westyvw
@westyvw@lemm.ee
kde, linux, busses, open source and the good old Grateful Dead.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 2 days ago:
When Hulu still had ads when you bought a subscription, I swore I would never pay them ever again. That was around 2014. I have stuck to it, and every year I am reminded why. Fuck Hulu.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Please don’t say breaking.
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 4 days ago:
I hope this doesn’t clog up the feed in your search for admins but I have to say: You are doing something right. I see people say Lemmy is slow, or there are large amounts of downtime. That has not happened on this instance. I have been very happy here.
I really hope you find the admins you are looking for.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 4 days ago:
I have a uncle with a similar situation. He ended up getting him a smart watch. I don’t remember which, but the search was for the strongest vibrate he could find. The phones vibrate didn’t do the job, but he feels the wrist vibrate.
He also is used to wearing a watch so he feels weird without it and there fore doesn’t forget it.
Maybe that could help you.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 4 days ago:
Not my experience at all, seems to be just about anyone can be an asshole.
I was in the library for the first time in ages, two of them actually. Mixed group of people, pretty busy. I am happy to say I heard not a single notification or phone ring the whole time. I hadn’t thought about it until you mentioned it. That was kind of refreshing. Unlike waiting rooms, the bus, coffee shop, the quiet lounge at the airport. Maybe I got lucky.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 4 days ago:
Unless I am actively waiting for something, the phone is on vibrate. But even then my attitude is notifications are what I see when I bother to take a look. There is usually nothing that cant wait until I want to take the time to deal with it.
People are so Pavlovian about their devices, I see it all the time.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 4 days ago:
For the record, not a boomer, but why are you targeting that group? Everywhere I go it is someone, just as often young as old, that thinks I want to hear their notifications, tiktok, or whatever bullshit of the day they want everyone to hear.
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 1 week ago:
I don’t think I could eat stoufers, I find that stuff really not good.
Besides its so easy to make. Beans, rice, a rotesserie chicken if you want to get fancy cheese and enchilada sauce. Make in advance and freeze portions of it. Cheaper in the long run and actually tastes good.
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 1 week ago:
My expections would be extremely low based on the brand. The less in the box might be a good thing.
- Comment on Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes [404 Media] 1 week ago:
They are getting ready to roll out the Hate and Bigotry themes.
- Comment on New Google TV update will track your movement 1 week ago:
The weather will be what it will be, and I already have a calendar.
The TV is off until the evening anyways, I cannot see the point of this at all.
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 4 weeks ago:
Morning Dew.
- Comment on When this post is 1 hour old, lemm.ee will go down for an upgrade to 0.19.7 2 months ago:
Thank you for hosting the instance!
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 months ago:
I disagree. Black Mesa is Black Mesa. It is no Half Life 1. The atmosphere in one is completely lost with Black Mesa. Start with Half Life and play to Alyx. Go back to Mesa for a second way to view 1.
- Comment on Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 3 months ago:
Your merits matter most to me. But we all need to get the hell away from that platform.
- Comment on Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 3 months ago:
That sucks. And the only way to fix it is to get people not to play.
I am on hiring committees for a large firm for it positions. When people put their linked in on their resumes, I see it as a negative. If they can’t value their personal data, I don’t see how they can value my companies.
- Comment on Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 3 months ago:
Linked in shouldn’t even be an option. It was shit before microsoft bought them (email man in the middle, remember that?) and somehow microsoft made it worse.
I would never touch that platform. Friends don’t let friends use it.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 4 months ago:
Just tried it in Edge, with no ad block.
The first link was what I was searching for. None of that extra stuff showed up. The ad (for something unrelated) was in a column in the right.
There is no account associated, little browsing history. This machine was completely wiped 2 weeks ago.
I think the difference is, I am not in the US.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 4 months ago:
Not to defend Bing in anyway, but I typed logitech unifying software and the first result is the download page on logitechs site.
I am not doubting you, but why is it so different for me? I see non of the ??? section, no ads, just a link at the top like you would expect.
What are you using or doing different?
- Comment on Kagi is announcing an AI Assistant. 4 months ago:
Do you really hate helpful algorithms (since AI doesn’t really exist yet) or do you hate the hype and marketing?
- Comment on Animals that use Drugs 4 months ago:
Amarula logo. Not a bad liquor at all.
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 4 months ago:
Admittedly a computer in everyone’s hand is new. But corel paint, for example, was 12 years old in 2003. People were basically making memes and creating scenes that never existed on a whim and for the lulz back then.
And were much, much, better then these stupid examples!
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 4 months ago:
Absolutely everyone can was about 20 years ago though.
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 4 months ago:
Those examples are so bad. You do not need AI to do any of those. That’s just cut and paste.
Hell, we have had fake reality video overlays that are better than that on our phones for over a decade.
- Comment on Windows Zero-day Flaw Let Hackers Downgrade Fully Updated Systems to Old Vulnerabilities 5 months ago:
I find it weird that people look back fondly on XP. I remember at the time thinking it looked like crap, had an interface that looked like shit, and was extremely easy to compromise.
I guess Rose colored glasses for some people…
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 6 months ago:
I am fully aware of Alan Turnings work and it is rather exceptional when you read that formulas were be8ng created for diffusion models in the late 40’s.
But i really don’t care thar whoever wrote that wikipedia page believes the hype. We are still in statistical algorithm stages. Even on the wiki page it says thar AI is aware of its surroundings as a feature of AI. We do not have that.
Also, it appears that most people are still not fooled by “ai” as we have it today, meaning it does not pass even the most basic Turing test. Which a lot of academic believe is not even enough as a marker of ai ad that too wad from the 50’s
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 6 months ago:
There is no intelligence. There is only algorithms. The place we are at is not anywhere near approaching artificial intelligence, it is only buzzwords. If you know about how this works this should be clear. I think I was being very objective: we have statistical engines and diffusion formulas. No intelligence, of any kind, is being demonstrated. AI is a marketing term at this point. No original ideas, no real knowledge of past or future events, no ability to determine correct answers from false ones. Even the better models that try to basically watch the other models are still not that great beyond the basics of “what is the next most likely word here”.
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 6 months ago:
No we haven’t. We have an appearance of a AI. Large language models and diffusion models are just machine learning. Algorithm statistic engines.
Nothing thinks, creates, cares, or knows the difference between something correct or wrong.
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 6 months ago:
Yeah kinda tired of it. We don’t even have AI yet, and here people are throwing around the term right and left and then accusing everything under the sun to be generated by it.
- Comment on So I got hit with Microsoft's Windows 11 nag screen... 7 months ago:
You are saying steam link for VR correct? Because Steam Link itself works fine.
The only thing I have to dual boot for is VR at this point. And I havent even done that in maybe 2 years. But it really is the final thing for me.
All the other games I care to play work fine. The last two Resident Evil’s were flawless. Almost everything is pretty much click and play these days.
I remote to other computers and remote into my own, so I take it you are using Parsec for something specific? I never used it before.
