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- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 5 hours ago:
Nice! Good for them.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 7 hours ago:
The advertisers could be paying based on interactions and/or their rates could be negotiated around interaction, so unless a sizeable number of people use this it would be giving money to Goog
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 7 hours ago:
Doesn’t like 90% of Mozilla’s funding come from Google? At least expanding their paid services could be seen as trying to turn that around.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 15 hours ago:
Vintage Emthusiasts getting absolutely fucking roasted by thism
- Comment on Call it an excuse. I call it therapy 3 days ago:
OP I don’t want to take your crutches away but do your best to limit intake and find alternative outlets because the damage you’re doing to your body can never be undone.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 days ago:
I said any productivity gains are offset by loss of quality and capability, and I actually think that’s especially true in your coding example due to large measurable increase in security flaws.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 days ago:
Lmao you really came back after that ratio?
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 days ago:
Skill Issue
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 days ago:
I think it is you who forgot what I said. AI is useless.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 days ago:
AI code has singlehandedly increased vulnerabilities across every industry because the shit code is pushed by people who don’t know what they’re doing.
Net Negative.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 6 days ago:
In theory they get super rich, but in practice the early adopters of AI seem to be hemoraging money as a result of it. It doesn’t actually make the bare minimun content so they end up hiring humans to fix their bullshit and the end product is worse than just using humans.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 6 days ago:
Nah AI is just garbo in general
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 6 days ago:
I’ve never read or enjoyed any AI works so far, tbh.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 6 days ago:
Don’t forget to have fun and be yourself.
- Comment on Creating new wage slaves is child abuse 1 week ago:
No, we absolutely haven’t.
Thinking everything should be simple is exactly how we got into our current global socioeconomic situation.
We should collective set the rules so that everyone benefits and nobody suffers. Complex problems and complex solutions.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 1 week ago:
The iZEV program began in 2019 I believe, and given the timeline these sort of investigations and hearings take I would bet they did catch it pretty quickly.
Rather than comparing VINs another way to compare would be to go off the monthly or quarterly tax statements from corporations comparing sales to volume of rebates that way, but if they were committing fraud on the rebates that means they would also be committing tax fraud, but I have absolutely no idea how it was actually implemented I’m just spitballing here.
- Comment on China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms 1 week ago:
TBF China and Russia are pretty much the only nations actively using widespread facial recognition technology literally everywhere not explicitly banned.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 week ago:
I don’t use very many extensions, but it works with all of the ones I’ve tried such as uBlock Origin.
- Comment on Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-Hee (63) dies of heart attack. 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, with all of the shit with the USA economy I didn’t even think about places like Samsung who relied heavily on the USA.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 week ago:
I prefer either TorBrowser or Waterfox.
TorBrowser is, hands down, the best privacy browser out there but it’s a bit slow because it operates like a decentralized VPN.
Waterfox browser is built on Mozilla’s Gecko Engine just like firefox, but it isn’t managed directly by Mozilla.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 week ago:
Also don’t use Opera. They’re opera-ted by chinese mafia.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
5
I would pick 3 but I don’t think its ball pen and I have trouble controlling the strength when I press down on the paper.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
Your precise wording was “centralized networks” which I interpreted as the ISP providing traffic between you and other services.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
The parties in control are not the type to regulate or fund programs, so no, not really.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
You actually have to lure the hogs into a pen with multiple exits, drop the gates, and gun them down before they can manage an escape. You also should be very vigilant and listen well for any nearby hogs, the adult females tend to be smarter and more cautious but they’re the targets you NEED to kill.
Failure to catch all of the hogs will allow the others to learn and adapt to the traps, and failure to kill the females will result in their population continuing to grow.
Other effective methods are clap traps and spike pits but those don’t work well when you have children or other animals. There is also the M44 cyanide pill shooting trap made for Coyotes but idk if it works on Hogs.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
Oh you’re right, let me just tally up all the days where that isn’t the case…
carry the 2…
don’t forget weekends and holidays…
Oh! It’s every single day. It’s just an always and forever problem. Neat.
- Comment on damn it'd look soooooo cool 1 week ago:
Vertical or Horizontal? Because it wouldn’t be symmetrical vertically but that would be better as far as the biological requirements.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
I don’t really agree that this is the biggest issue, for me the biggest issue is power consumption.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
And a third intrinsic problem is that the current models with infinite training data have been proven to never approach human language capability, from papers written by OpenAI in 2020 and Deepmind in 2023, and also a paper by Stanford which proposes AI simply have no emergent behavior and only convergent behavior.
So yeah. Lots of problems.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
Couldn’t this be much different if “web 2.0” hadn’t taken over?
Probably not, even if you have time to maintain your site by updating it occasionally then it still falls upon individuals to fund the hosting services and hold the domain name. Even Hexbear’s domain wound up for auction a little while back because they forgot to pay their bills.
Many of them are still alive but don’t get the exposure they deserve because of centralized networks.
Since Net Neutrality has been off and on enforced, it’s generally been considered illegal to block, hide, or throttle traffic, but I agree those small sites didn’t get as much search indexing unless they paid for ads.