demonsword
@demonsword@lemmy.world
random bald, fat, middle-aged Brazillian guy
- Comment on Kaspersky is shutting down its business in the United States 3 months ago:
I think most countries spy on their citizens
we should not be okay with that
- Comment on It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone 3 months ago:
the man has rarely been proven wrong in anything tech related he has said
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Presumably because they haven’t invested in AI.
Presumably is carrying all the weight of your whole post here
Perhaps we could get a non-biased opinion and also from an actual expert rather than some finance ghoul who really doesn’t know anything?
I also hate banks, but usually those guys can sniff out market failures way ahead of the rest of us. All their bacon rides on that, after all
- Comment on Why is Intel failing to Nvidia and AMD? 3 months ago:
They did an attempt at VR
but it was a me-too attempt, almost a copycat of existing hardware… hardly innovative
- Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries 3 months ago:
Why do you think using energy is bad by itself?
Building infrastructure has an environmental cost. Even if they’re building them for themselves, wasting the energy produced on AI and some other bullshit will worse our climate catastrophe while delivering nothing useful in exchange
- Comment on Unofficial Reddit API 4 months ago:
Decentralization is, by definition, censorship-resistant, just hop to another instance.
or roll your own instance, with blackjack and hookers
- Comment on How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results 4 months ago:
maybe because most people lurking around here knows it’s trivial to bypass wired’s paywall
- Comment on Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones 4 months ago:
👀
- Comment on Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones 4 months ago:
sorry if the data I brought disturbed your China bashing, you’re free to ignore it
- Comment on Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones 4 months ago:
Workers don’t have too many rights.
Maybe not stellar but still better than quite a few of the 135 countries surveyed by this NGO in 2022. Behind Brazil, Russia and South Africa but ahead of India. Better than the so-called “land of the free” also, so maybe the joke’s on them?
- Comment on Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months 4 months ago:
we all need a little swap here and there, right
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
Crypto has been hitting all time highs this year; there’s just more bros than before.
There is a sucker born every minute
- Comment on Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists 4 months ago:
isn’t it funny how double standards work?
- Comment on 'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots 4 months ago:
There are about 90 billion neurons on a human brain. From the article:
…researchers grew about 800,000 brain cells onto a chip, put it into a simulated environment
that is far less than I believe would be necessary for anything intelligent emerge from the experiment
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months 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 4 months 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." 4 months 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 4 months ago:
19699113… RIP
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Not like people would give a fuck about slashdot otherwise
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
Very exciting stuff.
…NOT!
:)
- Comment on This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel 4 months ago:
Rule
37?34 - Comment on Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms 4 months 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 4 months ago:
Obligatory just switch to Linux plug
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months 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? 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.