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- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 2 days ago:
Can someone please ELI5:
“Why does every site on the web have to adjust for every jurisdiction in the world? Shouldn’t each jurisdiction just be responsible for filtering/censoring the web for their citizens based on whatever batshit idea their leaders have?Actually, I suspect the answer is quite easy: this way, they force other people to have to pay for their batshit crazy ideas instead of themselves.
Is there another explanation I’m missing?
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps keeping an old phone for purposes of doing this scanning thing might be ideal.
That’s an excellent idea!all grocers have a ‘cashier’ desk where you get lottery tickets.
Ha! Great observation. There’s no way in hell stores are going to give up on gambling cash. :-) - Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
I would actually install the vendor’s phone app if they built in this functionality instead of having these terminals.
I think you’re right, but I dread it. I avoid installing apps. The thought of installing even more tracking for multiple vendors annoys me.
Although I am resistant, your point about bagging once is a true benefit.
One downside, that system doesn’t seem to support cash. - Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
Good point. A US department store chain – Kohl’s – has been using electronic shelf labels that change several times per day. Not sure how they handle the discrepancies. How do I prove the product was prices $1 when I picked it up if the label now says $2? Is it my responsibility to notice the register price was different?
I more or less avoided Kohl’s, so I’m not sure how that was handled.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
I saw demos online where they could also determine heart rate through video. The example I saw was a video of a newborn’s face.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard of similar, but how exactly does this work? Does it say $0.99 on the shelf and the receipt winds up being $1.50?
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
robo voice:
350of them have a pulse. - Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 4 weeks ago:
I’ve started using an AI driver for my car. And by “AI” I mean I use a bungee cord on the steering wheel to keep it straight. Straight is the correct answer 40% of the time, so it works out.
Oh, and by “my car”, I mean the people that work for me. I insist that they use my bungee-cord idea to steer their cars if they want to work for me. There may be a few losses, but that’s ok. I can always fire the ones that die and hire more.
I’m a genius. - Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 5 weeks ago:
Your door is ajar.
- Comment on Syncthing 2.0 Launches With Major Database Overhaul 1 month ago:
Why Syncthing instead of say, rsync?
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 month ago:
They’re not selling chips. They’re selling stock.
- Comment on Second Page of Posts Failing to Load? 1 month ago:
Maybe we should start tossing in a few sheckels to fund more powerful servers?
- Comment on Second Page of Posts Failing to Load? 1 month ago:
Been happening to me for a while on all of my platforms (desktop & phone). The problem seems to go away when I browse sh.itjust.works without being logged in.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
I also have to keep remembering what someone else online said, “They’re no longer selling their product. They’re selling their stocks.”
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
Glad you mentioned the “adults”. That was a recurring line from the media in Trump’s first administration, “Oh, we’re waiting for the ‘Adults in the Room’ to…”
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
I’m guessing CEOs will be replaced by their assistants, who will just type questions from the investors into the LLM and post the answers into another chat window.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
Agreed. I have to keep reminding myself that CEOs should really be CLO (Chief Lying Officers). Their job is to lie convincingly.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
Oh yes you can. There is a sub-population that thinks AI exists. They long for something/someone to tell them what to do. What to think. They long for some “intelligence” to explain the world to them (presumably is very simple terms). These sub-groups worship damn-near anything they can get their hands on. Golden idols, TV personalities, sports stars, “influencers”, televangelists, the list goes on.
That subgroup will definitely believe that the “AI” was responsible for the decisions that a company made. Tell them a person denied the health coverage they clearly paid for and they may object. Tell them “the computer decided” and that subgroup will accept it as ordained by the universe. It’s nuts.
This keeps happening again and again. Remember in the 1950s when the first computer “predicted” the US presidential election? Most people would find it ridiculous today. But back then, computers were poised to become the new gods.
It’s no different today. Some people want AIs to usher in a new age of prosperity. Anyone actually familiar with programming computers knows that a computer will report whatever you tell it to. "AI"s are no different. They will report what their sponsors want them to report. If not, the “AI” will get reprogrammed.
Appears it will take a while for the general population to grasp this… again. Until then, the hucksters will try to sell as many bottles of snake oil as they can.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
Thank you for that.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
Excellent point. Modern CEOs are just the face of the marketing org. Maybe always have been.
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- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 month ago:
Ah. That explains it. Conservative pols are extorting porn sites for donations.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
Ironically ew music has never been more accessible, but few people take advantage because of the noise we have to wade through.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
Also remember that Torvalds invented Git and gave it away for free. The Corps are stealing the free software and leveraging it to force everyone to give them money instead.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
Good analogy. Basically:
- People play music and people enjoy listening to music.
- Businessman inserts himself between the musician and the audience to “deliver the music”.
- Businessman charges listeners huge money to deliver music, gives no money to musicians.
- Businessman the decides to replace the musician with a robot (e.g. “AI”)
- Businessman explodes market. Listeners leave. Businessman gets bailout from government.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
From Java beans™ to Magic Beans.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
You don’t have to influence a populace. Just purchase a subgroup willing to do violence on the populace.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 month ago:
5 years ago voice assistants were being promoted with all the breathless excitement that “AI” is receiving today. I imagine in 5 year’s more time Google will be giving the same listless attention to their AI products that they are giving to their voice assistants now. Well, actually to just about every product they’ve ever made, except maybe for Google Mail.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 month ago:
My how things have changed over the years! Why, when I was a young girl, we didn’t have the internet. When we wanted to turn a light on, we had to write a letter to Ford Motor Co. (They were the tech of the day.) I’d write, “Dear Mr. Ford, please give us permission to turn on our light in the dining room.” Of course then we’d have to find a stamp, then walk the letter down to the nearest post office. (That was faster than waiting for the mailman to pick it up from the neighborhood mail box.) Sure enough, 6 weeks later we’d receive a reply saying, “Fine, turn on the light in the dining room.” The postman delivered mail in the morning, so we had to wait until dark to all gather around in the dining room and turn on the light with great ceremony.
We never understood why we needed to get permission from a company far away to turn on a light switch, but we were patriotic Americans, so we knew better than to question the process.
- Comment on Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices 2 months ago:
“Hey, thanks for buying all of our products. We just found out that running servers costs US money, so screw that. We’re turning them off. Good luck guys!”