matlag
@matlag@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
And their goal is to make sure you can’t do anything without THEIR tools/plants, so that you don’t escape from their control.
Imagine we all work with our hands but decide we’ll only sell what we produce to our local communities and not large corporates.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
CEOs will not be replaced any time soon, because they’re all in each other companies board and they’ll stand for each other (or more exactly from setting examples that could apply to them).
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
As much as I despise her (as much as the rest of that tech-bros lot), I still suspect she’s only seen jail because she was a young woman.
- Comment on Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Yeah but Sam Altman is a pal, so don’t worry: nothing bad actually happening!
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
If I trust the numbers I found, Threads has 200M users, vs 2.5–3M for all of Mastodon’s instances but-Threads.
Down the same road, again.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Because after N scandals, they needed to make sure people would trust them. Meta had never considered itself bound to any promise or commitment they ever made to anyone (users, ads customers, etc.). But you want a monopole, you need to make sure people see no issue with using your services.
And they’re doing it again with Threads. And it works AGAIN, because they promised not to do anything evil. Pending the next inevitable scandal with users flabbergasted that Meta could have done it AGAIN.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Because it’s the gazillionth time the exactly totally absolutely same kind of shit happens with the very exactly same company that didn’t even try to hide who they were.
And next week the very very same deceived people will be of Facebook, Instagram, etc. And maybe, just MAYBE they’ll migrate away from Whatsapp… to join another proprietary network of another billonaire’s controlled megacorp.Because I’m tired of being “that pain in the ass” when barely suggesting to use something else all to see at the end people crying over things they’ve be warned about.
If a kid burns themself once on a kitchen’s hotplate, you assume they learnt his lesson in an unfortunate way despite all the warnings.
If adults keep burning themselves over and over… and over and over and over, at which point are you entitlede to say they’re part of the f*cking problem?? - Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Proposed line of defense: “With all respect, M. Judge, with all the different times we fucked our users, lied to them, tricked them, experimented on them, ignored them, we already sold private discussions on Facebook in the past, our CEO and founder most famous quote is «They trust me, dumbfucks!», the list goes on and on: no one in their sane mind would genuinely believe we were not spying on Whatsapp! They try to play dumb, they could not possibly believe we were being fair and honest THIS time?!”
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 week ago:
The “find out” will take forever. France just decided that a “sovereign server” can be AWS or any US big-tech providing the physical server is located in France.
France has also signed a contract with Microsoft (“sovereign” solution again) for the national health data hub, even as a parliament investigation had MS France GM stating MS can’t guarantee the data won’t leak to the US!
Most political leader are grossly ignorant on anything IT. - Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 week ago:
No, Visio is based on BigBlueButton, and it is to interface with Tchap, which is an internal Matrix server for France’s gov agents.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
I believe Windows 11 and “AI everywhere” are quickly changing that. Gamers started migrating, but I believe the stats showing a growing usage of Linux on desktop as well as resistance to the Win11 migration go beyond the gamers.
But I admit: a survey right now may not yet show it. It’s probably trending up slowly.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Take away: 1.MS is well aware AI is useless. 2.Nadella admits they invested G$ in something without having the slightest clue what its use-cas would be (“something something rEpLaCe HuMaNs”) 3.Nadella is blissfully unaware of the “social” image MS already has in the eye of the public. You don’t have our social permission to still live as a company!
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Correct, but needs clarification:
Depression referring to the whole economy as the bubble burst.
Acceptance is when the government accepts to bail them out because they’re too big and the gov is too dependent on them to let them die. - Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 weeks ago:
Sure I can answer him: because there was no better way to push your white supremacist nazi propaganda and launching a child porn abure tool as a stand-alone app would have landed you in jail.
You’re welcome!
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 3 weeks ago:
And then they will use US made systems. But the vendors will locate some computers in Europe, so it’s totally sovereign.
- Comment on genius 4 weeks ago:
“Hey, John! How much are we paying those 3D printers again? I found one here that looks like it would do just the same job for much less!” – quote that will show up in a leak in 2032 after a handful of planes crashes.
- Comment on genius 4 weeks ago:
And now you’ve just given Boeing executives some great ideas how to further reduce costs! I don’t thank you!!
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 4 weeks ago:
Until they introduce Copilot in Powershell so that when you try do D/L another browser, it will chime in and explain you that you should first give a serious try to EdgePilot because it’s so much better and you won’t be disappointed! Here: I D/L its premium version instead of FF as you were trying to do, and I give you one month for free! \o/.
- Comment on With how the republican party works in 10 years the presidential candidate will be an open pedophile and they will say they defeated wokeness. 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, they’re more likely to convince their base that it’s ok to be a pedo if you’re chosen by God or some shit. The Great Order of Pedophiles may live on…
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 month ago:
So, AI will do the same thing as what light extensions already do, but consuming 4GB of RAM and maxing out CPU load?
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 month ago:
The fact that so many users go to a fork just because FF can’t get the settings right from the start should be telling! At this stage, every new version, I go through the settings to double check there is no “new feature” I don’t want enabled by default… So yes, I am tempted by Librewolf.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 month ago:
First, there should be a survey on what users actually want, no?
Because if no one wants AI and it’s “always a choice”, what you really do is waste considerable resources with as the only results, more settings users have to go through before starting using their browsers.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 month ago:
I was actually thinking whichever company bringing this for the masses will abandon its support 5y later and 25y from now we won’t be able to read it at all, let alone decode the bits.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 month ago:
1 million years? You mean 200 top!
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 2 months ago:
45+ minutes later and as many kWh…
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 2 months ago:
China wins what? Except if they already won by far, they have similar AI, with similarly high costs and similarly low value, similarly not worth it. Either they also invest big and will crash just as hard, or they don’t and they’re just enjoying the show of US suiciding its economy through AI.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 months ago:
Reminds me that nurse interview in Spain during the blackout:
“But your hospital doesn’t have a backup generator?? -Oh we have solar panels, we could be running off the grid! But the power management system requires an Internet connection, and it’s down!”
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 months ago:
Then tens of thousands or millions would die when a server goes down, but “shit happens” and there was a small line in the EULA where the provider deny all responsability if anythind bad happens from a service failure.
Thoughts and prayers, though!
Did you know that with our Super+ package, you get redundant servers switching automatically to the next working one?
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 months ago:
That’s what customer support would have told the poor clueless customers if the hotline had not been an AI agent running on AWS!
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 3 months ago:
Dear Assassin,
Where do I send all the corpses of you and your colleagues? I already have 2 here starting to rot.
Oh, I have traced back your address from your IP.
See you in a few hours!