captainastronaut
@captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
- Comment on Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal 3 days ago:
Do we get to pick who goes out? I have some ideas…
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 3 days ago:
Oh good it’s voice controlled. Because that technology works amazingly all the time.
- Comment on Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent 6 days ago:
Well we know it isn’t fashion tips
- Comment on To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it? 6 days ago:
Right? Wouldn’t the insurance costs outweigh how cheap the land is?
- Comment on Hosting a Web server on a RPi Model B 1 week ago:
I would love to see a return to curated link collections. Each person’s hobbies and expertise represented in links to the places they contribute, the repositories they are part of, the resources they depend on, and the information sources they consider reliable.
If you added some very basic support for verifying and following links that change, and something to prevent unauthorized AI bot scraping, and shipped it in a docker container that would run on small hardware like this, maybe an alternative grassroots internet could re-emerge.
- Comment on Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on 1 week ago:
They don’t though. The people who can afford a traffic lawyer or know how the system works just get them dismissed. It’s just another tax on those with the least resources.
- Comment on Digital Freedoms Enshrined: Building Unbreakable Constitutional Safeguards for Human Rights in the Age of Surveillance and Algorithms 1 week ago:
If you had asked me during the Obama administration I would have said this a chance of becoming law. Today I give it 0.002%.
- Comment on Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on 1 week ago:
Speed cameras don’t increase safety. Just ticket revenue.
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 1 week ago:
My pin is still 1077. The price of a cheese pizza and a large soda at Pannucci’s.
- Comment on EV tax credits might end even sooner than House bill proposed 1 week ago:
Who’s able to buy a new car in this economy anyway?
- Comment on Trump’s tax bill seeks to prevent AI regulations. Experts fear a heavy toll on the planet 2 weeks ago:
The risks of unregulated AI are very high.
- Comment on 🚨 NEW: UK police are being told to hide their work with Palantir. 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Too damn much for the value it creates.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 4 weeks ago:
Same.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 4 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 4 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 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe we can nationalize them with the clause that it kicks in when his heart stops beating