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- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 day ago:
And don’t forget money! God needs millions of dollars to turn into his will! God’s will is surprisingly dependent on cash donations.
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- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 5 days ago:
Excuse me, the proper term is ball-chinan.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 weeks ago:
The electronic machine you’re operating, and the electrons flowing through it that illuminate the screen constitute a highly ordered abstraction that your human brain interprets to have meaning. The software implementing that abstraction has been structured with paradigms developed over decades with functionality specifically created for you to manage the information displayed to you. These technologies are widely regarded to have culminated in a digital information age of revolution. One of the defining moments of that age is the point at which the software, which previously was designed to implement the will and preferences of the user, began changing to instead serve the developer. It could be said that the fundamental philosophy of social media software has become to optimize it such that the user continues to use it while still freely feeding it information and being subject to manipulation.
The abstraction has become hostile, and the tools to manage the data displayed are quickly disappearing as the implementation is abstracted away. The ability to block mimetically harmful information is being designed out of software - advertising, propaganda, violent or disturbing content, and even the very algorithms and paradigms themselves used to interact with abstraction are requirements for its use. The filtering and management of information through the hardware and software that you OWN is not just a feature, it is a RIGHT that must be intrinsic to its design.
In my view, the use of blocking technology should not be considered a human social action with emotional weight, but rather a mechanical one like switching off a light or moving an object from my path of travel. They are information management tools built to serve YOU, the user. If the technology you are using does not serve you, then who are you serving?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Socialism for the rich, brutalist capitalism for everyone else.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix 4 weeks ago:
Make it so.
- Comment on Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix 4 weeks ago:
Can the intermix chamber take that much resonance flux?
- Comment on Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but how would you account for the phase variance in pattern cohesion from the temporal drift induced by the inverse tachyon field?
- Comment on Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession 1 month ago:
We killed God once, and we can do it again.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
Can’t play your new $80 game due to performance and crashing issues? Hey, if you’re a real fan you’ll find a way to make it happen.
- Comment on WEEEEEEEEEE!!!! 1 month ago:
Reminds me the Jackass 3D finale
- Comment on DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles 1 month ago:
It is, this is the latest version, Dance Dance Revolution 4: G.SKILL edition.
- Comment on Ooni Volt 2 - they put "AI" in a pizza oven 1 month ago:
- Comment on Bro, do you even crow? 1 month ago:
This crow fits my birdwave aesthetic. Total Corvus-core vibes.
I’m in my intelligent avian arc. I’m such a feather-pilled birdcel.
- Comment on From Lab to Field Testing of Millimeter Wave Drilling 2 months ago:
Let’s have a really long nasty drawn out internet argument over whether it’s fifteen or fifty.
- Comment on From Lab to Field Testing of Millimeter Wave Drilling 2 months ago:
They’ve got the laser drill, now they just need 14 billion more dollars for the Unobtanium!
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 months ago:
You’re right, it appears that NPU hardware was introduced in the iPhone 8, in 2017, and I say this typing away from an Apple device. Sounds like I’ll be busy this weekend with that rusty spork.
However, it’s the recent generation of NPUs that provide the processing power needed to run the expanded scanning services implemented by these OS’s. That’s why Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15, and Microsoft is hawking Recall laptops.
While I admit the pins-and-string-on-a-corkboard tone, I don’t think we actually disagree on anything here. Eventually, an open source platform will become the only way to avoid this kind of hardware enabled surveillance.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Working Closely With Remedy Entertainment on Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake 2 months ago:
“The past is a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself.”
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 months ago:
Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all quietly putting these and the software infrastructure in place in their operating systems to do on device classification of content: Windows Recall, Google Secure Core, and Apple Intelligence. These services are obsequiously marketed as being for your benefit, while are all privacy and surveillance nightmares. When the security breaking features of these systems are mentioned, each company touts some convoluted workaround to justify the tech.
The real reason is to watch everything you do in your device, use the tensor hardware you may or may not know that you purchased to analyze the data locally, then export and sell that “anonymized” information to advertisers and the government. All while cryptographically tying the data to your device and the device to you for “security”. This enables mass surveillance, digital rights management, and target advertised previously unseen.
Each of these providers already scans everything you upload to their services:
Microsoft has been caught using your stored passwords to decrypt uploaded archives.
Apple developed client side scanning for CSAM before backlash shut it down, and they already locally scan your photos with a machine learning classification algorithm whether you like it or not. You can’t turn it off.
Google recently implemented local content scanning with SecureCore to protect you from unwanted content.
I would rather saw off my own nuts with a rusty spork before willfully purchasing a device with one of these NPUs on-device. I fear that in the next 5-10 years, you won’t be able to avoid them.
** Do you trust the rising fascist regimes and their tech lackeys in America and the UK to use this information morally and responsibly?**
Do you really believe that these features that no one asked for are and that you cannot disable are for your benefit?
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 2 months ago:
I can hear every sound referenced in this thread in my head.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 2 months ago:
As a professional fartographer, is that your official fartographical ANALysis?
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 months ago:
What a great way to prepare students for our AI enabled social media and digital surveillance society. Take note kids, trust no one!
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 2 months ago:
Nothing. If people are protesting invasive bloat with by saying they’d rather have Clippy, I’d rather go back to Notepad.
However, it appears that Windows 11 notepad has fallen prey as well? Maybe then I need a profile pic of a needle and a magnetic plate…
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 2 months ago:
Predatory software has become so bad that now we have to use the previous generation’s intrusive hated features to protest the new ones.
