Rob T Firefly
Nerd of all trades from New York City.
he/him 💙💜🩷
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Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-foldEnglish
29·18 days agoThis method is surprisingly effective at bringing back our god damn honey. We may not have to kill Nicolas Cage after all.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with adsEnglish
2·20 days agoRESUME VIEWING
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spamEnglish
33·1 month agoThat reminds me, 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for youEnglish
15·1 month agoA STRANGE GAME.THE ONLY WINNING MOVE ISNOT TO PLAY.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHubEnglish
24·1 month agoWhich is why so many emulators require you to somehow acquire the console’s actual BIOS binary yourself (by manually dumping it from your own hardware, of course, and by no other means at all) and drop it into a file folder for the emulator to use.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OSEnglish
6·2 months agoI live in a major city that’s been carved up by the local monopolists like a turkey, and none of them have even installed coverage in all the areas they’ve claimed and which their “competitors” won’t touch. Some people just can’t have a good connection because of their address.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OSEnglish
10·2 months agoIt must be noted that Big Tech is currently engaged in artificially forcing hardware prices upward, and that’s going on while Microsoft continues their generations-long quest to deprecate old hardware by forcing new versions of their OS out of compatibility with it.
There are so many ways they’re actively screwing their customers by making things tangibly worse, and then conveniently showing up to “help” by selling us more of their shit.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMsEnglish
20·2 months agoThat prospect becomes less and less likely the more government is bought and paid for by Big Tech.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawaterEnglish
35·2 months agoTo answer your question we’ll need to conduct a series of electrical tests on your left ball. Please report to the lab as soon as possible, and wear loose pants.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"English
2·2 months agoThe straw I’m grasping at in this example is a reasonably well-accepted scientific consensus, but you do you.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"English
51·2 months agoOur microorganism ancestors also did all those things, and they were far beyond anything an LLM can do. Turning a given list of words into numbers, doing a string of math to those numbers, and turning the resulting numbers back into words is not consciousness or wisdom and never will be.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"English
212·2 months agoLLMs are not children. Children can have experiences, learn things, know things, and grow. Spicy autocomplete will never actually do any of these things.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.English
2·2 months agoWhatever people in power try to stir up about this, it’s literally impossible to legislate and block shapes from being 3D-printed. Any attempts to do so are a fool’s errand, and/or just being used to justify misguided (and doomed) attempts to lock down 3DP technology for other reasons (read DRM/copyright forces in big business.) Blocking parts that might be for a gun from being printed simply cannot be done.
https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2026/02/04/3d-printer-gun-screen/
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.English
161·2 months agoYou can remap that key on a hardware level with a little flathead screwdriver. 🪛 🗑️
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8KEnglish
3·2 months agoNo kidding, we’ve had 16K since the 1980s.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on adsEnglish
6·3 months agoMaybe they’re talking about the TV walls in “Fifteen Million Merits.”

The tech sector loves to outsource this kind of thing to traumatized and underpaid people overseas.