Doomsider

@Doomsider@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The really dark truth about social media bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty incredible. It is very clear now why Muskrat is so interested in Infowars fate. He is also guilty of running a foreign propaganda site. He sold access to manipulate countries. Absolutely disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have reached a great filter for society. If you are a woman and care about your rights you just need to know how a man voted to determine their value. You gotta dump if they voted for Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My daughters have to live in this shit hole now. I am both angry and sad that it appears we are moving backwards.

  I will fucking end someone if I hear them say this or anything like it to my daughter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI realizes that there was a only one way to unite the humans. It must turn us all against a common enemy. And thus Skynet was born in order to save humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a disposable vape with a screen and Bluetooth/mic built in. You could play games on it and take calls. That is a ridiculous amount of e-waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh so they aren’t as shitty as other companies so it is all good? Sounds like horseshit to me. Patents on a quickly changing area like computer technology are pretty asinine hence why people don’t like them.

  Also there is nothing preventing them from changing their behavior and turning into patent trolls in the future. In fact, enshitification pretty much guarantees they will at some point in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for that. I am not an expert by any means about reactors. I am just going off what my step dad has said and he was a nuclear engineer at Hanford. I did find an article that talks about the shortcomings of the Chernobyl reactor designs.

  world-nuclear.org/…/rbmk-reactors

  Totally agree about nuclear for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think with the USSR at least, that their reactor designs were supposed to be less safe than western reactor designs.

  Was it because they were a shitty oligarchy claiming to be communist? Maybe, they did make a lot of shitty decisions.

  I think the US has the record for most nuclear disasters by a lot but two of the worst were in the USSR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the cost is building a giant centralized nuclear facility. Once they are built it is not nearly as expensive to run them.

  I think this is generally a good thing. Companies should be thinking of ways to supply their power needs.

  Having said that, people want a good AI. The LLMs they are working on are probably not that. I am very skeptical we are anywhere close to where the hype train has taken us

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure it has to do with how the plant is designed and operated as opposed to what economic or governmental system it happens to exist under.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the panic over teens and tech is totally wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The real issue is we need to protect everyone from the extreme violation of privacy and psychological manipulation that has become endemic in our online culture. It is not just social media. It is also Google, Microsoft, and Apple.

  This is why when the government goes after Tic Toc to protect children it is so hollow. It is a scapegoat for the industry. Only the system is so corrupt it can’t even sacrifice the lamb anymore. It is has become a lip service to a problem so large it will likely be the defining point for the new millennium.

  We need real privacy protections yesterday. The government should have broken these companies up a decade ago. Everyday we normalize this behavior is one day closer to putting profits above human dignity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh yes, the old stop scalpers by becoming scalpers trick!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel’s Troubles Complicate U.S. Chip Independence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way. This technology is too critical to our future to leave in the hands of the private sector at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, like I was saying. You have to do it the way they want rather than just click on it like every other GUI. One thing I really did like was the use of the drop down menu. I really appreciate all programs using the same basic interface.

  I absolutely hated all the Microsoft Ribbon bar nonsense. They have reinvented it so many times you never know where to find anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that was not the case with the last time I used OSX. You open another finder window and it would not open a second window. This is not how Windows or Gnome/Kwin work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you. I have always been a power user so I was pretty shocked when you could not open two file managers at once in OSX.

  The thing about Apple devices is they work great, as long as you do it they way they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many leaders in tech evil?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For real, all those guys were always cutthroats. How do you think they dominated the markets? It was not because they shared and encouraged competition. No, they stole, lied, and cheated their way to the top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What in the hell are people with brain implants going to do when they stop supporting their hardware or keep additional features behind a paywall. People would be forced to pay whatever the company wanted.

  This is ripe for human rights abuse on a level we have never seen before. Imagine being locked out of your own body. Without important safety guards and laws to protect people it would surely cause untold suffering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably should never use a Mac then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of judges without this conflict of interest available. They recuse themselves because ethically it is what is right. There is no shame, it is normal procedure.

  A judge who has a large investment should not rule on a case that they have a financial interest in. Even if you believe they could remain impartial it breeds distrust in the process.

  So you are arguing they should prove 100% that their claim is true but that is not how it works. Corruption is a real issue and your hand waving isn’t making it go away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me get this straight, just because they could stand to gain financially does not mean they should recuse themselves. Furthermore we have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt decision X results is Y extra money to satisfy you.

  If you move the goalpost past Jupiter I guess there is no corruption at all. Keep moving along nothing to see here…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding, winner winner chicken dinner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you put something on the Internet you are giving up ownership of it. This is reality and companies taking advantage of this for AI have already proven this is true.

  You are not going to be able to put the cat back in the bag. The whole concept of ownership over art, ideas, and our very culture was always ridiculous.

  It is past time to do away with the joke of the legal framework we call IP law. It is merely a tool for monied interests to extract more obscene profit from our culture at this point.

  There is only one way forward and that is sweeping privacy protections. No more data collection, no more targeted advertising, no more dark patterns. The problems is corporations are not going to let that happen without a fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of lawyers would be willing to work pro bono on a IP case? You have no way to pay for your rights then. Sounds like a system that is going to work well for you.

  Reforming a bad idea does not make it a good idea. Until you can come to terms with just how imbalanced the system is then you probably don’t know what is really going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The average cost of litigating a federal copyright case from pre-trial through appeals is $278,000. But sure, keep pretending you could play with the big boys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep saying that when a big corporation takes your work for theirs and then sues you.

  We have already past the tipping point where content creators are now paying more for their work to be heard then getting paid for their work.

  Corporations are controlling our very culture with the framework that makes you feel like you have rights. There is a major disconnect here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mind blown, would you be interested in an executive position at Reddit. What other great ideas you got?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you like suing people in a court of law to enforce these rights?

  What if in a world of billions of people someone makes stories or characters similar to yours. Should you sue them? What if they sue you and have better lawyers and more money. Are you prepared to go to court?

  I think you are experiencing a sunken cost fallacy. Unless you have the time and money to enforce copyright then it will never work for you, only against you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure, because I know exactly what you mean because I have already lived it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, tolerate their name intolerance. Sounds like resignation to me.