kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries? 1 day ago:
AI bubble will pop by 2030. (I fucking hope.)
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 1 day ago:
Makes sense they bought Star Wars, so they can legally say “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
- Comment on AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era 2 days ago:
Idk.
It was hard to find things even with a search engine, and it was full of scams and spyware, and obnoxious designs that got in the way of the real content, and the most popular chat rooms were run by power-tripping nerds with too much free time and an endless interest in CSAM and Nazi ideology.
Not like today, where… uh… well…
- Comment on PhDebaters 6 days ago:
What about the Kantian view?
Kant believed that animals were not sentient in the same way as man and therefore did not deserve the same moral valuation. Yet, he also believed that we should not harm animals, because if you harm a creature that you can feel empathy for, you’re damaging your innate ability to care about others.
Should a similar argument apply to sex robots?
- Comment on PhDebaters 6 days ago:
Okay here goes: Is it morally permissible to have sex with a robot? Assume that it’s so lifelike that you can’t distinguish it from a human, except for the fact that it can’t refuse.
- Comment on PhDebaters 6 days ago:
“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
- Comment on PhDebaters 6 days ago:
What is truth?
- Comment on Remember, remember, it's almost November 1 week ago:
lemmyskidmarkpost
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 1 week ago:
The vaccine only contains the part of the virus that trigger an immune response, not the parts that take over your cells and wreak havoc on your body.
In addition, the post-exposure version of the hep b vaccine will contain a dose of immunoglobulin that gives temporary immunity to the disease. So it’s like training wheels while your body starts to produce its own immune response.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 1 week ago:
Vaccines can be prophylactic or therapeutic. In this case, it’s a post-exposure prophylactic, because it’s administered after exposure to a pathogen but before the disease.
- Comment on If my first kiss was pre-transition and i am now a guy but i always had a guy brain, does that make my first kiss with a "straight" guy gay ? 1 week ago:
Boku no homo
Tap for spoiler
Partially a reply to the comment just below this one, asking if they said “no homo”
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 2 weeks ago:
if you fuck it up they will bail for another platform
They might also start using another platform. But they’re unlikely to leave completely.
Cory Doctorow put out the first hour of the audiobook on Enshittification for free, and it covers this very well.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 weeks ago:
To be clear: I’m saying that an ongoing supply of pure water is a requirement of the cooling method they chose, not that they were required to choose that method. The poster I was replying to asked how water could actually be consumed and not just reused.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 weeks ago:
They need to use very pure water, and it evaporates completely, so it must be continually replenished.
- Comment on spidermanpointing.jpg 3 weeks ago:
“You’re not supposed to be here!”
“You neither”
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 weeks ago:
Funny story… Flock is already pitching that.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 weeks ago:
Flock? Or other models? Cuz I don’t think they’re training license plate OCR via scraping Reddit posts.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 3 weeks ago:
I found the secret to easy money, and I’ll teach it to you for $30,000 per course.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 weeks ago:
Yes, Experian (a company that has had multiple data breaches) is now allowing you to give them more of your personal data for free, and in return they will add your Netflix and Xfinity payments to your credit report.
And then the banks that consider your loan will still do the same process they did before — i.e. not consider your Netflix and Xfinity payments.
- Comment on Internet discourse is wonderful 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for your service
- Comment on Language model 4 weeks ago:
Trough
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 4 weeks ago:
In 2016, various media outlets reported that Mr Thiel had links to the radical life extension startup Ambrosia, with Gawker claiming he “spends $40,00 per quarter to get an infusion of blood from an 18-year-old based on research conducted at Stanford on extending the lives of mice.”
These reports cited his investment portfolio, together with a 2009 essay that laid out his philosophical and political beliefs. In it, he wrote that he stood against “the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual.”
However the blood transfusion claims were never verified and Gawker shut down shortly after following an unrelated lawsuit partly funded by Mr Thiel.
- Comment on Time to send a message 4 weeks ago:
Trillian was the superior MSN Messenger client.
Imagine deploying such an interoperable client today. Like something that lets you bridge Facebook, Reddit, X, etc. all in one and use the services however you see fit, seamlessly moving conversations between platforms depending on which features you want at a given moment.
You’d get sued so hard you’d discover new exotic states of matter.
- Comment on Time to send a message 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 4 weeks ago:
Huh? I just see a bunch of blue arrows on a blank yellowish square.
- Comment on Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Biogeography of Lions 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Finally found where they store all the excess 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact: You may think “Tank-No2” means it’s the “number 2” tank. Nope. It’s actually the tank for November 2nd.
- Comment on These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous.. 5 weeks ago:
The demon core is, at the same time, the dumbest thing I’ve heard someone do, and yet…
“Here’s a vessel containing the most powerful force yet discovered. Nobody’s seen it in person before. A quick peek probably won’t kill you.”
“Hmmm… fuck it.”
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 5 weeks ago:
The way This Guy capitalizes Random Words drives me INSANE.
