paraphrand
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- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 9 hours ago:
Dude just drop a fucking link.
- Comment on New chemical trick pushes perovskite solar cells past 26% record efficiency 11 hours ago:
This isn’t exactly like wasting coal generated electricity through inefficiency. It’s not like we are wasting limited sun.
- Comment on Steam is giving some players refunds for Ashes of Creation, which had the biggest MMO Kickstarter campaign ever, after leadership resignation and mass layoffs 1 day ago:
MMO games and Kickstarters don’t seem like a good idea. They never work out.
- Comment on Growing number of adults avoid booze, says NHS survey 1 day ago:
It does if you try hard enough.
- Comment on TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe 2 days ago:
Nonsense.
- Comment on TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe 2 days ago:
Tech companies shouldn’t have these sorts of algorithmic profiles of people. It’s manipulation.
- Comment on Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026 5 days ago:
This is the one I always think of.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 5 days ago:
5k and 6k is where it’s at. Get hip.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 6 days ago:
It was just Safari (WebKit) at that point.
- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 6 days ago:
So that’s what the second plus includes….
- Comment on Stop Destroying Videogames initiative to get a public hearing organised by the European Parliament 1 week ago:
Following the immense success of the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative
Wait, what immense results have come from it?
- Comment on What if the Epstein files are the distraction? 1 week ago:
Flood the zone.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 1 week ago:
That sounds like such a drain.
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
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- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 week ago:
I feel old every time I share that I’ve never installed TikTok and don’t have an account.
In many ways, I feel a bit like I am still forced to use the app when interacting with the rest of social media and society. Because the damn format, and culture, and way of thinking and producing videos has seeped so deep into all aspects of our lives.
The whole mode of consuming media in an algorithmic flipbook like that weirds me out. I don’t understand how anyone can enjoy being enticed to watch videos in the way TikTok promotes.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 2 weeks ago:
“Open” once again being abused as angle to build something for an exit. It sounds like.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 2 weeks ago:
Your friend has a growth on its abdomen. I’d have a doctor look at it.
- Comment on New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?' 2 weeks ago:
It’s indeed a surprise if you believe their claims about LLMs being intelligent.
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 2 weeks ago:
Cool.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 2 weeks ago:
HKSV does not get sent to ICE.
- Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab 2 weeks ago:
It’s so easy to pontificate instead of actually doing studies, right?
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 2 weeks ago:
Translation, not emulation.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 3 weeks ago:
I feel like some sort of scheme will be invented to fuck your average person over when that time comes.
- Comment on SK hynix to spend $13 billion on the world's largest HBM memory assembly plant amid the worst shortage on record — South Korea facility to handle packaging and testing for AI memory campus 3 weeks ago:
On record.
We only started keeping records in 2006.
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I described this more in another reply. And the more I described what I would want from an ai assistant the more it made me realize how bad it would be for society.
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 3 weeks ago:
That’s true, these supposedly intelligent systems are really stupid about this stuff still. Especially with limited room to store that additional ever growing context about you.
I wasn’t accounting for quality, and it’s bad right now for this. And I’m skeptical it will get better. The models need to be tactful about using accumulated knowledge about the person driving.
I can’t help be feel my descriptions getting more and more similar to just describing a competent person. And, I’m aware I’m being idealistic and what I’m OK with won’t be a product any time soon.
I guess it would be fully on device, encrypted at rest and have a perfectly good memory of our conversations and it would be tactful in bringing in knowledge into conversations. I dunno, I’m just describing the ideal personal assistant AI. And many people would make it a companion. And… yeah, anyway. Surveillance capitalism and pervasive advertising is bad.
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 3 weeks ago:
I would be ok with it being like a person, more like an acquaintance at work maybe. Specifically having the AI know about me only based on what I’ve said.
But none of this surveillance economy stuff. And the AI model can be no snitch to big ad tech.
- Comment on Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage 3 weeks ago:
Wow, 12 hours
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
You guys were right. I’m on Voyager!
