When Iived in Australia, I realised that we Malaysians had access to more advanced tech. Our laptops, smartphones etc were more advanced.
When I was a journalist who would travel overseas to interview people - Asian journalists always had the slickest voice recorders. We were using MP3 recorders while the Western journos were still using tape.
I don't think it's because we r smarter; I think we dare to copy & improve while co's in the West are more protective & possessive of their #tech. 1/2
And I know this post could rile people up due to the way it's worded but there's limited text space so... Lol. What I am trying to say is I noticed that the business culture in the East and the West is different and as a result drives different outcomes. I heard a historian on a podcast say that the concept of intellectual property is an alien on in the East and that the culture there had always been to improve on inventions. (Ie Copy!) This results in quicker innovations. 2/2
@liztai What annoyed me was the disdainful attitude that "You are stupid wasting time creating your own thing. You should just copy someone else." Forgetting that someone has to put the time and effort into creating it in the first place.
Je suis un peu surpris de voir les gens un peu branchés #tech tomber de l'armoire en découvrant que #DuckDuckGo et #Qwant notamment, se basent uniquement sur l'API #Bing pour leurs résultats…
Il me semble bien que #DuckDuckGo a toujours été très clair sur son fonctionnement.
@lanodan@cquest@framasky@kvnco@sebsauvage@gjherbiet@lordphoenix
je verrai bien des moteurs de recherches plus spécialisés, se cantonnant à un domaine précis (par ex: sciences, art, code, musique, actualités etc) et un annuaire de ces moteurs, ça limiterait les choses à indexer et limiterait les résultats non petinents
@EVDHmn IT is still a tough market in Malaysia, but it's generally acknowledged that it's the industry to be in if you want future prospects. About AI, not as hotly marketed though those in professional circles do know about it.
As for being autodidact, I get bored easily and having a massive learning project keeps me happy. If I don't learn something I get really unhappy ;D also, traditional methods of learning don't work well with me so I usually have to hack my own way.
AI Laptop REACTIONS! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45Q
Checking out all the announcements today from Dell, HP, Microsoft, Samsung, Acer, Asus, and Lenovo! I did a live recording of my reactions.
Windows on ARM is getting REALLY exciting! Here are some things to look out for while shopping a new "AI" laptop!
@SomeGadgetGuy No worries, I understand your point. Arm is not a good idea for the future. They are and they were limited from the very beginning, even back then at the designing table. As same thing as with the x86 or x86_64 architecture is. At one point in time they will reach those borders and it will be end of story. But the completely different thing is with the RISC-V. This one is not limited in any way. I think this architecture should be developed very much. That's the future for us all.
@MartinBe
Yeah but ARM isn't really "limited" anymore. Software support has improved radically, and there is no approaching that performance per watt with RISC. See also, every phone and MacBook currently being sold.
My points before, of course we want RISC and an open architecture some day, but we also need to make it through the day with a computer today.
When I can buy a RISC machine that can accomplish the tasks I need to accomplish, I'll happily do so. There is no RISC ecosystem that approaches the robust ecosystem of ARM. Along the way, I can't keep recommending to consumers "just keep waiting for a machine that won't exist for YEARS now, until massive corporations decide to make one". That's not how a consumer tech cycle works.
So as a tech reviewer, I'm in a position where I need to make recommendations for the needs people have now, while also educating on the kind of purchasing that might help enable the resources we need in the future.
Sur mon laptop, je ne parvenais pas à ajouter ZoTop comme moteur de recherche, en usant de la méthode classique de sélection de l'url/click-droit/ajouter à la recherche.
J'ai ZoTop en moteur de recherche par défaut sur ma station de travail.
J'ai chopé le fichier search.json.mozlz4 de la conf du FF de ma station pour remplacer celui du laptop
Ça fonctionne, ZoTop est parmi les moteurs utilisables sur le FF du laptop.
Germany’s AfD is so extreme it was kicked out of the far-right grouping in the European Parliament last month, but Elon Musk thinks their policies “don’t sound extremist.” That’s because he’s also a fascist.
@parismarx First thought on skimming this was well he just got a whole fuck ton of people to read up on their policies.
His post feels calculated to me and even more dangerous than just agreeing with them.
The question and "Maybe I'm missing something" are engagement-driving language and he frames it as they're not extremist.
When a Confluence page breaks down to gibberish cos a macro you've depended on is deprecated and then you have to manually go through 1001 pages to remove it and hopefully replace it with an equivalent macro but it doesn't exist so in the end you just copy and paste stuff
@liztai every time I hear Atlassian advertising their products as what you need to develop great software I resist the urge to shout “physician, heal thyself!” It’s wild how many things just never get better in something so many companies pay so much for.
CONTROVERSY! It's a little concerning. My phone keeps trying to connect to a mystery network, listed as an ISP WiFi that (to my knowledge) doesn't do business here in California. Has anyone else seen something like this? What's going on?
We want a future of repairable gadgets and less ewaste.
5-7 years of software support doesn't mean anything if we can't keep the hardware running well for 7 years.
Glad to see iFixit didn't go quiet on this one.
I've been trying to highlight Samsung's scummy business practices for a couple years now, but when they can't even make a support contract work with iFixit, it's a REAL bad look.
@KimPerales It's bizarre that they describe Altman as one of their 'most successful alumni' since just about everything he did before OpenAI failed on its merits. But he was able to leverage them to get progressively more-lucrative gigs, whether or not the companies actually did well, so I guess that makes him "successful" - as a grifter.
“The certain knowledge that Kevin Roose is a credulous dumbass who makes a jingle-bell sound if he nods his head real fast only does so much to moderate the obscenity and offensiveness of his ascribing ‘playful intelligence’ and ‘emotional intuition’ to a predictive text generator.”
@parismarx I loved his daily Facebook Top 10 posts and even made a graph of it to get time to show partisan lean over time. But through the crypto stuff and now this it seems he may have peaked awhile ago, sadly.