Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it like living in 2?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw, they redraw it to include non-EU countries. :(

  The old one had Sweden and Finland dangling in at the top right like a cock and balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of them do that too a degree anyway. Credit cards are only available to over 18s, so if you pay with one of those, that’s your ID. I guess this is mostly for free VPNs (although I’ve never found one that was any good) and people paying with debit cards or crypto.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, we’ll see about that.

  The key difference between tech giants and the banks, is the tech giants aren’t holding everyone’s money hostage.

  Sure, those gen Z kids will lose all their photos of grandma because they couldn’t fathom a world without Instagram, but we’ll cope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s going to do that? Everyone with any money is already leveraged up to the eyeballs in this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I cannot wait for the comedy movies that come out based on this farce, explaining exactly how these jokers lost all their money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We need Rache Bartmoss more than ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it the Big Gay Boat Ride that’s got everyone mad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of many things worse than having to use a VR headset for work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because he surrounds himself with incompetent people that rely on him for their continued employment.

  When he has his last burger, support collapses by quite a bit (although not nearly enough). That’s why they’d quite like to not bother with elections in the future. Nobody is decorating their mobility scooters and mobile homes with Vance merch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry: Nvidia G-Sync Pulsar is a Motion Clarity Revelation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So black frame insertion with VRR? Is that what it is? Struggling to tell and struggling even harder to care.

  Can’t help but think the motion would look even clearer without DLSS bullshitting entire frames out of nowhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wokeness ended, check mate leftists ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  MAGA hats are going to be fuming when they find out what they just retweeted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do wonder what would be more annoying though: An on-screen keyboard or a weird stubby aspect ratio that doesn’t play nice with all your other apps.

  Especially when you can already get a keyboard case for a regular phone and have the best of both worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to have that on the Amiga.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, small devices are always going to be awkward to type on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I can’t wait to never use that and forget all about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With the amount of AI generated horseshit out there already, they’ve already pissed in the well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All that drop in ratings, for nothing. Absolute incompetence.

  It wouldn’t have prevented the dreaded boat people from working, because it’s all under the table anyway. It would just have been annoying and intrusive.

  Yet at the same time, a free to access, zero knowledge proof ID system could be useful to have. It just can’t be mandatory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m working my way through that one now. One of the first episodes they try to cut civil service staff but end up hiring a 5000 extra so they know which ones to cut. Reform recently spent £5m in Derbyshire on consultants to “find savings”.

  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How resistant would this be to jamming? Iran managed to black out Starlink.

  And how trackable is it? Not sure how many people would be prepared to run one of these boxes if the Revolutionary Guard are going to come knocking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tories would ban under-16s from social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t really matter since the remnants of their party have already fucked off to Reform.

  I think I’ve got more chance of being PM than Kemi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just buy a 5090 bro. Maybe two. Look at this leather jacket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If your main language is English you probably can’t. There’s just little need since everything is so English-centric that almost everyone else has to learn it as a necessity.

  Larger countries like France and Germany can often get on without it as there’s enough population to be worth dubbing and translating things to it, but go somewhere smaller like the Nordic countries, and you’re basically stuffed without it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of just Europe plus Canada. But the whole point is nukes. Without the US we don’t really have that (the UK has a few but the US has the keys iirc, and France has a token amount), so Europe needs to get those weapons programs going again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So the sales look better and the subscription services seem better value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your technology mispredictions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Wii. Previous gen console specs. Silly gimmick controller. Best selling peripheral was a step.

  Most popular shit in the history of everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chrome: Sees new website domain

  Google: 👀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems we lack the courage for number 2 on its own merit.

  Maybe when Greenland is invaded…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We do want to prevent free speech.

  We also have good reason to block far right US psy ops from operating in the UK.

  Both of these things can be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨really makes you think⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But we’re 60% water so we taste it all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the second part.