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- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 6 hours ago:
I mean they practically encourage it
- Comment on Someone finally made a "Sonarr for YouTube" 1 day ago:
Not exactly ideal archival software…
It doesn’t store files in a human readable way and requires a separate DB and application to interpret your stored data. Without controls over how it stores that data.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 4 days ago:
And pretty soon many of those laws are going to exist only to benefit corporations on the rich and to harm everyone else.
The people in power are going to continue making laws that pushback against the fabric of society.
I mean look at Nazi Germany. It was legal to imprison Jews and it was illegal to protect them. The law is not moral and it’s only going to get worse.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 5 days ago:
Yeah but how many devs and studios can take Nintendo to court to prove that and win?
Most cannot afford to play in our legal system, so Nintendo wins here.
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 1 week ago:
I mean that’s essentially the same thing I said just with more words.
Meta has money. Which makes them immune to consequences.
In this case, by way of bribes.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
Yeah, but for 99.9% of computer users that doesn’t matter.
They’re getting their hardware from major manufacturers or second hand from people who bought them from major manufacturers.
Which means the negative effects will be felt across the board except for the few people who specifically purchase hardware from niche manufacturers.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
I mean you just set up a straw man of llms which I very specifically did not mention .
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
This is the kind of intelligent conversation I left Reddit for lack of. Happy to see that Lemmy is picking up the slack.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 week ago:
Some of them. Yes, many others not so much. Are you not realizing the thread you’re commenting on here?
That smaller site services and companies who really don’t want to collect this data are going to be forced to at an expense that may be too high for their entry point into the market they’re trying to work in?
Or even worse websites or services that are hosted for free may have to incur costs they cannot afford for data they don’t want to collect.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 week ago:
Hard to avoid using services that do it when it’s your own government that forces the sites & services you use to do this
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Yeah, it most definitely is not magic given our growing knowledge of the molecular machines that make life possible.
The mysticism of how life works has long been dispelled. Now it’s just a matter of understanding the insane complexity of it.
Sure we can grow neurons but ultimately neurons are just molecular machines with a bunch of complications surrounding them.
It stands to reason that we can develop and grow molecular machines that achieve the same outcomes with fewer complexities.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
The only reason we wouldn’t get to AGI is point number two.
Point number one doesn’t make much sense given that all we are are bags of small complex molecular machines that operate synergistically with each other under extremely delicate balance. Which if humanity does not kill ourselves first, we will eventually be able to create small molecular machines that work together synergistically. Which is really all that life is.
It seems quite likely that we will be able to synthesize AGI far before we will be able to synthesize life. As the conditions for intelligence by all accounts seem to be simpler than the conditions for the living creature that maintains the delicate ecosystem of molecular machines necessary for that intelligence to exist.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
It’s not because people really cannot critically think anymore.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
I mean sure, yeah, it’s not real now.
Does that mean it will never be real? No, absolutely not. It’s not theoretically impossible. It’s quite practically possible, and we inch that way slowly, but by bit, every year.
It’s like saying self-driving cars are impossible in the '90s. They aren’t impossible. You just don’t have a solution for them now, but there’s nothing about them that makes it impossible, just our current technology. And then look it today, we have actual limited self-driving capabilities, and completely autonomous driverless vehicles in certain geographies.
It’s definitely going to happen. It’s just not happening right now.
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 1 week ago:
Meta has more money and is apparently immune from consequences?
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
The grand majority of all laptops and desktop devices are using motherboards manufactured specifically for those devices (or device series). It’s not much of a stretch to imagine them adding restrictions to their already mature supply chain.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 2 weeks ago:
Yes there is. Invasive species that have no natural checks are most definitely weeds.
Consider Scottish thistle in Oregon. It literally locks off grazing and food for wild animals, and our climate and ecology does not provide any natural checks against it’s growth unlike it’s natural habitat.
It’s a horrible, 6ft tall, 4-6ft wide sprout if hate that is wrecking wild lands and cultivated land alike.
- Comment on Does anybody else feel like Linkwarden is very resource intensive. 2 weeks ago:
There’s a big difference between desktop environment needs and headless server needs.
Anything with user interaction will require an enormous number of additional services, which consumes resources.
I expect to run simple headless software on 256-512 MB of RAM. For example.
- Comment on Malicious compliance 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to corpo controlled internet, where you write within their guidelines, not where you freely communicate like actual people.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Not much different than Google. Keeping their mobile device storage low and then officially advising people to just store stuff on Google drive instead.
Thus driving people to pay for Google One.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Are you really so naive that you believe that a VPN subscription is more difficult or a higher bar than actually getting up and moving?
Potentially meaning you need to find new jobs, new friends, new support structures…etc
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Essentially every browser that’s not Firefox or Safari is reskinned Google chrome for a reason. Because it’s insanely expensive to build and maintain browsers. Mobile operating systems aren’t much different in this regard.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 2 weeks ago:
Doing God’s work
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 3 weeks ago:
Food is fucking expensive man
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 3 weeks ago:
TBF most of these are failures and exploits on older devices.
Which are a dime a dozen across the entire industry. Security is rather difficult, especially when considering exploits and bugs.
Ofc many of these ARE the results of cut corners, though many are just a lack of security awareness or old devices with known exploits discovered long after manufacturing.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 weeks ago:
A flight to Europe’s worth of energy is a pretty asinine way to measure this. Is it not?
It’s also not that small the number, being ~600 Megawatts of energy
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 weeks ago:
That’s not small…
100’s of Gigawatts is how much energy that is. Fuel is pretty damn energy dense.
A Boeing 777 might burn 45k Kg of fuel, at a density of 47Mj/kg. Which comes out to…
600 Gigawatts
Or about 60 houses energy usage for a year in the U.S.
It’s an asinine way to measure it to be fair, not only is it incredibly ambiguous, but almost no one has any reference as to how much energy that actually is.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 3 weeks ago:
Every thread has one Linux bro, stumbling around dazed and confused, still searching to understand why people use a different OS. Always asking “Why do people even use that?” Ignorant of the litany of reasons the real world behaves the way it does.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 3 weeks ago:
I mean they are required to be paid minimum at the end of the day anyways
If they don’t make tips at all, they get paid minimum wage. If they do they can be pets less as long as tips make up the difference.
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 1 month ago:
I think you missed the point.
“No wipe poops” doesn’t mean you never wipe again. It means poop that leaves behind insignificant residue.
I periodicity have these, and it’s a joy. There’s definitely a dietary aspect to it, and moving that direction seems to be the point here.