Maxxie
@Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 1 week ago:
At google scraping the internet, putting it in a blender then force-feeding us that goop while selling our eyeballs and data.
- Comment on I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other. 2 weeks ago:
noo, I used to run one but it’s long gone 😔
I might start a community or find one I like for post, that’d be fun
- Comment on I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other. 2 weeks ago:
thanks for asking ^^
- Comment on I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other. 2 weeks ago:
ALSO The North Star is actually three stars! The big one is 5.4 solar masses and 'uuge, a smaller one (1.39) is where our Jupiter is, and there’s another one (1.26) waay out there, like 80 times farther than Neptune. All that ~400 light years away from us.
Got funny names too, because in 18th century they discovered the existence of the outer one and called them Polaris A and Polaris B. Only to realize 150 years later “oh crap Polaris A is also two stars, gotta call them AA and AB now”
- Comment on I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other. 2 weeks ago:
there are sea slugs who absorb chloroplast from plants and use it to photosynthesize (convert sunlight into nutrients), it’s called “kleptoplasty” how friggin cool is that
- Comment on I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other. 2 weeks ago:
Did you know ancient greeks called giraffes “camelopards”? Cause they look kinda like a cross between camels and leopards? neat huh
- Comment on I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other. 2 weeks ago:
I just like talking, who else can I yap to?
- Comment on Can I lick it? 2 weeks ago:
You have activated my trap card!
You see, I was waiting for someone to bring up head-in-particle-collider-soviet-man only to raise you a different less known Vietnamese physicist who stuck his hands there instead!
there’s an ok Kyle Hill video about it if you’re interested (:
- Comment on Can I lick it? 2 weeks ago:
Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night 🤪
- Comment on Now accepting pre-orders on kickstarter 4 weeks ago:
Is there a TACTICAL version with BULLETPROOF CASING for REAL MEN?
rose flavored tho I’m not an animal
- Comment on AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality: If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us. 4 weeks ago:
they had reusable poop sponges what more do you want??
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 5 weeks ago:
In what world is that risk comparable to cigarettes?
Even comparing it to junk food is a stretch, and nobody suggests we put age verification on chips.
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 5 weeks ago:
Is there a paper linking gooning to cancer, why would you compare those things
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 5 weeks ago:
Fam have you seen evaluations of AI companies. For the amount of venture capital poured into openai, their profit should 20x or it’ll take a century for the investments to recoup. The reason for why they keep investing is that the AI is supposed to blow up the market and earn gazillions back.
Everyone agrees ML is extremely useful. Most people also agree that LLMs have their uses too.
What we don’t agree is that AI is the printing press, electricity and the internet rolled into one. And if it isn’t, then all this investment is made under false pretense, hence it is a bubble
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 5 weeks ago:
He was a cult leader opposing status quo in an authoritarian empire. It’s kind of a tough position, I imagine he used whatever was practical and contradicted himself a lot.
The core part of what he preached was very progressive for the time and place. Later, as it usually goes, it got coopted and lost 98% of its bite (imo)
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 month ago:
Oh, that’s cause YouTube is blocking a lot of unsigned requests (from non-logged users). I have my own VPN on a popular VM provider and it’s blocked too.
Not really a newpipe fault, and not much to be done unfortunately.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 month ago:
Doesn’t it? newpipe.net
- Comment on Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos 1 month ago:
We tried microplastics and PFAS for a few decades, clearly they aren’t killing us fast enough. Bring back the GOAT
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 month ago:
Samsung
Hahaha it absolutely won’t be. Best case It’ll be a white label from local Chinese brands like Oppo, worst case – a no-name company selling 150$ phones on alibaba. I’d put my money on the latter, the margins will be much better.
Great scam for a washed up celebrity with a cult following.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 1 month ago:
If you can afford to spend 10 bucks a month for a search engine, Kagi is pretty sleek. No ads, you can block/prioritize websites, good bangs, convinient CSS field for easy modding.
It does AI stuff too, but it’s optional as the other non-standard search output fields.
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 1 month ago:
I wonder if it creates more inhouse sysadmin jobs? When you buy a license from M$ you also get tech support. But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 month ago:
I agree, I just think you need to have a certain acumen to recognize the opportunity for a grift and then to keep the plates spinning for a decade.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 month ago:
Intelligence is multidimensional. Musk is obviously great at business, the kind where you stretch the limits of what is allowed to grow your empire, and (I agree) he knows what he’s building and capable of recognizing where he should lead the product next.
His political acumen is gotta be dogshit, with an unlimited money all he managed to do is to destroy the “realworld ironman” image he spent a decade crafting. He has no rizz, especially compared to Trump who is loved by half of the world (and hated by the other).
Also, critically for him IMO, he has no self-reflection. With all that power gassing your ego up, it is crucial to be able to step back and see that you’re just a dumb ape as the rest of us. Recognize things you’re bad at and find good people to field for you, instead of sycophants whispering “it’s the kids who are wrong”
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
Ublock with firefox. Wasn’t able to set up a filter for the popup, didn’t try very hard though.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
Had a “youtube doesnt allow adblock” pop up yesterday, set up freetube. No login required, even has a subscription import tool. So far so great.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 month ago:
opt-in:
Can we take all your stuff?
- Yes daddy
- Remind me tomorrow
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 month ago:
Scaling down repression is tricky.
If you signal to your citizens that they can speak more freely, the first thing out of their mouths will be Hey why did you do that fucked up thing?
Thus, you can “loosen the bolts” only when you are safe in your position of power and don’t mind a few concessions to the masses. “Yes we overstepped a few lines, but it was all the fault of this one bad man and also look at all this bread we have now!”
This is why authoritarian countries usually have “seasons”.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 2 months ago:
A single message now generates 20 different summaries and analyses, requiring a rack of GPUs and a diesel generator.
We’re so lucky that electricity is unlimited and free, otherwise it might’ve caused a serious problem.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 months ago:
If you can’t see what would bother me in that situation, me explaining it further will not help, sorry.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 months ago:
“Hello sorry for calling you, can you repair a part of an electric oven? It looks like a thingy with a couple springs. No I can’t send you a photo on whatsapp, do you mind quickly installing signal? No? What about email? You’re going to respond in 3-5 business day? Yeah sure I can survive that long on raw potatoes”
If you can afford existing without big tech, I’m honestly jealous. I’m willing to go quite far for my principles (like I have a phone with graphene) but at a certain point life just gets too difficult. I’m barely above water on my adult-ing as it is 🤷♀️
