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atrielienz

@ atrielienz @lemmy.world

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  • Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers

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  • I think this is a case of the lesser of two evils here. Not being Elon Musk is such a low bar to clear.

    Their statements each time something bad happens with their products don't bear out that things will change in a meaningful way any time soon. There are a lot of reasons I'd never ride in one of these but even putting that to the side, objectively they each seem to have significant problems with implementation that are receiving lip service instead of actual fixes.

  • The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek

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  • The crazy thing is, none of these articles seem to want to admit that AI is bad. They keep making articles like this. Keep saying that approval is falling among the general populace. But when touching on why that is, there's always some wiggle words. Always some spin.

    It's never "people being forced to use it are seeing it as a detriment to them" people using it are seeing a decrease in efficacy of the results it gives for the amount of prompting required. Or people don't like it because it's going to have significant detrimental affects on the environment and their utilities.

    All of those are solid reasons for the decline in both the use of AI LLM'S and the approval of them.

    The cost of goods and services relating even tangentially to AI are going through the roof. The amount of slop is increasing at a furious pace, directly contributing to things like enshittification and dead Internet theory. The effect on the economy is looking to be extremely catastrophic.

    But oh no. It's lack of authenticity on social media spaces that people are worried about. Sure.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers

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  • And yet WAYMO taxis have been driving through bus stops like it's going out of style. They aren't necessarily better.

  • Would this be possible with the fediverse?

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  • You are assuming that A. Google isn't scraping data for their own AI, B. that these companies will create their own instances (which opens them up to a certain amount of liability and requires them to retain moderation/admin and maintenance staff (which costs money)). C. That the enshittification of corporate owned versions of Lemmy and the fediverse won't push people to Lemmy sooner or later.

    A fourth assumption you made is that the Threads federation push was made in order to do anything other than create hype around a feature that might draw people away from places like the fediverse. I kind of assumed (maybe I'm wrong) that they were offering it as a way to have all the benefits of federation - namely the assumption of FOSS adjacent services, but with all the "benefits" of corporate social media.

    The truth is that it's likely that Meta absolutely has had a detrimental effect on the fediverse because it has things that pull users away from the fediverse. Instagram has content. For days. And because the fediverse is small (shrinking as you say), and because it doesn't have an algorithm that pushes certain content to certain users, Meta and the other services that have analogs in the fediverse continue to be popular.

    A lot of this is because the fediverse still hasn't figured out a way to be profitable to content creators and we no longer live in the early 2000's of YouTube etc where content creation for free was popular.

    I'd argue that a lot of the appeal of the fediverse is organic conversation and communication. The popularity of that as a whole is declining because of algorithms that tickle just the right feel good chemicals in our brains.

    As for your comment about these corps investing in the fediverse? The only reason for them to do that is if they can make money off it. The major money making scheme the internet is relying on is ad service. So there's a catch 22 here. I would rather donate money to fedi services than have the fediverse infested with ads.

  • Would this be possible with the fediverse?

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  • I don't want that. Part of the fediverse's appeal for me is that people aren't constant trying to sell me things on it.

    While I can understand certain communities having "suggest a (game, service, product), for the most part I really don't want to basically invite corps to think this is free real estate. And that's exactly what I think this would do.

    It's seems like it would invite corps to basically astroturf Lemmy and the fediverse the way they're doing with bot armies over on reddit.

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  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • Then they should have to explain under what law or suspected crime he was detained and his phone was taken as evidence.

    Because otherwise they can't prove he deleted evidence of a suspected crime. So what is the suspected crime?

  • Meet Pumpkin 1 of the 4 new strays under my care

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  • Sounds like a lunar lander and I love that about him and or her.

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  • Yeah, or hands on use. A use case where the theory is applicable.

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  • It's definitely grades. But that's coupled with the fact that I grasp concepts pretty fast and can understand how things work generally at s glance. The minutiae I can grasp if I am interested (it's novel), but my brain will actively jettison information it doesn't think I need or doesn't think is useful.

    If I couldn't learn I wouldn't be able to do any of the trades I've been successful at. But I do see what you mean.

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  • I did a lot better in college before I had to drop out because of lack of funds. But most of my academic career was failure after failure.

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  • Where I learned things and inhaled books at a furious rate? Yes. Where I was successful academically? No.

  • WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

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  • The worst of it hasn't happened yet. The point where consumers can no longer afford to consume is coming. The system isn't self sustainable if they continue to chase profits in the short term regardless of what happens in the long term. They're creating a system where only they will be consumers and that leads to a devaluation of all the currency they're hoarding.

    Prices can't continue to go up if people can't afford things. This price hike is going to have far reaching consequences and increase prices of everything.

    The people of Germany were burning German marks in the street. They traded goods for goods when they were available, and burned the money for warmth.

    The rich of our current generation seem to think they can golden parachute out of this. They haven't thought about the long term repercussions of a world power of the US's magnitude descending to third world country status, but that's what is coming.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic

  • Making The Internet And Our Devices User Friendly Once Again

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  • I mean. To do what they want they can use their regular Facebook account in a container, use DNS and probably just ublock origin, and get most of what they're looking for without having to worry too terribly much about carrying around a burner phone (which will more than likely be tied to you by payment information or address when you create the account, unless you're using something like this: https://www.howtogeek.com/this-new-carrier-only-requires-a-zip-code-to-sign-up/

    The lengths they are going to could also be solved with apps that lock your phone for specific periods of time and the like.

    So if this is specifically about curtailing these things in your life in order to have a more healthy relationship with your devices, then I'm not sure it sends that message effectively.

  • Making The Internet And Our Devices User Friendly Once Again

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  • To create an effective burner account you need an effective burner device and a burner network to use it on. Otherwise it is trivial for companies that collect your data to figure out who that data belongs to.

    This is more technologically difficult than the average person is willing to deal with. It's too high of a bar to clear when your browser is being fingerprinted, your devices are being fingerprinted, every new device you buy has some app or subscription, and algorithms collect and anonymize your data with such recklessness that it's basically trivial to unanonymize it.

    Use the same network as your parents and you'll get ads for the toothpaste they use, and maybe what they plan to buy you for Christmas.

    Try to remove or block trackers? That just makes it easy to single you out as a specific individual. Try to firehouse those trackers with garbage data? Same problem.

    If you think using a dummy Facebook account on the same device you use for regular accounts means Facebook doesn't track you or know who you are? That's a pipe dream.

    It's the same with other apps too.

    Especially Google and their app network.

    Understand that it's not that I don't think this is a good idea (to remove certain services from your electronic life, and to curtail the use of others). But I think your strategy will give people a false sense of security.

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Him

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  • Tape worms. They're just performing their natural function. Musk is... Well. Musk.

  • Netflix kills casting from phones

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  • My understanding is they already made it more annoying. Your devices have to connect to the home accounts "home" wifi within a certain amount of time or that device gets locked out.

    I quit Netflix when they announced the pilot program for removing account sharing in South America, and I stand by that decision to this day.

  • DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why

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  • The reason why is greed. That's the only reason for capitalism.

  • Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry

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  • So a car wash?