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- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 9 hours ago:
Why bother worrying about the downturn if the world bends over backwards to stop you hitting the ground?
It is basically impossible for Visa to go bankrupt, for example. The moment the threat looms, governments are going to leap in and save them. They’re too big to fail.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 9 hours ago:
Another victim of the high blood pressure epidemic 😔
He should’ve tried eating less salt.
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 3 days ago:
At the same time, the lack of virality may hurt it since it feels much more like a burgeoning project. One of the draws for someone coming off of Twitter would be feature parity, and Mastodon feeling less complete and much smaller wouldn’t help.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 days ago:
Even if I had wanted to upgrade, I wouldn’t be able to, since Microsoft needs hardware mg computer doesn’t have. I can’t imagine most people would care enough to even think about that. They’d just keep using the computer until it no longer worked, and in the modern day, that will take a lot longer than it would have a decade or two ago.
- Comment on Are fossil fuels vegan? 6 days ago:
There’s a fair bit of nuance around the topic of whether honey should be vegan or not, since honeybees also overproduce, and that is its own problem. Like with sheep’s wool.
Although crude oil has the additional complication where it’s an incidental post-death product, like fertiliser, and from that viewpoint, it would be about as ethical.
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 6 days ago:
And now that we’re getting into Agentic models, which can click on websites for you, it’s probably going to worsen the Spam issue.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 6 days ago:
What could possibly go wrong with entrusting most of the working parts of your company and its secrets completely to another company, who has no particular reasons to keep to it?
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
Especially since discoverability has pretty much gone down the toilet, between SEO and spam sites.
You’re not going to as easily find a new and interesting website, when the first few results are just computer generated regurgitated text, stuffed with ads by the gill.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
You mentioned diverse weather conditions in your grant application, and we can’t have that.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 week ago:
But sure, some bones on your ass I guess.
Exactly. Why live?
- Comment on Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19] 1 week ago:
Complexity? You either need a drain, or a supply of water, that can’t be easy to work with, and unlike with a refrigerant loop, you can’t just reverse it to dry/wet things.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 2 weeks ago:
Could you not just get an eGPU dock, and do it that way?
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 2 weeks ago:
Assuming this effect existed, wouldn’t the memory of the water be polluted with all kind of things (as water is recycled all the time)?
Yes.
If longer exposure makes the memory stronger, you should be getting a lethal dose of salt quite easily
No, it would be the reverse. The water would magnetise to the salt, and draw it out of you, making you very dead.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 3 weeks ago:
The supposed science behind homeopathy was already known, though. It was never a mystery.
It basically worked around the pseudoscientific principle that water remembered what used to be in it, so it you diluted out water concentrated with the thing you had, it would somehow “remember” what was in it, and when taken, would draw it from the body through done principle of magnetism, or something like that.
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 3 weeks ago:
Its like the problems around the ozone hole, or acid rain.
A lot of people scrambled and worked very hard to find an alternative that didn’t cause problems, and now it’s almost like they never existed, and people think it was much ado over nothing.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it will. It hasn’t so far, and it’s got the Windows Phone/Symbian problem where users don’t go to it because it lacks support for the apps they use, and developers don’t support it because it doesn’t have much by way of users.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 3 weeks ago:
Even then, you may still get complaints unless you can halve it perfectly down the middle.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 3 weeks ago:
Makes some sense. If it can absorb nutrients, it can probably absorb gases too.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 3 weeks ago:
It’s like the brain. There’s a tiny barrier that keeps the immune system out of it, and it breaking down is thought to be the cause of a few major brain conditions.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 3 weeks ago:
They supply the rest of the eye. It’s just the transparent bit on front that doesn’t get much of anything.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 3 weeks ago:
They do have blood, as any ER doc could tell you.
However, they can also breathe in a manner of speaking. Enough that it’s proposed as a possible method to keep someone alive if their lungs don’t work.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 3 weeks ago:
At the same time, Yesterday’s Enterprise needs some context. It doesn’t work quite as well in a vacuum.
Like why it was such a big deal that Tasha Yar finding out she didn’t exist in another timeline, why the Klingon war is such a horrible development, and why the Enterprise was willing to put itself on the line to send them back to change history.
Plus it’s also unusually gory for TNG. A couple of people die in quite violent and horrible ways, and they could easily be misread as being the standard tone for the show, rather than the exception.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 3 weeks ago:
I personally found the first episode of Lower Decks to be a bit of a turn-off. It felt a bit too much like Star Trek Rick and Morty.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 3 weeks ago:
Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don’t have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.
- Comment on human geography 3 weeks ago:
All manner of confusion would ensue I’d assume, also being a Brit and I have never heard ‘fag’ being recognised as a slur here
Might be an Americanisation thing, where it’s leaking over either from US media, or the internet.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, that should have been for the better. If it’s meant to be a tool, I would much rather it behave like a tool, rather than trying to be my best friend, or an evil vizier trying to give me advice.
The fact that people got so attached to what is essentially a text generation algorithm that they were mourning its “death” is worrying, especially when it’s one that OpenAI has proven themselves to be more than able to modify as they wish.
Just as concerning is OpenAI rolling back the update to make their model “friendlier”, or that people were clamouring hand over fist to throw money at the company in the hopes of getting their “friend” back.
That can’t possibly be good news, especially when the shareholders find out that they have an iron grip over a portion of their users.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 3 weeks ago:
The worst part is that they backstepped a bit and made it “friendlier”.
Basically undoing that part.
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 3 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with it? It’s very much a product of its time, but it’s still serviceable.
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 4 weeks ago:
Maladvertising and scams just make that a surefire thing, especially since there’s a chance that just loading an ad could cause trouble.
And for less tech-savvy family members, it cuts down on the risk of them falling for scams or suchlike.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 4 weeks ago:
The website would also have to display to users at the end of the day. It’s a similar problem as trying to solve media piracy. Worst comes to it, the crawlers could read the page like a person would.