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- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 1 week ago:
Only if it’s more than a yard deep.
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 1 week ago:
It’s metastasizing. There must really be big profit and privacy-invading upsides for MS in this whole mess, since it sure as shit is not being driven by consumer demand.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
You believe people have a choice to be gay or trans?
From a policy and human rights point of view, it’s irrelevant whether it’s a choice or predetermined.
- Comment on US | Renee Nicole Good said ‘I’m not mad at you’ before ICE agent shot her, video shows 1 week ago:
Minnesota should charge that pig with murder.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 week ago:
Soybean farming involves huge corporations exploiting small producers.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 weeks ago:
At a cwetain point, quantity has a quality of its own.
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 2 weeks ago:
this leads to a culture shift in the country, where islam is getting a foothold.
The experience in the UK is that Muslim immigrants’ level of religious observance (e.g., mosque attendance) and degree of religious conservatism both decline based on how many generations the immigrant’s family has been in the country. Out-marriage (with respect to both religion and ethnicity) also increases with each successive generation. There’s an issue with a small minority of second-generation youth becoming extremists in reaction to difficulty in assimilating, but the overall trend goes the other way.
And the right’s solution is to add more barriers to assimilation. That makes it look to me like their goal is not to solve the problem, but to be sure they have a steady supply of marginalized scapegoats.
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 2 weeks ago:
you clearly think any bad opinions about immigration is xenophobia.
That’s very likely, far more so than the chance that you know what a stranger on the internet “clearly thinks.”
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 2 weeks ago:
In Sweden its definently the case.
Is it? The statistics you see are probably unsound. Here’s why.
What’s actually happening is a pipeline: P(crime_occurring) * P(crime_being_reported) * P(crime_being_investigated) * P(charges brought) * P(verdict_being_reached) * P(sentencing).
There’s inherent bias in the reporting, in the likelihood of a crime of a given severity being investigated, the severity of charges being brought for a given crime, the likehilood of conviction based on a particular set of facts, and the severity of sentencing once a conviction has been made. All of this has been conclusively shown in a large number of different countries. There’s no reason to believe Sweden would be different. Based on some of the ignorant shit I’ve personally heard Swedes say, at least anecdotally, it is not a country free of prejudice.
And the statistics that are actually easy to accurately measure are not at the first step in that long pipeline.
Even worse, tthe data served up to the public via the media is often manipulated to support a given political point of view. And sometimes it’s more than manipulation, it’s outright lying. Coincidentally, some of those lies are identical to the lies being told by the far-right parties.
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 2 weeks ago:
You dont want to think immigration can be a problem because what about the feelings of immigrants.
No, it’s just that suppressing immigration creates even worse problems that effectively managing it. Not least because it empowers sister-molesting mouthbreathing racists who should be caged.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 2 weeks ago:
Yep, everyone’s a manager, even if they’re not managing anyone.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 2 weeks ago:
In other words, if people have a decent standard of living and freedom of choice, they would help mitigate the overpopulation problem.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 2 weeks ago:
Why do you assume it’s worse?
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 2 weeks ago:
It also doesn’t help that they have a “work and drink yourself to death at the expense of having a life” culture.
Americans, on average, work more hours per year than Japanese people (1765 vs 1691). Per capita alcohol consumption is also higher in the US than it is in Japan.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 2 weeks ago:
Another stupid article assuming that a population reduction is a bad thing.
No, no, of course, just keep increasing the human population until it crashes. Then it’ll be an actual problem.
The numbers look bad because increasing population increases the GDP, and GDP has become the archetypal example of what happens when you turn a metric into a goal.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 weeks ago:
Those of us who swap SIMs when travelling are also affected. I travel outside my country several times a year and must say that eSIMs sound like a good idea until you actually deal with them. Spending vacation time debugging an eSIM is an annoying distraction.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 2 weeks ago:
Does anyone who uses Salesforce not regret their decision?
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 weeks ago:
Or an aftermarket floor mat or air filter?
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 3 weeks ago:
Oh, they’re human all right. The worst kind of human.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 3 weeks ago:
More likely, it’ll shave a percent or two off GDP for a year or so, and that’ll be it.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 3 weeks ago:
When the AI bubble bursts, those with money will invest and hoover up wealth and assets at a 90% discount.
The GPUs will go fast, but not the data centers that nobody wants for any other purpose. So much for the capital assets.
The intangibles and “intellectual property” will be reset to a value much closer to zero. And if this cuts a few billionaires down to centimillionaires, so much the better. Fuck 'em.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 3 weeks ago:
Oh no, not me, I never lost control.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 3 weeks ago:
I hand-grind my coffee every morning in a mortar and pestle and then use my Rok to manually press the perfect espresso.
What? You don’t have people to do that for you??
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 3 weeks ago:
We haven’t gone whole-hog into home automation, except for a heating and hot-water controller. In a part of the world with winter, that makes a big difference. The controller I use has a web-based but also offers a nice API. Another good thing about it is that it includes a way to know when we’re in or out of the house, based on mobile phone detection. So I wrote some scripts to manage the system in a nicer way than having a big bunch of static profiles. One of the reasons it works well is that none of it’s AI. Just some event detection and use of the output of one-time runs of optimization algorithms based on our utility provider’s pricing. It’s less flaky than I am about controlling the heating zones, so it’s cut my gas bill by another 10% over the 30% savings we got from installing the controller and running it on a timer with manual override.
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Children's_Wellbeing_and_Schoo…
bills.parliament.uk/publications/62773/…/7086 (the text of the bill).
The passages quoted on Mastodon appear not to exist in the text of the bill as passed and as sent to the Lords. It’s mainly about safeguarding kids in care.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
Better than throwing wooden shoes into the gears.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
Markov bubble busting babble, bruh.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
Stanley Unwin them.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
*Grapple thghs
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
You better stay away from mine, Romeo.