deathbird
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- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 6 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Oh cool I got something in common with most people.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 1 week ago:
Whoohoo Viva Ponzi baby!
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 1 week 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 2 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 2 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. 2 weeks ago:
Regardless of the content of your comment, I respect bringing back eth and thorn.
- Comment on How I hacked my washing machine 2 weeks ago:
Cool. Would love to dee this done for all the “Smart” appliances.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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? 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s good that Reddit is trying to continue to allow adult content within the legal framework in which it must operate.
I guess what I’m not clear on it is what the legal framework is for verification services. Absent rules that require robust privacy protections market forces will push a race to the bottom in terms of cost and data security will be the first to take a hit.
I know this might seem weird but I think this is one of those cases where a blockchain based smart contract might be the best solution. I’m not exactly sure, as any system that allows one to consume content generally also allows one to copy it, but having a system defined in code in a publicly auditable manner that cannot be changed without notice seems to me to have the capacity to grant the most reassurance.
I mean I assume that all the verification company is doing now is verifying a person’s age and then giving a kind of authorization token that’s cryptographically secure that basically says “the owner of this cryptographic key is of age”.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 3 weeks ago:
Keeping the age verifier seperate from the content host is good. Destroying the files used for verification is good. On paper it’s not too a bad system for age verification, but it really hinges on if you can trust them. Given the track record of basically almost every company and government ever…
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 4 weeks ago:
I for one am celebrating the Trump administration’s commitment to ending US military hegemony.
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 4 weeks ago:
Oh no, not quality and craftsmanship!
- Comment on What would you do in this scenario? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not the power coming in like this as such but how close it is to the downspout. And I mean, if the power has to be there, the downspout really should be moved.
- Comment on What would you do in this scenario? 4 weeks ago:
Am I the only person wondering why the downspout is right by the electrical wires in the first place? I don’t know all the things there are to know about code, but that seems bad, if for no other reason than it can result in things like this.
- Comment on Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS 5 weeks ago:
It takes 7 seconds for the terminal to load on my brand new laptop. I’m sure there’s some way to fix it, but that…just enrages me.
- Comment on Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS 5 weeks ago:
And it’s dog shit too.
- Comment on Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment 5 weeks ago:
The US military is not for national defense, it’s a pay pig for a handful of corporations.
- Comment on Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment 5 weeks ago:
When civilians want something, it’s always “those poor corporations!”
At least with the bill focused on military you can put forward the importance of “combat readiness”, “supporting the troops”, “taxpayer dollars”, and other things that politicians often say they care about.