Live: Israel says it has stopped several vessels from Gaza aid flotilla
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36761957
Israeli navy is moving to block a flotilla carrying aid toward Gaza. Activists onboard are demanding humanitarian access, calling the blockade illegal. Reports say the ships are being shadowed as they approach. Situation is still developing.
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft is launching new AI tools in its Office apps. A new Agent Mode comes to Word and Excel, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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How automakers are reacting to the end of the $7,500 EV tax credit
How automakers are reacting to the end of the $7,500 EV tax credit
Tesla is raising lease prices; Ford and GM may have found a loophole.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
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What are your favorite video game openings?
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My pick as well.
It starts off with such hope, the promise of new beginnings. Then the the initial sense that something is wrong.
Hurry back and the adagio swells as you realize the emensity of the tragedy. Then the desperate attempt to save as much of what's left as you can before fleeing.
I agree, it's a very special game.
What does it for me is the quality of the voice acting. The way I can hear their voice almost but not quite breaking in the sorrow. Superb
President Xi Jinping calls for forging ahead with determination in advancing Chinese modernization
President Xi Jinping calls for forging ahead with determination in advancing Chinese modernization
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on the nation to keep on working hard and forge ahead with determination in advancing Chinese modernization.CGTN
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IR: Câmara aprova isenção para quem ganha até R$ 5 mil
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/47145681
Promessa de campanha do presidente Lula, texto é o único projeto previsto na pauta; proposta prevê alíquota progressiva de até 10% para rendimentos acima de R$ 600 mil por ano.
IR: Câmara aprova isenção para quem ganha até R$ 5 mil
Câmara aprova projeto que isenta do Imposto de Renda quem ganha até R$ 5 mil, promessa de campanha de Lula. Veja como fica a alíquota para rendimentos maiores.G1
America doesn't need half of it's national demand met by domestic production. Just enough to not need to start from scratch should China gain control over Taiwan. South Korea might already be fulfilling that role with GlobalFoundries (though that's owned by the UAE so ... ).
It'd be a nightmare trying to get the skilled foreign labor into America these days though so it's a lost cause anyway.
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facebook and privacy leaks
Before we start, I want to stress that I deleted my facebook account since 2015 (almost 10 years now). Deleted = find the the delete account page, agree to delete and do not log back in. In 2012, I tried to delete but ended up logging back in due to addiction. Before I deleted, I switched the email I was using to some temp email.
Also, this is not some story I pulled out of my ass to get upvotes here on on reddit, r/nosleep. It is true and it shows how fucked up and how deep our privacy is being violated.
Anyway, as this is about privacy, here are somethings that are very disturbing:
1) Back in 2015 (months after the account was "officially deleted"), while browsing the web with a different browser but the same computer and same network, I got ads on the side from facebook showing "My Account Name and 100 like this". It even retained the profile pic I used before deleted.
2) This one is tricky, I'm not sure if I'm paranoid but it scares the shit out of me. Months ago, my family wanted to check out the menu items of a local restaurant before going there. The menu was posted on facebook and half of it is covered unless you log in.
Nobody in my family uses facebook. Nothing on phones or computers.
So we decide to create a fake account with a fake name using a temporary email. This is before the identity validation bullshit. We log on using a burner computer at a different wifi. After viewing the menu, we scrolled down a bit.
Remember, this is a blank account: no friends, no pages, no likes...etc. So there was nothing on the news feed. We clicked on some local posts, liked some others just to get the newsfeed populate.
This time we can see posts on the feed. As we scrolled down, we saw posts from this news sites and from local celebrities, game ads...etc. There was this random post. Underneath, it showed "A B C and 100 like this".
The problem? A B C is my actual last name, middle and first name !
I have never ever used A B C on any facebook accounts. Nick name, yes so like: Z C. But never A B C. In the messages of the deleted account, sometimes I use A like when a friend talk to you using your name: hey sup A. The middle B i never use.
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Months ago, my family wanted to check out the menu items of a local restaurant before going there. The menu was posted on facebook and half of it is covered unless you log in.
Brother....
- Ask for a fucking paper menu
- Walk the fuck out
Please. Don't allow this. I walked away from a place just yesterday because they wanted me to download an app and create a login and give them my phone number just to order some fucking food. Don't tolerate this horseshit.
The funny part? It was a food truck park. I took 5 steps to my left and walked up to a different window.
- Ask for a paper menu
- Walk the fuck out
check out the menu items of a local restaurant before going there
How are they going to walk out or ask for a paper menu if they aren't there? 🤔
'Dumbphones' Are Not Private
Whenever people ask about ways to make their smartphones more private or which is the most privacy-respecting phone to get, there's always a few people confidently asserting "all smartphones are spy tools, get a dumbphone with no apps if you want to be private". Which is ridiculous advice for a few reasons
- Dumbphones usually run either proprietary operating systems or outdated forks of Android. They're almost never encrypted. They rarely get security updates. They're a lot more vulnerable than even a regular Android phone
- With dumbphones, you're usually limited to regular phone calls or SMS/MMS messaging. These are ancient communication standards with zero built-in privacy. Your ISP can read any text message you send and view metadata logs of any phone calls you make. In lots of places (like Australia where I live) ISPs are actually required to keep logs of your messages and phone calls
With even a regular Android phone you at least have access to encrypted messaging apps like Signal or Session so your conversations aren't fair game for anyone who wants to read them. Of course there are better options. iOS (not perfect but better than most bloatware-filled Android devices) and a pixel with GrapheneOS (probably the best imo) are much better options; but virtually anything out there is going to be better for privacy than a dumbphone
Edit: Thanks everyone for giving your thoughts. Some really good points I hadn't thought much about
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Colombia Expels Remaining Israeli Diplomats Amid Gaza Aid Tensions
Colombia's president Gustavo Petro ordered on Wednesday that all remaining Israeli diplomats in the country are to be expelled
Archived version: archive.is/newest/swedenherald…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
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Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap UK climate law
Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party has pledged to ditch the U.K.’s flagship climate law if they get back into government, in the latest signal that the party is firmly walking back on net zero commitments.
Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap UK climate law
Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party has pledged to ditch the U.K.’s flagship climate law if they get back into government, in the latest signal that the party is firmly walking back on net zero commitments.Abby Wallace (POLITICO)
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Shock new poll shows that adults increasingly think political violence is necessary to ‘get country back on track’
Majority of those surveyed still disagree with political violence
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US | Idaho judge bars the release of graphic photos from crime scene where Bryan Kohberger killed 4
A judge in Idaho is blocking the release of graphic photos taken by investigators after Bryan Kohberger killed four University of Idaho students in 2022
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US citizen sues after twice being detained by immigration agents
US-born Leo Garcia Venegas says ‘I just want to work in peace’ after agents in Alabama said his ID card was fake
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US to provide Ukraine with intelligence for long-range strikes in Russia, WSJ reports
The United States will provide Ukraine with intelligence for long-range missile strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, as it weighs whether to send Kyiv weapons that could put more targets within range.
Archived version: archive.is/20251002011422/reut…
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UK once again demands backdoor to Apple’s encrypted cloud storage
New order in September narrowed access request down to data of UK citizens.
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Apple holding its ground against fascist anti-privacy demands is like the one topic where the anti-Apple brigaders don’t jump in to tell us about how Apple is an evil anti-customer machine.
{posted from my iPhone}
They are still evil anti-customer machine, but reasonable people can acknowledge when they are doing something positive even when it's done for selfish reasons.
Also, their PR person is a joke.
“We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP are not available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy.”
So if you cared that much, why did you refuse to add iCloud end-to-end encryption for 11 years?
Democratic Leadership Now as Unpopular With Base as GOP Leadership Was When Trump Took Over the Party
Democratic leadership is now as unpopular with its base of voters as the GOP was in 2014, just a year before Trump took over the party, according to a new Pew Research poll. "These are conditions for real change," said progressive journalist David Sirota.
Over 400 People Have Been Charged With “Pregnancy-Related Crimes” Since Dobbs, Report Finds
The report from Pregnancy Justice warns that their numbers are likely an undercount.
Israeli Official: Palestinians Who Don’t Evacuate Gaza City Deemed “Terrorists”
About 500,000 remain, cut off from any provisions coming from the south, including food, water, fuel, and medicine.
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EU leaders give 'broad support' for drone wall and using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine
The European Commission will now fine tune a Roadmap for defence set to be released in two weeks, before leaders convene for another summit to make decisions.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/euronews.com…
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A Once Unstoppable Luxury Housing Market Is Starting to Crack
Luxury Market Slowdown
- Luxury home sales in the U.S. dropped 0.7% year-over-year for the three months ending August 31, marking the lowest level since 2013, according to Redfin.
- Price growth also slowed: median luxury sale price rose 3.9%, down from 6.1% the previous year.
- Economic uncertainty and volatile household wealth—especially after the April tariff shock—have made wealthy buyers more cautious.
Regional Trends
- Dallas–Fort Worth: Prices returning to pre-pandemic norms; inventory rising; buyers rushing to purchase before interest-rate cuts drive prices up.
- San Francisco Bay Area: August sales above $5 million fell 13% year-over-year.
- Miami: Sales dropped 19.4%, despite a 9.8% rise in median luxury prices; low inventory is driving prices higher.
- Tampa: Hurricane damage and rising inventory led to a 9.4% drop in sales and a 5.5% dip in prices.
Where Sales Are Rising
- Indianapolis: Luxury sales rose 19.1%; inventory up 16.1%; homes selling quickly, including multimillion-dollar estates.
- Fort Worth: Sales up 14%; listings jumped 25.7%; spec homes selling within days.
Buyer Behavior & Market Sentiment
- Buyers in the $2.5M+ range are less rate-sensitive but more value-conscious.
- Luxury prices, inflated during COVID, are now normalizing.
- Life events (job changes, family growth, etc.) are pushing some sellers back into the market.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/luxury-housing-market-slowing-d3338a4b
Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza
Participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla are being detained by the Israeli military and taken into custody.
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Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats
Meta plans to use data from your interactions with AI products to sell targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.
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Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses
Apple Inc. has hit pause on a planned overhaul to its Vision Pro headset to redirect resources toward a more urgent effort: developing smart glasses that can rival products from Meta Platforms Inc.
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ICE, Border Patrol Continue Work Under Shutdown
91 percent of homeland security department still on the job
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[Patch Notes] 0.3.1 Hotfix
0.3.1 Hotfix
- Fixed not being able to exit the Caldera Map arena after defeating the boss.
- Fixed Rituals not generating in Maps overrun by the Abyssal.
- Fixed 3 client crashes.
- Fixed an instance crash.
Early Access Patch Notes - 0.3.1 Hotfix - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
Russia Drafts Plan to Seize Assets If EU Acts on Funds
Russia Drafts Plan to Seize Assets If EU Acts on Funds
Russia may nationalize and swiftly sell off foreign-owned assets under a new privatization mechanism in retaliation for any European moves to seize Russian holdings abroad, according to a person close to the government.Bloomberg
More Americans are using PTO to catch-up on sleep
The Edge: More Americans are using PTO to catch-up on sleep - WCCB Charlotte
According to a new Amerisleep survey of more than 1,200 Americans, researchers found that 43% of millennials used PTO days in the past year just to sleep.Miles Ruder (WCCB Charlotte)
Youtube seems to be blocking access to a seriously large amount of publicly listed videos
I dont know what to think, really.
The Dekaif channel has 434 videos, but YouTube is only showing 275 to clients, whether logged in or not, whether yt-dlp or official access.
This isn't the first channel I've witnessed this, and weirder stuff, on. Another example is - it is accessible on Grayjay, yet not on YouTube, meaning (I think) that publicly shared videos are being deindexed, and yet they are still hosted.
You used to be able to take the video code from the URL (everything after '?v=' and before '&') and get the exact video in search results. Not now. The second YouTuber, Sparky, has 35 uploads, only 9 of which are visible. And I can attest that at least one of the remaining 26 is hosted, but invisible. I don't even know how it came up using Grayjay but not YouTube or Revanced.
Basically, there's a TON of shady underhanded shit happening at YTHQ and everyone needs to jump ship to Odysee, Peertube or some platform that won't be clogged with AI. This is bad for everyone.
I'm posting it here mainly because I verified my findings with yt-dlp, and this new bs is successfully thwarting my attempts to archive.
3rd Oct edit: I am seeing massive differences in indexed videos versus archived videos. I am currently aggregating but the definitely affected videos range from 10% to 50%
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What are my OS options if I wanted to disconnect my TV from the internet, use it's remote via CEC with a Raspberry Pi, and watch Plex, Jellyfin and YouTube (with sponsorblock)?
I tried Kodi with Libelec but it's still so jank. The Plex app is broken, there is no invidious or YouTube app I found that works. And sometimes it just "thinks" forever and I need to get up and unplug it.
I saw that Plasma Bigscreen was revived and it looks promising, but they don't have a release yet.
Are there any other options?
Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on Air
KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
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???
No?
I said you can run way waydroid on a Wayland Desktop to natively run streaming apps on your RPI5. (Plex, Youtube, netflix or whatever service you're on)
This has nothing to do with your TV remotes nor hdmi-cec.
(reads description again) oh...
No, IR input support is now integrated into the linux kernel [BPF] & can be manually done with LIRC,
Well I don't have a RPI to test this nor use my TV remote to control media, just for volume;
Can't say for sure if Rasbarian supports most remotes ether, but LineageOS TV Does (Scroll),
Sorry, I can't help with that, however, a budget, 2.4GHz, wireless mouse was enough for me, maybe KDE Connect or Unified Remote (non-free) can help if you wanna use your phone instead.
CEC support is up to the (media) software &or OS you're using, waydroid is a container-like "runtime" to boot android on linux without virtualization, it's not a an OS that supports IR input or shutting your TV with your TV Remote, I don't think most desktop enviroment does support it nor must, KDE Bigscreen might but it's a DE tailored for such use...
So, if launching plex with your TV remote is a priority, then here's Android(TV) & a Custom Recovery (Gapps & Root Flashing) for RPI5 so you can treat it as an android box.
(unoffical tho, seems like LineageOS team into the BananaPi instead)
I turned my non-smart TV into an Android TV with Raspberry Pi — here’s how you can too
If you want to modernize your older TV, you can use a Raspberry Pi to turn it into an Android TV. Here's what you need to do.Jeff Butts (XDA)
Ah ok I got it thanks, yes the goal is to replace the apps on my TV as seamlessly as possible.
KDE bigscreen says it supports CEC but there is no official release yet. I still might give it a shot. I actually tried the Android TV you linked to (which also says it supports CEC) but it doesn't work. I know the hardware supports it because Libelec was seamless.
How to view NSFW content when sorting by Top
Came to PieFed.social from Lemm.ee about a month ago. Currently only using PieFed on my desktop because my brief Android client search gave me a non-working app.
I normally sort by Top 12 Hours and on my phone (Lemmy Connect logged into sh.itjust.works) I can see NSFW post once I get down to posts with less than 100 upvotes. Using PieFed.social on my desktop I don't see them. I checked settings but nothing popped out to me.
What am I missing?
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GitHub - Blorp-Labs/blorp: Blorp – a Threadiverse client for Lemmy and PieFed. Web, iOS & macOS, and more!
Blorp – a Threadiverse client for Lemmy and PieFed. Web, iOS & macOS, and more! - Blorp-Labs/blorpGitHub
🚨 U.S. government shutdown begins
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36757365
Reports coming in that the U.S. federal government has officially entered shutdown.
Which services get hit first? How long does this drag out? Who blinks?(Live updates welcome)
“Transgender: A Transitioned Woman and a MAGA Mama”
Mi è capitato, a caso, di trovare qualcosa di strano su YouTube stasera, del tipo… Jubilee, eccetto che non è una roba ragebait fatta per fare soldi a discapito della morale aumentando la polarizzazione politica per mezzo di “dibattiti” in malafede con conseguente peggioramento del mondo, ma tipo l’esatto opposto…! Non direi che è perfettissimo, […]
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“Transgender: A Transitioned Woman and a MAGA Mama”
Mi è capitato, a caso, di trovare qualcosa di strano su YouTube stasera, del tipo… Jubilee, eccetto che non è una roba ragebait fatta per fare soldi a discapito della morale aumentando la polarizzazione politica per mezzo di “dibattiti” in malafede con conseguente peggioramento del mondo, ma tipo l’esatto opposto…! Non direi che è perfettissimo, ma certamente un’occhiata se la merita, in un contesto in cui l’unica alternativa sono la distruzione (“liberal destroyed!“), l’umiliazione (“conservative humiliated!“), e gira che ti rigira non c’è mai conversione di più gente verso il bene assoluto… 💔youtube.com/watch?v=mQlarHFPoa…
(In questo caso sulla questione transgender, ma non è questo il punto che voglio fare.) A primo impatto pareva un altro di quei video che puzzano, ma, guardando meglio, vedendo che ruota attorno al fatto di “un modo diverso di fare politica“, effettivamente devo dire che non viene dal gabinetto, affatto. L’idea pare sia che, per argomenti che oggettivamente non sono politicamente dibattibili in buona coscienza — perché è buono dibattere sul sistema economico migliore, o sul sistema elettorale, o sull’urbanistica, o su tremila altre cose, ma mai e poi mai sulla natura delle persone o sui diritti o cose di quel tipo — appunto non si fa un dibattito, ma una conversazione basata su ascolto, immedesimazione, ed empatia (questa che negli Stati Uniti viene trattata come una parolaccia… e nel resto dell’occidente non a tal punto, ma comunque con disprezzo, siamo rovinati). 😿
Ora… un po’ di fetore comunque l’ho percepito, ma spero sia perché questi qui ancora devono prendere la mano (questo è il loro primo video, ne hanno anche altri più nuovi ma non li ho visti). Per dire, la signora nera, per i primi 20 minuti buoni, come si evince gravemente dal linguaggio del corpo, ha tenuto questo brutto atteggiamento di superiorità e distacco, che ovviamente è l’opposto dell’accettazione che si voleva raggiungere (e che si è raggiunta, menomale, per una buona volta) alla fine… e non penso che le si possa dare la colpa di questo perché, come si vede, è una persona normale, che è arrivata lì con purtroppo il cervello lavato da idee di odio da parte dei politici, però credo il moderatore avrebbe dovuto tentare di spegnerla un po’. (E poi, quando si è resa più alla pari dell’altra tizia, ha menzionato delle cose che paiono proprio false; di nuovo, non colpa sua, perché appare in buona fede, e dunque la vera colpa è di chi gli ha fatto credere le stronzate… però il fact-checking live ci potrebbe stare.) 🥱
Insomma… chi mai lo avrebbe detto che, forse, se si spera di rendere il mondo un posto migliore, e distruggere, eliminare, annichilire (in questo caso si, è lecito sperarlo proprio in questi termini) tutto ciò che rappresenta l’odio e la divisione umana, non bisogna rispondere al male con il male, ma con il bene… e quindi, con oggi abbiamo magicamente risolto la merda nel mondo??? 😳
…Purtroppo, a fine post, è il momento delle cose tristi: tutto ciò temo sia proprio utopia. Se è servita 1 (una) ora di conversazione per unire così due persone altrimenti radicalmente incomprese, temo sia impossibile risanare l’umanità intera; ed è un problema, perché questa sarebbe condizione necessaria se si spera di eradicare davvero il male… perché esso è come un virus latente che tutti portiamo dentro, e che in ogni momento può attecchire in noi o contagiare altri, e dunque se non lo si elimina in un solo colpo non lo si eliminerà mai. E purtroppo lo sappiamo bene: 2000 anni fa ci avrebbe provato Gesù Cristo, a salvare l’umanità, e lo hanno crocifisso… poi si può forse dire che ci ha provato Gandhi a suo modo, e lo hanno perseguitato… E ora io quindi sono estremamente triste, quindi buonanotte così. (Malanotte, cioè; spero davvero che nel sonno io mi trasformi in un gatto, così da non dover avere mai più a che fare con questa umanità intrinsecamente corrotta, di cui vorrei non essere parte anche io, perché mi rendo conto di avere anche io i miei difetti e non riuscire ad essere perfetta come vorrei tutti lo fossimo… 😭)
#empatia #TheEnemiesProject #transgender
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in reply to This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥 • • •It generates 42.8% bullshit.
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in reply to InEnduringGrowStrong • • •If Excel got calculations right 57.2% of the time it would be completely worthless.
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in reply to MountingSuspicion • • •As I’ve said many times, though not in this topic - AI is a tool to be used, and using it is a skill that needs to be learned.
For your pandemic example, that’s something that you would need to provide the AI with the context of. The joke of a “prompt engineer” being a job soon actually has merit, in that you want people who know how to use their tools the best. It’s constantly learning through iteration to give the AI a specific instruction set to get the results you want/need.
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in reply to InEnduringGrowStrong • • •It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector
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in reply to This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥 • • •Olap
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •LLMs can't count. Can't add. Can't deal with actually large datasets
How is excel a good fit for vibe-coding?
FreedomAdvocate
in reply to Olap • • •This isn’t just an LLM. It uses excel functions and features to do the counting and adding and dealing with large data sets.
It’s not “vibe coding” as much as “vibe performing steps in excel”.
Also LLMs absolutely can deal with large data sets anyway. Not sure where you got that from.
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in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •LLMs lose context over a short session. They all have input limits. Very small input limits usually. Best it can probably do is suggest formulas for you based on your natural language, maybe some copy/paste. Which means it can beat a 9 year old, great news everyone! Or show a help article on pivot tables (which the help function already does!)
Excel is very simple to work with, hence its ubiquity. LLMs also get shit wrong about half the time, way more than half with difficult things ime. Meaning they cost experienced operators time, a few studies are showing this now with coding. And are expensive as fuck. And slow as fuck. And reduce capacity for learning. Meaning they actually cap what excel can achieve, as the user won't grow at the same rate, renoving the one advantage excel actually has: the learning rate is phenomenal
The C-Suite which insisted on this integration is basically an subservient idiot themselves at this stage who doesn't understand their product, their market fit, or their userbase. They should replace thenselves with an LLM
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in reply to Olap • • •I think you didn’t even read the article or read up about this integration.
This isn’t just an LLM, it’s Agentic AI.
AI is a tool that needs to be learned how to be used properly. Anyone can pick it up and get results that are “good enough“, but in the right hands what can be done is incredible - just like with any tool.
Look at something like minecraft as a perfect example of what can be done with a tool in the right hands.
Most people don’t understand “AI” as it is, and mistakenly think it’s just a school assignment cheating tool and a chat bot that makes things up.
People in here have been saying since LLMs can’t do maths perfectly it’s terrible for numbers, but they can’t see that it doesn’t need to do maths here because it’s in excel and excel has formulas and functions that can.
It’s crazy how the mere mention of AI makes some people lose any and all semblance of critical thinking and intelligence.
Ok so your idea of excel is just what your average person might do at home with it - that’s not what or who this stuff is for.
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in reply to Olap • • •And people will fuck up those same formulas 30% of the time (vs 45% of agent mode).
AI isn’t being forced into being the only way to do spreadsheets.
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in reply to bigfondue • • •You tell it not to.
I swear none of you guys have even attempted to use AI to do data analysis. I have, I built a MCP and integrated a copilot agent into Teams which has access to specific database data, and refined the rules for it to the point where the CFO rigorously tested it (and still does) and trusts the results it returns.
jacksilver
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •It could be good to layer in standard machine learning (ML), and it already does have some features (like line of best fit).
However, in today's context AI means LLMs, and that is not a good fit due to its unpredictability.
calliope
Unknown parent • • •The best you can do in any job is to care as little about them as they care about you.
They will barely read it, and they won’t care nearly as much as you do.
kramer
in reply to This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥 • • •