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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never attribute to capitalism that which is adequately explained by stupidity.⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
And the original expression was wrong, too. Ignorance is real, but so are malice, greed, jealousy, hate, etc. Sometimes someone does something shitty and our instincts said they meant it and we’re right.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I love how you ignore all the comments that actually tried to help OP. Or maybe you posted early on but you can’t be bothered to go back and edit your response. And then you pretend that AI tries to help us do anything, as if it had motivation or volition. Come on now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Of course we can blame them. There’s a ton of great help available, but perhaps they’re like you, and their ego is so fragile that they can’t be troubled to scroll past a few trolls to find the perfect answers.

But I think we’re all used to dealing with trolls. Everyone knows how to ignore the trolls. I think the bigger problem is that people are afraid to show ignorance, even if they definitely are ignorant, like OP was here. Imagine that, you don’t want to look foolish on the internet in front of people who don’t know who you are and never will, so you turn to a solution that doesn’t work and actually has the potential to ruin the hardware you bought… So yeah, that’s strange, that’s not rational, we can give psychological explanations, but none of them make the person in question appear reasonable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
No no no. Brazil forced Apple to open it’s devices to third party options. Apple folded because it had no choice.

(Of course it could leave Brazil, but then shareholders would sue the execs for basic incompetence or whatever, and win, of course.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
The first point, more than anything else, is to use the word “we” when you actually mean it. If you can’t do that, you can’t handle a complicated societal situation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't tall people also wider?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
There is interesting physics in this, because you can look at height and say “double it” but our bones are three dimensional. So, what exactly are we doubling? Our height and girth? But then what about our weight? Our intuition doesn’t quite tell us these things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel ‘will never leave’ Gaza Strip, defense minister says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
We all knew lots of things about that region for decades, and yet so many of them have changed over time.

Could be they do their ethnic cleansing once and for all. Could be a neighboring country or terrorist group gets a nuke. Could be international or internal pressure stops the genocide. Could be lots of things. The future is unknown, my friend.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Oh dear God, what were you thinking? Why did you turn to chatgbt knowing that you could have actually found a website that told you what to do correctly written by someone who actually did it before?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI broke the smart home in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not anti technology, but it sounds like the author’s desire to use these fancy new toys made their life worse. Congratulations?

Like, if you wanna play music, click the tablet. If you wanna turn on the light, touch the button. It’s so amazingly efficient. Really, three seconds, works every time.

So yeah, you could use voice commands, but those are slower and (obviously, the article explains) highly error prone. In other words, it’s a worse solution than the traditional method.

Of course that’s not always true. Some people can’t walk easily, for example. And some use cases are complicated enough where a single button push doesn’t work. But most of us aren’t in these special situations.

So, you can buy the new toy, but don’t pretend you’re making life better. Be honest: you are either tinkering or bragging. And that’s OK, no worries either way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I think you don’t have a good definition of capitalism. Let us define it as a system where a small group of individuals (capitalists) control the means of production, and everyone else (workers) creates value, most of which they don’t receive… That in itself has nothing to do with corruption. It has nothing to do with stagnation.

And the examples you gave were about innovation, and innovation happens in many non-capitalist systems, too. No reason socialists can’t innovate, is there?

But what we also see is that capitalists hate capitalism. They have to compete, they could lose. So invariably they try to seize power in other ways. Therefore, one could argue (and many have argued) that capitalism leads to (or is likely to lead to) fascism.

At the same time, understand that any system can be corrupted. Some are less stable than others, but we always need to keep an eye out for the shady selfish jerks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Fuck you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I think if you look at specific examples you’ll learn more. Who is getting away with what?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We. Who is we? Most of the world is not fucked. :-)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
So you agree that it will be baked in and impossible to actually turn off. Yep.

Otherwise, they would have made it an extension, right? If it’s optional, it needs to actually be optional … that’s what am extension is. That’s the whole point of them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Right right. If they had real innovation, they would have defined it clearly as you suggested. But they didn’t, so they don’t. It’s all snake oil, again, because that’s the entire AI industry.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Firefox is no longer trusted. Fuck that AI bullshit. We don’t want it, we don’t need it, and they don’t care.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Several explanations exist. First ShareAlike or GPL require re-sharing of downstream content. But if things are used for training, and later the model produces new code, that isn’t implicated by copyright legislation… And we could discuss whether that’s ethical or moral, of course, and there are various opinions…

I feel like this is similar to the weakness of BSD licenses, Public Domain releases, and CC BY licensing. Someone can come along and take all of your work, polish it a little better, and sell their new service. Then you don’t get recognition or support, they get some contracts from their friends’ companies for a few years, and you feel sad.

The other commonly-remarked angle is the death of the Web. Because so many websites are script-generated copy/paste, and they are tweaked to fit SEO, and Google doesn’t give a fuck, it’s hard for real website authors to get seen, and without any visibility, their work ends up being personal or pointless. This isn’t limited to open source, but it’s closely connected.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Right right, if by “everybody” you mean “definitely not everybody”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think your speculation is probably going to be fairly close to reality, but that makes their case very difficult to prove. If the FBI comes to my house and tells me that they’re investigating a crime and then I delete data, then probably I have broken the law. And I would have known it. So I would get convicted. But Border Patrol loves to go on fishing expeditions and search digital devices when there is no evidence that a crime has been committed. And if that’s the case, then I don’t have any obligation to preserve the data. And it doesn’t even matter what Border Patrol claims later because the legal standard is going to be what I believed at the time that they tried to go on their fishing expedition.

I think we can safely conclude that there was no warrant because no one has reported there was a warrant and that is the kind of thing that they would have reported. And if they had one they would have seized the phone itself. So we can reasonably conclude that this is a situation where they told the guy, unlock your phone or we’re going to keep you locked up or we’re going to take your phone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Actually, that is how it works. And if you don’t believe us, then take 10 minutes and do a brief web search and you will find the same information… In this situation the law matches common sense which says that most of the time you are allowed to erase things on your own phone and when it is a special case then you need to know it’s a special case for it to be a crime.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I love the “but I don’t use that so I shouldn’t pay for it” argument. Like come on, my dude, that’s what a society is about. If you don’t want to live in society, move to Siberia.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is? It’s done already. But the bots got there years ago, so who really cares about now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That means there’s more money to be made by other more obscure countries, right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I disagree. That would encourage more VPN companies to open up abroad. Two hundred countries and many don’t care what others think.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Right right, block the VPNs and destroy corporate infrastructure and WfH, and then everyone will just use more torrent clients or stream from international servers. It’s all good, my friend.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Organized? You mean like The Pirate Bay? We have had the tools for decades, my friend.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Haha not if you use a VPN or international websites or pirate that shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Research] At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That isn’t what most LLMs were designed for, though. It’s just one possible use case.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You think they haven’t started that?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Hate? Try again.