homesweethomeMrL
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- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 8 hours ago:
Yes. North Korea.
WINK
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 1 day ago:
And, hey, good luck with it.
Uh, how are those trains coming?
- 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 2 days ago:
Oh man, I nay have to stop using this fascist sewer hose.
- Comment on U.S. foreign tax bill sends jitters across Wall Street 3 days ago:
What does the proposed tax do?
Under the new tax bill, the U.S. would hit investors from such countries by increasing taxes on U.S. income by 5 percentage points each year, potentially taking the rate up to 20%.
Emmanuel Cau, head of European Equity Strategy at Barclays, suggested that the mere passage of the tax legislation could make dollar assets less valuable for foreign investors.
“In our view, this is a risk for those companies generating US revenues, and domiciled in countries that have enacted Digital Services Taxes (DST) or are implementing the OECD’s Under Taxed Payment Rule (UTPR),” Cau said in a Friday note to clients.
He highlighted companies such as London-listed Compass Group, which provides catering services to U.S. schools, and InterContinental Hotels, which owns at least 25 luxury hotels in the U.S., are likely to be affected by the proposed law.
“Given US net international investment position is sharply negative, there is indeed scope for capital outflows if indeed S899 passes through the Senate in its current form,” he added.
I’m just a bougie liberal but “capital outflow” sounds bad
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 3 days ago:
Eat more AI! We’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this fucking garbage, so EAT IT! Yeah! It’s in your email! It’s in your car! IT’S IN YOUR TEETH (launch date: Q2 2026)!
- Comment on FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe 3 days ago:
Most.
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 3 days ago:
That would be pretty awesome
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 4 days ago:
Headline: Horrible Software Platform Is Really Terrible, Still
Me: hm. *shrug*
- Comment on Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down 4 days ago:
Yet for all the hype, the practical gains remain limited.
. . . He dismisses fears that generative AI will eliminate white-collar jobs, citing a simple reality: “There are too many white-collar jobs where getting the right answer actually matters.”
This. Plus everyone’s selling the same thing and none of it can be sold at a profit.
It’s just like watching people use lots of feathers on sticks to try and fly. Flight will probably be possible someday, but not like that, and if you idiots are going all in on feather-sticks now, you’re horrible businesspeople.
- Comment on Business Insider will lay off 21% of staff amid AI disruption and “extreme traffic drops” 4 days ago:
Business insider came out with the first trump admin and didn’t seem to be about business or particularly “inside”. It’s always seemed sketchy to me, although it wasn’t as bad as a Murdoch entity.
- Comment on Two of the World’s Worst Termites Hooked Up in Florida—and Now We’re Screwed 4 days ago:
University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) report that the Formosan subterranean termite and the Asian subterranean termite are crossbreeding and producing viable offspring in South Florida neighborhoods.
Woops
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 4 days ago:
Oh man I may have to stop using this fascist propaganda service now.
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 4 days ago:
All Hail Yeetosaurus
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
All of my less tech literate friends are getting a warning to abandon their computers entirely.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
So you don’t do a lot of tech support. Nice.
- Comment on Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live 5 days ago:
I was with ya until that last bit
- Comment on Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live 5 days ago:
Zees ahr thangs one may nevaihr know, n’est-ce pas?
*adjusts beret*
- Comment on Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live 5 days ago:
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- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 5 days ago:
"Eat moar AI! EAT IT!! EAT the AI you peasants!"
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 5 days ago:
Sad but true
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 5 days ago:
What, like Instagram kind of thing?
- Comment on xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
What’s worse than enshittening?
- Comment on Community Notes vanishes from X feeds, raising 'serious questions' amid ongoing EU probe 5 days ago:
Why would anyone with any hint of common sense “raise questions” about this. There are no questions here.
- Comment on Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores 5 days ago:
In Texas, you say
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 6 days ago:
. . . So?
- Comment on The New York Times stands by article mentioning Chinese women small fingers. The paper says Apple engineers privately talked about this 6 days ago:
Y’know who else has little fingers?
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 6 days ago:
It’s a mistake to send any data to a corporation for their continued use. Yes, it’s the default EULA and it’s wrong. This is how Brexit and trump were able to happen - they slurped up all the facebook “confidential” data and pinpointed the most vulnerable to propaganda - suddenly MAGA is a thing and they actually got the UK to shoot itself in the foot.
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 6 days ago:
This is the first result for “spying” in a search:
Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering, as a subfield of the intelligence field, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence). A person who commits espionage on a mission-specific contract is called an espionage agent or spy.
Does it apply to amazon? I think it depends on what’s considered “confidential”. Which is not just about what one thinks is confidential but the context in which that information is used.
Also, this is just the information they send back to you. It may only be due to GDPR. It does not mean there isn’t more.
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 6 days ago:
You’re supposed to know spying is all about collecting data
