TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 1 day ago:
Because the US seems to be supportive of it. They lashed out at governments who’ve said to resolve it or face site bans.
- Comment on Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox 1 day ago:
Even if Mozilla goes closed source the already existing forks can continue
Theoretically yes, practically no. Maintaining a secure modern web engine that’s up to date with - and a part of - setting web standards is something that costs tens of millions per year. Sometimes this even spills into the hundreds of millions.
Random fork projects don’t have the resources to do that.
- Comment on Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox 1 day ago:
I get a lot of hate for it but some AI inclusions are genuinely good.
Firefox’s local AI translation is infinitely better than scraping all the info and sending it to Google Translate servers, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
The screen reader improvements that use AI are good as well. Has anybody here used screen readers for web pages? They are awful. It’s good that someone is willing to improve them. My sister is blind so this matters a lot to me.
The (locally generated) AI assisted link previews aren’t for me as I imagine they’re unnecessarily taxing on older PCs, but they’re not exactly an evil inclusion. It’s an attempt at adding
I’m not a fan of the LLM sidebar, but it’s opt-in and you can at least choose open models or even host your own, I guess.
The hate is overblown.
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 1 day ago:
Kid Starver doesn’t really make sense, he’s expanded free school meals, greatly raised minimum wages, increased free childcare, removed the two child benefit cap, etc.
Queer Harmer probably has more legitimacy to it, I suppose? The high court (not appointed by government or Starmer) had a controversial ruling on gendered toilets, saying that premises are free to exclude trans women from women’s toilets if they do choose. So far the government has made no attempt to alter the law to amend that, so it can perhaps be taken as silent support of that ruling.
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 2 days ago:
FYI, Two Tier Kier is a conspiracy theorist term pushed by people who say Kier harms white people and doesn’t punish non-whites for crime.
- Comment on Switch from American tech companies !? 2 days ago:
Yeah, why wouldn’t it be? Lol
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 3 days ago:
Even calling it side loading is an attempt to delegitimise the practice. To make it sound like you’re doing something dodgy by the side.
It’s just installing an app.
Nobody calls installing an app from outside the Microsoft store on their Windows PC “side loading”.
Likewise for Macs regarding their app store, or installing an app from outside your distro’s repository on Linux.
- Comment on How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do 3 days ago:
Least insane .ml tankie
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 4 days ago:
That’s a shame. I’ve had very good experiences with Sony upper mid range/lower high end TVs. Their image processing is second to none IMO, they seem to use more powerful CPUs than a lot of other android TV makers, and their use of AndroidTV means I can trivially customise my TV in a way that I can’t with lots of other brands.
This is sad news.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 4 days ago:
They bring a lot of “exclusives” to PC too.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 4 days ago:
Do you think the only thing TVs are used for is watching traditional terrestrial TV? Lol
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 4 days ago:
Right? That leaves no TVs. I can’t really think of any TVs that are ad-free, or are guaranteed to be ad free in future.
Personally I’ve been getting android TV boxes and installing a custom (and free) launcher on it, and using SmartTube for ad-free YouTube.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 6 days ago:
I’m not at all against seeing our flags flown. There’s nothing wrong with it, and in fact I think it’s bizarre some people actually ashamed of it. The only other place I’ve seen people act in this manner is Germany. It’s an aspect of British culture I’m not keen on.
That said, cable-tying some AliExpress polyester tat onto a lamppost and spray painting a wonky flag onto a roundabout just because you don’t like the forrins? Hardly a classy move. Even aside from the sinister motives behind it, it looks shit. Particularly now that they’re all stained, faded, and tattered.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 6 days ago:
Generally unsupported means “we will not support this, you’re on your own”
Rather than “this will not work at all, we have ensured that”
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 6 days ago:
Unfortunately most of the GPUs aren’t usable by gamers. We aren’t talking mining booms where miners buy up gaming GPU stock, then sell cheap when the bubble bursts.
We’re talking companies buying huge GPUs that don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming.
Granted, many 4090/5090s were also used, and those will be usable by gamers, but even with a significant price drop on those, only richer gamers will find that to be viable.
Somewhat similar story for memory - a lot of it is tied up in HBM, or as GDDR on enterprise graphics cards.
- Comment on It's easy 1 week ago:
Look, if I were in a privileged position in life, you can bet I’d also do whatever I could to make the same true for my daughters. 100%. I care for them and want them to be prosperous, and if they have kids I’d like them to be in a good position too.
But what really fucks me off is when these people who’ve benefitted from that then go on to act like they’re self-made and didn’t get the help.
Just own it. Say “yeah, my family runs a businesses, and because of that I’m in this good position. I’m really thankful of my parents for doing that for me, I’ve been really fortunate, and I work hard every day in order to show my appreciation for the opportunities that have been made available to me.”
I’d respect the hell out of that, even though there’s still the degree of nepotism there.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 1 week ago:
But but but, this way I get to feel like I’m doing something without actually doing a damn thing, and continuing to support Microsoft
- Comment on A new public footpath is planned for one of the UK’s most famous ancient sites 1 week ago:
Great news.
Anecdotally I’ve noticed quite a few new tracks being made near me, and an absolute shit load of trees. Tens of thousands in my area.
It surprises me there’s not more news of it tbh. Everybody likes trees and greenery.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 1 week ago:
Fucking hate how these shitheads take words from Tolkien’s works and bastardise them. Palantir, Anduril.
What’s next, a social credit system named “Silmaril”? An organisation that harvests the organs of homeless called “Rivendell”?
Just fucking stop.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 1 week ago:
Saying Labour is worse than the Tories is utter madness.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 week ago:
It’s just an Android phone, so yeah, it’ll have Signal.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
The UK is getting closer to the EU. Just jumping back in isn’t an option right now.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
criminalised the support of a direct action group that opposes the genocide,
No. They proscribed a group that ram raided factories with workers inside, advocated for genocide, trashed businesses for having Jewish owners, smashed a policewoman’s back while she was incapacitated on the floor with a sledgehammer, and broke into an RAF base and destroyed the engines of two jets.
allowed Israel to attack British boats and kidnap British citizens
More bullshit
continue to fly spy planes for Israel
They warned Israel against targeting civilians and gave them information on Hamas installations in an attempt to lessen civilian casualties.
and refuel their planes at Akrotiri
Stop fucking lying. Israel and the UK don’t even have compatible fueling systems.
The UK government is complicit in genocide.
If you believe that, you are brain-dead. Re-read the above comment.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
No you didn’t. You just kept lying.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
I don’t see how. Starmer is getting closer to the EU.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
They publicly condemned Israel, committed to arresting Netanyahu if he ever came here, sanctioned much of the Israeli parliament, refused to join the US/Israel in attacking Iran, ramped up humanitarian aid for Palestine, stopped weapons exports to Israel, and formally recognised Palestine.
I struggle to see this rabid support of Israel that Lemmy posters always seem to talk about.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
They did not support Brexit.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
Because unfortunately, all our politicians want it, and the public wants it too.
Reddit and Lemmy are very much in the minority on OSA.
Which is a shame, because I find the OSA to be stupid and unworkable.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
That was already stopped a while ago.
- Comment on Starmer tells Labour MPs his foreign trips can help fix cost of living crisis 1 week ago:
What a shit headline. Wtf is this misleading clickbait?
I’m all for criticising Starmer on genuine missteps or clashes on policy, but pretending these trips are the equivalent of a holiday to Benidorm is ridiculous.
Keir Starmer has defended his frequent trips out of the country to Labour MPs, attempting to draw a direct link with the cost of living at home, which he warned would not be solved by isolationism.
The prime minister told the meeting of the parliamentary Labour party (PLP) on Monday night that it was essential for him to be “in the room” for international negotiations on trade and defence, which would then have an impact on the domestic economy.
He’s right on this. Isolationism will not make things cheaper. It will not make our lives better. It will not make the continent more secure.
One of the few PM things Kier actually seems genuinely very adept at is foreign relations and international diplomacy, and people want him to stop? That’s madness.