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- Comment on Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS 2 hours ago:
Contractual obligation, teeth must be given with the owner’s consent.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 hours ago:
wow, sign me up for a couple of dozen terabytes of that!
I also remember people burning pitts on scotch tape, then rolling it up and reading it in 3d :)
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 hours ago:
Even if the cats are out of the bag, i’d like to remove as many privacy leaks as possible.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 4 hours ago:
this is really no different.
For some, yeah. But with the way things are running in politics, we’re 6 inches away from Sony demanding to see our viewing logs to make sure we’re not pirating.
Today’s data collection is tomorrow’s felony conviction.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 5 hours ago:
Hmm… What’s eating Windows’ lunch? Oh “Unknown” and “Other”. Cool.
If the data is coming from statcounter, it’s kind of vague where they’re pulling it.
It’s strange to see IOS and not Android, maybe because it’s fractured into so many sources
It could also be anti ad/tracker stuff.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 5 hours ago:
They’re in order in this highlighted column:
- Windows (at the top)
- OSX
- Unknown
- Linux
- Chrome
- IOS
- Other (dotted)
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 6 hours ago:
I read somewhere Samsung does it too. Not surprised at all if they all do it, along wiht the streaming sticks.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 6 hours ago:
prints article out
places it on an overflowing, ancient pile of documents of promising, science proved data storage methods that haven’t made it to public use yet
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 day ago:
It’s been a problem for a long time before AI.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 days ago:
So you actually believe a military should have quotas based on arbitrary characteristics such as race or gender
Not arbitrary at all. I think the makeup should exactly mirror the population distribution as closely as it can. We invade places, it’s hoards of guys and it’s a lot of rape and pillage and less worry about illegal orders. I think a proper distribution would help that out a lot.
And that any disparate outcome would be evidence of racism or sexism
Nope, don’t give a shit about that at all. I just think they should try to have our military not being 99% white men covering each others asses doing shit they shouldn’t. DEI isn’t just about combating racism/sexism, it’s making sure that the staffing matches the population. A team with 20% minorities will be less likely to be overzealous on minorities. A team of 50% women will be less likely to rape or allow the rape of women in action zones.
Would that be your position taken to its extreme, while your actual position has the same essence but is much more sensible in degree? Or what do you think?
Not quite sure I grasp that series of questions. I don’t think they should force minorities/women into the military, but they should try hard to be representative and mix everyone together. Nothing beats sexist/racist views in individuals like working closely with people of other races/sexes. Hell it might even drive out people that should have power over other people.
It’s obviously not without issue. But we need more mixing of culture/race/sex on the daily basis or we’ll be in this while male superiority complex society forever.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 days ago:
probably non-cancerous cooling sytsem or some shit like that, maybe lower RF emissions
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 days ago:
I would argue against having military, but that’d be pointless. If we’re going to have it, it should be as representative of the population as possible. It might save the lives of underrepresented citizens when we’re invading.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 days ago:
they can’t manage to sell a single dollar worth of their product.
Ohh don’t worry, that’s not how this works :)
We’re still in the venture capital stage. The companies are circle-jerking, paying each other off with venture funds and stock splits. They don’t need to be making money at this point because they’re already getting everything they ask for.
Those $50-$200 packages from all the big companies are just there to get people used to the idea. They’re making all their money on selling each other useless support chatbots and horrible phone systems claiming they can reduce their staff by half. Well, they could always reduce their staff by half, customers have had to deal with shitty wait times for years.
You’ll pay for AI by the prices of your software rising. Those costs are absorbed and passed on to you as micro-transactions inside your actual subscriptions and payments.
Once they managed to get the AI intertwined in every system out there, they’re free to collude as a market and raise prices slowly. AI will be the cost of software inflation and hardware shortages that make anyone with a datacenter or enterprise hardware manufacturing capacity very, very rich.
It could even be that in the end, this isn’t a bubble, it’s just a grift and it never pops, but because so expensive that your average person can barely eat if they expect to use software tools for their work.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 days ago:
It COULD help the average person, but we’ll always fuck it up before it gets to that point.
You could build an app that teaches. Pick the curriculum, pick the tests, pick the training material for the users, and use the LLM to intermediate between your courseware and the end users.
LLM’s are generally very good at explaining specific questions they have a lot of training on, and they’re pretty good at dumbing it down when necessary.
Imagine an open-source, free college course where everyone gets as much time as they need and aren’t embarrased to ask whatever questions come to their minds in the middle of the lesson. Imagine more advanced students in a class not being held back because some slower students didn’t understand a reading assignment. It wouldn’t be hard to out teach an average community college class.
But free college that doesn’t need a shit ton of tax money? Who profits off that? we can’t possibly make that.
How about a code tool that doesn’t try to write your code for you, but watches over what you’re doing and points out possible problems, what if you strapped it on a compiler and got warnings that you have dangerous vectors left open or note where buffer overflows aren’t checked?
Reading medical images is a pretty decisive win. The machine going back behind the doctor and pointing out what it sees based on the history of thousands of patient images is not bad. Worst case the doctors get a little less good at doing it unassisted, but the machines don’t get tired and usually don’t have bad days.
The problem is capitalism. You can’t have anything good for free because it’s worth money. And we’ve put ALL the money into the tech and investors will DEMAND returns.
- Comment on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union, with 165 workers at Doom studio the latest to vote in favour 2 days ago:
It fucking sucks that companies can’t be trusted to do the right thing. But in this world where every big fish has to swallow up all the little fish, you really don’t have any chance at fair treatment without unionization.
The better mom and pop shops would profit share and dump money on the devs who crunched. Microsoft isn’t going to do that.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 days ago:
damn good idea, good on you!
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 3 days ago:
I’m more worried about the politicians :)
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 3 days ago:
I mean, we’ve tried not reciprocating.
They literally don’t get anything until it’s happening to them, and the US left NEVER names it happen to them.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 3 days ago:
while true, there are a boat load of wealthy republicans that would NOT pass a social media check
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 3 days ago:
Ok, idea, The rest of the world demands access to 5 years of US citizens social media to enter their countries. Deny Nazi/Fash/Maga from leaving the US.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 3 days ago:
No idea about Texas. Other than SXSW, I’m not aware of their tourism.
But for FL, Disney didn’t bend the knee hard enough. That’s a feature.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 4 days ago:
And if that doesn’t scare them enough… Tinnitus
You go do some loud crap, concerts and such, don’t really care. One day, you’re sitting there and notice a ringing tone. It’s not necessarily loud, but constant like someone has a high speed fan running the background. Whatever frequency level your dammage is in, your brain fills in the gaps with a constant sound. Nothing and nowhere are ever quiet again. When you’re in a noisy situation where the noise is in the range of what remaining hearing frequencies you can still work with, you can’t hear anyone over. and as things progress, you can lose more ranges and the ringing can get louder and in different frequencies.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 4 days ago:
I didn’t think you could amp-up pretentious at this rate. Do you eventually level off or just keep going further in hopes that people ban you?
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 4 days ago:
If you wouldn’t have been grumpy about downvotes, i’d have left it be :)
The community is speaking to you.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 4 days ago:
No, we read part three, it just comes off pretentious enough that we think it still deserves a downvote. It’s not a foreign language anxiety; you’re posting in English. It’s just the next rendition of l33t speak, and no one is really in a hurry for that to catch back on again, those were dar days. I did eventually block the last guy that was hot on thorns, might get to you eventually, but it would be a shame, because outside of the ridiculous way you said it, your point isn’t wrong.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 4 days ago:
yeah, because tourism is doing so well now, we need more reasons to fuck over the industry
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 4 days ago:
I think it’s more likely that 29 people feel pretty strongly negative about your writing style.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
Did you just really ignore monuments comment two above?
I guess we know where your sympathies land
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
Consider:
Someone is getting knocked the F out on camera.
There is a crowd of people
No one is stopping or diffusing the situation
No one is stopping over the check on the fallen
Then calculate it appears to be a guy wearing a nazi arm band
then consider that it would be the shittiest idea for a halloween costume south of blackface and even wearing nazi garb would likely get you a rightful ass-kicking.
There’s no math there that makes that even slightly questionable.
- Comment on Is this real life? 5 days ago:
Yeah, fuck no.
Not even in an all white HOA meeting to make the point. A million other ways to say that or infer that.
