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- Comment on Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features 14 hours ago:
The Danish government said on Thursday it would strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities
Good call. 👍
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 1 day ago:
So Iran knew EXACTLY how strong they needed to make their defenses!
Pretty stupid of the American military to give that info to a game developer, that would obviously use it. - Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 1 day ago:
But the information still seems valid.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 2 days ago:
From this article it sounds very likely that the bunker buster attack failed.
- Comment on Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux 2 days ago:
Both Aarhus and Copenhagen municipalities have decided this, and the ministry of Digitization is pioneering it for government administration. The decision so far primarily regards MS Office and MS cloud services, and MS Windows.
Also the government has decided to make guidelines to make the switch away from American software and services easier. These guidelines are meant both for public services AND private businesses.We haven’t seen any results yet, but at least the political decision seems very clear. The goal is to end dependency on American software and services for Denmark. Which is in line with a similar decision earlier this year for EU.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 2 days ago:
Yes, because some grandma is exactly the kind of people I meant. /s
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 2 days ago:
I think the difference here is that you can’t quite just put an AI tag on something, and then investors flock to give you money.
The AI companies that are invested in, are mostly companies that actually have something to show. And the biggest investment and benefactor is Nvidia that actually makes loads of money from AI products. - Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 2 days ago:
AI is improving at the same rate it always has
This is blatantly false, there’s a reason there is talk of the cold winter of AI, and the long walk in the desert.
The desert walk was at least 2 decades of very little progress despite big investments, the cold winter was another decade without much progress because of disillusionment so nobody wanted to invest in it.
AI has progressed more for the past 10-15 years than it did for 40 years from about the 70’s to about 2010. - Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 2 days ago:
I agree 100%, and yes there are always losers due to competition and failure to compete. Just like some companies are losing money making cars, but cars are obviously not a bubble.
Maybe the most of the hype is over for now among investors, but AFAIK Nvidia who is the biggest supplier of hardware for it, is not seeing a slowdown in demand.
So maybe it’s more a slow down of interest in the media? - Comment on Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are? 2 days ago:
No you can’t sous vide at body temperature. red meat needs 60 °C (130 to 140 °F).
Try to warm some water to 60° C and put your finger in it, and see how long you can hold it there.
Or maybe don’t because you will get burned. - Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 2 days ago:
Yes I think Facebook and Microsoft may lose money on this, you could call that over investing, but for it to be a bubble that burst, companies need to go down, and people lose money on it.
Otherwise you may be looking for a completely different word which is fad, a period where something is over hyped, but quickly settles down like Fidget Spinners.
I don’t think we will see a financial bubble burst due to AI.
META is losing money like crazy on their “META” project that will never succeed, and they may lose just as much on AI, but they will not go bankrupt on it.
What I mean is that more money will be made on AI, than is currently lost experimenting with it. - Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 3 days ago:
I don’t think it will, AI will improve transform and expand in areas of usefulness, so I think we are still in the early days.
But at what point can we agree that it didn’t?
When we finally get FSD for real? When AI helps improve diagnosis and saves lives?
When AI creates new molecules that are better than any chemist could do without.What will it take for people to realize that AI is here to stay? And AI will remain a significant part of our economy.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 3 days ago:
When I see stories like this, what annoys me the most, is that people are still dumb enough to use Microsoft, and proprietary software in general.
- Comment on How often do thieves (and identity thieves) actually get caught and served justice? Are there actual examples of law enforcement actually doing anything? (Because I think most cops are just lazy) 6 days ago:
Police here (Denmark) is seriously understaffed, I don’t think they do much unless they see a pattern and suspect it’s organized or a repeat offender.
But at least we can call the police without fear of getting shot when they arrive.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
AFAIK it’s not uncommon for a small upstart company for instance, to rely on friends, because friendship helps working together.
I know it can smell a bit like nepotism, and we know that’s bad.
But there are actual good reasons people prefer to work with people they know. So I think it will be just fine, as long as you are not fighting over the same girl. - Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 1 week ago:
reached an altitude of 890 feet
300 meters.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 1 week ago:
The efficiency of this is amazing, instead of actually sending it up, and waiting for it to blow up, they have figured out how to blow it up on the ground BEFORE launch. This is the kind of efficiency we need in government programs.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
I am ABSOLUTELY not praising SpaceX, I’m just using them as an example of how scale makes all the difference at least for some of the components. And being able to launch a small rocket is evidence they can launch a big one too.
- Comment on 7-year-old Nastia came to Israel for cancer treatment. She and her family were killed by an Iranian missile 1 week ago:
Israeli propaganda showing an obviously innocent victim, to make Israel also seem innocent, and distract from the fact that it was Israel that bombed Iran first.
Israel is not a victim here, but they are damned good at making propaganda for the uninformed. - Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
You are missing the point that size makes a difference. Obviously SpaceX has the technology to do what Honda did, but SpaceX can do ti with a real rocket.
But they can’t do it with the bigger Starship rocket. Scale matters. - Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
Hypothetically, we could terraform Venus.
Mars is the best option we have, which is why I mentioned that. Venus already has selfenforcing runaway global warming, and we can’t even land a probe there.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
Whatever they tested it’s probably proof of that, but such a small rocket and only 300 meters means that a lot of things were not really proven, because scale is a HUGE issue.
Just ask Elon Musk / SpaceX, the Falcon rocket is fine, but Starship is horrible. And the difference is scale. - Comment on The OpenAI Files Document Broken Promises, Safety Compromises, Conflicts of Interest, and Leadership Concerns 1 week ago:
There is nothing open about openai, and that was obvious way before they released chatgpt.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
This wasn’t much more than a toy rocket:
6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter,
The test was completed successfully, the first time Honda landed a rocket after reaching an altitude of nearly 300 meters.But still they were successful on their first try, so we will have to see where they take it from here. 🚀
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
It’s the only planet we can terraform, we are nowhere near able to terraform Mars, not even theoretically and disregarding cost.
Maybe in a century we can. But only maybe. - Comment on Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why 1 week ago:
I’m not concerned about the economy but the logistics.
- Comment on Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why 1 week ago:
The article states it’s 30000 users! Doing that is 300 users per day! People who probably also want extra support initially.
It would be extremely impressive to do it that fast. - Comment on The New Digg’s Plan to Use AI for Community Moderation 1 week ago:
Nice! AI to moderate bots, finally a site that doesn’t require any human interaction at all. 🤣 🤡
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
If it’s only air it just gets cloudy, not discolored.
It can be disolored from iron, and that’s not a health problem AFAIK.I have never heard of anybody here in Denmark who has brown or cloudy tap water. That would simply not be considered acceptable.
Tap water here is always CRYSTAL clear, and generally higher quality than bottled water. - Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
Sad for you, but just because you can’t taste it doesn’t change the fact that water actually has taste.