I’ve had a folding Samsung for the past year and it’s really great. The hardware and software do need time to mature (in fact, the phone is nearly useless in “folded” mode without third-party apps), but at this point I don’t think I could go back.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPUEnglish
17·9 months agoI was shopping for this same CPU last week and found an Amazon third-party store named something like “Big Tech Deals WE RECORD SERIAL NUMBERS”.
If you have to name your store that, it’s obviously an unsolved problem in the marketplace.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO saysEnglish
31·10 months agoThere are definitely high-IQ car guys and they are soul of car forums/reddits. But based on my observation of the diagnostic and critical thinking skills of the other 90%, they are probably never going to figure out how to use Lemmy.
And somehow we need both types (maybe for sample size?) in order to have a thriving niche community about anything.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht
10·11 months agoWas it? It wasn’t mentioned in the article and I don’t think I’ve ever heard that before.
“Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking.”
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Technology@lemmy.world•Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital IDEnglish
24·11 months agoI have renewed my CA registration with a credit card going back to at least 2016. A responsible driver would know their renewal failed when their registration document did not arrive via mail.
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World News@lemmy.ml•US, British Jets Rain Fire on Yemeni Capital in New Late Night Attack
5·1 year ago“No photos or videos of the attack have been released or circulated on social media. US Central Command (CENTCOM) has not claimed responsibility for the attack.”
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Technology@lemmy.world•WordPress.org statement threatens possible shutdown for all of 2025 – ComputerworldEnglish
17·1 year agoWe also have a Lemmy instance!
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Technology@lemmy.world•Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refundsEnglish
34·1 year agoI would like to think the community could work out the API’s and replicate them on a free server, but if this was just a glorified Alexa box, there is probably a lot more server-side processing that needs to happen to keep it running.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Why sanctions on Russia are literally backfiring: Moscow appeared ripe for Western-imposed economic pain after its invasion of Ukraine but today the country is thriving - Responsible Statecraft
134·1 year agoSure - that’s why people are resorting to stealing butter from grocery stores. Positively thriving.
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World News@lemmy.ml•China’s plan to get around Western tariffs: Fill the world with factories
8·1 year agoAnd this behavior is somehow sold to the public as a way to boost the economic wellness of the people living under the isolationist programs, but instead it enables profiteering corporations to exert more control over the artificially narrowed market space.
Locking the door with the fox(es) in the henhouse.
What’s the difference between one technology you don’t understand (AI engine-assisted ) and another you don’t understand (human-staffed radiology laboratory)?
Regardless of whether you (as a patient hopelessly unskilled in diagnosis of any condition) trust the method, you probably have some level of faith in the provider who has selected it. And, while they most likely will choose what is most beneficial to them (cost of providing accurate diagnoses vs. cost of providing less accurate diagnoses), hopefully regulatory oversight and public influence will force them to use whichever is most effective, AI or not.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta: “Introducing Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses”English
11·1 year agoThey could have gone with a “visor” frame design that would have been more fashionable, but I think this is pretty impressive for demonstrating the bare minimum amount of plastic needed to house holographic transparent displays, internal/external tracking sensors, and a sound system.
What they claim these glasses can do is absolutely incredible (we won’t really know because they are only being used internally for further development).
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Technology@lemmy.world•An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube ShortsEnglish
6·1 year agoThere’s a place for this, if it’s entertaining. Memes, comedy, maybe some more legitimate uses too. A lot of YouTube is some guy just sitting in front of a camera in the most boring perfectly curated home office. Throw in something visually interesting that enhances the subject matter and I may watch more.
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Technology@lemmy.world•“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIsEnglish
562·1 year agoThis would ideally become standardized among web servers with an option to easily block various automated aggregators.
Regardless, all of us combined are a grain of rice compared to the real meat and potatoes AI trains on - social media, public image storage, copyrighted media, etc. All those sites with extensive privacy policies who are signing contracts to permit their content for training.
Without laws (and I’m not sure I support anything in this regard yet), I do not see AI progress slowing. Clearly inbreeding AI models has a similar effect as in nature. Fortunately there is enough original digital content out there that this does not need to happen.
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Technology@lemmy.world•“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIsEnglish
111·1 year agoIf it doesn’t offer value to us, we are unlikely to nurture it. Thus, it will not survive.
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World News@lemmy.ml•China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978
27·1 year agoJust curious if you had a reference for this statement since it seems to be false in multiple ways.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
3·1 year agoThis also works for binary cable or interface connectors formerly known as “male” and “female”.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI servicesEnglish
82·1 year agoI want Ars content to be part of whatever training data is provided to the best models. How does that get done without appearing like they are being bought?
Even if their contract explicitly states that it is a data sharing agreement only and the products of the media organization (articles/investigations) are not grounds for breach or retaliation, it is assumed that there is now some impartiality in future reporting.
So, for all media companies, the options seem to be:
- Contribute to the greater good by openly permitting site scraping (for $0)
- Allow data sharing to contracted parties only (for a fee)
- Public or privately prohibit use of any data, and then seek damages down the road for theft/copyright infringement when the legal framework has been established.
Is there a GPL or other license structure that permits data sharing for LLM training in a way that it does not get transformed into something evil?
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Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube is Losing The War Against AdblockersEnglish
411·1 year agoI pay for Nebula and try to watch as much as I can there. The content is more “pleasant department store” and less “Mexican public market”.
I do watch YouTube regularly when channel-surfing, but if I ever see an ad (which happens only on mobile devices), I close it immediately and do something else. It’s not that I don’t think I should be able to watch everything for $0, but YouTube ads are so jarring, random, irrelevant and just make me sick. They literally ruin whatever I was watching and make me sad to exist.
It can be exhausting to wade through the absolute meat market of click bait titles and thumbnails to find something that not only looks interesting but won’t abuse me with infomercial-form audio/visuals.
YouTube enables and promotes the “content creators” who abuse human psychology to accumulate views, likes, subscriptions, etc. The best thing that could happen is they continue to be exposed as the drug dealer they are.
Just a couple thoughts (I have a mix of 2.5Gb and 10Gb):
Mikrotik switches are a nice alternative to Unifi. Much less lipstick on the UI but reliable and fairly priced.
If possible, you’ll probably want to use your own router rather than the all-in-one provided by the ISP. In my case, the router provided to me (Eero brand) did not even have a port fast enough for my service, and would have been an instant bottleneck.
Options for 10Gb-capable PCIe adapters (what you might put in your server or desktops) are more limited (at least they were when I transitioned a couple of years ago). Intel-based network adapters seem to require less effort to get working (driver-wise) vs. some of the other 10Gb / SFP+ capable adapters.
Finally, you are correct: nobody needs an 8Gb internet connection. Aside from well-seeded torrent file transfers, you will never reach that limit (and probably still never). And, you’ll need an adequate storage backend to write that fast.