kippinitreal
@kippinitreal@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 5 days ago:
Well its not organic at all. I remember it’d create a Threads account for you even if you interacted with a Threads post while logged into Instagram. Kinda shady to boast about such numbers imo.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 2 weeks ago:
Something respectful &/or cute I am sure
- Comment on Tiger Predators 2 weeks ago:
umm… hornier?
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 3 weeks ago:
Money saved on k9’s is money for some super ugly Oakley’s dude
/s
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 3 weeks ago:
Devils advocate: retiring an old service dog means you’d need to invest in training another pup which is way more expensive than titanium teeth and dealing even with animal cruelty complaints and/or lawsuits. Also “bleed blue” fanboys will see this as badass, so its free PR.
As a mortal/moral person advocate: WHAT THE FUCK.
- Comment on Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator 4 weeks ago:
Hoback argues
In any case, says Hoback, the identity of the real Satoshi is a matter of public interest. “This person is potentially on track to become the wealthiest on Earth,” says Hoback. “If countries are considering adopting this in their treasuries or making it legal tender, the idea that there’s potentially this anonymous figure out there who controls one-twentieth of the total supply of digital gold is pretty important.”
Currently bitcoin or any block chain based currency is a grift than a freedom, countries like El Salvador have taken it up as official currency, so real lives can be affected by whoever holds that bitcoin stockpile.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
That is a good point, but I think I’d like to make the distinction of saying LLM’s or “generic model” is a garbage concept, which require power & water rivaling a small country to produce incorrect results.
Neural networks in general that can (cheaply) learn on their own for a specific task could be huge! But there’s no big money in that, since its not a consolidated general purpose product tech bros can flog to average consumers.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
That’s an excellent point! Why oh why would a tech bro start a non-profit? Its always been PR.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
Putting my tin foil hat on…Sam Altman knows the AI train might slowing down soon.
The OpenAI brand is the most valuable part of the company right now, since the models from Google, Anthropic, etc. can beat or match what ChatGPT is, but they aren’t taking off coz they aren’t as cool as OpenAI.
The business models to train & run models is not sustainable. If there is any money to be made it is NOW, while the speculation is highest. The nonprofit is just getting in the way.
This could be wishful thinking coz fuck corporate AI, but no one can deny AI is in a speculative bubble.
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 2 months ago:
Fixed & noted. Thanks!
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 2 months ago:
They greedy af. They’ve lobbied (bribed?) to keep the corp taxes as low as possible. Then they go Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich and NOT pay the low taxes anyways. If we were to tax them appropriately then it’d be a helluva lot more than 13b imo
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 4 months ago:
Didn’t Google’s lighthouse have a metric for that? “Colour Contrast ratio” or something?
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 4 months ago:
If I had to guess why it didn’t have split screen was the open world. My guess it streaming assets from two different places on a huge map was costly to do twice (memory wise). Atleast when it was designed/launched.
- Comment on CATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expected 4 months ago:
Valid*PublicSorry, I think I chose the wrong word, I mean Public i.e., not conspiratorial.
- Comment on CATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expected 4 months ago:
This is really great. Wendover Productions made an excellent video about electrification of flights a while ago.
Now the real question is: will world governments allow this Chinese technology into their countries? Protectionism is a valid reason to deny it, but I wonder if denying Chinese tech under the guise of national security a last ditch attempt from big oil lobbyists?
Or is that too far fetched and I’m just way to cynical.
- Comment on Gravesite in France offers evidence of steppe migrant integration with Late Neolithic Europeans 5 months ago:
I love that graphic. Its simple and old school. DNA double helix rising out of a dig site lol. Superb!
- Comment on Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog 6 months ago:
Don’t like your first statement, agree with your second.
- Comment on The Voice Of Final Fantasy XVI's Cid Will Play Galactus In Marvel's Fantastic Four Movie 6 months ago:
Finchy!
- Comment on Don't tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice 9 months ago:
Because it already knows everything personal about you from your google account, chrome browser, search history, emails & files, and even your keyboard. Gemini wants to guess, because it’s more exciting that way! 🤩 \s
- Comment on WSJ lead editor annoyed that they don't control the narrative anymore: "We owned the news" 9 months ago:
Good point! No one brags about control because they care about those they control. Its the power they value.
- Comment on WSJ lead editor annoyed that they don't control the narrative anymore: "We owned the news" 9 months ago:
To give them benefit of the doubt, maybe they meant that they were trusted to be factual. “We owned the news” could mean most people thought “I trust the WSJ so if they say so it must be true”. But now in the age of misinformation, no one can be trusted.
But all this was said at Davos, the literal comic con for billionaire assholes. Its more likely they were talking about a news monopoly, facts be damned.
Dammit! I wish there were a news owner who could tell me what to think! /s
- Comment on Well now I'm disappointed too! 10 months ago:
“The Scottish fellas can’t get into their emails. Kenny Logins”