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- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 days ago:
No… It’s just laziness let’s not sugar coat it. You have the wealth of human knowledge in your pocket, knowledge of how to do absolutely anything and everything for free on a silver platter, all you have to do is prioritize exploring ethical technology choices. Complexity of the problem itself is not a good excuse to not learning to solve it as it continues to become a bigger problem.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 days ago:
Been off Spotify since they have Rogan his platform, which contributed to Trump also.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 4 days ago:
These bombs are not just dead weights. These bunker busters are equipped with precision guidance and fly to and hit a person on the head if they desired. It’s also designed to deliver a huge explosion AFTER it penetrates with the kinetic impact.
It can also be set to explode right before impact, like Israel really likes to do when attaching residential high-rises, to deliver maximum destruction and death.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 4 days ago:
It’s confirming your bias so you like it…
- Comment on Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR 6 days ago:
Actually, Firefox version numbers were totally independent for most of their history, but Mozilla recently adjusted them to roughly align with Chromium versions to reduce confusion for developers.
2004 - Firefox 1.0, no Chrome yet 2010 - Firefox 4.0, Chrome around version 8 2011 - Firefox switches to rapid releases 2020 - Firefox and Chrome both around version 85, just by coincidence 2024 - Firefox jumps from 124 to 126 to align with Chrome 126 2025 - Firefox 126+, Chrome 126+, version numbers now track similarly
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s correct, Google didn’t do it out of the goodness of their non-existent heart, they made what they think is the best financial decision.
It’s a good one for the consumer though, whether see that or not. It’s good that your every move ever taken is stored in a company’s database.
Don’t worry, they most certainly used it to train a decent model of any typical American demographics movements before scrubbing it.
- Comment on Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others 1 week ago:
You can run a model locally on your phone and it will answer most prompts without breaking a sweet, it’s actually way less energy than googling and loading the content from a website that’s hosted 24/7 just waiting for you to access the content.
Training a model is expensive, using it isn’t.
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 2 weeks ago:
You’re moving the goalposts. You said you need nuance in how to measure a shirt size, you’re arguing just to argue.
If a model ever starts answering these curiosities inaccurately, it would be an insufficient model for that task and wouldn’t be used for it. You would immediately notice this is a bad model when it tells you to measure your neck to get a sleeve length.
Am I making sense? If the model starts giving people bad answers, people will notice when reality hits them in the face.
So I’m making the assertion that many models today are already sufficient for accurately answering daily curiosities about modern life.
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 2 weeks ago:
Let me know when we get one. In the meantime, enjoy your thick, glue riddled, pizza sauce
What? That’s just stupid, like I’m not remotely claiming they are intelligent, but to dismiss their utility completely is just idiotic. How long do you think the plug your ears strategy will work for?
Pick any model that has come out this year and ask if my example query or any similar daily curiosity you would Google, and show me how it gives you “thick, glue riddled, pizza sauce”. Show me a single gpt 3.5 comparable model that can’t answer that query with sufficient accuracy.
if AI is answering, yes.
You’re being obtuse. You don’t need nuance in trying to figure out what size collar you should buy.
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 2 weeks ago:
The last thing I googled is how to measure dress shirt size. Do you need context and nuance for everything you Google?
Do you prefer to click on the seo optimized first page results that are full of ads and read through a nonsense article about elegance in formal wear just to get to the instructions on where to place the measuring tape on your shoulder? I MUCH prefer the AI summarized response.
Most of the Internet is NOT intellectual writing, it’s blog spam to answer your daily curiosities and practical needs. A sufficienty trained model is a really good (and environmentally friendly) alternative.
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 2 weeks ago:
They won’t, and I’m saying Google knows that their Advertising cash cow is running out of milk.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 2 weeks ago:
Different types of AI, different training data, different expectations and outcomes. Generative AI is but one use case.
It’s already been proven a useful tool in research, when directed and used correctly by an expert. It’s a tool, to give to scientists to assist them, not replace them.
If you’re goal to use AI to replace people, you’ve got a bad surprise coming.
If you’re not equipping your people with the skills and tools of AI, your people will become obsolete in short time.
Learn AI and how to utilize it as a tool, you can train your own model on your own private data and locally interrogate the model to do unique analysis typically not possible in realtime. Learn the goods and bads of technology and let your ethics guide how you use it, but stop dismissing revolutionary technology because the earlier generative models weren’t reinforced enough get fingers right.
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 2 weeks ago:
Ad supported articles is a dead industry, Google realizes this better than anyone. People don’t go to the source anymore to answer curiosities, why would you read a whole article to answer a simple question when AI gives you the answer directly?
- Comment on YouTube’s Deliberate Indifference Exposes Kids to disgusting Content 2 weeks ago:
It’s not really begging for censorship, it’s begging for healthier consumption.
The issue is entirely one of parenting IMO. I’ve seen what’s on YouTube kids and my kids aren’t allowed to watch anything on YouTube without my supervision.
Gross sexual stuff, violence, and cruelty is being pushed to your children as fun with flashy colors and silly sounds. Go watch YouTube kids for a while, click on the random kids channels not the corporate ones.
We’re not talking about sex education and more mature topics, these shoes are promoting sexual violence, violence, bullying, and it’s all being pushed in a fun way.
It’s a parenting problem, and the parents need to be educated on it. They don’t see the problem, kids have their own phones, and Google doesn’t give a fuck they will push the must engaging most addicting most disturbing content to your kids to keep them watching.
- Comment on How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state 3 weeks ago:
Now read some books and see how much Bill Clinton is directly to blame for most awful shit we’re dealing with today, and while you shouldn’t come to justify 9-11, you’ll understand its motivation correctly.
Bill Clinton and neo-libs like him is why we go right instead of left as a society.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
It’s not hard to find out what’s being pirated, BitTorrent isn’t private.
- Comment on US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse 4 weeks ago:
Yes yes, voting for a right wing campaign calling unapologetically for the most lethal military while committing genocide is the moral choice that you made.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 4 weeks ago:
friend of mine had a ford like this. and it cost more than the car to fix after only 10-15ish years of use. its terrible.
Yeah, that’s just how it goes as the engine becomes more complex, leaving a dipstick there is not gonna change that…
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 5 weeks ago:
This is a reactionary response, you’re just arguing, slow down a bit.
Do you see a value in a check engine light that tells you something is wrong in between full inspections? This is similar, this is telling you there isn’t enough oil and damage is occurring before you get a chance to inspect the dipstick.
It’s not planned obsolescence unless they also make it unreasonable to service. We already expect to routinely service engines, and they are already very complex and full of sensors, sure this is adding to the complexity but it’s relatively pretty minor.
The argument being made, and I agree with it, is that the benefits of an additional long-serving sensor way outweigh the con of having one additional sensor in your car. You get early warning before damage occurs, you get built in fraud protection when you’re changing your oil at a shady chain, you eliminate a direct access port for dirt to contaminate the oil.
- Comment on A Presence-sensing Drive For Securely Storing Secrets 5 weeks ago:
The opportunity to take you usb drive and copying its content real quick while you are distracted momentarily is eliminated. I can then decrypt it by calling the guy I know.
But I can’t call the guy I know with the $50 setup that can extract the data for me in that time. It’s not 100% unbreakable, but that doesn’t have to be the criteria…
- Comment on [Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite? 5 weeks ago:
I was hoping to find an answer the original question in this dialog.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 5 weeks ago:
Wether the teachers are a personal ai or a single human does not change that. Schools provide way more then just “a teacher”
That’s like exactly what he says, you just restated his take…
- Comment on The most powerful laser in the US recently produced 2 quadrillion watts of power 5 weeks ago:
The laser didn’t generate 2 quadrillion watts like a power plant would generate electricity, but it delivered that much power in an extremely short pulse, like 20 quadrillionths of a second.
That means the energy it delivered was relatively small (a few hundred joules), but because it was delivered in such a tiny time window, the power (which is energy per unit time) was immense.
The laser did produce power, in the form of intense light and heat, over a very small time period. It converted 2 quadrillion watts of electric energy into a very brief laser pulse.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 5 weeks ago:
The original WSL doesn’t use the Linux kernel at all, it’s a Windows Subsystem for compatibility with Linux. WSL2 actually visualizes a complete Linux kernel, but the name stuck.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 5 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting an alternative motive for Microsoft that does beyond profit?
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 1 month ago:
Is you want to understand the spirit of the rules, look no further past the first one:
Calling for the dissolution of Israel, or calling for a one-state solution without specifying equal rights for all people; Jewish in particular.
Why Jewish in particular? How is “equal rights for all people” compatible with “one group of people in particular”?
Jewish supremacism, Israel and Zionism is Jewish ISIS, and trying to hide that part of Israel and punish any discourse around that problem is fascism.
They may let you call Israel fascist in passing, but they won’t let you describe its fascism, that is the bannable offense.
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 1 month ago:
You assemble the same soulless food everyday and you actually feel fulfilled by assembling croutons differently every day?
Hey, I can’t imagine the process not becoming muscle memory and for my brain to not be somewhere else completely, but you sprinkle salt off your elbow if that gives you joy.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 1 month ago:
Are you okay?
If your single family home is worth $4 million, that is the market telling you that that single family home should not exist.
Right, an unsustainable bubble, I said that. This boomer family bought a reasonably sized and priced house that’s on the edge of the city, and now they’re forced to sell it and not be able to replace it with a bigger home on their budget in the same part of town, they didn’t fuck things up Zillow did!
The gen z family who buys today won’t be about to upsize tomorrow, and you’re gonna blame them.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 1 month ago:
Alright, so you’re a young gen z family and you buy your first home, which is all you can afford right now, you’re young and you’re starting your careers and your family.
In 10 years, property values have increased dramatically, and you’ve had a child and you’re thinking about your second. Your careers are going well, and you think we should maybe get a bigger place for our expanding family. But oh no, there’s an unsustainable housing marketing bubble that refuses to burst, so you can’t afford a bigger place anywhere near your job. So you build UP, like they do in every multi-generational home culture, you expand your living space as your family expands.
It’s not a crime or a moral failure to upgrade your home, and you shouldn’t jump at the opportunity to beat someone when they’re down just because you don’t empathize with this particular boomer homeowner.
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 1 month ago:
The first paragraph is a fantasy.
In this restaurant, where the chef was replaced by a salad machine, the “chef” was a human salad machine before. There was no time to play with garnish and playing, they weren’t serving Michelin star food. The term “chef” is used very liberally here, you aren’t a chef if the only thing you cook at a restaurant is assemble salad that a machine can do to the same standard.
They were assembling salads, it wasn’t a dream job.