Gigachad

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by Gigachad 5mo ago
There is an unbelievable amount of e waste created because OEMs locked the software down and stopped updating it. I have an android tablet which is functionally working but effectively useless.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Notice the “get away with” part. Journalists can be held liable for making things up. And so should Google.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Wine existed before Proton, Valve made it better but the project doesn't rely on Valve. Currently Linux is the best gaming experience. Zero bloat or nagware, everything just works. It's just ironic Wine/Proton ended up being
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Google should not be publishing a statement that they haven't verified. This is different to listing search results links, they are the ones publishing the content here. A journalist could not make up a harmful statement about someone
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I think it should be relatively possible for an LLM to know when it's talking about something in the risk zone of libel. And when it identifies such a case it links direct to source material rather than trying to fabricate an answer it
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I've also observed that the AI summary on the google search page is incredibly stupid compared to the results in the actual Gemini. The Google search AI is like the dumbest lightest model simply rewording the search results. It will ta
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
There's also a difference between search engine results and this. Google is publishing their own text with false claims, not linking to another page that hosts it.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
If google didn't intend it's answers to be taken at face value it would just present the citations in a list of links rather than generating an answer. Obviously the marketing point of the AI tools is it just gives you an answer s
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Reminds me of the inconsistency of take home interview tests where you have no idea if the person reviewing cares that the UI is shiny or not or if they want you to write a novel in the readme and make it look like a real project.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I think at this point native linux ports are somewhat a thing of the past. The problem was that the ports were usually contracted out to a 3rd party and rarely updated or cared for that much. There was also the issue that they often relied
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I mean at this point literally anything works better than Windows.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I could get by on just an SMS/Call only device, the problem is these days everyone moved to internet based apps which require an android/ios app. In theory you could use some kind of bridge server to convert it in to a simple text
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I've been thinking about it as an experiment lately. Not fully throwing my smartphone in the bin, but considering leaving it at home for a day. If I had my physical credit card with me I think it would largely be viable, the main issue
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Any situation you can imagine wanting a burner phone for, that's what the government wants to crack down on.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
What level of system access do they have? You can use 3rd party AI apps on iOS, they just can’t read app data or make actions on the system outside of the APIs that currently exist. The new Siri has much deeper access to personal data and a
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Laptops are a low security environment and already massively compromised. Thats why banks make you authorise transactions by approving them on your phone when you started them on the web. Apple has been working for a while to secure MacOS b
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
It’s a back door around normal app sandboxing and permissions systems. The security design of iOS was not meant to allow 3rd party apps to reach in and read any data from any app. There is a 100% chance this would be used maliciously immedi
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
More generally it’s called Steganography.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
At least for consumer software, AI is synonymous with annoying nagware forcing itself in your way.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
It's looking like an incredible move so far. They will have wasted no money while the whole industry lit trillions on fire, and then at the end they can just rent a model for cheap and replace it with their own or whatever is cheapest
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Undoubtedly Meta would install themselves as an "AI agent" and then just scrape your whole device for data they can use.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
In this case I think it is true that 3rd parties can not be trusted with this capability, but Apple brought this on themselves by creating a ton of other capabilities like AirDrop, Airpods integrations, and apple watch capabilities which wo
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
The thing is socialising isn’t that profitable. People moved socialising to IM apps but hardly any of them are paying for it or consuming many ads. Short form video media is massively profitable and those same people are eating it up.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I’ve kept YouTube on the tv but avoid it on mobile. Theres a lot of great stuff on the site that inspires projects and ideas for myself. I do have to resist watching all the product review videos which are essentially just ads.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
You could argue back in the day reddit was a forum rather than a social media. But after the new UI and several years of changes, particularly when they started to ignore your subscribed subreddits and just showing whatever in the home feed
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
The problem for Facebook is there is a limit to how much your friends would post. You could check Facebook for 15 minutes and then you had seen everything your friends had posted and had to come back tomorrow for more. New Facebook/ins
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
HN is more like a forum where strangers discuss ideas. Old school social media was a place you posted life updates to your friends and family. New social media is content creator short form video while the majority of users are entirely pas
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I’ve already done that but it’s clear something more needs to happen to fix this on a societal level. Tech companies have hacked the human brain and optimised it to an absolutely insane level. They have truely won. On a train recently I wat
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I’ve had home grown strawberries and they are certainly sweeter, but they are smaller. And I can’t say being sweeter is actually better. If I was cutting up strawberries to put in a yogurt, I think I’d actually rather commercially produced
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I grew up with social media but at the start of the year I quit all of it and deleted my accounts. AI slop and obvious bots everywhere was the tipping point. I should have done it long before, quitting has been so massively beneficial and I

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