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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Toyota had small, fuel efficient cars and that’s what people wanted during the oil crisis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk's AI firm deletes posts after chatbot praises Hitler⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably more like “Elon Musk tells some manager to tell an engineer to delete the posts and then gives hazy, contradictory instructions while in a K-hole.” It’s not like he does stuff besides raise money and be a mascot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it even helps with productivity that much. A lot of bosses think developers’ entire job is just churning out code when it’s actually like 50% coding and 50% listening to stakeholders, planning, collaborating with designers, etc. I mean, it’s fine for a quick Python script or whatever but that might save an experienced developer 20 minutes max.

  And if you “write” me an email using Chat GPT and I just read a summary, what is the fucking point? All the nuance is lost. Specialized A.I. is great! I’m all for it combing through giant astronomy data sets or protein folding and stuff like that. But I don’t know that I’ve seen generative A.I. without a specific focus increase productivity very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can give your info to the registrar and then make it anonymous to whois domain.tld searches so it’s not public. Cloudflare is the registrar I use these days because it’s a one-stop shop and used the company address but, at least in the U.S., they need your info for both credit/debit card processing. (Processing fees are cheaper the more info they provide but usually any address with the same zip code is enough.)

  If you have nefarious plans, I don’t have a good recommendation. But if it’s just about privacy, I don’t know if it’s really possible to be completely anonymous anyway. I guess you could use a gift card or something but at least in the U.S., if you own or buy a house, your address is public info already anyway. Shit, city hall will probably give you blueprints of any house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want age verification for social media — I’d rather parents of young kids (who likely grew up online in 2025) be responsible for it — but if they do force this, it should be part of the operating system. Sort of like Apple Pay and Google Pay where sites can essentially put some boilerplate code that’s easy to implement and all they get back is a yes/no answer. Users only have to go through the process once. It protects privacy way more than every “social media” site that comes along.

  It’s not ideal but it’d be way more workable than having to provide ID to every site that has social media functions. I mean, you could classify any random forum or site with a comment section as “social media” if the definition is too broad. Things like Fediverse instances wouldn’t have to each write their own implementation. (Eventually, there would be trusted, mature libraries, obviously, but that could take awhile.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ Announces Coordinated, Nationwide Actions to Combat North Korean Remote Information Technology Workers’ Illicit Revenue Generation Schemes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even while embracing cryptocurrencies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, I’m against censorship. But on the other, every bit of content on Facebook and X should be removed and all their hardware run through industrial shredders. It’s quite the conundrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every spy in my vicinity is going to be dancing to The Meters - Cissy Strut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC is Getting a Paywall.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know there’s rights issues and all but if they made a real BBC streaming service with their back catalog and every David Attenborough special in 4K, it’d be one thing but Americans are inundated with news and streaming services. I pay for my local newspaper’s digital site — mostly because if I don’t, who will? But even The NY Times has to have recipes and word games to keep people subscribed. Why would anyone pay more than a dollar a month or something for BBC News?

  The U.S. seems like an odd place to trial this. It’s the most competitive media market in the world and we’re all already sick of being asked to pay for 40 different services. In conclusion:🏴‍☠️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would harm the A.I. industry if Anthropic loses the next part of the trial on whether they pirated books — from what I’ve read, Anthropic and Meta are suspected of getting a lot off torrent sites and the like.

  It’s possible they all did some piracy in their mad dash to find training material but Amazon and Google have bookstores and Google even has a book text search engine, Google Scholar, and probably everything else already in its data centers. So, not sure why they’d have to resort to piracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow, the most reasonable account on Vichy Twitter is Grok because it’s hard to train an LLM using only data only dumbasses wrote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub is Back in France.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have to fight this battle. Traffic was probably down 80% due to one cabinet member not knowing VPNs exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess he is actually back in charge of his companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Department of Defense Efforts to Buy and Maintain IT Systems Are Billions Over Budget and Delayed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wondered if the world’s major governments all have their own secret, bespoke operating systems for highly sensitive situations. Like, not Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, or anything even remotely known to the public. But then you see high-ranking admin officials using bootleg Signal on an off-the-shelf phone or whatever.

  I’d assume the actual intelligence agencies are more sophisticated. I doubt they’re running some “hardened” version of Windows or Android or whatever. But maybe I’m being naive and they all are just working with vendors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting Bill Gates’ dick in my mouth is far too high of a licensing fee. I’ll just play Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe instead. But no judgment. You live your best life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but I doubt they’re close to having the capacity to offer full 5G service like a traditional carrier. I have T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom‘s US subsidiary) and they have a deal with Starlink but it’s (a) in beta and (b) limited in what you can do. Unless things have changed, even when it launches, it’ll be just LTE text and voice and you need a pretty modern phone.

  So, it’s not like a drop in replacement for a land-based plan where you get internet and stuff. Plus, Trump and his kids aren’t going to do any of the hard work. Even before his presidency, “Trump” was just a licensing brand and now it’s a pretty shitty brand. It’s not like the family was running Trump Steaks and packing boxes for shipment or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If he actually launches a Trump phone service, it’s going to be a MVNO that just piggy backs off the main operators’ infrastructure. It’s not like he or his idiot sons are going to buy spectrum and build towers.

  He wouldn’t really be competing with T-Mobile, Verizon, or AT&T. He’d be competing with Boost Mobile and companies like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it should never be used for art. I don’t care if you need to make a logo for a company and A.I. spits out whatever. But real art is about humans expressing something. We don’t value cave paintings because they’re perfect. We value them because someone thousands of years ago made it.

  So, that’s something I hate about it. People think it can “democratize” art. Art is already democratized. I have a child’s drawing on my fridge that means more to me than anything at any museum. The beauty of some things is not that it was generated. It’s that someone cared enough to try. I’d rather a misspelled crayon card from my niece than some shit ChatGPT generated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My skepticism is because it’s kind of trash for general use. I see great promise in specialized A.I. Stuff like Deepfold or astronomy situations where the telescope data is coming in hot and it would take years for humans to go through it all.

  But I don’t think it should be in everything. Google shouldn’t be sticking LLM summaries at the top. It hallucinates so I need to check the veracity anyway. In medicine, it can help double-check but it can’t be the doctor. It’s just not there yet and might never get there. Progress has kind of stalled.

  So, I don’t “hate” any technology. I hate when people misapply it. To me, it’s (at best) beta software and should not be in production anywhere important. If you want to use it for summarizing Scooby Doo episodes, fine. But it shouldn’t be part of anything we rely on yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TikTok shows me BBQ techniques, random models, and teenagers trying to be professional stuntmen and almost dying. And that one time sea shanties. You have to train the algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google updated its ranking algorithms for explicit videos and explicit content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck yeah. Google is finally getting some hair on its peaches.

  *reads article*

  Oh, they meant the other direction. Well, that’s no fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I worked in IT, we only let people install every other version of Windows. Our Linux user policy was always “mainstream distro and the LTS version.” Mac users were strongly advised to wait 3 months to upgrade. One guy used FreeBSD and I just never questioned him because he was older and never filed one help desk request. He probably thought I was an idiot. (And I was.)

  Anyway, I say all that to say don’t use Windows 11 on anything important. It’s the equivalent of a beta. Windows 12 (or however they brand it) will probably be stable. I don’t use Windows much anymore and maybe things have changed but the concepts in the previous paragraph could be outdated. But it’s a good rule of thumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize back. I didn’t mean to offend. You never know who you’re talking to on a message board and in rereading it, my comment could easily have been taken as hostile. It’s hard to get nuance across in this medium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know anything about you, obviously, but I suspect you should to take a more nuanced, historical view of Luddites. Writing someone off as a “Luddite” probably isn’t the burn you think it is.

  I’m all for technological progress. Who isn’t? It’s the politics and ownership that causes issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like a perfectly reasonable experiment and not something they’re going to release without extensive human and security review.

  Oauth libraries aren’t new and A.I. can probably generate adequate code. My main problem with A.I. for this purpose is that senior developers/experts don’t pop out of thin air. You need junior developers now if you want any real experts in the future. Maybe you need fewer and more specialized training. Maybe the goal is to offload the training cost to Universities and tech companies only want PhDs. Maybe someday LLMs will be good enough to not need much supervision. But that’s not where we are.

  We probably need a Level x capability scale like self-driving cars for this sort of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A UK government trial with 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shorten every meeting by 15 minutes and call as few as possible with as few people as possible. Get rid of TPS reports or whatever bullshit forms the English and Welsh government(s) require.

  I mean, fuck, reducing commute times would save people time. Spend the Copilot money on public infrastructure and you’ll increase productivity.

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

  I think Waymo is also trying to prioritize safety. I was in San Francisco recently and took one, just out of curiosity, from my hotel to a Giants game. It seemed to stop when pedestrian traffic got heavy instead of going all the way to the stadium. So, like three blocks from the stadium. No biggie. I might have told a human taxi driver I could walk from there.

  I’m not sure if it’s a California regulation or Waymo trying to play it safe but I will never get in a self-driving car regulated by Texas and designed to the specifications of one of history’s biggest dumbasses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I can tell, almost no one is a potential A.I. customer. Devs use GitHub Copilot but it’s not a game changer or anything.

  I’m not an A.I. hater. I think it’ll eventually bring great medical advancements and prove valuable. I just think it’s overhyped for average consumers. I don’t think it’s going to be something as revolutionary as smartphones or even Snake on Nokia phones. To me, it feels like a “nice to have” tech more than “essential” tech. And the downsides are considerable. I don’t suspect any Sci Fi shit will happen but making spammers more efficient isn’t worth the carbon footprint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I try to support Mozilla (and more obscure open source projects we take for granted) through donations and subscriptions. But I never used Pocket or Fakespot.

  I don’t think it should be a forced payment but I’d pay a few bucks a month for a true developer edition. The current one is essentially just the early beta for extension developers but something really developer focused with no bullshit and developer tools at the forefront. I don’t know if that’s something other people would pay for but I feel like it’s easier to shell out cash when I’m using it for work. A lot of people could probably expense it.

  It likely wouldn’t replace the Google money but it’d be a start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The key scandal to me — I live in NOLA — is that the city council had tons of debates and put in place a process and limitations on facial recognition to limit false positives. But the new cameras aren’t city owned. A private company sells the cameras to businesses. Then, if a crime happens, the police call the company and ask if they “witnessed” anything. Then, the company basically texts officers a location if they think their facial recognition software spots the suspect.

  And since we’re apparently the demonstration city (again) for a company, it’s no cost to taxpayers. Maybe that makes it no different from typical police work to you. But even if the product worked perfectly, and it likely doesn’t, I don’t like the idea of the NOPD secretly working overtime to find loopholes around laws and regulations.

  And that’s before you get to collecting evidence for trial. Defense attorneys probably won’t have a hard time getting these cases dismissed unless there’s tons of other evidence.