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bigbinary··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
I<3ANAL but even if the owner agrees to the TOS, there’s no way other users or guests are verifiably consenting or any way for LG to verify before collecting data.

I could hit someone and say it was someone else’s fault, but delusion isn’t a legal defense.

bigbinary··on How I feel about AI
The supposed theory is that AI will eventually become a part of robotics and be able to self replicate, in addition to the many non-airgapped critical systems being exposed to hacking. There’s also a discussion about “alignment” and whether LLMs will learn to lie and conceal misalignment with humanity.

I personally agree with the marketing aspect, but I do imagine a scenario where capitalists ignore safety in favor of advancing technology. It should be discussed, but “end of humanity” really sounds like a build up to “only Sam Altman/Elon Musk can save us” type of play.

In my opinion, LLMs are difficult to directly capitalize on as closed weight models are caught up to by open coalitions that seem to wield the power more responsibly (I am under no impression that China wants to save the world, but their politics benefit the group as a whole.

bigbinary··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Where was this found/reported? This sounds like more fairytales
bigbinary··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
It’s been proven (at least in the Minnesota flock conference) that flock pays politicians and police as private contractors and commissions them on any potential contracts they bring to flock
bigbinary··on Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?
I think we’re in a deep debate about how to name articles
bigbinary··on Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
Surely, this has nothing to do with the fact that live service and subscription games generate more revenue, whether or not piracy is involved.
bigbinary··on We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran
If you are American, we are also ruled by a regime that kills thousands of innocents in the name of whatever our president feels like
bigbinary··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
These big players don’t have as big of a moat as they like to advertise, but as long as VC wants to subsidize my agents, I’ll keep paying for the $20 plan until they inevitably cut it off
bigbinary··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
On-premise LLMs are also getting better and likely won’t stop; as costs go up with the technical improvements, I would imagine cost saving methods to also improve
bigbinary··on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]
Those are statistics given by Flock themselves and are manipulated
bigbinary··on French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
It was generated by McDonald’s Netherlands who said the ad was about Christmas mishaps in the Netherlands.
bigbinary··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
Or we’ll get more articles about how Disney lobbied for even longer and stricter copyright nonsense.
bigbinary··on Koralm Railway
Considering the original title is just the name of the railway, and I do not think “within budget” is editorializing, I think the commenter is being overly pedantic
bigbinary··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
Claude has been aggressively advertising on Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit, and the ads have been much more general use than just the code benefits. They’re definitely no ChatGPT, but they’re not an unknown player.
bigbinary··on Louvre to hike ticket prices for most non-EU tourists by 45%
Such a kind British museum offering to maintain these artifacts to the point of denying return to the origin countries when requested. Clearly this is for the preservation of our past and the benefit of humanity.
bigbinary··on A story about bypassing air Canada's in-flight network restrictions
Wait till that guy figures out what the hacker in hacker news means
bigbinary··on I so hate the phrase "vibe coding"
I used the phrase recently when my coworker asked me what metrics I use to guide my code decisions, and he gave me the options of sonarqube issues, test coverage (which I found to be configured to exclude huge feature directories of this legacy app), or efficiency metrics. All this after 6 major prod bugs were introduced over 6 months.

My response was that I code by vibe, and really I meant that I was improving the nightmare of working in our backend code while trying to learn the business logic, restructuring our backend code structure, hardening our unit tests, and adding swagger documentation. While doing so, I uncovered tons of bugs.

All in all, “vibe coding” to me is similar to “smelly code”, where the intuition depends on the implementor, but with the latter, “bad” coders can be silent and aren’t forced to make change smells. Good coders, however, prove their intuition skills when identifying and fixing code smells, even though today we have automated tools to tell us why our code smells feel or look bad

bigbinary··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
These are investment plays a company makes when holding too much money, and not a smart move this early in the technology imo

Buying competition while everyone’s still fighting might straddle you with a lame horse

bigbinary··on Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder
“Inferior” is a bit silly in a comparison to this, considering this entire hobby is about small quirks and incremental changes. They seem to have similar offerings except for the big difference that this one has a pump. If you don’t care about a pump, a robot will do fine for the rest of your life. I’m personally bored of lever pulling multiple shots, but my counter space is limited, and I’m interested in purchasing, after seeing a review.
bigbinary··on Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm
This has been a huge frustration with AI investments as I’m invest in industry and “AI ETFs” just invest in anything with AI on the website. Investors have absolutely no idea how AI works or what it will disrupt, and I genuinely think 99% of all investor sentiment towards AI is non-sense
bigbinary··on The crypto bros crowdfunding a new country
So instead of policy, these citizens would just have common interests? Idk if he’s bullshitting or actually huffing his own glue
bigbinary··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Tbh I only use the word stereotypes because speaking in absolutes here leads to really grimy political discussions with under the guise of semantic or technical discussions. Anyone with eyes can see that Israel acts with protection of the US military and has no reason to be specific with their targets, even while being scolded by that military
bigbinary··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Already confirmed as there is one 8 year old girl reportedly in the fatalities. This attack will add to the stereotype that Israel attacks indiscriminately.
bigbinary··on Delta CEO calls Microsoft 'the most fragile platform' while praising Apple
Delayed update rollout is an enterprise level windows setting that’s used by my company (as well as on my personal windows machine through regex edits) specifically to protect business critical systems from this scenario. While Microsoft and cloudstrike should not have pushed this broken update, are they actually responsible for Delta or anyone else’s losses? My opinion is no, but we’ll see how a lawsuit shakes out.
bigbinary··on Microsoft should accept and give up Windows 11, throw everything at Windows 12
I wish they would stick to one version and just stack up additional features and fix existing UI crap. It feels like the only reason to keep adding major versions is to half-ass some major UI rework before giving up because their new UI doesn’t have feature parity with the old one. Feels like we’ll have three control panels soon enough at this rate.
bigbinary··on Microsoft should accept and give up Windows 11, throw everything at Windows 12
It’s clear that Microsoft’s iterations on Windows aren’t working, and their management of windows needs to be reworked. At a certain point the constant “stop improving existing version and start the next one” has to be seen as silly by upper management, right? Is there any business benefit to constantly updating major Windows versions that I’m not seeing?
bigbinary··on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
Absolutely true; Gaza’s system of government has collapsed since long ago, and the “democratic” election, that many people use to justify the equivocation of the Gaza population and Hamas, involved less than half the population of the enclave and had numerous other issues that make the Hamas rule a farce.

That being said, even those that didn’t vote for Hamas would probably not have elected the PA, as public trust of Palestinians in the PA has eroded due to Mahmoud Abbas’s unwillingness to step down and the perception that the PA is a puppet government.

All this to say that Palestinians lack a trustworthy government, much less a government that could be responsible for turning in the Hamas members the ICC wants to arrest.

bigbinary··on 2024's public domain is a banger
Considering the abuse of the automated dmca system, I imagine YouTube will continue to side with the publishers for a long while, even in cases of legitimate use. There’s way less liability in false positives than false negatives for them.
bigbinary··on Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it continues riding the AI wave
While the current over marketing of AI is a fad, this person is making a dumb claim. AI is genuinely revolutionary and the next step in modern computing.
bigbinary··on Why everything you buy is worse now [video]
$106 would put someone at some okayish timberlands, which definitely degrade quick. Maybe not a year, but definitely 3 years max
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