@dustyData@lemmy.world

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To be a creepy perv. It was obvious since first revealed.

Also, Google glasses were just as creepy. Thy worked in the technical sense. Complete social and market failure though.

on Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta's Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
They’re just impractical Bluetooth headphones.

on Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta's Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
I know it is your dream. But, doing a presentation while wearing sunglasses indoor doesn’t exactly transmit humanity, connection nor empathy. I would nope out of that presentation. Everything else is just an app. They are all non-critical things, they don’t require a HUD.

Anyways, that’s irrelevant because meta glasses don’t have screens. So, no AR functionality.

on Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta's Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
Out of stock

on Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Yeah, let’s forget the 4 decades of terror where everyone lived at the edge under the threat of inminent apocalyptical destruction. Kids had to do nuclear incident drills and we almost had a Doom’s day, twice.

But it’s OK, then the 1% became anti nuclear anyways in order to hold back the transition to fossil free renewables for another two decades. So you can say it was all a 1,5° net positive.

on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
I skim them all. The options I wrote are soft parodies of what each said. There’s a ton of problems with this model of governance, but I’m no voting member, so my opinion has no impact.

That said, it makes it so a single posture has to be voted on in its entirety, which is dumb (as some legislative bodies of the world have proven). As a result, nuance is erased alongside with any sense of ideological vision or compromise, and instead it promotes vagueness in every action and glacial institutions that break slowly break apart.

The very person who wrote the proposal that won reacted to winning with:

I regret the loss of contributors (which would have happened with either option winnign [sic]). It is just too early to take a final decision on the mater [sic]. Let’s revisit this in two years or so, and let this mess of a GR be a warning for our future selves.

The proposal was designed to win time without having to take any real stance while taking the smallest loss of contributors in the process. And thus it was written as the most milketoast nothing burger. When an infinite set of possibilities exists that actually do address real concerns like climate impact, social impacts, copyright and legal problems related to generated code, etc. in relation to the principles and overall values of the project. Instead, they are deferring the practicalities to pull request’s bickering.

But again, I’m not a voting member or contributor. So my opinion is null. I still think the way the process is designed and conducted is stupid and prone to cause the eventual failure of debian via governance collapse.

on Self-Host Weekly (4 September 2026) by @eshol in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
Do you guys remember PhysX? You needed a whole ass dedicated card for it. NVIDIA has been looking for these outs for a looooooong time.

on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
The Debian vote was so stupid:
```
Option A: Psychotic breakdown
Option B: Ethical impracticality
Option C: Political extremism
Option D: Two contradictory things at once
Option E: Something that doesn't prevent the other options but packaged with something nasty and unpalatable
Option F: Sensible but ultimately vague and action-less common place neutrality.
Option G: Nuclear option
Option H: Do nothing
```
It was such a brain dead exercise in futility. It was designed for the winner from the start.

Nussbaun’s comment on the result is hilariously dull:

On a very personal note, I regret that the winning option does not acknowledge all the legitimate concerns around AI: environmental impact, copyright and licensing uncertainty, the health of Free Software communities, and the strain of aggressive scraping on the open web.

The GR results give us raw numbers about our opinion, and a direction, but we have a lot of work ahead of us to act as a community and understand how we can continue to accommodate the very large minority that would have preferred to ban or discourage AI.

Lucas

¹ obligatory disclosure: the script used is AI-generated

Yeah, the option that doesn’t say anything won. Who knew?…wait yes, mathematicians, they knew. The most important part of a survey is choosing the options carefully.
on Self-Host Weekly (4 September 2026) by @eshol in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
So, if he dies of poisoning from eating the incorrect plant, Gemini goes to prison? Jim Google is on trial? What is the actual angle here?

on Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
When you see that still the most used screen resolution is 1080 and even the very few people who are upgrading, do so only up to 1440. It is easy to see that graphics stopped being impressive a while ago. It seems that a long time ago people were still arguing FPS vs Resolution. FPS wins every single time. 24fps is fine for movies, it might add to the cinematic look. But in an interactive medium, FPS is king. Give me low latency and fast response times over anything else. People don’t notice when games look like shit, but they do notice when the gameplay is laggy or buggy. Most friendslop (compliment) games are very simple and basic in their looks, but still capture the gaming and streaming culture for months at a time. While AAAA games are now struggling to stay relevant beyond the launch week. It is the same trend as with movies. Blockbusters break records and then nobody ever remembers they even watched it. I guess that the algorithmic fragmentation of culture is finally catching up with us all.

on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Bad news buddy. Ethics are politics. If anything politics is the warfare for the implementation of ethics. You can’t be ethical yet unwilling to enforce your ethics, and the only way to do that is to engage in politics. That’s just the only way to influence the behavior of other human beings.

The worse part is that tech culture has failed to understand that all and any technology is part of the conflict to define politics. Whether you like it or not. Anything that involves a person besides yourself is political, because humans are political animals.

on Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Sleazy lawyers expect the judge to have rocks for brains and buy this argument. They’re relying on the ignorance of digital goods and how they work. I hope they didn’t forget that neat word from the last corpo scam before AI, non-fungible. Every copy is indistinguishable from all the other copies. If you can sell infinite copies at no cost, then people should be able to buy a copy and keep it in a working state forever. Fuck DRM.

on Sony lawyers argue that nobody is stupid enough to believe they actually own digital games, because then only one person could buy GTA 6 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Don’t go there, I see a “buy license” button in our future. Right now, nothing but the string of text has to change. They have been changing what really matters, the crazy infrastructure behind that prevents downloading, and allows erasing, the content we have bought.

on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
That’s where my doubt lies. Is it really gonna be better than a pro doing exposure bracketing? Because my point is that you don’t have to buy a brand new $1800 camera from last year. When a camera from a decade ago will excel that performance with only a tiny bit of practice and skill for a third of the price of a new phone. Phone cameras have gone a long way, but they are physically limited in ways that no new sensor can overcome. New material tech is not going to surpass basic light geometry.

Are 8 extra stops of performance going to justify a new AI riddled, surveillance and privacy nightmare device? When you can get 24, 30 or more stops of performance with a decade old tech. I don’t think so. The average hobbyist who wants better technical specs for photography would be misled if they looked at new smartphones and not into the recent past of digital cameras. And stop obsessing over OM, that’s a tangent on my comment and just my personal preference. A Sony, Canon or Fuji would fit just as well into the argument if that’s the buyer’s preference.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Yeah, then do that. My point is that it doesn’t take a lot of money to surpass flagship smartphone cameras anymore. Plus Google is not obsessively looking at your dick pics that way.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
MFT is far from dead though. Their glass is top tier even in the plastic bodies. And the point of buying a second hand old cameras is to not have to swallow the price. For most people just trying to replace a smartphone camera, even a fixed lens is a massive improvement. There’s a reason dedicated point and shoot like the PowerShot are coming back en force. I recently kit up with an old EM-1 and a pancake lens, and the thing is not only pro level features with good quality glass. All in all, it cost me less than $500 including postage. And though it won’t fit in my pocket, it weighs almost nothing and is absolutely tiny for the power it packs.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Ricoh, Leica, Olympus. There are pro level compact alternatives. Ricoh’s are almost as small than a smartphone while being more ergonomic to use and better featured. The reason there needs to be such technologies as LOFIC for tiny sensors is precisely to compensate the size and achieve what larger sensors already achieved decades ago by shear force of being larger. But you don’t need to go that much larger, just a micro four thirds camera with mediocre glass from a decade ago already blows away anything that big tech put last year on flagship phone cameras.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Anyone who has paid over $500 for a phone, if they did it for the camera, they wasted money. For the same amount of money one can get an old second hand pro camera and a more basic phone.

The camera will be infinitely better and the smartphone will still smartphone just fine.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Wall Street, where everything is possible…if you just fucking lie confidently.

on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Anything is cheap if you just steal it.

on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
One thing to keep in mind is that, when it comes to LLMs, the models have not significantly changed in architecture.

There’s been new experiments and advancements in architecture on neural networks, and machine learning for specific applications. But LLM, as they are being commercialized by AI corporations to the general public, have stayed relatively the same. Except for one thing. Increasing in size. Larger datasets, or more specialized datasets like with coding, and larger number of tokens in memory. This is why it takes such large data centers. It’s all been just brute forcing greater capabilities by enlarging the models.

One of the things with LLM is that all the dataset influences the weighs and probabilities of the results. Even if the dataset includes a single event of a chain of words (think of the pizza with superglue incident), it can show up in the results eventually.

on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Implication or not. GNOME is hit or miss with accessibility features. They’ve done some stuff, but they could still do more at no particular greater cost to them other than a shift in attitude. Which…you know… GNOME.

on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Cool, having choices is great, like you get to choose the side dishes and the toppings. That sounds awesome.

on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
I pay for someone else to hold an encrypted backup of some data. The living data is in my server, they’re just one of the backups in case there’s a fire at my house or something. I pay because I expect legal liability from them to hold my data safely, no freemium shenanigans. And I encrypt because no one can be trusted not to mine my info for AI or sell my shit to a shady third party for profit.

on The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
But I do go there. And when I tell them I don’t eat mayonnaise due to health concers they understand and offer an accommodation. The waiter most definitely doesn’t berate me or scuff at me. Nor do they refuse my patronage.

on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Even low fixed price day-menu restaurants in my town offer some basic choice or variation. People have food limitations and preferences.

on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Yes, and 99.9% of the meals you eat in your life will not be there. Because it is either prohibitively expensive and elitist gourmet BS. Or it is trivially easy to offer some choice when it is not elitist gourmet BS.

on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026