porkins

@porkins@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HIV and forced sterilisations: How four Kenyan women found justice⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like Darwinism to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HIV and forced sterilisations: How four Kenyan women found justice⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People who have a lifelong illness that can infect their child, having more kids that they can’t afford, and are surprised picachu when their free socialized system won’t give them free care if they don’t get their tubes tied. Ridiculous. They can’t even read, but are having offspring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A genre of Country Music...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure that the Saudis are compensating him for his losses on Twitter. This was a planned demolition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Born on the wrong side of the fence.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hamas wants to lure them into a ground war where they can also ensure the maximum amount of martyred. Hamas is causing these deaths. No one is safe either way. It’s a war zone. Hamas is shooting people that are fleeing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be good for things like medications, small electronics, and basic kitchen supplies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are a public company that was $4B negative free cash flow last year. The employees get paid, but I’d love for you to describe the mechanism where a board member derives value when the stock has tanked over the past two years unless you are saying that they are shorting it, which would be public information and get them kicked off the board typically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why my comment was deleted, but no. I work for a corporate competitor or them. Spotify is a public company, so it is plain to see that they are not profitable and have never been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Spotify is not profitable nor ever has been. It accrued $4B in additional debt last year. The business is subject to high royalty fees. As a competitor, I just leave free Spotify running all day on mute since they lose money from every subscriber. The royalties are the same whether they make money or not on the customer. It is wise of them to more aggressively convert people to paid plans, but I’m sure that their margins are razor thin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That took me too long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This ad looks like Matt Smith is cosplaying the wish.com version of Henry Cavill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First take for me was Vigo the Carpathian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather have ChatGPT know about news content than not. I appreciate the convenience. The news shouldn’t have barriers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone working on a personal assistant using RAG and LLMs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did this with my wiki in order to read each article and come up with a category and keyword cloud. I first started by attempting to use many different tools to build my own LLM and then realized that I was reinventing the wheel and shifted to using OpenAI’s API. I was able to prompt it to read each article as input and output what I needed in a machine readable format. It worked like a charm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a losing battle with a dying technology. The future is streaming over the internet using and ID that is tied to you or a company. The cell towers all have data. If standard 5G takes less packets than “Data”, we could at least change authentication to a key share system that ties a person and verifies their authenticity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This sells Musk short. He is making smart entrepreneurial decisions for the most part. I hate the monkey testing controversy though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died | Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their de...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why they do monkey trials, but the part where it said that the one dieing monkey was holding it’s cellmates hands really gets to me. There needs to be a better way.