deathbird

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  NGL, Vivaldi is the best version of Chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sidenote: when did Masnick become such a choad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Order kiosks = good Voice to text ordering system = obviously not ready for prime time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I like the idea that you’re “offering a service” in a country simply by being a data service that can accessed from it.

  Someone from Australia can call me and we can chat. It doesn’t mean I or my phone carrier are offering a service in Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, now do Duke Energy. And Exelon. And Entergy. Etc. (Not that I trust this admin ofc, but if you want collective ownership…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  🤫

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sit down Jimmy. Wikipedia has enough problems already, it doesn’t need more to be added by AI.

• ⁨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:

  Kindly disagree. People actually read cover letters, and a cryptographically secured entry on a pubic ledger has some conceivable use.

• ⁨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:

  One guy is like “Friday is forced AI ‘training’ day” (as if one must ‘train’ to write prompts. Using natural language rather than a unique language or syntax and trusting the computer to make a comprehensible and accurate output is the whole point), and then he has the gall to claim “turns out people hate learning!”

• ⁨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:

  “Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels.”

  So the people that understood it best were sceptical, and this didn’t give him pause.

  Can someone explain to me why all these empty suits dick ride LLMs so hard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but where is it, to disconnect?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Real question is what cable or fuse can I pull to disable this?

  Bitch all you want about RAM drivers, but this is coming to all cars. Start resisting now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Some groups like bullshit less than others” says survey. “This is why bullshit is bad.” says author. “Here’s my post-hoc reasoning for why I got these results.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s… actually an interesting way to slow down flippers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Age of majority vegan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Theres no fucking gun to your head.” Bosses: 🦜🤖 🟰💹, 👨‍💼🔫🤓

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. Could literally be vigilante militias. It at least merits an “alleged” or “purported” before “agent.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate Grok for being the platonic ideal AI system. Not like these others that get little guardrails and tweaks added every time a news article hits about some inevitable fucked up output it can produce. Just pure unrefined donkey shit. 🤌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh cool I got something in common with most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoohoo Viva Ponzi baby!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is really badly written, and that particularly annoys me because the subject matter is actually important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk I wonder how abrupt this actually was. Russia sanctions have been happening for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Juggalos Not Happy as Insane Clown Posse Releases AI-Generated Video⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, what is the opposite of “Whoop whoop?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of the content of your comment, I respect bringing back eth and thorn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I hacked my washing machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool. Would love to dee this done for all the “Smart” appliances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The major credit cards are essentially infrastructure, and really should not have the right to refuse to serve a lawful business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any info or links about that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One benefit to payment processing for crypto is that there’s little in the way of material limitations on processing payments. The blockchain for a given coin already exists, your job as a processor is primarily to convert those on-chain transactions into and out of other currencies. Only requiring intervention at the point of entering or exiting dollars to and from the system changes a lot of the dynamics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I truly don’t understand how Visa/MasterCard/etc can be pressured. They are basically infrastructure.

  What’s someone going to do, stop using credit cards if they don’t stop a store that person even patronize from selling morally hazardous goods?

  I don’t get how these campaigns are even effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not recommend relying on Tailscale. They have been soliciting a lot of venture capital lately and are probably going to go for an IPO sooner or later. I would not put a lot of trust in that company. The investors are going to want their money.