maxinstuff
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- Comment on Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France 2 months ago:
This shit is why end to end encryption is so important.
All platforms, no matter how trustworthy, can be corrupted. No e2e, no privacy.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 2 months ago:
It’s pretty crazy to watch enshittification play out in real time.
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
Reading this gave me benereal disease in my computer parts.
- Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries due to AI advances | Windows Central 3 months ago:
Are we talking consumed for their own use? Or consumed as part of delivering cloud services to their customers?
These are very different things. The former would be horrifying the latter would be misleading in the extreme.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
Why would Valve produce their own GPU’s?
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
Hint: none of those companies need all of those employees.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
This doesn’t seem like a big deal?
The fact the code is open sourced is much less significant than the fact now the Swiss government will need to negotiate complete ownership of any software they commission.
That’s going to make things more expensive for them, and limit the vendors prepared to work with them.
Their systems, their call 🤷♂️
- Comment on US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining 3 months ago:
For years crypto investors were warned that it was the wild west, and after everything that’s now happened do people still actually believe this?
- Comment on US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining 3 months ago:
We all know the answer - too damn much.
- Comment on Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales 4 months ago:
Linux support also appears to be coming along nicely (though not ready yet).
- Comment on Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag 4 months ago:
There’s an aphorism, “give me 10 engineers and I’ll build it in a year, give me a hundred engineers and I can get that down to just five years.”
- Comment on Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag 4 months ago:
The count of engineers means absolutely nothing.
- Comment on Real 4 months ago:
“And I will eat your children”
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Is this their way of asking Google for money?
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Must be planning on actually shipping something
/s
- Comment on Make it stop. 4 months ago:
absolutely no charisma and successfully rizz someone up
That’s my strategy - rizz’m with the tizm.
- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 4 months ago:
The eyes see what they want to see 🤷♂️
- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 4 months ago:
It’s not that these images are perfect - it’s that they’re close enough.
The “problem” is that these images look amazing with a minimal touchup - something which would happen anyway to a real photo.
An extra hour to two fixing some AI artifacts (the ol’ droop-eye and derp-hand) is a LOT cheaper than getting actual people out to an actual location and taking an actual photo.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
I’m running Ubuntu on a Surface Laptop Studio. I really like it, though I have not yet gotten the touchscreen and pen working.
If I figure it out (and I remember) I’ll let you know.
- Comment on Life pro tip: Maybe give her some pointers if it's her first blow job. 4 months ago:
I see no evidence of these “girls” you speak of 🤔
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 4 months ago:
Iceland figured this out some years ago, and now they make heaps exporting computing power to international AI compute buyers.
They do it with a naturally cold climate, and loads of geo-thermal power.
- Comment on Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God' 4 months ago:
I think Zuck is right about this, insofar as the comments in the article are concerned.
OpenAI have done a brilliant job of selling the dream - but there will not be one “god model,” - there will be many specialised, smaller models.
You can already see it going that way with new hardware shipping with NPU’s. These workloads are expensive to run and shipping them to your device is a top priority.
- Comment on What are your plans for when the Milky Way galaxy collides with Andromeda? 4 months ago:
Winchester? 🤷♂️
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
For me it’s a pragmatic desire to share information with as few megacorporations as possible.
I deal with MSFT for so many other things, not all by choice - and Edge does everything I need it to do.
As with many such questions, it’s about the trade-off you are prepared to accept.
- Comment on Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation 4 months ago:
This can’t be real?
First of all it’s almost certainly torture and human rights violations.
Secondly, never mind freedom of speech - now you can’t even have your thoughts to yourself. Only the Church has ever claimed such power over people. Fuck. That.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months ago:
Unfortunately they care more about spying on us themselves.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months ago:
Do you know if there people who have gone this far analysing the TikTok and WeChat apps?
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months ago:
All I want to know is what do these Temu people think my life is like?
- Comment on “I am a cybernetic organism, living tissue over metal endoskeleton” 4 months ago:
What about a mimetic polyalloy though?
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 4 months ago:
Yes, install Linux and the end up using O365 in the cloud anyways 🤡
