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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Any ads that aren’t “this product is available” and designed to get you to do things against your best interest.
“Use us instead of a competitor”
“Please associate this product with this idealised version of yourself (or your life)”
Maybe this is just me projecting my trauma after finishing Mad Men.
Bu also maybe not.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s something that’s super useful about humans.
They’re very durable, and can follow instructions effectively.
They make excellent slaves, compared to other forms of life.
For me, that’s the resource aliens would invade us for.
It’s us.
- Comment on YouTube wants me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot and to "protect the community". Yet Google has bots crawling all over for their AI. 3 weeks ago:
I once went to set some IT stuff up at a large tabloid company’s office.
Their security was nuts. Gates and badges and goons everywhere.
Because they’re allowed to invade your privacy and bother you, but you are absolutely not allowed to return the favour.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
Because if I die I’ll miss the rest of the Kingkiller Chronicles.
They will surely release any day now.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been with them for a couple of years now. Unfortunately the devices just doubled in price but I’m very happy with them otherwise.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
D. I need my Tim Tams.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 month ago:
I’m grateful. It was the push I needed to stop using windows.
If they’d made it even vaguely tempting I probably wouldn’t have bothered.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 month ago:
There is technically a difference in the definition, but mostly people use it exactly as you’re describing.
I’ve really had to catch myself when I notice myself using it.
But honestly it’s so expected that people can get confused when you call yourself an immigrant (and you aren’t doing it to make yourself a martyr somehow).
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 month ago:
This is very similar to his playing of fortunate son.
~He watched the movie and though the fire-murder guy was a badass.~
~(Or more likely, he never watched the movie).~
I just realised he doesn’t make these himself (or come up with them). But still. Asshole.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 1 month ago:
He’s pretty untouchable.
Every government thinks AI is the next gold/oil rush and whoever gets to be the “AI country” will become excruciatingly rich.
That’s why they’re being given IP exemptions and all sorts of legal loopholes are being attempted/ set up for them.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 2 months ago:
Will it stop my girlfriend from poking at my butthole when I’m above her on the stairs?
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 2 months ago:
I was being sarcastic.
They will for sure use things like phobias/weaknesses to psychologically influence you to get you out of their way.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 2 months ago:
They for sure won’t get hold of any notes about medical conditions (or god forbid, notes from your therapist) and use them against you if you opposed them.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
I’ve been using mint exclusively for like 3 months and have been using a hearty blend of terminal installs and the program manager app.
It seems to not have caused any problems YET, but I’ve been assured it will. I see flatpack conversations a lot and don’t fully understand the differences (apart from the install method).
Is it worth understanding and committing to a single system or can I just be a low-power user for a while?
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 2 months ago:
fuck that site
Yeah. Might as well be a Batman comic for the purpose getting accurate news.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 2 months ago:
Not sure about wine. Haven’t used it since like 2016.
I’m running all my games in steam with proton. Not sure if that’s connected at all.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 2 months ago:
Or it just happens overseas, where these laws don’t apply (or can’t be enforced).
But I don’t think it will happen. Too many countries are desperate to be “the AI country” that they’ll risk burning whole industries to the ground to get it.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 2 months ago:
I had my first issue since switching just yesterday (I’ve been switched for a couple of months).
I wanted to run some mod installers for the old Kotor games but they’re .exe files.
Only stuff I could get working was manual file-replacements and steam workshop mods.
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 3 months ago:
Yes, and they were all as smart at humans. ;)
So mostly average but some absolute thickos too.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 3 months ago:
A lot of them want to use your financial data (what you buy, for how much and when) to sell to advertisers etc.
Maybe adding porn stuff in there taints the data?
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 3 months ago:
More compact tech usually increases pricing.
Also the need to have it not break when regularly transported in a backpack etc (think moving parts).
Also it includes a screen and controllers.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
No. Things will just get worse.
Your statement has probably been true since 2008. Maybe longer.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 months ago:
Even on the middle east eye YouTube I’m seeing so many appeals to authority and “it’s illegal, simple as. Full stop. Not for debate”.
Not sure if brigading or what but it really worries me how people think.
It’s not like they’re stupid, it’s like it’s uncomfortable for them to think.
- Comment on 8999 BC 4 months ago:
About 300 years after the invention of the bow, which is crazy.
It meant that the value of archers was really low from a military point of view. Those nerds were useless.
- Comment on 8999 BC 4 months ago:
They may have been mentioned/featured in things that last longer than the bows. Statues, pottery, writing on stone tablets.
Also I think they find skeletons with flint arrowheads in them sometimes too.
So it can be pieced together from lots of small, even partial data points.
But we find new stuff all the time that changes what we thought.
They found a 4000 year old bagless vacuum cleaner the other day.
That last one was a joke.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 5 months ago:
They’re not going away, they’re just going to be more persistent with their cold calling, and more infuriating with their call answering.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 5 months ago:
Oh no!
I’m still on Lemmy!
/s
- Comment on Happy Easter from the POTUS 6 months ago:
He doesn’t post on twitter any more I think. Just his own site.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 8 months ago:
Screwed is always relative.
I’m hearing chat that immigrants from places like Turkey or India are going “oh yeah this is what it’s like back home”.
So it’s possible it just goes full neoliberal (i.e. no consequences or regulations for the rich) and the division of wealth grows even further.
Provided he doesn’t cause a war or some kind of other mass-death problem (chemical spills, reactor meltdown etc) it might just have a cost primarily in human suffering, as opposed to human life.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 8 months ago:
A whole new generation of the Kobo readers just came out too!
I’ve got one of the previous Gen and I was so happy to find they have models with the clicky buttons to turn the page.