sir_reginald
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- Comment on Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” 9 months ago:
yeah, I know she’s a singer but I don’t like pop and I hadn’t read so much of her til now. I guess that people that like pop music might have heard of her more
- Comment on Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” 9 months ago:
why is this girl suddenly everywhere? I hadn’t heard of her for the last 5 years, and since this week I’ve seen her daily.
- Comment on Facebook at 20: Four ways the app changed the world 9 months ago:
That UI is way better than the new one. Ironic
- Comment on FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines 9 months ago:
under neither definition does China fall under third world.
China is not in the African continent and it was (mostly) in the USSR side during the Cold War.
- Comment on FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines 9 months ago:
China is not a third world country
- Comment on Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired 9 months ago:
they made billions of profits last year. they are very far from loosing money.
- Comment on ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain 9 months ago:
come on, setting up your own DNS is not difficult at all. For my home network, it’s running in a Raspberry Pi, but before that I ran it locally on my desktop. There’s no way I’d spend 15$ a year to resolve internal addresses.
Sure, you have to be careful with the TLD you choose, but I believe that if the ICANN were to create the .lan TLD, it would be all over the internet first.
- Comment on ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain 9 months ago:
I think needing a VPN to access the internal network is a good practice. And if you’re going to be used a VPN anyway, I don’t see why you wouldn’t use a “fake” TLD like .lan for internal stuff, after all it’s just simple DNS rules.
- Comment on Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables 9 months ago:
If it was hardwired you would need to buy a whole new kit…
Nah, Apple will gladly take your money for a replacement.
And I have no idea of the specs, but I’d seen some truly power hungry laptops that charge with USB-C.
- Comment on AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports 9 months ago:
I agree with the first part of your comment, AI is the new buzzword.
But AI is the correct term for LLMs and other technologies using neural networks. That’s what computer scientists have been calling them for decades. The sentient AI concept that we have comes from SciFi. I’d argue that the correct term is what experts have been calling it for years.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
There’s no such a thing as good ads. Not even before the internet.
- Comment on Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables 9 months ago:
yay, I’m glad I can buy a spare proprietary connector from Apple Inc™
- Comment on The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case 9 months ago:
fuck paying Nintendo’s for life. I hope he can move to a country where Nintendo won’t be able to enforce anything and start a new life. He committed a victimless crime which shouldn’t even be a crime IMO and even worse, he was imprisoned for it. And now he has to live as q slave for Nintendo the rest of his life?
I don’t really know which countries would legally shield him from Nintendo’s bullshit tho.
- Comment on Pope calls for treaty regulating AI, warning of potential for ‘technological dictatorship’ 9 months ago:
I’m a stone-cold atheist. Seen a couple of Popes come and go. This guy is as good a man as I’ve seen on the throne. I’ll allow it.
I couldn’t care less if this man is good. He’s the head of the institution who has been oppressing the people for centuries. And when he says we should fear a “technology dictatorship” I can’t avoid to laugh thinking how many dictatorships they’ve held and or supported in the past.
- Comment on How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity 9 months ago:
as stupid as they are, if you had installed it and mined it for a few minutes, you’d be millionaire now.
I assume that’s why they enrage you.
- Comment on How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity 9 months ago:
true, but paying in cash is sort of difficult over the internet.
You can send it via mail, but mail is slow and it could potentially be traced back to you.
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 10 months ago:
I’ve seen people being homophobic to straight but feminine men.
Anyway, OP meant that homophobia, just like sexism, seems to be more present in STEM.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 10 months ago:
DDG uses Bing’s results. Bing has deteriorated less than Google but it’s also becoming worse every day.
- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 10 months ago:
what’s the difference between a Chinese investment group and a US investment group? They are both terrible. There’s no ethical mega corp, I’m afraid.
- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 10 months ago:
They downvote you because that’s a very western-centric vision.
Additionally, a car manufacturer in one of your western nations, Volkswagen, is also one of the top EV manufacturers.
And nearly every other manufacturer like Hyundai, BMW, Mercedes and Ford are now making EVs too. So it’s not like there’s a shortage of non-Tesla EVs in the western.
- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 10 months ago:
the only ideology compatible with any company is capitalism. Do you think companies that make EVs do it for the greater good of the planet? No, they do it for profit.
If Tesla gets rids of Musk it will be because he’s making the other shareholders loose money.
- Comment on Wafrn is a tumblr clone that connects to the fediverse 10 months ago:
Interesting. I like the UI. I doubt the aesthetic people on Tumblr would like it but that’s not the point.
it’s always welcome to have more options in the fediverse.
- Comment on GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice 10 months ago:
I haven’t heard of voice-changers that can replicate other people’s voices that aren’t made with machine learning.
The issue is impersonation. An AI voice generator that does not imitate anyone in specific and has a “unique” voice, I have no issue with that.
And obviously, a human voice imitator that uses it for impersonating others is also an issue. But that’s far less common and accessible than a computer powered option.
- Comment on GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice 10 months ago:
the AI generated one is super easy to (ab)use.
- Comment on More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence 10 months ago:
yeah, if you can’t find FOSS cameras, I’d recommend getting a good old CCTV connected to a device that does not have internet access.
- Comment on More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence 10 months ago:
Should there be an expectation of privacy in public?
No, but there should be an expectation of not being recorded by every car you come across.
- Comment on What is ActivityPods framework? 10 months ago:
or you can just take a template, replace the placeholder text and images with your own and you’re done.
most websites don’t come up with their own design, even less scammers. it would be a waste of time
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 10 months ago:
just let me encrypt my data locally. I don’t trust their obfuscated JavaScript to handle my encryption keys. Give me IMAP and I’ll use my good old client with my OpenPGP plugin.
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 10 months ago:
I think they saw it as an opportunity to wash their image. “Look, we’re the good guys” kind of thing.
- Comment on Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure 10 months ago:
Linux Mint does yeah. Browsers? Not for long. Give it a few years and browsers might require 16GB of RAM to run.