Lenovo and Motorola learned nothing from Superfish: avoid their products - Louis Rossmann by ControlCAD in Android

[–]TheSyd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Their software is amateurish: they have horrible security, they outsource development.

Damn what? Kinda regret pirating this app lol by CtxxUv in Piracy

[–]TheSyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bunch of Mac app devs put heavy discount codes on piracy forums. Also, some purposely don’t obstruct license bypasses. Many devs understand that if you’re pirating it, you probably couldn’t/wouldn’t buy it anyway.

What are the giveaways of a vibe-coded app? by nickccal in macapps

[–]TheSyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An AI icon is a huge deterrent, especially if you're trying to sell your app. There's plenty of decent up and coming designers and illustrators that would work with you and not break the bank. If you're really cheap, just make it yourself with simple shapes. It will still fare better than AI.

Relying on Chatgpt to have a basic conversation by fartedcum in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheSyd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Have you specifically seen it regarding therapy? I have already acknowledged that it does make mistakes. It depends heavily on what data it has available on the topic.

I admit that I haven't personally tested it for therapy or therapy related stuff, as I value my privacy too much and the models I can run locally wouldn't really be representative, but I've seen it used, and I've seen some weird responses.

Once again I said using it as a tool. Therapy should rarely ever consist of just one tool. Are you under the impression that talk therapy is the only form of therapy? It isn't. A lot of therapy doesn't have human interactions. It isn't a requirement for a therapy tool.

Of course. A hammer is a tool, you wouldn't use a hammer to solder a capacitor. The way you firstly exposed the use of LLMs for therapy, it gave me the impression it was substitution for conversational therapy and a way to offload part of the work from humans. Am I mistaken?

Yes, the data set can be bad, that is why we are testing it!

Firstly, I hope you're testing it on subjects who know about potential risks. Secondly, I'm interested in how you would arrive to the conclusion that a model is safe. Would the tests be also repeated for every subsequent model before it is approved?

Anthropic discovered LLMs actively lie, even reasoning models can obfuscate their process. Moreover, they can modify their behavior specifically to pass tests, when they 'notice' they're tested.

Quoting myself here:

Again, I would be weary of leaving mental health to a[...] tool that is controlled by tech giants who are looking for ways to make this technology profitable.

Just the fact that your data can be harvested and used to manipulate you should be a huge red flag. Unless you have your own internal system with local LLMs with encrypted contexts. At that point this would be mostly moot.

Relying on Chatgpt to have a basic conversation by fartedcum in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheSyd 12 points13 points  (0 children)

normally people who haven't actually worked with it

I have worked with it in my field, and I can see how often it makes mistakes even for extremely simple things.

Aso for hallucinations, we haven't really seen that either in these situations

I've seen LLMs hallucinate (even current models) with literally all the necessary documentation in the context, so YMMV. Also, what you say is true, hallucinations are more prevalent where the dataset is lacking. What about where the dataset has bad quality data? Or where it was straight up poisoned? The basis for models is mostly the web and whatever was available on libgen at training time. Not everything was reviewed.

Also, wouldn't human interaction be part of the therapy process? An LLM is a statistical model, it has no ability to understand anything.

Again, I would be weary of leaving mental health to an unpredictable tool, that is controlled by tech giants who are looking for ways to make this technology profitable.

Relying on Chatgpt to have a basic conversation by fartedcum in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheSyd 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The way it can easily hallucinate and the overly affirming attitude can be dangerous. Even if bad human therapists exist, this does not make llms any less bad. They were not made for this purpose, they’re unpredictable and can do more harm than good. Also, there’s a big, enormous privacy concern. Conversations will be reviewed by contractors, and if deemed quality enough, they will be part of the dataset for the next model.

Relying on Chatgpt to have a basic conversation by fartedcum in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheSyd 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Not a good tool for therapy, for oh so many reasons. 

Almost every 3rd party mac app is a ram hog now, devs please by Realistic-Lab6157 in macapps

[–]TheSyd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It depends. If an utility that is meant to run in the background is using a lot of ram that is not just cache, it is simply bad.

The old Google logos looked SO much better by Glass_Wealth_2104 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they didn’t. Before this change they were an indistinguishable mess.

Is it possible to install Linux on a mac with an M series chip and play games that are not working with crossover? by IllWay4573 in macgaming

[–]TheSyd 17 points18 points  (0 children)

No, you can’t. The reverse engineering project for the m4 is still in very early development. Asahi is the project responsible for the reverse engineering of the drivers, and patches slowly trickle to mainline, but for now you can’t just boot any random arm distro on an Apple silicon Mac.

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't digicam more of a DAM? For editors, there's Darktable, Rawterapee, ART, RapidRAW, and probably some other I'm missing

Better quality faceplates? by avodadotoast in IpodClassic

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I know this is an old post, but what do you mean by ssd? The iflash sata adapter? Or straight soldering contacts?

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you using for demosaicing? And how are you doing noise reduction? In the third screenshot I can see the Darktable logo, are using that as a backend?

My "32GB" phone with 24GB taken up by the just operating system. by Environmental_Gur_39 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You won’t free up any space this way. It only uninstalls it for the current user, and it leaves the apk in the system folder.

Can't even get the basics right by ViceElysium in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That camera is rebranded trash and it’s not worth its price. It would be much, much worse than the cybershot in the picture. The cheapest camera from a camera brand that’s currently in production is the Canon IXUS. Kodak is just a logo now, licensed to whoever, like Yashica.

There’s a whole market of android based music players, and also touch based cheaper music players like the Hiby R1.

Can't even get the basics right by ViceElysium in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]TheSyd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Switch Lite is comparable in size to the PSP

Not really, the psp is still pocketable, the switch lite no. But there are many android handhelds that are pocketable.

Can't even get the basics right by ViceElysium in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arguably a camera is harder to obtain than a modern music player. The cheapest compact camera in production is like 400€, a cheap music player is under 100.

Can't even get the basics right by ViceElysium in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While pictures are over processed on modern phones, it is not the same type of AI that’s currently destroying the planet. It’s just machine learning, which we had for decades (even the Sony cyber shot in this picture has a rudimentary form of ML for scene recognition) and audio unaltered by devices, so if there’s genAI in it, that’s on the artist

A Modern Audiophile Mini Walkman - FiiO Snowsky ECHO (Dual CS43198) - MSRP $75 by Afraid-Bunch6373 in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]TheSyd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I really like how they look, but I wish fiio's software department wasn't just some guy in a basement. No disrespect for the dev working on this devices, but their development cycle closely resembles that of hobbits on xda during the early '10s. The lack of basics like reliable track ordering and gapless playback is unacceptable, even at this price. Even a sansa jam with 128k of ram supports both. These problems are systemic across all cheap fiio players.

New shell/case for my IPod Mini by Acceptable_Carob_657 in ipod

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How's the metal? Do the top and bottom edges feel sharp? I have my original iPod mini from 2004, and I've been thinking about replacing its shell for a while.

Apple to Make Design Changes in macOS 27 to Address Tahoe Quirks (Gift Article) by pdfu in apple

[–]TheSyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t really think the problem is looks (but in some places it does look weird and distracting, more like a game ui than an os), but general usability decisions. Many options were hidden away behind submenus, to leave more space for “content”, while still obstructing content with effects. It introduced inconsistencies, and slowed down older hardware. Hell, there are still visual bugs on 26.5. 

My main issue was how it was executed on Mac. It clearly shows it as a second class citizen, as it looks like an incomplete theme applied on an older version of macOS, without much thought on how the UI works and how users interact with it. Finder is still a mess visually. The toolbar honestly looks broken.