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- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 8 hours ago:
Good, good, there aren’t enough microplastics in the sea, must dissolve more.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 2 days ago:
I just found out the other day that items pinned to the taskbar are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar. 🤦♂️
Microsoft is a sad parody of itself.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 4 days ago:
Hear me out, Eliza. It’ll be equally useless and for orders of magnitude less cost. And no one will mistakenly or fraudulently call it AI.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 4 days ago:
They add capabilities not replace.
They poison all repositories of knowledge with their useless slop.
They are plummeting us into a dark age which we are unlikely to survive.
Sure, it’s not the LLMs fault specifically, it’s the bastards who are selling them as sources of information instead of information-shaped slop, but they’re still being used to murder the future in the name of short term profits.
So, no, they’re not useless. They’re infinitely worse than that.
- Comment on Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots: Device detects injury, heals it and resets to detect future harm. 5 days ago:
That’s all I want out of AI.
The ability to hurt my computer when it isn’t working properly.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 5 days ago:
No, LLMs have always been an evident dead end when it comes to general AI.
They’re hampering research in actual AI, and the fact that they’re being marketed as AI ensures that no one will invest in actual AI research in decades after the bubble bursts.
We were on track for a technological singularity in our lifetimes, until those greedy bastards derailed us and murdered the future by poisoning the Internet with their slop for some short term profits.
Now we’ll go extinct due to ignorance and global warming long before we have time to invent something smart enough to save us.
But, hey, at least, for a little while, their line did go up, and that’s all that matters, it seems.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 6 days ago:
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
and with strange aeons even death may die. - Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld the wizards of the Unseen University built a possibly sentient supercomputer out of an ant farm (much faster and more powerful than previous druid-built computers based on standing stones, which were mostly limited to calendar calculations and required regular human sacrifices).
The Agathean Empire at the edge of the disc has little boxes with little imps inside which can paint a picture of what you point the box at in mere seconds.
Later, some Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs trained imps to paint even faster on highly flammable nitrocellulose reels and, moving them very fast and lighting them from behind with excited salamanders, invented moving pictures (and promptly accidentally almost let the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions enter the disc).
Even later, some other Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs created a continent-spanning network of semaphore telegraphs, even managing to send pictures through it.
All while some Dwarves in Ankh-Morpork invented movable type, while getting in trouble with the wizards, who’re well aware that you can’t use that to print magic books, for the type will remember…
And, all along, deep under their mountains, the Überwaldian dwarves have been digging up and using ancient Devices to power whole cities…
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
You don’t want guns in a spaceship. Don’t want to poke a hole in a wall and open it to space.
Swords make a lot more sense when fighting inside a spaceship. (Granted, short swords, probably, due to the limited space, but still.)
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. — Pratchett, maybe…?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
the thing that was actually influencing Neptune’s orbit, whatever that might be
Calculation error due to Einstein not being available (in Lowell’s case, at least; Tombaugh should’ve known better) and margins of error in the measured masses of the planets at the time (the Voyagers took care of that bit), if I’m not mistaken.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Look, those damn things (Pluto / Charon, since they’re basically a double bodied system) get closer to the Sun than Neptune, at certain points in their orbit.
There’s dozens of similarly sized objects buzzing around in the same region, and probably thousands of not millions in the Oort cloud.
The only reason “Pluto” were ever called a planet is that they coincidentally happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when Tombaugh used Lovell’s miscalculations to look for an hypothetical transneptunian planet (Lowell, at least, had the excuse of having died before Einstein published his theory of relativity, but Tombaugh should have known that Newton wasn’t enough for this kind of thing).
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 1 week ago:
Because capitalism!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Personally I’m partial to replacing very x for more x¹ than a very x thing in a pot.
I’m fairly certain I got it from Blackadder, but I can’t recall the episode.
1.– Or xer, where appropriate.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t a goat be a cheaper and less polluting solution which would also automatically mow the lawn and produce milk…?
(Of course it wouldn’t solve the noise problem, but it’d probably be less offensive than a leaf blower…)
- Comment on The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data? 2 weeks ago:
Obviously, yes.
They knew this when they poisoned the well¹ (photocopy of a photocopy and all that), but they’re in it for the fast buck and will scamper off with the money once they think the bubble is about to burst.
1.– Well, some of them might have drunk their own coolaid, and will end up having an intimate face to face meeting with some leopards…
- Comment on No I will not take risk 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 2 weeks ago:
That’s Sony telling the customers they kicked to the curb that it wasn’t because of the PSN thing.
It was personal.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 2 weeks ago:
Denuvo
… is expensive. And a subscription service.
Which means there’s an incentive for studios to remove it as soon as new sales aren’t bringing enough money for its cost to be worth it.
That’s when you want to pirate (or buy, if you’re into that kind of shit) the game. With the added benefit that it’s unlikely that the studio will come up with more updates or DLC, and if the game is at all moddable it’ll probably have a mature community patch that’ll fix everything the studio was unwilling or unable to patch. (Also, I’m not sure how denuvo cracking works, but I doubt it removes all of that shit, so a game with it properly removed will probably run better than a cracked one, even if the cracked one still ran better than the original infected version.)
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No, the point is to prevent real democracy by being “democratic enough”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
All the constitutional monarchies started as just monarchies.
Nope.
Spain, for instance, started as a dictatorship.
Then the bastard died of being an old piece of shit, hopefully extremely painfully, and the corrupt fratricidal parasite he’d named as a successor, a descendant of some dude who had been king long before the dictatorship (which started as a coup against a democratic republican government) he’d been grooming for years, was named king.
There was a sham “democratic transition” that defecated a “democratic construction” with the military threatening the elected politicians to make sure the new constitution wasn’t too democratic, and a referendum where the people voted for that thing because at least it wasn’t as bad as going back to the dictatorship.
Then a few years later the parasite (secretly) staged a coup, and then publicly diplomatically dismantled it, enshrining himself as a saviour of democracy and making sure the citizenship wouldn’t push for radical change, lest the next coup succeed.
As the bastard Franco said before he died, he left everything “tied up and well tied up”.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
Or 1984, or Brave New World.
My money’s on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, though.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
Late stage capitalism, then. 🤷♂️
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 4 weeks ago:
Photocopy of a photocopy.
It’s always been obvious that this was the inevitable result of them poisoning the Internet (their own source of information for training) with their garbage.
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- Comment on Rising egg prices and high demand are prompting consumers to rent or buy chickens, but experts warn the move may not cut costs 3 months ago:
Do you want bird flu? Because this is how you get bird flu.
(Though, to be fair, if you’re in the US you’ll almost certainly end up getting it anyway, so you might as well enjoy some eggs and cleaning lots of chicken guano while you’re at it.)
- Comment on telecommunications dish 3 months ago:
Does the cone of shame do anything in this case?
Looks like the nozzle would still be able to reach everything it’d reach normally…
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 3 months ago:
At one particular point it was, if I recall correctly, though Chrome also (mis)implements some standards its own way, so Google might also use that as a form of attack against anyone who implements them properly, much like Microsoft did in the bad old IE6 days…
It’s all a silly arms race, though, with Google coming up with new ways to enshittify the web for anyone not using Chrome or using ad blockers and Mozilla and ad blocker (and alternative YouTube frontend) developers trying to figure out what they broke this time and how to fix it, so what worked yesterday might not work today and work again tomorrow.
It’s all a profoundly stupid waste of everyone’s time and resources (all for a few more ad views) which will hopefully end up with Google losing their monopoly position on the web like the Internet Explorer bullshit did for Microsoft, but will keep being a major hassle for everyone until it does.
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 3 months ago:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/youtube-responds-to-delayed-loading-in-rival-browser-complaints, for instance.
Or https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/, for an older one.
As for how to fix it, Mozilla tend to do a pretty good job of eventually working around Google’s bullshit, so keeping the browser updated is a good first step.
Since Google tends to roll this stuff out regionally and doing A/B testing, though, the best way is to identify what specific handicap they’re hassling you with (which specific features don’t work or don’t work right, when they work properly on chrome), and look for an updated add on or userscript to fix that particular issue.
Or you can just look for a generic YouTube or Google Docs “enhancer” add on and hope it fixes the issue without making the whole user experience too different from what you’re used to.
