Glitchvid

@Glitchvid@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This continual AI surveillance state and AI moderation crap just keep reminding me more and more of this particular passage from A Scanner Darkly.

  What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine how much more they could’ve just paid employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think DoS/DDoS activities should be criminal?

  If you’re a site operator and the mass AI scraping is genuinely causing operational problems (not hard to imagine, I’ve seen what it does to my hosted repositories pages) should there be recourse? Especially if you’re actively trying to prevent that activity (revoking consent in cookies, authorization captchas).

  In general I think the idea of “your right to swing your fists ends at my face” applies reasonably well here — these AI scraping companies are giving lots of admins bloody noses and need to be held accountable.

  I really am amenable to your arguments wrt the right to an open web, but look at how many sites are hiding behind CF and other portals, or outright becoming hostile to any scraping at all; we’re already seeing the rapid death of the ideal because of these malicious scrapers, and we should be using all available recourse to stop this bleeding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When sites put challenges like Anubis or other measures to authenticate that the viewer isn’t a robot, but they employ measures to thwart that authentication (via spoofing or other means) I think that’s a reasonable violation of the CFAA in spirit — especially since these mass scraping activities are getting attention for the damage they are causing to site operators (another factor in the CFAA, and a factor that would promote this to felony activity.)

  The fact is these laws are already on the books, we may as well utilize them to shut down this objectively harmful activity AI scrapers doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When a firm outright admits to bypassing or trying to bypass measures taken to keep them out, you think that would be a slam dunk case of unauthorized access under the CFAA with felony enhancements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  BEAD funds are more or less administered by the state, and nothing is fundementally stopping them from doing the right thing and preferring local bids.

  It’s entirely possible too, look at North Dakota, it has near 100% fiber coverage for the entire state, because the same model that brought electrification to them brought them fiber. In Utah and surrounding states there are municipal networks building out to member cities.

  The real threat is the states capitulating to the incumbent providers like Comcast – but at least it’s a State level issue instead of being totally a given at the federal level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M+ in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We also typically think of these individuals as mature adults with some understanding of the world and social skills — but a lot of the people getting pulled in are kids and teenagers, which are particularly vulnerable for exactly the reason you elucidated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically enough there’s basically a private version of this through Comcast turning their rented CPEs into their own unlicensed wifi mesh, they call it WiFi Pass – they at least have the courtesy to give it to you gratis if you’re already paying for residential service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I would’ve preferred Hg.

  But to the point, I think GitHub has been instrumental in the success of Git.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨datacenter liquid cooling solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Expanding on that, direct water cooling becomes more common the higher power density the racks are.

  So as you get into 35kW+ racks it becomes the only way to get that much heat out, lots of GPU compute racks are water cooled by default now, the El Capitan super computer is entirely cooled through direct liquid interfaces, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a coincidence, I was just reading sections of Blindsight again for an assignment (not directly related to it’s contents) and had a similar though when re-parsing a section near the one in the OP — it’s scary how closely the novel depicted something analogous to contemporary LLM output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean a backup of a RAID pool is likely just another RAID pool (ideally off-site) – maybe a tape library if you’ve got considerable cash.

  Point is that mfg refurbs are basically fine, just be responsible, if your backup pool runs infrequently then that’s a good candidate for more white label drives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had the same experience. The first HDD that failed on me was a Barricuda 7200.11 with the infamous firmware self-brick issue, and a second 7200.11 that just died slowly from bad sectors.

  From then on I only bought WD, I have a Caviar Black 1TB from oh, 2009-ish that’s still in service, though it’s finally starting to concern me with it’s higher temperature readings, probably the motor bearings going. After that I’ve got a few of the WD RE4 1TBs still running like new, and 6 various other WD Gold series drives, all running happily.

  The only WD failure I’ve had was from improper shipping, when TigerDirect (rip) didn’t pack the drive correctly, and the carrier football tossed the thing at my porch, it was losing sectors as soon as it first started, but the RMA drive that replaced it is still running in a server fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve got a RAID array with 1 or 2 parity then manufacturer recertified drives are fine; those are typically drives that just aged out before being deployed, or were traded in when a large array upgraded.

  If you’re really paranoid you should be mixing mfg dates anyway, so keep some factory new and then add the recerts so the drive pools have a healthy split.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And the long term plan there is to strangle sites and take %100 of the adrev spend for themselves since users won’t ever leave the Google site. Either way Google as a search engine enters a death spiral, it’s already bleeding users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Google used to provide a ton of traffic, they hoard it all themselves now through AI and summaries of content. Eventually the balance of cost/benefit will shift and Google will suddenly see itself rejected from scraping, furthering the product deathspiral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine the price hikes when they need to get that return on hundreds of billions they’ve poured into these models, datacenters and electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  EU should forge ahead and just wait for America to hopefully come to senses and end it’s entitled temper tantrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some do, but a lot also use it with a touch pen for notes.

  Honestly tablets are perfectly sufficient for most education related things, plus they’re thin, light weight, and don’t need to be plugged in constantly unlike the goobers who bring gaming laptops.

  I would’ve sprung for an iPad and done the same (though used a BT mechanical keyboard instead a chicklet one) if I wasn’t in a CS degree that requires me to have a real OS that can run compilers, interpreters, multiple browsers, and uses a real folder structure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a student, yeah, I see lots of people using tablets for their work instead of laptops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran Disables GPS, Joins China’s Beidou — The End of U.S. Satellite Dominance? [19:23 | JUN 28 2025 | GVS Deep Dive]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Echoing this, civilian GNSS is a passive system, and I’m all for redundancy, you should be using all four constellations for the highest accuracy and fastest lock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Republicans are the biggest suckers there are. There’s a reason as soon as the jig is up grifters pivot to conservative talking points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easier to scam someone than convince them they’ve been scammed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Art is people making stuff, without the people… it’s just stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fatphobia Is Fueled by AI-Created Images, Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are definitely folk who see obese people as an acceptable target because they can hide behind (valid) health claims, and then justify their moral superiority because they don’t have those “personal failures”.

  The litmus test is if they think Semaglutide/GLP-1 is “legitimate” or obese people using it are “cheating”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out burning thousands of kW, cooling, building datacenters, and filling them with the most expensive shovels chips, is actually just more costly per real unit work than paying a real person. It was a gift the entire time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Republican (but lets be fair here, most) states basically just threw their hands up and left it up to the “experts” (or their friends in the cable/local phone monopoly) for planning BEAD funds. Really it’s a failure of American politics and a case study on how baseline corrupt the average state is.

  The only place that has actually gotten its shit together is, of all places, North Dakota, they have almost universal fiber access across the whole state, if you have power, you probably have fiber. All of contiguous America could have the same, only politics stands in the way.

  Utah has also built out locally owned open-access municipal fiber, despite the best attempts from the Comcast/CenturyLink lobby and state legislature to kill it; among other projects in WA, TN, IA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Matrix cooked?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad, I thought they were moving from Apache to something more restrictive / less open (the way so many have recently), especially by their wording — which conveys to me they’re frustrated they aren’t capturing the “value” of their code.

  AGPL is not my favorite license but it has its purposes I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canalys: Companies limit genAI use due to unclear costs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not too surprising, it takes a 100kW AI rack to accomplish a fraction of what I can wrt writing code, and I can run on tacos and diet coke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google themselves don’t really follow material all that closely over their entire product line.

  Android 6 was basically the peak of the UI, IMO, the icons were very consistent and nice early material.

  In later versions the shrink the icons and stuffed them into circles and started using a horrible color scheme, then they killed blobmoji and started outright copying Apple’s hideous emojis with that awful gradient and pseudo-skeumorphic visuals.