Enkers
@Enkers@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is 1 week ago:
It seems like people are so eagre to bash AI that they’re willing to invent their own narrative to shit on anyone who remotely sounds like they support it, even if that’s not the case.
I appreciate you actually taking the time and effort to read.
- Comment on Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is 1 week ago:
He specifically asked Copilot which percentage to set.
Ah, I see. That’s not at all clear from what the article says:
In the video, the influencer activates Copilot with the “Hey Copilot” voice activation and then asks it how they can increase the font size via Windows Settings.
Perhaps the original video has what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is 1 week ago:
Aura quickly manually sets the scale to 200%, which solves the problem but isn’t what Copilot actually suggested…
Isn’t that what almost anyone would do?
I’ve seen some pretty silly AI blunders before, but this one seems rather harmless. You’re still going to end up at the setting you need to change to solve the problem, which to me falls squarely in the “close enough” bin.
- Comment on F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree 1 month ago:
The future of this elegant and proven system was put in jeopardy last month, when Google unilaterally decreed that Android developers everywhere in the world are going to be required to register centrally with Google. […] If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all.
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 4 months ago:
AI has been a well established field of computer science for over 50 years. While LLMs are certainly a part of that field, it’s technically incorrect to conflate the two.
Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others. “GenAI” is probably the most correct term to use to refer to the transformer-based deep neural networks that have become popular in the last several years.
That said, language prescriptivism is rarely effective. So while I agree it’s incorrect to call LLMs “AI”, good luck getting laypeople to use the correct technical language from a field they mostly have very limited knowledge of.
- Comment on MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries' 4 months ago:
Even his face is a scam. I’ve never seen anyone whose entire facial expression looks like a constant veneer, barely hiding how he only sees others as an opportunity for exploitation. It’s uncanny.
- Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 months ago:
Interesting. Thank you for sharing your perspective.
- Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 months ago:
Honestly surprising to see the ratio here. Downvoters, I’m curious about your rationale.
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 6 months ago:
Now I’m curious how fennec stacks up. I’d imagine somewhere between Brave and TOR, since it still has addons and is thus susceptible to js fingerprinting. Ofc, you can also run NoScript as well, so that mitigates that issue, but it’s still not going to ever pass TOR.
- Comment on YouTube considers a daily timer for users looking to cut back on Shorts 7 months ago:
Or at least give us the option to disable them. If I wanted tictok I’d go on tiktok.
- Comment on Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now 7 months ago:
Oh, very cool! Thank you!
- Comment on Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now 7 months ago:
Is there a federated marketplace tech stack? If not, seems like it’d be a good addition to the fediverse. We need all our platforms to be enshitification resistant.
- Comment on Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse 7 months ago:
Just it’s own.
- Comment on XPG Prime tuning app dumps 50GB of anime girl photos in Redditor's temp folder 7 months ago:
Yeah, the headline makes it sound like the software was downloading anime girl pics, not just duplicating the ones that were already there. Pretty misleading IMO.
- Comment on GIMP 3.0 Released 8 months ago:
I gotta say, I tried GIMP again recently after 5+ years, and it’s soo much better than it used to be. Looking forward to giving 3.0 a spin.
- Comment on Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied. 8 months ago:
Frustrated with Microsoft’s demand, which Dormann said would only show him typing commands that were already depicted in the screenshots, and hitting Enter in CMD, the analyst created a video laden with malicious compliance.
The video is 15 minutes long and at the four-second mark flashes a screenshot from Zoolander, in which the protagonist unveils the “Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good.”
It also features a punchy techno backing track while wasting the reviewer’s time with approximately 14 minutes of inactivity.
Malicious compliance posts always make my day.
- Comment on Humane's Ai Pin was a flop. Now it's a recycling nightmare. 8 months ago:
Honestly, we need laws that require cradle-to-grave costs be included in the consumer price. Consumer recycling fees/taxes are a good start, but ultimately it needs to be the corporations providing the products that are liable for the disposal of their products. (And when I say that, I mean personal liability for C-suite execs.)
- Comment on Small study suggests dark mode doesn’t save much power for very human reasons 9 months ago:
You made a categorical claim that is not substantiated. In fact, you’re even ignoring evidence to the contrary solely because it’s anecdotal.
As the idiom goes, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- Comment on Small study suggests dark mode doesn’t save much power for very human reasons 9 months ago:
Your own source disagrees with you:
###Are there benefits to using dark mode?
The research into dark mode’s effects is far from conclusive. But anecdotally, some people claim that using dark mode does benefit them.
####Dark mode may reduce eye strain
Fans of dark mode claim that it can increase the amount of contrast between the text that you’re reading and the background.
This would, in theory, make it easier to read on your device. Since reading for long spans of time on a screen can lead to eye strain and dry eye, it seems like it might be worth giving it a try to give your eyes a break.
####Dark mode may cut down on blue light exposure
Blue light exposure does have demonstrated side effects, such as difficulty sleeping and eye strain.
Dark mode may cut down on your exposure to blue light, but you may also achieve these results by turning down the brightness of your screen after dark, especially when the space around you is dark.
- Comment on Taiwan issues public sector ban on DeepSeek, Japan eyes similar action. 9 months ago:
Fair enough. Using any non-local LLM is going to have significant negative privacy implications, though. It’s just a matter of who you’re giving your data to.
- Comment on Taiwan issues public sector ban on DeepSeek, Japan eyes similar action. 9 months ago:
I’m not sure if this is what you’re getting at, but deepseek is open source (MIT licence).
- Comment on Everyone knows your location. 9 months ago:
Absolutely wild. I knew things were bad, but wow…
Somehow it’s simultaneously shocking and making me think “Yeah, that sounds about right.”
- Comment on Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking 10 months ago:
Happy Birthday! (Technically they didn’t say we’d do it on your actual birthday.)
- Comment on An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS 1 year ago:
looks at android TV os, fire TV is
Um…
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 1 year ago:
Will it be climate change? […] Will it be ai?
Why not both? :)
- Comment on FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills 1 year ago:
TIL my router can make coffee out of thin air. What an idiot.
- Comment on Why Google Search is Falling Apart. - YouTube 1 year ago:
I really like searx so far. My only problem with it I’ve had is that instances keep going down. Obviously one can’t be too upset about a free service that’s not being monetized, but it’s still kind of frustrating to have to reconfigure it and switch all my browsers’ default searches to a new instance.
- Comment on Despite Online Threats, Users Aren’t Changing Behavior 1 year ago:
I honestly blame dark patterns in software for at least some of this. Some operating systems seem to push garbage on to your system with every new update. I just recently heard a streamer complaining about how updating his PC changed his desktop wallpaper, for example. Like… Why?
Also, virus scanners marking pirated software as false positives has done untold damage to their reputation.
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 1 year ago:
Let me rephrase: “Offering free storage is expensive because you’re more likely not to pay us for nitro.”
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 1 year ago:
Jesus, Timmy, put your Linux away! You can’t just whip that out in public.