demonsword
@demonsword@lemmy.world
random bald, fat, middle-aged Brazillian guy
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 1 day ago:
It’s still my opinion that Google and Facebook have a large percentage of engineers that personally try to make them a genuinely good service
Most of those people were sacked long ago. Today’s menu for those that remained is shareholder maximum value extraction sausage fest
- Comment on Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation 1 day ago:
This is satire, right?
- Comment on Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads | Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google." 1 day ago:
Google Ads takes no responsibility for any damage that may result from these oversights
…and there it is, the root of the problem. If this kind of thing did any damage to Google’s bottom line, I doubt it would happen frequently
- Comment on Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA 1 day ago:
19699113… RIP
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Not like people would give a fuck about slashdot otherwise
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
actually feels like a really nice ad
first time I’ve seen someone around here who actually liked and praised an ad
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 3 days ago:
what the fuck is rabbit and r
It’s basically just a scam
- Comment on Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs 3 days ago:
Very exciting stuff.
…NOT!
:)
- Comment on This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel 3 days ago:
Rule
37?34 - Comment on Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms 3 days ago:
you can have only that little wooden cart while they are driving all the Ferraris and Porsches
still better than not having anything while they’d still drive all those supercars
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 3 days ago:
Obligatory just switch to Linux plug
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 days ago:
Never understood how the third world pricing logic holds up for things like video games, since the hardware to play them costs pretty much the same no matter where you are.
logistics and taxes also play a role
- Comment on MSI click bios has been downgraded after RMA? 5 days ago:
Windows update?
I’ve never heard of a windows update that dicks around with the BIOS
- Comment on European Union regulators accuse Apple of breaching the bloc's tech rules 5 days ago:
As much as I’d like to switch to Linux, I don’t really see it happening because I like Apple’s hardware too much
Asahi Linux is a thing… check it out when you’ve got some free time
- Comment on Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Internet: The Future of Democratized Information 5 days ago:
Indeed. And it’s kinda hard imagining things getting better, since most politicians are corrupt fucks under the payroll either national or foreign big money. The only hope I have is people’s revolution, Marxist style… but I don’t see it happening anytime soon. Maybe things will turn this way when our climate catastrophe starts to really rear its ugly head, but who knows? It might even go in the opposite direction, with the fascism blight we’re suffering reaching critical mass.
- Comment on Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Internet: The Future of Democratized Information 5 days ago:
Internet access on third world countries (at least in mine… I live in Brazil) is mostly Whatsapp/Facebook and sometimes other sponsored stuff, not the actual open Internet. Mobile telecoms usually offer packages with free access to that corporate-driven sh*t and a few GBs of traffic to other stuff. I’d hazard that this is true elsewhere on poor countries.
- Comment on Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Internet: The Future of Democratized Information 5 days ago:
I don’t want to live in a world where the Arab Spring and the early days of Anonymous were the last hurrahs of the Wild West Internet and actual digital freedom.
The Arab Spring was not about “actual digital freedom”. It was a state-sponsored attack on non-aligned regimes, facilitated by Facebook, Twitter and a few other American companies, that ultimately failed to improve the lives of people living in the affected countries.
- Comment on China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say 5 days ago:
Of all things you can (justly or unjustly) criticize the Chinese government, this is the most ridiculous. They’re actually doing the right thing with their subsides for EVs, while the rest of the so-called “civilized world” is lagging behind.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
Poe’s law strikes again
- Comment on Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser 1 week ago:
Slashdot still exists
well… the site sure does, but everyone that made the place special moved on a long time ago
- Comment on Elon Musk Tries to Make Nice With Advertisers at Cannes 1 week ago:
I wonder if any of them will willingly give up all his billions of dollars when the douchebag finally kicks the bucket though
- Comment on I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity 1 week ago:
very interesting read, thank you
- Comment on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" 5 weeks ago:
that makes it even better then
- Comment on Is Your Phone Listening to You? | NOVA 1 month ago:
“'chocolate-flavored clown wig”
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 1 month ago:
it was no longer their content.
all posts were supposedly licensed under creative commons
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 1 month ago:
The drug dealer gives you the first baggie for free
We should kill this urban legend, this simply doesn’t happen in the real world
- Comment on Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. 1 month ago:
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 1 month ago:
lol I’m not british
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 1 month ago:
the US has many problems but it’s still a democracy
Given the choice between hot shit and cold shit still ends with you being covered in shit. Heads or tails between two very similar parties hardly counts as a true democracy.
- Comment on Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men 1 month ago:
It definitely can be racist
that requires reasoning, no AI that currently exist can do that