balder1991

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balder1991,

I think we only liked them as enthusiasts, but for the general public (say a student) they were very bad because being cheap meant they had crappy hardware just like modern Chromebooks. In fact, I’ve been interested in having a Chromebook lately that could run Android apps, but quickly realized a good one is as expensive as a good laptop in Brazil.

balder1991,

Also the whole region is in the path of being heavily affected by heat.

balder1991,

Good thing it has some good amou of context. But I feel like this kind of incident can only be better analyzed with images and simulations of what happened.

balder1991,

Well,that’s the thing with “news” right? Just scattered information without context for clicks. If people start connecting the dots and things make sense, most of the news become pretty uninteresting and would not evoke anger, prompting you to click and share.

balder1991,

If things becomes cheaper because of AI, then it benefits everyone.

balder1991,

I’m actually surprised this wasn’t the case before.

balder1991,

How can you possibly know that without any extensive research?

balder1991,

Wasn’t that already there case? What’s changing?

balder1991,

Oh I got it. I’m still stuck in the time when tweets had 140 characters, so I didn’t think there was more text 😆

balder1991,

But then, if it depends on customers to collectively stop buying something, we’re doomed already.

Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (www.washingtonpost.com)

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balder1991,

I have this mindset that in this information era, if something is put in front of you, someone else spent money and effort for that. Most often, that person is benefiting or profiting from it and you’re nothing but a puppet in that war.

Does that mean the news and other media we see are all false? Not really. But it certainly means it makes us worry or pay attention to irrelevant stuff instead of worrying about things that are actually important for us individually.

When you see it from this angle you realize there’s so much more important stuff happening, but news outlets decide to write about some Threads search meddling (which seems nobody uses anyway, but some people apparently feel threatened by it).

balder1991,

The idea itself is valid, but wouldn’t that just make it more dangerous when malicious agents use the technology without fingerprinting?

balder1991,

Not sure if you’re disagreeing or agreeing with me. What I mean is, if a LLM’s output is in practice indistinguishable from human output, fingerprinting some popular services just creates a false sense of security, since we know malicious agents will for sure not fingerprint it.

Isn’t it just better to let humanity accept that a LLM’s output is identical to a person’s and always be skeptical?

balder1991,

I think the problem with this is assuming the incentive is to do good for humanity. That’s never the case, or better saying, that’s never what prevails. Possibilities are always gamed to profit or power gain. The same way a medical system is corrupted so that surgeons make unnecessary surgeries to earn more regardless of the risk you take (in a context where medicine is all about human life, hence “good”), I don’t trust any organization scanning everything you do and everything you have for the “good of humanity”.

Even science institutions have been turned into tools for power, despite modern science starting as a method for curious people to understand the world and sharing their discoveries with other like-minded people.

balder1991, (edited )

This seems to have happened in most of the world. The US still sticks to SMS because it is free since before chat apps became a thing. SMS was a terrible experience because you would pay per message thanks to carriers’ greed. It didn’t keep up with the demand for constant communication.

Nowadays in Brazil SMS is also free, but by the point they did that, WhatsApp had already become ubiquitous, and had much better features such as sending location, consistent experience with features over different devices, group chats with moderation, voice messages, free voice calls to any user over the world, etc., besides being built from scratch as an SMS substitute (would simply use your mobile number). No one would willingly go back to SMS.

Seems like only some Asian countries defaulted to a different app such as Kakao Talk.

There was Kik Messenger back then but it was more like an anonymous chat app.

balder1991,

To be honest this doesn’t make me any more optimistic. I’m sure there are countries that might spend resources on this, but mine 100% won’t. And if the majority of the world is screwed, I guess we can all agree there won’t be any stable place.

This episode of Why Files was really worrying.

balder1991,

It’s just like Michael from The Office. You see he isn’t doing things on purpose to sabotage everyone, but he can’t control it, he needs the attention and the self worship.

balder1991,

And this one collects even more data from all your Windows usage patterns.

balder1991,

Oh, I saved it as a home page shortcut (to behave like a separate app) and that works.

balder1991,

As someone who has worried a lot about this issue in the past, this is very enlightening.

balder1991,

Used to be the MacOS and iOS subreddits.

balder1991,

Today I learned

balder1991,

It’s not your fault, Google has become almost useless when it comes to things that aren’t commercial SEO optimized stuff. The course of popularity, I guess.

balder1991,

But if it wasn’t available in the API then apps would have to do a fetch of all the users posts to calculate it, possibly discouraging it.

balder1991,

I agree. They said they’re working on an Android theme though.

balder1991,

I’m pretty sure the employees working on it don’t have a say on it. Someone at the top decided to do it and they just have to pretend they believe on it because they have to be “team players”.

balder1991,

Besides bigger batteries make phones heavier pretty quickly. For mobile devices, optimized system and apps is very important.

balder1991,

I checked the official app but it’s awful. So many adds that have no clear visual cues it’s an ad, so you start reading it and realize halfway it’s just an ad. It makes you so pissed you just don’t want to continue browsing.

balder1991,

If you’re on iPhone, install TestFlight in the AppStore and after that join through this link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR

balder1991,

wefwef.app is one that’s identical to Apollo.

balder1991,

Not even mentioning the green bubble problem is a US thing (maybe Canada and Japan too?). Most places around the world don’t have a overwhelming majority of iPhone users creating this network effect.

The biggest reason I see people moving to iPhones recently in my country is Android flagship phones getting more expensive but still offering a bad experience overall for “non geeks”. Most people have trouble even picking a model, and the chance of picking a wrong one is high.

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