toastmeister
@toastmeister@lemmy.ca
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 week ago:
Snowden may disagree with that.
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 1 week ago:
Is it just people having unrealistic expectations of what a corporation can do?
I mean what is a corporation, its a group created by investors, who directs the company at an arms length via management, who are directed to optimize shareholder profits. How can such an entity have empathy, its like expecting a computer algorithm to have empathy.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 week ago:
An interesting fact about Europe is they disobeys their own procurement laws to choose Microsoft software, whether its corruption or what I’ve got no idea, I assume so though.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 week ago:
A 2tb SSD can now be bought for 100$.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 week ago:
I due not want my corporation holding Bitcoin, if I want exposure I’ll buy Bitcoin directly.
- Comment on Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally 1 week ago:
Duck.ai doesn’t data mine, and has o3 mini which I have found to be very good. Its got some extra functionality like lines to break up text.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 1 week ago:
There’s always Kotlin. Of course I never understood the desirability of a VM language in the first place, why not just compile for different architecture?
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 1 week ago:
Reminds me if Upstart
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 1 week ago:
Photoshops were a thing before AI. Nobody cares because its just a weird thing creepy do in private.
- Comment on xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Isn’t telegram more like Instagram with feeds?
- 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:
Is there an alternative to Google Play, because I’m assuming it wouldn’t matter as much if we had that.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 2 weeks ago:
Well that was the irony I was attempting to point out. People took it quite literally tho.
- Comment on China stages first-ever humanoid robot kickboxing match - Asia Times 2 weeks ago:
Battlebots is awesome. A more expensive battle bots would be awesome.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 2 weeks ago:
Copying isn’t theft, the original still exists. Just like watching pirated movies.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 2 weeks ago:
So get the government to do something. That makes more sense.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 2 weeks ago:
Whats your plan then, shame them for lobbying as well?
Once we have sufficiently shamed all corporations then we will live in a utopia.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 2 weeks ago:
Their job is to attain shareholder value, not to legislate healthcare. If you’re relying on the charity of for-profit corporations run by shareholders then you’re going to have a sad time.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
The power to become the animal I last ate.
- Comment on WhatsApp is working on video and voice calls on the web 2 weeks ago:
Its an electron app, how hard can it even be?
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 weeks ago:
How do we install all the bloatware, advertising, and data mining that is included in Windows. After using it for decades I have certain expectations of my operating system.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
Worse than double digit inflation?
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
Ya his country was doing just fine before he took over, a real utopia.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 weeks ago:
We also spend dramatically more now as well and are on an unsustainable path according to the Fed.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t he just saying that he will tariff them so they’re paying 25% more for manufacturing in a foreign country?
This is far left policy.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 2 weeks ago:
Finally my Intel stock will rise. This will definitely force Nvidia GPU to be manufactured in the US with always on DRM.
- Comment on Pentagon boosts budget for Palantir’s AI software in major expansion of Project Maven 2 weeks ago:
DOGE is definitely feeding all that collected data to Palantir. I’d assume that was the ultimate goal of DOGE to begin with.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
We have laws out the ass for every stupid thing. Bureaucracy so heavy that it prevents many people from ever attempting to compete. AI is the first realistic means of bypassing it, its going to be a renaissance of innovation and productivity from the bottom up.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 2 weeks ago:
I jerked off to swimsuit flyers when I was a kid, so at least my mind is safe.
- Comment on Call Centers Replaced Many Doctors’ Receptionists. Now, AI Is Coming for Call Centers. 2 weeks ago:
Its either this or people in India. Once one company does it the price of that good falls and the CPI prints more money.
- Comment on Self hosted Teams alternative? 2 weeks ago:
If you want something to ruin the formating on his Office documents there really is no alternatives available sadly. Chat there is.