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melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins.English
2·15 hours agoI wonder if the bios are written in the style of the less educated, non-native speaker being described, because I can imagine that would have an effect.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parentsEnglish
24·16 hours agoTeachers are paid a pittance in the US. Shows our values as a society. They’re educating the next generations, but that doesn’t make number go up right this second, so they are compensated accordingly.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web siteEnglish
56·1 day agoAFAIK, only adults can sign up for internet access, so a minor watching porn on the internet is the same as said minor watching their parents’ adult DVDs or drinking alcohol their parents purchased. It’s already illegal for adults to give minors access to these things, so what’s next? Alcohol bottles that only open and DVDs / Bluerays that only play if you can provide an ID and prove your age every time?
melfie@lemy.lolto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Travelling on a flying carpet must be terrifying
1·1 day agoPeople think the future has arrived because we have aircraft that marketing departments are calling “flying cars”. However, when we have “magic carpets” that float around with mechanisms not based on aerodynamics or lift, that’s when the future will have arrived.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated successEnglish
773·2 days ago
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•New packaging can warn you when meat has spoiledEnglish
1·3 days agoI was buying it at Kroger, but got tired of meat being expired the first day I got it home, long before the expiration date. Now I buy from a rancher down the road. Re-reading my comment, it may have been unclear that I’m buying local to get better quality than I can get from big corporations.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care aboutEnglish
210·3 days agoThe reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn’t really exist to be put into GPUs that haven’t been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven’t been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn’t actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.
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melfie@lemy.lolto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system
531·3 days agoHard work does not create wealth. The only thing that creates wealth is wealth, and we have it, and you don’t.
This quote from Horrible Bosses 2 always stood out to me.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•New packaging can warn you when meat has spoiledEnglish
121·3 days agoI’ve had a number of occasions where I purchased meat and it was spoiled before the expiration date. At this point, I’m sick of putting my trust in big corporations and am trying to buy more foods produced locally.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety"English
41·3 days agoBreaking news: a for-profit corporation did something shitty to make number go up. In other news, it was recently discovered that ticks feed on their hosts’ blood with no concern for the well-being of their hosts.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety"English
17·3 days agoMaybe Claude Code learned this from its creators: I’ve noticed that when it says “the real issue is…”, that means it has no clue and is about barf out a bunch of slop that I’m going to have to revert.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to LinuxEnglish
21·3 days agoFunny how often people get downvoted to hell here for posts that are obviously sarcasm.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricingEnglish
4·5 days agoHe could probably get at least 128GB of DDR5 for one of them.
melfie@lemy.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free softwareEnglish
1·8 days agoWhy would anyone want €100 billion in economic growth from open source investments when you can give the CIA all your data and gain access to innovative new ways to generate AI slop?
Must’ve gotten a faulty CPU that produces heat when it runs.


PhD - Pompous, Hubristic Dickhead. That description fit a lot of college professors I’ve known, but AI is more like a sycophantic intern.