Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Khamon]

ancients untie1

 

[Free]

Ackchyually, you're lucky if that yellow section ever appears on the first page.

 

[Noodles]

I have been saying for OVER A DECADE, how Google has gone to shit and I am so glad everyone else is finally catching up.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I have been saying for OVER A DECADE, how Google has gone to shit and I am so glad everyone else is finally catching up.

Google is what everyone realized Microsoft was in the 90's but an order of magnitude or two worse and it is sooo maddening to watch people being either completely oblivious or completely apathetic about it. I get that it's very difficult, likely inconvenient, and maybe in some cases impossible to completely de-google your life, but the number of people who will make ZERO effort at all is nuts.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Here's a Reddit for that if hyperenthusiastic YouTube personalities drive you around the bend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/new/

 

[Noodles]

Google is what everyone realized Microsoft was in the 90's but an order of magnitude or two worse and it is sooo maddening to watch people being either completely oblivious or completely apathetic about it. I get that it's very difficult, likely inconvenient, and maybe in some cases impossible to completely de-google your life, but the number of people who will make ZERO effort at all is nuts.

Speaking of Microsoft, it's infuriating how much people get completely irrate over nonsense like telemetry data or recently the time warp thing that is local to the machine and only in new LLM machines like MICROSOFT IS SPYING ON YOU!

Then turn around and praise Google whoes ENTIRE business model is selling you and your data to advertisers. And they have a zillion "clever" bull shit ways to track and spy on you. And they are actively working to dismantle more "traditional" tracking methods in the guise of "user privacy" when it's all just because they have methods way better and it will harm the competition.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Only visible to you, and any malware you have on your computer, and your abusive gaslighting spouse. It's not Microsoft's access to this data that's the issue.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I have been saying for OVER A DECADE, how Google has gone to shit and I am so glad everyone else is finally catching up.

Yes, though there aren't really any good search engines to compete though. But as far as email goes, no. Gmail is only for logging into my phone and other google specific things. My primary email is through fastmail.com and has been since 2012. They are based in Australia with servers in NY and elsewhere I suppose. I don't mind paying to keep google out of my inbox.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Boeing's Starliner successfully launched and achieved orbit without a hitch. Scheduled to dock with the ISS round about noon-ish tomorrow (EDT).

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

First manned Atlas launch since the '60s!

 

[Casey Pelous]

Boeing's Starliner successfully launched and achieved orbit without a hitch. Scheduled to dock with the ISS round about noon-ish tomorrow (EDT).

Oh, good -- sounds like they remembered to nail the doors onto this one.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Adobe just changed the terms of use for its Creative Cloud services requiring users to agree that Adobe can use anything they have uploaded for AI training purposes. Users were informed via a popup that would not allow the application to launch unless the change was agreed to, meaning that anyone with uploaded content who disagreed with the change didn't just lose access to the software itself but also couldn't retrieve their half-finished project files in order to continue working on them by other means.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

What's better than a BIOS? Right: aiBIOS! Because... why?

aiBIOS leverages an LLM to integrate AI capabilities into Insyde Software’s flagship firmware solution, InsydeH2O® UEFI BIOS. It provides the ability to interpret the PC user’s request, analyze their specific hardware, and parse through the LLM’s extensive knowledge base of BIOS and computer terminology to make the appropriate changes to the BIOS Setup. This breakthrough technology helps address a major hurdle for PC users that require or desire changes to their BIOS Setup for their personal computers but do not fully understand the meaning of the settings available to them.

Insyde® Software Brings Higher Intelligence to PCs with aiBIOS™ Technology To Be Shown at Computex Taipei | Insyde Software

First-of-its-Kind “Smart BIOS” Harnesses AI Capabilities to Deliver Configurability and User Experience Improvements COMPUTEX TAIPEI – June 4, 2024 – Insyde® Software, a leading provider of UEFI BIOS and OpenBMC-based systems management firmware, today announced aiBIOS™, the industry’s first...

www.insyde.com

 

[Erich Templar]

What's better than a BIOS? Right: aiBIOS! Because... why?

aiBIOS leverages an LLM to integrate AI capabilities into Insyde Software’s flagship firmware solution, InsydeH2O® UEFI BIOS. It provides the ability to interpret the PC user’s request, analyze their specific hardware, and parse through the LLM’s extensive knowledge base of BIOS and computer terminology to make the appropriate changes to the BIOS Setup. This breakthrough technology helps address a major hurdle for PC users that require or desire changes to their BIOS Setup for their personal computers but do not fully understand the meaning of the settings available to them.

Insyde® Software Brings Higher Intelligence to PCs with aiBIOS™ Technology To Be Shown at Computex Taipei | Insyde Software

First-of-its-Kind “Smart BIOS” Harnesses AI Capabilities to Deliver Configurability and User Experience Improvements COMPUTEX TAIPEI – June 4, 2024 – Insyde® Software, a leading provider of UEFI BIOS and OpenBMC-based systems management firmware, today announced aiBIOS™, the industry’s first...

www.insyde.com

That reads so much like an over-the-top parody.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

How often do people who aren't super familiar with their BIOS settings feel the need to change them, anyway? We need this complex LLM-driven solution for a task someone might want to do once every two or three years?

 

[Free]

How often do people who aren't super familiar with their BIOS settings feel the need to change them, anyway? We need this complex LLM-driven solution for a task someone might want to do once every two or three years?

But but BAIOS!

 

[Noodles]

How often do people who aren't super familiar with their BIOS settings feel the need to change them, anyway? We need this complex LLM-driven solution for a task someone might want to do once every two or three years?

The only time I have ever touched the BIOS on my current PC was when Windows fucked it up somehow.

 

[Essence Lumin]

The only time I have ever touched the BIOS on my current PC was when Windows fucked it up somehow.

I don't remember touching the bios in my current laptop except when a windows upgrade decided to flash it. No harm but that was a bit scary. Windows shouldn't do that.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Linamp, The IRL Winamp

Anyone who first experienced music on computers using Winamp probably shares a memory of seeing that classic UI for the first time. Everything about it was a step ahead of the clunky, chunky interf…

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I want one!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Linamp, The IRL Winamp

Anyone who first experienced music on computers using Winamp probably shares a memory of seeing that classic UI for the first time. Everything about it was a step ahead of the clunky, chunky interf…

hackaday.com

I want one!

I’d run right out for a 1987 Fiero or a 1993 Supra to slide that into the dash. It’s that rad.