logicbomb

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke Anime's Main Trailer Unveils More Staff, Opening Song Artist, April 4 Debut⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you want to see a grun?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a link, but I am sure I saw it on the news in the early or mid 90s. But one thing I have learned recently is that many of the “news” articles about cars are invented stories planted by other car companies.

  Like one recent thing you’d have seen is stories about electric cars catching fire. It seemed that every time any electric car caught fire, it was national news, but non-electric cars catch fire frequently, as well.

  So anyways, long story… less long, the story I’m remembering might have been fake, as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when cruise control first became widespread for cars. Most people didn’t use it or barely used it. Some people, like me, did a lot of testing and figured out the best ways to use it, and ended up using it more than most. But then, there were people who just assumed it would work perfectly like they imagined, and used it as if it was a full-self-driving car, which immediately had bad results.

  I think the worst thing about AI is that it lures people into fully trusting it, and they don’t even realize that their cruise control car is heading off-road towards a cliff. AI can be a useful tool if you know what you’re doing, but it is such a bad idea to have it on by default. Even a lot of fairly experienced users are tricked by AI. The average person doesn’t have a chance. It’s irresponsible to expose them to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is perfect for my use case. I mostly think AI results are a waste of energy, but having them on demand can be useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to say something spicy here, but for me personally, I’ve found DuckDuckGo’s AI search summaries to be quite useful. Not for the actual AI summary text, but for the links they give, which are often better than the normal search results.

  That being said, I could easily do without them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation young founders as "a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the rest is porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a single pixel. The code, however…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’ve hit a wall with tech.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As you say, tools are just tools. Even a dumb phone and CD players are “technology.” You can use a hammer to build a house, or you can use it to break into a house and kill the owner. The tool itself really doesn’t hold any sin.

  Some people prefer to use older tools, though. It often gives them more of a feeling of connection, especially if we’re talking about the things they grew up with. So, there’s nothing wrong with choosing older technology just because you feel like it, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Try this link: digg.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really telling that he has so much money that he can do pretty much whatever he wants for the rest of his life, and he chooses to publicly shit on the poorest people in the world.

  Like, he could alternatively choose to say nothing, and just quietly ruin everything behind the scenes while impregnating as many women as he is capable of, but that doesn’t work for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we need more users ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  100% agreed. A Reddit clone with Reddit amounts of users will end up almost as bad as Reddit. The thing that makes Reddit worse in that situation is that they are a public company.

  This platform would have to evolve a lot before it can deal with so many users. There has to be some significant innovation and improvement in moderation and administration, or more users would inevitably lead to endemic misinformation and power tripping and all of that shit you see on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[meme] choochoo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The meme is specifically about cities, so when you said “thinly populated,” that should have been about thinly populated areas of cities.

  If you’re actually talking about rural areas and not cities, then you’d want to start with buses. Speaking of living in places with good public transit, I used to live in Japan, and I was surprised by how much buses get used in rural areas. They can get pretty full.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[meme] choochoo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s weird. I thought it was everyone driving their own cars all the time that was a huge waste of resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every anime ever…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of anime that are good in season 1. Frieren and The Apothecary Diaries are two recent examples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3193: Sailing Rigs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  kite rig

  There actually exist some boats that use kites exclusively for wind propulsion. This is used to save fuel, and most of the propulsion comes from motors. The kite is controlled by a computer.

  Some people have also added kite-style sails to traditional sailboats, but I don’t know much about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among billionaires investing in 'Freedom City' to be built on Greenland⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebody said that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a way for him to funnel money to his children without paying taxes, and that the disease fighting stuff is just a side benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw an article about an artist who used AI just for overall composition, and who said that he couldn’t compete if he didn’t do this, because everyone in his field was doing it and it was significantly faster than what he used to do.

  I suspect that when people say things like “AI cannot possibly help field X be more efficient like it does in field Y,” what they often really mean is, “I work in field Y and not field X.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grippy handles too. Luxury.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do these grow? Why are insects scarce? Is it cold?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s not funny is that Elon Musk is CEO os a space travel company and what you’re describing he’s doing is almost the same thing that caused HAL 9000 to go insane in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blink of an eye • Cre: @tentenchan2525⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ascendance of a Bookworm is getting a new season in Q2. It’s my favorite light novel series. I’ve read all 33 books three times. In my opinion, the books sort of keep getting better and better, all the way to the end. The author did such a good job at world building and character building, and as you get further into the story, it becomes clearer how deep the lore is and how interesting the characters are.

  So, I’m really hoping that the anime acts the same way, and that the new season hooks the viewers even more so that we can get the full story animated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it goes without saying that tons of competent people work at Microsoft, despite OP saying exactly the opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh... 🫩⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One option is to speak like him, but choose to remain mute for the rest of your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now we just need these laws worldwide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BacK iN MY dAys⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fancy cabinet

  Maybe this is the old man in me talking, but every time I’ve had any sort of lighting in my PC or RGB in my mouse, for example, it’s just been distracting. Nobody but me ever even looks at my PC, and now, every time I see a fancy cabinet, it just looks like an eyesore to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s see if the rats want to play global thermonuclear war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t wish to make too many tangential top-level comments, so I am declaring this the tangential thread, but all I can think of is that America is on a path where someday we’ll also have journalists who will literally have to choose between the truth and their own safety. We already have so many who choose lies over the truth when their safety is not questioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  steganography markers

  On top of everything else, this isn’t even the correct term, nor does its meaning match the sentiment you wish to convey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America was founded on the concept of no taxation without representation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3180: Apples⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next experiment will be the Banach–Tarski paradox.