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- Comment on World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works 1 year ago:
Much easier ways. For example lava lamps
- Comment on Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president 1 year ago:
No more celebrities.
- Comment on Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder 1 year ago:
I agree with most of what you said except I don't expect companies to turn good. They don't do good or evil, they do profit by whatever means. It's intrinsic!
I'd like to help build some shit, got any recommendations? I can do the type type beep boop as long as that neural net is left out. Fuck that black box shit. I think it is the real reason for the shit algorithms these days. Which leads me to my next point. I get the exact same results from Kagi as I do from DDG. They are identical >90% of the time. Kagi does provide features that are worth paying for but I want better results, they existed before.
Once upon a time I could search for something incredibly specific and find an obscure forum with the answer. These days all I get, even with Kagi is the same results from SEO optimized garbage to AI generated dribble.
I really do not understand why Kagi is so promoted here. I really have not found it to be any better.
- Comment on Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder 1 year ago:
I'd really like it if we stopped blaming the corporation and start blaming the people that make the decisions there and the people that implement those decisions. From the CEO's to the programmers. Put their names everywhere, show the world who actually ruined it. Google was the best resource humanity had to access information. Now, more often than not, I can not find anything related to my search. The search algorithm they used 20 years ago was better than this new junk.
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 1 year ago:
There is a video from CGP Grey titled Humans Need Not Apply that is extremely relevant. It was posted 9 years ago. It's a great video, I highly recommend you check it out.
- Comment on How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should 1 year ago:
Stop using Google! There are several better options for search. Their other products will be cancelled or drastically changed in short order.
- Comment on GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack 1 year ago:
Most of what you typed is reductio ad absurdum and I will not entertain it.
To the part that is not I will say that yes I do apply the same standard to any business or employees that uses their size to to enshittify. It's called Right Livelihood and if more people lived by it we would not have the current problems with mega corps.
- Comment on GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack 1 year ago:
In that situation I would view the person as self serving. Doing something to improve one's own situation at the expense of others is not conducive to a good society. I care more about the group than one friend in a tough situation. I liken it to the trolly problem.
- Comment on GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack 1 year ago:
If that engineer is coding that they should not be appreciated. They are part of the problem. I don't care about the pay or the status of being a facebook engineer. I really don't respect any engineer that has worked for any of the FAANG companies. Those fuckers sold out their morals the second they typed the first character of the first line of code while employed there.
- Comment on GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack 1 year ago:
I wonder how long until facebook adds it to their surveillance stack.
- Comment on I feel like are all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there. 1 year ago:
Are you sure the down votes are not because of what you said instead of who you said it about?
When it comes to "Vote blue no matter who" it is because team red has no plan other than get their guy in office. That guy fomented an insurrection, we all saw it happen live. That guy has already promised retribution if elected. There are groups readying plans to fire "non-loyal" federal workers the day that guy takes office and replace them with sycophants. That is literally an existential crisis for our country.
In addition, team red has tried to stop aid to Ukraine, repeatedly. Nobody outside of team red thinks it should be cut. Doing so would only benefit Russia.
Team red believes so much misinformation that they do not know how far out of touch with reality they are.
- Comment on I feel like are all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there. 1 year ago:
Team blue is calling out Melendez for corruption. So maybe the infallible thing is false?
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 year ago:
No.
It ends when we eat our corporate overlords.
- Comment on Ad-blocker that's not AdGuard 1 year ago:
ublock origin is what you're looking for.