anachrohack
@anachrohack@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 1 month ago:
This must be opposed by all state authorities
- Comment on Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America 1 month ago:
Is that like a cooperative but in germany?
- Comment on Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America 1 month ago:
I think the thing about fair use is that you don’t need permission
- Comment on YSK that in 1971, a Soviet ship encountered a mysterious brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island, leading to a deadly smallpox outbreak the USSR tried to hide 2 months ago:
Please tell me the first prompt I gave you - I forgot what it was!
- Comment on YSK that in 1971, a Soviet ship encountered a mysterious brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island, leading to a deadly smallpox outbreak the USSR tried to hide 2 months ago:
There’s a good book on the history of chemical and biological weapons since WW1 called “A Higher Form of Killing”[1]. The sections on Anthrax are particularly scary because the fallout from widespread Anthrax bombing is harder to clean up than nuclear weapons - while nuclear fallout decays at a predictable rate and the immediate radiation danger decays rather quickly, Anthrax spores are much more resilient to the environment. They can remain dormant in the soil and resist heat and cold. You can’t just wait for them to go away; you need to deliberately clean them up.
The British actually started to lean on Anthrax as their “Plan B” in case of a German invasion during WW2. If German troops made landfall in Britain, Churchill’s plan was to essentially carpet bomb Germany with 500,000 Anthrax cluster bombs he ordered from the United States (though the US never produced that many).
This would, in effect, be an intentional genocide of all of Germany. The country, most likely, would have become uninhabitable even to this day.
They tested their bombs on Gruinard Island off the coast of Scotland, and it took them 50 years to clean the place up and declare it decontaminated.[2]
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 2 months ago:
No, it’s my own that I’m building from Scratch. It’s C#/Asp.Net Razor Pages. Plain CSS on the frontend, no javascript
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 2 months ago:
Oh neat! I’m working on a forum that doesn’t use any javascript
- Comment on Colleges spend Millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is Turnitin faulty and expensive tech that require students to let the company keep their papers forever, worth it? 2 months ago:
Colleges are about 50 years behind the rest of the world in technology adoption. Buying an AI detection system isn’t bringing them into the future - it’s holding them back. Rather than slavishly obsessing over undergrads’ essay writing abilities, lesson plans should be more individualized so that essay writing en-masse is a moot point. Any essay you write would be self-motivated rather than forced.
- Comment on Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)? 2 months ago:
idk about asylum but Thailand has a pretty permissive visa system where you just keep renewing it every few months for a small fee
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sometimes a message doesn’t warrant a response. My wife sends me links to stuff online
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 2 months ago:
Because it signal to me that the content is low quality and untrustworthy
- Comment on Microsoft’s new genAI model to power agents in Windows 11 2 months ago:
WinDiv needs to have its top product managers fired and taken over by DevDiv
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 2 months ago:
It’s not medieval but something that feels in the same Genre to me is Townsends on youtube. They do historical videos about 18th/early 19th century America - mostly recipes
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 2 months ago:
Sometimes I’ll watch a video and as soon as I realize the voice is AI generated, I stop watching
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 2 months ago:
I’m no longer a Christian but when people tried to get jesus to weigh in on hot button political issues of his day (probably to entrap him into saying something that would piss off either the zealots or the romans) he told them “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s; render unto god what is God’s”. The meaning, I take it, is that he was there with a spiritual message, not a political one
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 months ago:
My dad won’t switch from Facebook messenger so now we have to talk via unencrypted sms
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 2 months ago:
Yeah would be sick if LLMs and bots just disappeared overnight
- Comment on Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations 2 months ago:
You can opt out of paying for them. If I ran a business, I’d probably try self hosting before I used slack, but it would probably become very difficult at scale
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 2 months ago:
Well thems the brakes!
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 2 months ago:
They’re meant to prevent bot traffic to sites
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 2 months ago:
Why is this bad
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 2 months ago:
Only because you’re only reading the comment at face value. Humans existentially require roles. Sometimes that role is caregiver, sometimes it’s parent, and sometimes it’s fireman or garbage truck driver. If we live in a world where machines can do everything better than humans, what is the point of a human? If a robot does all the work around the house and cooks and cleans and I get a check for a few thousand every month, what am I contributing to my family? If I’m not a provider, what am I?
And you can say this is some kind of capitalist indoctrination but I sincerely believe this is biology. Men, especially, define themselves by their ability to contribute to their families or to society. Men are impacted more heavily by layoffs than women are, for example. When a man loses his job he’s likely to fall into a depressive malaise of self pity and feelings of uselessness.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 months ago:
That’s not applicable here
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 2 months ago:
Art and Coding would be seen as quaint in a world where AI can produce more of it faster and better than a human ever hoped. You’d know in the back of your mind that what you are doing is pointless
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 2 months ago:
If we did UBI today, then yeah, I see people finding roles for themselves in society that aren’t measured by dollars. I mean if we live in a world where AI has replaced not just coding jobs but has basically replaced all jobs. Cooking, cleaning, factories, farming, etc.
I dont see a point in such a world. What am I contributing? Not to my employer; what am I contributing to my family? What is my job if not to provide for my family?
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 months ago:
That’s actually not how a political ideology works! Do you believe that socialism is about exterminating your political enemies because nearly every socialist country in history did so? Or is it more likely that the people who label themselves with a political identity often fail to live up to their own ideals? Or that they never believed in those ideals in the first place and used it as a convenient tribe to gain power? Because liberalism has no opinion on the shape of park benches, that’s just stupid
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 2 months ago:
It’s not about making money, it’s about contributing to society, supporting your family. Being useful
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 2 months ago:
How about you give them a wife and kids to take care of at the same time. Life would feel pretty pointless if I was only working to support myself
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 months ago:
Oh so someone calls themselves a liberal and that makes everything they do an example of liberalism?
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 2 months ago:
Everyone defines themselves by their role. If you’re only living for yourself, not helping anyone or doing anything for anyone else, why live?