futatorius
@futatorius@lemm.ee
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 36 minutes ago:
So he’s trying to rename it to avoid accountability? Fuck that.
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 1 day ago:
The other end of that is just as bad. The Saudis raise cattle in the desert because their government wants to encourage its citizens to consume more cow’s milk (you can also buy camel’s milk in supermarkets but it’s very much an acquired taste). There are vast structures to provide shade, and misting systems to keep the cattle cool, all of this in one of the hottest desert environments on earth. The farms are manned by low-paid TCNs who live in abysmal conditions. And the water? Saudi Arabia is mining subterranean aquifers at a mad rate, and it’s not in any way sustainable. So both ends of the supply chain are wasteful abominations.
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 1 day ago:
Shutting down the irrigation of all golf courses would be a big win too.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 1 day ago:
And if you thought there was some natural end point to enshittification, here’s your evidence that there’s no such thing.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 day ago:
An alarming number of them believe that they are conscious too, when they show no signs of it.
- Comment on Cut Data Center Energy by 30% with This Simple Hack - IEEE Spectrum 2 days ago:
Kill off crypto mining and you’ll save even more. Charge a premium for use of LLMs and you’ll be orders of magnitude less wasteful.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 3 days ago:
Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.
They’re probably laundering Trump’s ill-gotten gains.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 3 days ago:
Most popular user mod ever.
- Comment on U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security 6 days ago:
That category also includes a number of things that will lead to the deaths of large parts of the US population.
- Comment on U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security 6 days ago:
So what’s the great challenge with blocking it phoning home, or even better, subtly fucking with the data it sends back?
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 6 days ago:
I just want to know who provided them with funding and other support.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 6 days ago:
Rights are unchangeable based on circumstances.
Absolutely false.
They can never be revoked.
They’re regularly revoked in all developed countries, mainly as the result of criminal proceedings. Unless you think that prisoners are afforded the same rights as the rest of us?
And the Enlightenment notion that there are inalienable rights endowed by the Creator is about as quaint as the idea that there’s a Creator. Rights are ideals that must be continually fought for and expanded, not the gift of a beneficent Alpha Male in the Sky
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
In the sense that it’s flagrant bullshit, yes.
- Comment on Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” 1 week ago:
“It’s not entrapment if it isn’t a person!”
- Comment on Depressed and Lonely? There Could Be a Robotic Sex Partner in Your Future 1 week ago:
Just open the felching hatch and have a spitoon handy.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
How do those boots taste today?
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
The problems however are not unsolvable
Meaning that they are not solved. I don’t want the grid in my country powered by tech that is not proven safe, reliable, and with a good ROI.
Much much safer than the uranium we currently use
Potentially. It’s not a technology proven in large-scale operational use.
If they make it work at scale, China becomes the first country in the world that essentially has unlimited energy.
If my aunt were to have bollocks, she’d be my uncle.
The “if” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your sentence. And “unlimited energy” is a gross exaggeration. There are still downstream costs and environmental damage.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
People on Lemmy are really good at seeing past capitalist propaganda, except when it comes to China.
Any information coming to the West from China is state capitalist propaganda.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
Show me any post about any technological advance that doesn’t have critical comments in the thread.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
Posts like yours reek of nothing more than propaganda.
Smells more like bootlicking to me.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
This announcement would be seen as a massive breakthrough anywhere else.
I don’t trust science (or R&D engineering) that’s not peer reviewed. Anything else is just marketing hype. Show me hard numbers or GTFO.
China also has a problem with the government lying-- for example, about their claimed reductions in greenhouse emissions. There’s no reason to trust self-serving authoritarians without credible corroboration.
BYD will later this year have 7 different car models on sale in Britain vs 6 (soon to be 5) from Ford.
That’s an irrelevant metric. Nobody’s going to buy a car just because the model range is a bit wider than some other company’s. What’s relevant is adoption, and then buyer loyalty. It may be that BYD offers cars that people want to buy, but they’re subsequently found to be of crap quality or aggressively undermining driver privacy (which other non-Chinese manufacturers have also done).
but the shear scale of investment from China will make them unstoppable
If appropriately rigorous science and suitably disciplined engineering are part of the process, and regulators do their jobs correctly, then maybe. Otherwise it’s just throwing money at a problem. Investment doesn’t guarantee results. China is certainly capable of getting positive outcomes from tech investment, but it’s not guaranteed.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
Well, that and lack of diligently enforced safety standards.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
I’m unconvinced that it’s even possible to write clean code in a language as fucked-up as PHP.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
No, this is actual evil, not incompetence.
It’s both. You may have heard of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This is the dictatorship of the subnormal bullies.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
One of my sons is an accelerationist, and his argument has been that Trump is a piece of shit, but in the course of exploiting it for his own gain, he has ripped the mask off a lot of evil that’s already in the system. So now we know that we’ll have to undo all of Trump’s damage, but also that we can’t just return to status quo ante.
My view is that this is a problem statement, not a proposed solution. And it is clear that, consistent with the law of entropy, the clean-up process always takes more energy than making the mess did.
- Comment on BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 1 week ago:
Even having a semi-decent fallback from GPS time signals is a Big Deal.
- Comment on Who’s advertising on Twitter? One of its biggest investors: Saudi Arabia. 1 week ago:
So Bonesaw meets Chainsaw, and let me tell you what happens…
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 2 weeks ago:
So it Latke going to fund the resources needed to validate whether AI will work or not?
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 2 weeks ago:
explicitly built into systems like CDNs, git, and blockchain
Git only duplicates blobs; textual content is stored as deltas. And it’s bad practice to version-control blobs: the more correct approach is to control the source from which the blob is generated.
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 2 weeks ago:
then MD5 checks will catch them
That can be trivially defeated.