KairuByte

KairuByte , 3 days ago

Have to use? No one has to use any library. It’s convenience, and in this case it’s literally so they don’t have to write code for older browser versions.

The issue here isn’t that anyone has to use it, it’s the way it was used that is the problem. Directly linking to the current version of the code hosted by a third party instead of hosting a copy yourself.

KairuByte , 4 days ago

You’ve read the articles? Cool, can you give me a rundown of all the terrible things Mozilla has done in the past months?

KairuByte , 4 days ago

I highly doubt they have one team that switches between experiments and bug fixes, never doing two things at once. Not to mention that something ultimately being ripped out isn’t necessarily wasted effort. They could likely easily pivot virtually anything they put into this specific experiment into any number of other uses.

KairuByte , 4 days ago

Using the comments from Lemmy is clearly a case of selection bias. It would be like running a poll at a gym to see how many people think exercise is important. Or asking lemmy users if Linux is better than Windows. “The people I hang around have the same opinion as me” isn’t really a good litmus test for “does this actually represent public opinion.”

KairuByte , 4 days ago

Why are you explicitly picking those examples, and not things like IoT, DevOps and Edge computing, all buzzwords, all successful and still in general existence today?

You’re cherry picking failed buzzwords and using them as proof that “AI” will fail.

To be clear, I agree that LLMs are bullshit for 95% of applications they are being put into. But at least argue in good faith.

KairuByte , 3 days ago

LLMs aren’t a scam, I don’t even understand how you could twist it into such. While something like NFTs have no real legitimate use case, LLMs excel at translation and as an advanced form of spelling and grammar checking.

Your complaint seems to boil down to “it doesn’t work in all use cases it’s being used” which is fair enough, but if I put a car on my bed and try to use it as a blanket… does that make it a scam?

KairuByte , 6 days ago

My friend, did you read what the article you linked says? That isn’t storing the data, that’s capturing the data and relaying it, as directed by court order.

KairuByte , 6 days ago

Capture and relay have nothing to do with storage. You can absolutely add storage, but it is in no way a necessary step.

KairuByte , 6 days ago

Let’s say notifications are like walkie-talkies. You push a button, it sends an alert or your voice to the paired device. Neither one is storing the information, they are just relaying to each other. Now, in this case the government has issued a court order stating that a third party be given a walkie-talkie with the ability to understand the information transmitted by the first. There is still no storage being done, but a second party now receives all the information being broadcast.

It’s not about not having the information. You don’t actually need to store it anywhere to facilitate communication, at least beyond it being in memory which most would agree doesn’t constitute storage in this situation.

Now, could that third party store the information? Absolutely.

KairuByte , 6 days ago

You assume there is no other use for the VPN? And honestly, you can get a free trial of a VPN if you want to, to handle this, it doesn’t need a yearly re-up or anything, just when your card expires.

KairuByte , 6 days ago

Depends on the site being used. Google? Most likely. But I’ve used dozens of others without any issues.

KairuByte , 7 days ago

GB? Amateur.

KairuByte , 11 days ago

Speaking explicitly of text, they can likely be compressed to an insane degree instead of purged, if someone wanted to. For comparison, the entirety of Wikipedia (text only) is ~22GB.

KairuByte , 11 days ago

VR in its current form, I agree, has only one real use.

But when improved upon and made smaller, I could easily see it being used to watch TV or similar. I’ve done that on a few flights and it was decent.

Not to mention, VR is a necessary step to get to AR, and AR has many more applications. Screens with anything anywhere, for one. Imagine a computer with one monitor, but numerous virtual monitors. Or a TV on your ceiling.

It’s iterative. Gaming just happens to be the current driver.

KairuByte , 10 days ago

The deaf who refuse implants tend towards the “there’s nothing wrong with me why are you trying to fix me” mentality, not the “I don’t want to hear because it looks weird.”

And adoption of eyeglasses is likely higher than most other peripherals. Not to mention, putting in contacts is a chore and requires a little planning, while putting on glasses can be done in seconds in virtually any situation.

Yes, you will get people who refuse to adopt VR/AR. We still have people in the world who refuse to adopt electricity, but if you had asked people 30 years ago if they would carrot a phone around in their pocket you’d have been laughed out of the room… yet here we are.

KairuByte , 12 days ago

Yeah… I’m betting Google voice is nearing its end of life. All the robocall legislation is making other voip services kill off their sms equivalents, I just cant see Google voice being the one service that manages to pull through.

Especially considering it’s a Google service of more than a decade, it’s long past due to be taken out back and shot.

KairuByte , 14 days ago

… what?

Them: “I want a centralized place to handle all my graphics stuff, so I can access graphically intensive things from any device.”

You: “Must be incest renders because you already have hardware and say you use it for work.”

So according to you, contractors don’t exist, iPhones can play PC games, and anyone wanting to split PC resources between multiple use cases is shady.

What’s ridiculous is that you seem to think extreme paranoia is a normal thing in everyday life.

KairuByte , 15 days ago

Most people are under the impression that their IP being public is somehow super dangerous, and that “hackers will attack me” if it ever gets out. So likely “all the attacks against my entire network.”

Edit: Secondary thought, they legitimately have unsecured endpoints on their IP, and are hoping no one will notice if they aren’t handing out their IP to others. Still incorrect though.

KairuByte , 13 days ago

The version you interact with on their site is explicitly instructed to respond like that. They intentionally put those roadblocks in place to prevent answers they deem “improper”.

If you take the roadblocks out, and instruct it to respond as human like as possible, you’d no longer get a response that acknowledges it’s an LLM.

KairuByte , 15 days ago

Not really. Why would you need to be forgotten if no one knows who you are to begin with?

KairuByte , 14 days ago

Eh? Their bog standard device cost is usually pretty on par. And Apple definitely isn’t charging you double.

KairuByte , 14 days ago

The hardware is overpriced, absolutely. But it’s also typically better than Samsung.

By big standard I mean their “low end” device. The comparable Samsung of each generation is usually within ~$200 of the Apple model.

KairuByte , 14 days ago

Really? We going to ignore the accidentally not allowed on planes because they can explode phone?

KairuByte , 13 days ago

Everything that uses electricity has caught fire before. It happening a handful of times is very different than being banned from planes.

KairuByte , 16 days ago

Code up an F24 presser in Excels VBA macro editor, and run that between your work hours.

KairuByte , 16 days ago

For now. That’s how YouTube was originally too, and ad free before that.

KairuByte , 16 days ago

I mean, this is about replacing “buttons” with “solid state buttons”. There’s no indication that a solid state button has a higher failure rate than normal buttons, and you already have cases where normal buttons break and the phone cannot be recovered.

This is like complaining that they moved to OLED because LED screens are used to convey information… it’s essentially doing the exact same thing.

KairuByte , 16 days ago

Not to state the obvious, but even if they did go in that direction, you’re not typically sitting there holding an hours long conversation with Siri. The battery life would be drained in proportion to how often you used it, just like phone calls, movies, and heavy games do now.

KairuByte , 16 days ago

The costs on such components is pennies, and Apple honestly isn’t shy about just charging more to cover their costs.

I do honestly believe they made those decisions to cut down on total space. The headphone jack alone is gigantic, and the home button required an entire bar of potential screen real estate dedicated to it.

Were there other options? Sure. They could have had the home button under the screen or something, but honestly their decision was likely the best choice. Which is only furthered by the fact that virtually everyone is doing the same thing now.

That said, moving from physical buttons to solid state buttons with haptic feedback… I don’t see how that could cost less. Honestly if it cost less, others would likely already be taking that shortcut.

I’d wager it costs a little more per phone, and they will charge an extra $100 for that “premium” feature. Simply because they can.

KairuByte , 16 days ago

You’re assuming solid state buttons are completely reliant on software to run, but there’s no reason that has to be the case. Sure, for advanced stuff like “is a finger swiping across this” I agree you need software, but I doubt it’s impossible to use as binary input. “Is a finger touching this” isn’t hard when you have a little piece of hardware in there that sends out a signal when it’s being touched.

KairuByte , 16 days ago

I think you misunderstood their meaning with that.

KairuByte , 19 days ago

… You realize this has been innovated because someone cares, right?

Like this is such a silly argument. “Why would we make cars not use steam? If people cared about it we would have already innovated!”

KairuByte , 19 days ago

<.< I’m assuming this is a joke, but feel the need to point out to the ones who don’t realize… LLMs aren’t trained on audio recordings.

KairuByte , 21 days ago

I mean, not to beat a dead horse but those are precisely the type of people who would push off an update forever if given the choice.

Not that a midday, mid work reboot is acceptable.

KairuByte , 23 days ago

“Most downloaded” just means “biggest phone farm”.

KairuByte , 20 days ago

I doubt it. There are plenty of tools that already do this if that was what they wanted, they’d just model it after those. Storing it locally isn’t how such tools usually work, they get shipped off to a remote server for ingestion.

KairuByte , 20 days ago

1. I agree with.

2. Is terrible as there are many times you want to be able to use a machine with its lid closed. Layering more and more “id10t” prevention into a system isn’t great, and windows is already bitched about for the levels it has now.

KairuByte , 19 days ago

I mean, you can tell Windows to not wake with a specific device, which is what most would expect.

KairuByte , 27 days ago

Eh? Nothing significant has changed about the windows file system in over a decade, at least not from a user standpoint.

Most people don’t need to muck about in ProgramData, Program Files vs Program Files (x86) is pretty minimal, though admittedly you may need to check both if you’re unsure which the app you’re using is. I suppose %appdata% has changed, and one could argue it was significant, but in all honesty the concept of local vs remote should get you where you’re going, and worst case you check both.

But the base directory structure has been pretty static for a long while now.

KairuByte , 28 days ago

Yeah it’s damn good for translating between languages, or things that are simple in concept but drawn out in execution.

Used it the other day to translate a complex EF method syntax statement into query syntax. It got it mostly right, did need some tweaking, but it saved me about 10 minutes of humming and hawing to make sure I did it correctly (honestly I don’t use query syntax often.)

KairuByte , 28 days ago

Their user share was pretty okay for a while, but bombed when Chrome first released because it was much more performant. Unfortunately, that stigma never quite fell off and they lost a huge opportunity to overtake the market.

KairuByte , 28 days ago

I was a Firefox user at the time, using adblockers, and the swap was a huge improvement to my browsing experience. I can’t even remember all the ways, since this was a decade ago. But at the time, Firefox was in a lul.

Things likely swapped pretty fast, but I wasn’t aware of it at the time because I was already using Chrome.

No ads swayed me, no Google specific sites, it wasn’t side loaded with anything.

The Chrome eating ram memes came much later, after the enshitification process reached the third step. You seem to be compressing the entirety of both browsers into a single moment, and that’s not really how time works.

KairuByte , 1 month ago

Why wouldnt you want emoji?

KairuByte , 1 month ago

In this economy?

KairuByte , 30 days ago

May 27th 2024? O.o

KairuByte , 1 month ago

If I lose to key to my vault, and require a locksmith to enter… does my vault hold no value until I can enter it? Of course not, the contents is still there.

I get where you’re going, but really it makes no sense. The value (or as close to value as we are willing to put on crypto) was always there. Whether or not someone was able to get into it doesn’t change the fact that it’s there.

KairuByte , 1 month ago

Forgetting the password is more akin to losing the key. You dont forget where the blockchain is.

KairuByte , 29 days ago

I literally can’t. Even when an interaction would have happened outside of hexbear, their users can’t see my messages.

My blocking them was just to prevent me from seeing content I couldn’t interact with.