RedFrank24
@RedFrank24@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 week ago:
If the talk about Cybertrucks actually rusting in the rain is true, they will be worth less and less and less…
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 2 weeks ago:
I am hostile to those that relish in cruelty to others. To those that engage in cringe culture, or bully others for just wanting to live their lives without harming anyone.
I’ll accept people getting heated and passionate, but I will never accept cruelty, or worse: self-righteous cruelty. Believing someone needs to be ‘punished’ for some slight and so anything is justified against them.
Basically KiwiFarms and the whole lolcow industrial complex can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 weeks ago:
Trees take ages to grow, and their root systems damage buildings and pavements.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 3 weeks ago:
So if they’re using a ChatGPT wrapper to teach me languages, why do I need Duolingo? Copilot is free.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense when you consider that Yandex is owned by a Russian oligarch, and Google has been fined more money than exists in Russia.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 weeks ago:
Definitely 2.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
The only thing Twitter has over something like Bluesky is the fact that Bluesky is so milquetoast and nice that you don’t really get any of the drama you get on Twitter. Like, I never see comic fans going “Black Bolt would DESTROY Saitama in a fight!” and anime fans going “Nu uh! ONE PUNCH!” on Bluesky.
Same with Lemmy tbh. Lemmy is 80% politics, 10% memes about politics, and 10% Linux.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Except no, they don’t.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Well… Until you get someone like Trump in charge and he decides that the stipend only goes to those that praise him and strips the stipend from anyone critical of him or his ideology.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
If you only funded drugs through public funding, that means the government has a say in what drugs get funded and which don’t, meaning any and all drugs that don’t affect the broadest number of people simply won’t get funded.
Drugs will no longer be for all people, it’ll be strictly the people that vote for the government in charge. So… No hormone treatments, no birth control, no vaccines, no aids research, nothing that doesn’t explicitly align with the government.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 1 month ago:
I’m still waiting for a reliable way to pirate games with micro transactions and lootboxes.
Like, I know Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has daily quests and a rotating cash shop, and that must be talking to some sort of server that isn’t guaranteed to be there. Surely there’s a way to mock that server?
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 month ago:
I disagree that Reddit would gain in value over time, because it is increasingly difficult to avoid AI-generated material polluting your dataset, no matter how much you avoid automation and try banning it. Inevitably, some AI-generated material is going to get in.
It’s a problem in two ways:
- The vast vast majority of data on Reddit has already been sold, so you can’t rely on that data for future revenue
- The remaining data that’s current is polluted by AI and is therefore worth less than the historical data because the more AI pollutes your dataset, the more likely it is to lead to Model Collapse, where an LLM is poisoned due to unverified data generated by other LLMs
I am firmly of the belief that sites like Internet Archive will be some of the most valuable companies in the AI space, because they hold an immense amount of untainted data created prior to 2019.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 month ago:
I’m not sure why anyone would ever buy Reddit stock. There is no money to be made in Reddit. They failed to make any money before they went public, and they’re failing to make any money now.
They tried the whole NFT thing, failed. They’re trying to sell the data to AI companies but once that’s sold they can’t sell any more of it because the benefit of Reddit data was historical data unpolluted by AI, but new Reddit data is polluted by ChatGPT posts and is therefore worth less.
It’s not even about banning people, it’s about the fact that Reddit was never a sustainable business model from the start, at least not in the traditional capitalist sense where you’re actively trying to make a profit to please shareholders.
The only benefit to owning Reddit stock is if you have voting shares and can manipulate the algorithm to benefit you in some way. Suppress some voices, amplify others to back what you want to do etc. but you need money to burn in order to achieve that because you aren’t going to be making money directly by owning Reddit stock and manipulating public opinion takes time.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 month ago:
The funny thing is you can still buy Office standalone but you have to actively go looking for it and Microsoft doesn’t advertise it because 365 subscriptions make more money.
Microsoft actively doesn’t want you buying standalone versions of software, but they still have to sell it because there’s still a market for it.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
The one thing I don’t like about oldschool forums is that I have to make an account for each one. With each account comes a new place where your email address is registered, and a new password, with each password comes a new avenue for attack if you’re shitty about web security and use the same password (or a variation thereof) for everything. If you use a password manager you’re fine, but I don’t want my email being put everywhere.
There needs to be some kind of SSO that’s open source (like Google but not Google), so I can log into any forum that implements it, but with that comes the cost of running an identity provider and I don’t think forums are going to want to pay for that in addition to their own costs. Maybe some sort of distributed system or something where each forum donates a little bit of compute power to running the IDP, I dunno…
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
Discord, Reddit and Lemmy are bad choices for forums. If you want ANY useful information to stick, put it on forums you know are gonna get indexed and archived reliably. Reddit is indexable but there’s no guarantee the page will still be there when you search for it through Google.
Discord is completely unindexable so any information that exists on a server that gets deleted is lost forever.
Lemmy is a half-way house. As far as I know it’s kinda indexable but not really.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 months ago:
I got banned for making fun of Kemi Badenoch when she said autistic people are privileged. I said maybe she’s jealous that there are people that know more about trains than her. That was apparently enough to warrant a permanent ban.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 3 months ago:
I think it’s more “Butt as an alternative to algorithms” which I fully agree with. Butts are better than algorithms
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 3 months ago:
Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 6 months ago:
Disposable vapes are easier to hide from parents since you can just throw them away, and also you don’t have to worry too much if your teacher confiscates them because they’re disposable.
With a non-disposable vape, suddenly things become a lot harder for vaping teenagers.
I’m not suggesting we let teenagers vape, I’m just saying there’s a reason teenagers like the disposable ones.