kalkulat
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- Comment on Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap 1 week ago:
That’s 18 minutes I don’t need to spend learning a minutes worth. (He starts out complaining about the lost time he’s invested…)
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 34 comments
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- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 3 weeks ago:
So it’s a race then, between AI’s killing us thru high-tech malice, and we killing ourselves thru the same old stupidity?
“And may the best man win!”
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 3 weeks ago:
OK, thanks for that clarification. I was thrown off by ‘assessed as healthy…’
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 3 weeks ago:
From the article: " All 232 men in the study were assessed as healthy when their biopsies were examined by pathologists. After less than two-and-a-half years, half of the men in the study had developed aggressive prostate cancer…"
HALF? I’d suggest staying away from that study … either they don’t know what they’re doing, or some AI made up that article…
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 3 weeks ago:
SUCH a great movie
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 3 weeks ago:
Wait 'til they come out (if ever), figure out the tech, make/buy a detector, pull your club out ur backpack …
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 3 weeks ago:
Anybody can ‘launch’ a ‘startup’. Alway-on recording has been around since the 60s. ‘Smart’ glasses? Har. Guess they never heard of ‘glassholes’.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 3 weeks ago:
Wow. Throw 16M people off health care, then invest the savings in corporations. HEy, Intel, how do you like your blood money?
- 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Findsthedailyadda.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 227 comments
- Comment on Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7 4 weeks ago:
Wow, where do I start with this?
Those aren’t ‘services’, those are personal privacy intrusions. For PROFIT. There is no way this could happen without the school’s cooperation. They ought not only to know it, but also know exactly what data is gathered, every place it is sent to, what privacy protections are in place, and what is done with it once it’s “evaluated”,
“student communications monitoring” 24-7 and/or outside of school is SPYING. There is NO legal OR educational OR ethical mandate for this collecting.
If the kids don’t know about unknown adults prying into their personal lives, AND KEEPING RECORDS ABOUT IT, that’s not necessarily their fault. If the parents don’t know about it, that’s the school’s fault for not getting their knowing permission.
If I was the parent of one of those students and wasn’t told about it, I’d sue that school into a coma.
- Comment on Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era 4 weeks ago:
It was already starting to predict what Web 2.0 would become!
- Comment on Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era 4 weeks ago:
Usenet wuz bitchin’. I remember getting a couple of layers deep in the rock heirarchy and some great discussion with peeps who went deep. Then those brats with their binaries came along and bye-bye.
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 5 weeks ago:
It was mostly there for windmills. One of the first big US windmills was built by Charles Brush … one of the early NYC electricity pioneers … over a century earlier. Dependency on oil (political) kept people from realizing how much free energy (fuel) the Sun sends us. WAY more than we can use.
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 5 weeks ago:
He’s not in a position to know (much, including) how many investors have put their money on green. A few months to put up a low/no-waste solar windmill farm (he hates how they look) and start profiting … 10 years (at least) to build a high-waste nuke.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 5 weeks ago:
LeGuin is a treasure.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 5 weeks ago:
Of course -corporate- social media can’t be fixed … it already works exactly they way they want it to…
- Comment on Chatbots learned to write from us. Can AI now change the way we think? 5 weeks ago:
Sure they can. Almost every time I try one, I wind up with a lower opinion of what they’re good for (apart from auto-generating convincing bullshit)
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 5 weeks ago:
OK FC, come at me! But be warned, I’ve been armed by Hancock! (and a few years of school-teaching, before I got an honest job…)
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 5 weeks ago:
Lots of wannabe authoritarians out there in educationland.
- Comment on Lessons from Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House 5 weeks ago:
High-density doesn’t always work out so well … has it’s downsides for many. And apartments (without rent-to-own anyways) usually have landlords who invest and then reap everything - until the tenant has to move out (to where?) Low-cost housing coupled with rent-to-own, OTOH, leaves dwellers with at least the prospect of owning … and maybe a back yard, a little garden, without strangers and users wandering the hallways.
- Comment on Watch This Documentary About 'Star Trek: Phase II' and See What Could've Been 5 weeks ago:
It’s very well done. Lot of insights into what happened in the 12 years before the movie. The way they treated Roddenberry … arg.
- Comment on Lessons from Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House 5 weeks ago:
Yep. OTOH, I recently saw a regular old, nothing-fancy home built at about that same time sell for $450k.
- Comment on The great myth of empire collapse 5 weeks ago:
So true. Does make you think though. Empire builders don’t -want- people to know -how- to be independent. Sort of like … becoming ‘job creators’.
- Comment on 'This Verdict Is a Wake-Up Call:' Jury Trial Finds Meta Breached State Privacy Law in Class Action Against Fertility App | Law.com 5 weeks ago:
Now, instead of a fine, someBODY needs to get jail-time. Time to cut out the fine-repeat, fine-repeat cycle. To hell with ‘corporate responsibility’, hang the punishment on real heads.
- Comment on Lessons from Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House 5 weeks ago:
Joe Eichler Ya! Wiki sez he used post-and-beam … much simpler. And getting 11,000 built between 1949-66? Wow.
From the look of them (duckduckgo.com/?q=eichler+homes&iar=images&iax=im…) they’re STILL modern-looking and something that might still fetch a pretty penny today. Amazed I never heard of them before.
- Comment on Lessons from Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House 5 weeks ago:
Agreed that the exterior is not attractive. OTOH, in the city I live there are over 10,000 homeless people … for those who want a home, they could certainly have one quickly. (Might need to put a fence up to spare those driving by!)
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to history@lemmy.world | 3 comments