elbarto777
@elbarto777@lemmy.world
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 day ago:
Heh. In my case, one WD SSD failed miserably on me.
Thanks for the explanation.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 day ago:
“you only”
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 day ago:
Is this true? I remember them being very reliable in the past.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
Yup! Google “Duolingo snot icon” and it will be the first image result.
Or you could visit the orange site and check it out here:
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
AI is social lung cancer. Behind social media, which is bone cancer metastasized.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
…or join a reputable language learning academy and go to class in person.
Though I know this is not for everyone. But neither is self-learning online.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
“Amir, on his way to become successful in life…”
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
Did you comment on the wrong thread?
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
I gotta say, the icon of Duo looking like this, plus a snot coming out of one of its nostrils is what did it for me. No way to turn off this “feature” either. I’m not easily grossed out, so seeing it once or twice would have given me a chuckle. Seeing it every time I opened my phone? Nope.
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What the hell are you talking about?
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 3 weeks ago:
I’m convinced that Trump is just a puppet.
- Comment on Open source text editor poisoned to target Uyghur users 4 weeks ago:
And that’s why I said “in disguise.”
- Comment on Open source text editor poisoned to target Uyghur users 5 weeks ago:
Hey folks, gather up. This is what a whataboutism in disguise looks like.
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
lol true!
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
That’s just I.
- Comment on Nicole has taken a dark turn 1 month ago:
It’s probably photoshop or a photo of someone who looks like her. Horrid stuff, sure, but don’t let it make you lose sleep for it. “Hopefully not real” - it may well be. There’s an unlimited supply of gore on the Internet. I found the hard way back in my teen years. Something died inside of me because of it (innocence? I dunno…), and then I decided that the best thing I could do is accept that people suck and to try to live my own life as best as I could, and help others as much as I could.
- Comment on Nicole has taken a dark turn 1 month ago:
It could be photoshopped.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
Uh, yes? It’s not about sending a message inside MS only. It was about sending it out there. See how we’re discussing the story? Are we MS employees? Where’s my 401K?
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
…maybe.
Or, hear me out, the dude specifically applied for Microsoft with the intention of changing shit.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
Oh yeah, “modern day slavery has been a problem for years. Why be vocal about it now?”
Look, I am a cynical nobody, so I sometimes think “nothing will ever change.” But some brave souls, more idealistic than me, take these steps with the hope that it will spark change - or at least it will put one more straw in the camel.
So yeah, it’s about sending a message, and I think that’s important.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 1 month ago:
Don’t feed the trolls.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 1 month ago:
I know this is a joke, but to be fair, a good chunk of Americans are highly educated. It’s just that the morons are more motivated to vote (and yes, I see the irony of not voting as a moronic thing to do.)
- Comment on Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots 1 month ago:
By the way, Mullvad rocks!
- Comment on Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots 1 month ago:
I completely understand your position and yes, organizations blocking VPN traffic is some major bullshit.
Like apps that ask for your location when they can perfectly function without it. Don’t provide me with a “Never ask me again” checkbox? Fine, I’ll play this game every time. Stop working because now you demand location? A stupid game app? Uninstalled.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 month ago:
But that’s the thing, man. You can’t just make a blanket statement like “under 18 can’t consent” when there is no universal law stating so.
If you said that under 18 people can’t consent in some jurisdictions from the very beginning, we could have saved so much typing.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 month ago:
Ok, friend. In that case, we’re on the same page.
Teens of a certain age can consent. But I agree that some 40 year old wanting and attempting to have sex with a 17 year old is a fucking depraved predator trying to take advantage of inexperience.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
It was about sending a message.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
I don’t know why people put up with BS just to play some game.
I guess the neurons that activate in their brains are the same that activate in the brains of smokers that are aware that smoking causes cancer, yet they do it anyway.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 1 month ago:
Understood. And yeah, language is definitely an interesting topic. “Why do you say ‘So be it’ instead of ‘So is it’?” Most people will say “I don’t know… all I know if that it sounds correct.” Someone will say “it’s because it’s a preterite preposition past imperfect incantation tense used with an composition participle around-the-clock flush adverb, so clearly you must use the subjunctive in this case.” But that’s after studying it years later.
- Comment on Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots 1 month ago:
Specifically blacklisting a group of users because of the technology they use is, by definition, “targeting”, right? I mean, if not, what qualifies as “targeting” for you?
You may be right. I guess it’s a matter of semantics. But the way you described it sounded more nefarious. “I’ll target this group of VPN users because fuck them, I hope they all die in a tsunami!!!” when it’s more like “ugh, another VPN bot. The 9th this hour and I’m hungry. You know what - I’ll just block VPN altogether and go fix me a sandwich.” Maybe that’s just my perception.
But anyway - it’s Joe Blogger’s machine, at his home, for him to do whatever he likes. Some rando from the street knocks on the door and says “excuse me, do you mind if I send an e-mail from your computer?” Joe Blogger can perfectly say no, not even an excuse is owed.
You’d have a point if it was a business or a corporation. Some home machine? Out of billions? Why bother?
I guess we’re two pedantic folks. I enjoy these discussions. I sometimes gain some new knowledge out of them.