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- Comment on Max pivots back to HBO Max as WBD rethinks ability to compete with Netflix 31 minutes ago:
The app I sometimes have to use to watch a basketball game really shouldn’t rebrand as much as it does. I’m starting to think the CEO might be the dumbest fuck alive.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 21 hours ago:
Who will fuck up the settings, control panel, registry, etc. interfaces now? The person who keeps putting Candy Crush on the start menu like it’s their life mission?
- Comment on Microsoft laying off 3% of workforce in biggest round of cuts since 2023 - report 1 day ago:
That’s it. The last straw. I’m putting my Zune on eBay and investing in a Creative ZEN X-Fi2 64 bit.
- Comment on The scandalous story of Fred Trump: how Donald Trump's father made his millions 1 day ago:
Saved you a click: he was the top performer at the dick sucking factory and ge got away with more overtime fraud than the NYPD so he made like $300,000 a year. His son grew up to have an even sadder life where he had to pay others just to be within 20 meters of him.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 6 days ago:
Why are you borrowing like $3,000 a credit hour to use ChatGPT? Take some fucking humanities courses so you don’t grow up to be like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk challenging each other to an MMA match. This might be your last chance in life to be surrounded by experts and hot people having discussions.
- Comment on 'Wind theft': The mysterious effect plaguing wind farms 1 week ago:
That smells like oil lobby horseshit. It’s probably a real, but extremely minor phenomenon that we’re going to have to hear about it for fucking ever.
- Comment on Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration 1 week ago:
Pretty sure Palantir got the “Keep Americans Divided” contract and not the non-profit radio stations that do Tiny Desk concerts and have to do fundraisers all the time to keep the lights on.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 week ago:
I had better than 20x20 vision when they gave us eye-tests in high school and I’ve often gotten, “Holy shit, you can read that from here?” I always chose screen space over font-size but I recently had to dial it back a notch for the first time. The optometrists come for us all, eventually.
My vision still seems fine but it takes longer to adjust and focus. Like I have a digital clock I used to glance at to check the time and now I have to squint for a few seconds and wait. It’s sort of like a phone camera auto-focus where it sorts things out but it used to be immediate.
- Comment on SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App 1 week ago:
It’s actually pretty reliable. It’s left wing, to be sure, but during the BLM protests, for instance, they had actual reporters on the ground and were live-streaming everything. They’re transparent.
I don’t know where to place it on the “reliable” spectrum. From what I’ve seen, their articles are sourced and edited but live streaming from a chaotic situation is sort of like being a “war correspondent” where it can be impossible to know what’s happening. So, it’s probably important to get more context later as more context comes to light. But I’ve never seen them lie deliberately or anything like that.
I don’t know the term for it but maybe “guerrilla journalism” or something like that. They’ll send a dude on a skateboard to the middle of a riot while other reporters are in the “press zone” and covering police press conferences or whatever.
- Comment on xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security 1 week ago:
I didn’t think they should use A.I. yet at all. I don’t think the shitty version of machine learning of today is ready for engineering giant explosive things. As someone else pointed out, document management for regulatory filings and stuff is (hopefully) the use case. I don’t care if it’s used in that way.
Basically, I think today’s “A.I.” should be treated as alpha software. It has a ton of potential but there is a lot left to do, especially on things involving human or even critter life like rocket science, self-driving cars, or military applications where “edge cases” are life or death situations. (I don’t think it should be used for military applications until it’s really fucking mature tech but it’s already apparently being used for that so the cat’s out the bag there.)
- Comment on xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security 1 week ago:
That makes sense. Like you, I’ve generally found that LLMs are incredibly useful for certain, highly specific things but people (CEOs especially) need to understand their limitations.
When it first came out, I purposely used ChatGPT on a trip to evaluate it. I was in a historic city on a business trip where I stayed an extra few days so I was traveling alone. It was good at being a tour guide. Obviously, I could have researched everything and read guidebooks but I was focused on my work stuff. Being able to ask follow-up questions and have a conversation was a real improvement over traditional search.
That’s obviously a limited use case where I was asking questions that could have been answered in traditional ways but I found that to be a good consumer use case. It knew details that wouldn’t necessarily be in a Wikipedia article or Guidebook that would take me 15 Google searches to answer. Just my own little curiosity questions about an old building or whatever. I cross-checked things later and it didn’t hallucinate. Obviously, a very limited use case but it was good at it.
- Comment on xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security 1 week ago:
What the fuck is SpaceX using a large language model for?
- Comment on Meta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from generative AI by 2035 1 week ago:
I suspect it’s more likely that Meta won’t exist in any recognizable way in 2035 than anyone makes a huge profit on A.I. in the next decade. There will be advancements, to be sure, and compute will (hopefully) get cheaper and more efficient but 2035 seems like an Elon-Musk-level optimistic timeline.
I’m sort of agnostic on A.I. I don’t like it for much now but certainly see its potential. But look how long it took for The Internet to be universally adopted. And that’s assuming researchers even can solve the really hard last 20% of problems.
But someone smarter than me once put it better:
- Comment on Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address 2 weeks ago:
How the turntables have turned π radians. Maybe. We’ll see.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It has always been thus. Something like 20 years ago, Edits from Congressperson’s DNS entries kept getting caught editing their (or more likely their boss’s) profile without knowing how to hide their identity.
- Comment on Apple customers are paying 16 times more for a chinese product sold 25 bucks 2 weeks ago:
Paying the Apple tax is a known part of the deal. It’s not always worth it for an individual but it is nice having an Apple Store in every major city (at least in the U.S.). I got my mom a MacBook because she lives 45 minutes away and I was sick of being her tech support for an operating system I don’t use regularly.
I got my stepdad a Chromebook last year when he asked me to fix his laptop. I said sure and then it was this giant 32 bit antique running Windows Vista. I was just like, “I would rather buy a Chromebook than connect this thing to my WiFi network.”
I use all the operating systems, by the way. I have Arch on my Steam Deck, I guess. More of a Fedora man myself but to each their own. I ain’t judging.
- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 2 weeks ago:
I forgot about Dre but I was fairly comprehensive.
- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 2 weeks ago:
In fairness, I poisoned one food item in every music executive’s house as punishment for them being thieves.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 2 weeks ago:
I admit I didn’t watch the video — I’ve trained YouTube’s algorithm well at this point and don’t want Tesla content — but what the fuck is a predictive odometer? The tires roll a certain distance. We’ve had odometers for like 75 years.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 3 weeks ago:
/s
- Comment on The US government is coming for Google and Meta – but what will happen next? 3 weeks ago:
They could just shut down Meta and it would take a week for everyone to adjust.
- Comment on A New Form of Verification on Bluesky 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want to know who any of you people are. None of us saw anything. And if so much as a squirrel asks, I’m asking for a lawyer.
- Comment on A New Form of Verification on Bluesky 3 weeks ago:
Probably but they’ve designated others to do it. Like a trusted organization can verify people. Some of the developers seemed hostile. But who gives a fuck about a blue check anyway? Even before Elon, it was a gag on Twitter that it some fucking moron who interned at Reason or some shit and got a big head about.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad we’re putting all our eggs in this alpha-ass-level software (with tons of promise! Maybe!) instead of like high speed rail or whatever.
- Comment on China’s CATL claims to have overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV battery charging time 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for doing the math.
- Comment on China’s CATL claims to have overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV battery charging time 3 weeks ago:
The advancements in battery tech are obviously great news but I still have no idea how you’d power a “traditional” charging station (with several terminals) for EVs.
There’s plenty of time to find a solution to that before today’s experimental battery tech becomes ubiquitous in cars but power generation and infrastructure seems like it’ll be the bottleneck. I haven’t done the math or anything but it just seems like 5m charging of more than one or two cars at once would strain the grid that exists today.
- Comment on Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects 3 weeks ago:
I guess the 2019 coup backfired on Tesla if the contracts went to China and Russia. Or maybe he paid off enough people and will get a cut?
And people say he only recently went nuts.
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 3 weeks ago:
Teenagers do all those things constantly.
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 4 weeks ago:
Telling 15 year-olds what to do famously always works.
