chaircat

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[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It always blows my mind some people actually found Apple's defense convincing.

The iPhones didn't inform users when they were throttling because they had an old battery. Apple kept the throttling a secret and coincidentally it helped them upsell new phones to people with old phones. This type of functionality was also unique to Apple, it's not like this is the only choice they had and an industry practice.

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 11 points 2 years ago

Games haven't been truly good for a long time

Meanwhile, here I am loving gaming and thinking we're in a golden age of gaming compared to my youth...

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Genshin Impact has an incredible soundtrack.

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Took me a while to figure out how to sign in with my lemdro.id account.

Maybe it's embarrassing to admit but I must have scanned through that long list of servers five times before realizing I could just type in my own server. Could be helpful to add a line inviting users to type in their own server.

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago

Sooo anyone have any example prompts like from the article that haven't been payched yet and can successfully jailbreak current chat AIs?

I'm interested in doing some research with them.

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

Amazon is making over Alexa the same way Google is doing to Assistant.

This probably means a new lease on life for all of these types of products. Version 1.0 didn't make money, but generative AI is the new hotness, so they're getting a whole new chance to prove themselves.

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/26/amazon-alexa-ai-home

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

One thing that drive me nuts on Pixels is how uncustomizable the launcher is. Can't even change basic things like the grid size or whether I want Google widgets locked permanently on the homescreen. Then, if you replace the launcher, gesture navigation gets all janky.

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, their message is a little weird, but so is the hysterical scaremongering that's been going on against them ever since they changed ownership.

There literally is no evidence they do anything unseemly with peoples' data, yet the scaremongering persists. What exactly are they supposed to say other than to emphasize this fact? Anyone who would distrust them based on this post was already definitely prone to distrust them.

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 4 points 2 years ago

It blows my mind that half a year after the public launch of ChatGPT that Google Assistant seems to be getting dumber instead of smarter and Bard is a completely different silo'd product still.

My Google Assistant a while ago picked up a problem. I use it to set timers all the time. Suddenly, one day it wouldn't understand "set a timer for 3:30" anymore and I'd have to say "3:30 pm". Then its dementia progressed and it was setting timers for the next day unless I specified "today at 3:30 pm". Then the day after that lucidity returned and it regained the ability to do the basic "set a timer for 3:30". It doesn't feel like it actually understands language at all. I appreciate that they're making updates, but I wish they were updates for the better.

The first company that will sell me a smart speaker that works like ChatGPT/Bing/Bard/etc. and I throw my Nest speakers in the garbage and switch brands.

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So her biggest issue is that the tablet wasn’t on the dock when it needed to be used. Because she took it and wanted to use it for herself. Having a smart home hub means you can’t take it away and use it to surf the web.

Is this to downplay the pain points she encountered? Because reading it another way it seems like a total indictment of the concept behind merging a tablet with a smart hub.

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

KeePassXC

Why specifically KeePassXC instead of KeePass?

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Data is one of those things that you don’t know how it’s going to be used against you until it is. If somebody is going to have that data, I’d rather my own government have that data vs a foreign government… Harming one’s own citizens isn’t a great strategy to get your way, but harming another’s citizens is quite effective.

I don't know what government actions you've been watching, if all of modern history is a guide, it's a lot easier to make a profit by harming your own citizens rather than harming another country's citizens.

From where I've been sitting, the normal pattern is a country's rich and powerful exploit the commoners of their own country for profit and power. It's much harder to gain from exploiting another country's citizens, i.e. you can't directly tax them, you can't take away their things, you can't sell their rights to your powerful friends, etc.

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