Skip Navigation

BertramDitore

@ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

Posts
1
Comments
270
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

    Jump

  • Yup. Photo cleanup was cool to try once, but I’ll never use it again. Removing stuff from photos with a single tap also bugs me a bit in general, I’m not sure it’s something we should make so easy. Message summaries are absolute shit and have already caused confusion for me. I’m not even talking about the proper notification summaries, just the auto-summaries in the preview lines of the whole iMessage list. A number of them have really fucked with me. For example, a friend asked me to FaceTime her in a few days, and the summary just said “FaceTime request.” And I was like “shit, did I miss a call?” As far as I can tell I can’t turn that off without disabling the entire AI setting.

    I’m also not sure how to feel about all of Apple’s privacy talk when it comes to their AI features. They say certain features will stay on device, which is great, but for everything else, as far as I’ve noticed there is no mention of what goes to OpenAI’s servers, since their AI is still primarily powered by OpenAI. There’s actually no mention of OpenAI in any of the disclaimers or warnings I read when I first enabled it.

  • Lakeland woman threatens insurance company, says ‘Delay, Deny, Depose’: police

    Jump

  • Bret Stephens’ pieces often read like satire, but nope he’s just that out of touch. Such a shitty person.

  • A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game

    Jump

  • Throw in a dash of narcissism and you’ve just described my dad perfectly. There’s never a point, and if you ask what was the point of that story? What were you trying to say? He’ll deliver a point with confidence, but it’s never about anything he’d previously said. He’s pretty sure we can all read his mind, despite us never knowing what the fuck he’s talking about. Actually a pretty solid comparison to shitty LLMs, now that you mention it.

  • Which water filtration pitcher do you use?

    Jump

  • Yup agreed. I’ve tried brita and pur, and pur tastes the closest to NYC water to me, which is my benchmark for the best-tasting water. Definitely not as good as NYC, but closest I’ve come.

  • Meta makes $1 million donation to Trump’s inauguration

    Jump

  • What a cowardly, greedy, unprincipled piece of shit.

  • 2024-2025 donations

    Jump

  • Not really donations per se, but I’ll probably re-up my giving to ProPublica and Democracy Now. An aggressive and combative press will only be more critical in the coming years. Fuck corporate media. It’s not in their best interest to do their jobs properly, so we need to stop supporting them with our attention, and instead support independent outlets with our attention and our dollars.

  • Removed Locked

    Trump FIRES FTC Chair Lina Khan. She will be replaced by Andrew Ferguson who vows to end her "War on Corporate Mergers".

    Jump

  • Your title is pretty misleading. Trump isn’t the president yet, so he hasn’t fired anyone. The original headline makes much more sense: 'A Gift to the Oligarchs': Trump Pick to Replace Lina Khan Vowed to End 'War on Mergers'

  • When was the last time someone in position of power resigned due to shame?

    Jump

  • It was more complicated than just shame I think, but Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak resigned after 18 straight days of public demonstrations in 2011. He was properly pushed out of power, but of course his successors haven’t been much better.

  • Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions

    Jump

  • Totally understandable. I was hesitant about it too, but to me it's sometimes worth a premium to get something that just works, and Infuse works better than any player I've used in the past. To each their own, good luck!

  • Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions

    Jump

  • As suggested above, I would try Infuse player. I recently switched from a Kodi/Jellyfin setup to an Apple TV/Jellyfin setup and I’m extremely happy with it. Infuse has a free trial, and then you can choose to pay a few different ways (they do have a rather expensive lifetime option, but it might be worth it). The Infuse app has no trouble playing directly from my Jellyfin server, no transcoding, even for full 4K Bluray rips, and yes it even supports Dolby Vision (which the native Jellyfin app struggles with). No hiccups, no issues with multiple audio tracks or subtitles, it’s just buttery smooth direct playback.

    It also has a couple different ways of interacting with your Jellyfin library, so it feels completely seamless to me.

  • American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits

    Jump

  • I’m not defending the article, because it’s some serious bullshit, but not having a byline is standard practice at the Economist. It’s one of their gimmicks which is supposed to imply objectivity and represent a “collective voice,” but I think it causes more harm and confusion than anything else.

  • Removed

    Whats your favorite desk knick-knack (office toys) or one you know of?

    Jump

  • Shit, that’s awesome. I want one of these.

  • Do you know any independent written news sources?

    Jump

  • I came here to promote those two outlets as well. Democracy Now and ProPublica are two of the only sources I have nearly absolute trust in. I still consume them critically, but I trust their work because they’ve been doing consistently high quality journalism for years. They’ve never let me down, so I throw them a few bucks whenever I can afford to. It’s probably not a coincidence that they both do more of the muckraking type of journalism than anyone else these days. When I think of ‘traditional’ hard-hitting journalism, these are the two I think of.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • So what the hell is The Conversation? All the political posts I’ve seen from them lately have been utter bullshit, under-researched, and/or unsourced takes based on nothing. Their “Who we are” page sounds awesome, but I don’t see much of those values in their actual political reporting. Their scientific, academic, and culture reporting seems pretty solid, but I’ve only been disappointed by their political stuff.

    This article ultimately says nothing that hasn’t already been written 100 times.

  • Gavin Newsom Admits He Has No Idea What A 'Zaddy' Is After Becoming Internet Meme

    Jump

  • His handsomeness has always come across as “sleazy used car salesman” to me. He is good at talking to the press, but he is not a good governor. I really hope dems don’t try to force him down our throats as the future of the Democratic Party.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Wow, that was an incredibly out of touch and frustrating thing to read. The author has no idea what they’re talking about.

    in a highly polarised US political landscape, the anguish about his governmental role may be little more than a knee-jerk reaction from the millions of people whose side he did not choose.

    No, it’s a reaction to genuinely absurd proposals for how to save money. For example, if they were able to successfully fire every single federal employee, it would save the government just over $100 billion. That money goes to pay the salaries of around 1.5 million federal employees. That’s nothing compared to the entire military budget, for example. So, even accomplishing their goal of firing as many civil servants as possible would save very little money in the scheme of things. All it would accomplish is ruining many basic services that people rely on every day to live a relatively safe and healthy life.

    But what this article most glaringly ignores is that this Government Efficiency talk is disingenuous from the start. It’s not about efficiency, it’s about gutting as much of the government as possible so it breaks. That’s what they want, and they’ve been quite open about it.

  • AI can now create a replica of your personality

    Jump

  • Ugh someone recently sent me LLM-generated meeting notes for a meeting that only a couple colleagues were able to attend. They sucked, a lot. Got a number of things completely wrong, duplicated the same random note a bunch of times in bullet lists, and just didn’t seem to reflect what was actually talked about. Luckily a coworker took their own real notes, and comparing them made it clear that LLMs are definitely causing more harm than good. It’s not exactly the same thing, but no, we’re not there yet.

  • El Gato

    Jump

  • Monorail!

  • Matt Gaetz withdraws as Trump's nominee for attorney general

    Jump

  • Yeah, I forgot how many states are so damn creepy about age of consent. I think the alleged rape happened in Florida though, so the issue is moot, but still worth pointing out.

    But also, our national definition of an adult is 18, so how the hell can the states be so different on consent? Federalism has its downsides I guess…

    Curious if the downvotes are because I wasn’t totally right about the law, or something else?

  • Partial void feels left out

    Jump

  • Yeah he’s always been a beast. Doesn’t eat very much either…