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- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 days ago:
20 years ago I would have been excited: when Microsoft made Clippy to try and help people. Now we know you created this to harvest data.
I’m mind-blown that people feel no shame when data harvesting from computer illiterates, or programmers who write anti-features (like forced online accounts for a local OS).
- Comment on Open Source Power 6 days ago:
If a country has a universal basic income then it would be easier for people to choose to donate time to a project.
- Comment on Open Source Power 6 days ago:
Some are fortunate enough that they could take up the work without money, and perhaps donations do not count depending on license or depending on some country’s law. Most would find that a hindrance and now users must just hope it doesn’t get worse or find something else - like proprietary software.
- Comment on Open Source Power 6 days ago:
Non-commercial terms hinder the ability of others to fork a project, which is a concern if something bad inevitability happens. [they give into temptation and add anti-features, or people do/say something which makes them untrustworthy or unassociatable).
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 1 week ago:
“Militant foss” reads like the old saying “militant atheist”…
Maybe you aught to take your own advice and not mention this again, otherwise you’ll hear opinions that conflict with your own.
- Comment on Wikipedia co-founder joins editing conflict over the Gaza genocide page 2 weeks ago:
It shouldn’t matter if people agree if they both seek the true. If trustworthy sources have verifiable evidence that points different way then the article can present all possibilities. If one side has more/better evidence then present that as primary.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 2 weeks ago:
Well, I was aware RAM prices fluctuate.
I’ve never been so unfortunate when buying larger RAM, or building a new system with a new DDR version.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 2 weeks ago:
People buying RAM: oh no, what do we do?
People buying GPUs: first time?
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 2 weeks ago:
Losing a monopoly on specific game servers certainly can have a commercial risk. Are you entitled to that at all, let alone when you stop hosting them?
Legal risk of what? Others will have that responsibility, unless you’ve done something you don’t want others to see?
Safety - Yes someone might have less moderation than you - that’s up to the users to decide if it’s okay. We still have the right to change our car’s break pad - the thing that stops a large mass moving fast from hitting children.
- Comment on How to organize your co-workers around AI 2 weeks ago:
‘Organize your co-workers’ is not a normal thing to say as it implies you have control over them but coworkers are equal. It reads “organize your staff” in a hello-fellow-kids way. "Organize with your coworkers’ may come off better but “around AI” isn’t explicit either in support or opposition to AI. So what the title means has to be inferred.
I had assumed it was more spam.
- Comment on How to organize your co-workers around AI 2 weeks ago:
The title and the generic image.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 2 weeks ago:
It bitches very often when you disable Google Pain Services.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
Clippy would never promote a religion. Clippy just wanted to help.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 3 weeks ago:
GPLv2 says you must license any derived code as the same license . True, unless the license is “GPLv2 or later”. Then anyone can upgrade it to GPLv3.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I thought Fennec stopped getting updates
- Comment on Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency 4 weeks ago:
If one wants to avoid software with AI code then being aware which MRs need replacing helps. However, accepting it encourages it more and makes it less fesible that you could prune all the MRs written in part by AI. Disclosing it will become worthless if it becomes the norm.
- Comment on MegaMek, a libre clone of BattleTech, a sci-fi themed boardgame-style battlefield strategy game, has a new release, with new features, UI/UX improvments and bugfixes. 4 weeks ago:
Upgrading code license from GPLv2 to GPLv3 for 2 of 3 related programs. One was already v3.
Replacing media licenses from GPL to a more appropriate Creative Commons but NC makes a more restrictive. That makes it a downgrade in terms of user freedom.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, I do.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
I used to give the benefit of the doubt but when there are bad insensitives in play then perhaps this saying of wisdom can, unfortunately, be naïve.
- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 4 weeks ago:
I’m loving it
- Comment on Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend 5 weeks ago:
Calling it, next update includes forced arbitration clause for accidental bricking.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 5 weeks ago:
Media covinced people that it was coming and it didn’t - my understanding of the argument.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
I may not like who everyone chooses to represent themselves in government… but the government actually reflecting the people proportionally would still be a good thing.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
Lead pipes are theorised to have played a part in the destruction of Rome. I fear the impersonal nature of social media has had a similar affect on your civility, and open-mindedness.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
Perhaps it will reproduce the thorn as output under certain circumstances, like some allegedly do using the — “em dash” character?
If that’s staggering you should see how much more I don’t know, bumface.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
Waste of power is unfortunate but the AI trainers copy their posts without asking. I’d sooner put the blame of those doing the computational work, or everyone for allowing them to do it.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
I think that’s someone else (if you were unaware).
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
Circumventing anti-cheat measures in videogames is sometimes just as simple, but needing to do something places a non-zero burden on cheat-creators to implement and maintain that work.
It’s not a perfect counter, it’s a hurdle.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
It’s a barrier to entry. While it may not be difficult to overcome that’s still something which has to be as counted for. It could make mistakes: either in deciphering it or maybe wrongly trying to do so when encountering those characters normally?
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
Hyprland*