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- on Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
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on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Test it on topics you’re going to dig into already (to minimize work), and you’ll quickly find how horrifying this practice is.
My favorite is when the bot “infers an answer based on what information is available”, in other words, makes shit up, instead of saying “I don’t know.”
It won’t tell you it’s doing this unless you demand source material. Spoiler: what is linked below the answers as source material can be completely unrelated to the response. Like cited sources in an Ann Coulter book.
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on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Right but sometimes conditions have to be right for it is my point. And the riots/orotests (depending) were more intense and publicized than prior. Not sure the results would’ve been the same in January. People like to think better of themselves, but background human behavior variables guide things too. Outside in January? Probably not unless your MN, WI, or MI. (There a culture of pride in weathering cold weather in the upper Midwest that doesn’t reallly sway them.) April though? Yes please, for most.
Getting to this point, doing it on scheduled work days, is step one. The energy has to be there before anything else can ignite.
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on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
I’d love to think people would’ve protested racism and gross police incompetencies ending in death regardless, but it’s highly unlikely.
Even the storming of the Bastille had to wait for nice weather.
Locking away the poors’ access to distraction could very well be that “nice weather”.
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on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
Piracy keeps the poors occupied and busy so they don’t riot. There’s no blood left to squeeze from that rock, they’re not going to buy streaming. Games are in decline as systems die of go outdated, and corporate erodes the quality of development.
They’re idiots if they push this bill in earnest.
Look what happened the last time people had too much time on their hands (Covid). And everyone has a lot more to pissed about, now.
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on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026
Selfies always read as less secure to me. Possibly problematic on bad days or Halloween.
Fingerprint or tapping a code makes more sense.
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on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
I’m waiting for the selfie required logins. Right now, you log into YouTube or anything else with that user base and they want a selfie and a phone number. YouTube even asks for your address. You can skip. For now.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
This should be a web site or YT channel. How to remove such bits without bricking the item.
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on Your LG TV Might Be Spying on Your Entire Network While You Think It's Turned Off in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Once again I’m reminded of Season 1 of Black Mirror. Second episode? Worker drone is “home”, “relaxing” in his sleep cubby and the walls are a barrage of ads. Occasionally he taps to pay credits to shut one down as the rest continue, as casual as anyone scrolling in boredom.
Or a shut down golden retriever in those old, now illegal learned helplessness experiments.
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on Your LG TV Might Be Spying on Your Entire Network While You Think It's Turned Off in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
We’re fully Linux now, various distros per machine, so I no longer pay much attention to windows news.
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on Your LG TV Might Be Spying on Your Entire Network While You Think It's Turned Off in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
I was at my parent’s house, trying to add some items to the smart TV. They started listening to these awful AI interpersonal dramas read by AI, on YouTube.
My thought was to add some podcasts and their Audible account, for more selections. Maybe they’ll still only listen to that, even so. You can’t add much to a smart tv. No podcasts. No podcast app. A pretty spartan selection of apps. Even something as large and mainstream as Audible. No go. Libby? Yeah, right.
I don’t get it. What’s the point? Just buy a monitor, jack it into a PC for media, and have everything you want minus this telemetry.
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on Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
I think the main issue is most people don’t know Google is an ad optimization company. If you say it, the reaction is most often thinking you’re jabbing at them, with reason, but that the statement isn’t the base reality.
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on Man discovers Denmark’s largest Viking Age silver hoard while digging a terrace in his garden in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026
I had this borderline nightmare thought of people creating gold and silver bars out of historical finds if they didn’t. Good law.
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on Man discovers Denmark’s largest Viking Age silver hoard while digging a terrace in his garden in c/europe@feddit.org · 5 Sep 2026
Does this man get paid for any of this find or does a museum collect it and that’s that?
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@beehaw.org · 3 Sep 2026
They are testing quite a few things atm. Radiology image recognition is definitely there. But is this what the phone wavers are accessing? No. The Google search bot and the bots being tested are two different things.
I wouldn’t get too excited about the future of AI in medicine, not given the level of venture capital and such in medicine already.
LLMs are programs that can be tuned by people who have not sworn an oath or spent 12 dedicated years and $250k debt to pursue medicine. What will motivate how these bots are tuned? Publicity and PR can create excitement, but what have the last 30years of medicine taught us? Even the radiology bot can be “turned down” in ways a human rarely would allow.
Profit speaks. Profit drives. Profit decides patient care levels and outcomes. What keeps it afloat are the people clawing back at administrators. Don’t underestimate the power of angry nurses or pushy physicians in just how much they’ve kept healthcare afloat. For you. While admin battles them from the shadows in the name of profit.
What they don’t mention among the many bots being tested is the EOLI, or, End Of Life Index. The most used electronic medical record had a bot introduced this year, unannounced, that is a probability predictor of a patient dying in the next 6 month. The mouse over admonishes caregivers not to discuss this with patients or families as it may upset them. Does/will the EOLI factor into insurance decision making?
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on Ikea cuts prices as customers struggle with rising cost of living in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
I never bought living room items there. I’ve stayed in enough airbnbs to know it’s mostly uncomfortable crap. I always saw it as a place to go for organizer items to fit spaces that don’t cost a lot of time or material. They’re also good on glass food storage of all kinds. They also used to sell cotton sheets, down comforters, and pillows worth a damn.
I did buy an off the shelf counter for $80. 6ft length. Seemed like a decent deal compared to big box. The difference was as you said. Where the big box with Formica does last, for years, this thing was toast after a little water spilled on, as happens with counters. The edging apparently has no seal and it fell off rather quickly. Not a deal. Get regular laminate at big box, if you want a basic counter that can take any wear and tear. A butcher block counter lasts longer, and they’re notorious for not lasting.
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on Ikea cuts prices as customers struggle with rising cost of living in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
I already have tools, some inherited, some new, some lucky wins at estate sales.
My point is the price was right for the item. Now it’s just greedy.
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on Ikea cuts prices as customers struggle with rising cost of living in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
IKEA is supposed to be affordable, by definition, and lately it’s not worth it.
There was the little wood shelf for $2.99. For spice jars or whatever. I couldn’t make it for that so why bother? Buy it instead. Now they want $8.99 for those bits of pine when I can get a 2x4 for $6 and make a stack of them. (There’s probably a shitty YouTube video in there somewhere.)
The quality has dropped too. I bought a decent monochrome 8’x10’ area rug. Cotton backing, edged in banding on that backing to prevent fray, dense pile. $100. It has held up well 3 years later. Went back to buy another recently. They didn’t carry it, the closest they have now is $200 and it isn’t built nearly as well.
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on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1 in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 1 Sep 2026
Idk, the fake smiling on vendors is spot on imo, especially the trade authority guy on The Den, contempt and such comes through on the guy who will buy anything and pushes a distinct smarmy vibe.
There’s room for what I’d call New Vegas refinement on Fallout 3, but it’s a huge game.
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on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1 in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 1 Sep 2026
Starfield. I’m a little surprised it’s not more popular. Blows Skyrim away imo as a real time killer.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@beehaw.org · 1 Sep 2026
Here’s an example of how not to use it. Medicine. The Internet soup includes medical advice from new agers, mommy blogs, anti-vax, chiropracty, chakras, well meaning but mistaken posters, Reddit, aggregate scrape sites, legit sites, and more.
If you take the time to correct the AI it will apologize and then move to other attempts until it nails it, maybe. Alternatively, you tell it the right answer and it confirmation biases you. (But are you actually right? The AI will never tell.)
The medical professional community is getting hit hard lately with aggressive waving of phones, yelling, and unwillingness to listen, because the Google bot said so and the medical staff doesn’t agree with the Google bot. Or, the chatGPT subscription said so. The ChatGPT guys go hard on defending the AI.
There used to be a bit of embarrassment and willingness to listen to credentialed individuals giving medical advice in contradiction to WebMD or random posts. Not always, but often.
Lately, people are defending the AI answers like it’s their own life’s work.
It’s starting to resonate, at times, like people caught in an addiction but not ready to get clean: defensive, they know what they’re about, you don’t know, and they’ve got this all under control. That’s not quite right, but it’s the closest equivalent in my experience.
Computer things though, I use it sometimes, depending.
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on I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 31 Aug 2026
Wayyyy back I requested my FB data back before the data scandal and mass exodus. The data included a transcript of all messenger messages. That was then. No doubt it’s worse now. And people still use it like Zuck and his employees aren’t all peeping Tom’s on those conversations.
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on Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
It all feels like a way to bleed money from working class to billionaires. Death by a thousand little cuts.
I understand buying HBO for a month or two to watch GOT, or Apple for Ted Lasso. I don’t understand keeping it when it’s not being used. Paying for a maybe. Or 4 maybes. Streaming services often get “used” like a gym membership.
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on Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Who can afford streaming?
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on ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
I remember that Black Mirror episode.
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on Google account & Social account needed to join in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 20 Aug 2026
The site itself is a red flag. Grammar is even off.
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on Repairing the Steam Deck LCD Gets Much More Expensive as Official Battery Reaches $180 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Batteries can be made from sodium now, why are we still here?
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on AI slop is eating the world. Trust is the first casualty in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Steven Hawking dies and the world gets buried in AI slop.
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on Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
I ask people every now and then, the theme of the answer is similar: one stop shopping, it’s easier than looking elsewhere, answering with the question where else am I going to go? People tend to take the shortest path between A and B.
There are some things you can only find there, sure, but there’s more of a shopping dopamine hit if you look around. Other retailers do exist. Most of the time you can find it elsewhere.
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on Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
The underlying problem. It’s a moocher circle jerk.
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on Is Craigslist purposefully being attacked? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Aug 2026
What’s killer is CL has what’s needed to usurp marketplace, if it would only get serious about integrating a messaging app.
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on Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
It should be watermarked. Credit for answers should go to what generated the answers. If it’s not you, well, now it’s not so easy to be a lying sack of shit.
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on Is Craigslist purposefully being attacked? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Aug 2026
Fair. I work with people such that email plays a very small role. But I never engage with it on a tiny phone screen, only when I’m sitting down with a PC or work computer.
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on Is Craigslist purposefully being attacked? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Aug 2026
Craigslist is a pita.
A guy was offloading a box of woodworking magazines. Read: full woodworking plans, multiple per mag. $10. Great.
The contact info is an email. Ridiculous, but ok, I’ll try it.
I use the junk proton mail and the guy responds like he’s on Facebook: yes it’s still available, when would you like to pick it up? Not what I asked, I gave 3 different t days I could be there in the afternoon already and never asked if it was available. He could’ve just said that works or doesn’t. More email. Fantastic.
I repeat what I said and add two more days a week later if he’s keen on waiting. He says tomorrow afternoon would be great, and names a time. But not a place. Great. More email.
I’m not going to futz with email on a tiny phone screen. I ask where while I’m at my PC. I get nothing. Next day rolls around. I try again. Nothing. The time comes and goes. Late evening I check on a lark. I get an oh sorry and he gives the address in an email time stamped hours after agreed upon pickup time.
This is Craigslist. It needs a texting platform to deal with people like this.
I’ve had similar email loops that go nowhere regarding chickens and then an armoire. Woodworking guy was that last. All trapped in email hell.
Craigslist is only under attack from itself. It needs a fast, easy way to text between users or it’s going to remain in the mud. It has the name recognition, and yet.
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on To just start dancing in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
It’s not like he could pull up songs whenever he liked. He had to take advantage of those random opportunities to dance.
Fuck Microsoft.