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Cake day: January 17th, 2022
  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green
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    3 days ago

    conjure up an email summary within seconds that can shave off up to 5 whole minutes

    … but can it? Like actually, can one do that?

    Sure an LLM can generate something akin to a summary. It will look like it’s getting some of the points in a different form… but did it get the actual gist of it? Did it skip anything meaningful that once ignore will have far reaching consequences?

    So yes sure an LLM can generate shorter text related to what was said during the meeting but if there is limited confidence in the accuracy and no responsibility, unlike somebody who would take notes and summarize potentially facing negative consequences, then wouldn’t the reliance on such a tool create more risk?

  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•The EU smartphone repairability law will take effect on 20 June
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    11 days ago

    Well this next example isn’t about phones but e-bikes. Unfortunately unwise me bought a fancy designer bike made by a national startup (CowBoy, to name and shame them) and I’m now stuck with a fancy metal frame on wheels because the belt is not in stock. Ordered in February, supposed to arrive 60 days later, I’m still waiting, not even an email received, nothing in now late June.

    So… yes my next e-bike will be very VERY boring, in the sense of relying on built that have easy to source replacement part.

    Yes, it did take few a first relatively large mistake (even though I did use that bike daily for years already) but that’s what I meant by “only work once”. You try, make painful mistake, don’t repeat.

  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•The EU smartphone repairability law will take effect on 20 June
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    12 days ago

    you might be able to get a replacement battery for your 200€ phone, but having to pay 200€ for it.

    On the assumption that consumers are somehow rational and have some memory, that “trick” only work once.

    Next time a consumer get stuck with a practically irreplaceable battery because it’s too expensive from a company, they will look at other companies selling equivalent products, AND how much they are charging for batteries. I also imagine a business of spare parts because just having to give the right data, e.g. specifications like cell, module, pack, C-rate, E-rate, SOC, DOD, voltage, capacity, energy, cycle life, but also connectors and just size, will probably open up dedicated spare part vendors.

  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Exclusive: Tesla to delay US launch of affordable EV, a lower-cost Model Y, sources say
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    2 months ago

    long-awaited plans for an affordable car

    You mean the 1, ONE, single, as in nothing else really matter, thing that gave any modicum of decency to Musk despite all this BS over the years and was again the very reason one could have been excited about him making Tesla so much more famous (not popular, as in… affordable) is actually not happening? Sorry, in Musk parlance, is happening next year?

    shocked Pikachu face

    I honestly feel disgusted because, even though I do not have a car, when Musk on ramped Tesla I was cheering for him. I do NOT think cars are the solution BUT if we have no other choice, I was naively thinking electric cars, specifically NOT fancy elitism expensive coupe or sedans, but rather affordable ones was one potential path. Meanwhile, years later, if I look by the window outside where I live, in Belgium, we do have electric plugs in the street (nice!) which are sadly used by a … fancy EV. At the same time in the city center the silent (literally) revolution have been electric bikes, especially cargo bikes and longtails. So many of those now used.

    So tiring that CEOs of large company can claim vaporware constantly without any consequences. It’s damaging to entire ecosystem they overshadow. They already have economical power by their cheer scale but they also abuse the mindshare of potential customers and regulators. We need to hold them accountable to false claims, claims that are indefinitely delayed and it has to hurt the bottom line of their companies.