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Comment on OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue in ~comp
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Comment on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in ~tech
Octofox Link ParentWhen I looked in to the LG fridge thing, what they mean by AI is it has a temperature sensor that turns the compressor on and off to keep the fridge at the right temperature.When I looked in to the LG fridge thing, what they mean by AI is it has a temperature sensor that turns the compressor on and off to keep the fridge at the right temperature.
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Comment on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in ~tech
Octofox Link ParentI think how they pitch it is you can see your calendar and weather on the door and see a webcam of the inside of the fridge while you are at the supermarket. But in reality the smart stuff is more...I think how they pitch it is you can see your calendar and weather on the door and see a webcam of the inside of the fridge while you are at the supermarket.
But in reality the smart stuff is more a feature for Samsung themselves so they can show adverts, collect data, and obsolete the fridge faster so you buy the new model that still gets updates after your last one gets hacked and turned in to a scraper for AI botnets.
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Comment on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in ~tech
Octofox (edited )Link ParentSamsung is a components manufacturer. They don’t know how to put together a finished consumer product. I regret every Samsung product I’ve ever bought other than an ssd for my desktop.Samsung is a components manufacturer. They don’t know how to put together a finished consumer product. I regret every Samsung product I’ve ever bought other than an ssd for my desktop.
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Comment on Googlebook revealed and ready for pre-order in ~tech
Octofox Link ParentThe ipad has full keyboard and mouse support and Apple sells cases with a trackpad. It also just has a much better OS and app support. Google never fully commits to android tablets so app...The ipad has full keyboard and mouse support and Apple sells cases with a trackpad. It also just has a much better OS and app support. Google never fully commits to android tablets so app developers don't either.
Google has been trying to push this idea of using Chrome as your entire OS for a very long time now and it has never caught on so it's starting to feel like it's just not that good of an idea.
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Comment on Googlebook revealed and ready for pre-order in ~tech
Octofox Link ParentI think the people who do everything in the web browser are better served by an ipad with a keyboard case. It's just hard to imagine who the market for a high end chromebook is. And it doesn't...I think the people who do everything in the web browser are better served by an ipad with a keyboard case. It's just hard to imagine who the market for a high end chromebook is. And it doesn't seem to just be me considering they have launched this product twice already and it has flopped. Now launching again with no changes other than calling it Gemini powered or whatever.
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Comment on Googlebook revealed and ready for pre-order in ~tech
Octofox LinkI see a lot of discussion about if this will or won't be good, but no one is bringing up the fact Google already tried this in 2013 with the Chromebook Pixel. It was a premium laptop that ran...I see a lot of discussion about if this will or won't be good, but no one is bringing up the fact Google already tried this in 2013 with the Chromebook Pixel. It was a premium laptop that ran ChromeOS. The reviews after it came out were that the hardware was nice, but running ChromeOS severely limited it's usefulness. Google then killed the product line a few years after.
So now they are doing the same thing with seemingly the same problem. A premium laptop with an OS that isn't particularly useful for laptop usage.
Edit: Actually they tried this again in 2017.
A review by The Verge said "Just like the iPad Pro, the Pixelbook is an incredibly nice and powerful machine that can handle most of your computing tasks — but probably not all of them.
This just feels like a very classic Google where they half halfheartedly attempt a product, don't finish the job, cancel it, then re-announce it every so often.
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Comment on Do you iron your clothes? in ~life
Octofox LinkI iron anything that's visibly wrinkly, usually light colored t shirts show wrinkles worse than dark ones. I actively enjoy the process and find it relaxing. I think it's a little ironic people...I iron anything that's visibly wrinkly, usually light colored t shirts show wrinkles worse than dark ones. I actively enjoy the process and find it relaxing. I think it's a little ironic people will say they don't have time for ironing, but will find time for scrolling short form video.
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Comment on There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of social scurvy in ~life
Octofox (edited )Link ParentI'm not sure the problem is that people don't feel lonely, but that we have built nutritionally void forms of socialization. Someone sitting at home watching a live streamer is the equivalent of a...I'm not sure the problem is that people don't feel lonely, but that we have built nutritionally void forms of socialization. Someone sitting at home watching a live streamer is the equivalent of a duck at the park being fed bread until it becomes malnourished. The duck feels hunger, but the hunger part has been sorted without the other requirements of food.
Social media, online gaming, parasocial relationships and such have satiated peoples urges for socialization without actually socializing. I think this will also go down poorly with a lot of people who have found comfort in these things and don't want to admit the harms they are causing.
The introvert now has discord, twitch, overwatch, and vr chat all from the comfort of home. They will never go outside and develop real relationships while they are stuck in the trap of convenience at home.
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Comment on There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of social scurvy in ~life
Octofox Link ParentSo I do essentially all of that stuff already, I still don't think it substitutes for ~40 hours a week of what used to be social collaborative work. I am still friendly with people I worked at...So I do essentially all of that stuff already, I still don't think it substitutes for ~40 hours a week of what used to be social collaborative work. I am still friendly with people I worked at multiple jobs ago in office, now at my current remote job I don't know the slightest thing about the people in my team I have worked with for 2 years.
And this is just one part of a much larger set of changes, people are doing education from home, entertainment from home, eating at home, working from home. The amount of time people are spending at home alone is measurably increasing quite a lot. I think this is likely a huge part of why the birth rates are dropping, from the data I saw, the birth rates for married couples was still quite strong, but the rate of people getting in to relationships fell off a cliff post smartphone era. Likely because people are at home all day where they will not meet anyone.
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Comment on There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of social scurvy in ~life
Octofox LinkThe world is becoming increasingly isolating. Around 2021 during Covid my job went remote, and as much as it was inconvenient and tiring to go to the office, I’m feeling like there was something...The world is becoming increasingly isolating. Around 2021 during Covid my job went remote, and as much as it was inconvenient and tiring to go to the office, I’m feeling like there was something seriously important about being around other people during the day rather than sitting at home alone. Since then I’ve changed jobs a few times to places that had an office but they all ended up outsourcing and splitting the team across the world so the office became disused.
We are seeing the same everywhere. Online shopping, self checkouts, food delivery, social media. Our world is becoming one where you just sit at home and stare at a screen all day for everything.
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Comment on EU's Ursula von der Leyen wants Canada to become bloc's first associate member in ~society
Octofox Link ParentAll of the threats from Trump just justify the need for this moreAll of the threats from Trump just justify the need for this more
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Comment on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features in ~tech
Octofox Link ParentA lot of these old FOSS projects are so entrenched in their ways that it’s impossible to change anything. They develop this whole mentality of resisting anything new that they can’t ever do a UX...A lot of these old FOSS projects are so entrenched in their ways that it’s impossible to change anything. They develop this whole mentality of resisting anything new that they can’t ever do a UX redesign and are stuck with whatever Windows XP looked like.
I have some respect for the projects that can push through this resistance and drag Linux users kicking and screaming in to the current decade.
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
Octofox Link ParentThat’s just too much work. I don’t want the equivalent of a Minecraft mod pack with 100 forks AI merged together. Ideally the useful stuff would all get upstreamed so I can just download a single...That’s just too much work. I don’t want the equivalent of a Minecraft mod pack with 100 forks AI merged together. Ideally the useful stuff would all get upstreamed so I can just download a single binary and know it all works together.
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
Octofox Link ParentAt this point for games, AI in art assets, writing, music, etc is very unpopular and you will likely be called out on it. But code is completely different, no gamer can tell if the code is AI...At this point for games, AI in art assets, writing, music, etc is very unpopular and you will likely be called out on it. But code is completely different, no gamer can tell if the code is AI generated, it doesn't have to be disclosed, and likely most developers are doing it right now.
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
Octofox Link ParentI've had github copilot since they first released it years ago. For a long time I was of the opinion it was literally useless in that it wasted more of my time than it might save. But it's clearly...I've had github copilot since they first released it years ago. For a long time I was of the opinion it was literally useless in that it wasted more of my time than it might save. But it's clearly been getting better at a rapid pace to the point earlier this year I've flipped my opinion and the latest models and tooling is clearly very useful and clearly here to stay. I've also encountered the LLM assisted idiots who don't know the technical details to know what to ask for submit massive PRs prone to causing major incidents on production. So clearly your own personal skill needs to be applied.
What I am unsure of is what this means for the future of Open Source. Right now I'm seeing every repo fill up with an increasing backlog of PRs which are AI generated. And it's not even that these are slop that don't work, they usually do work. But the bottleneck is a reviewer having to go through them, test, work out if they conform to what the project needs, etc. And there just aren't enough maintainers to do that, there's also not much point since the maintainers could just AI generate the code themselves and have more control over the process rather than essentially proxy prompts through some random submitter in the PR comments.
I think we will have to move more to a model that requires less submitting code to someone else to approve, and more doing your own thing. Someone above in the thread mentioned plugins. I think this is a pretty good start where people can just vibecode any feature they want and have it usable without having to ask some maintainer to merge it in. I'm imagining more solo projects where the person does not have to wait for approval to merge and does not have to spend time reviewing other peoples work. The contributions probably need to move higher up the chain to things like UI design, road maps, UX cohesiveness, etc rather than just submitting code. Because creating code is relatively easy now.
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
Octofox Link ParentThe problem is you can only use one fork at a time. What if 2 different forks have features you want?The problem is you can only use one fork at a time. What if 2 different forks have features you want?
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Comment on Fixing a Framework laptop bricked by a BIOS update in ~tech
Octofox Link ParentI have had better experiences with having Apple fix my MacBook out of warranty.. I like the idea of a repairable laptop, but everything I’ve heard from every framework owner I’ve met is that they...I have had better experiences with having Apple fix my MacBook out of warranty..
I like the idea of a repairable laptop, but everything I’ve heard from every framework owner I’ve met is that they just fall to pieces and develop weird faults. Meanwhile my 5 year old MacBook still feels brand new.
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Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech
Octofox Link ParentThe vibe of the site was you get beat with a stick for daring to ask a question, but you put up with it because it was the only option. As soon as it wasn’t the only option the site completely died.The vibe of the site was you get beat with a stick for daring to ask a question, but you put up with it because it was the only option. As soon as it wasn’t the only option the site completely died.
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Comment on Women should be able to open things in ~life.women
Octofox Link ParentThose plastic clam shell packages are not all that common now that most stuff is sold online. For food it’s mostly safety. Jars have to be vacuum sealed to keep bacteria out.Those plastic clam shell packages are not all that common now that most stuff is sold online. For food it’s mostly safety. Jars have to be vacuum sealed to keep bacteria out.
One perspective I have heard is that this is marketing aimed at the researchers. The AI researchers are all freaking out right now as all of the warnings we have had over the last decade are coming true. They are leaving the companies and being very public about it.
So going to the media and repeating the researchers concerns is a marketing pitch that they are serious about AI safety and why the researchers should stick with the company that is claiming to do it safely.