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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Who the fuck are you even talking about? Have you ever known a religious person?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Hahahaha old people being robbed
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
In churches people regularly give and spend money.

So get the AI pastor to say “We’re collecting for supplies for casseroles for Food Kitchen X, can you send money to WeirdCashAppY?”

“Hey church treasurer, sorry to call you so late but I’m in a meeting with the regional staff about the thing. Can you wire an Unusually Large Sum of money to Strange Name, we’re late on that account.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t disrespect Taco Bell by comparing them to this shit company.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Basically all of the AI companies get away with violating basically all IP laws and norms, and manipulating the PC hardware market to the detriment of consumers. I believe that’s what he meant by “getting away with murder”. As a point of comparison to this relatively minor kerfuffle.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I wouldn’t mind a web browser being part of a broader because system of trusted software, but shoving an AI chatbot into my web browser does not make me trust it more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What have they decided based on market data?

I think in this particular case at least Mozilla decided to introduce something that their users didn’t want without asking, and our backpedaling and are being mocked for having done the thing in the first place.

Frankly I don’t know what’s going on in their collective brains. What Firefox needs more than anything else is refinement. There are no features that it’s missing as far as I can think of.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Absolutely insanity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s kind of crazy that the company whose name is synonymous with the product category is going into bankruptcy. It would be like if Skype, which is synonymous with video calls, was out competed by every other video call platform.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: ‘We See The Direction The Industry Is Headed’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Holy shit that’s fantastic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Because when you talk about protection or safety for children or animals or [insert vulnerable group here] you can short-circuit a lot of people’s reason/skepticism.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
AI creating jobs by requiring more human intervention for validation of previously reliable forms of information?

Okay cool, I’m here for it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think this kinda points to why AI is pretty decent for short videos, photos, and texts. It produces outputs that one applies meaning to, and humans are meaning making animals. A computer can’t overlook or rationalize a coding error the same way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, if I felt I could control the little computer in a smart fridge without expending excessive effort to do so, I might be interested in getting one myself. Absent other concerns, a tablet integrated into my fridge could be handy to monitor the appliance, make quick or even automated grocery list updates, etc. Not earth shattering, but still marginally useful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Proton Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wait, you can access it via IMAP?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My concern is that they’ll include the equipment for spying on you, and just enable it later.

I bought a Hue because it said “no online account required!” Later they changed their mind.

I want the promise plus open standards and a base of libre software. I want them to tie themselves to the mast.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Surveillance, yes. By forcing you to maintain control of a physical token they can more easily associate you with the account.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sony so mad at Cox for not cutting off someone’s Internet for downloading they’ll take it to the SCOTUS, but they won’t even use the frankly abusive laws they already have access to to just sue the end user? What is even going on?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You probably right. He was the lib-left’s Best Boy a few years back, was gonna solve climate change and do cool science shit and whatever, but then I forget what exactly happened but he kinda swung the other direction.

Motivation probably doesn’t matter too much. It just highlights the systemic problem of allowing one person to have that much money-power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Being backed by real things isn’t always great for a currency. A lot of the value in the economy is from the transformative effects of labor, not just rare metals.

207 billion is insane, but if this money was being moved around by the mass of people or their legitimate representatives rather than shareholders and VC investors gambling on the next big thing, that would stand a chance of laying to rest this kind of reckless waste.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Bitcoin particularly is a pyramid scheme, but peer-to-peer payments via block chains are useful anyway.

I got theories on what would make a better token than BTC, but key to any utility would be little or no deflationary pressure.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m guessing by fiat you mean government issued currency that is not backed by precious metals but by faith and credit of the issuing government.

They call it fiat because a government just declares how much of it there is.

Blockchain tokens are also fiat in this sense, it’s just that the protocol makes the declaration instead of a government.

The other notable difference is that I can buy things with USD or other government currencies. I can’t with blockchain tokens. I mean technically I can but they have to be converted first and the popular ones are mostly depictionary so you’re deeply disincentivized from using them as currency.

The value of USD comes from people taking it in exchange for goods and services, and the US government taking it as payment for taxes. The value of a Bitcoin comes from people giving you USD for it under the assumption that they can sell it for more USD later. Like a stock, but without the incidental fractional ownership of a corporation with actual capital.

It’s a cool concept though, and peer-to-peer digital payment is a good thing, but it cannot function as a store of value without a connection to the material world.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not the logs or the data which they would be monitoring with an encrypted no-logs VPN. What they would be monitoring, presumably, would be the fact that you are using a VPN at all. That’s also what they would be trying to block. They might try to block it by interfering with access to certain ports or blocking certain IP addresses, but there would be limits. Even China can’t stop all VPN traffic to get around its firewalls.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Ngl I kinda think it could be neat.

There’s a food app called Too Good To Go that lets you pick up mystery bags of leftover food from restaurants for cheap, and if you’re not too picky it’s actually kinda fun paying $5 for a random meal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
When do you reckon they could last do that?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Rich asshole says he’ll invent something good but very expensive and so only available to the elite. People ITT: “Good things are bad!”

Yeah so, good for Altman, best idea he’s had probably. Spend the money before the bubble pops my dude.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Oh come on.

This guy couldn’t even get a train to run on time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Why proprietary cloud-based IoT isn’t sustainable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
My grandpappy started this here AI company with a handful of GPUs he whittled himself, and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let big gobmint regulations cost us the family business!