imperator3733 @ imperator3733 @lemmy.world

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Even human life will still likely survive, just not necessarily in the large-scale, global civilization that we have today. Even if that all collapses, scattered pockets of human civilization will remain across much of the world.

I wouldn't characterize statistical analysis as "AI", but sadly I do see people (like those authors) totally missing the differences.

I'm generally hesitant about AI stuff (particularly with the constant "full steam ahead, 'disrupt' everything!" mindset that is far too prevalent in certain tech spheres), but what I saw described in this article looks really, really cool. The one bit I'm hesitant about is where actual pages are presented (since that is actually presenting a segment of the text), but other than that it's really sad to see this project killed by a massive misunderstanding.

Enhanced Safe Browsing was released in 2007 as an upgrade to Google's standard Safe Browsing feature that warns users when they visit known phishing and malware sites.

That's gotta be a typo. Gmail itself came out in 2004, and I doubt that "Safe Browsing" and then "Enhanced Safe Browsing" both came out in the first three years.

I'm guessing it's supposed to be 2017?

Regardless of when it came out, the nagging prompts sure are annoying.

They're way too expensive and they're still early-generation devices. Plus, why would I trust Google to continue with the product line seeing as how they keep killing viable products and services?

If they get to the Pixel Fold 4 or 5 and the price is down to the $500-600 range, then it'd be a very serious contender for me. (Assuming the insane fragility is resolved)

I freaking hate Shorts, and the persistence with which YouTube attempts to shove that crap down your throat is absolutely infuriating.

YouTube also recently made the thumbnails larger, which is also really bad as it makes it more difficult to see what videos are in your subscription feed (even moreso with all the shorts clogging it up).

Mine went through just fine - I'm curious what subset of users this affected.

Regarding the list of who you supported, Patreon has sent me monthly "Your Patreon receipt is here!" emails that list out each supporter and the tier. I don't believe I explicitly enabled these emails - they just started coming one month, so presumably one would have needed to specifically turn them off to not get the receipts.

The only use that I've thought of over the years is event logging where you need a very high confidence that no one has tampered with the logs.

For consumer software, yes, most is still being built with a baseline target instruction set from the early/mid-2000s. In 2019 there were reports of Apex Legends requiring SSE4.1, an instruction set from circa 2007. It will be be probably close to a couple decades before consumer software would start commonly requiring these instructions.

However, for more specialized environments, such as scientific and high-performance computing applications, it's much more common that you will be using custom software designed for a specific task, and that it's normal to recompile the software when you get a new set of hardware. In those applications, these instructions can make a huge impact, as you know exactly which capabilities are supported by the hardware and can use everything available.

I believe there are also some (possibly limited) situations where a program can check what instructions a processor supports and use either the newer (higher-performance) version or the slower, more widely-supported version depending on that check. There may be limits on how often that can be done however.

Symmetrical gigabit is a bit much for a baseline. Should it be widely available for all, and for a good price? Absolutely. But plenty of people (probably a majority even) could be adequately served by something like 300 down/100 up as a baseline tier.

Yeah, I also pay for YouTube Premium (have since it was YouTube Red), and get a ton of value out of it, but I'm still bombarded by all those absurd "Shorts" clogging up my subscriptions feed. I'll have to try the linked extension - I've been meaning to see what's available..