IIRC Vivaldi and Brave promised to prolong it for a year.
andrew_bidlaw
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•[SWE] Swedish government wants a back door in SignalEnglish
4·9 months agoAfter the ability to bring them up got taken away by the big capital.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what’s the longest you went without sleep?English
7·9 months agoAround three days. No drugs, just showers and energy drinks I took sip by sip for a long time. I was somehow productive, but caught my attention stuck a couple of times on something banal like a working microwave buzz. Everything felt dull and I seemingly had no emotions near the end.
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Linux@programming.dev•I Switched From Windows to Linux – It Only Took Me 20 Years (Including Davinci Resolve Setup)English
2·9 months agoIt feels basic but it gets the work done. As long as you don’t need a complex array of effects and graphics, it fits. Most of simple amateur video needs are easily covered.
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Technology@lemmy.world•All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 daysEnglish
4·10 months agoIP hoarding of products that may potentially be produced. Millions of dollars aren’t a pocket change, but if anyone’s going into this wearable AI bullshit, HP’d make a hole in their pockets. It’s a low stakes conservative gamble ‘just in case’.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research.English
4·10 months agoI thought this rat made access for researchers difficult, just like on reddit, thus getting bulletproof evidence via data harvesting got complicated.
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Technology@lemmy.world•An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answersEnglish
21·10 months agoThe ride just never ends…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”English
3·10 months agoI perceive my advanced tools akin to a broom.
I can mop floors alright, but I also don’t want to sit down with a cloth to do it.
If I can’t do that myself, and it does that instead of me, that’s not just my tool, that’s my employee, and the one I now depend on.
‘AI’ companies sell us billions of hours of other people’s labor to replace our own need to interject our experience and ingrain themselves into our routine. Like the coming of ads, it’s already normalized. But this time, critical parts of our life has this black box dependancy and subscription.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy EverythingEnglish
3·10 months agoAlso, LLM doesn’t usually have memory or experience. It’s the first page of Google search every time you put in your tokens. A forever trainee that would never leave that stage in their career.
Human’s abilities like pattern recognition, intuition, acummulation of proven knowledge in combination makes us become more and more effective at finding the right solution to anything.
The LLM bubble can’t replace it and also actively hurts it as people get distanced from actual knowledge by the code door of LLM. They learn how to formulate their requests instead of learning how to do stuff they actually need. This outsourcing makes sense when you need a cookie recipe once a year, it doesn’t when you work in a bakery. What makes the doug behave each way? You don’t need to ask so you wouldn’t know.
And the difference between asking like Lemmy and asking a chatbot is the ultimative convincing manner in which it tells you things, while forums, Q&A boards, blogs handled by people usually have some of these humane qualities behind replies and also an option for someone else to throw a bag of dicks at the suggestion of formating your system partition or turning stuff off and on.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billionEnglish
65·10 months agoShortly after the news was announced, Altman posted on X: “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
If only their slapfight meant something good for the world. At least, I don’t see everything collected in Musk’s hands.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill ThemEnglish
1·10 months agoNeuralink ftw lol.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"English
3·10 months agoI agree. They need to be either pressured or abandoned.
I feel like they would need to rewrite it completely in that case, partially because no one knows how their legacy code works and partially because it’s completely broken.
Google with it’s billions and a promise of more free data did great with how office formats work. They set some little limits of what user can do compared to MS Word so ending up with a broken table or whatever is harder, and they aslo strong-armed their way into adoption with their obvious mechanics of real-time collaboration.
I’m not sure about MS users coming to Linux, but their marketshare was already bled by Google. And if in some scenario Google releases their own internal XML format for these, I guess it’d work too.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"English
4·10 months agoMS Office’s lie of WYSIWYG and the idiotic requirements to follow absurdly complicated formatting guidelines and them not rendering the same from system to system or even correctly is the most brutal offender. If we used simplistic markdown without page-breaking in the GUI, there could’ve been no point to buy Office, but we don’t, and itso hsppens I had encountered many times where some arbitrary cosmetic request like ‘you can’t have less than X lines per page’ caused people toy with formatting or rewriting their documents… only for it showing differently on the other side >:ç Thus leading to even worse things like PDF.
It being the most used piece of office software renders the voluntary switch close to impossible.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"English
51·10 months agoSome of them just don’t want to take responsibility if they do something wrong under your instructions.
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Technology@lemmy.world•is starlink a security issue?English
2·10 months agoThanks for updating me on that. Now I’m stupidly giggling at a thought of a Metal Gear-like walking oil refinery dodging rockets and planes.
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Technology@lemmy.world•is starlink a security issue?English
6·10 months agoAnd isn’t starlink receiver a backpack-sized thing? Most drones wouldn’t be able to carry it at all, and if they could, it’s more viable to carry grenades instead. Internet-enabled drones are of a very narrow usage for missions where everything else doesn’t make it, e.g. long-distance attacks you mentioned. I guess Cessna drones were controlled via it too.
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pics@lemmy.world•Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building todayEnglish
3·10 months agoPissposting too 😅
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a haltEnglish
4·10 months agoI’d like a GTA singleplayer cheat making every police car a cybertruck that can’t pursue you for long and would rather lose control and do a barrel roll than even get close to you.
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Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasionEnglish
30·10 months agoI liked the subreddit simulator subs but itso happened every sub is now a subreddit simulator in itself.





Resource drain of LLMs inescapably makes them tools availiable only to big players. They are ideal in the way they are naturally gated. Making them mandatory == giving these select companies and people power over everything. And not only oligarchs’ promotion, but the whole situation of them being given for free or cheap at a huge loss gives one an idea that there’s a lot to milk from it’s growing adoption.