SapphironZA
@SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 days ago:
Easing is not removing.
Anything more that a warning and disclaimer popup is too much.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 1 week ago:
As long as the button says buy, then its ownership and should be treated like physical goods.
- Comment on Thrifting 1 week ago:
This is every reason to keep Thrifting.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 2 weeks ago:
Apple’s AI screwup may end up being the best move the company made since the switch to Apple silicon.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. No need to add the toxicity filter
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 2 weeks ago:
Executive positions are probably the easiest to replace with AI.
- AI will listen to the employees
- They will try to be helpful by providing context and perspective based on information the employee might not have.
- They will accept being told they are wrong and update their advice.
- They will leave the employee to get the job done, trusting that the employee will get back to them if they need more help.
- Comment on A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light 3 weeks ago:
If the mechanism exists for a app to switch it off, you can guarantee that Meta is using it all the time.
- Comment on Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset? 3 weeks ago:
My parents taught me it’s fine to take chances and make mistakes, but when you do, own them out in the open.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 3 weeks ago:
The real enemy inside is the government, not the people.
People need to keep their government under more surveillance than the government does its people.
- Comment on Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset? 3 weeks ago:
Short answer: Yes Will you notice it: No
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 3 weeks ago:
Sensor log, day 45: “Yep, it’s still shit"
- Comment on 'No Kings' rallies across US to gauge anti-Trump outrage 4 weeks ago:
Now imagine if millions, instead of demonstrating, decided to actually do something.
Strike action would be a good place to start.
- Comment on The ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" 4 weeks ago:
That’s how I feel every time I need to use an App to use an appliance that has no business connecting to the internet.
- Comment on Purrfect Diagram 5 weeks ago:
He might not have caused it, but he sure is claiming to have.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 1 month ago:
Yep, Bazzite has been great for me on my gaming PC. Never going back.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 1 month ago:
The Lion was THIS big and kept me in that tree all day. And that is why I did not bring back any prey.
Ignore the smell of fermented fruit on my breath.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You can plug your system into a free platform like opensolar, which allows you to play with the design to see what the effect of upgrades would be during the course of the year.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 1 month ago:
My recommendation is to start with the second movie and make your way to first contact.
Then switch to voyager. If you reach the middle of it, there is no stopping you anymore.
Alternatively, you can switch to deep space 9 after the movies.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 month ago:
Sorry I can’t hear you Randy. I am playing silksong and after that, I am doing another BG3 playthrough.
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 2 months ago:
They have better idle efficiency, but if your PC is not on and idle 24/7 for some reason, AMD is more efficient.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 2 months ago:
He gets it
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 2 months ago:
And loans should be taxable, with repayments being deductible.
Or we should just switch all taxation to be wealth based and not income based.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 2 months ago:
That is why I think stock ownership should be for a minimum term, like bonds.
10 year minimums. That should turn it back into an investment vehicle it was always supposed to be.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 2 months ago:
Fashitalism
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 2 months ago:
Just for interest. Why did you buy Intel in the first place. I don’t know about many use cases where Intel is the superior option.
- Comment on Log monitoring software? 2 months ago:
Graylog might be worth a look
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 2 months ago:
Natural stupidity, enhanced by artificial intelligence.
That’s the scary stuff
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 2 months ago:
Incorrect. They just know that the fake financial system is not linked to anything fundamental. That is what is going to collapse taking retirement savings with it.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 2 months ago:
Very true.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 2 months ago:
Edison. For 3 hours, in a padded room, where no-one can hear his screams.