roofuskit
@roofuskit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes 1 day ago:
Motorola Mobility is wholly owned by Lenovo, and by Motorola Mobility I mean the name. That is all they purchased. No engineers, no IP, nothing but the name.
Lenovo, Motorola hasn’t made phones for 12 years.
- Comment on Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI 2 weeks ago:
People with that much wealth and power have no motivation to cheat right? RIGHT? I mean, its not like we’ve built our entire society around that.
- Comment on "This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice 3 weeks ago:
Its well established law that human people must be the creator of a copyrighted work. There have even already been cases involving LLMs and other generative AI that have upheld the precedent.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Does not appear to involve technology any more than a report on a car accident would. Political delay of a power plant isn’t a technology news item.
- Comment on Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools 2 months ago:
This didn’t happen years ago?
- Comment on America and Japan may join forces to manufacture displays in the US — New $13 billion fab proposed by Japan Display Inc. to counter Chinese dominance 2 months ago:
Lol, more vaporfactories.
- Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion 2 months ago:
I host my own of this which is nice for testing local connections as well
- Comment on Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools 2 months ago:
How long before Dorsey goes full musk and forces all Bluedky users to integrate with block?
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 3 months ago:
There are companies that advertise their products doing everything locally. Eufy for one. Although, be warned that anything that sends you a push notification must send SOMETHING to the cloud. People lost their minds a year or two ago when someone pointed out Eufy’s push notifications send recognized faces to th cloud as part of their push notifications. Eufy did add a warning and the option to disable, or made it opt in I think.
Anyway, the point of all that is it’s all a matter of degrees. Ring and Nest rely heavily on the cloud to process your video and do just about everything. But there are local solutions with varying degrees of local.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 3 months ago:
Yeah, most of those cameras don’t do the machine vision tasks on the device. They stream video to the server which processes it faster.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 3 months ago:
Most of the content I view is downloaded and encoded from Blu-ray.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 3 months ago:
I can 100% tell the difference between 1080p and 720p. I can tell with 1080p and UHD as well, but I honestly think that has more to do with the size of the compression artifacts. Compared to the image.
- Comment on Nudify Apps Widely Available in Apple and Google App Stores 3 months ago:
But don’t track people who might murder you for inconveniencing them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That’s gotta be some sort of reporting correction.
- Comment on Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown 3 months ago:
The same tech used by Israel.
- Comment on Should AI Agents Be Classified As People? 4 months ago:
Should the shit I took this morning be classified as a person?
- Comment on Asus unveils cable-free AIO liquid coolers to streamline PC builds for a cleaner look — ROG Strix LC IV series debuts with proprietary AIO Q-Connector, motherboards to match 4 months ago:
I pull this up ight up there with the proprietary GPU power connectors that force you to buy a card and motherboard from the same vendor. Hard pass.
- Comment on Nvidia reportedly plans 30-40% cut in GeForce GPU production in early 2026 5 months ago:
And more for Nvidia.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Why are any headlines being written about Xitter that aren’t about its bankruptcy.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Lol, a pair of 8GB (16 total) sticks went from $150 already over priced to $180 in two days. So unless you’re buying pre-built it’s going to be way more than 5%.
I bought two NVME SSDs earlier this year, now it costs as much for one as I paid for two of them.
Fuck this, build state owned foundries and sell capacity cheap whenever this shit happens.
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 5 months ago:
This needs a nottheonion tag.
- Comment on China Is Building the Future 6 months ago:
Why does a publication like the Atlantic need to give a billionaire a platform?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 6 months ago:
Chips that are really only competitive for a year are sitting on shelves. Good thing they reduced consumer GPU capacity to make these. The rest of us might be paying reasonable prices otherwise.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 6 months ago:
Did you read it? They’re building an algorithm to control what you see.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 6 months ago:
It always starts that way. But the tighter reliance on their control only leads one place.
- Comment on If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one 6 months ago:
Now THAT’S aboringdystopia.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous | Immich Blog 7 months ago:
The question that needs to be asked, “why are you still using Chrome?”
- Comment on Aura introduces a $499 e-ink digital photo frame that lets you go cordless 7 months ago:
This is not kaleido, this is Spectra 6 which is unusable for e-readers as it’s meant for digital signage. It takes as much as 30 seconds to refresh a spectra 6 screen.
- Comment on Aura introduces a $499 e-ink digital photo frame that lets you go cordless 7 months ago:
Be warned, this market is currently exploding with options so if you are considering one SHOP AROUND THOROUGHLY. There are only going to be a handful of different screens all made by the same two companies, so the other features and app functionality will be how these are truly differentiated.
- Comment on Leaked Amazon Plans Say Robots Will Help It Avoid Hiring 600,000 Workers 7 months ago:
They’ve been working on it for decades. They got so excited for robots they started treating their human workers like robots.