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lebed2045 | 1 month ago | on: OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

basically this - it took the social media industry quite a few years to invent a simple-looking thing, short-form video with discorver algo and it became extremely addictive for a huge part of the population. Now imagine an AI that knows your personality type, good at psychology, always supportive. Best friend ever. That creates a far stronger moat than any price or technical advantage of an AI coding tool.

lebed2045 | 1 year ago | on: When DOGE hunts 'silly' studies, humanity might loses big wins

I’m curious about the reasoning behind this approach. Surely, Elon Musk and his team are smart enough to recognize the legitimacy of such research. Initially, I thought this kind of content was just playing to the lowest common denominator—a form of low-effort clickbait. However, this strategy risks alienating more educated or critical followers.

Given Musk’s intelligence and the capabilities of his team, I’m struggling to understand the logic here. Is it meant to drive engagement by polarizing opinions, or is there some deeper strategic intent that I’m missing?

lebed2045 | 1 year ago | on: Claude 3.5 Sonnet

I wish Claude app has voice input like chatGPT, for someone who's bad at typing like me - it's essential part that is missing

lebed2045 | 1 year ago | on: Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models

I'm pretty sure you could find justification even for why top models don't support microSD card expansion. The problem with this line of argument is that if they wanted to, they could support both without any issues. The real reason is money. It's more profitable to have Bluetooth only when you also make AirPods, and not include storage expansion when you sell built-in memory options at a 400% markup.

lebed2045 | 1 year ago | on: How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?

*typo: you can send more than one bit per photon on average

I'm very curious to learn more about 1cm, what is the math behind it? Do you speak about classical music CD with ±700mb of capacity? I was always fascinating by ability of old super scratched optical disks still functioning without problems.

lebed2045 | 2 years ago | on: Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

Many messengers companies started outside of SV,

• Telegram - Founded: Russia, Headquartered: Dubai, Users: 500M+

• WeChat - Founded: China, Headquartered: Shenzhen, Users: 1.2B+

• LINE - Founded: Japan, Headquartered: Tokyo, Users: 84M (Japan)

• Viber - Founded: Israel, Headquartered: Luxembourg, Users: 1B+

• KakaoTalk - Founded: South Korea, Headquartered: Jeju City, Users: 52M+

• Zalo - Founded: Vietnam, Headquartered: Ho Chi Minh City, Users: 100M+

• ICQ - Founded: Israel, Headquartered: Cyprus, used to have big market share

• Skype - Founded: Estonia, Headquartered: Luxembourg/USA, Users: 40M daily

lebed2045 | 2 years ago | on: Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding

A little offtop for everyone who uses comparisons that "old good days" computers/whatever were more expensive so new generation don't have moral ground to complain. Please don't forget about overall context. In that old day you could afford to buy house and don't spend the most of the income for renting. So it's incorrect to simply compare prices for one specific niche, overall context for expenses should be counted in.

lebed2045 | 2 years ago | on: YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin

a counter take from me, as someone who uses adblocks everywhere possible but used to work for facebook ads department:

ads aren't inherently bad, irregardless of much data do they track. What really bad is how this ads is targeted and how much ads is delivered. I would LOVE to see relevant to my interested and situation ads. I like fpv drones and often see interested ads on instagram and led to a purchase. The problem after that I can't just edit the vector of my interests for ads targeting and keep bombarded with something not relevant to my situation anymore, and boy so much of it I see.

I really don't know why big ads network didn't move forward with user controlled ads mechanics - because we all humans buy something anyway, it's okay of being aware of the options on the market. It's not okay to mentally torture users with irrelevant, annoying and overwhelming amount of ads.

lebed2045 | 2 years ago | on: Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data

what does it mean in simple words? as one of many StackOverflow contributors (although very small) I don't want that my answers were wall-guarded by SO website, they are free to use advertising revenue from traffic generated by my content to remunerate for creation and supporting the platform, but the content itself is mine, why it shouldn't be that way?

lebed2045 | 3 years ago | on: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

I urge everyone to use external disk backup, possibly with prism opensource alternative to cloud photo storage. After Facebook deleted my acc for no reason and google locked my account due to payment system problems- you start to rethink who really own your memories in the cloud and how securely they stored.
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