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- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 3 hours ago:
I bought DDR4 ram a year or two ago for $30 bucks. It’s $70 for the same RAM now.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 3 hours ago:
I did check Facebook marketplace for a used PC to see if RAM would be cheaper.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 4 hours ago:
Oh my mistake! Yeah we live in a dystopian nightmare and we don’t even have cool sci-fi shit to make up for it. Everything sucks
- Comment on Simple test to see if you are normal or have a flithy mind 13 hours ago:
I don’t see anything. I can’t even tell what I’m looking at.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 13 hours ago:
I don’t know if we have enough information. I agree with you that BNPL purchases are typically bad for the consumer, but I don’t necessarily think any to call people greedy in a difficult economy. Sometimes, people end up in shitty situations, trying to keep their life together, even when they can’t afford to.
Was the volume items purchased greater than before or are prices just completely out of control? The article doesn’t indicate that it accounts for inflation. Inflation was about 3% and BNLPL was up 4%.
What about the types of items that were purchased? It doesn’t actually say what types of items were used to BNPL transactions so we don’t know if it was household needs or unnecessary consumption.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 15 hours ago:
I was racking my brain to come up with the best picture, but I saw this and knew this was the right answer.
We can all go home. We’re done here.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 18 hours ago:
Kagi.
It’s not perfect and it’s not free for unlimited use, but I think it’s worth paying for.
It doesn’t feel as dated as Duck Duck Go feels to me. It kinda feels like using Google without the enshitification that google has gone through.
I like the option to filter results. Here’s an image of some filter options:
I also did a search for the term “verify email” like in the OP. I did not see nearly as many AI video results. At least not as many obvious AI results.
It’s not perfect tho and it’s hard to escape AI slop.
Interestingly, Kagi has an option to filter out AI videos in the result, but I felt like changing that gave me more AI results than without it.
However, searching with and without, the first ten results did not appear to be AI. After the tenth option, most options were AI regardless of the filter settings.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 day ago:
For those who just read the headline, his isn’t walking all at once.
He walks as much as he can that year, then either stays in that area for a while or goes to another country.
Each time he restarts from the point he left off at.
He also skipped a few years entirely, after the 2008 financial crisis and during the Covid pandemic.
I suppose if Russia had let him be in the country for more than 3 months at a time, he might have been able to do it all at once.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update December 2025 2 days ago:
Imagine being a developer who exclusively uses pigeons.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 4 days ago:
Yeah! I saw reporting on this months ago.
What I appreciated about this article was the detail about how they tried to hide it.
Also I love GN. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 4 days ago:
I love Ed. He is the personification of my emotions.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 4 days ago:
Don’t say AI found it, just an algorithm caught it.
Could have been as simple as a spreadsheet highlighting cells with a ratio that was below a threshold.
Article didn’t say what software was used.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 4 days ago:
The article said it was an algorithm that detected it, not AI.
Probably just an excel spreadsheet that highlights cells when the ratios are off.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 4 days ago:
Do they need Kushner for that? They done a pretty good job funneling money to Him over the last 8 years.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 4 days ago:
And the rest is Jared Kushner. Enjoy that shit sandwich.
EA was already shit, but somehow they found bread made from shit and built a whole sandwich.
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 5 days ago:
This headline is a bit misleading. The article also says that only 2/3 of the errors GPT found were verified errors (according to the author).
- Overall, ChatGPT identified 56 supposed errors in these 31 featured articles.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 6 days ago:
What do you define as cheating? Like I might look up a guide online, sometimes, but I never use mods or exploit bugs.
- Comment on Whats going on in YSK? 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if it’s actually spam since some of them posts seem to be relevant. The user just deleted the account right after. That’s why it caught my attention. I just ignore, downvote, or report spam when I see it.
- Comment on Whats going on in YSK? 1 week ago:
Yeah but it’s super weird bc it’s not regular spam. Some are relevant YSK posts, but they just delete the account after posting.
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- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
You made out like a bandit!
- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Buying used RAM on marketplace and hoping it isn’t broken. Hoping it was just stolen from a Best Buy. Fingers crossed y’all!
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Fuck that noise. ChatGPT and OpenAI murdered Adam Raine and should be held responsible for it.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 1 week ago:
What if it’s not a publicly traded company like OpenAI?
- Comment on magic recovery 1 week ago:
Prof: I finished charging the matter compressor.
Fry: What’s the matter compressor?
Prof: Nothing’s the matter now that I’ve finished charging the matter compressor.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 2 weeks ago:
How many resources were destroyed getting Grok to say Elon drinks piss? We all already know he drinks piss. We don’t need to waste precious resources on getting a robot to say it.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for linking it! I should have done that. And if LibreWolf is showing as Chrome on Windows, then you’re good!
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for linking it! I should have done that. And if LibreWolf is showing as Chrome on Windows, then you’re good!
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 2 weeks ago:
Using a browser like Librewolf is, itself a unique identifier bc not enough people are using it.
EFF has a tool that lets you check your “uniqueness” and bc I used a lesser known browser, it was easier to track me.
- Comment on YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed. 2 weeks ago:
It looks like they fuck over inventors.
Most of these appear to be for government projects such as with the Department of Defense and the NSA.
Sometimes, a regular invention outside of government contacts gets labeled with this and the government don’t pay for it. The inventor isn’t allowed to talk about it so they get fucked out of any income.
