yildolw
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- Comment on Elon Musk's X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.
- Comment on “Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit 2 months ago:
The only purpose of NFTs is to raise sea levels by metres and inundate every coastal city. Owning NFTs is a crime against humanity. Anyone who has ever owned an NFT belongs in prison
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
We’re a century away from self-driving cars that can handle snowfall
Just this year farmers with self-driving tractors got screwed because a solar flare made GPS inaccurate and so tractors went wild because they were programmed with the assumption of GPS being 100% reliable and accurate with no way to override
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
Not sure if we’re agreeing and saying exactly the same thing here, but Uber’s business model is to get suckers who are bad at math to own the cars. Uber’s business model does not work if they have to own their own cars. Self-driving Uber doesn’t work because Uber would have to own the cars.
- Comment on Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said 3 months ago:
Possession of any cryptocurrency should be punished by 5 years in prison. The only use case is paying ransoms to North Korea, and the side effects are destroying our climate
- Comment on Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPO 4 months ago:
We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:
- Bought an AdTech company
- Added AI features to Firefox
- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 4 months ago:
The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.
One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 4 months ago:
The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn’t win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can’t because they’ll spend it appealing this stupid thing.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
Jazz musicians have a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: scat
We have to stop ignoring AI’s scat problem
Gen Alpha has a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: skibidi toilet
We have to stop ignoring AI’s skibidi toilet problem
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 6 months ago:
The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 6 months ago:
We’ll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 6 months ago:
Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented
- Comment on Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI 6 months ago:
AI can’t count the number of letters in a word
- Comment on The Warlords series and the five original Close Combat games appear on Steam 6 months ago:
Alas, no Warlords IV yet. I have a soft spot for the completely unbalanced transferable hero with retinue mechanics of that one
- Comment on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content 6 months ago:
Google is forbidding the author from the right to make copies of their own work (aka copy-right)
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 6 months ago:
If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 6 months ago:
List of companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands: capedge.com/company/by/incState/E9/active/true?so…
Mostly obscure to me, but I looked up GlobalFoundries. Originally divested from AMD, bought IBM’s chip business, got a contract from US Department of Defense in 2023 for manufacturing military chips
I imagine you wouldn’t object to GlobalFoundries suing the US government
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
If France passes a law requiring Google to sell Google France to a French company, would Google pulling out instead of selling mean their core drive in France wasn’t money?
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
Why don’t they just sell TikTok to a US Citizen who happens to believe TikTok should remain the same?
They already did that. TikTok is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with headquarters in Los Angeles. The bill of attainder is post-that
- Comment on IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes 6 months ago:
If I were to rank HashiCorp’s products by importance, Nomad would not be at the top
Of course, if I had ranked Red Hat’s products by importance at the time of acquisition, OpenShift would not have been at the top, so I am not a reliable ranker
- Comment on Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM 6 months ago:
IBM owns Red Hat
- Comment on Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM 6 months ago:
Instead of dealing with proprietary rest APIs to manage every third party service you use, you can use a declarative, idempotent format to define infrastructure that’s compatible with all of them
- Comment on Scottish gender clinic pauses prescribing puberty blockers to under-18s 7 months ago:
Knee replacement regret is real and much higher than transition regret. Ban knee replacements!
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 7 months ago:
13 years since Cities in Motion 1 is not multiple decades, and Cities in Motion 1 is in no way the same game as Cities Skylines
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 7 months ago:
Why do you miss things being permanently broken and unfixable?
- Comment on One-party, communist country Vietnam is seeing US ties as it seeks to diversify from China 7 months ago:
China has already invaded Vietnam in 1979, so Uncle Ho would have started spinning then
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 8 months ago:
El Salvador Will Keep Putting $71,000 into the President’s Swiss Bank Account Daily
FTFY
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
Hertz stopped offering Tesla rentals because Teslas are designed to go balls out when the pedal is lightly touched and too often that involves straight into a wall or a lake
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 9 months ago:
This is probably motivated by the EU decision that since no uses iMessage in the EU, Apple is not legally a “gatekeeper”. Perhaps no one (i.e. fewer than 40 million people) uses web apps in the EU, therefore they are gambling that they are allowed to legally gatekeep in that market
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 9 months ago:
Their own Facebook App Store would have to pay the same fees to Apple as the Apple App Store under Apple’s generous terms. Losing the web app escape hatch is a 30% revenue loss