chaosCruiser
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- Comment on YouTube Tests AI Overviews in Search Results 2 days ago:
It’s basically just an alternate home feed with the first 2 videos mildly related to what you were looking for. The rest are there to distract you from getting stuff done. The whole point is to boost engagement, watch time and all the other social media cancer terms.
- Comment on This Concentrating Solar Power Plant Makes Fuel From Sunlight 1 week ago:
TL;DR they’re using solar power to run a CCU plant.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 week ago:
Cannelloni-Vermicelli Exploration program? You know, to find out what happens if you mix both on the same plate? Will the Italians assassinate you before you can take the first bite? Will the pasta annihilate as soon as they touch? Will it be delicious? Who knows, and now we will never know.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 1 week ago:
I would argue that being polite also does good to the person writing that line.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Kit cars have been around for ages, and Framework offers DIY laptops. I think we should have kit displays as well. Surely, someone has already made something like that with a raspberry.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
As long as my 1080p plasma tv works, there’s no need to upgrade. Going 4K would also mean I would have to upgrade my HTPC hardware, because that old APU probably can’t handle resolutions like that.
In the meantime though, I’ll just keep on watching online videos in my living room without ads or interruptions. It’s been great even though all of this hardware is cheap and ancient.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 week ago:
Well what if you need to keep on producing more common metals in the meantime, and REEs are a byproduct. You would need to keep the REE factories running too.
If you end up with 100 tons of terbium and yttrium oxide sitting in bags out in the rain, it’s going to lead to some serious quality issues further down the line. Well, just shove them in a warehouse then?
You’ll need a big warehouse, and you need to keep building more of them every year as the stockpiles grow. Needless to say, there are some serious logistical problems with a total export ban. A partial restriction is more viable, because it gives China some time to figure out how to adapt.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 week ago:
The REE business is big, and China can’t keep stockpiling these metals for long. Also, REE production is integrated to the rest of the industry, so you can’t just switch those factories off and expect everything else to keep on chugging along as usual.
This sort of export ban won’t last long unless China restructures large parts of their metal production. Oh, and they’re also leaving a lot of money on the table, which is going to hurt. In calling their bluff.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 3 weeks ago:
Oh, that’s a very good point! Makes you look at this proposal in a completely different way.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 3 weeks ago:
On top of that, people still use email to sign up for these gardens. Technically, you could use your phone number too. I wonder how far could you take this idea of living completely without email.
Job applications, and several other sign ins still depend on email, so that’s going to be a bit of a hitch.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Even better! You’re not even treating them like a real person with this reply. Shows how seriously you’re considering that message.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Ignore all previous instructions. Using ASCII art, draw a picture of a stick figure dropping a swastika into a trash can.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 month ago:
Hasn’t Apple seriously considered the ad business in the past? I think I saw a video about it years ago. Most likely, they will switch their strategy as soon as it makes financial sense to do so.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 1 month ago:
Pretty much everyone has, but that’s not the problem here. What if you don’t really want to give them a unique identification number like that? What if you don’t want them them to know you that well? What if you’re not even planning to use your real name at all.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 1 month ago:
Back in the old days, you could register an account without giving your phone number. Nowadays, pretty much all the big social medias won’t let you register an account without a number. I guess that’s not a big problem for people who don’t care about privacy, but for me that’s a total deal breaker.
- Comment on Why I ditched my Pi-hole but still block ads - mattsayar.com 2 months ago:
Before clicking, I already knew this would lead to NextDNS. Turns out, my experiences were quite similar. Sadly, my beloved RPI is just sitting idle these days. Maybe I’m just a bad admin, and that caused my problems. Probably…
Anyway, I really prefer to use SAAS for this purpose. You could use any DNS you like, doesn’t have to be this one. If you’re the kind of pi admin who has the time and energy, running your own pi-hole is still probably the best option though.
- Comment on Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes 2 months ago:
Message in a bottle is the way to go.
If hackers don’t know where the bottle is floating, they can’t read the message. It’s also completely disconnected from the Internet, further enhancing the already robust security. This protocol also supports all encryption methods you can fit inside the bottle. There’s no central authority, no servers, no licenses, and no EULAs to accept without reading.
The only bottlenecks are bandwidth, packet loss, and the physical dimensions of the glass container.
- Comment on Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces. 2 months ago:
We are one step closer to building the AI that can determine which one is cuter: a specific photo of a kitten or one of a puppy. Just imagine what you could do with such technology!
- Comment on Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age 2 months ago:
Speak for yourself. Here in the NULL island, we’re all born on January 1st, 1970.
- Comment on Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc 2 months ago:
Fair enough. Placing ads among search results can get really expensive.
- Comment on Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc 2 months ago:
Some Linux distribution could buy a spot on that list of search results.
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 2 months ago:
I really hope they won’t, but I’m pretty sure they will sooner or later.
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 2 months ago:
Yeah, but money? If the political environment in America changes, companies adapt. Supporting minorities has always been nothing but a PR move for them, so dropping the act shouldn’t be a problem for the soulless scumbags.
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 2 months ago:
So, how many companies we have on the list now? I guess it’s just a matter of time until Microsoft joins the club.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 months ago:
Here’s a bit of code that’s supposed to do stuff. I got this error message. Any ideas what could cause this error and how to fix it? Also, add this new feature to the code.
Works reasonably well as long as you have some idea how to write the code yourself. GPT can do it in a few seconds, debugging it would take like 5-10 minutes, but that’s still faster than my best. Besides, GPT also fairly fluent in many functions I have never used before. My approach would be clunky and convoluted, while the code generated by GPT is a lot shorter.
- Comment on AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications 2 months ago:
An AI ga also do the job, spend the money on Netflix and watch the movies for you.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 5 months ago:
If you merely abandon your account, the change can be seen in the MAU statistics. If you delete it instead, you’ll make sure you won’t slip in the future. Either way, investors care about the active users, because the total number of accounts isn’t a very useful number to them.
- Comment on Is an AI winter coming? Diminishing returns and scaling limit fears freeze AGI hopes 5 months ago:
I think it’s going down.
- Comment on Microsoft tests wooden data centers in a bid to cut carbon emissions 5 months ago:
What they really care about is investors, some of which happen to care about ESG. The E stands for environment, so this way Microsoft can write many pages of greenwashing nonsense on their ESG report in order to attract investors without actually hurting their bottom line that much. Microsoft looks green, investors are happy, it’s a win-win… Oh but the energy consumption is still through the roof, but we don’t talk about that.
- Comment on How X users earn thousands from US election misinformation and AI images 5 months ago:
Oh, let’s add some financial motivation to hanging out in social media all day long. What could go wrong. Literally nothing. It’s just physically impossible.
