TechnoTalk: Time to Tech

[BIONIC]

[benji]

I love that I (mostly) can't tell which of these Apple Vision things are real and what are deliberate and intentional jokes upon first seeing them.

[TylenolJones]

It’s okay Benji, top men are on it. 

[benji]

I feel safer already.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

oh no i accidentally tossed my cable into the griddle by accidentally tossing the cable into the griddle

[Nintex]

[Polident]

Today, for the first time ever, I saw a person with a foldable phone. Only took about 4 years of companies saying it’s the next big thing.

Slight update: the phone had a massive crack along the bend point. It was the type that goes from two phones stacked to a small tablet.

[Nintex]

[benji]

Like, I get specification and all, but I think they're really overplaying the power of hardware that works essentially only for AI.

nVidia is a "leader" in this kind of stuff because they produce important hardware that also turns out to be really hott at these kind of functions. Remember PhysX? How about hardware accelerated network operations?

[Nintex]

Yep we mostly need this $380 million machine to ray trace GTA6 but don't tell anyone 

[Nintex]

[Uncle]

[Nintex]

Welp if Apple can't make this work

[Uncle]

https://gizmodo.com/openais-sora-is-a-giant-f-ck-you-to-reality-1851261587

OpenAI's Sora Is a Giant 'F*ck You' to Reality
AI companies really seem like they're racing to make our collective online disinformation problem terminal.

In its blog post about Sora, OpenAI’s team openly acknowledges that there could be some potential downsides to their new app. The company said that its working on some watermarking technologies to flag content that its generator has created and that it’s in the process of interfacing with knowledgeable people to figure out how to make the inevitable deluge of AI-generated crap that Sora will unleash less toxic. Sora isn’t open to the public yet and, in the meantime, OpenAI says its creating systems that will deny users who want to generate violent or sexual imagery.

[...]

This sort of framing of the problem is sorta hilarious because it’s already totally obvious how OpenAI’s new tool could potentially be abused. Sora will generate fake content on a gargantuan scale—that much is clear. Some of that content, it seems likely, will be used for the purposes of online political disinformation, some of it could, hypothetically, be used to aid in a variety of fraud and scams, and some of could be used to generate toxic content. OpenAI has said it wants to put meaningful limits on violent and sexual content, but web users and researchers have shown how savvy they can be at jailbreaking AI systems to generate the kinds of content that disobey companies’ use policies. All of this Sora content is obviously going to flood social media channels, making it harder for everyday people to distinguish between what’s real and what’s fake, and making the internet, in general, a whole lot more annoying. I don’t think it requires a global panel of experts to figure that out.

There are a number of other obvious downsides, too. For one thing, Sora—and others of its ilk—probably won’t have the greatest environmental impact. Researchers have shown that text-to-image generators are significantly worse, environmentally speaking, than text-generators, and just creating an AI image takes the same amount of energy as it does to fully charge your smartphone. For another thing, new text-to-video generation technologies will likely hurt the video creator economy, because why should companies pay people to make visual content when all that’s necessary to create a video is clicking a button?

As far as the corporate class in this country goes, nothing really matters except money. Fuck the environment, fuck artists, fuck an internet that is disinformation-free, fuck the health of political discourse, fuck anything that gets in the way of the profit motive. Anything that can be squeezed to make money should be squeezed, even if it’s a software program whose only real utility is that it can generate a video of a cowboy hamster riding a dragon. As one X user put it: “This is what the morons sacrifice the environment for. Stupid. Shit. Like. This.”

   

die mad  

look at this incredible tech  

[Chumbawumbafan69]

https://gizmodo.com/openais-sora-is-a-giant-f-ck-you-to-reality-1851261587

As far as the corporate class in this country goes, nothing really matters except money. Fuck the environment, fuck artists, fuck an internet that is disinformation-free, fuck the health of political discourse, fuck anything that gets in the way of the profit motive. Anything that can be squeezed to make money should be squeezed, even if it’s a software program whose only real utility is that it can generate a video of a cowboy hamster riding a dragon. As one X user put it: “This is what the morons sacrifice the environment for. Stupid. Shit. Like. This.”

This tech is incredibly impressive, and the effect it will have on jobs and disinformation is serious. But, god damn it do I hate every conversation about it.

[Uncle]

I like how it says "fuck an internet that is disinformation-free" as if that has ever existed or ever was a realistic goal

https://www.newsweek.com/april-fools-day-april-fools-kremvax-kremlin-soviet-union-usenet-piet-beertema-318451

[benji]

Fuck the environment, fuck artists, fuck door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen, fuck door-to-door ice delivery men, fuck the telegram operators, fuck the health of political discourse, fuck anything that gets in the way of the profit movie.

[Nintex]

[Polident]

Have to vent for a second. Windows 11 is unreliable shit. The user experience jumping from 10 on my laptop to 11 on my desktop isn’t that bad. But it’s constantly a pain in the ass and not working as intended. Things just break. Randomly all my pinned icons were gone. I try system restore. That doesn’t work. What’s the point? Updates don’t work. The tools to trouble shoot don’t work. Failsafes for failsafes don’t work.

[Uncle]

Have to vent for a second. Windows 11 is unreliable shit. The user experience jumping from 10 on my laptop to 11 on my desktop isn’t that bad. But it’s constantly a pain in the ass and not working as intended. Things just break. Randomly all my pinned icons were gone. I try system restore. That doesn’t work. What’s the point? Updates don’t work. The tools to trouble shoot don’t work. Failsafes for failsafes don’t work.

5000% agree, it's awful in every way, every decision they made was bad and made things worse

[Polident]

It’s unreal how unreliable it all is. So bad the Indian guys on YouTube have to offer five solutions and apologize that they still might not work.

[Nintex]

Good job gamers  

Imagine the surprise on the faces of the Chinese communists when they finally land on Taiwanese shores and are mauled by Nvidia's horde of killer drones.

[Nintex]

[Potato]

Common sense prevails. Technology companies have no business being in car manufacturing.

[Uncle]

however, as long as jack is still involved, their efforts are bound to continue to end up like this, all the guardrails will still be there and just become a bit more insidious

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/who-is-jack-krawczyk-product-lead-s-tweets-surface-online-amid-google-gemini-backlash/ar-BB1iIS8k

[Nintex]

The problem with Gemini is that the MSM and Google only see the diversity among the Nazis as the "real problem" not the demented woke shit.
That all aligns with their ideology and brainwashing.

[benji]

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

lol Apple banned Epic from the App Store.

[Polident]

For over ten years I’ve been too lazy to change my home modem. Annoying part of cable management is having to undo all of it. Was getting 250 to 300 mb/s on fast.com. Never felt slow.

Anyway, I finally replaced it. Speeds on fast.com jumped to 1.2 gb/s.



What the fuck. I feel like I should learn a lesson here but I won’t.