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JensSpahnpasta

@ JensSpahnpasta @feddit.org

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  • Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’

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  • Yeah - VR sounds like a nice thing, but everything about it is just not there. It's too expensive for something to play around with and buying into Facebook is also not something I want

  • Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days

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  • Let's be clear here: It is not Grok. Grok is a software developed by employees of Elon Musk that is capable of generating child porn and deep fakes of ordinary people. That software doesn't have the saveguards to prevent this and was released to the public. Elon Musk, the whole leadership of X.com and their employees there were made aware that this is happening and did nothing for several days. So let's not pretend that some "Grok" was doing it.

  • Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads

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  • TVs are cheap. Just get a used one from Kleinanzeigen.

  • Why doesn't it feel as classy?

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  • Don't do that - that's really bad for the vinyls and your stylus

  • Booting from a vinyl record

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  • I can open it without problems

  • Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days

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  • Yeah, but if local police wants to give information to the citizen, saying "that unofficial page that usually works, but might also be broken is a good way to access our content" is not great.

  • Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days

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  • After Elon wrecked everything, not-logged in users can't even see the recent tweets of an account. So those orgs are not only using a nazi-childporn platform, nobody can see their tweets

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Just to give you two examples of stuff I used today:

    Excel has PowerQuery, which is a really fancy and nice way of importing data into your spreadsheet. You can import data from another spreadsheet, from an CSV, a database or from websites and update them with one click. You can also transform that data during import. So if you want to just use two columns of that spreadsheet from accounting, you can import them in the format you need. And if accounting updates their spreadsheet, you can update yours with one click. LibreOffice doesn't have this as far as I know with that power.

    The other one is simply plugins for nearly every other business system in the world. I have this nice BI plugin which gives me a pivot table of our sales data. So if I want to know how my revenue was yesterday, I can update my spreadsheet with one click. I can also jack into our CRM and get f.e. visit data from our sales reps.

    So in this case I can take some data that is sitting somewhere on the company drive, import & transform it and then mash it up with sales data from BI and CRM. So building a quick report like "which accounts were created last year and have no sales and have no visit from sales reps" is quite easy. And if I want I can also set this up to create this with PowerQuery & Co so that I can do this report monthly/weekly without having to copy & paste data every time. That's not really possible with LibreOffice right now.

    There will be comments that this is not a job for Excel and that you should use Python/SQL queries/whatever for that task, but Excel is what most companies have. I could do it with Python, but it is not installed on my business computer and people are used to Excel and are not trained in Python. There is a reason why businesses are using Excel for everything and that is because it is easy, quick and gets shit done

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • I did and it's awesome. People like to shit on Excel, but there is a reason why every business on earth runs on Excel. It's a great tool and if you really learn it, you can do great things with it.

  • Wildlife cam setups?

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  • I can also recommend frigate. It's an awesome piece of software and it really is what OP wants

  • Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

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  • I am certain that my AliExpress headphones will get updates in the next few weeks!

  • Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

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  • Yeah - Facebook kind of is the right company to produce something like this. They kind of had a little bit of this with Farmville back in the day. They have all those people and your aunt on their apps. There has to be a way to get all those Facebook users into gaming, to get all those WhatsApp groups to play together or to implement something on Instagram. It's really stupid how they did this

  • Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

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  • The most funny thing about this is that they banned you for 7 days. No permaban for the russian government agent, just 7 days!

  • Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

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  • I mean - it kind of does work. There are millions of people socializing in online games. Playing World of Warcraft with their friends or people they met there. Building crazy things on a Minecraft server while forming friendships. Playing on that Counterstrike Server for decades with the same people. Forming that guild or that clan in an MMORPG. There is something that does work. Not sure why Zuckerberg wanted VR to be part of that and that Facebook touch of poo is also not helping, but trying to build "World of Warcraft for your aunt" is not the worst idea.

  • Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

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  • So there are people parking their toddlers in a VR world?

  • Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

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  • It's actually crazy that you can burn $100B in a project that everybody mocked from the beginnings and still be CEO after that while having earned billions in compensation

  • I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

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  • Not everything has to be 100% perfect - even Windows is not able to run all of my games. Most games run without problems and those games which make problems are mostly due to anticheat. It's a perfectly reasonable solution to simply dual boot if you want to play Call of modern Warfare: DLC edition

  • we need more users

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  • I wanted to see it and did take a look into your profile: That was one user and he was rightfully criticized and downvoted for that stupid post. It's not great that this happened, but I'm not sure if it is fair to judge all of us here based on that

  • What are your technology mispredictions?

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  • Bitcoin. A technology trying to circumvent our highly regulated financial system? Which is mostly used to sell drugs online and evade sanctions? Where we knew at the start that it would need more energy than whole countries if it was successful? And then there are those 51% attacks? Yeah, that's stupid. I really would have expected governments to crack down harsh on everything bitcoin and cryptocoin and would have expected that owning or using them would be as illegal as owning child porn.