avgd

7 ms·

1.
by avgd 1y ago
>He has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics. Must have been worth as much as toilet paper considering his history of bankruptcies. I would be highly suspect of every person involved in letting him earn a degree in anything. https:&#x2
2.
by avgd 1y ago
It's quite ironic they call it enhance security to tie their software to their cloud considering their cloud infrastructure is one of the most hacked of the big corpos. Data breaches happen all the damn time. https://arstech
3.
by avgd 1y ago
Samsung recently deprecated their built in SMS/texting app and put an advertisement to tell us to switch for Google Messages in their app. They threw in the towel and not only will not maintain an android fork, they don't even wan
4.
by avgd 1y ago
I say this as someone who has tried to switch away from google many times because I dislike google as a company : there is no better search engine out there. There hasn't been for as long as google has existed. Every time I make someth
5.
by avgd 1y ago
> No Email or TOTP? (No, I am not suggesting sms) Nope. And accessing the website/online banking portal is not allowed without going through the smartphone app 2fa too.
6.
by avgd 1y ago
Many banking apps will outright refuse to run on rooted devices, much less google-free forks. There are ways around that but those ways are unreliable and could break at any given time -- I am not risking losing the ability to pay for thin
7.
by avgd 2y ago
> But there are models trained on legal content (like Wikipedia or StackOverflow) Literally all of them are trained on wikipedia and SO. But /none/ of them are /only/ trained on wikipedia and SO. They need much more t
8.
by avgd 2y ago
> website that can influence elections in major countries, I think this sort of power transferred to twitter, with most of the users who haven't left facebook being boomers who keep reposting AI slop over and over and over. The rare
9.
by avgd 2y ago
Also, openai only started making deals (and mostly with news publishers) after the NYT lawsuit. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-s1-5258952/new-york-times-... They didn't even consider doing this b
10.
by avgd 2y ago
> Chinese AI companies just flatly ignoring US copyright It is increasingly tiresome to see this clearly racist bias at work when every US company doing AI has been acting the same way. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i
11.
by avgd 2y ago
>because that inevitably implies dismantling that trust to get there. There is nothing to dismantle because it's already gone. The society that elected Donald Trump on his current program is an exceedingly low trust society. The who
12.
by avgd 2y ago
Inventory commingling ruined any respect I had for them. They've done that for a long time but I still am beyond pissed by the trend they started of being a front for third party sellers, all French retailers copied them (darty, fnac,
13.
by avgd 2y ago
> I really hope you’re not thinking about spending less time on-screen. Your sarcastic tone reminds me of a Steve Jobs interview. > In 2010, a New York Times reporter had a conversation that revealed a lot about the life of the founde
14.
by avgd 2y ago
It isn't even a specifically nerd thing for terminal tools to be more efficient as a whole. Pharmacies here until very recently used MS DOS based software (probably running on an emulator) to type your data, ordered drugs etc and the e
15.
by avgd 2y ago
Are you seriously asking why Microsoft, the company that has experienced what it means to have power over others (anti competitive practices of the 90s on Windows that led to the United States v. Microsoft Corp. case), should not let Google
16.
by avgd 2y ago
> so complex that even Microsoft, the king of this rube goldberg type shit, threw in the towel and said eff it, we’ll just use Chromium I believe the core reason to be different: Microsoft lost the will to compete. You can say any number
17.
by avgd 2y ago
If you travel to places unwilling to enforce basic rules of civility you should be willing to suffer additional consequences, rather than having the entirety of Europe continue to suffer because we are unwilling to do the right thing, which
18.
by avgd 2y ago
It's the kind of trait you perceive positively when they are applied against people you dislike, and you perceive negatively when they are used against you.
19.
by avgd 2y ago
SwarmUI, a front-end for image generation models, has integrated SAM2 as a quick way to mask parts of an image for things like inpainting. It's wonderful.