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- Comment on Net neutrality is about to make a comeback 6 months ago:
“And regulating an industry which is on the cusp of working with our government and the states to bring internet everywhere finally could really jeopardize that critical and bipartisan goal by creating regulatory overhang, disincentivizing investment.” said Jonathan Spalter, president and CEO of broadband industry group USTelecom.
WTF bullshit is he spouting? Hate to break it to ya bud, the internet was conceived and executed…by the government. Or did you forget DARPA? On the cusp,ppphht.
And the rest of that word salad? Regulatory overhang? Disincentivizing? It’s all doublespeak for “padding shareholders pockets”.
- Comment on Proton: "Introducing Dark Web Monitoring for credential leaks" 6 months ago:
404
- Comment on Columbia faculty members walk out after pro-Palestinian protesters arrested 6 months ago:
I stand with the faculty and students. Fuck the administration.
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 7 months ago:
They are obviously of the “If-It-Ain’t-Broke-Don’t-Fix-It” people. A once dominant group, they also age slowly, have the longest memories and loquaciously share them.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Now the other manufacturers just need to do the same.
- Comment on Supreme Court allows Texas to begin enforcing controversial immigration law | CNN Politics 8 months ago:
😢
- Comment on Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old 8 months ago:
Link to original study cited by article.
- Comment on After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” 8 months ago:
In his blog post, Tan defended the subscription-only licensing model, calling it “the industry standard.”
“Industry standard” my ass.
If Adobe hadn’t started the trend by lusting after Blizzard’s subscription model and ultimately emulating it, we’d all be a lot better off.
Not to mention our wallets being eternally thankful.
- Comment on the Apple curl security incident 12604 | daniel.haxx.se 8 months ago:
TL;DR? > The problem is strictly speaking not even in curl code. It comes with the version of LibreSSL that Apple ships and builds curl to use on their platforms.
But because they’re Apple (right next to the Pope, for infallibility), they know best; same old story, rinse’n’repeat.
Really liked their stuff back in the day. Now? It’s another walled garden they scrabble to maintain.
- Comment on Researchers jailbreak AI chatbots with ASCII art -- ArtPrompt bypasses safety measures to unlock malicious queries 8 months ago:
…researchers from NTU were working on Masterkey, an automated method of using the power of one LLM to jailbreak another.
Or: welcome to where AI becomes an arms race.
- Comment on Migrate your Oculus accounts to Meta this month or lose your games 8 months ago:
If you have to do this, were they ever your games?
- Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? 8 months ago:
I pray there comes a time when the people decide what their taxes are spent on. Could be done using a simple form, with a dozen or so broad categories to choose from, submitted with your tax return.
I bet the results would shock the shit out of the politicians.
- Comment on ‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship. 8 months ago:
When they say, “It’s for the children”, you can rest assured, it’s not.
- Comment on Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review. 8 months ago:
dck 🤣
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 9 months ago:
Assistive technology has been focused on this for a while.
My brother had severe cerebral palsy and for years (80s-90s) communicated via analog technology, a literal alpha/iconography communication board, which he could tap on with a head wand. By 2000 he had a digital voice, but still had to use a wand.
Stephen Hawking demonstrated eye sensing technology almost as soon as it was invented and that’s been over a decade ago.
In most cases, there is a definite aspect of “bespokeness” to implementing assistive consumer communication technology, but the barriers implementing the same for an able audience would appear much lower.
- Comment on The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk 9 months ago:
TIL: About RMI, or, the Rocky Mountain Institute. en.m.wikipedia.org/…/RMI_(energy_organization) So the kinda “Huh?” headline makes sense.
One of their focuses is changing energy usage patterns by changing demand.
In several sections, with minimal numbers and many helpful charts, the article takes us thru how evolving battery technology will lead to lessened fossil fuel demand.
- Comment on 3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet. 9 months ago:
Parasites and control freaks endorse “child safety “ bill, what could possibly go wrong?
- Comment on The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances 9 months ago:
The power of lobbyists, on full display. K Street is a plague on the people of the US.
- Comment on U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker... 9 months ago:
Fucking billionaires should be taxed out of existence.
- Comment on Mastodon security update: every version prior to today's is vulnerable to remote user impersonation and takeover 9 months ago:
That’s not good.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Then, there’s this: restoreprivacy.com/state-spyware-extensively-usin…
For this reason alone, fuck any company banning ad blockers.
- Comment on Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies - Consumer Reports 9 months ago:
He is. Don’t let the smile fool you.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Sold Out, At Least For Pre-Order 9 months ago:
There’s a reason it’s called bleeding edge. Prefer someone else feel those pains.
- Comment on X Announces Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Will Launch In 2024 10 months ago:
Get into?
- Comment on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication 10 months ago:
I have no earthly idea, but feels like “‘Cuz we can”.
- Comment on Apple pays out over claims it deliberately slowed down iPhones 10 months ago:
So, what…$15 payout?
- Comment on Billionaires are hoarding trillions in untaxed wealth. They want the Supreme Court to keep it that way 10 months ago:
Some writers have the temerity to call themselves journalists, when clearly they are not.
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 10 months ago:
Hey, look, Disney has more lawyers than I do and while Steamboat Willie entered the public domain, didn’t wanna risk that Mickey [as a term] hadn’t.
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- Comment on Business Insider's reporter and his disastrous experience with GM's Blazer including the infotainment system: 10 months ago:
TL;DR?
But it’s no secret the Ultium platform’s launch isn’t going all that hot. For starters, there are very few of any of these cars on the roads, but the ones that are on the road seem to be plagued with problems. There’s a whole bugs and quibbles thread on the Cadillac Lyriq forum that is approaching 100 pages. TFL’s GMC Hummer EV bricked while off-road, necessitating a tow back home. Would the Blazer EV follow in the footsteps of those two cars? If my experience is anything to go by, then the answer unfortunately might just be yes.
