captainastronaut
@captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 days ago:
Because this is one of the rare times he sat down at the keyboard to do the real work being done by people in this organization and he realized that it’s hard and he wants a shortcut. He sees his time as more valuable and sees this task as wasting his time, but it is their primary task and one they do as volunteers because they are passionate about it. He’s not going to get a lot of traction with them telling them the thing they do for free because they love it isn’t worth anyone’s time.
- Comment on US pursuing stake in struggling chipmaker Intel, commerce secretary says 4 days ago:
Oh good. Let’s nationalize the chip manufacturing so the government can install hardware security back doors.
- Comment on OpenAI eyes world’s largest valuation for private company in stock sale talks 4 days ago:
Agreed I don’t get why anyone would invest in them right now. Five years ago you were joining a hype train, but how does anyone think their value is going to increase from today forward?
Their biggest appeal seems to be that their consumer product ChatGPT is a household name and has widespread consumer use. But consumer adoption of a phone app is a very fickle thing to stake a trillion dollars on.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 5 days ago:
Not only do you have to deploy them in a constellation, you have to deploy them in a descending constellation. They are constantly burning up all the time and you have to keep launching new ones forever just to maintain current capacity. It’s the perfect business plan to make SpaceX look better on paper.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 5 days ago:
That someone is so attached to this stochastic parrot is truly disturbing.
- Comment on Get to know the robot dog that can clean your house and serve you soda 5 days ago:
If it’s Internet connected and requires a cloud subscription service, you are just paying to be spied on and controlled. This is as true for dogs as it is for speakers and TVs.
- Comment on AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business 1 week ago:
DSL is distance-sensitive and only works within about 2-3 miles from a switch office. It also depends on line quality and the speeds degrade based on both factors. So old rural lines that haven’t been upgraded and are long hauls on single copper are basically doomed.
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman Expects To Spend ‘Trillions’ On Infrastructure 1 week ago:
“OpenAI’s Sam Altman Expects To Spend ‘Trillions’ On Boiling All Our Oceans And Poisoning The Skies”
FTFY
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules 1 week ago:
Agreed. I get that the mission of Wikipedia is to make information available to everyone and purposely cutting off a whole nation from their information goes against their mission. But sometimes Wikipedia should play hardball, and if the UK elected a government that wants to block Wikipedia then the people of the UK shouldn’t get Wikipedia. The people of the UK will need to elect a new government. Or get a VPN. Or both.
- Comment on Harry and Meghan sign new multi-year film and TV deal with Netflix 1 week ago:
“Spotify’s head of podcast innovation and development labelled the pair “grifters” on his own podcast after the Sussexes announced the end of the relationship.”
Sounds about right.
- Comment on Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube 1 week ago:
Wow yikes. I couldn’t even get through a few minutes of one of them. I assume the prompt was “generate the most annoying video possible using random clips of humanoid cats and a soundtrack that induces aneurysms”
- Comment on AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business 1 week ago:
This is actually a problem for people in rural areas where broadband has not reached (and won’t because it’s not profitable). Cellular will be the best option they have left.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
As long as the previous collections of archives are still intact. We probably don’t need all of their new spam posts in the wayback machine anyway
- Comment on TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor 2 weeks ago:
The “outsourced labor” is the most concerning part here. People who won’t have a voice and can’t protest the poor conditions
- Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular? 3 weeks ago:
Lack of a cute animal mascot.
- Comment on Is there a good selfhosted service that can download and rehost tiktok links from a web ui? 3 weeks ago:
I would be the most concerned about the music. The MPAA exists solely to sue consumers and seems to have no other real purpose. Probably best to scrub the soundtracks.
- Comment on Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillance 3 weeks ago:
WTF is a “crime city” in your mind? It’s a low income city (avg $51k compared to US avg $79k). Does poor = criminal now?
- Comment on Meta touts 'superintelligence' for all as it splurges on AI 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, if everyone spent more time looking at cat memes instead of listening to billionaires talk about their big stupid ideas, we’d be in much better shape as a species.
- Comment on Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity 3 weeks ago:
Is Google solely responsible for earthquake notifications? For a system they describe as a safety net it’s pretty concerning it’s being relied on so much.
- Comment on Twitter in EU and UK 3 weeks ago:
May it wither and die. I would post my ID on the bathroom wall at Heathrow before I would submit it to what remains of Twitter.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 4 weeks ago:
Very low and yes. They work great for IoT, as long as it’s not mission critical stuff as messages can get dropped or arrive out of order sometimes. But for something like monitoring a remote sensor station that’s within the Lora range, without needing a cellular plan, yes.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 4 weeks ago:
Thorium.
- Comment on Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential | Proton 4 weeks ago:
I like the logo. That cat looks appropriately suspicious.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 5 weeks ago:
“Bluesky punishing users who don’t use a VPN” FTFY
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap 5 weeks ago:
Because it will only fix it for AI and not for the inefficient meat puppets.
- Comment on Fullstack Engineer - Waifus (for people looking for job) 5 weeks ago:
It would be a terrible shame if someone used their own AI to spam this form with applicants.
- Comment on Health-impaired world leaders raise nuclear war fears 5 weeks ago:
Without reading the article I’m assuming this is about how our world leaders are all mentally ill.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 5 weeks ago:
Agreed it definitely depends on what you buy. I inherited a stereo amp from my uncle who always buys really nice gear. I have had it repaired or been able to repair it anytime a component failed and it is now 30 years old. But it was built to last that long not to be disposed of in five.
Right to repair is not just for nerds and tinkerers. We all deserve repairable products.
- Comment on A lawsuit against Tesla and its driver-assistance technology goes to trial in Florida 5 weeks ago:
Anytime I get one as an Uber I try to play stupid like I can’t figure out the door handles. Slam the doors, pull the emergency door release (if there is one), push against the motorized door close mechanism. Ask if there’s a shade for the glass roof. Anything to remind the driver that it’s not a good car, especially as a taxi.
- Comment on What are the ramifications of letting an old domain that was used for email go back into the market? 5 weeks ago:
I would at least wait several years before you sell it. Make sure you have thoroughly unhooked yourself from that domain. Keep an email box open there to collect any legit messages