fluxion

@fluxion@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  At least, there was a time when that appeared to be the case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The american crypto mafia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All the crypto dipshits think Trump is pro crypto when its just another scam for him to exploit and move on to other shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Suck a bag of dicks, TurboTax

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Addition/subtraction work out the dame regardless of how you order the operations. If you do subtraction last you have:

  9-1+3

  and you are adding 3 to the result of (9-1). Since you are trying to perform it before the (9-1) operation is carried out, you can add 3 to the 9:

  12-1 = 11

  or you can add three to the -1 and get:

  9+2 = 11

  You only end up with 9-4 if you were subtracting 3 rather than adding three. It all becomes more obvious if you read the original as:

  9 + (-1) + 3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Working with cities to regulate self-driving and plan out specific routes/infrastructure was always going to be the only path to widespread adoption but Elon was too busy grifting off bullshit claims like everyone’s Teslas moonlighting as self-driving taxis and paying for themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people who think AI might become conscious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  List of people who know what the fuck consciousness even is:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As if anyone would still be around for Half-life 4 anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be in a constant state of amazement that there was a cable TV channel dedicated to gaming. Screen savers was such a fun show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, if they don’t blunder it i might actually check it out here and there just as a fuck you to reddit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give me call screening and filtering options so we can ignore the calls in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Middle-LLM compression

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We didn’t just not do what all those movies/books warned us to, we made it illegal to take any precautions whatsoever.

  Such a stupid fucking timeline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC commissioner writes op-ed titled, “It’s time for Trump to DOGE the FCC“⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I suck at my job, cum save me daddy Trump 🤤”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, it’s been so long i forgot we were up to 5 already and thought this was the new GTA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Send the bill to Zuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt even want to know how the fuck SpaceX is utilizing LLMs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’d known that i wouldn’t have set a pin that’s longer than my normal login

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Folded like a lawn chair the second a dictator pops up to pry every past remaining bit of wealth and power out of our hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Suggit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What an absolute cuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if we ban adhesives, straps, glue, welding equipment, string, and bendable wires. Think of the children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And all that only a tiny portion of the hate i feel for greedy billionaires who destroy the lives of millions because they want even more wealth and power

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was nothing personal, more of an off-handed commentary on how things usually end up going after 20 years of seeing literally every site/service I’ve used and most of the companies I once considered “the good ones” eventually get shittier in some way when the business side puts on the squeeze.

  The one exception I can think of is Wikipedia.

  But I don’t have any reason to think badly of these folks, their current owners seem to have their hearts in the right place and indeed have made decisions that avoid lockin and assure users, and I hope they are another Wikipedia that will endure the tides of enshittification.

  But I will never again assume that such hopes will remain the reality, even in this case. This is a snapshot in time. Owners change, priorities change, pricing models change, file formats change, common sense statements of basic decency like “don’t be evil” get rescinded, scrappy fun websites created by free-thinkers become tools of fascist oppression.

  That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve your business and support currently. Just make sure your off-ramp options remain acceptable if things begin to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “…until we have a large enough userbase to start monetizing and enshittifying…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They make it illegal except for Trump loyalists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporations are people, my friend.

  Sociopathic people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t use it because the AI already took over your life and murdered your biological counterpart

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Businesses that think shoving AI tools down everyone’s throat will create superior productivity so they can lay off workers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as their posts don’t get artificially higher visibility

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $1-$2 month maybe: they want $7 which is close enough to a Hulu/Netflix subscription fee that you immediately realize it’s not tenable to subscribe to all the major news sites you read, so then you start needing to build a “top 5” in your head because that’s all you can reasonably budget and that’s either too much of a PITA for whatever article you’re trying to read or you realize Verge isn’t in that top 5 and move on