RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on What really happens inside a dating app. 2 weeks ago:
Also, retention is a terrible metric for a dating app. The “perfect” dating app would have a 0% retention rate since the first person you meet would be your “ideal partner”.
It’s tantamount to measuring a hospital’s performance by it’s retention rate.
- Comment on What really happens inside a dating app. 2 weeks ago:
don’t tell me to remove paying features
The founder of OkCupid disagrees with them
- Comment on Researchers say they had a ‘100% attack success rate’ on jailbreak attempts against Chinese AI DeepSeek 2 weeks ago:
Compared to other frontier models, DeepSeek R1 lacks robust guardrails
Oh no, it’s easy to make the ai running on my computer do what I want it to do, the horror.
- Comment on Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in the U.S.. However, users in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico,” and the rest of its 1 billion monthly users will see both names. 3 weeks ago:
Then they changed Turkey.
- Comment on Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit 2 months ago:
You know things are bad when Zuckerberg is looking like the good guy.
- Comment on EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax 2 months ago:
The EU really hates the poor.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 3 months ago:
I was going to disagree, because manufacturers often set a very short and arbitrary EOL, but looking at the amazon price history this doesn’t seem to have been sold new since around 2013.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 3 months ago:
Always is.
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 3 months ago:
How can it be that bad?
I’ve used zoom’s ai transcriptions, for far less mission critical stuff, and it’s generally fine (I still wouldn’t trust it for medical purposes)
- Comment on Meta Oversight Board okays calls for violence against Venezuelan ‘colectivos’ 5 months ago:
permitted ‘statements expressing a hope that violent actors will be killed,’
I guess they’ll allow Americans to say they hope their police are killed then, right?
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 6 months ago:
You can thank Torvalds for supporting TiVoization.
- Comment on YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos 7 months ago:
Great, now the AI is going to have permanent youtube clickbait face.
- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 8 months ago:
the only way to stop a bad guy with porn is with a good guy with porn.
- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 8 months ago:
VPN companies
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship 8 months ago:
Mozilla is notoriously pro censorship, they blocked dissenter a while ago.
- Comment on Amazon gets FAA approval to expand US drone deliveries 8 months ago:
Skeet shooting with prizes?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 9 months ago:
I don’t know if he’s been taken out of context, but bluesky is supposed to have opt-out moderation, and the ability to opt-in to multiple moderation servers (a little like adlists in ublock et al), which doesn’t seem like a terrible idea, but it sounds like they’ve gone further and completely removed stuff, because in reality it isn’t decentralised at all.
- Comment on Raspberry Pis get a built-in remote access tool: Raspberry Pi Connect 9 months ago:
It’s rather disappointingly proprietary.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 10 months ago:
In the years before the smartphone took over all entry-level photography, there used to be a thing called a “point-and-shoot camera.” This was a purpose-built device that only took photos
Don’t do this to me
- Comment on Discord is adding adverts "in the coming week" 10 months ago:
hopefully vencord will add an adblocker.
- Comment on “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 10 months ago:
Don’t remind them, they’ll replace it with a new UI with ads and bing AI.
- Comment on AMD, Intel, absent from China’s list of approved CPUs 10 months ago:
Not really surprising considering the IME[0] is usually considered to be a NSA backdoor.
[0] which has a privilege level of -3, compared to the kernel which is only privilege level 0.
- Comment on Are we giving away too much online? | LSE Research 10 months ago:
I blame facebook partly. Before them trying to force everyone, most people didn’t use their real name online.
- Comment on “You a—holes”: Court docs reveal Epic CEO’s anger at Steam’s 30% fees 11 months ago:
Valve COO Scott Lynch simply offered up a sardonic “You mad bro?”
Both these people seem terrible.
- Comment on AliExpress is first online marketplace to face DSA investigation by EU 11 months ago:
the Commission says it suspects the marketplace of breaching DSA rules in areas linked to … content moderation
I was worried these laws would end up with the EU trying to be the internet police, guess I was right.
- Comment on AI model recommended Black defendents 'be sentenced to death' 11 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems 11 months ago:
Be a real shame if they leaked the windows source code.
- Comment on Boris Johnson considered ‘raid’ on vaccine plant in the Netherlands 1 year ago:
Yeah, to be fair to Johnson, he wasn’t any more insane than the EU leadership, admittedly that isn’t a very high bar…
- Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rightsleftfootforward.org ↗Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Thoughts on preemtively defederating from alien.top? 1 year ago:
I usually just go to lemmyverse.net and either search for a specific topic, or sort communities by new.
