Paranoidfactoid
@Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins. 1 week ago:
“You’ve never made it past grade kindergarten but you dream of becoming a world class theoretical physicist? Let me help you with that, I’m sure you can do it!”
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
I want to be there when you set that up on the table for your next departmental meeting.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
How many 16k 4116 RAM chips can your laptop handle?
- Comment on Everyone is stealing TV 1 week ago:
DON’T COPY THAT FLOPPY!
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
Clearly, AI isn’t just challenging human performance, it’s exceeding it. Four times the crash rate is just the beginning. Just imagine the crash rate when super intelligence comes!
🚘💥🚗
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 1 week ago:
Vegetable suppositories are well known to enhance vitamin and mineral absorption. For example, zucchini which has been peeled, carved in the shape of a buttplug, and inserted rectally will have 95% absorption for vitamin c, vitamin a, AND… vitamin kink!
Shoving veggies up your butt has never been more beneficial. Veggie suppositories, a whole new way to better health!
(thanks Grok!)
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 week ago:
PROSECUTE ALL OF THEM
- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 2 weeks ago:
I have Newpipe already installed. I’ll give that a try!
- Comment on OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders 2 weeks ago:
EVERYTHING IS FINE
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
The Panoptocon’s actual architect was Bentham, but OK.
- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 2 weeks ago:
I’d really like a better adblock for my TV. YouTube is particularly painful. A Pi box or mini PC. But I want good browser integration to a remote with a FOSS app. Like Firefox for TV or something.
- Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. 2 weeks ago:
Side bags. Always a solution!
- Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. 2 weeks ago:
It seats ten midgets comfortably.
- Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. 2 weeks ago:
Try pumping the clutch shift and rear brake. It’ll probably do something. Not sure what.
- Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. 2 weeks ago:
The Honda Goldwing is a six cylinder outdoor Campervan Winnebago.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
Those headless GPUs are great for simulation work in blender and other creative tools. I’d love an opportunity to buy a good used one on the cheap.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
I’m not happy about it.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t buy one just so you can smash it! I know it’s satisfying to hear the plastic crack and see its tiny lens pop free like a smooshed eyeball. Yeah. That I guess would be good.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 2 weeks ago:
We are human beings. AI is not. It never had that experience of being or caring for a child. It does not (or should not) have that data in its dataset.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 2 weeks ago:
I have changed diapers and can attest to the anatomical differences between child and adult, and therefore know AI cannot extrapolate that difference without data clarifying these differences. Without that data trained in its model, AI would hallucinate something absurd or impossible.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think so. Speaking as a parent.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 2 weeks ago:
The one true joystick: Image
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 2 weeks ago:
How do these AI models generate nude imagery of children without having been trained with data containing illegal images of nude children?
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
But they’re cheap. And while you may get open heart surgery or a leg amputated to resolve your appendicitis, at least you got care. By a bot. That doesn’t even know it exists, much less you.
Thank Elon for unnecessary health care you still can’t afford!
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 2 weeks ago:
Most people couldn’t afford that. But everyone had a living room and people would come over. Everyone had a grill and people would come over. Most people had kids and kids would come over.
Life was much more real life social.
- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 3 weeks ago:
Can confirm: There’s a lot of money in machine room planning, setup, and building-out right now. If you have experience with electrical, cooling (water or forced air), cabling, and rackmount machine installation and sysadmin stuff, you’ll make good money.
- Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models 3 weeks ago:
If you want to do work with the GPU you’re still buying NVIDIA. Particularly 3D animation, video/film editing, and creative tools. Even FOSS tools like GIMP and Krita prefer NVIDIA for GPU accelerated functions.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 3 weeks ago:
Substack is a very useful platform. Both in that you get all the email addresses of your subscriber base, so they don’t lock you in there, and the monetization they have set up.
The fediverse should target it to replicate much or all of its functionality. It is MORE than a mere blog. It has a big ecosystem one blog can’t replicate alone. The payment system would be particularly difficult to copy well.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
These days 12k at 14-16 bit is the norm.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 weeks ago:
Choose another payment method. Choose another platform - web based? - where these fees don’t apply. Hell, buy a throwaway droid phone to keep your money from apple’s greedy hands.
