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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Have people who actually understand what they are asking do the interviews. Problem with mist interviews is they are non-technical people asking complex technical questions and expecting a very specific answer that only people whose brains work a certain way will come up with. This often eliminates the mist creative developers because they come up with different solutions than the one the nontechnical person was taught is the right answer. Not to mention often the questions they ask are obsolete things that most people aren’t going to know off the top of their heads because it’s something they would normally look up in real work not something they need to memorize. Tech interviews are horrible at finding good talent. Good riddance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with all software is adoption. Usually it’s trying to get people to adopt a protocol or buy a piece of software that causes less than optimal decisions to be made. There have been lots of good replacements for all of the things you mentioned, they just never caught on. And the problem in the beginning when they didn’t have those pressures was the hardware and bandwidth limitations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does AI detect breast cancer better than doctors can?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. X-ray, MRI, and other complex images are difficult to analyze at a glance and it takes a lot of experience to make a guess on whether something is normal or not. This is exactly what AI is good for. Learning the relationship between some complex set of data points and assigning a probability that it is something based on historical data. AI is just not being used for the correct things most of the time. This is one of those correct things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is Stifling Tech Adoption.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And AI will stifle creativity in all areas that it’s used in. That’s the problem with predictive models being called “AI”. They are only as “intelligent” as the information they were trained on and will always be biased towards what that data set was biased on and won’t be able to create anything truly new, only improve existing things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The other recent “suicides” of whistleblowers have gone unpunished, so it’s no surprise that it’s now standard practice. Especially unsurprising given that it’s standard practice of the dictator currently in control of a large percentage of American politicians and billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning a mini-pc into a WiFi access point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine has those, but it was a different model that had the hardware required to do WiFi. Likely it’s not included and unless the device was designed to modify, it’s likely that the motherboard doesn’t have a way to add it easily and there won’t be much space to do your own WiFi card and soldering if the board does have the connections and support in the firmware/BIOS. Best bet would be a USB WiFi card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CISA staffers offered deferred resignations, extending broader cybersecurity fears.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who isn’t a loyalist and doesn’t take this is likely in for a bad time. Better to have time to find another job than get fired for insubordination when they start the purge for not being loyal enough as defined in the letter from Trump and lose their ability to transition to other jobs or keep their other tenure related benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spyware firm cuts Italy access after alleged targeting of activists - reports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re just the only ones who got caught. Giving that kind of access to almost any corporation or government agency without oversight is going to result in them targetting people who are critical of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Google Spyware to Enjoy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternative suggestions? I’m going to check out Fossify messages for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is time to ban email.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree email needs to be replaced, but what a crappy article. Especially love how they don’t understand that things like the fact that CC used to be a standard letter writing concept and so, yes, people knew what it meant. Making me feel old. Yes people used to have to learn how to formally write letters on paper, and they had lots of things that could note additional information like ps, cc, att, and so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Proves Stagnant Monopolies Are Strangling the Internet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s what late-stage capitalism is all about. It has been predicted in a million writings. Any competition won’t survive for long though. Eventually, it will either get gobbled up and merged into the monopoly/duopoly or it will get “regulated” out of existence by those forces hands in the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The great firewall isn’t designed to protect those inside from the outside. It is designed to isolate those inside from getting outside. It’s like saying a prison wall is there to protect the prisoners from invaders. Sure in Fallout they worked out to be useful for that, but that isnt what it was built for and would have needed modifications like turning the barbed wire outwards to make it work for that purpose better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Faking It: Deepfake Porn Site’s Link to Tech Companies.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never got this kind of porn. I mean I like porn as much as anyone, but why would I want all of the people to have basically the same, “perfect” body parts and skin and such. That’s so boring, IMHO.

  The only reason I might be interested in seeing a celebrity nude is to see what their individual body looks like after I’ve been scintillated by seeing them in something sexy. There are tons of attractive porn actresses if I want to see a sculpted body or someone else’s body. Though, for me, lack of consent is a big turn off. But I get that doesn’t apply to the majority of porn users. They like the scandal of it and think of it as a taboo around an object rather than an invasion of an actual person’s privacy.

  Anyway, if you consume a lot of this type of porn, doesn’t it get boring really quick?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta to pay Trump $25 million to settle censorship lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No Zuckerberg is just part of the fascist movement now, since the right uses corporate social media and is more tolerant of ads than the left now. Before he was more interested in attracting technically literate people who would actually use the platform and were more tolerant of user experience changes as they tried to become more profitable, which was more the left. Now that technical literacy is allowing them to move to platforms where they aren’t a product, so the profit is in the people who are stuck with the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities need to get ahead of autonomous delivery robots.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reduce space used by cars and give it to the robots. Increase funding for public transportation to compensate. Overall, this will improve lots of things and the problem is being caused by corporations, not pedestrians, so if people don’t like “giving up their cars”, then they can complain to the corporations instead of complaining to the cities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in the U.S.. However, users in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico,” and the rest of its 1 billion monthly users will see both names.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Google on 2008: “Google in 2008: By saying “common”, we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US: Rather Than Ban TikTok, the Best Way to Protect App Users is to Strengthen Privacy, Transparency, and Security Protections Online, Freedom House Says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But then how will the US government do the same thing to it’s citizens? /s