EnderMB

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Technology in 'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...

I'm really surprised that someone didn't jump into this space to basically make "the final printer you'll ever want to buy for home/office use".

Sell the printer to make a small profit, support refillable ink, and you'll basically capture 90% of the market. It's not a billion dollar idea, but for a small company it could make millions, even as a Kickstarter type thing between some hardware and device software folks.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Memes in Ancient Rome and modern Lemmy

I see a lot of comments saying that people comment, but I'll occasionally post videos when I see them come out, get zero responses, and will see the same video on Reddit with thousands of responses. These aren't small communities either - the videos community on lemmy.world has thousands of subscribers, but few videos have any comments.

I don't think it's necessarily an issue with people not posting enough. I think there just aren't enough people to sustain a social network with thousands of communities.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Technology in Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips

While I do work in the space, I'm more pessimistic. I think LLM's will allow the tech companies to breach plateaus that they've found with compositional models, but what we will see is other companies catch up to GPT4, perhaps surpassing it a little.

I won't pretend to be an expert on AI, but my view is that we're purely seeing a future where multiple companies will own LLM's. We also won't see many improvements over what we have now, and this is the pessimist in me again, what I think we'll see is that many of the benefits we saw from GPT4 were likely from the fact that their datasets contained an unbelievable amount of PII and stolen data. Without that data, we've seen ChatGPT get worse, and it's one area where researchers and other tech firms have tried to explain the performance gap.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Memes in Put me in the trash can at the park.

Of course, ideally it'd be Bear McCreary, but I'd settle for my wife learning to play it.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Technology in Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start”

What infuriates me is that the only reason anyone gave a shit is because ITV made a (frankly, okayish) drama about the scandal. Now, politicians are ripping the law apart to save face, alongside trying to point fingers away from those responsible. Jail time is absolutely needed. People have had their entire careers ruined by this, and while they all deserve a huge payout, no amount of money will fix the damage caused.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Memes in Put me in the trash can at the park.

Just fling me into a wood chipper, and point it at the ground in a field somewhere.

Failing that, I've always loved the idea of being strapped to a rocket and launched into space.

If all else fails, I'd like my family to perform a (mostly) shot-for-shot remake of the funeral scene from GoW: Ragnarok.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Technology in Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term

IMO, the warning should be with companies, not individuals.

So, if a company needs fewer employees, there will be more companies, and more competition in the market. You lay off thousands of very smart people, and they'll go to your competitors, or create new ones using the skills you gave them.

The problem right now is that companies are expecting AI to replace people right now. If you do, you're in for a world of hurt as hallucinations and training issues will almost certainly give you some headaches - whether it's a HR agent committing an offence that makes the company legally or financially liable, recruitment AI that rejects candidates disproportionately, or software tools that decide to invent features or introduce nested, poor-performing bullshit. This doesn't even go into the liability issues of pumping your customer and employee data into third-party tools. AI in it's current state is a useful tool, nothing more.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Technology in IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

It's funny how the big tech companies are getting worse, to the point where engineers are favouring a return to "boomer tech" because they treat their employees well long-term - and now the older companies that focused on research and consultancy are starting to become shit at that.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Technology in Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year.

Layoffs have turned Google, Apple, and Amazon into IBM. You cannot sustainability cut jobs forever, while also expecting your bottom line and moonshot ideas to provide growth. What sustains you is "old tech", and these companies jumped into old tech the second they decided to take management failures out on employees.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to 196 in Game derulepment

Sonic Adventure 3. The game's plot is written entirely by a LLM trained exclusively on Sonic fan-fiction, and the art style can best be described as "live action furry", starring all of your favourite original characters from DeviantART.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox

Used it today using Firefox on OSX, no issues whatsoever.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Technology in 'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

They're very popular here too, but a lot of older people really struggle with them, so they're widely hated by boomers that want things to be like the 80's again.

The technology is a bit shit, and more often than not there's a lot of waiting around for someone to unblock you. Where it was probably a "failure" to many is in the initial promise of being able to get rid of employees and replace them with self-scan.

EnderMB , 5 months ago to Technology in 'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

Booths is basically unheard of anywhere else in the UK. The only reason I've heard of them is because the bald guy on TikTok that reviews the worst towns in the UK did a video on them.

EnderMB , 6 months ago to 196 in Stolen from imgur rule

How about instead of anarchist cosplay where we all pretend that we're going to petrol bomb billionaire estates, we push for people with excessive incomes to be taxed at a much higher threshold?

The fact that there are billionaires just shows that the system is hilariously flawed. Billionaires would rather you sit around and make memes about them than actually push for some fucking change...

EnderMB , 11 months ago to Memes in It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry.

I say this as someone that uses FOSS day to day for work, I don't really give a shit if my Lemmy app is FOSS.

For me, Sync was Reddit. It's where 99% of my interaction with Reddit happened. I don't really give a shit about Lemmy or the fediverse either. I'm here because Sync is a seamless product that gave me the best interface.

Despite saying that I don't care about Lemmy or other distributed servers, Sync is basically that sync (lol) for me. Once I map my old subreddits on Lemmy, the experience doesn't change.