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- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 week ago:
When I deliver it as a response to a request I have to deliver the gzipped version if nothing else. To get to a point where I’m poisoning an AI I’m assuming it’s going to require gigabytes of data transfer that I pay for.
At best I’m adding to the power consumption of AI.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 week ago:
This is surely trivial to detect. If the number of pages on the site is greater than some insanely high number then just drop all data from that site from the training data.
It’s not like I can afford to compete with OpenAI on bandwidth, and they’re burning through money with no cares already.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 week ago:
Perhaps because their app and its gamification of learning is addictive and quite fun.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 1 week ago:
I’m sure this won’t be a popular comment, but I can see how having a motivated learner in a 1:1 lesson with an AI might be better for that person than sitting in a class with 35 other people, most of whom don’t want to be there, running through a syllabus that the teacher may not even like, at the pace of the slowest kid in class.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
For YouTube, viewers aren’t the users, advertisers are.
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 2 weeks ago:
Hey, stop trolling!
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 2 weeks ago:
I completely agree. I don’t even like it when the human reader clearly doesn’t understand what they’re saying, so some AI flatly telling me the story isn’t going to cut it.
For the humans, someone mispronounced “quay” for example. “La Jolla” was another standout mistake that took me out of the story.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 2 weeks ago:
I was looking to cut down on subscriptions and picked Netflix as an experimental one. I haven’t missed it at all. Things like this make me less likely to occasionally reactivate for a couple of months as I was originally planning.
I wonder when they’ll see a big enough effect to break their current run of fucking over their customers.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 3 weeks ago:
I lost my job in April 2024 and I finally got my new job at the end of January. Keep your chin up. Look for people you know who could give referrals. That’s how I ended up getting hired. Good luck!
- Comment on Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive 5 weeks ago:
Tell that to the people who were working on it and will now get laid off instead.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 1 month ago:
You literally never hear “America scientists” even if some of them might be from another country. Same with every single other country I can think of, except China.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 month ago:
If you’re breaking the law then you forfeit your rights in favor of some much more restrictive ones.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 2 months ago:
“most of the surrounding villages”
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 2 months ago:
For every person switching from Windows to Linux, how many people got a new Chromebook or a Mac, or just do everything on their phones or a tablet?
I have a Linux machine myself, and I love having it, but I don’t think the user base is growing particularly quickly as a percentage of PC OS installations.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 2 months ago:
Right after Linux on desktop takes off, which is sure to happen any day now.
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 3 months ago:
Requiescat in pace
- Comment on Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women 3 months ago:
Realistically how is a man going to design a good sex robot for a woman? Let a woman do that, they’ll get what they want.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 3 months ago:
If they made Wordpad generate Markdown instead of RTF (or as well as, but by default) then I’d consider using it. As it is, I already pay for a Jetbrains license, so I just use Fleet. Massive overkill for note-taking, but it’s there and it works.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 3 months ago:
I’m not American, I just live here… for now
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’m sure they left the spelling mistake in the image on purpose to get increased engagement from pedants like me, I’m sorry, it works on me.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 3 months ago:
Assuming we don’t just get 8 years of President Vance…
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 3 months ago:
Because if you believe it’s worth $97B you don’t offer to overpay by $3B…
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 3 months ago:
Yeah, if they’re down for over three weeks then I imagine they’ll be forced to refund at least some of the PS+ price.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 3 months ago:
Last night I thought “this happened a few years ago, too, and we got free games as an apology” and now you tell me it was 14 YEARS ago!?
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 3 months ago:
Well, at least they’re doing it quietly.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 3 months ago:
Welcome to the internet.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 3 months ago:
Is there a community for that? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 3 months ago:
Oh right, is that when they moved to a different tectonic plate?
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 3 months ago:
“Europe and the UK” did they move the UK to another continent, or did they mean the EU?
- Comment on China to launch antitrust probe into Google 3 months ago:
This is how it’s going to be for the next few years then?