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- Comment on Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 2 weeks ago:
people shouting that they care about the environment, while being silent on things like beef or flights etc. are being hypocrites
As others have said, most people that take issue with AI due to its negative impact on the environment will also take issues with those other things. Of course one might argue that to some extent pollution is acceptable for the purpose of producing food, while to a lesser extent for purpose of powering magical text completion toys.
I’ve seen many people say AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET, when that is simply not true
How is it not true? You’ve agreed that it has a negative impact on the environment. It’s not burning the planet on its own, but its contrubution to the burning is non-negligible and only expected to grow. According to all scientific findings, we have to reduce our carbon footprint, not increase it even further, to make the impact of climate change maybe somehow bearable. Therefore, everything contributing to an increase has to be scrutinised thoroughly as to the value it provides net its impact on pollution. Currently, that calculation results in a net negative value of “AI”.
- Comment on Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 2 weeks ago:
What’s your point? “There are other things that pollute the environment even more, so this thing that pollutes the environment a bit less is totally fine”? I hope you understand why you’re getting downvoted.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 4 weeks ago:
Tbh, I never cared about it much, mine isn’t exactly a new account and I haven’t experienced what you describe very often. I mostly use lemmy via the voyager app and here I can’t even see what instance someone is on, unless I search for them specifically (or I’m too much of a noob and don’t know how). So if some people want to base their judgment on that, whatever.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 4 weeks ago:
It’s just the first instance I found when I signed up, I didn’t know anything about its reputation.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 4 weeks ago:
Money is not printed by the local government at all. Money is created by private banks through extending credit. And it shouldn’t be controlled by the government either, that’s a terrible idea.
I agree with the rest though.
- Comment on NVIDIA is full of shit 1 month ago:
Oh so you support grifting off the public domain? Maybe grow some balls instead of taking the status quo for granted.
- Comment on NVIDIA is full of shit 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, this partnership with OpenAI means they’ve sided with evil and I won’t spend a cent on their products anymore.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 months ago:
That sounds like total bullshit, according to that logic anything could be declared a military target and therefore nothing would fall under the Geneva convention. I think you’re talking out of your ass.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 months ago:
Has Israel officially declared war on Iran? Apart from that, why aren’t they protected by the Geneva convention?
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 months ago:
Since when is it legal to kill civilian scientists in another country?
- Comment on UK government withholding details of Palantir contract 2 months ago:
Great work they’re doing, hope they keep it up. Fucking cowards in the UK government… had they not left the EU, they would not have caved to the US as easily.
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 3 months ago:
Indeed, as mentioned in the article.
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 3 months ago:
What? You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. I recommend informing yourself before spewing nonsense.
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 3 months ago:
I agree with the sentiment, but wouldn’t necessarily recommend F-Droid, see privsec.dev/posts/…/f-droid-security-issues/
- Comment on Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation 3 months ago:
The problem is not people like him. The problem are newspapers publishing it as though it was important and people giving a shit about it as though he wasn’t a moron.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The EU isn’t democratic. As opposed to national parliamentary democracies, the European parliament has barely any power compared to the commission which has no democratic legitimacy.
It’s as democratic as democratic gets on that scale.
That is also completely false. There are numerous proposals that would make the EU more democratic, but that’s obviously against the interest of the incumbent neoliberal elite.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 4 months ago:
Lobbyists aren’t inherently bad. The problem is lack of transparency and controls. Without effective controls of course a corporation with millions to spend will always have the upper hand over some NGO that lobbies for the common good.
- Comment on Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’ 4 months ago:
These cutbacks are completely stupid imho. The EU is undoing decades of good work by jumping on this dumb deregulation band wagon. I guess it was always run by a bunch of neoliberals…
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 4 months ago:
VPS, I wouldn’t run a mail server from my home network. If you go with mailinabox you don’t need to set up a proxy, it’s pretty simple.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 4 months ago:
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 4 months ago:
All planes have bird-inspired wings
- Comment on Why I recommend against Bluesky. 5 months ago:
What more you should ask is precisely that it’s not owned privately. Otherwise, soon the next Elmo comes along and buys this one too.