This is what the big deal about cookies and privacy is all about.

YouTube doesn’t share exact user info. But, google ads platform does have the metrics and can show the Amazon seller statistics of interest when buying ad prints on YouTube videos. Like search terms and referral links click right after or before the video played.

This happens automatically and virtually without human intervention though. It’s just bots talking to bots talking to bots. It all happens in milliseconds after you click play. By the time your web browser has started loading the player, yt opened a bid for the ad spot, thousands of companies chose to bid on that video based on a myriad of parameters and statistics, a winner was chosen based on pledged money, then a video ad is loaded to the server ready to play.

GAds assigns every video several keywords, based on information from the uploader, then watches user behavior to assign meta tags. Videos are scanned, to search for curse words, nudity, copyright and other offending material automatically. I don’t think they scan for objects shown in the video to assign tags about the kind of product, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

All our modern charging methods are really bad for batteries. Wireless is inductive which means the charging voltage is noisy and very variable, this means heat and that stresses the batteries faster. But, wired charging with PD uses really high voltages, which are sometimes way too fast. Also stressing the battery. We’ll see what comes of it but the recent couple of phone generations are prone to be the ones with the worse battery life expectancy.

Companies are usually aiming for 80% at two years time. That means that a phone that barely survives a day when new, will not make it through the day two years after. As the battery loses capacity, it requires more charges per day, accelerating the degradation.

Here’s iFixit assessment of wireless charging.

This is MKHB on why heat hurts batteries and how companies try to fight back the damage of fast charging.

The one’s I have seen are phone cases. You put the wireless battery in a special pocket in the back of the case that ensures perfect continued alignement and secures it in place.

Nix is very interesting, but a completely new rope to shoot yourself in the foot. A new hell is still new though.

Here’s a rarely known secret of the Linux world. Almost no software in a Linux system came from the developer.

Every single distro, package manager or repository is handled by people who did not develop the software being packaged. The few exceptions are the software who distributes their own .deb/.rpm, appimage, flatpak or their own repository. But the bulk of tools, utilities and apps were handled by the people managing the distribution or the distro main repository. No sane developer has the team or the time to config, compile, package, and test their software to every single Linux distro that exists. Hence why Dev distributed versions are usually targeted to single channels and to specific distros and versions. Packages compatibility is a literal hell.

See, that’s your problem. You’re arguing, with me, about something that was said to you by someone else. Do you realize why I’m questioning your argumentative skills?

Here’s a source to a study about AI’s accuracy as a search engine. The main use case proposed for LLMs as a tool is indexing a bunch of text, then summarizing and answering questions about it in natural language.

AI Search Has A Citation Problem

Another use is creating or modifying text based on an input or prompt, however, LLMs are prone to hallucinations. Here’s a deep dive into what they are, why they occur and the challenges of dealing with them.

Decoding LLM Hallucinations: A Deep Dive into Language Model Errors

I don’t know why do I even bother. You are just going to ignore the sources and dismiss them as well.

No one ever said they were. You constructed that straw man because you can’t tolerate the idea that most people think AI is bad. It’s not just an opinion. It’s a widely popular opinion supported by a ton of evidence, tons of logical and reasonable arguments, and well documented. I provided at least 4 different arguments and your response to all of them was “yes, but I don’t want to talk about it”. So, you know I’m right yet refuse to acknowledge it because it hurts your ego so much that you feel the need to defend it on an internet forum.

All of which makes me return to the beginning. You’re not smart enough to have a grown up conversation about AI without its assistance. So I will now stop providing arguments that you don’t want to hear, as obviously the only thing you want to hear is how great AI is. Unfortunately, AI bad.

And there it is. Wants to have a discussion. Dismisses all arguments instead of tackling them head on. It’s not just my opinion. It is the opinion of the vast majority of people, due to a myriad of reasons I already explained. That you just refuse to see them is the problem with AI bullshitters here on Lemmy. You are the one arguing in bad faith.

But, the output is trash. Only incompetent people think LLMs produce great results. They don’t.

Want to discuss the technical qualities of napalm?

I mean, it’s obviously not a “bad” tool of warfare, it’s just the bad people who use it. It obviously is a separate issue from war crimes committed with it, there’s nothing inherently wrong with napalm.

This idea that technology must be evaluated on a vacuum, disconnected from the context that created and uses it, is disingenuous at best and malicious at its worst. Technology, tools, inventions, carry with them the moral and ethical burden of their historical context.

LLMs as we know them today, came to be from massive theft, and continue to promote their own use and improvement with further thievery, fraud and lies. The fraud is not a separate topic, it’s intrinsically a part of LLMs. To speak of LLMs is to speak about fraud, copyright infringement and theft. They cannot exist without theft, at least not in their current level of prowess and use. To defend them is to promote corporate crimes on a billion dollars and worldwide scale. This is just one of the many axis of analysis that concludes with, “AI is a bad tool, actually”.

Chips are implants that go under the skin. Most civilized places require pets to have them in urban places.

“If the argument want as you have laid it out, I would not dismiss it.”

Your autocorrect software is failing you.

What is your argument? It is OK for a few people to hurt others, since you personally are benefiting, in a very small way, from the cruelty? That’s a shit argument to make.

If AI is “just a tool”, then how come it doesn’t do any of the things it is promised to do? The issue is not expecting “a hammer to drive to work”. The problem is that LLMs makers promised a car, you order one, and receive a screwdriver on the mail. Because “screwdrivers are just a tool, you can use it to assemble a car”. It’s a scam, it is fraud, it is lying and stealing from others to capitalize on bad tech.

If AI is just a tool, its an unethical and immoral tool.

Then stop dismissing other people’s “argumentets”. Unfortunately, most AI proponents don’t realize that the AI use case that is being pushed by it’s makers and owners is not “a tool to assist users”, but “a tool for executives to replace humans”. Is it a dumb proposal? absolutely. It doesn’t reduce the moral responsibility of those promoting AI. They are supporting the destruction of people’s livelihoods to make the wealthiest human being in history slightly wealthier, and curse knowledge workers to poverty just like factory workers were in their time by the exact same political and economic class of soulless pricks.

Why argue with someone who isn’t intelligent enough to write their essays without mechanical assistance?

It’s so satisfying to see mangohud jumping into the hundreds of FPS while knowing the game is cranking the highest quality image fidelity it is capable of. It’s like taking an apartment dog to a park and releasing the leash. Run baby, run as fast as you can.

Technologically impaired pervy old people and Windows are always a bad mix.

I was once the trigger to fire an old accounting guy from a company because I was helping him do something with a cloud feature of office and a porn notification showed up. He had inadvertently installed some notifications from a porn website.

After the awkwardest silence in history I had to inform him that I needed to report that to management. He just said, ok.

IT later discovered that he was not only watching porn on company time. He was also taking creep pictures of female coworkers and saving them to the company gdrive. Upon further inspection, he was not only a pervert, he was also embezzling money. We had to file several criminal charges against him.

I guess the old adage of ‘break only one law at a time’ holds true. If he weren’t a pervert we never would’ve noticed the stealing.

I think that’s the sad part. They got into genuine flame wars with people. The stuff they’d reply was 100% dead serious and sad. Nothing fun or hilarious in an ironic way. Just angry and sad.

Someone misconfigured something. Perhaps if they knew how a computer works this wouldn’t have happened.

Are we going philosophical now? If your brain filters it out from consciousness, are you really seeing it? If you are aware that the brain filtered it, did it really filtered it?

Anyways. No, the brain is not a computer, stop.