themagzuz

@themagzuz@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hyperbaric oxygen chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s because they’ve bought in to the capitalist myth. only smart people can make lots of money, so surely they must be smart. combine this with yes men and snake oil salesmen who make their money scamming rich people, and the result is a lot of rich people who are really into weird pseudoscience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the monkey paw in question is intellectual property law. everytime a case is ruled in favor of ip law it becomes slightly more restrictive, which generally benefits corporations more than the public. every time you cheer for ip law to be enforced in some big landmark case, you’re invariably rooting for the noose around our necks to get just a bit tighter.
  it’s for this reason that, despite really not liking ai stuff, i think openai and meta being fined for training on “stolen” work will inevitably do more harm than good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  afaik denmark isn’t just in favor, but they’re also responsible for pushing the legislation higher on the agenda after it was dropped last time.
  i think it’s because the current ruling coalition consists of the “social democrat party” (actually just red flavored populist centerish party) in an alliance with the “moderate party” (centrist flavored center-right wing party) and the liberal (as in libertarianism) party (center-right/right/conservative party), so basically denmark has been under a quite conservative government lately, despite the PM selling the coalition as “across the center”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the problem is that you don’t need 20 people for this kind of thing. you can just kinda passively slurp the data up from every router and throw it into a machine learning model to be used by cops or sold to advertisers. you don’t need a human in the loop anywhere and it’s essentially impossible to opt out of

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  on that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i think in netflix’s case, they might actually be paying as much attention to the ads as they do the shows, which is to say none at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m curious, what exactly is the advantage of getting a dumbphone vs just uninstalling social media apps from your existing phone, or just disabling internet access all together? doesn’t that achieve pretty much the same thing while still being able to keep things like navigation and being able to see when public transport is delayed