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- Comment on IGN Boss Leaving After Six Years Following Latest Mass Layoff 2 days ago:
I’d rate IGN a 7/10. It has a little bit of something for everyone.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 3 days ago:
- Comment on It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI? 3 days ago:
It’s not the BBC’s job to be an authority. Their job is to report what the (relevant) authorities are saying:
DeepSeek challenged certain key assumptions about AI that had been championed by American executives like Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
“We were on a path where bigger was considered better,” according to Sid Sheth, CEO of AI chip startup d-Matrix.
Perhaps maxing out on data centres, servers, chips, and the electricity to run it all wasn’t the way forward after all.
Despite DeepSeek ostensibly not having access to the most powerful tech available at the time, Sheth told the BBC that it showed that “with smarter engineering, you actually can build a capable model”.
That said, seems suspect that an AI startup CEO is getting this much airtime. I would have preferred an industry analyst or an AI researcher.
- Comment on TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor 3 days ago:
It was fun(?) and interesting for a few minutes. If that was my full time job, I’d better be getting paid decently for it.
- Comment on UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act 1 week ago:
Rather thanIn addition to this, they should leak all the websites that MPs are visiting.If it’s anything like the United States, we’re sure to find some embarrassing search histories (at the very least).
No privacy for me. No privacy for you.
- Comment on YSK: Bandcamp is waiving its fees today and all money is passed to the artist (until 12 a.m. PST) 1 week ago:
Not every Friday:
Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:
- September 5th
- October 3rd
- December 5th
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- Comment on What's up with Kevin Kelly's '2049'? 1 week ago:
I don’t even know who Kevin Kelly is. Is he not normally a shill for the CCP?
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 1 week ago:
What’s more, they talk up how it’s open source and then don’t link to the repo.
Here it is, BTW:
- Comment on Girls' Frontline Manga 2 weeks ago:
Crossposting apparently buries the rest of the post. Here’s what I wrote.
“Girl’s Frontline is not a story about AIs learning to love, it’s about AIs learning to hate. And we are excellent teachers.” - The Anime Detective
The best way to experience the story is the game, but if you need an easier on-ramp, the manga is better than the anime.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to manga@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good 2 weeks ago:
Non-paywall: archive.ph
An electorate that has lost the capacity for long-form thought will be more tribal, less rational, largely uninterested in facts or even matters of historical record, moved more by vibes than cogent argument and open to fantastical ideas and bizarre conspiracy theories. If that sounds familiar, it may be a sign of how far down this path the West has already traveled.
For canny operators, such a public affords new opportunities for corruption. Oligarchs attempting to shape policy to their advantage will benefit from the fact that few will have the attention span to track or challenge policies in dull, technical fields; what a majority now wants is not forensic investigation but a new video short “owning” the other tribe. We can expect the governing class to adapt pragmatically to the electorate’s collective decline in rational capacity, for example, by retaining the rituals associated with mass democracy, while quietly shifting key policy areas beyond the reach of a capricious and easily manipulated citizenry. I do not celebrate this, but our net-native youth seem unfazed: International polls show waning support for democracy among Gen Z.
Lest you mistake me, there is no reason the opportunity to sideline the electorate or to arbitrage the gap between vibes and policy should especially favor either the red team or the blue team. This post-literate world favors demagogues skilled at code-switching between the elite language of policy and the populist one of meme-slop. It favors oligarchs with good social media game and those with more self-assurance than integrity. It does not favor those with little money, little political power and no one to speak up for them.
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 2 weeks ago:
Why would non-billionaire Americans get special treatment?
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 2 weeks ago:
Proton has their own post, but the headline was about their AI chatbot, and the news about the Swiss move is buried at the end.
Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals(new window) to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.
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- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 3 weeks ago:
I keep seeing posts about wetransfer alternatives and so far haven’t seen wormhole.app mentioned. Does it have bad juju I don’t know about?
We built Wormhole with end-to-end encryption. When you use Wormhole, a key is generated on your device and used to encrypt your files. In transit, your data is unreadable to Wormhole and service providers like your ISP. The key never leaves your device and you’re the only one who has it – unless you decide to share it. With Wormhole, you’re in control of who has access to your files.
When you share a Wormhole link, the key is automatically included in the link so it’s easy to share with the exact people you want, and no one else. Wormhole never sees the key. And we don’t want to see it.
Every design decision in Wormhole begins with the safety and privacy of your data in mind. We can’t read your files, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Wormhole works.
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- Comment on Video game actors' strike officially ends after AI deal 4 weeks ago:
The SAG-AFTRA post where they list what’s actually in the agreement.
Now that the new contract has been ratified, video game performers will see an immediate 15.17% increase in compensation with additional 3% increases in November of this year, and in November 2026 and November 2027.
Additionally, the overtime rate maximum for overscale performers will now be based on double scale. Health and retirement contribution rates have been increased as well, with an immediate 0.5% AFTRA Retirement Fund boost and another 0.5% boost starting in October 2026.
The new contract also establishes foundational guardrails around A.I., including informed consent requirements across various A.I. uses and the ability for performers to suspend informed consent for digital replica use during a strike.
I wonder what they had to give up.
- Comment on In the Sweltering Southwest, Planting Solar Panels in Farmland Can Help Both Photovoltaics and Crops - Inside Climate News 4 weeks ago:
Still, a 2025 University of Arizona study that interviewed farmers and government officials in Pinal County, Arizona, found that a number of them questioned agrivoltaics’ compatibility with large-scale agriculture.
“I think it’s a great idea, but the only thing … it wouldn’t be cost-efficient … everything now with labor and cost of everything, fuel, tractors, it almost has to be super big … to do as much with as least amount of people as possible,” one farmer stated.
Many farmers are also leery of solar, worrying that agrivoltaics could take working farmland out of use, affect their current operations or deteriorate soils.
Those fears have been amplified by larger utility-scale initiatives, like Ohio’s planned Oak Run Solar Project, an 800 megawatt project that will include 300 megawatts of battery storage, 4,000 acres of crops and 1,000 grazing sheep in what will be the country’s largest agrivoltaics endeavor to date. Opponents of the project worry about its visual impacts and the potential loss of farmland.
- Comment on Growth narratives on the new social networks 4 weeks ago:
[T]he reason why people care so much about Twitter and finding a good replacement is not because of total user numbers: Twitter was always the smallest of the Big Tech platforms after all. Twitter and X matter because of its unparalleled ability to generate culture and shape politics. Twitter and X are the places where elite consensus is formed. It is the dominant platform for shaping our collective understanding of the world. That’s why control over X’s algorithm (and chatbot) is so valuable: it is not about telling individuals what is correct, but it is about influencing what people think about what other people think.
So Twitter/X is where people higher in the hierarchy go to publicly perform their opinions, while people lower in the hierarchy sort themselves into their teams.
That sounds like the classical Greek democracy I remember from school.
But hearing it laid out like this (“elite consensus”) sounds instinctively gross.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 5 weeks ago:
When I asked a couple of developers who work on websites/webapps with a lot of moving parts, they said it was easiest to just test for chrome, since that’s what most people use.
It’s turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 5 weeks ago:
It’s no longer the fault of long-term CEO Mitchell Baker, she of the six-million-bucks salary. She took the cash and left in February 2024. After the February 2024 layoffs that went with the “open source AI” announcement, in November, new boss Laura Chambers laid off another third of the staff, but somehow found the money to hire new executives.
Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there’s wealth, there’s a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It’s been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five.
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Mozilla’s leadership is directionless and flailing because it’s never had to do, or be, anything else. It’s never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It’s no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It’s role-playing being a business.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The defendant’s full post read: “Go on Rotherham. Burn any hotels with them scruffy bastards in it.”
- Comment on A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries: Recent legal decision has reaffirmed the power of fair use in the digital age, and it’s a big win for libraries and the future of public access to knowledge 1 month ago:
This decision reinforces the idea that copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes—like making a book searchable, training an AI, or preserving web pages—can be lawful under fair use. That legal protection is essential to modern librarianship.
I’m happy that this works out in libraries’ favor, I can’t see how Anthropic managed to slip through “copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes”. Are they a non-profit and I just didn’t know?
- Comment on "Almost out of shampoo, better add it to my shopping list." 1 month ago:
In two years, only these two guys thought of buying more shampoo.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 1 month ago:
Archive link: archive.ph/wUAQn
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 1 month ago:
- Comment on Am I a bad person for hating stuff like J-pop and anime? 1 month ago:
I think it’s normal to not be into stuff.
Hating stuff that you have the option to not interact with seems extra work.
- Comment on YSK: What a Proxy War is. 1 month ago:
by that metric basically any war since globalisation is a proxy war
I would argue that practically every war since globalization is a proxy war.
