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- Comment on Must have been a whistle blower... 3 hours ago:
That’s… not where I thought this post was going.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
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- Comment on the struggle 1 week ago:
Glass house level: Psych PhD
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s accurate-- The permit has nothing to do with speech, it has to do with use of public space. Where I’m from, the police will come and block off streets and manage traffic to keep demonstrators safe. Without the permit, everyone would still be allowed to say more or less whatever they wanted, but the logistics of the gathering could create a hazard, and that’s just a gray area that everyone is just better off avoiding.
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 week ago:
Exactly this. If a company can show me a phone that can do something new that my current phone can’t-- not just a marginally better camera or invasive AI assistant-- then I would say to them “I still wish you would have spent your resources on dog longevity, but yeah maybe I’d be into that.”
An iPhone isn’t a flip phone but better… It’s a whole different thing.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 weeks ago:
I mean do you think Fortnite has anywhere near the same level of ability to disseminate information or surveil people as TikTok does?
And actually it makes a material difference that ByteDance is based in Beijing, as opposed to just having Chinese investors. Those social platforms, movie studios, etc., being headquartered in the US is exactly what makes it different. Can Chinese firms apply financial pressure to compel them to act against the interests of US citizens? Yes, of course, and they do.
But that’s categorically different than being legally obligated to comply with the CCP, which ByteDance is.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 weeks ago:
TikTok is a massively powerful tool of influence and intelligence, in the hands of an adversary that is well understood to proactively meddle with democratic elections.
Yes, obviously the CCP will unabashedly pursue other interference vectors. That should be viewed as more reason to curtail TikTok, not less.
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, they must have interpreted it as “no stupid questions allowed,” instead of “there are no stupid questions.”
- Comment on YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking 3 weeks ago:
I admire your optimism. I don’t share it, but I admire it.
- Comment on YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking 3 weeks ago:
But they tried so hard…
- Comment on Excuse me, my son's name is also Borts... 3 weeks ago:
Deep Learn Galactic
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 4 weeks ago:
Worked for me just now. What did it say when you did it?
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 4 weeks ago:
Me too! I thought it was gonna be fake, or if not, they’d have fixed it already or something, but NOPE! Still works exactly as described.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 4 weeks ago:
What do you think the “real stuff” is?
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- Comment on oops 1 month ago:
Make sure that ends up on the university application and resume.
- Comment on Prostate 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure I know the answer but I can’t quite put my finger on it…
- Comment on Not All Projects Work Out 1 month ago:
I have two of em-- They’re pretty good! Definitely not perceptibly laggy or anything, at least to me.
Probably just outed myself as a casual.
- Comment on God of War now DRM-freed with a GOG release and discount 1 month ago:
Especially whatever!
- Comment on Not All Projects Work Out 1 month ago:
Yeah, I get that. Do you have any sense of whether that’s a limitation of the ESP32, or with your implementation?
- Comment on Not All Projects Work Out 1 month ago:
If anyone else was wondering, I found this neat data table of controller latencies to compare:
rpubs.com/misteraddons/inputlatency
It looks like 18.35ms is not really among the best, but there are still lots of products in that range.
I dunno if I’d say your project didn’t work out… Maybe more like you succeeded but still have work to do. Do you think you’ll try swapping the Bluetooth for a 2.4Ghz module or something and see if that performs better?
- Comment on Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions 2 months ago:
Yeah great point. Or similar cases in the past, even.
- Comment on Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions 2 months ago:
Plus just the general sentiment that you’re not businessing right if you don’t something something AI.
- Comment on Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions 2 months ago:
Hundreds of dollars were on the line in this case! HUNDREDS!
- Comment on Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions 2 months ago:
Only kinda? To me, the “we’re not liable because we have no idea how this technology is going to behave” argument is very unambiguously not acceptable.
- Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash 2 months ago:
I will check him out, thanks!
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 2 months ago:
Wow TIL. The double-dipping is pretty sketchy, but not at all surprising. It seems hubristic for Netflix to court the same concepts… I guess cable/network TV probably thought they were untouchable so they could squeeze the consumer, then Netflix happens… Now Netflix thinks it’s untouchable and it can squeeze the consumer. Hmm, seems familiar.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 2 months ago:
Wow, I had no idea. I didn’t even really know that cable was at one time the fancy premium version of TV.
One thing I think we can say though is that a big part of why Netflix was disruptive was the promise of watching uninterrupted-- No ads. So even though folks thought “of course cable has ads, that’s the norm,” they also flocked to services that provided ad-free alternatives.
I’m always surprised when I see someone just sit through a YouTube ad or something, instead of beating their chest and screaming “WHERE uBLOCK? HOW ADS?” which alarms the neighbors but they’re used to it at this point (which is what I do)… But it’s encouraging that people still voted with their feet by dropping cable as soon as a less extractive experience emerged. It gives me hope that the endgame of enshittification is irrelevance.
- Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash 2 months ago:
Agree. I mean I dunno if I’d be able to say no to $100 million even if I was already wealthy, so I don’t want to make it too black-and-white… But it definitely did harm, and I think it’s fair to describe it as selling out.
Who’s your favorite podcast? They sound rad.
- Comment on Let's not talk about operation 2 months ago:
If you can’t guess the word, you will be saddled with a hefty mortgage that has an unreasonable interest rate.