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- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 15 hours ago:
Isn’t it amazing that places like this built on user support and contribution turn around and pull a “we don’t need you”?
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
Who says EV are going to fix climate change?
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 2 days ago:
Harry Potter reference.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 3 days ago:
Because of the trope that vegans are pretentious twats that publicly chastise anyone not vegan.
Like most things it’s one of those situations that’s blown out of proportion and the vast majority of us will never interact with a preachy vegan. I’ve encountered many vegans in the wild and they’ve most all been decent people, and I love picking their brains for decent vegan or vegetarian foods. I don’t mind vegan/vegetarianism, it’s just not easy to do well, so it helps to talk to people who do it for real. That said, I have encountered a few that are on the preachy side, but whatever. They’re no different than the tool who has the “eat tasty animals” bumper sticker and the like.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 4 days ago:
It’s a flaming sword. Except retractable. Flaming swords have had a pretty long run as objects of interest. Lightsabers just make the concept retractable and make the “blade” a form of unobtainium.
I wonder if people will even remember it in 1000 years.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 5 days ago:
Don’t forget that if you have to rewind a part to see something the creator blew past that you needed to see and you get another two ads. Fuck that noise.
- Comment on Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations 5 days ago:
But capitalism good!
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 days ago:
Thanks for putting it at a scale I can grok. If we could create such a device it would just be a literal (digital) brain.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 days ago:
Did OP mean accomplishing the connectivity and with software rather than hardware? No, we don’t have hardware that can modify itself like a brain does, but I think it is possible to accomplish that with coding.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 6 days ago:
Voyager an Mlem on iOS.
- Comment on Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2 1 week ago:
Yeah. We keep trying to dump stuff in the ocean, it always comes back and bites us in the ass.
- Comment on No one has predicted the end of the world in a while. 1 week ago:
Hah, I agree. No need for the nutters to predict it when civilization is dangling its toes off the precipice. You can see it on the horizon. Global instability, wars, anthropogenic climate change. They’re holding their breath like the rest of us.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
The price will only be exceeded by the power bill for the electricity needed to run it.
- Comment on Can’t stand it when they do that 1 week ago:
Truth. That, and grocery stores are laid out to be frustrating so you spend more time wandering around looking for what you want in the hopes that you’ll come across something else you decide to buy.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 week ago:
Yeah, how’s that going to be cheaper? Unions in Germany aren’t known for that. Unless Germany has an easier route to cheaper foreign workers with visas working there?
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 week ago:
I turned off autocorrect/predictive text. I got so tired of the errors that I figured I was no worse off with my own typos than dealing with the frustration of having to fix and re-fix stubbornly incorrect words replacing what I meant.
- Comment on I fell into a burning ring of fire 1 week ago:
Dollar Tree Elijah Wood.
Damn, dude, still chuckling over this. Funnier the longer I think about it.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
No. Several Jan 6 participants tried burners and they still got caught because the burners were still linked to their movements and activities and their personal phones were unusually unused/off/immobile for the amount of time the burners were used. You would have to expend a lot of effort to make sure your burner was completely disconnected from yours and your phone’s location, as well as making sure your phone showed signs of appropriate activity in your absence.
Not so easy.
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 1 week ago:
They want privacy from us but not privacy for us.
IOW there are plenty in the government who don’t want citizens to have access to information about what they’re doing in government, but they’re quite happy to try to make more legislation giving them rights or backdoor access to citizens’ information.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 1 week ago:
Seconded for difficulty with Razer products. 15+ years ago they were pretty good. But since then I’ve had 2 headsets crap out right after warranty, one in warranty failed, mice quit working and a keyboard fail. They only replaced the one headset. Plus, their gaming software for their upper tier headsets is unbelievably bloated and awful. I’ve had to uninstall and reinstall it several times to get it working when some update f’s it up.
So far, my Logitech gear is still trucking along, even my cheap $14 travel mouse.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 1 week ago:
They are not the same. One manipulates and exploits its own country’s citizens for profit, the other exploits and manipulates both its own and citizens of other countries for profit and government data collection.
While TikTok doesn’t offer financial incentive to any US corporation, it certainly offers incentives to the users of the platform.
Let’s not move the goalposts/butwhatabout to talking about minors using social media or Chinese manufacturing, that’s too much to get into and keep it focused on the communist/capitalist debate and why TikTok is being treated as it is.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 1 week ago:
I didn’t argue that we are pro-communist.
The point of my observation was that the premise of the TikTok sale is “anti-communist” and that it’s being brought up at all against the background of all the existing, deep economic ties between the US and China. IOW the US putting its foot down on TikTok is anti-communist, but accepting everything else gets a pass?
Funny that you point out the mistrust of (in this context of social media) western products as being exploitative when the Chinese exploitation of data and use of algorithms to manipulate what we see on TikTok is exactly one of the reasons the US wants the sale.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 1 week ago:
While I appreciate the additional info, that really doesn’t add to the conversation about what the tipping point is for the parent comment.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 1 week ago:
Anti communist? With everything else we buy from China, this is the tipping point to be anti-communist? How about all the US social media platforms that China won’t let in? Is that “anti-capitalist?”
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 1 week ago:
I think I’d keep my current job. 40/wk is the grind I worked to get away from.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 1 week ago:
They are more efficient.
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They are more efficient moving money from the bottom to the top and making investors and CEOs rich.
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They are more efficient at making the minimum product for the price while suppressing labor, reducing customer service, and enshittifying the product as the lifespan of the company progresses in order to do #1.
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- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 1 week ago:
In the future?
Ask any student population in the past who were shot, beaten, tasered, hosed down with water cannons, and jailed what they thought would happen to future protesters.
The shape of silencing unrest, especially anti-war or liberal unrest, hasn’t changed at all. And it will look just the same a decade from now.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 week ago:
Man I hate this ad-fueled internet dystopia.
- Comment on If TikTok in the US is spun off as a separate entity, how hard would it be for the current company to put in a back door to still access the data. 1 week ago:
Exactly.
No need for conspiracy or back doors. The only downside is ByteDance having to pay for data that they got as part of running the platform. Heck, they can probably even find a way to run control through shell corps or other means like being a big shareholder of some intermediate investment and nothing will change.
- Comment on Had me for a while there 2 weeks ago:
Just like real life.
Don’t forget American Samoa, too.