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- Comment on Google is launching Offerwall, A new tool for publishers /websites to paywall their content. 2 hours ago:
I wonder how much it’ll integrate with Chrome to prevent tampering. I know it’ll probably not be perfect, but….
- Comment on Roblox Accused Of Allowing Sexual Exploitation In Four Separate Lawsuits 20 hours ago:
What are condos? Is that short for something?
The terms in Roblox are weird. I recently learned what “obby” is. (Obstacle course)
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 1 day ago:
Impressive.
- Comment on Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices 1 day ago:
I thought recent rulings talked about Consoles as a special class that was exempt from being forced to have third party stores. Was this EU only?
- Comment on AI can kill information 1 day ago:
From what I understand, Elon Musk literally said he wants to change Grok so it performs literally this.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 days ago:
So the people doing the snatching are gig workers? Is there TaskRabbit for fascism?
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 days ago:
👏
- Comment on Gov. Landry signs new drone defense law; first in nation 1 week ago:
Hmm, if laws do pass preventing states from making laws against AI, then we may have legal conflicts regarding laws against drones. They use AI.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 week ago:
“I just find the civil war fascinating.”
- Comment on I wonder how the owner of the dog in the Dodge meme feels about someone using their dead dog as a shody government initiative 1 week ago:
Or for a scam meme coin.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 2 weeks ago:
“Oops, we are tracking children” is something that has happened many times in recent years, IIRC. Probally still intentional.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 2 weeks ago:
Based
- Comment on IBM plans to build IBM Quantum Starling, a “fault-tolerant” quantum computer with 20,000x the power of today's quantum computers, in New York state by 2029 2 weeks ago:
They are in a super position between hired and fired.
- Comment on UK vehicle regulator David Ward says cars sold in Europe are so much safer than in the U.S. 2 weeks ago:
A Tata Punch is a great car name.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 weeks ago:
This sure riled people up.
- Comment on Is Reddit in/directly attacking lemmy instances with controversial AI posts to overpower mods and reduce user experience? 3 weeks ago:
People really have become a bit paranoid about bots. It’s sad what AI has done to assumptions.
I’m not sure how to articulate it, really.
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 3 weeks ago:
I’m hopeful too. We need things like this to start moving in the opposite direction.
The internet and surveillance capitalism have allowed for hyper optimized psychological manipulation. It’s long past time for regulations to catch up.
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, it the it just reads like a reddit comment to me. 🤣
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 3 weeks ago:
This interview with Palmer Luckey about the news is wild to listen to, if that’s your thing.
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 3 weeks ago:
We were warned, but allowed it to become endemic.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
I bet Zuck is regretting not going forward with their crypto scheme
- Comment on OpenAI sees human interaction as a competitor to ChatGPT's super assistant ambitions 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I didn’t realize I was advocating for SocialVR to an antisocialite. Forgive me.
Anyway, this is why headsets need to get much much better. So more people own headsets.
- Comment on OpenAI sees human interaction as a competitor to ChatGPT's super assistant ambitions 3 weeks ago:
It will be, but not necessarily under his control. And it’s going to organically grow over the long haul.
- Comment on Community Notes vanishes from X feeds, raising 'serious questions' amid ongoing EU probe 4 weeks ago:
Wow, not too long after Facebook adopted the same tactic. They chose to drop their previous processes in favor of having their users take care of it.
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 4 weeks ago:
I suspect these recording tools cause perf issues on low end hardware.
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 4 weeks ago:
Looks like brittle bottle of the barrel plastic to me.
- Comment on Apple’s Smart Glasses Expected to Hit the Market by Late Next Year! 4 weeks ago:
The downvotes around here are insufferable.
- Comment on Musk and Zuck ‘Use Our Love for Each Other to Hold Us Hostage’ 4 weeks ago:
Network Effects.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 5 weeks ago:
I work in higher education making online courses. It’s really stressing everyone out.
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 5 weeks ago:
They took on a very strict ruleset to avoid clutter and chaos.