nyan

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I expect you'd have to start with one of those binocular magnifiers. And the smallest soldering iron tip in history.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

Is that because fingerprinting protection “works to good” or is broken? You tell me!

Speaking as a user of a different minority browser, if a check that is designed to pass ordinary human beings using ordinary browsers in a non-abusive manner blocks one instead, it's broken, and Cloudflare should be pressured to fix it.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 days ago

It's niche hardware: a smartphone in a flip-phone formfactor (with a headphone jack). Of course they're not producing them for <$100. Ars Technica costed out other phones in a similar market category ( last paragraph here ) and by that standard it's middle-priced, or a bit above.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I suspect they're jumping on your use of the word "retarded", since some see using it as an insult as a slur against people with intellectual disabilities. (They also can't spell "casually" and substituted a word with quite a different meaning, which makes it even tougher to decode what they're saying.)

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are we sure? Has anyone actually checked to make sure he isn't a lizardman from inside the hollow Earth, all dressed up in a rubber human suit? I mean, sure, he isn't an LLM, but there are so many other possibilities!

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 week ago

Confiscate both the gun and the dog, since the dog is obviously being maltreated to the point that trying to shoot its owner seemed like a good idea.

(Only the second half of that is sarcastic.)

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the next step is to debate what is AI and what’s not.

Unnecessary, in my view. If you use a tool to produce something, and that something breaks a law, then you are liable, not the tool. Doesn't matter whether it's a hammer or an AI. If a human employed by Google had written the incorrect summary on Google's behalf, then Google would still be liable (the difference is that the human writer might also be individually liable, depending on local law).

Search engines received various kinds of legal immunity in many jurisdictions because they were only presenting information written by third parties outside their control. These summaries are not third-party content, and if they are libelous, the responsibility falls squarely on Google.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago

…just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

At which point they cease to be your favourites, I hope. There are so many alternatives in that space that only inertia keeps people using the Empire of Evil.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pale Moon is not a soft fork.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dunno—are any of them particularly attached to white Persian cats? Or am I misremembering and it was some other Bond villain who had the cat?

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

Economies of scale have been doing really funky things to chip prices, then. Yet another demonstration that the universe Does Not Make Sense.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

The overall hardware package is in the same ballpark as an Arduino (25% less storage, but better processor and RAM), and people put servers on those . . . well, I won't say "all the time", but it isn't an uncommon project, either.

I wonder if anyone's ever bootstrapped Forth on one of these vapes—given that there are implementations <512b for other arches, it should fit—and then you could program on it directly rather than flashing machine code compiled elsewhere.

(The issue with 10-year-old phones on Google is that Google isn't designed for low-end hardware anymore. It's overloaded with scripts, styles, and other things that aren't necessary for doing its job. Present a ten-year-old phone with a page with no client-side script and restrained styling, and I'd bet it would do fine.)

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