dylanmorgan
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- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 5 hours ago:
Lamenting the fall of the Soviet Union isn’t the same as thinking Stalin was good. There were several people after Stalin who didn’t randomly disappear people. At least, not as much.
That said, post WWII through the fall of the USSR I’d bet the average Soviet citizen had a better standard of living than the average Russian does today.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 5 hours ago:
All my life I’ve seen Stalin listed with people like Hitler and Pol Pot as murderous despots. How the hell are we “not talking enough about how bad he was?”
- Comment on 5 hours ago:
He’s afraid he’ll enjoy it too much.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
My thought was concert tickets. An artist could set an absolute maximum for how much a ticket could be resold for, and the energy costs of maintaining the blockchain would be time-limited to after a show or tour completed.
Of course, Ticketmaster would never allow that because it effectively nukes the scalper market, which they also run through stubhub.
- Comment on Ray is basic. 1 week ago:
Or at least lichens.
- Comment on In this house 1 week ago:
More effective than and ADT sign or one of those “we don’t call 911” signs.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
Hardware is Chromebook priced. OS,is (AFAIK) full macOS, AKA a posix compliant Unix machine with a pretty nice GUI. Nice enough that several Linux WMs try to duplicate it.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 1 week ago:
I guess google included the Buffy episode where a demon “AI” gets its followers to make it a body.
- Comment on havent had it since friday🫠 2 weeks ago:
Damn, being stranded on a weekend trip suuuucks. Stay safe, friend
- Comment on havent had it since friday🫠 2 weeks ago:
Not hating, but a genuine question: have the majority of your exes decided to become nuns? Because it sounds like you might inspire some…dryness.
- Comment on Petition to make one of the political party icons an Opossum after we are done with the social collapse of our society? 2 weeks ago:
Fuck that. Make a corvid-inspired political party that isn’t an ad for the world’s richest TERF.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease 2 weeks ago:
I’d much rather play Fallout: Seattle, or Fallout: Minneapolis, or Fallout: Beijing (or Moscow or Lagos or Paris or Paris, Texas, or…) than a prettier rendition of 3 or New Vegas.
- Comment on Petition to make one of the political party icons an Opossum after we are done with the social collapse of our society? 2 weeks ago:
I want to start the Crow party. Crows are smart, they work together, and they will fuck you up if you screw them over. Ideal icon.
- Comment on A modest proposal 2 weeks ago:
And they all seem to know so goddamn much, I’m sure they’d be really effective on the battlefield.
- Comment on Turns out Generative AI was a scam 2 weeks ago:
The government may not be able to bail these companies out. The scale is even bigger than the housing crisis of 2008, and trust in the current administration is basically zero. I think the most we can hope for is the LLM companies (think OpenAI and Anthropic), and the companies whose services are effectively wrappers for LLMs, and probably Oracle (with its negative cash flow and astronomical debt) all go away. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google probably survive, with some high profile bloodletting, senior executives being purged by their boards. Apple has been the least bullish on AI, so they’re probably more or less safe and the biggest change will be new OS versions that don’t refer to Apple Intelligence. Facebook is structured in such a way that Zucc can’t be removed by the board, so who knows how that plays out.
Palantir and their ilk will likely get whatever they need to survive unless the midterms bring in a shockingly progressive group that cares about people’s privacy and removes funding for mass surveillance.
- Comment on You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum. Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games 3 weeks ago:
Ooooh, I always wanted to use BeOS.
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 3 weeks ago:
Notably there have been almost zero data breaches of large banks, because their requirements for security are significantly higher than most other companies. My original comment was not about banks, they obviously need to retain a lot of customer data, and most of that is not exposed to the internet at all. I was talking about things like a pizza shop or an online retailer. There’s no need for Burger King or a webcomic artist I’m buying a print from to have a login or my email address for longer than it takes me to get my items.
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 3 weeks ago:
Tax records don’t have to include the customer if it’s retail. If that was a requirement cash businesses would have massive problems, and the rule of keeping those records for seven years significantly predates our current model of credit for everything.
Beyond that, if I go to a restaurant they don’t have my name and address or any other information. Businesses need to keep records like “we bought x from y for $z,” and “we sold x to a for $b.”
And even further, the government could clarify that (if in some countries customer data was part of tax data) that the law was now to protect customer privacy and data.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 3 weeks ago:
It’s time for tzatziki sauce on everything
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 3 weeks ago:
The EU GDPR doesn’t go nearly far enough.
If I order online, my data only needs to be retained until I get my item. A electronic receipt can be sent via email.
Social networks should have human moderation, and not insist on retaining real-world data about users.
These things could be accomplished through regulation, and if enough countries (or US states) put those regulations in place it will eventually be more cost-effective for companies to implement the changes globally.
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 3 weeks ago:
MRIs work because strong enough magnetic fields will interact with any material, not just ferrous metals. This can be impacted by the structure said materials form (stents are a weave like a finger trap and therefore more prone to interaction with magnetic fields than say a solid cylinder) but I’d be inclined to say your friend was lucky. Ball bearings like in the OP are nearly always steel outside of specific high end applications and therefore would behave like they were coming out of a shotgun shell.
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 3 weeks ago:
I was told that because I have stents (plastic coated with platinum) I can never get an MRI again by my cardiologist.
A friend who makes knives felt the little bits of metal that he’s picked up in his skin over years of grinding blades getting pulled out of him during an MRI.
Maybe aluminum foil in your pocket would only “interfere with the scan,” but those magnets are powerful enough to make any metal in your body come out, violently.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 3 weeks ago:
The thing they are tracking is primarily money. If people are playing games they already own and spending money on crypto chasing a big win, that speaks more to increased economic desperation than loss of interest in video games.
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 4 weeks ago:
Okay, I admit it. I don’t have friends.
- Comment on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 5 weeks ago:
I think of a tiny robot arm and sensor array that lets a human surgeon see and work on smaller parts of a patient than they could otherwise manage safely.
I guess that would be a cyborg surgeon.
- Comment on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 5 weeks ago:
The Pitt is covering this, and in an early episode from this season they had one of the doctors point out that the LLM transcription incorrectly labeled a medication.
Medicine has a very low tolerance for errors. If I ask ChatGPT what episode of Downton Abbey shows lord whatshisface vomiting blood and it tells me that episode was the Red Wedding, worst case scenario is I look dumb. If Claude tells a doctor “this patient doesn’t have any existing medications that are contraindicated for propofol,” and it’s wrong, that patient may die on the table.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 5 weeks ago:
I know it’s a shitpost, but…
As cool as they might look, imagine trying to keep those things clean. Just constant vacuuming.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 5 weeks ago:
It’s the name of the stadium ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on A lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously! 5 weeks ago:
I could not agree more. It’s pretty cheap to spin up a site, the content is what’s expensive (and the legal coverage.) A co-op would allow the reporters to distribute risk and revenue.
- Comment on Best gas masks 1 month ago:
I don’t know for certain but given the fact I’ve seen German riot cops with helmets and shields I’d bet the answer is “yes of course.”