In Google Photos shared albums there is a tab that I can only describe as a chatroom.
Isn’t there a difference between having a tab that is similar to a chat, to being a chat app?
Readit Newsdieortin commented on GPT-5.2 openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg
I've said for decades that Google is terrible at search in every area except Google Search. Youtube search? Terrible! Chrome history search? Abysmal! Gmail search? Atrocious! Google Maps Search? At some point, standing in a middle of a mall searching for "coffee" returned only 3 SERPs despite me standing in front of a coffeeshop that I could not get to show up.
SERP = Search Engine Results Page. I’m pretty sure what you mean is simply “3 results”, and not “3 search engine result pages”
dieortin commented on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race theverge.com/news/836212/... · Posted by u/goplayoutside
At this point you are now forced to use the "AI"s as code search tools--and it annoys me to no end.
The problem is that the "AI"s can cough up code examples based upon proprietary codebases that you, as an individual, have no access to. That creates a significant quality differential between coders who only use publicly available search (Google, Github, etc.) vs those who use "AI" systems.
How would the AIs have access to proprietary codebases?
Well, I am not sure about that but to me the real thing is: https://gemini.google.com and for this you need to be logged in, at least in my country.
As for AI mode from google search I am not sure but I don't seem to have it, at least in my country, switzerland.
AI mode is available in Switzerland: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/16011537#:~:text...
dieortin commented on Migrating to Bazel symbolic macros tweag.io/blog/2025-11-20-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I wish tools like CMake and Bazel simply used Lua, Python or JavaScript for their configuration instead of making their own languages with numerous quirks. There's literally no benefit of doing that.
Bazel uses Starlark, which is pretty much a deterministic subset of Python. Using Python directly would not be a good idea.
SynthID seems interesting but in classic Google fashion, I haven't a clue on how to use it and the only button that exists is join a waitlist. Apparently it's been out since 2023? Also, does SynthID work only within gemini ecosystem? If so, is this the beginning of a slew of these products with no one standard way? i.e "Have you run that image through tool1, tool2, tool3, and tool4 before deciding this image is legit?"
edit: apparently people have been able to remove these watermarks with a high success rate so already this feels like a DOA product
Do you have a source on people being able to remove SynthID watermarks?
dieortin commented on The lost cause of the Lisp machines tfeb.org/fragments/2025/1... · Posted by u/enbywithunix
To me, it was never about the hardware. It was not even about LISP.
It is about "clean design" and what a great computing environment was capable of, and still would be, had its potential not been shredded by the advent of cheap addicting hardware combined with an "operating system" so "simple and elegant" that even today, a program simply segfaults leaving you with nothing (instead of showing at least an inspectable stacktrace). So "simple and elegant" that the only two data formats end users are dealing with are "copy & paste text", "files", and "screenshots". An operating system so "pure" that every program lives in its own uninteroperable walled garden, that understands nothing about the environment and data loaded around it. We lost a whole computing world and it might still take ages getting that back.
If you ship debug symbols with your binary, you do get a core dump with an inspectable stacktrace…
That sounds dangerous honestly. Watermarks should be mandatory for AI generated images.
This only applies to the visible watermark on the corner, which you could crop anyways. If I’m not mistaken, all images generated by Google models have an invisible watermark: https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/
dieortin commented on FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-... · Posted by u/CrankyBear
Notably, the vulnerability is also in a part which isn't included by default and nobody uses. I'm not sure that even warrants a CVE? A simple bug report would have probably been fine. If they think this is really a CVE, a bug fix commit would have been warranted.
It is included by default