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- Comment on Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos 5 days ago:
according to Patel, who says that a “surprising number” of readers were asking for this change.
Twist: The surprising number was two, still quite a surprised though
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 5 days ago:
Well that escalated slowly and painfully.
My wife used to have a photography studio. The building was serviced by Comcast. She had a year-long lease and wasn’t sure that she was going to stay there. We called Comcast to get service minimum 3 year lease, No option but complete buyout on termination.
I asked her if there are any other options because it’s ludicrous to have a service with a 3-year minimum when leases in the building aren’t that long.
I shit you not the rep said there’s no other service available in this building, this building is only serviced by Comcast. This is the only option. I purchased an AT&T hotspot, and never gave it a second thought.
And this isn’t even my first run in with Comcast business. They’re just absolutely horrible to deal with.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, it still can’t do it itself, not even close. And it doesn’t always make good decisions, But having it set up the calls to an API? That’s 10 minutes of research I don’t have to do.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 3 weeks ago:
Of course he didn’t expect the blowback. All of the CEOs are in their own little worlds trying to figure out how to make money off of AI. They’re all taking their personal money and investing heavily in AI corporations, so they’re all very pro AI and couldn’t understand why your average person who is pretty sure it’s going to make their life worse through jobs or other means would be anti-AI.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? 4 weeks ago:
Of all the people I know who bought into e-readers, they all just went back to books. Kindle is the only one that seems to still pop up, but people hate amazon so much they’d far father buy from mom and pop shops.
- Comment on Texas governor signs online safety law in blow to Apple and Google 5 weeks ago:
It’s a decent enough plan, Watch his support crumble and seconds.
Hi, Verizon I need a phone that’s not running Android or iOS…
- Comment on The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites 5 weeks ago:
So the article says that it can reduce their lifespan by up to 10 days.
A quick check on the lifespan of the satellite, They claim they’re about 5 years.
I’d say the article title got done splainin’ to do.
In other news, how can we help the sun do better, 10 days is not enough.
- Comment on Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative 1 month ago:
DDG doesn’t just use Bing, but Bing is one of the things they use.
I suspect that in time, all search reuslts will come from AI. I also suspect that it will eventually get good enough that it won’t matter from a finding what you’re looking for perspective. Ever since backlinks became passé, companies have been trying to do pretty much what AI is trying to do, get meaning from scraping rather than just programmatically give you the best word soup.
Where I really fear for our collective experience is the ability of the AI to sell us on things without it being an obvious sell. “board games 2025” becomes "return a list of boardgames that are popular in 2025, but give the results for pages that include wizards of the coast games near the top of their lists or that show them in a particularly positive light and be sure to include more negative results for game from other companies.
- Comment on EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate 1 month ago:
You know what’s more effective at saving money than tax breaks? Not having a huge office you don’t need :)
just sayin’
- Comment on Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns 1 month ago:
They’re just taking notes from the US tech companies.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 1 month ago:
If you make it opt out by default, They could just design the software to not let you enter the page unless you opt in. Often get the page opt out get a nice advertisement for the service.
Even using cookies to help with load balancing is a pain in the ass these days. There’s a fuck ton of legitimate reasons to use cookies, If you want to stop tracking, Make it illegal to track people and sell advertising data based on it.
- Comment on Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education 1 month ago:
All this AI pressure is coming from somewhere. I think Altman got to all the CEOs and convinced them the day I was the future and they’re all heavily invested stock-wise.
They’re all starving to get more AI and back to the office because their personal fortunes are tied up in those endeavors.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 1 month ago:
Nah, they outed a French activist due to a court order. Maybe they’re learning though…
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 2 months ago:
No need
Install the free offline reader software from here
Then grab what content you want from dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/
Here’s English Wikipedia, with pictures from 2024 dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/)wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
names with maxi have all the pictures names with mini few pictures and abridged content names with nopic have no pictures and abridged content
if it says science or basketball, it’s just things flagged as science or things flagged as basketball.
- Comment on Yahoo wants to buy Chrome 2 months ago:
Sounds fine to me, I’ll continue to keep not using it
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 2 months ago:
Kind of sounds like a bot. Thing is, I agree with it so I’m torn.
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
It’s possible that it’s just people managing contractors. You used to have to really blaze trails to make stuff like this happen But now, every part of the equation is a solved task. Most of the work is weaving together the APIs of a dozen different storage and hardware as a service companies.
It’s also possible that a stressed out startup doesn’t take time to update their about page beyond their management when they’re looking to get seed capital.
In any case, the likely either be sued or bought out before they get any kind of serious momentum. The broligarchs don’t take kindly to competition.
- Comment on Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption 2 months ago:
Happened at a non Google data center near me years ago. Even though the PDUs were powered by the battery matrix all the time, the sense on the switchover relays from utility to generator were miswired after some critical hardware maintenance was done.
At the next generator test, when the generator shut down at the end of the test the battery is refused to switch back to utility.
It was a really big data center, and a really big power feed. There was no easy way to manually fix it because the contactors were so big that it was an arc flash danger. They lost a good portion of a day getting a power engineer on site to confirm the state of everything and get them reconnected.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 2 months ago:
techcrunch.com/…/notorious-image-board-4chan-hack…
The’re kind wild west about Doxing people. They’re all about to be doxed.
There’s a lot of Alt-Right on there.
- Comment on Shopify CEO tells teams to consider using AI before growing headcount 2 months ago:
All these CEO’s are getting cold calls from OpenAI, sitting through a 30 minute high pressure sales pitch that tells them they can do 3x the work with 1/3 the staff for a small monthly fee that scales with work done and they’re all slobbering to buy it.
- Comment on Perplexity wants to buy TikTok and open-source its algorithm 3 months ago:
Somebody is looking for video training data?
- Comment on Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job? 3 months ago:
Hell No, We use pickerwheel.com
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 months ago:
Sounds like the attack is Bluetooth based itself.
So if somebody has command and control over any IoT device with Bluetooth…
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 3 months ago:
I lived through those, once was enough, thank you.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 3 months ago:
Oh Brother.
Seriously though, they were like our last bastion of sane printers.
We may have to concede that the home printer market is no longer sustainable.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 4 months ago:
I so love me some VLDL. thanks for the share.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 4 months ago:
You have a schedule And it’s a pipeline
When design calls for a change, you need art and dev to do more.
If CI takes forever and devs are fighting for perf, everyone gets backed up.
You can see in the releases, gameplay often takes a backseat to pretty.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 4 months ago:
We don’t. But I am in the games industry and I can make some pretty solid guesses.
There’s a hell of a lot of titles coming out with years and years of development time. They’re having to port the engine two or more times during that development cycle only to come out to moderately shitty reviews
They’re killing themselves on 4K, high refresh rate, dynamically lit games like the beauty of a game is going to make up for it being shallow and boring.
I hope it comes out and knocks it out of the park. But if it doesn’t knock it out of the park, I hope they didn’t spend another couple of years trying to make it look pretty only to end up as being yet another mixed review release.
- Comment on The Senate Passed The TAKE IT DOWN Act, Threatening Free Expression and Due Process 4 months ago:
My own summary
The bills stated purpose: The bill is meant to speed up the removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including videos that imitate real people, a technology sometimes called “deepfakes.”
The bill suffers from overly broad definitions and contains no protections from griefing. (Like YouTube takedowns from people that don’t own content)
The bill has been passed by the Senate but can be stopped by the house
- Comment on YouTube says it will show fewer mid-roll ads that it thinks will interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more at “natural break points” like pauses or transitions. 4 months ago:
I am absolutely certain at some point they will give us a well encrypted multiple key change per minute mpeg stream At real time bit rates only. I think that’s their final form. It’s also possible they could just run the commercials on 2/3 of the screen while our streams are running.
Our final form will be to use desktop apps and calm skip to take the commercials out of the stream or block them on the picture and picture page and host our own preferred viewership on our own media servers for our own consumption. Or maybe a torrenting community springs up around this and YouTube content is now just torrented.