deathbird
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- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 8 hours ago:
Yeah I download the files right away. It creates something of an Odysseus Pact I think. The second they stop offering me the downloads DRM free, I download the files DRM free elsewhere.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 1 day ago:
Find a musician you like. Buy their music on Bandcamp. Download as FLAC.
- Comment on Wall Street Journal Gets DRAGGED Online For 'Rotisserie Chicken' Social Media Post 4 days ago:
WSJ article about [current generation] eating [food] in 2040: “Gen Alpha can’t afford studio apartments with less than 2 roommates, splurging on canned beans.” In my day we bought dried beans and boiled them with the scrap potato skins we saved, but this generation…
Written by a man that has never cooked his own food.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 5 days ago:
It sounds cheesy but you’re not wrong.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 1 week ago:
Idk, I deny push notifications for most apps anyway.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 1 week ago:
Idk, it depends on what they’re trying to do.
Austerity, ignorance, and scarcity breed fascists, not a SaaS TOS.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
It seems like the restriction should be lifted for accounts without verification after 5 years. After all, you’re not even allowed to sign up if you’re under 13, so by 5 years you have to be at least 18.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 1 week ago:
They take a cut of all paid subs.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 1 week ago:
Nazis can use Ghost too.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 1 week ago:
Senua’s Sacrifice
- 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
The shit some people will go to to avoid an open platform.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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' 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month ago:
Hahahaha old people being robbed
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 1 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
