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soul@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•US targets TP-Link with a potential ban on the Chinese routersEnglish
4·1 year agoAnd yet, grandpa or that weird uncle everyone has could just pop onto amazon and buy a normal tp-link router on sale right now for all of about $40 that has wifi built in.
Anyone who’s tech-savvy should put themselves into the shoes of their non-tech-savvy parents or grandparents in a situation where they don’t have you around to help. That’s who the main audience is; not someone willing to go even slightly down into the stack with this idea.
soul@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•US targets TP-Link with a potential ban on the Chinese routersEnglish
4·1 year agoNow consider your average parent or grandparent and tell me that they’ll be 100% fine on their own and actually want to do this. Most would not. Often-times, the marketing itself is enough to scare these folks off of that kind of tech. They worry about things you probably don’t and don’t generally want to worry. Hell, even the fact that you’d have to purchase two completely separate items to get what you can currently purchase in a single unit is enough to not get many of them to do it.
soul@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•US targets TP-Link with a potential ban on the Chinese routersEnglish
21·1 year ago“just”
That’s not an option for most people. They’re either not savvy enough to manage everything at that level or don’t care to and they will likely spend more money doing it this way.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•TTeck (Proxmox Helper Scripts) has passed away. R.I.P.English
12·1 year agoDamn.
RIP
soul@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source ConcernsEnglish
51·1 year agoThis is where your lack of understanding of the open source thing is readily apparent to everyone arguing with you. If it was backdoored, many people would be calling that out. In fact, this was one of the exact reasons at the heart of the original concerns leading to this story.
The fact that the source is available means that we can see exactly how the data is encrypted, allowing assurances to be made independently.
If nothing else, I trust Bitwarden MORE because of that and I’m happy to pay them for their services since it helps find further development.
soul@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source ConcernsEnglish
34·1 year agoFree cookie recipe not really free because oopsie! Man fixed it now. Cookie recipe is free again! Yay!
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Technology@lemmy.world•Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreEnglish
404·1 year agoThis article is FUD from big password.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2English
2·1 year agoWindows Recall integration
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Technology@lemmy.world•The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI DebatesEnglish
64·1 year agoThat knowledge is out of date and out of touch. While it’s possible to expose small bits of training data, that’s akin to someone being able to recall a portion of the memory of the scene they saw. However, those exercises essentially took what sometimes equates to weeks or months of interrogation method knowledge gained over time employed by people looking to target specific types of responses. Think of it like a skilled police interrogator tricking a toddler out of one of their toys by threatening them or offering them something until it worked. Nowadays, that’s getting far more difficult to do and they’re spending a lot more time and expertise to do it.
Also, consider how complex a dragonfly is and how young this technology is. Very little in tech has ever progressed that fast. Give it five more years and come back to laugh at how naive your comment will seem.
soul@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI DebatesEnglish
23·1 year agoHalf of your argument is just saying, “nu-uh” over and over again without any valid counterpoints.
soul@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI DebatesEnglish
56·1 year agoIn the same way that a person can learn the material and also use that knowledge to potentially plagiarize it, though. It’s no different in that sense. What is different is the speed of learning and both the speed and capacity of recall. However, it doesn’t change the fundamental truths of OP’s explanation.
Also, when you’re talking specifically about music, you’re talking about a very limited subset of note combinations that will sound pleasing to human ears. Additionally, even human composers commonly struggle to not simply accidentally reproduce others’ work, which is partly why the music industry is filled with constant copyright litigation.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial findsEnglish
2·1 year agoFor summarization, having the data correct is crucial because manual typing itself is not a large chore. AI tends to shine more when you’re producing a lot of manual labor such as a 10-page document for something. At that point, the balance tips the other way where proofing and correcting is much easier and less time-consuming than the production itself. That’s where AI comes in for the gains in workflows. It has other fantastic uses as well, like being another voice for brainstorming ideas. If done well, you’re not taking the AI’s idea so much as just using it to spur more creative thinking on your end.
soul@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to useEnglish
73·1 year agoOne that’s intuitive and doesn’t require a cheat sheet or what I like to call fingular contortionism discovery.
soul@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People who watched Homestar Runner back in the day: If you have watched any of the sbemails on the website, which sbemail is your favorite of the bunch?English
2·1 year agoWhat are you? Some kind of tape leg?
soul@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The Price Is Right: a big ad space where the joy of winning is just a distraction from the true goal - to sell more products.English
11·2 years agoI don’t disagree but that’s less of a problem with good writing where the ad isn’t forced or obvious…in fact, it can be much more effective if done that way versus taking you out of the moment and shoving the product in your face like “BUY THIS” during the middle of a touching scene. But at least with The Price is Right, it’s just a gameshow and not some sort of drama or whatever.
soul@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The Price Is Right: a big ad space where the joy of winning is just a distraction from the true goal - to sell more products.English
101·2 years agoSo many people want to boil everything down to a soundbite or a singularity. The reality is that the creation of the show was probably multifaceted, with product sponsorship being one part of it and entertainment being another, which is why the show does what you mentioned. It is both fun and an up-front ad for products.
,…and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with either or both. It is okay to sell shit and it’s okay to have fun. At least there are some people out there like yourself who get that. Sometimes I lose faith because there seem to be so few who do.
soul@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?English
2·2 years agoTo be fair, schools are not responsible for the availability of the job market.

Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssss.