cybersandwich

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cybersandwich , to Technology in Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough

This comment chain made me chuckle. It's such an "internet comment section" ..trope? I don't know the right word.

cybersandwich , to Technology in Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died

I know.

My response was to the previous comment.

In a non Tesla, if someone is locked in a car, what happens? There isn't some secret "let me in" button. You just break a window. This is a dumb story.

cybersandwich , to Technology in Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died

Then break the fucking window if it's an actual emergency.

cybersandwich , to science in First proof of leeches jumping captured on video

...that leech fell. Wtf is this jumping business

cybersandwich , to Not The Onion in Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over months

“I guess I would have to say yes in the spirit of forgiveness, reluctantly. But if I had to be a smartass, I’d say her apology holds about as much water as my canvas bag.”

Lol

cybersandwich , to Technology in Apple expected to enter AI race with ambitions to overtake the early leaders

Buncha wet blankets on Lemmy. JFC.

I know there is a ton of hype around AI, but at least there is actually something there (unlike crypto).

This is the most exciting thing to happen with computing in a while and if you read Lemmy you'd think everything is bleak and hopeless.

There is so much opportunity to change the way we interact with computers and innovate.

cybersandwich , to Technology in Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real

Where are these docs? No one ever links to them or says where you can find them

cybersandwich , to Technology in Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

I had the same experience. Ecosia and ddg just didn't give great results.

Kagi is the one that replaced Google for me. It's pretty incredible.

Yes it's paid. Yes it's worth it. No, not everyone is emotionally ready to pay for search.

cybersandwich , to Technology in 'Google Cast' is replacing the 'Chromecast built-in' brand

It's pretty common across most orgs really. Google just seems to have perfected it. Which might actually mean they'll kill it soon!

cybersandwich , to Technology in Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.

Lemmy is gonna lemmy.

There isn't any evidence that they used her voice for the "Sky" voice model. Actually, there is evidence that they paid a voice actress to model that specific actress's voice.

That actress sounds similar to Scarlett, but it isn't Scarlett's voice. Is that illegal? No. Is it grounds for a suit? maybe. Will Scarlett win? Maybe.

Let's put it another way. If you wanted to record an audio book, but you wanted the voice actor to have certain qualities that you think would help your book sell. You think Scarlett has all of those qualities, so you ask her if she would record it for you. She declines.

Well shit, that sucks. But wait! She's not the only person with those vocal qualities. I am sure you can find someone else with very similar qualities. So you hire another voice actress that has all of those--which coincidentally and very understandable sounds a lot like Scarlett. But it isn't Scarlett.

Everyone wants to say "big corp bad!" here, but if they truly didn't use Scarlett's voice and didn't do any sort of manipulation to make it sound more like Scarlett, then why CANT they do it. I get that Scarlett is upset, but she's basically mad that someone sounds like her--and decided to work for OpenAI.

If I wanted James Earl Jones to read my eulogy, but he isn't available or is unwilling. Why couldn't I get someone to sound like him to read it? Why should he be able to sue me for using a voice actor that sounds similar to him?

cybersandwich , to Technology in Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?

Yea, a lot of companies and even govt agencies have policies against recording meetings except for special circumstances. Edit: to clarify they have policies against employees initiating recordings (let alone automatically recording anything by default)

Once you have it, it's a record. Now you have to keep it and treat it like one.

cybersandwich , to Technology in Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams

No way. I just switched to a Mac at work And I love the lack of integration with OneDrive, 365, etc. office on Mac is better because it hasn't been made worse yet like the windows versions.

cybersandwich , to Programmer Humor in I still don't get buffers

I can't tell if ops joke is "intentionally confusing buffers with registers" and everyone is playing along or if people aren't making the distinction between the two in this thread.

Which is ironic and humorous...potentially by accident.

cybersandwich , to Selfhosted in What Calendar and To Do solution do you recommend?

I use vimwiki and wrote a bash script that pulls all of the Todo items from across my wiki and puts them in a single file with TODO and IN PROGRESS sections.

I have a keybind that pulls up the list and runs the script to refresh it.

It's not linked to any calendar though. I keep my to-do list and calendar separate.

I use Gmail and have that calendar for my personal stuff. At work I am forced to use outlook.

cybersandwich , to Linux Gaming in Best Graphic card for Linux Gaming

Unless it's the newest of new Nvidia GTX cards, it's generally a wash.

You tradeoff issues from one to the other.

I had a 3070ti that I "upgraded" to a 6900xt and I kind of regretted it. I fell for the AMD is king on Linux hype.

Nvidia is way better than people let on and AMD isn't nearly as great as people let on.

That's my two cents.

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