halcyoncmdr
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
- Comment on HP to Acquire Parts of Humane, Ai Pin Startup From Ex-Apple Managers, for $116 Million 2 days ago:
What the fuck are they paying for? A shitty ChatGPT frontend and crap hardware no one actually wants?
Who the fuck is approving that purchase over at HP? I knew they weren’t particularly smart over there, but holy shit, that’s straight up brain damage levels of decision.
- Comment on Democrats Blocked From Entering Capitol Building Due to 'Push' Door Labeled 'Pull' 1 week ago:
You realize this is a satire website right? Like The Onion.
- Comment on the definitive proof that you weren't your parent's favorite 1 week ago:
Probably someone trying to use the meme in a Halloween-specific context.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 1 week ago:
Ah that’s true. Hadn’t considered that it would be pulling from before the latest election cycle entirely.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 1 week ago:
This is true. But it also is stating that it knows Trump did not win a second term, insinuating it has data past the election.
There needs to be a lot more transparency in what the models are actually based on and what is being artificially filtered or limited.
- Comment on I don't need no app 1 week ago:
And their app is just a wrapper for a webpage anyway.
- Comment on NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report 2 weeks ago:
I mean, our POTUS is a rapist… And we know for a fact gas paid for sex. Pretty sure all his wives have married him for the money and lifestyle.
We all know he would have been a forever incel without his daddy’s money. So it tracks perfectly.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 2 weeks ago:
Lots of apps are able to interact with your text messages. Many apps are able to intercept one time passcode messages when registering accounts for instance.
It’s also not weird to separate this if they intend for it to be able to be used in other areas as well.
Just because it may be used only by Messages right now, doesn’t mean that it’s intended to only be used there.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 2 weeks ago:
Technically, this is the executive branch working within itself.
Now, the check on executive stupidity to this extreme is impeachment, but that’s never gonna happen with the Republican party in charge of both houses of Congress.
- Comment on Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remastered - Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Onimusha was such a good series. Happy to see it being remastered.
Capcom is always a toss up with whether they care about any given IP anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Probably, but the internet is forever. Definitely for stuff like this. There will be tens of thousands of copies of this in a few hours and it will not disappear anytime soon.
- Comment on Panama's president says there will be no negotiation about ownership of canal 3 weeks ago:
Of course not. Trump’s source of the US being “overcharged” is that they’re having to pay at all.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 5 weeks ago:
IIRC Lemon8 at least will have to stop just like TikTok. It isn’t TikTok specifically that is being banned. Rednote likely is affected as well.
They’re jumping ship to other sinking ships because the media has been providing incorrect information about what’s happening, as per usual now.
- Comment on South Korea | 'I got rape threats over claims I put a feminist symbol in a video game' 5 weeks ago:
Seems like the symbolism is probably spot on. Just like you know the big ass lifted princess trucks are driven by those same guys.
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 1 month ago:
This is why many/most reviews are actually useless.
Many people use reviews to complain, about anything, especially if it has nothing to do with the product because it’s the easiest way to try and get it out of their system.
Combined with fake reviews, astroturfed reviews from undisclosed free products, and the average user having no knowledge of a product or category to compare against, etc. and I’d even say most reviews are effectively useless.
On the bright side, seeing any of those types of phrases in the review means you can effectively ignore that review entirely.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 1 month ago:
It’s crazy to me that’s all the info I cluded in the Amber alert itself.
Every alert I’ve ever gotten had the relevant info on the alert, regardless of how large that might make it.
Why the fuck would they shorten the info in the first place?
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 1 month ago:
Should have probably considered filtering it’s training input to not include humanity’s fascination with rogue AI killing us.
- Comment on Amazon worker who was ran over and shot during NO attack denied medical leave. 1 month ago:
Ah yes, the classic excuse. “The company isn’t legally required to give a shit. so it’s not a problem”.
It’s not about what they’re legally required to do. They may not be required to, they are not prevented from doing so. It’s about the fact the company is a shitty place to work and will fuck employees over in every way possible whenever given the chance. Without exception.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
A random person recognized Luigi in just a couple days, and he was wearing a mask in all the video footage released.
Modern recognition systems can scan footage a lot faster than humans. Many modern systems don’t just use facial recognition but other factors like general height, walking gait, stride length, etc. to make more accurate recognitions.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
As much as I logically know this to be the case, especially now that Android and iOS indicate when things like the mic are active… My brain still wants to reject it because it is just too coincidental.
I do not trust mic switches however, unless someone can provide proof that it physically disconnects the circuit to that microphone, it can be bypassed somewhere and there’s no reason to trust the manufacturer.
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 1 month ago:
Depends on what was damaged. Being able to unlock and open things like the frunk, tonneau cover, glovebox, etc. with a remote command is certainly easier than breaking them open, if they were still closed.
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 1 month ago:
This isn’t surprising at all to anyone paying attention to what the Tesla app lets you do with your vehicle, or if they have interacted with Tesla support. All of that info is available in the app, including viewing not only live camera feeds from sentry mode, but also saved recordings from the USB drive installed in the vehicle now. Clearly if you can do that from the app, the company can do that and more.
Similar stuff is almost surely possible with any of the other manufacturers that have mobile apps with similar functionality as well.
Hell, shit like OnStar had similar functionality to remotely unlock vehicles before Tesla even existed.
- Comment on Does the southern hemisphere get colder farther from the pole? Why? 1 month ago:
While the North and South poles match the planet’s axis of spin. If you’re comparing differences in latitude, you’re looking at it as if the Earth were spinning around a vertical point between the poles, but the planet itself is tilted 23.5° compared to the solar plane. Plus we’re in an elliptical orbit, not circular, and that axis of tilt also wobbles about from the pull of not only the Sun but also the gas giants in our solar system like Saturn and Jupiter, and of course the Moon which also gives us our regular tides.
There’s a lot of factors that go into orbital mechanics. All of which result in our planet having widely varying tidal forces, distinct seasons, but still resulting in an overall stable and balanced ecosystem.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company 1 month ago:
Whistle lower deaths need to be treated by the courts like other destruction of evidence, because that’s what it is. The jury being instructed to assume the most damaging version of what that evidence could have contained.
A whistleblower isn’t going to kill themselves out of nowhere. To get to that point they were undoubtedly being threatened by the company.
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 2 months ago:
They usually do, it’s pennies to the government. Notice however, it’s information leading to the arrest AND conviction. They’re not getting paid anytime soon, if at all.
- Comment on Lt. Gov. Patrick vows to ban all THC in Texas 2 months ago:
While other border states have done the right thing, legalized, and taxed it to increase revenues and ensure a minimum safe quality, you can always rely on Texas to do the opposite.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 2 months ago:
After working retail for more than a decade… Those people deserve it. The type of person to argue with an employee about whether they carry something or not solely because Google said so, are the quintessential Karen. They deserve every bit of unhelpfulness right back at them for the misery they sow everywhere they go.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 2 months ago:
Why do people buy raw milk?
They’re idiots. Some believe it’s because pasteurized milk had added chemicals, which isn’t correct, pasteurization is simply heat. But idiots will be idiots.
For others it’s the general anti-science/education bullshit going around now. The crossover with the anti-vax is nearly a circle it seems.
- Comment on Russian food prices are soaring — but no one dares blame Putin and the war 2 months ago:
Can’t do that. Then the North Koreans would know what food actually looks like.
- Comment on Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement 2 months ago:
