Korkki
@Korkki@lemmy.ml
‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’
- Comment on Ukraine Paves the Way for Pirate Site Blocking, Despite Ongoing War 6 days ago:
Who do you think owns Ukrainian government at this point? They funded their own twilight by selling government property, land, resource rights and legislative favors to multinationals. Zelensky et. al knows who brought them to power and has kept them there.
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned 1 week ago:
The real issue is that most social media is for-profit addiction machine breeding more and more anti-social behavior, not that kids have access to it. This is just a another example that liberals are incapable of seeing any ill in rampant capitalism or much less intervene in it’s mechanism for the common good. Everything is framed around profit seeking bringing out the greatest good and individuals choice. They are very at a loss when having to to do any systemic analysis why social-media has ill effects on social fabric. The best they can come up is that kids are not yet fully formed adults able to do the right choice, so they must be guided.
- Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead 1 week ago:
We might dine well on used datacenter hard drives in the coming years.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 week ago:
They mostly do that because they want control and maybe slowly reach their tentacles into projects. Like Chromium and Android are in theory open source, but in practice both are locked down by google and used for their business and mass data harvesting and advertising empire.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 week ago:
Killing parasitic and monopolistic gatekeepers and middlemen is very much contributing to any country’s economic growth.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 2 weeks ago:
yeah, MP1 and MP2.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 2 weeks ago:
Remedy’s next project seems like to be more of the same old same old single player action games, albeit a couple of Max Payne remakes. Not unfuckup:able, with microtransactions, but still safer than some multiplayer hero shooter or smth.
- Comment on Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins 2 weeks ago:
I have long since been of the opinion that all the big social multinational media should be seen as global technical, communication and media infrastructure. All the companies should be seized and put under some global foundation or the UN, everything open sourced, costs paid by member states and the platforms forced to remain impartial and to be organized for improving human condition, development, communication and understanding. If there is no need for profit then there is no need for entrapping users in toxic swamps of algorithm hell for more platform engagement.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
What features did they exactly disable for unverified accounts?
- Comment on Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins 2 weeks ago:
They are going to play the same old “freedom of choice” defense… aren’t they.
It’s not our fault we made it purposefully addictive, you could just not watch it. Hasn’t this been the case with every tobacco-, soda-, fast food-, etc company. For example: the whole mainstream idea that weight gain is about caloric imbalance and not consuming what you eat. That is the mainstream because is helps the food companies sway public opinion for their cause. It’s not our food that is horrible slop, disruptive to metabolism and engineered to make people eat more and more and still crave more, it’s the people who could just not eat it and if they do eat it they could like run 10km to sweat off the effects of like one sandwich.
They always shift the responsibility to the individuals when they are pressed on their wrongdoings. “The freedom of choice” at large is the great lie that at large keeps society running and is the main defense against any complain why something is systematically shit and fundamentally inhuman, from food to labor markets.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
Also what current consumer level application could require of storage 140TB. That would be some advanced level data hoarding or smth.
- Comment on Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know 2 weeks ago:
Couldn’t you just set a weekly or daily cronjob to reboot the servers and have some balance loader redirect traffic? No more ram fingerprints after that.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 2 weeks ago:
Transistor size downscaling is pretty much done. Also mosfets can’t much improve in this race anymore. We would need a new computing paradigm to see manufacturing cost reductions or major performance leaps. For consumers thats still years away.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 2 weeks ago:
The silver lining is that hardware performance gains have been so minor from generation to generation that upgrading isn’t really that important anymore. Like if i upgrade from next generation equivalent GPU it would give like 8% more fps… and it costs like 1,5k… No thanks.
- Comment on 💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t syncthing for mobile discontinued?
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 3 weeks ago:
Do any of the studios actually playtest their shit, or do they just make their games based on marketing buzzwords so investors remain happy?
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
it’s often more risky and expensive to hire, train and develop systems and communities like that, especially when doing it against the tide, than to just try to trip up the competition. It’s not just that it’s dificult and it costs money, but it’s not preferred because investors abhor risks.
Isn’t this seen in global politics all the time. When US says China is too dominant in X and we need to fight it. They are not saying that US will invest in shit that will help them compete. All or 90% of the actions is to try to trip up, sabotage and sanction the competition.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 1 month ago:
Have you ever seen the commercials from late 1800s where there is the word “electricity” in everything. Electrotherapy for every ill and electric solution for every type of drudgery, electrolyte drinks and whatnot. Same came with discovery of radioactivity. Radium drinks for long life and all that. AI is the modern buzzword for the modern snakeoil salesman.
- Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year) 1 month ago:
Mainly about protectEU 2030 project. Chatcontrol 1.0 and 2.0 are kinda adjacent to it. Basically more rights to law enforcement and intelligence services in general and them having the right to read anything that goes on in the internet. By this summer they are going to present a law that would make no log VPNs illegal in the EU because law enforcement would have to have access to ip addresses and identifiable ‘metadata’ of the users.
- Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year) 1 month ago:
you are right of course. But US surveillance has been public knowledge before snowden and even the big shock then wasn’t that they were mass spying everyone, it was that they were spying US citizens as well which was supposed to be illegal. So legality doesn’t even matter. They will find their loopholes anyway. It’s the intent of the council and the bureaucracy for more control that worries me.
- Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year) 1 month ago:
EU regions is also becoming a privacy nightmare with the EU commission’s general war on encryption in the name of “safety”.
- Comment on Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI 1 month ago:
I somehow think that all these proposals for chatcontrol were not just enabled by the rise of AI, but were meant to facilitate it. Personal message scanning would be a treasure trove for anybody interested in organic training data since all public social media (reddit, ahem) have been more or less poisoned by ai messages and slop.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 month ago:
The frog being slowly boiled alive effect. Nothing is wrong until it’s too late and it’s obvious to anyone.
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 2 months ago:
ahem… fuck AI.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 3 months ago:
take responsibility in what sense? CEOs are not responsible in no other sense than to the stockholders and/or the board of directors and to the law. If they don’t break the law then the only responsibility they can take is resigning or being sacked. Failing in usually by not maximizing profits if it’s a for profit corporation. It really is a perfect job for a machine because the job really just requires following a preset directives to a letter even to the point of psychopathy.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 months ago:
The difference is that the most under invested real economy promises little to no profits because of saturation, while these techbros are always ready to promise the moon from the sky. Nothing gets done and less flashy industries stay uncompetitive.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 months ago:
All of these silicon valley startups just shriek very loudly that there is too much capital and not enough real economy to invest that money into.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 months ago:
Then you need method of power transmission, usually microwaves or lasers, both come with energy losses. With microwaves you need a reliever and those can get about the size of a solar farm.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 months ago:
The man with golden gun only had a ground based “laser” powered by “solar energy”. Die another day had an actual “burning ants with a magnifying glass” tier orbital solar deathray.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 3 months ago:
Ofc they can’t google, meta and Microsoft are the three pillars of US intelligence gathering network.