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- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 20 hours ago:
This is going to kill the content creation industry. Imagine a torrent client that has a built in neural network training module. You are now allowed to access any IP protected content and inspect it on your home TV for dataset building. What the neural network does is irrelevant, it can have a couple of layers and be trained with a residual amount of the CPU load. Happy torrenting :)
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
Time to expand the protocol with encryption
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, here comes Nintendo after a massive brain fart
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
That is the dream :') a phone running linux with desktop capabilities
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
I saw it somewhere and it just sticks. I assumed that pronunciation as well
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
To connect it to a dock station and have a full desktop experience. That is my use case
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
What is the advantage of Bluesky’s model over Xitter? Are they just outsourcing servers while still holding censorship and manipulation power?
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
Confession: I use indicator lights so much that I sometimes use them in very tight turns
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I am still trying to understand how this is a relevant technology post to the world
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 4 weeks ago:
I really hope you are right. I currently predict some issues with the scalability of the fediverse, maybe due to ignorance. If the majority of people switch their social media to the fediverse, the current volunteer hosted infrastructure will crash. Such infrastructure is not cheap to maintain and donations may dry out at some point. Specially for pixelfed, loops and peertube. The fediverse may run into trouble without easy self-hosting solutions
- Comment on Google give a 71% discount to US federal agencies for Workspace, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's cost-cutting push. 4 weeks ago:
I do not really work with excel beyond the basics. Why can’t free solutions like libre office and open office replace excel?
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 month ago:
I get that Musk is doing all types of tropes. But… what is the source for this newspaper I never heard about before? Is there any evidence for these pressures beyond “Trust me bro, we are the Latin times”?
I also deleted my reddit account. What is happening in that sub?
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 month ago:
Me too. What now?
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 2 months ago:
That is a good idea. I’ll close my account as well.
- Comment on Why am I getting gore on my racism app? 2 months ago:
I believe it is more refined than that. People in sound mind do not like violence, they want a peaceful and stable life for their families and friends.
If you show violence, you portray a threat. Over time people will be more lenient to surveillance and restriction of freedom in the name of law and order. Look at US people, tolerating torture and widespread vigilance since 11/9. All while still spewing “China bad” or “Putin bad”. Why? The ends justify the means.
Let’s see if it was a mistake or if the violence is here to stay in Meta apps