captainastronaut
@captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
- Comment on Trump’s tax bill seeks to prevent AI regulations. Experts fear a heavy toll on the planet 2 days ago:
The risks of unregulated AI are very high.
- Comment on 🚨 NEW: UK police are being told to hide their work with Palantir. 2 days ago:
I would think it’s just standard at this point with Palantir that you don’t want anyone to know what you are doing with them. It’s like saying you partnered with Darth Maul on your CRM database. No matter how innocuous the project it reeks of evil.
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 2 days ago:
If it’s just so you personally can access it away from home, use tailscale. Less risky than running a publicly exposed server.
- Comment on How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data 2 days ago:
How do we pin this post to the top of the internet?
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 3 days ago:
It’s tied to your account on the website. So it’s tied to all of your viewing activity. It could be leaked or compromised. It could be subpoenaed. It could be purchased.
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 3 days ago:
Some of these ham fisted age verification checks ask you to upload photos of your government ID
- Comment on UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham Palace 3 days ago:
That place has to have some trap doors into a dungeon. Let’s go medieval.
- Comment on Meta is Adding AI-Powered Summaries to WhatsApp 3 days ago:
Seems like a Trojan horse to get users to grant access to their encrypted chats?
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 4 days ago:
He can fuck right off with all his worm-brained ideas.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 5 days ago:
Wow that turn signal sound is annoying. Why does it even need to make a sound in a car that’s supposed to be driving itself?
- Comment on Trying to pick a printer 5 days ago:
Look at Lulzbot also. Very modular and FOSS mindset, they even provide STL’s to reprint your own parts for the printer. They are reliable workhorses out of the box but support tons of customization.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 1 week ago:
Stupid TVs FTW. If you can’t buy them stupid, give them a WiFi lobotomy.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand 1 week ago:
With a functioning federal government I would agree with you. But unfortunately they have an open checkbook right now, with no accountability or critical oversight.
- Comment on OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models 1 week ago:
Are these guys trying to break my bullshit meter? The needle only goes so high dammit.
- Comment on Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others 1 week ago:
Yes but those stupid prompts also cost Spam Altman money… which makes my cold iron heart glow.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying 1 week ago:
Too damn much for the value it creates.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 2 weeks ago:
Same.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 2 weeks ago:
There are 1000 ways to get a summary of a Wikipedia article. I don’t think they need to offer them directly on the site. If someone wants a machine generated summary or translation they already have a tool to do that. Seems like a waste of Wikipedia’s Resources
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 2 weeks ago:
Very true. It’s easy to focus on a figurehead and much harder to target a broad feeling of disillusionment affecting tens of millions.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe we can nationalize them with the clause that it kicks in when his heart stops beating
- Comment on how to set up a remote managed node for mom 4 weeks ago:
I run my Jellyfin on a Synology NAS and it connects to Tailscale on boot. (Doesn’t require any of their cloud stuff to be active, either). Maybe a cheap/used NAS is your answer?
- Comment on How can I contribute processing power to the community? 5 weeks ago:
K&T Host does Lemmy and it works great. Their support is stellar.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 5 weeks ago:
Maybe he secretly died and they are using grok to write his tweets.
- Comment on Yes, Social Media Might Be Making Kids Depressed: Depression symptoms jumped 35% as kids’ average social media use rose from seven to 73 minutes daily over a three-year period. 5 weeks ago:
It sure does for me, and I’ll be dead before the oceans start to boil. The more they know about the world the harder it is to have hope.
- Comment on AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound 5 weeks ago:
With their permission?
- Comment on Google to Integrate Gemini AI into Android Auto for Smarter In-Car Experience 1 month ago:
smarterworseFTFY
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Eyeing 'Super Sensing' Tech for Smart Glasses 1 month ago:
Good thing I kept all those Covid masks…
- Comment on Self hosted place check-ins 1 month ago:
I got a Dawarich instance running yesterday, so far it is pretty good. Getting it running over SSL was an absolute nightmare but now that it’s working the tracking is pretty powerful.
- Comment on Vermont Library Association Leaves X (formerly Twitter) 1 month ago:
Same. If I had the time and thought it would help I would email every one of them to let them know how disgusted I am they still maintain a presence there.
- Comment on OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company 1 month ago:
“Previously, investors in OpenAI’s commercial entity were capped at making 100 times their money before the rest of its profits flowed back to the nonprofit.
With the new PBC subsidiary, OpenAI spokesperson Steve Sharpe tells me that investors and employees will own regular stock with no cap on how much it can appreciate. “
They got exactly what they want anyway. This is no victory.