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- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 6 hours ago:
This is true. Even projects with good reputations get caught up in shit like the XZ back door in Linux.
If you haven’t read up on that fiasco, you really should look into it. It got way too far before being caught all because people suck and ruin things for others.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 day ago:
There is nuance here. Not every crack is malicious but you have to assume they all are because some of them are. Trusting a source is irrelevant. Many security products will falsely tag cracked software as dangerous just because it’s cracked, not because it found a specific bit of nasty code, and this feeds the idea that you can’t believe when people tell you cracked software is unsafe. But there are many truly bad cracks out there. When in doubt, don’t trust it.
And you should always doubt free shit.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 day ago:
Not wanting to feed children doesn’t seem very pro-life.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 3 days ago:
Companies absolutely HATE copilot. I remember they didn’t even like Siri enabled on the Mac’s where I used to work. No way in hell copilot is getting a pass.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 3 days ago:
Are you comparing online game servers to the American tax system? Because I really want a ban.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 4 days ago:
I would just look for an instance that doesn’t prioritize propaganda buzzwords like “freedom”
- Comment on Germany's Federal Cartel Office warns Amazon that its marketplace retailer price controls likely violate national and EU laws, in its preliminary assessment 5 days ago:
Amazon doesn’t care.
- Comment on X launches E2E encrypted Chat 5 days ago:
See the “lol” everyone? It means he’s trying make my assertion sound ridiculous because he didn’t have a way to counter it and doesn’t want believe it. People do this on the internet so they can pretend they are winning.
- Comment on X launches E2E encrypted Chat 6 days ago:
It’s not. They have been caught steering traffic over and over again. If you say anything Elon dislikes and it starts getting attention, their algorithm will hide your posts once Elon tells it to. Elon LOVES censorship so long as he’s in control of it.
- Comment on X launches E2E encrypted Chat 6 days ago:
Dude, even X’s AI, Grok, distrusts the CEO.
- Comment on X launches E2E encrypted Chat 6 days ago:
Were you being serious with that or sarcastic?
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 6 days ago:
They don’t even take responsibility for things now.
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 6 days ago:
Companies need a way to pick any hire out of a large set of applicants. They don’t care if it’s a good hire. They don’t even care if the hire will burn down the building. This same thing could be accomplished with a small script that points to a random applicant and evaluates if that one lied on their resume. That’s it.
But if you call it “AI”, dumbfuck business majors will buy your magic beans.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 6 days ago:
So that might not be a big deal. Most of the energy in gasoline is released as heat and not useable.
- Comment on NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City 1 week ago:
Michael Reeves had the right idea turning these into beer pissbots.
- Comment on NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City 1 week ago:
I foresee a new market popping up of parts stolen off of kidnapped and parted out robots form the NYPD.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 1 week ago:
Same here. Some of my friends are already planning to die, buying guns and hoping to take down an agent with them. I won’t buy a gun because I’m afraid I’ll actually use it, possibly on myself.
These are incredibly dark times.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 week ago:
Why would you admit that where others can potentially use that information to attack your device? Some cards you have to play close to the chest.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 week ago:
Canada isn’t going to be a safe bet in the long run. They have a reprieve for now but they always end up doing whatever America does just a few years later.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 1 week ago:
I know I’m likely on a list somewhere. I firmly believe I’m going to be killed by this sundowning Nazi in the next few years to. I’ve tried to make plans and get out of this sinking ship but I’ve not been successful. I’m going to die here and it’s likely to happen pretty soon.
So if that’s going to happen anyway, where is my motivation to comply with anything this fascist wants? Fuck it. He’s going to have to kill me.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 1 week ago:
While true it’s also not all that useful. If a handful of people express that, it’s actionable. If huge swaths of your population do, it means something else entirely.
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 1 week ago:
Fucking Christ, you have choices people. If windows won’t meet your needs anymore, USE SOMETHING ELSE! Why do these people pretend there are no alternatives to windows?!
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 1 week ago:
It’s so confusing it only makes sense to business majors. /s
- Comment on Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps 1 week ago:
Are they seriously killing driver updates from windows update?
- Comment on What's your recommendation for a small NAS? 1 week ago:
Build your own. Every out of the box solution can and will screw you.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 week ago:
God I cannot wait for this AI bubble to pop.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 week ago:
I wonder if it’s possible to specifically exclude your business/website/project from google search. Surely that must be something you can legally do.
- Comment on Switch 2 supports USB mouse controls, developer reveals 1 week ago:
This could be the coolest thing I will never buy.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X temporarily down for tens of thousands of users 2 weeks ago:
This is news?
- Comment on Call Centers Replaced Many Doctors’ Receptionists. Now, AI Is Coming for Call Centers. 2 weeks ago:
I do call center work for a medical insurance company and some providers are already doing this. There is one that has a bot called EVA and she’s really pushy, doesn’t understand challenges or handle being told she’s wrong, she will ask several questions but let you only answer one before moving on rather than letting you answer her completely, she’s just a disaster. In some cases she will just hang up on you can call back and do it all again. I am absolutely certain she’s going to get that provider sued eventually.