mossTechnician

5 ms·

31.
by mossTechnician 5mo ago
Confusingly, that page only provides the changes to the Google Chromium source that allows their UI to run. (I'm not sure it would be easy to discern this without already knowing the source is not fully open.) https://help.v
32.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
That must be somewhat significant, because after that percent, Apple will start showing "Your battery’s health is significantly degraded" warnings.
33.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
Which flagship phones with replaceable batteries can customers buy? Samsung was the last major brand in the US to have one, and they made the choice to remove it.
34.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
Many flagship phones promise 7 years of security updates now. 3-4 years means the battery will only last for half that time, and heavy users (1 cycle per day) will hit that quota in under 2.75 years.
35.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
> Cameras are free speech... individuals, companies, and communities should be at liberty to hire surveillance tech to protect their persons and their property. At scale, corporate surveillance can effectively intermingle with, and/
36.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
Regarding whether AI can/could overcome the hurdle of human understanding: I'm not sure if that's really a hurdle. Let's say in theory, a system was crafted by AI to be interacted with exclusively by AI. Broadly, I assum
37.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
To me, the more interesting divergence in discussion is on its capabilities. AI industry insiders (including "safety" groups like ControlAI) talk about the dangers only in terms of its power: "Scheming", job loss, breaki
38.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
I disagree that anyone should need LLMs for Blender, for example, because Blender is designed by people to be understood and used by people, even if it requires a learning curve. It sounds a bit dangerous to build new things we don't u
39.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
Are old datacenter GPUs making more money than they were before? Various sources point to GPUs dying quickly (in 2024, a Google engineer suggested 3 years maximum), and even if they don't, newer chips cause rapid depreciation of olde
40.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
$5B is part of a contact, the remaining $20B is just a non-binding statement that doesn't hold the same weight (but somehow commands the same media fanfare).
41.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
The slow realization this whole article was AI prompted was such a disappointment to me. I'm fascinated by the subject matter, and it seems like the person who prompted it is aware of specifics at least... But I also don't want to
42.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
I read it as a commitment to do something, but I see nothing that comes close to matching it.
43.
by mossTechnician 6mo ago
The exact same concern already existed without LLMs. It is called social engineering, and has been a known risk for a while.
44.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
Proton can claim what they want, but when they promote themselves as supporters of peaceful protests while quietly handing over account details for people engaging in them, that is false advertising.
45.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
> If proton hashed your email how the fuck would they send you an email? By asking you to provide it again if you click the "recover account" button, comparing what you enter against the hash, and then sending recovery into to
46.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
Proton's homepage says: We are a neutral and safe haven for your personal data, committed to defending your freedom.
47.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
A recovery email address is your data, and a company that prides itself on encryption could figure out a way to hash it too. Maybe I'm just below average here, but I expected that from them at a minimum. I was shocked to discover they
48.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
The problem is the gap between marketing promises and realities. Proton markets itself as a safe Swiss product[0] for activists[1], but the reality is their accounts often expose more than a casual user may expect, like a secondary email ad
49.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
I think this entire thread has run its course; if it's not this detail, it'll be another, as a few others have already moved goalposts further down the discussion than the ones you're setting here. But if you wish to sate per
50.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
> I notice that you didn't say whether this new leak was private information The new leak was, according to journalist Jesse Singal himself, absolutely private information.
51.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
In my opinion, inappropriately leaked information should probably still be considered private, even if it was made publicly accessible. But even if not, Singal says the same leaker directly contacted him with a new leak, which he also pub
52.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
Distributing private medical information without consent is a violation of Bluesky's terms. And to me, that sounds like a much more concrete example of someone being a bully.
53.
by mossTechnician 7mo ago
The central complaint doesn't seem to be distaste, but rather the fact that he is uniquely privileged over other users, despite violating Bluesky's terms of service.[0] [0]: https://www.change.org/p/bluesky-mu
54.
by mossTechnician 8mo ago
I don't see why war is necessary. There could be something like the Space Race, where nations flex their technological skills at producing solutions to environmental problems.
55.
by mossTechnician 8mo ago
There is a difference between a liquor store checking your ID, and a liquor store scanning your ID, appending it to a record of your purchase, and uploading it to a service to be processed by third parties (such as insurance companies, perh
56.
by mossTechnician 8mo ago
I've seen footage of the Mother Of All Demos, and plenty of material depicting a real Xerox Alto exists online. It's too bad none of that material made it into the article, but AI-generated facsimiles did. AI images in general are
57.
by mossTechnician 8mo ago
Everybody in the world is now a programmer. This is the miracle of artificial intelligence. - Jensen Huang, February 2024 https://www.techradar.com/pro/nvidia-ceo-predicts-the-death-...
58.
by mossTechnician 8mo ago
Shortly after the American version of TikTok was established in January of 2026, users began reporting that certain content was creating error messages, including using words like "Epstein" in direct messages, which news outlet C
59.
by mossTechnician 8mo ago
At one point, people said Google's optimization target was giving you the right search results as soon as possible. What will prevent Anthropic from falling into the same pattern of enshittification as its predecessors, optimizing fo
60.
by mossTechnician 8mo ago
As of November 2025, no ChatGPT tier is profitable, not even the $200 a month one: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-lose...

More ›