I’m fairly Ai positive myself, I just want to point out that Ai is better at detecting patterns than humans are.

For example, detecting AI slop reliably and intuitively is a skill that more and more people learn.

This is true, I also have this skill right now, but I have no confidence it will still be useful 2 years from now.

Anything that can be “created” by anyone with a few prompts loses its value.

What is value exactly, commercial value? Just because it took 3 prompts to create a great tool or the 11th season of Friends does not mean those don’t have personal value or can give you a huge productivity boost or entertainment.

I understand the negative sentiments, but LLMs are replacing human coding as we speak & largely have already outside of certain niche sectors. This is where we are, Valve engineers are certainly using LLMs as well. Sweeny is far worse than Gabe in everything, intelligence, political views etc, but that matters very little here. Everyone is vibecoding to a certain extent & I’m not sure what’s better, actively promoting it or trying to pretend that you are not. The industry is gravitating toward the latter, because that’s what seems to sell more for obvious reasons, but it’s just theater.

I still find it funny that in the distant past an engineer thought pasted commands should have some ~~ characters added, so the user has to delete them & think about their actions while pressing their arrow or various faster ctrl+ keys …

Statements like this are good for the stock price & have little impact on how the company is actually operating. (not claiming AMD is doing so great serving its consumer user base though)

It’s pretty f. weird that Lisa Su is the CEO despite being so closely related to Jensen, I would dislike this if I were an AMD investor. However this is not a family monopoly, since neither Su or Jensen own these companies, not substantially anyway. (well below 1% & 3 something % owned respectively) Meaning of shareholders at large disliked Lisa Su’s way of doing things, she would be booted without too many hurdles I would think & the same is true for Jensen.

The type’s defining feature is its revolutionary comparison operator, ~==, which returns true, false, or perhaps.

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A well manufactured laser disc can easily last 44 years as -somewhat- proven by the history of the compact disc. A solid state memory chip that can hold over 10 gigabytes of data -at a reasonable cost- cannot say the same. Maybe really good quality chips that nobody would ever pay for alongside a game could last 20 years, but realistically 10 years is a stretch without rewriting the data.

Even Switch 1 catridges are a bit suspect despite most of them being less than 32GB in capacity & thanks to scale being much much cheaper than anything GoG will be able to get their hands on for this.

I mean yes they could get manufacturing costs down to $3 per unit I’m sure, but that kind of defeats the purpose of anyone ever wanting to have a physical copy of a game. I think discs are just a much better long term storage medium.

The problem is convincing developers and publishers that it’s worth it.

I don’t think this is difficult. On GoG you are allowed to download your game installers & burn them to physical media if you so please. It’s not unreasonable to think that GoG could do the same at your behest, with some professionally printed art added in. I don’t really see a circumstance where anyone would oppose this.

yes living in this dystopia one must say that most people do not have a specific threat model. but i get your point.

I meant that encrypted email is not very useful if none of your mailing partners are using a compatible service. (that is the case with me)

Honestly I’m not entire sure, i’m not a lawyer.

Though Proton is a subscription service. Then again, probably with some clever tricks it’s possible to devise a renewing subscription that is not storing the payment credentials in such a way that the company could not extract it. The more I think about this, the more i’d like to know what Swiss law really allows for. (chatGPT thinks you’re right & my argument is on very weak grounds)

Alright, so Tuta has gift cards, that’s wicked cool. TIL

But at the end of the day secure mail is still not a real thing for most people.

Why isn’t that incident enough for everyone to drop them?

There is no public email service provider -as far as I know- that would refuse a court order to share such information. In the case of Proton any foreign authority wanting such needs to convince Swiss authorities that their request is legitimate.

Ultimately if you register an account with false credentials & never pay for pro, then the only thing proton can give to Swiss authorities is maybe your IP address, which will be your VPN if you have one. If you pay then payment credentials could be used to identify you.

All the emails stored on proton’s servers are non-recoverable, same as with Tuta.

It sucks that paying for pro reduces your privacy, but this applies to other email providers as well. This is actually what happened in the Atlanta case & there is no real defense against it. Using your personal credit card creates a trail.

Can you imagine a world where you can order physical cards for email credit? (and they would have randomized codes to avoid this exact problem)

Did he make a post defending the asterisk “privacy first” should have in their marketing?

Private email is a bit of an oxymoron, the best anyone can do is to store your own email history in an unrecoverable way, which proton is doing, but their marketing team is not really transparent about what “private email” really is & what that means to users.

I think not much chance of that. Users that post there are unaffected & lemmy rarely shows up in search results…

This will make Google / DDG searches less useful than before, so even more people will use Ai instead of search.

In fact I would argue that this is a really bad business decision on Reddit’s part. I can totally see them come around & revert it in a couple of months.

About the animation, I said that half jokingly, though the tech behind it is more than you think. It’s just not really important for normal people.

I doubt you’ll be satisfied with any folding phone in the near future, let alone Apple’s.

Even in a fantasy world where Ai was 100% safe & all data centers were running on green energy under the Sahara, even then there would be people wishing them grave ill.

There are two innovations kind of worth noting. One is that the software animation when closing or opening the phone looks very cool & the second is that Apple’s plastic screen protector is using a somewhat clever matte nano tech that hides the crease -and reflections in general- quite effectively.

Imo folding phones are not really worth using, but the Iphone Fold is especially bad. Not only is the hinge design itself obviously flawed causing all these breakages, but also the hinge internals are sealed really poorly so you get some dirt in there & gg.

Wait, is the current start menu thing really edge webview??

I’ve been vibecoding pyqt based python apps lately. The performance even one of the so called “slowest” languages can do is more than fine. Not using Electron, or actually optimizing matter more than the language itself, most of the time anyway.

Debian solved all past pain points, now they are legit better than Ubuntu LTS in most ways that matter & are equal in user friendliness.