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- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 13 hours ago:
I always thought that Joe Biden’s campaign slogan should have been “Make Politics Boring Again”
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 22 hours ago:
I would have voted for Pikachu
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 1 day ago:
But you don’t understand! Some of those Charizards were shiny!
- Comment on how do i stop wanting to use reddit all the time? 1 day ago:
My #1 tip for stopping media addiction is to turn off notifications. There is simply nothing going on that requires your immediate attention. It can wait until you have time to check. Try it!
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 days ago:
Honestly, I’m just surprised this is the first time someone has dared to put a phone SOC in a laptop chassis.
I’m probably missing something fundamental, but isn’t this just a Chromebook?
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 4 days ago:
May as well just pay the bots directly then…
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 4 days ago:
The article lists an insane revenue of $1.6B, yet the losses are only on the order of $42M. Against that much revenue, it looks to me like they are managing the company at a slight loss on purpose. They probably could close that gap if they wanted to, but have some favorable tax implications or something by running that slight loss.
(And who knows, maybe this is part of the attempt to close that gap a d show a profit before the founders cash out and it all gets sold to a Whittier company)
- Comment on After killing Ali Khamenei why doesn’t the US attack Mojtaba Khamenei? 4 days ago:
It’s possible either the US or Israel had some extremely timely intelligence on the location of the old leader, and the new one is just being more careful…
- Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 5 days ago:
I just use the same combination that I have on my luggage
- Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 5 days ago:
Because the techbros are pushing AI (really LLMs, but that is too many letters) for everything to justify their insane stock valuations
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 5 days ago:
Sorry, but discrimination is discrimination, even if the people doing the discriminating are doing it for reasons they think are just. If stuff like this gets normalized, it’s only a matter of time before it’s weaponized against others, and the trans community in particular.
There’s a direct line between things like anti-trans bathroom bills and this. Surely I can’t be the only one that sees it this way?
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 6 days ago:
The more I think about it, though, the more I think this is a genuine discrimination case. If Uber had rolled this out and said “White drivers can choose to pick up only white passengers”, would that be OK?
Heck, I even think if they rolled this out and said “female users can choose a preference for only female drivers”, that might be able to fly, because it’s the buyer of the service expressing that view.
But to me, for the people offering the service, there is no difference between this and someone who doesn’t want to make a cake for a gay wedding. Yes, I understand the safety thing. But a store that catered to women wouldn’t be able to bar men from entering.
You know what sucks the most about this? They’re probably gonna get sued over it, either by the Trump DOJ or some shitty Red State AG, who is probably gonna win.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 6 days ago:
Right, but is this the best way to address this, by telling women “All men are the same, they will harass you, they can’t help themselves. So here, click this button and you will never have to pick one up?”
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 6 days ago:
Well, yeah, this is the same type of shit that is used to denigrate Muslims, or trans people, or any other marginalized group. “Some of them are violent, so we won’t trust all of them!”. I don’t think we really want to go there, much less with half the human race.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 6 days ago:
Is there a technical definition of “large” that justifies this? If not, then this is all based on feelings.
I think it’s bad news to generalize entire large groups like this, no matter how good the intentions are.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 6 days ago:
I understand why women feel this is necessary, but I also understands that a policy like this paints all men with the same brush. It’s like they are saying “Since a small number of men are creeps, we give you the option to avoid all men”. Which seems to be counterproductive.
Meanwhile, Uber has invasive tracking, where they know everyone’s history. They know how many drives a customer has provisioned without incident. And I have always considered these rideshare things to be particularly safe, because all parties are consenting to the tracking.
If Uber had rolled this out and said “you have the option to avoid rides with the opposite gender without an established history in our files”, then I think I would have less of a problem with it. But it seems like I can do everything right, and be respectful of everyone, and give Uber shitloads of money, and still be potentially waiting longer for a ride, just because of my parts. How is that OK?
- Comment on Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns 1 week ago:
No worries, the SecDef knows he is “clean on OPSEC”…
- Comment on I’ve spent many hours walking down memory lane with the Commodore 64 Ultimate, and it’s wondrous if sometimes intimidating 1 week ago:
Back in the day, there was no drag-and-drop, and everything was done through a keyboard with arrow keys that needed the shift key to switch between directions.
I see someone never used GEOS back in the day…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Communism
- Comment on A stolen Gemini API key turned a $180 bill into $82,000 in two days 1 week ago:
The developers said they did not believe they made any “obvious” operational mistake. After discovering the compromised key, they attempted to secure their system by deleting exposed keys, disabling Google Gemini API access, and enabling two-factor authentication across their accounts.
I’m no “cloud developer”, but there seem to be a few obvious operational mistakes described just in that paragraph alone…
- Comment on How Russia is intercepting communications from European satellites 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if the real point of the article is not that the Russians are doing this, but that everyone else is saying “Hey, we know what you’re up to”. To give them second thoughts about escalating.
- Comment on How Russia is intercepting communications from European satellites 2 weeks ago:
I find it interesting how the article is just casually dismissing the fact that countries can now fly around and take pictures of other countries’ geosynchronous satellites. It says “Yeah, pics are OK, but Russia might be listening, too, and that’s bad.” Whicn is bullshit. I don’t think anyone is going through the trouble of sending up a remotely piloted space drone but saying “Let’s not listen to the data it is sending, that would be unsportsmanlike!” So all those craft they say are “just taking pictures”? Yeah, they’re listening too.
I think any country that broadcasts sig also into the air like that will have some really good encryption going on though, so listening to the signals is about as useful as listening to static
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m no radiologist, but yeah. That makes the most sense. And I bet the doctors would have presented it in a positive way for your mother at the time, to prevent her from feeling any sort of guilt in regards to not knowing she was pregnant, and how it might have affected your twin.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It could also be plausible that your twin was not viable, and did not develop in utero. So when she says they found your twin in the ultrasound, perhaps what they saw was whatever remained after the earlier absorption.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Makes much more sense if this all happened at 7 weeks vs. 7 months…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Oh, well it definitely is, at least in the US. They’re not getting paid below minimum like waiters are, but tipping is still customary. Normally it’s only the ones with the towels on the other end getting tipped, though. I always assumed that they all split the tips equally, but I guess I don’t know.
If I were taking a car there knowing it needed extra work on the front end, I definitely would bring tips for both ends.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s definitely a bit lazy. But everyone is allowed to be lazy sometimes. Or maybe you’re short, I guess, and legitimately can’t get to the top of your car.
The real question is: how well did you tip? People in these types of service jobs have an easier time doing that sort of thing if they get something extra out of it.
- Comment on YSK Article Five of the United States Constitution 3 weeks ago:
The statewide convention seems to be an interesting approach, but one that is easily ratfucked by a party intent on doing so. Your links mention the process used in various states, including New Mexico, where the state convention is simply composed of the state legislature.
Most states seem to hold an election, though, where they put all candidates on the ballot and allow people to vote for all of them. So, envision a long ballot with 100 sets of “for” and “against” names, and voters have to vote for each one. Yes, they could make it simpler, but they probably won’t , in an attempt to make it so complicated that one side can seek to invalidate votes cast for the other.
It seems to give the veneer of democracy, but still provide enough ambiguity for the State government to put its thumb in the scale. I’d like like to see some state say “The convention is every eligible voter, and the election on a strict yes/no vote determines the findings of the convention”. Maybe California can do this, they are big on statewide referendums.
- Comment on YSK Article Five of the United States Constitution 3 weeks ago:
There are no rules at all to a constitutional convention, any rules are set by the delegates themselves. The last time we had one, they were charged with revising the Articles of Confederation, and decided to rip the whole thing up and write the Constitution. And this time, they have an official ruling that “money is speech”, which will guarantee a ton of corporate cash flowing in to influence it.
Conservatives here have been looking to the convention process as a way to rip up parts of the Constitution they don’t like. They can rewrite anything they want, and revoke rights we’ve had for hundreds of years. Yes, they still need 38 states to adopt it in the end, but as I covered above, they have complete control of many of the states they need to accomplish this.
And if this happens, what happens to the 12 Liberal states who do not go along with these changes? They will likely just leave, and make their own new country, with the original principles intact.
At least the amendment process only changes one thing at a time. A convention will blow it all up, and likely result in the country splitting in two. The only bright spot may be that it might be done without resorting to a civil war first.
