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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have been a user for 3 years at least, surely you have heard about the tankie situation on Lemmy? If you don’t share these views it’s better to ignore/block those three or four instances. It will make your Lemmy experience much more relaxing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Motorola Mobility belongs to Chinese Lenovo but headquarters are in Chicago. Not sure if that makes it better or worse regarding privacy and surveillance compared to USA only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The red line is the amount of cash they are ready to compromise for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Medusa likely would have had tiny snakes growing from her upper lip and chin as she aged.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe she could move like a millipede thanks to the leg snakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The tobacco industry is a good historical example of all the shit world dominating companies do. The most sneaky thing I can remember is that they finance perfectly good research on a lot of causes of cancer, except for tobacco, so researchers were too busy to investigate tobacco. They also have been buying companies that used to finance legitimate research so researchers that depended on them are now forced into a conflict of interest. www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1153

  Personal anecdote, a young female data scientists left my current department to join Philip Morris, it blows my mind that young educated people would join this industry willingly, I guess it was for the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, not just world wide like the USA currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For now, once China becomes the dominant power, they will certainly abuse it as much as the USA do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was making a joke, but thank you for your efforts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could share sources about this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  mediabiasfactcheck.com/ars-technica/ gives a factual reporting score and political bias estimation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope it’s the first proof of general AI consciousness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As said in the article, in Western Europe you can already use Wero to bypass those and it is spreading in Europe. In France, for the past 40 years, the “CB” network has been available for every basic bank payment card, which is also Independent from the Americans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Bank_Card_Group I think the new initiative will spread, unify and simplify things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true for software engineering because the salaries in NA are insane due to the insane profits those companies are making. But for the average job, life is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" imply you can be happy and not know it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re unhappy and don’t know it, eat one more snack. Crunch crunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" imply you can be happy and not know it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s possible, I don’t know about the heavy industries. Checked for Toyota, founder was an engineer, second family CEO was also engineer, third was MBA, current CEO is not from the family and is an engineer. In any case, I don’t think having an engineer CEO guarantees anything, aren’t the GAFAM mostly led by engineers but got enshitifified anyways?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they? Rakuten is led by a business guru and the products are subpar unless they bought them. Also Japan has a huge deficit of native engineers, so most of the engineers at this kind of companies are Chinese and Indian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blackboards were the OG dark mode⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t find any reliable source, but the most convincing idea I read was to reduce contrast and glare issues between the white chalk and its background. The green would reflect more light than the black, reducing the contrast and the glare. Also, the original blackboards were made of black slate, but then they became synthetic which made it easier to change the color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scarcisoft?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted robots to do my chores but instead they are taking my job and my hobbies!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel there’s some marketing conspiracy with the “office” term. It looks like they have been planning to make it disappear because it is uncool for some new marketing genius or it reduces the target markets, I guess. So they first attached a new term, 365, as a transition, and now they dropped the office while keeping the 365 so recent users can still make the link. The AI bubble was maybe just a convenient excuse to advance the plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know Xbox was so low compared to Playstation, no wonder there’s rumor Microsoft will drop console making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they caught some babies or other parasite in the meantime, you may have saved much more lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can it survive if Firefox goes down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ladybird is an open-source web browser developed by the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a nonprofit organization focused on development of the browser.[1] It is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.[2] An alpha release is planned in 2026,[3][4] beta release is expected in 2027, and a stable release for general public in 2028.[5] Originally a component of SerenityOS, it is now being developed as a standalone project.[6] The initiative is funded entirely through donations, with Cloudflare, FUTO, Shopify, and 37signals among its sponsors.

  Ladybird uses a new browser engine called LibWeb that is being created from scratch by the development team. Unlike SerenityOS, it will also use other open source libraries for development.[2] An ad blocking feature is planned.[7] Unlike most new web browsers, Ladybird does not rely on Chromium or Firefox and uses its own rendering engine and JavaScript engine.[8]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they always have used this tactic, there’s “socialist” in Nazi, they are just highly specific with who they want to socialize with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also a lot of human labor to build LLMs, I was surprised. From exploited African data labelers who have to shift through the most horrific things the web has to offer and remain traumatized for life, to highly paid domain experts who work on improving final results so it ends up looking like a simulation of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a lot of ML bullshit from the big data bubble ~ 2010 and before ChatGPT, together with all of the fuss about data scientists. But now it’s a 100 times worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The link doesn’t work for me.

  Even if the initial intention is positive, I think this degree of dependency on external services is not realistic even if mega corps were not as bad as they are currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be that unusual characters make the comment less readable.