captainastronaut
@captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 2 days ago:
Sign up process is easier. No existential decisions to be made to get started.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 3 days ago:
Keep pressuring all journalists, celebrities, brands, and influencers to delete their accounts or at least stop posting there (and publicly say so). Twitter’s only power to spread untruths is the eyeballs still watching it.
- Comment on Meta is reportedly working on its own AI-powered search engine, too 2 weeks ago:
Do. Not. Want.
- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 3 weeks ago:
There will be an AI for that too!
- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 3 weeks ago:
Everything looks like a nail when you have a hammer…
- Comment on Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature 1 month ago:
Same. Completed my switch this week on all my devices. No regrets. The results are excellent and well organized and it’s really useful.
Next project is to add the rest of my family to the family plan
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
Yo ho ho and a terabyte of NAS!
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
I just hope this deal doesn’t involve using their AI to monitor the reactor …
- Comment on There are more than 120 AI bills in Congress right now 1 month ago:
And I’m sure they are all really well informed and written with experts in the field… 🫠
- Comment on New research identifies human rights abuses in battery supply chain as most abuses involve companies in China with products that end up in batteries globally 1 month ago:
The rush to make batteries way outpaces the diamond industry and we all know how diamond mining turned out …
- Comment on Driverless semis could be months away 2 months ago:
Not if we put orange cones on all their hoods.
- Comment on Driverless semis could be months away 2 months ago:
Nope! But it will sell a lot of new trucks!
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 2 months ago:
Finally! Someone who’s working on the issues I actually care about!
- Comment on Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action 2 months ago:
Or… hear me out… they just make their products suck less and affordable.
- Comment on Google is facing another crucial court case in the US – and it could have major consequences for online advertising. 2 months ago:
This will be interesting to watch and I’m not against it. I just wish they were investigating Royal Dutch Shell, Phillip Morris, Koch Industries, or Goldman Sachs with the same fervor. While Google has certainly done some evil, they aren’t even in my top 100 for evil actors that are exploiting us all to enrich themselves.
- Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable 2 months ago:
Isn’t Lenny content being openly indexed by most search engines? I think we just don’t have the years of content here, so it’s not going to have the same gravity.
Also, I wonder about all the varied domain names of all the servers. Would search engines treat them all as separate sites, and calculate page rank for each separately? If that’s the case, the influence of Lemmy in search results would be even lower.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
I would like that source code for… reasons.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
Says the person who is primarily paid with Amazon stock, wants to see that stock price rise for their own benefit, and won’t be in that job two years from now to be held accountable. Also, who has never written a kind of code. Yeah…. Ok. 🤮
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips 2 months ago:
Fuuuuuuckk no.
- Comment on Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other 2 months ago:
The Honking is upon us! Run for your lives!
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 3 months ago:
Absolutely never going to. Even if it’s the only internet left post apocalypse.
- Comment on Woman wins payout after boss coughed in her face during Covid pandemic 3 months ago:
She should receive a court-sanctioned opportunity to kick him in the balls, also.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
Damn. I was just starting to rebuild my physical catalog so I could get away from streaming.
- Comment on The Beast at Tanagra 7 months ago:
The river Tamok, dammed up and not allowed to flow to the sea. 😭
- Comment on ‘We’re barely hanging on’: England’s cultural jewels fall into the red 7 months ago:
“The vast majority of England’s biggest subsidised cultural institutions are now operating at a loss, including many internationally renowned venues and arts brands.”
For everyone else that found that headline confusing, this is a better synopsis
- Comment on Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies 7 months ago:
If I’m reading an article on espn.com for free, there has to be some value exchange. I either need to pay to read the article or I need to be willing to be included in future advertising to people who have read that article. We haven’t come up with a better model to support free content on the Internet than advertising.
I would be willing to pay 5p to read that article if there was an automatic and easy mechanism to deliver that transaction to espn.com.  I want their journalists to get paid and I want the content to keep existing. But I’m also not such a dedicated fan of that site that I’m ready to subscribe monthly. The last thing we need is an Internet full of subscription paywalls.
So in the meantime, if the fact that I read an article on espn.com about rugby scores puts me in an audience of people who like rugby and this complicated web of advertising is going to show me rugby ads and ESPN is going to make money from that and that is going to keep the articles free … sure, whatever they gotta do I guess. I’m not sharing anything personal or private with espn.com so if they want to pass that along to 1600 other places so I can keep reading for free… whatevs.  It’s not the model I would’ve chosen but I don’t have a better plan to keep ESPN in business. 
- Comment on China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover 7 months ago:
I really hate how this goal keeps being stated. When did it become the unchallenged truth that everyone needs to buy an EV? The goal was supposed to be transportation without carbon emissions. That could be solved in so many ways, from maglev trains to wind-powered ships to pedal- or foot-powered commuting. It should be solved with smart infrastructure and transportation strategy, not just more consumption. 
There are even multiple ways to power a personal vehicle that don’t have carbon emissions, and some of the most interesting ones are still emerging - hydrogen, ammonia - yet we are forging ahead like battery electric vehicles are the silver bullet to all of our problems. We are not going to fix our world of reckless consumption with more consumption… but we are going to make the shareholders of a few automotive companies very rich. Was that our goal?
- Comment on The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals 8 months ago:
Let’s hope so!
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 8 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Self-Destructing Chips: Researchers Unveil Techniques to Thwart Sophisticated Cyberattacks 8 months ago:
This is exactly what it would be used for.
