Kyrgizion
@Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
- Comment on Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses 7 hours ago:
And the enshittification continues unabated.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 20 hours ago:
I low key assume this means the next strike will be using tactical nukes. This is bad news folks.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 3 days ago:
Thinking wikipedia or other unbiased sources will still be available in a decade or so is wishful thinking. Once the digital stranglehold kicks in, it’ll be mandatory sign-in with gov vetted identity provider and your sources will be limited to what that gov allows you to see. MMW.
- Comment on Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do. 4 days ago:
Yeah because Grok keeps calling out his damn lies lol. Not for very much longer obviously but the gaffes published so far have been very entertaining, if not depressing.
- Comment on Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow. 4 days ago:
Exactly. Just recently found out a favorite creator of mine has shut down his youtube channel and all their videos spanning over a decade are just gone. Feelsbadman.jpg.
- Comment on How can websites verify unique (IRL) identities? 4 days ago:
This will be mandatory before the end of the decade.
- Comment on The Elder God 4 days ago:
Coincidence. They just wait long enough until the previous war is out of the people’s minds, or enough young people weren’t even alive when it happened to do it again. And again. And again.
- Comment on Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real 5 days ago:
People living in 3rd world countries have been intimately acquainted with this phenomenon for decades. What makes anyone think that the West is immune to it?
Climate change means everyone (except of course… you know) will get to partake in the dismal reality of survival soon, even those who couldn’t conceive of the fucking concept just a few years ago.
- Comment on YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures 5 days ago:
Noticed it for a single day, then ublock must’ve updated and everything works fine again. I will drop YT entirely before I watch a single shitty ad on there, let alone pay for a sub.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 6 days ago:
True, but I feel the original X-files had that in droves with Scully and practically everyone else opposing Mulder at every turn. It took a damn long time for him to finally be vindicated, arguably until the movie.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 6 days ago:
The effects that worry me most and are arguably the best studied are those on the human endocrine system. It unarguably interferes with our hormonal system, although it is not yet known to which degree or how it impacts each individual separately. Most likely this will go the way of cigarettes; with the world “knowing” it’s poison but not taking action until the effects can absolutely no longer be ignored. By which time it will be too late for many.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 6 days ago:
I hear you but nah. We have more than enough “realistic” and “gritty” shows. The whimsy of X-files was what made it tick. Taking that way would just make it boring which is the worsts possible outcome for such a show.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 6 days ago:
Definitely agreed on cars, but Japan’s last few moon missions had several catastrophic failures unfortunately.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 6 days ago:
I would ride a Honda rocket a hundred times before ever setting foot on anything developed by SpaceX
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 6 days ago:
Fairly sure they “saved” hundreds of thousands in wages only to lose millions to billions in material. An engineer working 80 hour weeks month after month isn’t nearly going to be as productive as one doing 40hr weeks, no matter how many hours they put out. There’s actually a point where it turns negative and every extra hour put in detracts from output, not to mention long-time wellbeing and development.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 6 days ago:
It’s incredible, isn’t it? I used to be so stoked on space exploration and all the science that goes with it. Still am, really, but my enthusiasm has cooled markedly once billionaires started throwing dick-shaped space missiles around for no other reason than being able to.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 6 days ago:
Ngl, had me in the first half.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 1 week ago:
Musk is going to be PISSED when he finds out there is no bureau of physics he can subsume or destroy from within. I believe one Rush Stockton came to a similar conclusion, if he indeed had time for that conclusion to even form before perishing.
- Comment on The real question is, which color? 1 week ago:
Poisonous skittle. Bam, everyone happy.
- Comment on this thing fucking sucks 1 week ago:
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
- Comment on Chemistry is weird 2 weeks ago:
Even just H and O on their own can be quite scary. Throw them together and BAM, ubiquitous lifegiving liquid.
- Comment on 4chan and porn site investigated by Ofcom over online safety 2 weeks ago:
4Chan? This seems to be like… a decade too late, at best.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 2 weeks ago:
Love the sentiment, curious about implementation.
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 weeks ago:
User data has been the internet’s greatest treasure trove since the advent of Google. LLM’s are perfectly set up to extract the most intimate data available from their users (“mental health” conversations, financial advice, …) which can be used against them in a soft way (higher prices when looking for mental health help) or they can be used to outright manipulate or blackmail you.
Regardless, there is no scenario in which the end user wins.
- Comment on Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle 2 weeks ago:
End-to-end encryption should cover you, but anything that can set up man-in-the-middle attacks is poised to defeat that.
- Comment on Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle 2 weeks ago:
Look, in today’s world, you get to choose who spies on you depending on your chosen platform, but spy on you they absolutely will. Wether it’s the Russians, the Chinese or USA. The only way to not get spied on is to not use electronic communications at all.
- Comment on Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report 2 weeks ago:
TL;DR: money. It’s always just money.
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 weeks ago:
You’re probably not wrong. It’s definitely along the same lines… although the repercussions of this particular one will be infinitely greater than those of the industrial revolution.
Also, industrialization made for better products because of better manufacturing processes. I’m by no means sure we can say the same about AI. Maybe some day, but today it’s just “an advanced dumbass” considering most real world scenarios.
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 weeks ago:
Because the goal of “AI” is to make the grand majority of us all obsolete. The billion-dollar question AI is trying to solve is “why should we continue to pay wages?”. That is bad for everyone who isn’t part of the owner class. Even if you personally benefit from using it to make yourself more productive/creative/… the data you input can and WILL eventually be used against you.
If you only self-host and know what you’re doing, this might be somewhat different, but it still won’t stop the big guys from trying to swallow all the others whole.
- Comment on Brojob 2 weeks ago:
I- Is that Niko from GTA4?