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New comment by CPUHall in "Reviewers rarely talk about reliability. Owners bring it up twice as often"

CPUHall — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:18:09 +0000

Yeah well not many reviewers actually use them long enough before putting up a review - fair play, they review what they have on hand. Reviewers are mostly working a job too, the money boat is during a release of a product, not a year after they've well tinkered with it - assuming they even have the time to with multiple same-category products released constantly.

Anyway, all i'm saying is its not terrible. People who watch reviews on release should know there is no reliability to talk about unless the reviewer spends the effort to 'accelerate' these - e.g. Fold testing foldable phones and counting them.

Take a look at my country's (Singapore) arguably #1 e-commerce platform and you'll notice something even more mindblowing - platform-generated, ai-generated reviews. And no, its not the sellers, most of them have even voiced their frustrations that they dont even have an option to block these 'ai-generated reviews' on their products. Yes, there are ai-generated humans wearing ear0hones clipping through ears, on the complete opposite directions and telling you how awesome the product is. Truly dystopian.

New comment by CPUHall in "Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees"

CPUHall — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:04:32 +0000

If only they'd keep the prices low and availability there. Things have been pretty bad since they've started moving out of the consumer market target.

New comment by CPUHall in "Softerware"

CPUHall — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:49:28 +0000

I dont really understand the point of this article.

>First, people are reverse-engineering existing tools and building their own versions, just so the software fits the bespoke requirements they have.

...This has always been the case, its just accelerated because its cheaper and faster because AI.

New comment by CPUHall in "Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content"

CPUHall — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:12:46 +0000

Its much appreciated. Reminded me of runescape (a game) wiki devs blogpost, its an interesting read: https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/User:Cook_Me_Plox/OSRS_Wi...

New comment by CPUHall in "Why Is Everyone Watching TV with the Subtitles On?"

CPUHall — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:07:49 +0000

Audio mixing being shit as mentioned by other commenter, but also i don't want ny neighbors to hear everything i'm watching by cranking the volume up just so i dont miss dialogues.

New comment by CPUHall in "Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books"

CPUHall — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:05:26 +0000

Title is misleading. The ruling said training on books is fair use. What got them in trouble was grabbing the books from LibGen instead of just buying them, which is a pretty dumb way to lose $1.5B. If I torrented half a million books I'd be getting a lot more than a $3k-per-book settlement.

New comment by CPUHall in "Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you"

CPUHall — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:29:37 +0000

Kinda cool, thanks for building this. Not much around me unfortunately, maybe allow expanding the range of distance?