SufferingSteve
@SufferingSteve@feddit.nu
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 week ago:
There once was a dream of the semantic web, also known as web2. The semantic web could have enabled easy to ingest information of webpages, removing soo much of the computation required to get the information. Thus preventing much of the air crawling cpu overhead.
What we got as web2 instead was social media. Destroying facts and making people depressed at a newer before seen rate.
Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.
What crypto gave us was fraud, expensive jpgs and scams. The term web is now even so eroded that it has lost much of its meaning. The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 4 weeks ago:
I would be for a state owned chain, does not have to be completely decentralized, it’s just good tech that can make the payment processors of today obselete.
Basically require each bank to run nodes, while letting the central bank of the country hold the keys to mint new coins.
I mean one could also have verifying nodes run independent.
The tech is there, doesn’t have to mean use anarchy moneys, it just means an overhaul of our ways of transferring value around.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 4 weeks ago:
So basically it could help combat our blatant consumerism as well? Seems like a win to me
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 4 weeks ago:
Wow, people start caring when they come for their porn. These duopolies should be broken up, people should adopt crypto payments.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 4 weeks ago:
I wish this was the goal, instead of large corpos doing large corpos things
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 4 weeks ago:
Eh, just make shit up. Works for the world elite
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 5 weeks ago:
To be fair though, if almost anyone had a 3D printer, only plastics would be distributed, and only the plastic that is needed.
What I mean is that you don’t have to manufacture in advance and actually ship plastic products to every corner in the world so that these plastic garbage cab sit on shelf and then end up in a landfill after not being sold for tens of years.
Basically on-demand plastic garbage production would in most cases where the amount required is not well understood be beneficial if most people did it.
Because almost everything is made in excess, and the wasteful production is just offset in cost.
- Comment on Half of today’s jobs could vanish—Here’s how smart countries are future-proofing workers 1 month ago:
You could also go the other way, if you are smart incapable of being efficient at me menial labour. You will go hungry, until such a time you are hungry enough to do the menial labour for very cheap.
Turning us into two distinctly separate classes, low educated low intelligence, and high intelligence, highly educated elites controlling swarms of smart AI
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I admire your positivity. I do not share it though, because from what I have seen, because even if there are open weights, the one with the biggest datacenter will in the future hold the most intelligent and performance model.
Very similar to how even if storage space is very cheap today, large companies are holding all the data anyway.
AI will go the same way, and thus the megacorps will and in some extent already are owning not only our data, but our thoughts and the ability to modify them.
I mean, sponsored prompt injection is just the first thought modifying thing, imagine Google search sponsored hits, but instead it’s a hyperconvincing AI response that subtly nudges you to a certain brand or way of thinking.
Absolutely terrifies me, especially with all the research Meta has done on how to manipulate people’s mood and behaviour through which social media posts they are presented with
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ll just ask chatgpt to do the research and vote for me
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah because if everyone is extremely cheap labour everyone will prosper? :)
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 months ago:
The “if” is working overtime in your statement
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 months ago:
But oh so lucrative, and with a catchy phrase…
I see moneybags in this idea, wonder who will first make it a reality…
- Comment on ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP? 2 months ago:
And you are self-sufficient, or whatever the word is. But that’s the key thing for me, not having to rely on others for my services :)
- Comment on ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP? 2 months ago:
Dude above you over is under the perception that it requires 100% uptime or other users to to be classified, which is wrong. You are definitely self hosting, albeit only for yourself I assume. Which is fine
- Comment on The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash. 2 months ago:
So if the AI generated summaries are better than man made summaries, this would not be an issue would it?
- Comment on The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash. 2 months ago:
Lol, the source data for all AI is starting to use AI to summarize.
Have you ever tried to zip a zipfile?
But then on the other hand, as compilers become better, they become more efficient at compiling their own source code…
- Comment on I made an audio thing 2 months ago:
Cool project!
- Comment on Ross Ulbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a Dark Web Dealer, Crypto Tracers Suspect 2 months ago:
Whatever you think about drugs and their legality doesn’t really matter when you look at how the legal system is applied here. As previous poster stated, this just shows that the legal system is broken as hell and only applies when used to control the common person.
Shits fucked up in the land of the free for sure.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 2 months ago:
If I care about my account, it would suck. Can’t migrate unless server allows me to
- Comment on "Weakening encryption undermines ProtectEU's objectives" – experts slams EU plan to create an encryption backdoor, again 2 months ago:
Everybody should slam that, not only experts
- Comment on AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound 3 months ago:
Wow, actually really cool usecase and tech!
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 months ago:
The bad thing about those kind of shoes, is that while most people see that as a warning, and something to avoid.
Some people immediately start charting a path to how to make it a reality, and sometimes those people are very very smart and can chart a path that might take decades.
I say this while on the toilet, writing on a device that has cameras both front and back, always on microphones and location sensors, and facial recognition and 3D scanning equipment.
When the personalized condom ads start popping up, I will only be slightly annoyed.
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 3 months ago:
I’m in this comment, and I don’t like it
- Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop 3 months ago:
If you sit in a room and you can see the bars, you know you are trapped, if you sit in a room, but you cant see the bars, you are going to think you are free
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 3 months ago:
It really is, knowingly supporting someone who is openly evil, is obviously worse than unknowingly supporting someone who is evil, but tries to hide it.
We should not let people be openly evil, it just feels like a real stupid move.
- Comment on C4illin/ConvertX: Self-hosted online file converter that supports 1000+ formats 3 months ago:
An app?
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
Dude, you forgot that it had built in led control. We all should know by know that gaming = leds
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 months ago:
Yeah, you are not even paying for minutes yet
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3) 4 months ago:
I like the idea, but I don’t really feel this is scoring decentralization at all.
Yeah,looking through this again, it really scores centralization, and also focuses way to much on ease of setup. Which honestly has nothing to do with it. If it’s super hard to setup, but every participant is hosting their own node. And producing the same amount of content. That would be max decentralization.
I would also argue that a requirement for decentralization is that the service keeps working even if a large portion of all nodes goes down, the remaining nodes are still operational and keep delivering the value.