scarabic

@scarabic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh you’re right. You didn’t miss another one, I lost another brain cell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know of any plasma torches that can come along in a backpack but you can get a lot of good work done fast with a battery powered angle grinder. Occasionally I take mine out in my neighborhood when some asshole has padlocked their sandwich-board ad to a lamppost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of thing goes way back. I mean you’ll get a lot of content deleted on most web forums, but the one universally verboten thing, above all, priority zero, until the end of time, is: no. fucking. recruitment. to. competing. forums!

  If you ask a lot of web forum owners how their site got started, more than half of them will tell you “well there was this other forum but their server went down for 3 days and people needed a place to go.”

  Communities are portable. Reddit knows this. Every site manager knows this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It would have happened after Experian if it was ever possible for it to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wanted to point out one oddly written passage:

  Numerous media outlets sounded the alarm. The online privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) condemned Ring’s program …

  Many private citizens who previously used Ring also reacted negatively. “Viral videos online show people removing or destroying their cameras over privacy concerns,” reported

  I was hoping to see that this story had gone national and wasn’t just a buzz in privacy centric circles, so my ears pricked up when they say “numerous media outlets” were reporting the story. But then the example they give a quote from was EFF, which I would not call a “media outlet.”

  Below they go on to say that “private citizens” also cried out, and then they use a quote from a USA Today article. USA Today is a media outlet.

  Next they say that even scum sucker fish are against all this, using a quote from JD Vance to back it up, and that part was all right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think there’s no work between symptoms and diagnosis, you’re dumber than you think LLMs are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually interesting. They found the LLMs gave the correct diagnosis Hugh-90-something percent of the time if they had access to the notes doctors wrote about their symptoms. But when thrust into the room, cold, with patients, the LLMs couldn’t gather that symptom info themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… what do you actually suggest? We take a vote on Lemmy about who to execute?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey as long as I can get paid like a knowledge worker, I’d prefer to work with hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being in the AppStore gives you access to a lot of people. I don’t feel it’s at all relevant whether you happen to also have other exposure elsewhere. Apple charges you for the exposure you get from them, period. If you don’t want to pay for it, because you’re so successful on other channels, just don’t. Don’t have an iOS app. But for years we’ve had people who want an iOS app but also want to complain about sharing what they make from it. They still make too much to be willing to pull their app, but they complain anyway: because who doesn’t want higher margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh is there some case where Apple is creati by the content inside the app??? Do tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can safely assume that alternative app stores would have less effect on iOS than they have on Android, where Google desperately wants others to step in and develop their ecosystem. And they aren’t very significant on Android at all. I tried distributing my app on Samsung Galaxy in addition to GPlay and despite its preferential positioning with the world’s largest phone maker, I got peanuts for installs. Not even a rounding error. I literally took the app down. Oh and then Xiaomi got banned from the SDK and they stole my APK for their third party app store and began sending me bug reports about how it was “broken” there. Ah yes the power and glory of alternative app stores… Apple are wise not to dump this cesspit into their ecosystem, which people love because all they want is one decent, unified default that works well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s logical but it probably scares away some customers. That’s why the “just eat it” option exists. iOS gives you access to an enormous market payments are slick and easy. Creators may want $5 but if they can get 30% less from 500% more people, it’s still a good business for them. There’s no strict reason why they must obsess over taking 100% of the sticker price. There are a million examples of businesses who are willing to accept a discount for high volume business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It reminds me of gas stations that only accept ATM cards and not credit cards, because they don’t want to lose the 3% that credit card companies take per transaction. They’re trying not to lose that 3%, but it will inconvenience some customers and lose them some business. That could easily be worse than 3%.

  So yes Patreon could say “go find a laptop and enter your credit card number in our web page” but there are people who won’t do all that because they expect to be able to pay with one tap. And businesses are on the AppStore because that great payment experience makes it super easy for them to convert customers.

  It’s just not as straightforward as saying “fuck you Apple, I’ll take my business elsewhere.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is THE way that Apple gets any revenue from the enormous and highly successful app platform and ecosystem they created. They say “go nuts, make money on our platform, but share some with us in exchange for our maintaining that platform.” This is reasonable. Apple is providing a service to Patreon, and access to their use base. That ain’t nothing.

  I agree that subjecting creator donations to the 30% is about the shittiest use case for this and I wish they would make an exception. But your post about how Apple is doing absolutely nothing here is garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really think this move blows and I wish they would reverse this decision and make an exception.

  However Tim Cook didn’t wake up one day and wonder how he could fuck creators. Apple takes a 30% cut of all app transactions. This is how they benefit from the enormous and highly successful app platform and ecosystem they created. It’s not pure evil to say “hey use this platform all you want but you must share some of what you make there with us.”

  It does suck that they won’t let creators off the hook though. This is like taxing rips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (spit)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s definitely a breed of douche bag out there whose entire justification is “well I can’t quite afford the Rivian…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the decline was expected, that had already affected the stock price. If you look ONLY at what happens on the day it’s finally official, in writing, then yes it’s counterintuitive. But it’s very easy to not look at just that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way of saying it is that shares had already gone down because this was expected. When it wasn’t quite as bad as expected, they got a little bump back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is OpenAI dead yet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for noting this. People get all gleeful without knowing how connected everything is. The other thing I like to remind them is that fatcat bankers aren’t the only ones invested in the stock market. Regular people with 401ks or college savings set aside for their kid are exposed as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so out of the loop after deleting my Twitter account a while ago. Is it now just a porn generator instead of a website?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing could slow down if its loses velocity. Film at 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One factor here is that they are all under pressure from their boards and investors not to miss the AI wave and get left behind. All companies are doing some level of AI theater. Some actually believe it. But it’s not like hundreds of CEOs all came to this judgment purely on their own, with no outside influences. It’s a mass craze.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We used to have a print news sheet for job listings in the non profit sector, which is very large in my home city. It would have one or two articles as well but was mostly job classifieds. Wish I could give you a specific recommendation, but I guess I’m saying just find another job?

  It sounds like you want to be in that job sector, but you experienced a disastrous turnover in management at one organization. To be candid it’s a mild story compared to many I have heard. Tyrannical EDs or crazy founders with too much authority, big funding swings, politics up the wazoo… the non profit sector seems to be particularly drama-laden. I’m not sure why. But take the hit and move on. It doesn’t sound like it was about you personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are absolutely right about that. Passively detecting your location? Fuck that. We are getting into an era where bots are overwhelming and user verification is a valid topic to discuss. I think additional device permissions can be one element in that discussion. But this idea he popped off the dome is a miserable example of such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair point. Reddit has been openly hostile to its own users these past several years. It might help moderate that to have another alternative on the table, even if it too is a soulless corporate enterprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t show them better content, they can’t know the difference. Watch YT with them, but put on good stuff made by humans. There’s plenty of that. Also consider accounts - once they have their own account they will tumble down the shit hole that is the algorithm. If you let them use your account, they will have a better established base, and you will easily see what they are watching. If this doesn’t work for you, created a moderated, shared account that you use and populate with good algorithm juju.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in college there was a big hike in fees as the university system started having financial problems. Naturally, students protested this. There was a general air of unrest on the campus. One day I was in Poetry class and outside the windows we could hear a lot of commotion and see a protest gathering. One of the students raised his hand and asked the professor if we could have permission to go out and join. He said “I don’t recall asking authorities for permission to protest when I was a college kid in the 1960s. You can go, or not, it’s up to you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since even the world’s worst dictators still hold sham elections, I conclude that there will be an election, and they will focus on how to cheat to win. If they even need to that is. This is way easier to do and conceal than canceling the election.