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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  " It’s not that hard really all you have to do is be around people who already want to move over". Yeah thanks for that advice.

  I have a very similar strategy to being rich, step one is to be rich already. Simplicity itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europeans have a meter fetish⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a British all Irish sign, and they are the only places in Europe that speak English. So I think that’s an American sign it certainly looks like an American sign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask the crickets⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  How many crickets did you imagine? I want to make sure the maths works out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask the crickets⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell was the brine that it required it to be 32° below the freezing point of water? Even salt water would have frozen by that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is there’s no one on signal that I want to talk to. So “just ditch the app” isn’t actually helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay I’ve scanned my eyeball and I’ve got some of their worthless cryptocurrency. What about next month, do they want me to scan my eyeball again, because I guarantee it won’t have changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would life be like in New Zealand in the event of nuclear war?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t their maps don’t include New Zealand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s Good Posture, Bad Posture, and Golden Posture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the entire thing spins around in a giant circle in the centre of the room in order to generate centrifugal gravity. Seems like the most sensible way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s Good Posture, Bad Posture, and Golden Posture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My life ambition is now to become a yuppy day trader conduct video meetings like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

  What the actual fuck.

  Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no way right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it’s the Trump administration we’re talking about here. So they’d fuck it up in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no way right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s amazing that with how much power that he has that he wasn’t able to rig an election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no way right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why they’re trying to push this narrative that Iran having nuclear weapons is somehow more bad for Western society than, for example, North Korea having nuclear weapons.

  They’re acting as if no hostile power has ever had nuclear weapons before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future aspirations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d have to get pretty lucky with cats. Mine jumped over the garden fence yesterday and then got stuck and had to be rescued from the shadow dimension of the side passage, because apparently it’s a one-way fence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Temperatures surpass 29C as UK heads for heatwave⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also there’s literally no point installing air conditioning because heat waves are still infrequent enough that you’d only use it for maybe 2 weeks of the year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brain activity lower when using AI chatbots: MIT research⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ai is both a scam and going to take everyone’s jobs, depending on who you talk to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brain activity lower when using AI chatbots: MIT research⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How much ever do you put into changing gear. It really shouldn’t be that difficult are you definitely pressing the clutch down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s getting more efficient by the day. They used to have to launch it into the air before it had blow up. This way it saves time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often thought that worker cooperative call centres should be a thing. The people who manage call centres barely understand the contract because inevitably they’re higher management from outside of the company, since no one on the phones could possibly be management material.

  It would probably make quite a lot of money because one of the biggest complaints that companies have about their third party call centres is inefficiencies. Even if the bosses wanted to fix the inefficiencies they can’t because they don’t understand the contract at a base enough level. In a workers cooperative that wouldn’t be an issue since the workers would understand the contract.

  Unfortunately it probably would face the issue that all new starts in the industry make, in that most businesses are locked into multi-year contracts with their call centre providers and can’t just swap to a new provider whenever they want. So you’d have to time its startup very precisely as a big company came to the end of its contract, or you’d probably have to get some clients on board before you even started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That right there is the problem with this discussion. They’re not even remotely similar technologies.

  The ones doing protein folding are specialised limited capability AI. They are absolutely useful and very good at their jobs, but they are not the kind of AI that the public are using.

  The public are using large language models and Diffusion-Based image generators. Not the narrow AI that you’re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We used to have a poster up at work in the IT room that had a picture of a person scratching their heads and looking blankly at their laptop and the text “I’ve tried nothing, and I’m all out of ideas”.

  Some people have zero troubleshooting skills and don’t even try. Their immediate reaction is to try and make it someone else’s problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And they all suck, my boss is still alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah sure.

  “This model could enable the manufacturing of biological weapons, anyway here it is”. A totally believable and not at all marketing BS statment from openai, winner of the most inappropriately named country in the world award.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Christian didn’t like world of Warcraft because it promoted demons or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  did not want to promote homosexuality

  It’s not a recruitment drive. Looking at a rainbow flag doesn’t make you become gay.

  People like that need pushing in the sea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly it’s disgusting that we’re not allowed to hunt the gays for sport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So are they going to start operating food shelters to feed the poor then? They’re Christian after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As opposed to windows, macOS will effectively refuse to run any software that is not signed and notarized by Apple themselves.

  You can put Windows in strict mode but it makes the computer virtually unusable. The other thing been is it there are techniques that attackers can use to bypass these checks thus making the signatures irrelevant anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU like any large government is filled with people of varying quality. Some of them are absolutely amazing at their jobs and some of them can barely operate at light switches.

  Normally whenever some dumb tech related regulation comes in you usually find it’s being pushed by the idiots. You can usually tell by reading the text of the legislation and by the end of it you will have come up with about 300 problems.

  A good example of this is reading the Tracking Cookies legislation (bad) and the GDPR legislation (good), the difference in the size of the text of the bill is visually apparent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t know why you’re arguing about this because there have been actual experiments where people have been given UBI and pretty much everyone ends up just going and doing their own stuff. I’ve never heard of anyone complaining about being given free money.