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- Comment on China reveals 200-strong AI drone swarm that can be controlled by a single soldier — ‘intelligent algorithm’ allows individual units to cooperate autonomously even after losing communication with oper 20 hours ago:
I’m noticing the term “intelligent algorithm”, which suggests a more traditional programming approach than offloading decision making to a LLM.
- Comment on Science Is Drowning in AI Slop 20 hours ago:
We were already producing text, audio, and video at sufficient rates. So-called AI only makes it easier to produce deceptively realistic media. Video that looks and sounds like real life, but isn’t. Or as in the article, citations for academic papers that look real, but aren’t.
If fabrics made by machines were of consistently lower quality, if every machine-made shirt busted at the seams, we wouldn’t use machines to make fabric. (Fabric isn’t even a great example. There’s lots of human labor in garment factories.)
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 4 days ago:
The shit some people will go to to avoid an open platform.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
Factorio, god help me. I haven’t really figured out much yet. Efficient layouts, supressing biters, using uranium. I feel like I’m still manually shuffling too many products. But maybe I’m getting better bit by bit.
- Comment on I HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM SO MANY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR NOT BEING OKAY WITH FASCISM AND VIOLENCE! 1 week ago:
ND is just FB all over again, but by neighborhood rather than friend group. Fake names, rants, and e-begging. You could get a better experience with any other website.
- Comment on In just 15 years, the average U.S. homebuyer went from 39 to 59 years old: Top analyst reveals how the housing market has warped in one generation 1 week ago:
“Corporations are people, my friend!”
So how old is a corporation? How does it make babies? How does it plan grocery shopping, or get the kids to school?
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 weeks ago:
A company so small it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. No discernible products.
Any poly market bets on how long this company actually lasts?
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 2 weeks ago:
Okay, what’s this law he’s talking about? Some proposal to ban Xitter from app stores?
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 2 weeks ago:
This tweet is fine. Italy is wrong on this matter.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
So it’s not about what they’re actually doing but what they said about the US administration?
I got to tell you man, the next 3 years you are going to hear a lot of unjustified praise for Trump, because nobody wants to be on the bad side of that madman and the US courts have basically decided that the POTUS is King of America for 4 years at a time. The US just kidnapped the head of state of a foreign nation because he danced. The US will probably invade Greenland soon unless someone calls Trump a very special and beautiful boy who doesn’t need a big slab of ice in the Arctic. Cuba and Chile are in big trouble too unless Little Marco gets tired of gargling the old man’s jizz.
All that said, Italy is wrong, Cloudflare is correct in this case, and the reason to avoid Cloudflare is not because they’re dick riding the Big Orange, but because you should have been avoiding Cloudflare anyway because they over- centralize internet infrastructure.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
It looks like Italy has been making onerous censorship demands, and Cloudflare has been fined for refusing to comply. That seems like a W for Cloudflare to me.
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 2 weeks ago:
So first, the article is about churches generally, not just the worst people you know. Lots of old Presbyterians and AME folks at the anti-Trump rallies.
Second, idk, let go of the hate. I get it, I really do, I spout off myself a lot, but it’s poison. See how it warps and twists others, but don’t think it does any less to you because yours is righteous.
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 2 weeks ago:
Man I don’t care what Jesus said, I don’t believe in that stuff, but I’ve known enough religious people to know that they’re not all pieces of shit and they don’t deserve to be stolen from or treated as less than human.
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Hahahaha old people being robbed
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely insanity.
- Comment on Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy 5 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’ 1 month ago:
Holy shit that’s fantastic.
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
And just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical.
