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- Comment on Economist warns that Elon Musk is about to cause a "deep, deep recession" 23 hours ago:
Well, I guess the person(s) who make the unemployment report are next to be visited by doggie.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Calls for Tech Patriotism, Warns of AI Warfare 1 day ago:
So people critical of AI are going to be called pinkos soon?
- Comment on Any book with contemporary setting will eventually be a book with historical setting 3 days ago:
Seinfeld in HD is a 90s period piece.
- Comment on Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon 1 week ago:
Screenshots will be fine in the case of fascists. It’s not like replies to them are effective anyway.
And I don’t remember seeing many “look at this damn pornbot” quote tweets.
This is a more constructive reply tho. Thank you.
- Comment on Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon 1 week ago:
Calm down.
These are called mitigations. They will make a big impact.
A single tap to start spewing shit at someone is very different from having to enter someone’s username. Or even having to find someone’s username, depending on how the screenshot is handled. Friction is the point here.
You come off a bit like someone saying “you think this’ll fucking stop me?”
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 1 week ago:
It says my report is “in review” and I’ll be notified when they review it.
I wonder how that will go, and how fast.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 week ago:
I don’t think giving the temperature knob to end users is the answer.
Turning it to max for max correctness and low creativity won’t work in an intuitive way.
Sure, turning it down from the balanced middle value will make it more “creative” and unexpected, and this is useful for idea generation, etc. But a knob that goes from “good” to “sort of off the rails, but in a good way” isn’t a great user experience for most people.
Most people understand this stuff as intended to be intelligent. Correct. Etc. Or they At least understand that’s the goal. Once you give them a knob to adjust the “intelligence level,” you’ll have more pushback on these things not meeting their goals. “I clearly had it in factual/correct/intelligent mode. Not creativity mode. I don’t understand why it left our these facts and invented a back story to this small thing mentioned…”
Not everyone is an engineer. Temp is an obtuse thing.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
Burnout Paradise woulda been banned from Steam.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 1 week ago:
Him and his libertarian friends fuck up left and right. Crashing startups and just getting more money for another. Etc
Yet they hold the government to a standard of being perfect and high performing with no room for failure.
And Trump is the biggest fuckup of all these guys.
- Comment on Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’ 1 week ago:
Broadcasting, publishing with instant and far reach, etc. with the power of the algorithms to amplify. Whatever you want to label it. I only used “broadcasting” because for the 1 to many communication. Many being more than a handful of friends.
It is different from word of mouth. It is another party amplifying the behavior you are saying already existed.
That’s my point. And you just stated it. The difference is they can show the world and perpetuate the “challenge” by modeling it for thousands of others instead of just their local friends/kid in the neighborhood.
you are discounting the power of the platform algorithms to connect these kids and to amplify the appearance of this behavior as normal.
- Comment on Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’ 1 week ago:
I never said such a thing.
This is about broadcasting. Not word of mouth. If you can point to countless examples of broadcasting, please educate me.
- Comment on Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’ 2 weeks ago:
Where have kids been posting videos for decades?
- Comment on Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL 2 weeks ago:
As long as people are involved you really can’t guard fully against it.
The AI will save us.
- Comment on Arm ends legal efforts to terminate Qualcomm’s license 2 weeks ago:
Qualcomm sucks. Just my opinion.
They like to do patent and licensing shenanigans. So this situation felt like justice.
- Comment on Arm ends legal efforts to terminate Qualcomm’s license 2 weeks ago:
Lame.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 2 weeks ago:
Meta Horizons
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 weeks ago:
Those will be some hot NICs.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 2 weeks ago:
If people could stop redefining words, that would go a long way to fixing our current strife.
Not a total solution, but it would clarify the discussion. I loathe people who redefine and weaponize words.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 2 weeks ago:
People underestimate how more RAM can be more power usage.
- Comment on Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet 2 weeks ago:
porkbun is an alternative to the cheap registrar.
But I thought Cloudflare had great DDOS protection. And the comment I replied to says to just do it yourself.
Why did you skip over that?
- Comment on ‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government 2 weeks ago:
“The government makes mistakes. Check important info.”
- Comment on Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet 2 weeks ago:
Really? For DDOS and privacy protection?
I know Cloudflare is indeed a growing issue. But I think it’s growing because it’s really difficult to self host/provide some of their services.
- Comment on Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more 2 weeks ago:
Software use to cost this much and much more in the 90s, and often did less and wasn’t frequently updated.
It’s 25-30 years later.
People have lost touch with what paid software costs.
- Comment on Crypto Hackers Edit Trump's Old Tweets to Insert Fake Nude Photos of Him 2 weeks ago:
I always wondered how the orange was applied.
- Comment on RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users 5 weeks ago:
Ironic.
- Comment on Starfield's abandoned gore and dismemberment system sure would have made it less grey 5 weeks ago:
Tech issues! It’s the most advanced version of their pile of tech ever, right?
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 1 month ago:
They are also important for VR content. You need a lot of pixels to fill someone’s Field of View.
- Comment on Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here's why 1 month ago:
They basically walk through all that in the video version. Including playing clips of companies saying their raised prices are sticky, and they expect more profit as a result when inflation cools.
They should that percentage stuff in an animated graphical explanation of passing costs through to the customer.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 1 month ago:
Social media should never be someone’s primary website too. IMO. But people are lazy.
They don’t even want email anymore, they want you to message them with X or Instagram or whatever.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 1 month ago:
RSS really should be more common.
You use your get RSS feeds for Twitter accounts. AFAIR. So Twitter accounts were effectively RSS notification feeds at one point.
Aaron Swartz was involved in developing RSS v1.0 too, cofounder of Reddit.