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thehatfox

@ thehatfox @lemmy.world

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  • An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious

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  • In the general population it does. Most people are not using an academic definition of AI, they are using a definition formed from popular science fiction.

  • What are some of the craziest censorship instances on TV shows you have seen?

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  • But Pokemon was a show about a fantasy world of made up animals with magic powers. 4Kids felt kids would be able to grasp that, but not rice balls.

    Kids could accept a weird yellow mouse that could shoot lightning bolts, they would have accepted some weird food they hadn't heard of either.

  • Bots increase online user engagement but stifle meaningful discussion, study shows

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  • The platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.

    If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.

  • After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close — shuts its last factory in Feb

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  • They were still making MiniDiscs and MiniDV tapes? That seems more of a surprise than the Blu-ray discontinuation.

  • Men With a Mild Fever – Arcade Rage

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  • Testicular torsion is no joke. If they get tangled even the manliest of men can be in for a very rough time.

  • The Crazy Nokia Designs That Never Saw the Light of Day [Wired]

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  • The N-Gage had a bunch of bizarre design decisions.

    The game cartridge slot was behind the battery - swapping games required disassembling the phone.

    The revised QD version fixed a lot of the mistakes but it was too little too late by then.

  • ‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI

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  • Throwing money at AI seems a big gamble for productivity.

    I’d rather see the UK invest in its human workers instead, with better education and training. IT skills for example as still lacking in the country. PCs have now existed for 30+ years yet so many still struggle with task like making simple spreadsheets.

  • Zuckerberg whines about Apple

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  • If there is going be insistence on platforms being open there shouldn't be these distinctions.

    All of these devices are capable of general purpose computing at a hardware level, phones, tablets, PCs, headsets are now very similar and generalised in that regard. I don't see why a phone platform should be forced to be open while a games console gets to remain closed, when there is now only a hair's breadth separating an Xbox from a Windows PC.

  • Zuckerberg whines about Apple

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  • Considering the latest changes at Meta, it seems their latest innovation is to transform social media into antisocial media.

  • New USB logos will simplify branding on hubs and cables

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  • USB-C has been a blessing and curse. One port that does everything, except when it doesn't. Even charging is now complicated by the "guess the cable that supports the right PD type" game.

    Not that the old days were much better. I don't miss faffing around with the myriad of serial and parallel port modes and settings.

  • Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES

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  • Take the AI crap out and give it an open display API and it would be a fun desk toy.

    A rotating phone screen in a cylinder creating a hologram-like effect to display notifications/metrics/whatever else.

  • Apple to pay $95m to settle claims Siri listened to users’ private conversations

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  • So the plaintiff’s are claiming Siri was recording them without consent, and that Apple were sharing those recordings with third parties including advertisers.

    Apple claims they were sometimes wrongly keeping recordings for internal quality control/analytics but hasn’t admitted to sharing them, and have agreed to the $95m settlement.

    The sharing with third parties is the most egregious part here, but it doesn’t seem to be addressed any further.

  • Remember, always stay in character!

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  • Considering the doomsday bunker fad that’s popular in techbro and executive circles currently, such honesty might not count against you.

  • TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads

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  • For TVs now, by buying used. Help yourself and the environment by buying an unwanted "dumb" TV that's free of this sort of crap.

    Or if budget allows, look at industrial displays.

    Supply answers demand, is we stop buying junk smart stuff and take our money elsewhere the market will eventually follow.

  • TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads

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  • A while ago a company patented a method using eye tracking to monitor whether TV watchers were paying attention to ads.

    It can always get worse.

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    Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund.

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  • Zuck bending his own knee in the vain hope he won't get bent over Trump's.

    Maybe he should have spent a little less attention on Caesar and tried to learn a few other lessons from history.

  • I'm afraid we've been bamboozled

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  • Cubic hands?

  • I'm afraid we've been bamboozled

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  • There were some polls asking why people voted for Brexit. Not only where there respondents wanting imperial measurements, there was even a small but significant group that wanted the return of pre-decimal currency, which was abolished in 1971.

    For those not familiar with the UK’s old currency, it used to be 12 pence in a shilling, and 20 shillings in a pound, and with a variety of coins representing odd combinations of those.

  • I'm afraid we've been bamboozled

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  • Stone is only real used for body weights now, and mostly be older people. I see metric weights used a lot more in medicine and by younger folk now.