SaltSong
@SaltSong@startrek.website
- Comment on AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers 4 days ago:
That’s a good thing, is it?
- Comment on China detonates non-nuclear hydrogen bomb, blast creates 1,000°C fireball 4 days ago:
Maybe not “just.” But the clear intent is to confound the reader so they will click the link.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 1 week ago:
Empty words should never be considered as a start.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 1 week ago:
No policy in the world will stop minors from using the app. I can’t tell you how many “I am 18+” dialogues I clicked on when I was younger. You want access restrictions.
Do you want to scan your id every time you open the discord app?
- Comment on Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers 1 week ago:
Is this “surrender to avoid being defeated,” or am I misunderstanding the case?
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 1 week ago:
I like huge anime titties more than this guy, but I have the decency not to advertise the fact to my neighbors.
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 1 week ago:
I don’t know the meaning, either. Temba, his arms wide?
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
Agreed. With the added bonus that we have too live in the system while we burn it down. I’m not a huge fan of the idea, but then, I’m a maintainer by nature.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
I have nifty tech, yes, but I also have vaccination deniers, Nazis, and my fourth “once in a lifetime” economic crises. I’m never going to buy a house. I’m never going to retire. I’ll probably never even pay off my student loans.
I personally think that, largely speaking, if imports are cheaper than local production, that’s a good thing!
I’m hardly an economist, right? But I agree with you, broadly speaking. But first covid, and now Trump round two is showing is the weakness of global integration. As long as everything goes smoothly, it’s jam for everyone. But let something screw up the logistics, or someone duck up the balance of trade, and everything can go to shit really fast. There are lots of things we can’t make here, but we rely on them. That is less than ideal.
I don’t know that tariffs are the way to address that issue, or even if it needs to be addressed at all. O do know that the way Trump is doing it is all wrong.
- Comment on The IP Laws That Stop Disenshittification. 1 week ago:
I’d go with “deshittification,” myself. It’s not important how or why they are shit, just that they are, and the laws in question prevent us from fixing it.
- Comment on Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up 1 week ago:
The airport tried that shit on me today. I was able to make it print me a boarding pass, though.
I’m becoming a luddite in my middle age.
- Comment on Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028 1 week ago:
I’m old enough to remember them promising, repeatedly, that the nude scanners didn’t, couldn’t save images.
Joke’s on them though. They can’t delete my pictures far enough to avoid the trauma.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
If there was a viable non-genocide candidate, o wolf have voted for him.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
Most of us are not getting richer, nor working shorter hours, nor living better than our parents. We’re past “services” and on into “parasites.”
In principal, tariffs can prop up domestic industry that is having trouble competing with cheaper imported products. In practice, this winds up being really complicated, because the world is a lot more interdependent than it was 80 years ago.
- Comment on I hate reachability of smartphones 1 week ago:
That’s the thing. You don’t have to pick up the phone. You don’t have to answer the text until you are ready.
Anyone who acts like they are entitled to an instant response is wrong, unless you agree with them.
You may have to do a little expectation management, but you’ll be happier once you’ve done a bit of it.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath 2 weeks ago:
And explained that he was using AI to do a part of the job that needs to be done by humans, because it helps them figure is the solution.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath 2 weeks ago:
AI slop can be bad but this Bradley doesn’t understand that businesses exist to make money.
This is generally done by making a quality product, not a pile of shit.
You can get awry with selling people shit, if you charge shit prices. But the kind of assholes described in the article are gonna try to sell shit at AAA prices. Then they are gonna blame their team for not AIing hard enough.
- Comment on i have been living in middle east for almost 20 years and would like to be an american/canadian citizen, how can i become 1? how much will it cost? ar there other western nations which have easyproces 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, let me explain what I meant by “at all.”
If a brain-dead MAGA cultists mouthbreather might suspect that you are “one of them brown people,” (you’ll forgive me for not using a term more accurate to their actual speech patterns) then you might reconsider. If you’re white, by the standards of people who still fly Confederate flags, you might do ok.
That said, I am given to understand that our immigration system is a nightmare, and expensive. I don’t know which nations might be easier or cheaper, but I recommend anywhere but here.
- Comment on i have been living in middle east for almost 20 years and would like to be an american/canadian citizen, how can i become 1? how much will it cost? ar there other western nations which have easyproces 3 weeks ago:
If you’re Arabic at all, it’s certainly unwise, and might be impossible to become an American citizen at this time.
On the other hand, I believe Trump is selling citizenship cards for 5 million dollars.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the link.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 3 weeks ago:
This covers my thoughts about damn near every “helpful” feature this side of auto-complete email addresses.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 3 weeks ago:
What is it that you’re concerned about? Assume that I have no idea what either the new or old Mozilla privacy policy is, please. I tend to assume that all such are a pack of lies and everything is spying on me.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Can you imagine needing to pay a licensing fee in order to use the alphabet? Or your telling of Jack up the Beanstalk being subject to copyright?
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 weeks ago:
Yea, that’s a point, but I suspect that most people don’t know how to block them.
And at work, I don’t have ad block of any kind. Rarely matters, but sometimes.
- Comment on Bad Girl 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who mistakes “short” for “bottom” deserves what they get.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 weeks ago:
Right, because we all know how effective it is to be hit with the same ad fifteen times an hour.
