droopy4096
@droopy4096@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A Toronto company is deliberately spreading hyperpartisan lies on Facebook. It owns a page called "Canada Proud" and has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting voters 2 weeks ago:
from recent reports there’s a bunch of Canadian billionaires backing the effort, hoping for DOGE style purge of governmenr
- Comment on Hackers could access medical equipment and pose a threat to lives, Northeastern cybersecurity expert tells Congress. 4 weeks ago:
yes, but this time it will be properly dismissed as “fake news”
- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 3 months ago:
funny, on the same day we get a headline about Germany energy prices dipping into negatives mainly due to renewables… hmmm
- Comment on Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money * TorrentFreak 5 months ago:
“afford fewer and fewer things” needs correction: most “things” are being turned into “services” so people end up owning nothing and being forced to overpay for “service” they never asked for
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 6 months ago:
any time you buy DRM’d content you’re subject to revocation of rights to use it. So buying such content along with purchase of devices geared specifically for DRM-only content is doomed from the beginning.
- Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 6 months ago:
some crypto learned to be efficient, others did not. We still do have crypto-mining botnets. Crypto remains to be useless to humanity and very profitable for few. Same with AI. Same with stock market. Instead of producing something of value we keep on burning through resources while selected few enjoy bonfire others have to fight to stay alive…
- Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 6 months ago:
not only does he burn through cash, he burns through resources making life worse now for everybody: AI rivals crypto in resource waisting while not contributing at all to any improvements. I fail to see “brighter future” for us through AI as it is energy-intensive, unsustainable endeavor for which we are woefully unprepared both materially (energy efficiency, semiconductor manufacturing/recycling, etc) and psychologically (ethics etc.). Yeah, grand on paper, terrible in reality