phutatorius
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- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 days ago:
what you find online through search engines is only the standard case which just so happens to not work for you for some odd reason
Usually because the highest-rated solution is half-assed bullshit proposed by an overconfident newbie (or an LLM regurgitating it). I mainly use Stack Overflow as a way to become pissed off enough that I’ll go solve the problem myself, like I should have done in the first place. Indignation As A Service.
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 3 days ago:
It’s even worse than that. Porsches are locked by default, and can only be enabled remotely.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 4 days ago:
That’s not how the stock market works, you buy stock from other investors, not the company.
The company can issue more stock, not just use debt for its financing. And the value of the new stock is strongly influenced by the market price of the stock that has already been issued.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 4 days ago:
That’s why transactions are defined as the exchange of something of value. In most legal systems, if you’re caught swapping phony transactions like that, you can be prosecuted for fraud.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 4 days ago:
but it was the main one putting future united humanity, progress, science, equality, humanism and secularism into the center of its cosmology
Just llike with many people, what they say and what they do can be two very different things.
In the USSR’s case, they talked socialism while being totalitarian state capitalists. This was even noted at the time of the Russian revolution by people such as Rosa Luxemburg. And in terms of its foreign policy, they talked internationalism and cooperation while carrying on the legacy of Russian imperialism.
When it failed, all those things listed also got a hit.
All those things also took a hit at the end of WW1, in the Great Depression, and during WW2. Nobody who was paying attention believed the Russian bullshit, before or after the collapse of the Communist Party’s rule. The double-dealing in the Spanish Civil War, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the crushing of the Prague Spring, and many other events put paid to that naivety.
- Comment on MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down 5 days ago:
I totally forgot about this app because, well, it seemed pretty forgettable.
It’s too trivial to remember.
- Comment on I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM 1 week ago:
And yet people keep buying
For low values of “people.”
- Comment on I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM 1 week ago:
Wait for knock-off Trump-branded goods on Temu and Alibaba. They’ll probably be of better quality than the originals. And that’s not saying they’ll be anything more than worthless straight-to-landfill crap.
- Comment on What to know about Trump's draft proposal to curtail state AI regulations 1 week ago:
What’s to stop states from saying “fuck you” to this lame-ass attempt to rule by decree?
- Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' 1 week ago:
‘A bad config file nearly kills the Internet’ club
There’s no such thing as bad data, only shitty code to create it or ingest it, and bad testing that failed to detect the shitty code. The overflow of the magic config-file size threw an exception, and there was no handler for that? Jeez Louise.
And as for unhandled exceptions, you’d think static analysis would have detected that.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 weeks ago:
The right to first sale should mean that the owner owns and controls all services installed in the product. And any DRM in the way of that, or that obstructs the right of repair, should be illegal, and the manufacturer held liable for including it in a product.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 weeks ago:
You don’t own the stadium, and you don’t own the satellite. So they’re really not the same as a car, which you do (nominally) own.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 weeks ago:
Cruise missiles too.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 weeks ago:
That’s not really true. The first fuel injection systems were mechanical. The first one of those used in a gasoline-powered 4-stroke car engine was in 1955. Bosch mechanical FI systems were common in higher-end European cars from then on. Digital electronic fuel injection controllers weren’t common until the 1980s, though there were some EFI systems controlled by what were essentially crude analog computers as far back as the late 1950s. I know that Volvo had such a system in the late 60s since I owned one. It was extremely reliable.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 2 weeks ago:
And the appropriate use of some tools is to not use them at all.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 2 weeks ago:
My team have been trying it. So far, at best, it costs money but makes no difference in outcomes. Any productivity gains are wiped out by the time needed to diagnose and correct the errors it introduces.
I’d use Clippy before I use any of that time-wasting, unreliable, energy-guzzling crap.
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 2 weeks ago:
“Small” meaning “author of article seldom thought of it before.”
- Comment on Downdetector is down 2 weeks ago:
CloudFlare has pioneered Crap Usability As a Service (CUAAS).
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 weeks ago:
In my experience, occasionally a good one will still slip though the net.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, now we have a bigger pool to recruit our sociopaths from. Big win, huh?
- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
As one grift’s hype cycle fades, shift to another one.
- Comment on Scientists Growing Colour Without Chemicals 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Redundancy, in case of loss of a domain.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 4 weeks ago:
“Infamous”? More like wonderfully useful.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 4 weeks ago:
“Can’t.”
Won’t.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 4 weeks ago:
Well, fuck that.
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 4 weeks 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.