Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance 4 days ago:
I would be curious to find out why, honestly. Is there some economic factor? Has Adobe thoroughly captured the market? Is it cultural? I know the comment author speculates that it’s a cultural/political shift, but I’m curious what the data would show!
- Comment on Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58% 5 days ago:
I sincerely mean this: thank you for your sacrifice. I wish there were more people like you who were willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stick it to the big corpos.
- Comment on Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58% 5 days ago:
I’ll be excited if Linux hits 20% total market share, which is about where Apple sits last time I checked. That would put Linux squarely as a contender for normies.
- Comment on Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58% 5 days ago:
First tech device I’ve ever bought where I didn’t feel some amount of buyer’s remorse. There’s nothing I dislike about it, and I can even install my own distro on it, if I so desire. Because of the form factor, I’ve even been able to tackle my backlog!
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 5 days ago:
According to the article, it might be a company in China, but that remains to be seen. They could just as easily pivot into AI bullshit to try to get a piece of that pie before the bubble pops.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
Exactly. They’re okay with the fascist Xitpool, but if any regular dev ever crossed those “guidelines,” they’d be banned in a heartbeat.
- Comment on Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high 1 week ago:
Considering Linux desktop adoption was around 4% the last time I checked, and considering this is just Steam users (e.g. some might strictly be using GOG or similar, some don’t play games at all), this is pretty big.
- Comment on YSK: Albert Einstein wrote about Socialism, and specifically calls out issues with the version proposed by technocrats. 1 week ago:
I have an idea: fuck capitalism!
archive.org/download/AlbertEinsteinAndHisWorks
The essay is titled: Why Socialism?
- Comment on News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more. 1 week ago:
…OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation.
Proof that chats are never deleted, they’re just hidden and archived. Stop giving the slop bots free training data.
- Comment on NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court 1 week ago:
Good anecdote but this is just hegemonic propaganda. Social media has also revealed the reality behind the hegemonic narrative. That’s what they’re actually afraid of.
It’s not propaganda, it’s a fact. The rise of conspiracy theories becoming mainstream, the rise of fascist groups that are currently undermining global peace and stability, the ability for long-debunked pseudoscience to be treated as equal with science: all of that is facilitated by social media giving an equal platform to people that do not deserve one, particularly the platforms run by capitalists. Social media has indeed done some good, but my argument was never that social media is wholly bad, just that it’s a net negative.
I agree that “they” are afraid of The People organizing and seeing through all the bullshit, but that’s not something unique that social media is able to facilitate, and it’s not something social media has been particularly effective at doing. People of the past were able to see through the bullshit without social media, and if we all lost the internet tomorrow, people would still manage to communicate and share ideas. We did it for decades through books, newspapers, speaking events, zines, etc.
We don’t need social media to progress, and I would argue that recent history seems to indicate the contrary.
It’s not true. What about the people in charge of this platform? The bulk of the issues arise from capitalism and this type of censorship is designed to abolish its criticism.
There are no people “in charge” of this platform. If you wanted to, you could spin up your own instance with the sole member being you. You could fork the code and start your own Lemmy v2.0. We are collectively responsible for the operation of this federation of services, and even here, you still find the tolerance of bad actors and the spread of rotten ideas.
Has the Fediverse been a net positive? Maybe. But we are small fish compared to the fat cats that are Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Xitter, etc., and there’s no dispute that their influence has reached far and the ideas they’ve allowed to fester for profit have been destructive, to say the least.
Social media doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it’s within the context of a global society run by greed, and the fact that it sometimes does good doesn’t outweigh the capitalists who weaponize it against us.
- Comment on NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court 1 week ago:
I mean, it has enabled every goober and bad actor with an opinion to essentially have a megaphone and build platforms and movements. I’d argue that’s a net negative. Even the Fediverse isn’t immune to propaganda and conspiracy theories.
I think putting a warning on the tin is appropriate, especially for platforms run by billionaires whose explicit goal is to get people hooked and keep them feeding the machine by any means necessary.
It’s true that the bulk of the issue arises from the people in charge of the platforms, but nobody currently in power is going to do anything about the billionaire problem. This is at least a vague gesture acknowledging that a problem exists. Also, it’s just a sign. When have warning signs stopped people from doing things that are unhealthy?
- Comment on Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. It would have been better for them to put their money towards not generating CO2 in the first place. Batteries are nothing special, and they’re signing off on this project so they can appear green, because it uses CO2.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 3 weeks ago:
I find that unlikely when considering the current trajectory of AI.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 3 weeks ago:
Unless…?
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 3 weeks ago:
Everybody starts somewhere. Few come out the gate being Depeche Mode. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth the struggle to get better.
- Comment on Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome 3 weeks ago:
If you want to fight for something, please learn what you stand behind.
And how do you know I haven’t? Do you have insight into my mind?
Here’s my stance: Fuck Google. When have they ever done anything for the benefit of humanity? If this turns out to do exactly what it says on the tin, I’ll be happy to eat my words, but pardon me if I don’t believe that Google is suddenly interested in clean energy.
- Comment on Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome 3 weeks ago:
Great. So we’ll waste energy capturing and compressing a useless gas, then we’ll just release that into the atmosphere when it’s capitalistically convenient? Brilliant. Great work, Google. You’ve really gone green. /s
- Comment on 915 MHz Forecast: Rolling Your Own Offline Weather Station 4 weeks ago:
Something to do over Christmas!
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 4 weeks ago:
Google and other megacorps with AI slopbots: AI bots should be free to slurp up as much data as they want. It doesn’t break copyright!
Also those companies: Wait, AI isn’t allowed to steal from us!
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
That’s not how evidence works. If the original person has evidence that the software doesn’t work, then we need to look at both sets of evidence and adjust our view accordingly.
It could very well be that the software works 90% of the time, but there could exist some outlying examples where it doesn’t. And if they have those examples, I want to know about them.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
Okay. Same. I’m not asking you to believe Glaze/Nightshade works on my word alone. All I said was that artists should try it.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
Okay. I have that. Now what?
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
Because it’s hard(er than doing nothing) and takes changing habits.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen any objective evidence that they don’t work. I’ve seen anecdotal stories, but nothing in the way of actual proof.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
On that note, if you’re an artist, make sure you take Nightshade or Glaze for a spin. Don’t need access to the LLM if they’re wantonly snarfing up poison.
- Comment on The Consumer Safety Technology Act– what could this mean for the private sector? 1 month ago:
Can’t seem to find the actual article, so I’ll just engage with this small paragraph here.
Capitalism needs to be regulated. Given that the US is currently experiencing the effects of unfettered capitalism (fascism, bribery, oligarchy, price gouging, monopolization, market collusion, just to name a few), I’m for more oversight.
However, the current administration and current Congress are both generally disinterested in actual regulation and, in my opinion, unqualified to implement something like AI-powered guardrails. It’s just the whole “blockchain everywhere” debacle all over again.
Furthermore, who would develop and maintain such a system? There would almost certainly be bids from the usual suspects (i.e. billionaires) who would “definitely develop it in good faith, trust me bro.” They definitely wouldn’t use that kind of access to hamstring the bot that’s supposed to be regulating them. /s
Rather than just putting a bot in charge, how about we just make the wealthy pay their fair share? How about strong legislation that prevents fraudulent transactions and mergers? How about meaningful punishments that deter bad actors, rather than slaps on the wrist that are just “the cost of doing business?”
We don’t need robots and software, we need sensible legislation.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Hmm, sounds like a “Freeze Updates” option should be available per game. I don’t do much modding, but I’ll see if I can suggest that idea somewhere or +1 any existing similar suggestion.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
If your games are breaking on update, isn’t that the game devs’ faults?
- Comment on OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis 1 month ago:
artificially incompetent
Borrowing that: AI = Artificial Incompetence
- Comment on Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff 1 month ago:
Man, Douglas Adams was a real one.