NutWrench

NutWrench , 6 hours ago to Technology in Samsung is sunsetting Tizen and fully ending support for the smartwatch OS

Samsung switched from Tizen to WearOS literally 4 months after I got my Galaxy watch 2. That was annoying. $200 is way too much to spend on such a short-lived product.

NutWrench , 1 day ago to Technology in Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

Back in the Dim Times (1990s), before ad-blockers appeared, there was a program called WebWasher. It's basically a proxy server you run on your own computer and it contained all the ad filters. You just configured your browsers network setting to point to WebWasher and it would handle all the ad filtering.

So even if companies completely remove extension support from their browsers, we'll still have an alternative. :)

NutWrench , 1 day ago to Memes in It has already been removed again

"Trial's over. Donnie's a convicted felon. The judge out front should have told ya."

NutWrench , 1 day ago to linuxmemes in Shit...

Every once in a while, a squirrel finds a nut. This doesn't make Musk some kind of Urskek philosopher -sage.

NutWrench , 4 days ago to Technology in Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin

A little too "pseudo" and not enough "random." :)

NutWrench , 4 days ago to Technology in Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection

These are the sort of accidents you get when you mix a child-like worship of billionaires with cheap, sheet metal construction and a failure to grind down exposed sharp edges because there was no rule saying that the billionaire had to do it.

NutWrench , 4 days ago to Technology in China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy

Both strongly resemble Boston Dynamics's "Spot" robo-canine.

I'm betting that's exactly what they are, with some glued-on plastic detailing.

NutWrench , 4 days ago to Technology in Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation

Here's the sooper-secret search result algorithm for whatever you type into Google:

YouTube results, followed by Reddit results, followed by "Sponsored" results, followed by AI-written Bot results, then a couple pages of Amazon results and finally, on page 10 or so, a ten-year-old result that's probably no longer relevant.

NutWrench , 5 days ago to Technology in Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield

I think the problem with big companies like Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, etc is that once all the smart & creative people have gone, all you have left are the "line must always go up" business idiots, who have no idea what their company does or how to fix it.

CoPilot is exactly the kind of End-stage, "let's screw our customers to death" idea the CEOs come up with right before their company implodes.

The reason I know that's true is because when this stupid idea for CoPilot came up, there were no smart people who immediately said, "do you have any idea what a terrible f*cking plan this is?"

NutWrench , 5 days ago to Technology in Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield

I can't think of a single reason why I would need detailed snapshots of everything I did with my own computer.

But I can think of plenty of reasons why corporations, advertisers and governments would want that.

NutWrench , 6 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs

You know, The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that if you chain a room full of monkeys to typewriters and let them all beat the keys at random, for an infinite amount of time, they will . . . eventually . . . through sheer random chance . . . produce the comple works of William Shakespeare. Maybe in 10 trillion years or so. THIS is current state of "AI."

What Musk is proposing is like building an army of very expensive, very wasteful fusion-powered robots to beat the monkeys in the hope that the monkeys will work just a little bit faster.

NutWrench , 6 days ago to Technology in Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you

Your Steam games will go to the grave with you

Just like my porn!

NutWrench , 6 days ago to Technology in CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

I think this is what happens to every company once all the smart / creative people have gone. All you have left are the "line must always go up" business idiots who don't understand what their company does or know how to make it work.

NutWrench , 7 days ago to Technology in Arizona lawmaker uses ChatGPT to help craft legislation to combat deepfakes

Or lawyer-bot cites some sovereign citizen crap as if it were established legal precedent. "You can't prosecute me in this court! Your flag has a gold fringe on it!"

NutWrench , 8 days ago to Technology in Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

They also highlight the fact that Google’s AI is not a magical fountain of new knowledge, it is reassembled content from things humans posted in the past indiscriminately scraped from the internet and (sometimes) remixed to look like something plausibly new and “intelligent.”

This. "AI" isn't coming up with new information on its own. The current state of "AI" is a drooling moron, plagiarizing any random scrap of information it sees in a desperate attempt to seem smart. The people promoting AI are scammers.