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ahal ,

Iirc it peaked at around 30% market share. I think IE was around 60% at the time. So never dominant, but definitely very very widespread.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

ahal ,

I'm curious, are these hallucinations very prevalent? I'm outside under US so haven't seen the feature yet. But I have noticed that practically every article references the same glue incident.

So I'm not sure if the hallucinations are happening all the time, or everyone is just jumping on a handful of mistakes the AI made. If the latter, the situation reminds me of how every single accident involving a Tesla was reported on back in the day.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

ahal ,

Google's too smart for that. They know there's a big backlash against AI in the tech savvy crowd and that it's bleeding users to competitors. So they offer this escape valve that they know the techies will easily find and use, but which 99% of the population will never even look for. This way they can still push AI on almost everyone while at the same time retain as many disgruntled techies as they can.

ahal ,

I can think of a couple examples, like leaving the boot loader unlocked on their pixel phones. You might be right though.

ahal ,

An old manager of mine's backup solution was a cronjob that appended .old to every file then made a copy of the most recent one. So he had:
file, file.old, file.old.old, file.old.old.old, ...

ahal ,

Not disagreeing with the sentiment.. But how is this Reddit's fault? This is entirely on Google.

ahal ,

Microsoft argues that its AI automation will remove the boring bits of jobs instead of replacing jobs entirely.

This argument is such bullshit. As if Microsoft doesn't know there exist jobs that are entirely "the boring bits".

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I've never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be "no," although I'm not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone...

ahal ,

I'm experienced enough to know that out of my mobile carrier and ISP, I am the least trustworthy operator.

ahal ,

Maybe, maybe not

ahal ,

It's $5/month with an annual subscription, but then you can't go month to month like Mullvad.

ahal ,

What are the VMs for? Could you use containers instead?

ahal ,

That's about the minimum price for what you're asking.

ahal ,

Yes, everyone deserves a bullshit free social experience. You're more than welcome to go start your own instance that only federates with other hardcore nerd instances

ahal ,

You're correct that most 5 year olds cannot read.. However there's so much you can do without knowing how to read. Plus kids are very good at pressing buttons and can figure stuff out by trial and error.

ahal ,

I think you're overstating the compute power and understating the amount of cardboard Amazon uses

ahal ,

Namecheap supports ddns out of the box too, no additional service required. You just need a cron job that calls their API to update your IP periodically.

ahal ,

https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/palm-oil#:~:text=Impacts,-%C2%A9%20Hartmut%20Jungius&text=Large%20areas%20of%20tropical%20forests,including%20rhinos%2C%20elephants%20and%20tigers.

ahal ,

NPM is the way. SSL without ever needing to edit a config file.

ahal ,

Don't forget the update to the privacy policy so they can sell more of your data

ahal ,

Google Play Pay

ahal ,

But if you already have a license they aren't changing the agreement with you? I also don't think there was ever any agreement that everyone else would get the same agreement as you

ahal ,

There's nothing special you need to do to support Unraid beyond providing an image.

OP is likely talking about getting it added to the Community Applications app store, but tbh if you don't use Unraid yourself it's probably better if someone else who does maintains the template.

ahal ,

Here's my headline:
Why obsessing over battery degradation is unhealthy and you should just do whatever is easiest for you

ahal ,

Honestly doesn't matter how old you are, nothing makes you grow as a person like kids.

ahal ,

I'd take lunduke with a bowl of salt. That dude has had a hate boner against Mozilla for over a decade.

ahal ,

This comic is onto something:
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/295f06be-3050-4c46-8087-a843a55087d4.jpeg

Signal requiring phone number, thoughts on anonymity?

signal requires a phone number to sign up. a phone number could be used to trace your signal account back to you. so why do people, especially privacy enthusiasts and experts (like edward snowden), still use it and endorse it when it lacks anonymity in that sense? i get that people could use a voip number or something to sign...

ahal ,

That's like saying there's no point in having bathroom doors because everyone can see you going in.

Drone (quadcopter) suggestions?

Hi guys! Back in the day I bought a DJI Mavic (1st gen) for my travels, when they were not so absolutely obnoxious about sending ALL your flight logs back to the motherland. As the obnoxiousness increased, I ended up installing a CFW (Merlin, I think) on the drone, so I could fly unrestricted and with no logged-in account on...

ahal ,

Mozilla's privacy not included guide reviews three drones:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/toys-games/

No idea if those are what you're looking for, but perhaps you can get an idea of the practices those 3 companies do in general (one of them is DJI so would be good for comparison so least)

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