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canis_majoris , 17 days ago to New Communities in Introducing Housing_Bubble_2 : Return of the Ugly

It's a great concept but such an awful name. "Return of the ugly" is just such a bad and clunky title.

Housing Bubble 2: Impending Crash Boogaloo

Housing Bubble 2: Boomer Madness

Housing Bubble 2: Ah shit here we go again

canis_majoris , 1 month ago to Technology in Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers

They tried it already with news media with Google and Facebook, and were basically told to pound sand. Facebook doesn't provide news feeds in Canada anymore.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago to Technology in Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price

The same amount of fools who created the largest civilian surveillance network with Ring doorbells.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago to Technology in ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan

TSMC equipment only has the materials to function for about two weeks before needing a shipment of replacement parts for the fabs when they wear out.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Technology in Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?

Again, there are easier ways to do this.

Biometric authentication can be required for some companies. You'd have to opt in to use the system or at least agree to the terms set forth by the employer. This kind of stuff doesn't just get collected just because; it's pretty sensitive data.

What you're talking about is a cyberpunk nightmare; some corporate-assisted mass surveillance designed for like, union busting.

If you're making vocal and facial profiles of employees you must have some reason to do so, and it can't just be to burn cash. Like I said before, this stuff costs money, and it's kind of pointless unless you're using it in a way that makes money, selling the data somehow.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Technology in Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?

There are easier ways to spy on your employees. This is not cost-effective.

I use Zoom for work now and each call can be several gigabytes large, depending on resolution of shared materials and a few other factors. If you want to save that kind of stuff long term, you have to pay to keep it somewhere. If you multiply several gigabytes over a few dozen calls a day, you're going to end up with terabytes of garbage you need to store. Zoom also informs you of when a recording is starting and active, offering for you to leave the call or otherwise implicitly agree to being recorded. You have to pay for all these things because there's a significant amount of processing power involved. It's not like it's free to run facial recognition and speech recognition.

When I did contract work for Apple support, the spying was way more efficient than just listening to my calls. My supervisor could literally always see my monitor through the chat program we had installed. There's all kinds of remote software for things like this. If an admin wants to see you misuse your equipment, they have easier ways of finding out than sifting through calls to find wrongthink.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago to Technology in Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards

There's a transaction limit on tap payments. Sometimes you need to chip or swipe when it's over $250 or something.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago to Technology in Apple introduces M4 chip

Don't forget about the new Snapdragon X series. I heard they were pretty good, on par and better than M3s.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding?

You can enable REBAR on older machines with a UEFI hack.

It's been part of the PCI spec for ages but Nvidia and AMD only started using it recently.

You can check out the tool here.

canis_majoris , 2 months ago to Technology in So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

SA used to be great. That move actually made the forums a pretty good place for a while because it kept out a few demographics including bots and kids.

Something Awful, YTMND and Newgrounds were basically the comedic engines of the internet back then.

Good 'ol pre-YouTube internet.

canis_majoris , 2 months ago to Technology in So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

I followed a bunch of artists and content creators and I got annoyed when the entire feed became just interspersed with Musk's ramblings and bullshit. I never followed him and I didn't want promoted content.

canis_majoris , 2 months ago to Technology in Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military

With Stable Diffusion's case, you would use the software to determine what targets to protect, rather than destroy, obviously.

And so begins the big titty resistance against the machines.

canis_majoris , 3 months ago to Technology in Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar

Lemmy sucks at sourcing but rocks at being opinionated.

canis_majoris , 3 months ago to Technology in YouTube now requires creators to disclose when AI-generated content is used in videos

You can only really pull that with older people and children. Most of us millennials can spot the patterns AI gen produces, but I've seen my dad just consume the content and be largely unaware of the fact that it was artificially generated. He constantly complains those videos say nothing but watches tons of them anyways, mostly related to non-news about sports.

canis_majoris , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion

It's also only valuable if people keep contributing to it. It's highly likely the majority of current existing reddit data has been largely incorporated into many LLMs prior to the API access limiting. Google paying them 60 million dollars is a hilarious pittance to keep training their LLMs, given how much money AI services will likely generate off of the training data.

I don't actively use reddit anymore, but when I need an answer to something that isn't programming-related, it's usually the top source on any given web search. That kind of content is basically the only stuff I would give a shit about. I can't imagine how much absolute garbage you have to sift through on the platform to get reliable training data. Maybe the ratio is terrible and that's why Google paid so little.