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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit

  Anyway 9 is still not exactly “long”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The longest word in that sentence is 8 letters…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, because the EU has never done anything before

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  none of them help an average person*

  except the trains, vaccines, 2 new types of computation, cultured meat, wireless charging, stem cell treatments, neural interfaces, gene editing*

  **and whatever unknown advances are unlocked by those and the other technologies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What am I, rainman? Regardless, I’m not sure what that has to do with whether “technology has peaked”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the last ~10 years humanity has developed:

  • electric cars
  • mRNA vaccines
  • cars that can (more or less drive themselves)
  • convincing human language text/speech synthesis
  • reusable space rockets
  • precise gene editing
  • prosthetics that directly connect to the nervous system
  • robots that can walk across inconsistent terrain
  • commercial quantum computing and quantum cryptography
  • cultured meat
  • biometrics
  • computer vision
  • virtual reality
  • optical computing
  • wireless charging
  • stem cell treatments
  • neural computer interfaces
  • drones
  • maglev trains

  New technologies tend to have long lulls while being developed, followed by a rapid series of developments when those technologies become viable and in turn provide the base for new technologies.

  Yeah, there’s always grifters, but there’s also always tons of people working really hard to create new advances for the benefit of mankind. Capitalism is definitely flawed (understatement) but relative to say, feudalism, continues to be a very efficient way to allocate resources when used in a well managed economy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, to summarise, you have no actual evidence, you’re insulting me for not coming to the same conclusion you came to just based entirely on vibes?

  Given that natural language interfaces are pretty ubiquitous (you almost certainly have Gemini/Google Assistant or Siri on your phone by default), I think “it’s self-evident” is not a compelling argument here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so would you like to now elaborate on what that research was, and why that research proves that it’s so impossible for me to be correct that it’s reasonable to call me an idiot? Or is it just the case that you hate AI, and thus merely thinking it’s possible that people may use it as a browser interface means I deserve to be insulted?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What an eloquent and well researched argument you’ve put forward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s some alt-text generation for websites that don’t have proper accessibility, though not certain if it’s released yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not entirely clear, but my best guess is that it will basically have an MCP implementation so that the browser can be controlled directly by an LLM

  I think that’s basically what e.g. the chatgpt browser is. Despite the… hostile… response on the fediverse, I suspect it will end up being the way a lot of people interact with the internet in a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahh, my good friend water pressure.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LGTM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Hiring.cafe - a free job scraping site that lets you filter out Workday and other nuisance ATS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but you absolutely were being condescending and obfuscating - my point was valid regardless of who “started it”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Hiring.cafe - a free job scraping site that lets you filter out Workday and other nuisance ATS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YSK, your reply is the equivalent of: cutting your nose to spite your face

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, and?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes, because clearly the intended reading of that comment was “you deserve to be free from the AI” /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, you hear someone is so lonely that their only friend is a computer system, and your takeaway is that they deserve to be alone? Have some fucking empathy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨requirement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, this is my screenshot from a few years back!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every damn time.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People get a bit grumpy when you “permanently maim a bunch of people to see what happens”

  Idk sounds like liberal bullshit to me /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Figured what out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they’re right that it’s not FOSS - the F is free as in available to anybody who may wish to use it, which is incompatible with defining who is allowed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I broadly agree, but I think there’s a bit of a “correlation is not causation” effect at play, too

  I would expect people who are very career-focused would prioritise socialising less, and also be more willing to do a long commute for a job they are highly invested in. But the reduced socialising wouldn’t necessarily be caused by the commuting (not entirely, at least).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes it difficult to use the pavement for what it’s for, especially for elderly people and people with disabilities, costs the council a bunch of time and money to repair, and doing the repairs often require killing off the tree

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think the government is paying for the park…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s largely for the same reason; their legal obligations to ensure they don’t facilitate illegal stuff means that the risk of working with companies that do e.g. amateur porn makes the potential consequences (financial processing ban, i.e. effectively the entire company being shut down) massively outweigh the potential benefits.

  So you’re right that PH’s legal liability was part of the reasoning, but that pressure largely came from payment processors, for whom the legal consequences are more severe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you elaborate on what you mean by web tech? I don’t know much about how matrix works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Find hot Nicoles in your local Fediverse!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people in constitutional monarchies pledge loyalty to the monarch, is it actually for real, or just symbolic / a pro-forma thing?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the British monarchy, the monarch (“the Crown”) and the person who is the current monarch are considered distinct “people” with their own separate possessions (i.e. King Charles as the Crown owns property separately to Charles Windsor the private citizen).

  So these oaths are meant to be pledging loyalty to the Crown, in its role as the embodiment of the British state, as opposed to the king personally.

  The commons library is a treasure trove of information about the UK’s fascinating and complex constitution, I’d strongly recommend giving it a read if you’re interested in this sort of stuff!

  Commons Library: the Crown and the constitution

  In particular, I’d recommend checking out The United Kingdom constitution – a mapping exercise, which is a document intended to be a reasonably thorough summary of the UK’s constitution and where it comes from. It’s ~300 pages so I wouldn’t recommend reading the whole thing, but it’s great as a reference for the parts you find interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (and reinforces it)