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- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 day ago:
FTA
If you don’t want to see AI on Firefox anymore, all you have to do is click on Settings > AI Controls. You’ll then see a very bold and prominent option called ‘Block AI Enhancements.’ Hit that, and every AI tool gets disabled.
- Comment on European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers’ devices, citing security risks 4 days ago:
So yeah, about that…
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 4 days ago:
Skate is free to play
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
This - like most problems we’ve created in the US - comes down to money. Google will often donate/grant Chromebooks to schools in order to create future
addictscustomers. It would cost schools a lot more to do what’s right (or at least better) for their students, so they don’t do that thing. - Comment on OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Let the enshittification begin!
- Comment on Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game 2 weeks ago:
Sony really learned nothing from Concord. Incredible.
- Comment on Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026? 2 weeks ago:
Xbox consoles are generally not good 4k/UHD Blu-ray players. I tried using my XSX for (physical) movie watching for a while, and my experience was poor enough that I went out and bought a dedicated Panasonic player instead.
Not all discs would play in my XSX, picture was often noisy, and I ran into a fair amount of audio issues up to and including no sound at all.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 2 weeks ago:
Found the person who needs to leave their partner.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
8bpp ewwww too
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
4k’s bump in resolution is nice, but the biggest benefit is the improvement in color (HDR or Dolby Vision).
- Comment on Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video 4 weeks ago:
Michael Salazar claims that his subscription to a 247Sports e-newsletter qualifies him as a “consumer.” But since he did not subscribe to “audio visual materials,” the district court held that he was not a “consumer” and dismissed the complaint.
- Comment on Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans? 4 weeks ago:
The American system of government is reliant on good-faith actors. When government officials put their own self-interest above the interest of those they have chosen to govern, part of the system is eroded and crumbles.
There are LOTS of American government officials putting their own self-interest first right now.
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 5 weeks ago:
We all laughed at the time, but The Matrix was right - civilization peaked in 1999.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 month ago:
Yes, that is the major problem with LLMs in general. There is no solution aside from “train in another different source (like Reddit)”, but then we rinse & repeat.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 month ago:
Game Pass also lets you do this via cloud play.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 month ago:
The Venn diagram of moderate users and GeForce subscribers has an overlap that’s about 2mm wide.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 months ago:
Samsung S95F OLED
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
All this actually does is push people to porn sites outside of Missouri’s jurisdiction and/or sites that don’t give a fuck about being “legitimate businesses” or whatever. It’s effectively prohibition and the outcome will be the same.
This shit never actually makes anyone safer, it just draws more normal users to seedier parts of the internet.
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 2 months ago:
I’m gonna go to businesses I don’t like, hop on the Wi-Fi, and pirate from all the most obvious trackers.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 2 months ago:
as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365
What a line! Directly referenced a hated service that butchers a whole suite of actually ubiquitous products.
I don’t know a single person who pays for M365. Companies pay for it because they’ve been locked in and/or are forced to for government compliance reasons, but no one actually wants that. Fucking ace thing to compare your AI service to, dipshit.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 3 months ago:
Being a good CEO is 95% about social networking; creating and maintaining trustworthy relationships with others who will provide you with good support. AI can’t do this, as it’s a truly human thing.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 months ago:
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It’s Argo Workflows
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 3 months ago:
Here’s the track for the curious.
It’s pretty basic with lyrics that are pretty pandering. Not exactly a good song, but here we are.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 3 months ago:
This is a running joke in the Far Cry games. I know Far Cry 4 does something similar. You meet the big bad at the beginning of the game, he asks you to wait for him, and if you just chill for like 15 minutes he shows back up, honors his word, and you finish the mission that you came to the island for.
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- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 months ago:
So look,v this is just gonna happen. It’s legal to film people in public (in the US) and we all know stores, etc. are already using facial recognition.
The real problem here is the (apparent, though almost certainly assured) lack of responsible use of the data. Scanning faces means you also get time, place, and event/activity, and that citizens then have zero control of what the govt does with this, who they share it with (e.g. Palantir), etc. All prior collection of US person data required appropriate approval, limited scope of access, and timely adjudication/disposal. But ICE is (again, apparently) operating outside the law.
- Comment on YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask 4 months ago:
Who the fuck is gonna write four bullshit mini-essays just for a job that pays well below market rate?
- Comment on N++ — 10th anniversary update 4 months ago:
I picked this up on Steam for cheap today just so I don’t have to hook up my PS4. Still a super duper amazing game.
I have no idea how to unlock the TEN++ content, though.
- Comment on BALL x PIT | Release Trailer 4 months ago:
Played this for a couple of hours today thanks to Game Pass. So far, it’s a pretty good time. It has some Binding of Isaac / Enter the Gungeon vibes and interesting meta-progression.