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- Comment on OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now 8 months ago:
The link does not say in what way people were not supposed to share.
The link is the same kind of self-delusion people show around all of these generative tools: “look the faces are weird, the bird has wrong feathers, the cat has only 2 legs, nothing to worry about” while forgetting that most everything else in a clip works well and that it is the first-of-the-first releases which will get gradually better.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 8 months ago:
Ylva Johansson. She’s Swedish and late last year went on tour around Swedish media about chat control. The media, however, were prepared so hilarity ensued.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 9 months ago:
The commissioner responsible for the chat control was thoroughly corrupt by a company which created the scanning system. She was also either unbelievably dense or very, VERY dedicated to her role of a pearl-clutching, think-of-the-children granny. To the point of arguing with IT specialists on TV.
- Comment on If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen? 10 months ago:
Oh I know, but I wanted to make sure no one has any grounds to accuse me of prophecies or something worse. Also the precise date doesn’t matter.
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- Comment on Project Kuiper: Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink passes 'crucial' test 10 months ago:
Musky and Bezos are probably well aware of this so they happily pour billions into these systems. Whoever gets them up first is essentially taking up space others may want to use later on. The endgame is probably “make the world dependent on MY sat system and hike rates”. And if the countries wanted to lay cable? Force the world to bail me when the overblown constellations collapse financially - basically make the kessler the future authorities’ problem. Privatise profits, socialise losses, fuck everyone else because I got mine. If things go well the men in charge won’t even be alive anymore when shit hits the fan.
- Comment on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business 10 months ago:
Yes, I would make people sell off excess property to pay taxes, why not? It would take some fine tuning of course byt how else are you willing to fight the wealth gap?
- Comment on Why the Fediverse is not (yet) Billionaire-Proof, or: The 51% Attack for the Fediverse 10 months ago:
Why think they don’t? Amazon web service is, well, Amazon, so it’s like a Bezos-funded library - if he or other execs wish so they can preserve whatever they wish for as long as they can afford electricity and maintenance. The same goes with google or facebook … the real question is what will be chosen for preservation when inevitably the reaper comes for these corps in their current form.
- Comment on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business 10 months ago:
t a x t h e r i c h At, say, 90% above 2m earnings and also bring in a generous estate tax - one which would trigger above some large value, say 10m$ so that a lucky rando with a house isn’t hit, but someone with 9 digit net worth is.
And yes, they do sit on a ton of this cash. Buying yachts, flipping artworks and building bunkers in New Zealand aren’t exactly productive investments. And yes, a large amount gets invested here and there but it would still be better to deconcentrate this.
- Comment on [UK] ‘Overwhelmed’ claimant admits chemical weapon charge after jobcentre suicide attempt 10 months ago:
That’s what 21st century eugenics look like, welcome to the new nazism.
- Comment on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business 10 months ago:
A system which stores vast percentage of capital inert in the hands of a few entitled parasitic rapists is not “efficient”.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations 11 months ago:
There’s probably much more. Half of them only recognised in their village somewhere in the middle of South Asia, the other half too burnt out with work and continuous crises to notice they could be good at something.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Eh, 2022-3 wars are just as horrifying, they just happen on a smaller scale. Look up what was going on in the Bucha town, what are living conditions in Gaza, how many people were forced to leave homes in African and Asian civil wars… The scale of minefields in Ukraine, etc.
- Comment on Ok Lemmy Rorschach test time. Tell me what you see. 1 year ago:
Head of a fox
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
Maybe because producing music costs pennies compared to producing movies and then people are much likely to listen to the same few tracks for days on end, than they are to watch the same movie for days on end. Music studios may not be too jealous about access because they want to let people listen to their essentially free library in as many places as possible. Movie studios are tens of millions in the red for their big productions and don’t want to share incomes too widely.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 1 year ago:
The technology of loan risk assessment? Yes, it exists worldwide, all banks are doing it. But there is a wide chasm between
“when I show up asking for a loan bank will xray all my previous financial history and craft its offer from that” in Europe (at least my country) and
“credit score is a houshold term, people employ lifehacks to improve it and you’re screwed if it’s bad because half of everything runs on credit”.
- Comment on Google Just Made a Bittersweet Announcement. It's the End of an Era 1 year ago:
The endgame sounds scary, classic enshittification scheme but deployed to authentication and security: make it flashy and smooth at start, get adoption (this time it’s different b/c it’s not the masses that need convincing, but website operators), hold the entire internet hostage by threatening to pull the plug on the mode of access to everything. Also more obvious and coming sooner: exploit your handle on the tech to disable Passkeys to someone who “violates ToS” of Google services by, idk, running adblock or logging in with Firefox.
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 1 year ago:
Huge +1 for Mullvad for their pricing model. 5€/month regardless of “plan” and you can buy as many or as few months as you like. I never feel chained to Mullvad, never worried about subscription running out or getting charged at random moments. Pay 5€, watch whatever you want on the foreign tv websites, forget about vpn for the next 3 months.
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 1 year ago:
I’d prefer them to converge from Baldur’s Gate 3 direction. Cast more or less established voice actors and give them the hype and marketing space usually found among movie/tv stars. “films and games converge” yea, when we treat a 200hour computer game the way we treat a long tv series and acknowledge the actors’ contribution on the same level.
- Comment on Uber: EU rules will see us pull out of “hundreds” of European cities — Brussels’ proposal to classify gig workers as de facto employees could slam the breaks on operations across the bloc 1 year ago:
The hubris of thinking that a random driver-exploiting app is some kind of godsend utility and we’ll be scared of losing it.
At this point the old school taxi companies have their apps too, you’re not the cool kid anymore, uber
- Comment on A cyberattack against Clorox last month that shut down factories has created a nationwide shortage of bleach and cat litter 1 year ago:
OK so let’s get that straight, a chemical cleaning company owns a ranch in some secret valley where they produce salad dressing and no one suspects anything. the US is weird. (\s because irony doesn’t always work on Lemmy)
- Comment on A cyberattack against Clorox last month that shut down factories has created a nationwide shortage of bleach and cat litter 1 year ago:
SALAD DRESSING?! Are you Americans going to a restaurant and ask the waiter to bring you a salad with clorox?
- Comment on Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself 1 year ago:
So this is either a big oil corp spending pennies on theorycrafting some exciting buzzword technosolutions
Or
A big oil corp which figured out that if they want to stay relevant for more than 10 yrs they need to diversify into other energy sources. With all the deserved hate they attract such companies are probably most likely to invent and implement aomething like this at scale.
It doesn’t change the fact that they should be nationalized asap and their decisionmakers jailed.
- Comment on US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins 1 year ago:
If I was to guess I’d say it’s the only way they can do anything meaningful. If the goal is to curb google’s monopoly on the internet it would be neat to break it down and apparently search was a case that can be credibly pursued on antitrust grounds. Web integroty hasn’t yet reached its intended scope, even if everyone with minimal knowledge know where it’s going, “everyone sees the writing on the wall” is not a valid ground for legal persecution.
- Comment on Google accused of rigging market to secure dominant search monopoly in biggest US antitrust trial for years 1 year ago:
every now and then, even on this community, I see praises towards the new leader of FCC (IIRC) who’s taking a hard stance agains big tech and elsewhere (Doctorow’s blog IIRC again) about the wider “bidenomics” of going out against monopolies and trusts by empowering existing laws and agencies. Guess the answer is “because now there is an administration in power who at least pretends to care”.
- Comment on Google accused of rigging market to secure dominant search monopoly in biggest US antitrust trial for years 1 year ago:
Because for the last 15 years or so the agencies responsible for figuring it out and enforcement were toothless, corrupt, incompetent or all three together.
- Comment on The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids” 1 year ago:
Because you can’t argue that. Any other ground reason for policy can be challenged or counterargued or relies on values which are arguable.
No one is going to plainly argue “ok but how about we do not protect children?”. And if someone tries a different angle such as “this law is not really going to protect anyone and will bring a lot of problems for children and adults alike” it will be easily dismissed as “you insidious snake, why do you want to hurt children?! Don’t sabotage child protection!”. Which autokills conversation.
- Comment on Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law 1 year ago:
Creating a parallel internet for children is a very intriguing idea
- Comment on Xiaomi's MIUI now flags Telegram as dangerous in China 1 year ago:
Well I’d also flag a Russian spyware app as suspicious if I had a say in it.
- Comment on Why were we able to stamp out Nazism but not the Taliban? 1 year ago:
Two things: geography and popular support.
Most of Germany is a massive plain with super-dense settlement network. There is nowhere to hide for a partisan group and by 20th century it’s not possible for local chieftains to hold sovereign power as it’s easy to just move towns/regions. Nazis had no way to hide their potential guerilla operations, no way to rely on sympathetic locals in select places. Afghanistan is sparsely populated, with local communities, which sometimes can be isolated from each other due to terrain and distances. The entire country is mountains which have hardly ever been surveyed and are inhospitable to anyone not born there (and even then it’s just too easy to hide).
Yes, millions of Germans supported the Nazi party. But millions more were quietly against it or were “not interested in politics”. After WW2 the Nazi party was soundly beaten and the non-commited/antinazi Germans could build a civil society - in a land which had centuries of civic traditions. Whereas the Taliban have more commited supporters and weaponise the religion which already is very influential in any individual’s life in a land dominated by patriarchal clan social structures.