tias

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I suspect the user content is the root of the problem. 500 hours of video is being uploaded every minute. YouTube has to transcode and store everything, and be ready to stream it at a moment's notice, even though the vast majority of videos probably get only a handful of views (if any). That's a lot of unused resources that have to be paid for by subscribers and advertisers.

If they were to charge just a little for uploads then content creators would be more inclined to consider whether their upload is of interest to anyone else, and that might take away a lot of the waste.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Woah. I just cancelled my subscription last week because it's too expensive, and now they raise the prices further. Guess they really don't want me back.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 91 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In the security page on Google's account site there is a card with the title "Your connections to third-party apps & services". Go there, click "See all connections" and click Reddit. From here you can remove access for Reddit and/or delete all connections between your Google account and Reddit.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how these guys didn't get a Darwin award yet

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AI still needs a lot of parallelism but has low latency requirements. That makes it ideal for a large expansion card instead of putting it directly on the CPU die.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

I can't imagine how you think it's incredibly simple. These things are hell to explain to pretty much any normal person who needs to know why there's no picture on the monitor or why their laptop/phone is not charging, or why the keyboard isn't working in BIOS (no USB 3 support so you gotta switch to a USB 2 port). Add to that the combinatorial complexity of different cables and hubs supporting different things, and no tools for troubleshooting what feature is missing (and where in the chain) or what is suboptimal.

Worse, sometimes it's my boss who thinks they can cheap out and get a USBC dock instead of a proper dock, forcing me to run at non-native lower resolutions or unable to use a second screen.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

Search patterns yes, but also location data, and it's aggregated over all your friends. So if you go to a restaurant together with a friend who recently searched for some clothes brand, the algorithm will know that and show you ads for that brand. Chances are you talked about his interests when you met, so you incorrectly infer that it was listening to the conversation.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Critically, "Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft told 404 Media they have no involvement with CMG’s Voice Data tool."

But more importantly, they can't listen on your microphone unless you give them permission. It's not a thing that is technically possible. And like the article says, these days phones even show an indicator to alert you when the microphone is on.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yeah I'm not sure that war crimes work that way. You don't get a pass because the opponent is doing illegal things.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

This has to be a joke

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unfortunately the license agreement for .Net forbids publishing any kind of benchmark results.

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