about ensuring that adults can’t use the internet anonymously.
- Comment on Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO 1 week ago:
Their current market cap is 443B with a P/E of 50, so already massively overpriced.
For comparison, Google P/E is 20, Amazon P/E is 32, Meta P/E is 21, Microsoft P/E is 30.
They would need to more than double their profits to get to 1Tn market cap with the same joke of a price to earnings ratio. At this point I doubt that will be by doubling their customer base. It’s going to be by cutting corners: paying less for shows which means lower quality shows, cutting bandwidth costs which means lower quality streams, and charging customers more for the pleasure. Classic enshittification incoming.
- Comment on Caution urged as UK supermarkets check out facial recognition 1 week ago:
So if you happen to look like someone who was once suspected of shoplifting then you’ll no longer be able to buy food anywhere. What could possibly go wrong.
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 2 weeks ago:
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for an American to buy eggs.
- Comment on Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop 2 weeks ago:
Par for the course with Ubuntu. They always fuck something.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 2 weeks ago:
cryptocurrency conference in Bedford
This is the funniest part to me.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 2 weeks ago:
They’re easily taken-in by some grifter selling them their software platform. It’s the same as all the famous people selling their own cryptocoin that turns out to be a rug-pull - someone approached them and dazzled them with buzzwords and jargon, and all they saw was dollar signs.
- Comment on Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins 2 weeks ago:
So imagine the language model can produce grammatically correct and semantically meaningful dolphin language, how does it translate that to a human language?
The reason LLMs can do this for human languages is that we have an enormous corpus of Rosetta stones for every language that allow the model to correlate concepts in each language. The training data for human to dolphin is going to be just these “behavioural notes.”
So the outcome is that the bullshitting machine will bullshit the scientists that it knows what they’re saying when it’s actually just making stuff up.
It’s a big problem with LLMs that they very rarely answer, “I don’t know.”
- Comment on Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins 2 weeks ago:
It’s just going to hallucinate bullshit. Because we have so much training data of conversations between humans and dolphins don’t we?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 3 weeks ago:
IP = Imaginary Property
- Comment on Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now 3 weeks ago:
In the country I live in, the person-to-person selling platform is the second most visited website.
- Comment on Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now 3 weeks ago:
In print, yes I agree, but online some locales have their own homegrown websites for classified ads that aren’t Big-Tech owned.
- Comment on Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now 3 weeks ago:
Fuck Zuck. Use your local classified ads and second hand marketplaces.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill 3 weeks ago:
It’s going to target people with names that sound like they were hallucinated by an AI like “Carrot Slat” or “Sulu Candles.”
- Comment on Parkour boomer shooter Metal Eden has a free demo out now, and you can even win some dosh playing it if you're quick enough 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Boomer shooter Gravelord adds controller support and gets Steam Deck Verified 4 weeks ago:
SAY BOOMER SHOOTER ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a self-driving horse, but I implore you not to use it 4 weeks ago:
and Origins and Valhalla
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 4 weeks ago:
AI = An Insult (to life itself)
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 4 weeks ago:
what about egg game?
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 5 weeks ago:
JK Rowlling is a transphobe, a bigot, and a fascist.
- Comment on Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House 5 weeks ago:
What the actual fuck?
- Comment on AI companies should be charged percentages of their net worth for infringements 5 weeks ago:
Or maybe the directors should go to jail. Why can people get away with breaking the law just because they hide behind a company name?
