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- Comment on UK | Musk accused of ‘politicising’ rape of young girls in UK to attack Starmer 1 day ago:
What on earth is that spin score nonsense? Its a biased article because it uses the word “billionaire” to describe musk?
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 2 days ago:
“Let me help subsidise a company paying below minimum wage” totally normal not batshit insane idea.
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 1 week ago:
Yes that exactly what the professional executive class are, mecenaries for capital (though it cant be mixed up with them also being owners as well as just ridiculously paid frontmen).
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 4 weeks ago:
As did the many of the thousands of people who died from being denied treatment in order to push his wage packet up another million dollars. Some of them were children themselves.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 5 weeks ago:
Thats incredibly crass and you should be ashamed of yourself
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 5 weeks ago:
The proposed law is only available to people with a terminal illness judged to have 6 months or less to live, needs to be signed off on by two doctors and a judge, and the patient needs to take the drugs themselves. If anything it’s potentially too restrictive, but a step in the right direction.
- Comment on A little physics riddle 5 weeks ago:
You dont have sufficient information to calculate the momentum of the third body in the new system. If you are treating the system as Newtonian you need the mass of it to calculate its momentum in the new frame, if you are treating it as relativistic you need its total energy.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 1 month ago:
Immediately critising someone/a group for doing the right thing but not doing enough/quickly enough is probably one of the main reasons its so hard to get traction for progressive politics. It’s incredibly tiresome.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 months ago:
They propably would if a common topic of discussion was “this is how leggings have got worse today”
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium. 2 months ago:
Is this particularly worse than when Medium was filled with artisinally hand crafted slop before AI was a thing?
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 2 months ago:
AI has been the name of the field for 70 years at this point, it isn’t something Sam Altman came up with as a marketing wheeze.
- Comment on UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’ 2 months ago:
People are being urged not to buy the feline equivalent of XL bully dogs, which have been created by breeders in the US.
- Comment on All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication 2 months ago:
It is, it confused me too. It is refering to an optical only on/off switch which can also be used as an xor gate. Many levels down froma network switch.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 2 months ago:
Lots of people spout this conspiricy theory, but Ive yet to hear a good reason why he had to be sued into naking the purchace (after making price manipulating statements) if it was some sinister plan.
Far more likely hes just a fuck up.
- Comment on ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem. 3 months ago:
woah woah woah, lets have less of this looking at reality here. We all know generative AI is a fad that never works for anything and anyone using it is an idiot, we don’t need to have our prejudices challenged
- Comment on OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity 3 months ago:
They might not even make a profit, but Altman will be able to extract a lot of wealth by using 7% of a billions of dollars valuation. Even if he doesn’t sell any he can use it as collateral against loans to effectively turn them into cash.
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 3 months ago:
But there’s nothing to stop a stalker just making another account to follow you if they really want to. I dont see blocking doing much good there as there is no such thing as being able to stop your public posts being viewed, because they’re public.
I still think its a bad idea to remove blocking just becuase people want to remove things they dont want to see (like right wing billionaire arseholes) but I dont think giving people a false sense of security is a good reason against it.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
Feel free to enlighten me (and others who’ve said the same) with your superior knowledge of how timestamps of ads stay constant when they are of different lengths.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 3 months ago:
I presumed you were refering to this which was quite high profile at the time.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 3 months ago:
Thats was a. From years before proton, b. from a dev renowned for being linux hostile, c. ignores the fact that linux users are far more likely to be technical and likely to submit a proper bug report rather than shrugging and moving on.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
Adtech? Fuck no I have self respect.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
So then after one person has had 2 ads that last a total of 40 seconds and another has had 2 that lasted 70 the timing is completly off for how far into the videos the ads are
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
Right but the swedish pampers ad and the walmart as will be different lengths so the timings wont be the same
- Comment on OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning 3 months ago:
It was, originally. GPT-2 was eventually released after some push back from openAI and the models prior to that were fully released immediately. Its been apparent for quite a while that OpenAI have been transitioning from a non-profit org interested in pushing technology forward to a VC backed monopoly-seeking company. The big Altman putsch/counter putsch was just the solidfying of that.
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 3 months ago:
No, stick rod in / pull rod out doesn’t really need deep learning to make work well :p
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 3 months ago:
There actually has been good work on using AI to control fusion plasmas its at the point where it can keep them stable significantly better than any human or simple automated system.
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- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 3 months ago:
Where is the LLM that can reproduce specific whole copyrighted works on demand? All ive seen is reproductions of quotes of a few sentences (fair use) and hacks that can make it ocasionally vomit up random larger fragments of its training data, maybe up to a few paragraphs.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 3 months ago:
Yep, its definitely not possible that nice small businesses like universal and sony would sue without an actual case in order to try and crush competitors with costs.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 3 months ago:
Estimates for chatgpt usage per query are on the order of 20-50 Wh, which is about the same as playing a demaging game on a gaming pc for a few minutes. Local models are significantly less.