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PonyOfWar ,

If you have a short-ish email address, someone might have just set it as their recovery address by mistake. I also have a pretty old, short gmail address and people have registered it as their recovery address before, so I would get mails whenever they logged in on a new device etc. Don't think those were phishing attempts, just people being technologically inept.

PonyOfWar ,

Not without the encryption key, no.

PonyOfWar ,

Paying online, not playing online. I misread it at first too.

PonyOfWar ,

I wouldn't start with retro hardware, those systems have a lot of quirks and limitations that will make development much harder than it needs to be for your first projects. Instead I'd suggest using a modern toolkit like Gamemaker if you want to avoid programming, or an engine like Godot. Lots of good tutorials available for either.

PonyOfWar ,

Seriously, I hope Mozilla dies so that it can be reborn by a different org that gives a fuck about browsers, because Mozilla sure as hell doesn’t.

And why do you think that would happen as opposed to Chromium just becoming the only browser engine available?

PonyOfWar ,

To be able to claim they're not a monopoly. But I'm not sure what you're getting at. You want Google to create a new org to compete with Chromium after Mozilla dies? That seems neither realistic nor something to hope for.

PonyOfWar ,

Like the article states: it contains an NPU. It's also not targeted at consumers.

PonyOfWar , (edited )

I suppose a better way to phrase it is- why is an NPU necessary? What does it enable these machines to do that a Surface sans NPU can’t?

It can basically handle neural network/AI tasks more efficiently than a regular CPU/GPU can.

And yes, these are business-oriented. But my question remains the same - is built-in AI a feature that businesses, as consumers of this product, are asking for?

Yes, deserved or not, AI is currently on everyone's mind in the business world. Working as a software dev, every client these days asks if we "do AI", so we pretty much have to reluctantly learn and use it. And many of those clients are very protective of their data and don't just want to put them on some web service, like OpenAI. So there's certainly demand for locally running AI tasks.

PonyOfWar ,

The lemmy devs should really focus on proper content deletion tools. It's not just the images, it's very strange and inconsistent overall. When I delete a comment, it's seemingly still visible to many people and collecting up/downvotes even many hours after I deleted it. On the other hand, when a post gets deleted, it's completely gone, to the point that I can't even look up the discussion that I had within that post, just my own comments on my profile.

Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood (theconversation.com)

Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It can be used in the workplace, for hiring, etc. Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are...

PonyOfWar ,

I'm glad to live in a place where that kind of surveillance is already illegal. I recently read that in some places, it's already commonplace to track every single keystroke and mouse click on workers' PCs. That's bad enough even without putting AI and facial recognition into the mix. Truly dystopian.

PonyOfWar ,

Kinda true in Europe though. Don't know anyone who uses iMessage, it's pretty much irrelevant. I know the situation in the US is quite different, but ultimately they don't regulate for the US market.

PonyOfWar ,

I was downvoted before for suggesting the Pinetab is not a viable Android or iPad replacement. That thing doesn't even have a working wifi driver yet, you have to plug in a dongle just to connect to wifi. I'd love to have good smart devices running Linux one day, but we're not there yet.

PonyOfWar ,

Good to know that there is now a testing branch for a wifi driver. That wasn't the case when I wrote the original comment I was talking about. Still, this took almost a year of selling a tablet with no working wifi. There is inconvenience and then there is a product just being in an unfinished, effectively unusable state. I don't really see how having no wifi driver is "freedom". The freedom to code my own driver? I guess, but that doesn't make for an actually usable device.

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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

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PonyOfWar ,

Mid-sized village (around 10k inhabitants) in Germany:

  • 4 grocery stores

  • 2 pharmacies

  • Bus stop (and train station)

  • 5 or so restaurants

  • Post office

  • Bank

  • Gas station

  • Elementary school

  • 2 Kindergartens

  • 2 barber shops

  • Bar

  • Sports field (calling it an arena would be a bit much)

Alas, no university or hospital, but I think for a village it's pretty good.

PonyOfWar ,

I guess it's just too irrelevant in Europe to be actively regulated by the EU. I don't know a single person using iMessage.

PonyOfWar ,

In all my years of riding trains, I've indeed never witnessed that. Usually everyone just tries really hard to ignore them.

PonyOfWar ,

Worst example I've ever seen is 3dVista - a fucking facebook group. Discord would have been amazing in comparison.

PonyOfWar ,

It's such an Apple thing to put a giant glass panel on the front of a VR headset, which you're likely to sometimes bump into things when in immersive mode, and then charge $800 for a replacement.

PonyOfWar ,

I can see what you mean for phones, but are analogue clocks supposed to be a thing of the past now? I have like 3 in my home and know many other people, including young people, who still have them.

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