Good point I haven’t thought about. I have a Fairphone 4 and that is pretty much on the brink of what’s still okay/comfortable to use one-handed. (I also looked up the FP6 dimensions, dreading the size increase, but I just found that it’s actually slightly smaller than my current phone, yay)
I want to believe it’s that others have the same problem as me that holding the phone to their ear+cheek makes that face-part real moist after a minute or two. And I choose to believe the speakerphone-speakers just never realised they could slightly tilt/lift the phone away from their skin and still hear perfectly fine.
But I fear that @its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org might be correct on this topic and it’s simply a case of media/influencers portraying phone conversations that way for better filmability.
I just finished the article and yeah, it’s pretty embarrassing for Palantir
This is so disappointing and I’m so sorry that the people at GOG received some AI-hype-bro who had enough leverage to get the AI banner posted.
In my mind I can hear them, against all the negative posts/comments, go “It’s not just a phase, mom moneybag!” and see GOG double down on this course.
I know that CEOs are out of touch with reality, but come on, even they don’t get new TVs this frequently. But the projected target audience also can’t be megalomaniac billionaires because, even though they might switch TVs with every few showers, they just buy the stuff outright instead of going through the hassle of subscription services, no? I genuinely fail to see a use-case for this. Maybe as a sort of paid trial/test period to see if you really need that 2000€ TV?
I think it’s time to showcase Grok’s abilities to put Pentagon officials into transparent bikinis. I can’t imagine management would keep using a tool that uploads non-consensual NSFW images of them straight to the comment section.
Cool, I’m in. Any attempt to break open homogeneous markets should be supported, even if only with my eyes and ears.
I can’t quite remember when or why I ever first visited that site. My brain wants to tell me it was in the years leading up to my Abitur when I got myself a pair of combat boots and wanted to be more quirky with the lacing than what they initially had. Either way, Ian’s site really is the best and I’m never wearing shoes without using his Secure Knot or at least the fast knot (for the few laces that hold together that way or just aren’t long enough for the secure one). When the site eventually goes down, I’ll be so sad.
My favourite part of today is about to come in half an hour when we eat the burritos for which we prepared the filling in the morning today
Because it’s frankly a somewhat ridiculous stretch of the word. That way, anything you purchase more than once in your life would be a subscription (toilet paper, bathroom repairs, even food and water). If anything, it gives more power to toxic subscription services (like how BMW gatekeeps seat heating iirc) by muddying the waters and making their subscriptions seem less outrageous than it is.
Disclaimer: I only started working at this company about three weeks ago, so this info may not be as accurate as I currently think it is.
I work in quality management and recently asked my boss what the current stance on AI is, since he mentioned quite early that he and his colleagues sometimes use ChatGPT and Copilot in conjunction to write up some text for process descriptions or info pages. They use it in research tasks, or, for example, to summarize large documents like government regulations, and they very often use it to rephrase texts when they can’t think of a good way to word something. From his explanation, the company consensus seems to be that everyone has access to Copilot via our computers and if someone has, for example, a Kagi or Gemini or whatever subscription, we are absolutely allowed and encouraged to utilize it to its full potential.
The only rules seem to be to not blindly trust the AI output ever and to not feed it company sensitive information (and/or our suppliers/customers)
In more ways than one. How is this different than what Putin is trying to achieve with the current “peace talks”? There it seems so obvious, because even MAGA and fanatic Zionists have been taught that Russia is bad.
How my father is able to either justify/excuse or even blatantly support any of these illegal acts the American joke of a President is committing.
If you’re tech-savvy enough for it, please consider setting up an Immich library for your photos. That way, they won’t ever need to leave your home while still providing surprisingly powerful face recognition and photo search by context.
Many FOSS projects may not have completely obvious donation schemes, let alone ubiquitous and automatable schemes, for starters.
Slightly related to the topic, this weirdly also applies to bigger players. I wanted to buy a Nebula lifetime membership, wrote to support and basically went “just gimme Nebula’s bank details and I’ll order a direct banking transaction” and there was just no way, not even roundabout, for them to take my 300€ other than by me getting a credit card and paying via credit card.
I’m sure they have good reasons why they probably legally can’t just give me their bank adress (or whatever the American equivalent to IBAN is), but it’s very frustrating to be restricted like this in how I can give people money.
Thanks for that link, I read through that and absolutely love it! I already downranked sites I found to be AI-written on a personal basis, but this could be much more powerful. From what I understand, there’ll be human review of every AI report, so the potential to abuse the system is also relatively low (if the Kagi team does their due diligence)
Like most search now Kagi has chosen to include Instant Answers that are AI generated, which means they’re often wrong
You briefly mentioned in your user-experience-list that the AI answers are only there when you want them to be, but I just want to emphasise it, since to me it makes a world of difference in comparison with other Search Engines like Google. You only receive an AI answer if you press a specific “Gimme AI answer”-button (which is very unobtrusive) or add a question mark at the end of your search query!
I rarely jump to the defense of some company, but I only know of this one lori-person who tried to lay out reasons why Kagi is bad and, as you showed very well, @AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social, most of their reasoning/arguments aren’t really all that good when you look at them in more detail. And when they just plain refused to take an interview with the lead of Kagi, by burying their head in the sand and going “I don’t care if you want to clear up misunderstandings, I don’t want to talk to you!”, it kind of sealed this person as not being a trustworthy source of criticism and more of “I’m mad that a new company is doing something different than other companies in the same sector”
I’ve been using Kagi for about 3/4 of a year now and I will certainly renew my annual payment to them. Of course it’s not a magic bullet without any flaws at all, but currently it does the things it offers much better than any competitor I could find and all they want is around 10€ per month. They won’t spam you with advertisement nor will they suck up your (arguably infinitely more valuable) private info to sell to the highest bidder. For now, Kagi has been doing and still is doing more good than most other tech companies.
Thank you for that info. I read about the capacitive sensor, but I was not quite sure if that would apply for each finger. That is going to make VR sign language much easier (or keep it at least as easy as with the current Index controller)
The Steam Controller is almost going to be a sure buy from me, but I am very unsure about the new iteration of VR controllers. I can’t find anything confirming or denying that they have full finger tracking (instead of only thumb/index). The full and intuitive finger tracking of the Valve Index Knuckles is just so nice and for me pretty much necessary in multiplayer stuff like VRChat
The difference is that we’re way past being able to say “it’s just a political difference, we can still be friends” A neglectable political difference would be not agreeing on whether tax money should be spent on repairing neglected rural roads or upgrading public transit. Or whether you want a military draft or not. Or what food safety standards should be pursued. If you’re supporting MAGA, it means you either believe that certain groups of people do not deserve human rights and can be kidnapped/killed on a whim or you don’t care that your party is doing that. It doesnt matter that we both love Star Wars and the same video games and can talk about them for hours, if you think that people who are important to me should vanish.
Those are the same words (but different language) I introe’d the long call with to tell my father that I’ll go low-low contact with him. I gave him my saved YT politics playlist so he can watch it to see a lot of how I came to my conclusions (it’s about 650 vids consisting of shorts, essays and anything in between) and give counter-evidence if he has any, but other than that I only want to be called in an emergency.