WhatAmLemmy

@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I understood that reference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia risks losing ‘war on nicotine’ in same way as war on drugs as illegal tobacco sales explode⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The tax on cigarettes is basically just racketeering; the government extracting a cut from drug addicts. The tax went well beyond the burden on the healthcare system a long time ago, and they don’t even use it on the healthcare system, so fuck 'em.

  They were stupid to think they could increase it forever without a black market filling the gap. Neolibs have learned nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. The only thing this setting does is hide the information from the user. Google, or a thousand other data brokers (many probably created by Google for this purpose) still retain that data indefinitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump Reportedly Greenlights Plan for US Attack on Iran Without Congressional Approval⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Special military operation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia has ‘no alternative’ but to embrace AI and seek to be a world leader in the field, industry and science minister says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And we’ll do it all with hopes and dreams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon suspends Israel adviser from Joint Staff after discovering posts calling Israel a 'death cult' and the country's 'worst ally'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah. There are still sane senior officers at the Pentagon? Gotta remove all of them for the fascist coup and dictatorship to achieve its final solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. Half the time I get blocked due to VPN or whatever I just close the tab and go with my life. The rest of the time I try all known workarounds. If those fail, I just go with my life.

  My hatred for monopolisation and enshittification is stronger than my desire to watch content on any platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like he did with the eggs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are at least 70 million weapons-grade mentally-ill people in the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have they removed that dogshit crypto they added a few years ago? Haven’t donated since.

  Signal was never more than a stepping stone anyway. Centralised privacy services, that can be taken down by any government, are doomed to fail under surveillance capitalfascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen X and millennials three times more likely to be diagnosed with appendix cancer than their parents, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve been pumping epic volumes of literally thousands of untested chemical compounds into the environment for over a century.

  It’s probably all of the above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only ever used Prime whenever they offer it free or with a cheaper delivery than it costs.

  Last time it started showing ads, so I just pirated everything I wanted to watch. I won’t even use it for free anymore, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only for the paying customers, apparently. Crime pays, yarrr!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is propaganda to make investors believe they’ve achieved intelligence, or are on the verge of it. It’s bullshit, and legally it should be considered securities fraud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla customers in France sue over brand becoming 'extreme right'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it’s not crazy. The CEO went all in on being a fascist piece of shit, and open drug addiction, which has directly damaged the assets of all of his businesses, their assets, and entire brand.

  If, within the next 5 years, Elon isn’t billions in debt and destitute, that’s how you know we all live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracies”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Hero to Zero (Budget)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if they continue using the Nazi propaganda machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile I would argue that most efficiency gains from AI are outweighed by the cost of false positives wasting time and energy, learning prompt engineering, and other testing/fiddling adding overhead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *Statistically guaranteed to happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a universal standard indicator for whether a comment chain should be read top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If God were real they’d be big mad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthony Albanese says footage of Australian journalist being shot by LA police is ‘horrific’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cancel all defence contracts and intelligence sharing with MAGAstan, you submissive cuck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon vows to crack down on piracy on its Fire TV Stick range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re rapidly approaching the time when a raspberry pi and bluetooth remote are the ultimate streaming stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of my selfhost journey [that no one asked about]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Try the web app (PWA). I don’t remember it complaining about http localhost.

  I’d also raise that as an issue with the developer. No self host-able app should enforce https. Only warn/notify. There are numerous situations where http is a perfectly fine, permanent solution (LAN/VPN).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of my selfhost journey [that no one asked about]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI super productivity can sync via webdav, and nextcloud has a webdav server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1 in 3 men report using intimate partner violence. Here’s how we can better protect women – and help men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s classified as emotional abuse? Is giving them shit for the lols considered emotional abuse? Is calling them a dingus for doing a dumb dumb emotional abuse? What if they give you the exact same shit, and have since before you started your relationship?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Arc Browser Is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If their code isn’t open source, and your searches aren’t encrypted in such a way that their logging of them isn’t an option, why should you believe them? It’s not like there’s some precedence that corporations face any legitimate consequences for their crimes. Unless they steal from the wealthy, any consequences will be less than the profits from their crimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Arc Browser Is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Save reason I won’t use Kagi and I don’t use AI much. Surveillance capitalism will only ever lead to authoritarianism and dystopia. I don’t want anything to do with it.

  You can’t trust any company to not sell you out and pick your carcass clean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe our quality of life, livelihood, and retirements should not be bound to for-profit corporations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Economists Raise Questions About Quality of U.S. Inflation Data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That won’t include monopolization, price gouging, tariffs, and a hundred other things which impact costs to consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI we know is missing the I. It does not understand anything. All it does is find patterns in 1’s and 0’s. It has no concept of anything but 1’s and 0’s. It has no concept of correlation vs causation, that’s why it just hallucinates (throws shit at the fan) constantly.

  Turns out finding patterns in 1’s and 0’s can do some really cool shit, but it’s not intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People need to start calling this what it is. Backdoor-ing encryption is backdoor-ing national security. It should be considered nothing less than treason to democracy…

  But we don’t live in democracies. We live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as democracy, so these efforts to destroy our privacy make perfect sense.