HailSeitan

@HailSeitan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police roll out armoured cars 'tried and tested on Palestinians'⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Great example of what Cory Doctorow calls the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve:

  If you want to do something terrible with technology, you can’t just roll it out on people with money and social capital. They’ll complain and your idea will tank. Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege gradient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Business Insider will lay off 21% of staff amid AI disruption and “extreme traffic drops”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the paywall had something to do with it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King Charles III arrives in Canada to underscore its sovereignty after Trump annexation threats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind underscores the lack of it, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like the company from Cory Doctorow’s most recent novel, Picks & Shovels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s delve into the issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  👊🇺🇸🔥

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the premise of Tom Maughan’s short story “Flyover Country”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jawohl!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And you still act like you’re in freshman year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Close: you do get banned from their supercharger network if you try to repair your own car

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There Is No AI Revolution⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “[Generative AI] is the leaded gasoline of tech, where the boost to engine performance didn’t outweigh the horrific health impacts it inflicted.” I love Ed so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steve Jobs is already in hell though, he ain’t getting your money either way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Talk about hidden figures…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Smuggling