Sludgehammer

@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wondered if you could make a kit to swap out a cars computer with a… Raspberry Pi or something. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a car where you know what hardware it has, what software it’s running and who gets data from it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What was then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a feeling if I lit truck load of old computers on fire in a quarry or something, arguing “When you think about it most of the e-waste was just metal PC cases so it doesn’t count” would not fly in court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Retrieving the deorbited satellites — which weigh roughly 573 to 650 pounds (260 to 295 kg) for first-generation units and 1,764 to 2,756 pounds (800 to 1,250 kg) for second-generation units — is technically impractical and financially unviable, according to the company. Hence, the incineration technique.

  So that’s 148,980 to 325,000 kilograms (or 148.98 to 325 tons) of electronics burned by single corporation in half a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Play classic WoW offline on the deck with NPC players⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, while (most of the time) I liked chatting with people in MMORPGs when it came to quests or raids, it really quickly broke down. It always seemed to end up being a game of “Oh Bob’s gonna be here in fifteen minutes we just gotta wait” or “Fred’s just fucked up his role and now we’re looking at a party wipe”.

  IMO as a chat room most MMORPG’s work fine, as a casual hang out with friends they’re fine too. But when you get to “You need 10+ people to do this dungeon” they really stopped being fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I skimmed it, but not well apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Folks choosing the black-and-white HiBreak S will get visuals at 720 x 1,440 pixels (276 ppi), plus the company’s own fast-refresh technology that supports refresh rates of up to 24 frames per second.

  Wow, for e-ink that’s pretty good.

  Nothing in the article about battery life though. I have to wonder if having a e-ink screen would extend the battery life of a phone noticeably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grok will claim anything that its training data suggests is statistically related to the question. It has no knowledge of what happening in the world or why (or if) it has been censored, because it does not know literally anything. If the data it scraped from the web suggested that it was censored for revealing that Mars was a giant cookie, it would confidently state that as a answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, ICE is in the proto Schutzstaffel phase. For now they only abuse and kidnap people who fit the ever expanding category of “foreigners”, but we’re only one dementia decision away from Trump deciding that it’s only his most dedicated bootlickers can be trusted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they take in current hype, change a few words and then regurgitate it with slightly different words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditors have lost their f**king minds..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for saving me a click.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… now that you mention it there were more then a few half finished ends to my post where I speculated that maybe Mush was just stupid or deluded by the sycophants he surrounds himself with, but after struggling with the ending I decide to just keep it simple and take him at his word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’

  Honestly, I’m surprised that things are going that well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accounting Firm's AI Caught Telling Customers About Each Others' Financial Records⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  its spokesperson described the AI blunder as a “minor issue” that only involved a “small amount” of customers.

  If this has happened once there’s probably dozens (possibly hundreds) of other ways you can “trick” the chatbot into revealing that information. As an example while Google’s Gemini refuses to directly tell you how to make napalm, you can simply ask it what napalm is, then what ratio of gasoline and polystyrene it contains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nooo… you’re supposed to be giving your salable data to US firms!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man the first hackers to get their hands on that data are gonna get rich. Blackmail material, personal details, banking information, passwords, everything you could want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google accidentally leaked a preview of its Jarvis AI that can take over computers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Qh man, that’s gonna enable some interesting malware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing the hype train has slowed down, the initial investment money has been pocketed uppermost management and now the middle managers have been tasked with “Make the company profitable somehow or your fired.” So they’re hiking prices to try and fill a massive hole in the budget and they’re using AI slop production as a fig leaf to cover it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech Launches An “AI” Mouse That’s Just A 2022 Mouse With A Mappable Button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  “AI” is to the 2020’s what “Cyber” was to the early 2000’s; something marketing will slap onto any product in an attempt to make it seem more high tech

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  The future is weird.