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- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 4 days ago:
I used to have a static IP at home so I cold run my own physical server. I stuck it under the fridge because there were wall plugs and I didn’t want it in my living room. Hence the name.
It used to serve NFS shares locally, websites and CalDAV/CardDAV globally. A dual-core-but-32-bit stone old intel processor, 2GB of RAM, and never a performance problem.
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 4 days ago:
Agreed. They follow the seasons of his Lies Social posts, and he follows the seasons of his own outrage.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 4 days ago:
weird emotional appeals
“I think we’ve done a lot of damage lately with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative. […] It’s not helpful to people, it’s not helpful to the industry, it’s not helpful to society, it’s not helpful to the governments.”
“Our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world. We’re just doing it through different channels. […] What’s going on right now is that the TAM [ed: Total Addressable Market] and data center is growing just absolutely tremendously. And we want to make sure that, as a company, we help fulfill that TAM as well.”
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 4 days ago:
IMHO there’s much hobbiness and fun to be had with creating a second or third life for “outdated” hardware. The current RAM crisis leaves me cool, on a 2014 ThinkPad. My kitchen server was a 2008 HP laptop.
- Comment on New Social Web Working Group at W3C 1 week ago:
I’m not saying you don’t have a point, but can you back that claim?
www.w3.org/membership/list/ => 336 members, only one of which is Google.
- Comment on New Social Web Working Group at W3C 1 week ago:
This is actually really good - potentially big news.
The Social Web Working Group will work closely with the Social Web Community Group, the organization that has been stewarding ActivityPub and its extensions since 2018. The Community Group will remain the focal point for innovative developments extending ActivityPub into different areas like geosocial applications or threaded forums, while the Working Group will concentrate on the core documents.
- Comment on UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake 1 week ago:
Guildford previously denied in December that the West Midlands Police had used AI to prepare the report, blaming “social media scraping” for the error.
lol, as if that was better (assuming they took all findings at face value).
We’ve reached out to Microsoft to comment on why Copilot made up a football match that never existed, but the company didn’t respond in time for publication.
I’d love to hear their response, but the real answer is obvious: “it’s black box. We have no idea what it’s doing. Yes, we unleashed that on the world. Not sorry though, we just have to keep hoping that it sorts itself out.”
- Comment on 'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare 1 week ago:
👋
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 1 week ago:
Oof, he gets roasted thousandfold. On X! I had to scroll hundreds of responses down to find the first alt-right comment and I’m not even sure if that was a parody account.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 1 week ago:
It’s clearly a critical article.
Subtitle: “Won’t somebody think of the CEOs?”
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 1 week ago:
The shorter the headline the better 👍
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 1 week ago:
“Won’t somebody think of the CEOs?”
- Comment on WTF is this icon? 1 week ago:
That’s WinRAR.
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 1 week ago:
At least in the USA there’s a good chance they’ll get it too, despite The Don’s inability to say “China” without derision.
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 1 week ago:
Me, on a 13yo laptop and a 5yo phone: don’t worry, we still own the internet.
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 1 week ago:
AI companies have basically pre-ordered a fuck ton of components that have not been manufactured yet to be put into computers that haven’t even been made yet for datacenters that are not even built yet all on an electrical grid that hasn’t caught up.
Beautiful. The very definition of a bubble.
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 1 week ago:
I’m ootl. Are they protesting to reinstall monarchy?
- Comment on India's proposed phone security rules that are worrying tech firms 1 week ago:
Yeah, both the proposal and the tech firms “worry” seem to be double-edged swords.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 1 week ago:
- Comment on How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE 1 week ago:
You might be surprised at how many Flock cameras there are in your community. Many large and small municipalities around the country have signed deals with Flock for license plate readers to track the movement of all cars in their city. Even though these deals are signed by local police departments, oftentimes ICE also gains access.
This is so dystopian, even before ICE comes into play.
Because of their ubiquity, people are interested in finding out where and how many Flock cameras are in their community. One project that can help with this is the OUI-SPY, a small piece of open source hardware. The OUI-SPY runs on a cheap Arduino compatible chip called an ESP-32. There are multiple programs available for loading on the chip, such as “Flock You,” which allows people to detect Flock cameras and “Sky-Spy” to detect overhead drones. There’s also “BLE Detect,” which detects various Bluetooth signals including ones from Axon, Meta’s Ray-Bans that secretly record you, and more. (…)
There are several more examples of apps, sites, inventions and FOSS community efforts to deal with surveillance, just read the article. As bad as the circumstances leading to it are, it’s good that such projects get more public attention.
- Comment on X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool 1 week ago:
sorry, I meant ‘AI feature that “undressed” people on command.’ No idea if it’s an actual button, I don’t use Xhitter. But I edited my comment now.
- Comment on X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool 1 week ago:
Cynical take: They only did it openly to draw attention to it & pull in more subscribers. Because you can be sure Xhitter’s clientele loves that feature.
“image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers,” a change from the previous setup in which anyone could summon the system by tagging it in a post and asking for a picture.
- Comment on X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool 1 week ago:
But it will certainly drive up subscriptions 😉 … 🤮
- Comment on X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool 1 week ago:
Sheesh. So far I thought it’s just one of those things an AI image generator can be told to do. But to have a specific <undress> button … 🤮 Was it point-and click even?
Nothing says “we’re for male sexists only, and we know it” like adding a specific <undress> button.
- Comment on Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers 2 weeks ago:
Everybody must jump onto the AI train no matter how often it derails!
So who profits?
The unholy alliance of tech giants and government.
Who loses?
Everybody else. This is US tax money being thrown into a money burning machine.
- Comment on Even if you're living in a hot country, cold showers are disagreeable. 2 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself. I take up to three cold showers a day during the hottest summer weeks. I also do it in winter; usually warm first, then cold. Or during/after sauna <= rolling around in the snow is preferable, but not always possible.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t it obvious? The fediverse is not safe from such things.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough, that often makes me swear.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 weeks ago:
The labeling was a good thing, and stackability, but otherwise I prefer USB sticks. Esp. since even an old one can easily replace thousands of disks. 1GB==711floppies
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
“Where are you from? No, I mean originally”
I can have so much fun with that question! Esp. because in German (“Wo kommst du her?”) I can logically answer “from work” first, then my home, then I ask them to specify what they mean by originally. By that point they are usually sufficiently humbled.
Some keep on stumbling not realizing that the words they choose don’t matter, it’s their attitude I resist.
And if someone asks me that question before asking my name I refuse to answer anyhow.