darth_helmet

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

Hard to find on non-pc gear, but that’s a fair point

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

Sounds like hdmi Forum are a bunch of twats. Time for a new format.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand

Fast food will always be at the forefront of enshittification. Ghost Kitchens are yet another innovation that takes advantage of the fact that you, as the customer, have no idea how much of a horror show their operation is because they aren’t a physical presence you can just walk into (I guess you could pretend to be a doordasher). You have to put complete faith in the health inspector.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3

The startup world is almost entirely Apple, maybe a windows box for someone in finance who can’t be assed to learn how to do things outside of excel. If someone tried to take the macs away at any of my last five jobs, there would be riots.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to world in Woman loses £650,000 injury claim after being seen tossing Christmas tree

It’s the welfare-queen strategy: if you can show that 995/1000 people use a safety net as intended, 50% of voters can be convinced that it’s a fraud-soaked boondoggle

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to games in "Cards of Eternity: The Wheel of Time”, Wheel of Time themed card game, announced

sentient characters and creatures

Of the first AGI is a companion app for this card game I’ll eat my hat

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to asklemmy in If hemroids are common and can openly bleed, and people poop with hemroids, how do people not get infected buttholes all the time?

Wiping your ass with silk is still significantly more friction than water

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default

Yeah I stand by “revisionists or jerks”

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default

Literally the design and user experience is based on the iPhone. People here are revisionists or just jerks.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default

Android? I think I’ve heard of it. Bunch of iPhone clones of widely varying quality. I’ve owned several of both over the years (including both original models), worked for manufacturers of both, developed software for both… the design of the modern smartphone is based on the iPhone, which continues to be most of the best-selling smartphone models in the world. It’s great that there are options in the market, I love that. The iPhone still defines the market.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students

Vending machine company sells facial recognition and temporal location data to a data broker who enriches it to enhance identifiability and this data is sold to a stalker who uses it to murder people. That’s a more extreme, but certainly not most extreme, example.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default

It’s about the training and tuning. If a model is very good at the few dozen things that I’m likely to want my phone to do, and able to recognize when it should ask a remote, larger model for help, that’s pretty excellent and could conceivably fit on a phone. Even better if the system uses my usage data to train the model to be better for me. For example: I ask it to build me a playlist a few times, but never ask it for recipes. Eventually this usage data retrains to better handle playlist building (probably using a RAG because of how specific the data is) and drops all the training needed for making recipes, which it can always call up the chain for.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default

iPhones define the smartphone market, but Google makes a solid runner up

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to world in Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready

There’s nothing stopping you from operating a vpn on 443.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to world in Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready

Oh the humanity. They might get deeply inaccurate ideas about the perks of pizza delivery.