TheGrandNagus

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TheGrandNagus,

Of course it’s on-device. Microsoft is doing all the processing on people’s PCs, rather than their own servers, where they’d have to pay for that computation.

Data still gets reported to MS afterwards.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

And all it took was state subsidies and slave labour.

Puts me in a weird position because car prices are insane, but I also don’t want to support a genocidal regime using slave labour and is purposely undercutting foreign industries in order to kill them, with the long-term goal of ramping up prices and having the west be even more reliant on China.

We’ve seen from Germany/Russia that becoming dependent on a hostile state is a disaster waiting to happen.

I’ll just stick to my ancient Octavia for the time being, thanks.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Exactly. I know it’s easy to automatically froth at the mouth with rage when seeing “AI”, and here anything mentioning it gets automatically rejected, but there are genuinely good usecases.

Amazing speech synthesis and recognition is useful for anybody, but especially people with certain disabilities.

Much better translation, spell checking, help with writing. Helping people understand texts that are written in a complicated way (legalese, technical jargon, condensing EULA’s, etc)

Infrastructure planning and traffic control.

Grid energy usage and distribution.

Image recognition, useful for anybody for things like searching a photo library for a specific thing, but also for people with visual issues who previously had to rely on awful screen reader software that can’t tell you the content of images unless it was properly tagged (as someone with a blind sister who uses computers - rare!)

Spotting fake reviews, a massive issue online. Flagging bot accounts.

The potential for them to take over some jobs and free up people to pursue other things in life.

This technology, if trained ethically, and not used to siphon more data from people, is amazing. It’s how megacorps are using it that’s the problem.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

To be fair, that did improve things for the average person, and by a staggering amount.

The vast majority of people working before the industrial revolution were lowly paid agricultural workers who had enormous instability in employment. Employment was also typically very seasonal, and very hard work.

That’s before we even get into things like stuff being made cheaper, books being widely available, transport being opened up, medical knowledge skyrocketing, famines going from regular occurrence to rare occurrence, etc as a result of the industrial revolution.

We had been on a constant trajectory of everyone getting wealthier up until the late 1970s where afterwards we saw a sharp rise in inequality, a trend that hasn’t stopped. (Thatcher and her other shithead twin Reagan?)

In the mid 70s, the top 1% owned 19.9% of wealth. Now that figure is around 53%.

TheGrandNagus,

Well yeah, the industrial revolution only helped the areas it affected. But that kinda goes without saying.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Meanwhile my experience with my 1080 Ti was so awful I found it preferable to downgrade to an RX 480 for a couple of years.

You shouldn’t dismiss other people’s experiences just because yours has been different.

I believe that your experience has been alright, but Nvidia has definitely had big issues with Linux. It’s not drama, it’s valid criticism of a company openly hostile to FOSS.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

I’m relaxed. I just disagree with your take that Nvidia drivers causing issues in Linux just being a meme and accusing people of made up drama.

The Nvidia driver experience hasn’t been “not perfect”, it’s been far from perfect.

TheGrandNagus,

I’m really sorry I hurt your feelings. I know Nvidia is close to your heart 😥

TheGrandNagus,

Marketing terms mean nothing. SMIC’s nodes are nowhere near the real transistor density of TSMC’s or even Intel’s.

But what’s worse than that are the yields. I don’t believe we have public numbers on their newest node yet, but their self-reported yields on their “7nm” process as of late 2022 was a pathetic 10-15%. TSMC’s 7nm yield (and you should remember that TSMC’s 7nm is vastly superior to SMIC’s) was getting over 70% yield when it was in pre-production trialing.

TheGrandNagus,

Not what I said, but thank you for contributing that strawman to the conversation.

TheGrandNagus,

No, I was dismissing your assertion that Chinese fab companies are at the same level, or ahead of, TSMC. The truth is they aren’t even close. This is something that even China themselves openly admit.

That’s a second time you’ve strawmanned me. I don’t appreciate words being put in my mouth.

Samsung? I’m sorry, are you keeping up with the industry at all? Samsung isn’t matching shit. They’re a node behind Intel and 2.5 behind TSMC. What development are they matching?

And yes, a multitude of Chinese manufacturers do need Taiwan. China in general does. Will that be true in the far future? Who knows. But it’s certainly true now and in the short term.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Relies on people actually using Signal, which is an immediate non-starter unfortunately.

Over time, the amount of signal contacts I have had went down, not up. IMO the Signal foundation has made multiple bone-headed moves that have stifled their growth and discouraged using Signal.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Americans on Lemmy/Reddit always say this, but it’s not easy.

WhatsApp is essentially SMS. If you don’t use WhatsApp, you’re gonna have a bad time. You won’t be contacted by friends or family, you’ll struggle to make friends or get dates, you won’t receive 2FA codes for a load of services, in some places even government stuff is done via WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is about as optional as having an email address. You basically need it unless you want to live as a hermit.

TheGrandNagus,

No, it’s not a feature, it’s a missing feature. When your backup and restore system only works sometimes, despite being set up correctly, then that’s a shit backup solution.

Also. Who the hell uses Ios?

Everybody who uses an iPhone. Which is a metric shitload of people. What kind of question is that?

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Cool story bro, but your feelings don’t change the facts: signal’s backup system isn’t fit for purpose.

A backup system that can’t effectively back up and be restored is a flawed system.

TheGrandNagus,

Not really an opinion.

And I know you didn’t ask, I was just correcting what you wrote.

TheGrandNagus,

It is a discussion point, since it’s here being discussed. And also, apologies. I didn’t realise I was dealing with such a badass.

TheGrandNagus,

I don’t think you’re following. We were discussing the state of backups on Signal, then you suddenly decided not to talk about it, but to keep talking about nothing in particular.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

And yet it’s out there in droves on mainstream sites, completely without issue. Drawings and animations are pretty unpoliced.

TheGrandNagus,

???

An abortion is an induced termination of a pregnancy.

HRT pills are not that.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Exactly. If dumbphones made a comeback, companies would simply achieve it by presenting the user with a dumb UI while the data harvesting would still go on in the background.

I guess there’s the valid argument that you’d be doing less on your phone so there’d be less to spy on, but there’d still be spying, and much of it would simply be shifted to the user’s PC instead of a smartphone. Guess what, spying is rife there too.

The answer to stopping the spying is privacy laws that put people, and their privacy, above tax-dodging multinationals.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

I don’t think that’s true at all.

When the UK was in the EU, UKIP was their largest party. For France, Le Pen’s National Front party was the largest. And they aren’t alone. There’s a number of right wing EU parties.

And it’s due to get worse, if we bring data into it. Many countries in the EU are swinging to the right. Polling is indicating right wing parties will have a solid majority in the EU parliament this year.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Tbf if you actually look into Mozilla’s “AI” plans, it’s for stuff like better offline translation, better screen reader and image description functionality for disabled users, finding alternate sources for articles, and so on.

It all runs locally, is trained on open source models with ethically sourced training data, and doesn’t send your personal information to Mozilla.

I don’t think it should be treated in the same way as Google or Microsoft’s AI implementations. People should actually look into things before they assume they know everything.

TheGrandNagus,

77 people died directly. Up to 4000 (although that’s a very high estimate) may die in the long term.

Millions die from fossil fuel emissions each year.

It’s not hard to follow at all. You want the death toll to increase, I don’t.

TheGrandNagus,

Newer ones don’t. They’re usually dead in 2-4 years.

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