MajorHavoc
@MajorHavoc@programming.dev
- Comment on Boeing issues layoff notices as aerospace giant cuts 17,000 jobs 1 day ago:
Boeing is in the “and find out” phase.
Naturally, a leaner Boeing will emerge. An emaciated Boeing. A Boeing ready to continue to royally fuck up, while running more ragged with fewer resources and less talent.
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 1 day ago:
They are not all the same.
Measure the diameter of the hole at the bottom of the water holding tank. It’s the main difference between older and newer toilets in the US.
Any US toilet repair kit should list what diameters it supports.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 1 day ago:
When you make a lot of money, the number you see in your account starts to become part of your identity because it differentiates you between you and the people you see every day.
“Tres Comas is for winners.”
- Comment on Toast 1 day ago:
Thank you for your service to the public.
- Comment on Glow Filament Quickshot 2 days ago:
Sweet.
- Comment on NLRB: Grindr used RTO mandate to reduce headcount 1 week ago:
Oh my. It was never about productivity at all?
I am shocked! Shocked, I say!
- Comment on Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. 2 weeks ago:
Lol. Yep.
Anyone want to jump in and confidently vouch that Musk’s moral code won’t allow him to harvest human brains from living humans, shove them in a bottle, and use them as a fake AI in his fleet?
- Comment on Maybe the concept of nothing does not exist. Maybe the fabric of Spacetime is always there. 2 weeks ago:
Historically, “nothing” is the label we apply when none of the things we are currently able to detect are present.
After we can detect what actually is there, we update our description to the much more accurate term “practically nothing”.
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 2 weeks ago:
There isn’t a general, easy solution to the N-body problem.
Lol. Yet.
No doubt it will be discovered by a tool assisted speed runner.
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 2 weeks ago:
Large corporate donors decide, in a non-representatives systems.
Also, I think they meant to say “both parties”.
- Comment on Google is working on an AI agent that takes over your browser 2 weeks ago:
It was browser hijacking malware.
I don’t like when people talk about my friend, Bonzi Buddy, that way! Lol. It’s completely fair and accurate, but I still don’t like to hear it. He was so cute!
- Comment on Can U.S. Tech Giants Deliver on the Promise of Nuclear Power? 3 weeks ago:
Was the byline written by AI?
This comment was also brought to you by the artificial intelligence boom, and has as much to do with it.
You can still purchase this comment as an NFT.
I’m working with a supplier to create a limited edition Pog, with this comment printed on it.
This is the official comment of the new millennium.
This comment is drifting slowly backwards in time, in hopes of escaping the AI hype machine into an earlier, equally stupid hype train, but one made more tolerable by nostalgia.
This comment still only costs 5 cents.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 weeks ago:
They are absolutely, positively, going to breach their face database and purchase history all over the Internet.
I’ve been watching for this with popcorn ready, and I’ve got a good/bad feeling that they’re playing for keeps in the race to be the biggest consumer privacy headline public relations disaster.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, they’ll probably miss that and pay massive fines in Illinois. It seems to be the traditional approach by companies that get into this to also not bother to listen to anyone who could have told them not to.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
If even 1% of their companies pay off, they make a profit.
I suspect they make a profit even when 0% pan out. They just need to find someone gullible enough to buy in at the peak, and there’s a new sucker born every minute.
- Comment on 'Garbage in, garbage out': AI fails to debunk disinformation, study finds. 3 weeks ago:
Agreed!
I don’t mean sarcasticly, honestly. As you said, it’s still valuable science.
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 3 weeks ago:
Looks like a successfullybtrained learning model, to me. (Sarcasm)
- Comment on U.S. Border Surveillance Towers Have Always Been Broken. 3 weeks ago:
“border authorities and their supporters in Congress are continuing to promote unproven, AI-driven technologies as the latest remedy for years of failures, including the ones voiced in the memo obtained by NBC News. These systems involve cameras controlled by algorithms that automatically identify and track objects or people of interest. But in an age when algorithmic errors and bias are being identified nearly everyday in every sector including law enforcement, it is unclear how this technology has earned the trust of the government.”
It’s easy to conclude that the intent here was always to establish an automated general threat of harm - to all poor people in sight of these towers.
- Comment on 'Garbage in, garbage out': AI fails to debunk disinformation, study finds. 3 weeks ago:
I love that someone even bothered with a study.
- Comment on Post Office explores taking branch owner-operators to court again 4 weeks ago:
Privatized post offices sound awful.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
pop culture stock picker Jim Cramer points while looking cranky
There’s a sell cue, for any shareholders reading along.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
Yep.
I’m a die hard Linux nerd, but I would still Rather have a console.
But what I really want is a console that just runs Linux so I can keep it updated and fix minor issues without all the bullshit.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
Just gotta pause faster!
- Comment on Discover RSS-Parrot: Your Fediverse-Friendly RSS Reader 1 month ago:
Oh. This is seriously cool. Thank you.
- Comment on Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick. 1 month ago:
Yeah. That’s the difference people don’t seem to understand.
AI is perfect for stuff that’s just made up bullshit anyway.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
The screenshots sell it well. That’s some funny stuff. I’ll plan to check it out.
- Comment on China is six months behind the U.S. on AI, the US has to move faster: Div Turakhia. 1 month ago:
But what if someone else’s government creates the Torment Nexus before ours can?!
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #6 - Forza Horizon 5 1 month ago:
I’m enjoying the screenshot series. Thank you!
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
The arbitrary standard for the censorship in Fediverse is extremely bad.
“The pirates code… Be more like… guidelines.”
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
- Don’t truncate passwords for verification.
It needed to be said. Because some password system architects have been just that stupid.
