Wildest article I've read in a while.
Readit Newsfrxx commented on The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time? theguardian.com/news/ng-i... · Posted by u/NoboruWataya
RIP, Wolfgang Kortzfleisch :(
frxx commented on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla manualdousuario.net/en/mo... · Posted by u/rpgbr
Does anyone want AI in anything? I can see the value of navigating to an LLM and asking specific questions, but generally speaking I don't want that just running / waiting on my machine as I open a variety of applications. It's a huge waste of resources and for most normal people is an edge case.
That's what I've been saying for some time now...
"No one really wants AI! They want their software to be faster or better, but do they care if the people in the background of the image have been removed by AI or not?" And in fact they don't.
Managers think they want AI but they actually want their people to work faster or better. Higher managers think they want AI so they can save money, or at least not fall behind the competitors, if those were to use AI to get an advantage.
Companies making software think they want AI because their competitors are using it, and they think the users want AI so the software can be perceived as modern, not falling behind.
And so on, and so on... other than Nvidia, openAI, Anthropic, etc, no one really wants AI.
frxx commented on CYBERSPACE: text-only social network cyberspace.online/... · Posted by u/NetOpWibby
I tried it out and it is a lot of fun! Still evolving, still getting developed.
frxx commented on Making a smart bike dumb so it works again francisco.io/blog/making-... · Posted by u/franciscop
- Oh sorry, my friend bought it 2nd or 3rd hand after another individual had an accident and I understood they were not in Japan (some repair parts were 3rd party), but I searched and it seems you are right! I'll correct it.
- We tried a few times to recover the account but had some trouble with CS and the particular account, so ended up giving on that. It didn't help that he visits the country from time to time and we'd need to migrate the account each time.
Ahh I see. Yeah there are still many problems with "connected" bikes like this that are easier solved with a hardware hack!
frxx commented on Making a smart bike dumb so it works again francisco.io/blog/making-... · Posted by u/franciscop
Nice article and hack!
Two things are confusing me here though:
If this is a VanMoof, I believe they were sold in Japan and even had a Store in Shibuya
Secondly, they were bankrupt, but to my knowledge were bought and is therefore still (again?) in business.