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- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 6 days ago:
My comment is in the context of this
Also interesting that we’re ignoring something here – big tech is chasing cheap sources of clean energy. Don’t we want cheap, clean energy?
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
I’m not saying it is. I’m saying that predatory companies shouldn’t run critical infrastructure.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
Well, patents and what have you are a thing. I’m mostly thinking that I wouldn’t want e.g. Facebook to run any nuclear reactors or energy grids. That’s something I prefer the government does.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
Highly recommended. Children of Ruin was hella spooky, and Children of Memory had me crying a lot. Good stories!
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
Sure we do. Do we want the big tech corporations to hold the reins of that though?
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
The Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky also explores this. Particularly the third book, Children of Memory.
Think it’s one of my favourite books. It was really good. The things I’d do to be able to experience it for the first time again.
- Comment on Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server? 1 week ago:
When I set up Navidrome I had no idea jellyfin could do music too. Pretty happy with them separate though. Not for any particular reason, they both do their jobs really well.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Think it grew popular in the U.S. as an anti-masturbation thing. There were a LOT of those. This Kellog man was super into restricting masturbation and made cornflakes because a bland and unexciting meal would aid in preventing that.
To be fair, the colonisers were primarily religious puritans whose views were too extreme for Europe, hence why they sought new lands. It’s almost like a cult.
- Comment on Empty homes are on the rise. So why aren't they being used to solve the housing shortage? 1 week ago:
I like the sound of this.
- Comment on Dennis Prager in Harlem 1 week ago:
I think we’ll pull through, my friend.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 week ago:
I wish I was still capable of the same belief in the goodness of others.
- Comment on Dennis Prager in Harlem 1 week ago:
Wow. That was an idea I never needed put in my brain. I think that perhaps I should stop using the internet.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
I’m still holding out for Stephen Hawking to mail out Demon Summoning programs.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 week ago:
Given that they already ignore robots.txt I don’t think we can assume any sort of good manners on their part. These AI crawlers are like locusts, scouring and eating everything in their path,
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 weeks ago:
It’s never ever been about the children. Every time someone uses children as a meat shield for their arguments it’s because arguing against it is hard.
“We need to execute all criminals to protect the children!l”
“That doesn’t sound like a good idea.”
“What? You’d support a rapist pedophile over an innocent child? You support pedos??” - Comment on Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not the EU that will be scanning. Given that the scans will largely be aided by “AI”, private corporations will have access to all communications.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I wouldn’t say that a warrant is the same as an invite. Legally it allows them to enter, but I’m not convinced that the laws of magic bend to the laws of man.
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman Expects To Spend ‘Trillions’ On Infrastructure 2 weeks ago:
The only reason people are starving in this day and age is because people don’t care to fix it. We have the resources and the means. Starvation is a problem of policy.
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman Expects To Spend ‘Trillions’ On Infrastructure 2 weeks ago:
But don’t you know that the collective wisdom of Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan put in a glorified autocomplete is going to save the world?
- Comment on Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech 2 weeks ago:
Right because all the big AI companies are currently paying big money to all the individual authors that they stole material from.
Copyright doesn’t work. It doesn’t stop big corporations from doing whatever they want. They can wield it as a weapon to hammer individuals and small businesses with, and in the case of e.g. medicine it outright kills people.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 weeks ago:
What the fuck does ambient even mean in the context of an operating system? Is it going to be floating around in the atmosphere of my flat? Is the next version of windows gaseous? Is it sarin gas?
- Comment on Help. 2 weeks ago:
Even then, there’s a difference between having a bracelet or a necklace someone gifted you, versus owning multiple living spaces while others in your community die due to exposures to the elements.
Modern society is worthless.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 2 weeks ago:
but it the thinking behind it is very utopian
I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Things don’t have to be realistic to be aspirational. It’s a bigger problem when people give up because improvement isn’t realistic or deemed necessary by comparison to some other factor.
Saw it a lot here. People would be all “sure our healthcare isn’t great but at least we’re not like the U.S.” as the rightwingers bit by bit enshittified the entire system.
A utopia is what we should aim for. What’s the point of anything less?
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 2 weeks ago:
Appreciating a nice member is hardly a peculiar taste. They’d have to try much harder to shame me.
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 2 weeks ago:
You kidding? Google Chrome has the biggest market share. It’s the window to the internet for many. Control that and you practically control the internet as a platform.
- Comment on Google will now let you pick your top sources for news search results 2 weeks ago:
The LLM stuff is fully optional, but the money we pay goes to develop that too, and I can see how one might not want that. I’m personally irked that Proton did that very thing.
I can respect holding to the principles the previous poster has.
- Comment on Musk threatens 'immediate' legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations 3 weeks ago:
And maybe apple isn’t promoting Grok because they don’t want to promote mechahitler and it’s deepfake Taylor Swift nudes…
I hate Apple, but this would be an entirely reasonable stance.
- Comment on HBO Max’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Start in Earnest in September 3 weeks ago:
I actually agree with HBO. Password sharing isn’t great because it means that you’re giving them money. It’s time to get started with file sharing instead.
- Comment on Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? 3 weeks ago:
This is how I ended up with an orchidectomy of my sixth distal phalange. :(
- Comment on More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org 3 weeks ago:
Seems a bit like a waste of storage space.