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- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 10 hours ago:
And what’s the equivalent penalty for a false report in the US?
I might be wrong, but I believe that the answer is none.
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 10 hours ago:
As one grift’s hype cycle fades, shift to another one.
- Comment on Scientists Growing Colour Without Chemicals 1 week ago:
Whoever wrote that headline needs to find a new way of making a living.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 week ago:
I had a cat that was killed three times by cars. When it died, it only had six lives left… or maybe I should say five.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 week ago:
People who let their cats roam outside are assholes. As well as being vulnerable to getting run over by cars, cats also kill large numbers of birds and small animals.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
Redundancy, in case of loss of a domain.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
“Infamous”? More like wonderfully useful.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 1 week ago:
“Can’t.”
Won’t.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 1 week ago:
Well, fuck that.
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 1 week ago:
Labour (at least in the UK, I don’t know about AU) is not a socialist party, though at times it has had some socialist members and MPs.
And, regardless of that, there have been numerous socialist and social-democratic parties that have been authoritarian, not just the center-left. Left/right and authoritarian/non-authoritarian are independent dimensions.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 2 weeks ago:
We simulate weather systems all the time, even though the systems are fundamentally chaotic and it’s impossible to forecast accurately.
The amount of computer power used to run those simulations is immense, and even then, the predictive capacity of those models starts degrading rapidly around 7 to 10 days ahead. There’s some amazing science that goes into those models, but the results are hard-won. And what we know about more energetic systems (say, the magnetohydrodynamics of the sun) is far less comprehensive.
And be careful with that “fundamentally chaotic” assertion: there are degrees of how chaotic a system is, and some aspects of a system can be more deterministic than others.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 2 weeks ago:
Sideloading means not being forced to use the monopoly provider.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
That’s because their lives are so shitty that they want to end them, but they’re too scared of hellfire to call it suicide.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
I know a lot of engineers who are rational in their work lives, but also have weird cultish beliefs. Compartmentalization and cognitive dissonance are things.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
I was brought up Catholic. The Dominican brothers taught me to think critically. Now I’m not a Catholic, or any kind of Christian, anymore.
And for the fractally schismatic fundamentalist Protestants, they stopped adhering to a Christian belief system over a century ago. Very little that they believe has any connection to Christianity, and most of it contradicts core beliefs. For them, it’s just a tribal identity. “We’re the chosen people and everyone else is wrong.”
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
They think that they can force God’s hand. They’re that arrogant.
Anyway, the whole fundie end-times narrative is late 19th-century fanfic. It not only contradicts their scriptures, it’s also incoherent and badly written. At least Dante, when he made things up, was consistent with the core beliefs, as well as his work being far better-written and more coherent than the source literature. But the Rapture is just the rantings of tent-show shysters. Even bronze-age shepherds did better.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
I thought it was always the same distance away, like the carrot dangling in front of the donkey’s nose.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
radical atheism will never work because most people need a connection to the world that goes beyond what’s material
What’s “radical” atheism? Atheism is not believing in god(s). How do you exceed that? Believing in infinite negative numbers of non-gods? Or do you mean I’m running around trying to convince everyone I know to be an atheist? I don’t play with model trains, but feel no need to tell everyone I meet that they shouldn’t waste their time with it. Same with religion. Now, if either group tries to coerce me into participating in their favorite pastime, I’ll resist. No sirree Bob, not my job.
And what would “moderate” atheism be? Believing in half a god? Not believing but going out of one’s way to conceal it? That might be a rational strategy to avoid persecution, but it’s not a belief system.
I’m an atheist. I feel a sense of connection to other people and living things and a sense of wonder at nature. I just don’t need an alpha male in the sky to personify it. Lack of something unnecesary is not a deficit. There’s not a huge void in my life where the Easter Bunny should be.
selling a worldview that cancels that immateriality is doomed to fail
I don’t need to assume mythical entities in order to live. If the soul turns out to be a real thing, fine, though there’s no evidence for it so far. If it’s not, that’s fine too. Meanwhile, it’s irrelevant.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
JAAS.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
Scorpions need to eat. I don’t see a downside.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
According to the Bible, the end times will come when God’s good and ready. It’s blaspemous and extremely narcissistic to think that any human action can force God to hurry up.
- Comment on IBM Unveils Digital Asset Platform as Demand for Tokenization, Stablecoins Grows 2 weeks ago:
Can someone explain the rationale for having stablecoins at all?
- Comment on IBM Unveils Digital Asset Platform as Demand for Tokenization, Stablecoins Grows 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, much better to trust some random scammer on the internet.
- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 3 weeks ago:
My internet-connected dental floss didn’t work either until DynamoDB came back online.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 3 weeks ago:
The difference now is that they have power. All that talk was what they said they’d do if they got power, but now that they’re in, they’re behaving just like they always have done, only worse.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 3 weeks ago:
That’s up to us.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 3 weeks ago:
Another reason to boycott Texas.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 3 weeks ago:
I still have one of those. I use it to split bricks when I’m putting up a wall.
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 3 weeks ago:
Bring back the futhark. No point in half-measures.
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 3 weeks ago:
IPA conceals etymology.