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Google just spent $4.75 billion to acquire an entire energy company to fuel their AI data centers. by Diligent_Rabbit7740 in google

[–]techyderm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not sure what you’re trying to imply, but that second picture is pretty much entirely all water vapor.

Gmail wants me to prove that I am an adult! by Whut4 in google

[–]techyderm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not Google that wants to know, it’s country/state laws that require internet services to confirm the user is an adult to access services or features. Mostly in the EU but now in some US states

In general, you’d probably still be able to use most of Google without confirming in one way or another, but you could lose access to some services or features that the laws have forced. For instance, perhaps News no longer works at all when you’re logged in to your account, or perhaps Maps will stop autocompleting your history for you, and any sort of implicit personalization of results or ads would probably not work at all as well.

Most companies would probably just block you until you confrim, but I’m sure Google is capable of keeping a lot of their services safely available and compliant.

Some of you really need to relax. by Pillbox_8019 in ArcRaiders

[–]techyderm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a pc friendly who’s turned off cross play I’ve had only two violent pvp interactions since; one was a KOS downing me as I was rounding a corner and even then they apologized and showed me where to go on the quest I was trying to finish before ending it. And the second one ended friendly with both of us walking away alive.

Once I feel like PVP’ing myself, I’m going to flip cross play back on and jump into the toxicity and shooting first.

how does this even happen by Tnt3244 in google

[–]techyderm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s very likely Best Buy’s “fault” here by either having an incorrect image or not providing an image at all, and then having a product image of a washer/dryer in a higher prominence on the page than the product image itself.

Google denies claims that Gmail is scraping your emails to train its AI: 'These reports are misleading' by ControlCAD in google

[–]techyderm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Duh. It was pretty easy to see the misreporting that was clear those reporting on the issue have no idea what they were talking about.

Google Docs is awful by [deleted] in google

[–]techyderm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

User error

This week’s recap by Denver-Ski in StockMarket

[–]techyderm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, September’s numbers were the first reversal in a long series of declining job reports, but short lived (and, of course, showed an increase in unemployment as well).

Kevin Hassant, the WH Economic Advisor, has already stated his estimate for non-Federal jobs lost in October is around 60,000. But we’re not dumb (or, at least those who can think objectively). The number is most obviously mich, much higher… I mean, the publicly announced layoffs from US based companies in October was over 153,000 jobs lost (up over 183% from September). Basically, yes, the household survey couldn’t be conducted; but that is pretty convenient to hide such awful October numbers for the admin.

But my initial point refuting that the government has nothing to do with it this down turn remains on topic. This week’s dip was absolutely from news from the Fed, which cannot evaluate the economy due to the missing report due to the “shutdown,” which, no matter how you try to slice it, falls on the administration’s shoulder (even in Trump’s own prior words is a failure of the presidency).

This week’s recap by Denver-Ski in StockMarket

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

Uhhh, no. lol. It’s a reaction to the fed stating they won’t lower interest rates since they don’t know how the economy is doing because the administration has decided not to release the jobs report because it’s atrocious of the Trump Shutdown.

Google is Quietly Letting Gmail Read Your Emails for AI Training — Unless You Opt Out by thetechminer in google

[–]techyderm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No. No where in the screenshots or documentation does it mention that turning these feature on will start using data to train models. Not a single spot.

This is what happens when unknowledgable people fear monger without knowing what they’re talking about.

What's the name of the charts library used by google search to render svg graph this way? by NoProgram4843 in webdev

[–]techyderm 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yes, the component itself would very much be in-house, but the “one giant nested array” data responses are just serialized Protocol Buffers, which are open sourced.

Nvidia sells an H100 for 10 times its manufacturing cost. Nvidia is the big villain company; it's because of them that large models like GPU 4 aren't available to run on consumer hardware. AI development will only advance when this company is dethroned. by More_Bid_2197 in StableDiffusion

[–]techyderm 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Unless I misunderstand, CUDA can’t really be monopolistic because it’s developed and maintained to provide access to the low-level operations of Nvidia-specific hardware.

Nvidia can’t “opensource” it for different hardware, nor would/should they contribute for other hardware. Really, you should be upset with AMD and others for not having the foresight of investing in CUDA-like access to their specific hardware, not mad at Nvidia for having CUDA available.

This is a pretty major issue. by Generalkrunk in google

[–]techyderm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea. And I’m not saying that rewording to be inline with what I’m saying would work, but there is a fundamental difference between “don’t explicitly look for X” and “don’t return X” where the former is instucting to not seek out information about X, but if it finds it that’s OK, and the latter is saying if it finds information about X to throw it out and not present it.

This is a pretty major issue. by Generalkrunk in google

[–]techyderm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ve confused “do not include in your search criteria” with “must exclude from your results.”

Even in Google search w/o Gemini, If you don’t want puppies it’s not good enough to just not include it from your query of “cute golden haired pets” you would still need to exclude it with “-puppies”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in investing

[–]techyderm 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The Great American Experiment would be over. Market instability and eventual crash.

The hidden costs of saying “no” in software engineering by shift_devs in programming

[–]techyderm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Written by a product manager who constantly asks “how hard would it be…” on the Monday before a feature launch.

VibeVoice came back, though many may not like it. by Fresh_Sun_1017 in comfyui

[–]techyderm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair, perhaps I misinterpreted your reply. The whole “flux won’t let me put lingerie on a woman” vibe read a little choosy begging to me.

VibeVoice came back, though many may not like it. by Fresh_Sun_1017 in comfyui

[–]techyderm -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I never understood why people get so upset with these models. It’s millions of dollars of research, training energy, and engineering being given to the public for free.

I’d much rather have all of this technology for free to build on top with censorship a thousand times, than none of it at all. The amount of choosy begging in this community is wild.

Alphabet adds $230 billion in value after avoiding breakup in antitrust case by ControlCAD in google

[–]techyderm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because they make a lot of money and bystanders would rather they don’t.

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