circuscritic
@circuscritic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their traffic is fake 1 week ago:
It’s systemic, and whether or not it’s perpetrated directly by big tech, they are the primary beneficiaries i.e. increased ad sales.
This is a problem that requires regulation, which means it will not be addressed meaningfully, as that won’t happen anytime soon.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
Not entirely true, but necessarily false either.
Projectivy launcher for Android TV is great and will remove home screen ads, and provide a much more streamlined interface overall.
Apple TV is really nice though, clean, smooth, and stable. I honestly would recommend that to most people, especially if they already have Apple products.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 2 weeks ago:
I have no idea what you’re going on about.
It’s not a matter of betrayal, revealing one more facet of society that is controlled behind the scenes right by private equity.
Whose work was I shitting on? I was shaming people who were down voting the very informative video showing, with sources, private equities quiet takeover of major YouTube channels.
Maybe you should review the comment thread and see if you meant to respond to someone else, because that’s the most charitable explanation I can come up with for the rationale behind your very odd remarks.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t single out any particular YouTube channel for individual scorn. My comment was in reference to that very well sourced video about private equity buying up / investing YouTube channels.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 2 weeks ago:
The video which made the accusations, not me, provided sources for all of their claims.
Did you even look?
Sorry, that was rhetorical, obviously you did not look.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 2 weeks ago:
Anyone down voting this should be ashamed of themselves.
Like deeply and personally ashamed.
The type of shame that follows them for the rest their lives, because that’s how scummy you’d have to be in order downvote someone shining a light on how private equity is buying out major YouTube channels.
Something that I was entirely unaware of, and appreciate your comment regarding.
- Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like someone purchased, or otherwise gained access to, T-Mobile’s targeted customer advertising and profile data.
Or, the kind of data tracked by phone number through any number of data harvesting applications that data broker’s sell.
If it’s the latter, it’s possible they have a grudge against T-Mobile, or this is an early stage of a larger plan.
Or maybe it just is for shits and giggles.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 3 weeks ago:
That’s why it’s so important to always store your backup media inside your refrigerator for cold storage.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know where you’re from, but for the Americans who are confused by the term cold storage, their talking about refrigeration.
- Comment on YSK that 55% of Gazan Children has suicidal thoughts in a 2022 report 3 weeks ago:
They tried several times, and that was before Israel had a nuclear triad.
So, no.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 4 weeks ago:
No one goes to bat this hard for someone they don’t support.
Maybe the rest of the people here. Don’t know Ethan’s past, but I have a good idea.
And no, I’ll never feel bad for, or side with, the pro-genocidal open pedophile that is Ethan Klein.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 4 weeks ago:
Hello Ethan, I didn’t know you were on Lemmy.
Got to say, I’m not a fan, you seem pretty fucking psychotic.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 4 weeks ago:
That’s my point, I don’t use LLMs for those operations, and I’m aware of their faults, but that doesn’t mean they’re useless.
So yeah, I look forward to the AI bubble popping, but I’m still going to use LLMs for type of tasks they’re actually suited for.
I don’t think many people on Lemmy are under the the spell of AI hype, but plenty of people here are knowledgeable enough to know when, and when not, to leverage this useful, but dangerously overhyped and oversold, piece of technology.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 4 weeks ago:
Ask the model to confirm the answer and it will correct itself, at least when I’ve tried that.
I’m sure there’s a mathematical or programmatic logic as to why, but seeing as I don’t need LLM’s to count letters, I’m not overly interested in it.
Regardless, I look forward to the bubble popping.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 5 weeks ago:
The Democrats never fail us, we just continually fail them.
Which is also a sentiment extremely popular on Lemmy.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 5 weeks ago:
For people who can spare $100-$200, I recommend buying an old ThinkPad or Dell business class laptop off eBay. Install Windows, update it, and stick it in your closet.
Because yes, sometimes you just need a Windows machine. Yes, VMs will cover most one off Windows requirements, but nothing beats. Just having windows installed on a device that you can pull out of your closet if something comes up.
Obviously this is not a solution for gaming, just the odd piece of software you need to run, or hardware you need to interface with.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 5 weeks ago:
There’s still way too many niche communities on Reddit that just haven’t taken off on Lemmy e.g. alternative a. Non-team sports.
There’s a ViolentMonkey script that can automatically delete all of your Reddit comments. I just run that every few days.
It’s not ideal, but it’s the best that I can do if I value access to those communities, which I do.
- Comment on New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs 1 month ago:
It’s a QEMU specific vulnerability.
- Comment on New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs 1 month ago:
I skimmed most of the article, glad to see it’s been patched.
It looks like the attack vector requires access to a VM on the host machine i.e. public cloud/VPS.
So maybe not a huge risk exclusively for self hosted configurations?
- Comment on Daniel Khalife stole UK military secrets for Iran and made list of SAS names, trial told 1 year ago:
So… It sounds like he turned himself in, albeit in the dumbest way possible.
He had been spying successfully for Iran, and looking to defect, or at least back and forth on that.
At some point, he gets orders to deploy to Fort Hood. It’s either around this time, or during this appointment, he reaches out to British security services offering to be a double agent or just be debriefed on his espionage activities? Basically admitting that he was actively compromised, but that he wanted to return to a normal life…
No, I’m not calling him stupid. He doesn’t seem stupid he just sounds like a kid who got in way over his head, and under all that pressure, may even dumber choices until he eventually got caught.
I don’t know anything else about the story other than what I heard on the news during his escape back when, and what I just read, so it’s possible I’m missing some important information in that summary, I don’t know.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 year ago:
I think you can enable IIS, or at least a version of, under Windows Features for Windows 10 Pro/Edu installs.
But someone can correct me if I’m wrong about that.
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 1 year ago:
DoD already started this with their Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA).
And I agree, the government should use its power to force interoperable and open standards wherever possible and relevant.