I used to find stuff like this fascinating. Like if collecting my data can help me, why not? But technology has gotten to a point that it’s just straight up creepy how our every single waking moment can be tracked and collected, even if it’s me collecting it. It’s like watching every dystopian sci-fi story come to life in real time.

Tasker is the reason Android is so much better than iOS

I’ve started just booting them from USB. I have Home Assistant running on a pi with an ssd in an external enclosure and it’s been completely issue free.

The raspberry pi is about the worst case scenario for SD cards. It may be idle, but an operating system is still making constant reads and writes, which absolutely eat through an SD card

They’re behind just about every negative stigma surrounding autism. Mainly that it’s a debilitating disease that ruins the lives of everyone around them and needs to be cured, as well as that autism is caused by vaccines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Speaks#Views

The reason is bigotry. If you really want to get into it, a big reason for the stigma against autism is the damage done by Autism Speaks.

“If you really cared about free speech you wouldn’t be using your free speech to call out Nazis”

That’s exactly how you guesstimate CPU performance. It obviously won’t be accurate to real life use cases, but you don’t necessarily need benchmarks to get a ballpark comparison of raw performance. The standard comparison is FLOPS, floating point operations per second. Yes different architectures have different instruction sets, but they’re all relatively similar especially for basic arithmetic. It breaks down with more complex computations, but there’s only so many ways to add two numbers together.

24 threads at 2.00 GHz vs. 8 threads at 0.66 GHz with a 40% difference in TDP. The AMD chip may draw more power, but has much higher performance. Simplifying things, it can perform 9x the operations as the Apple silicon for only 1.4x the power draw.

Google has shown time and time again they couldn’t care less how malicious an ad is, they’re still getting paid

Using AI to detect AI is completely useless. It’s been a big issue in academics, where a professor will plug your essay into an AI detector and then you get dinged for plagiarism because your entirely handwritten essay gets marked as AI. It’s just glorified pattern matching, it has no concept of real or fake.

While that may “solve” the issue, it’s still due to a faulty physical component. A software update is just a bandaid over the real problem.

To be fair, it’s not an issue with just Tesla, but basically all modern software. The end user has become the beta tester.

There’s a difference between being a brat and being brat

They’re already trying to label trans people simply existing as porn

Funnily enough, the Rivian CEO talks about exactly that in this interview

In that scenario, we would be using one ECU to do everything I just described. In this case, it’s a much larger computer, but one computer. It’s a massive simplification for how we think about software development and also drives a lot of cost out of the vehicle because instead of 70 to 80 little boxes — little computer boxes with wiring and connectors and everything else — we have, in our case, seven.

So when one small thing stops working, you now have to buy their proprietary, expensive ECU instead of a cheap little microcontroller.

The beauty of always knowing your age because it’s the same as the current year

Not surprising, considering Tesla autopilot sees trains as a bunch of semis bumper to bumper.

“Hating on anything the Nazis did is stupid because they can build ok cars”

Doing one ok thing doesn’t negate the fact that Meta is one of the most evil, unethical hellholes of a company. Anything they touch is absolutely rotten.

One of the most refreshing things I’ve seen since joining Lemmy is people actually apologizing in comment threads like this.