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- Comment on AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI 19 hours ago:
Yeah, the general-purpose or “default” subs were always terrible. I haven’t completely left reddit yet because of some very specific communities that don’t have, and probably never will have, a fediverse equivalent, and they don’t seem to be too much of a target for AI bots, but I am starting to notice how social media influencers are affecting the population as a whole. But maybe that’s just the cloud I’m shaking a fist at.
- Comment on WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship 6 days ago:
cyberinsider.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvp…
I bought a year of PIA before I found this out, after Mullvad dropped port forwarding. I guess I’ll switch to Proton?
- Comment on WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship 6 days ago:
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 1 week ago:
Hence the sarcasm dripping from my statement.
- Comment on horseshoe theory confirmed 1 week ago:
Mog is a portmanteau of man and dog. He’s his own best friend
- Comment on horseshoe theory confirmed 1 week ago:
Fire departments take them until 18.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 1 week ago:
Makes you wonder if that was the idea. They used AI in the Venezuela attack, too.
There’s also the betting market that Trump is very friendly towards, and we’ve already seen bets on military strikes pop up days before anyone knew about it, so someone’s making money on insider info.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 1 week ago:
It’s okay, Trump signed that executive order telling them to provide their own power for data centers. Which means now our tax dollars won’t just be used for data centers, they’ll be used for power plants too. Another executive order or two and we’ll see company towns come back.
- Comment on The Pentagon’s Claude Use in Iran Is a Reminder that Anthropic Never Objected to Military Use 1 week ago:
Well yeah, Anthropic’s statement said as much. And they already had a contract with the DoD. This isn’t a gotcha.
- Comment on Is creatine safe? 1 week ago:
Sounds like they were retaining more water rather than quickly putting on a lot of muscle, which is common with creatine usage. I explained what actually happens in another reply.
- Comment on Is creatine safe? 1 week ago:
What does that even mean?
- Comment on Is creatine safe? 1 week ago:
Kinda, but the effect is almost imperceptible. It’ll help you get like one more rep on your last set, or maybe one more sprint, at sufficient intensity, which is a little bit of extra volume that does add up over time with proper consistency. So, not just “looking stronger.”
The brain health effects that the influencers are talking about now are just hype, though.
- Comment on Is creatine safe? 1 week ago:
If you’re taking the universally agreed on and recommended dosage of 5g/day, you’re fine. You’re not going to see insane results as opposed to not taking it, but it won’t hurt.
And just stick with the monohydrate powder. I’ve been seeing a lot of other stuff recently, like gummies, or creatine added to acidic energy drinks. It doesn’t hold up well in those conditions, so just mix it yourself.
- Comment on funny prakn 1 week ago:
That’s some good quality bone hurting juice right there.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 1 week ago:
I see the problem. They didn’t load the tic-tac-toe program.
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 1 week ago:
Manjaro is Missing another certificate
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 week ago:
In the game, even if you’ve built yourself up, an unlucky roll can still lose you the game. As opposed to real life, where the government decides you’re too big to fail.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 1 week ago:
Yes, I read that output. And it’s still better than I would expect.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 2 weeks ago:
Honestly that’s a lot more coherent than what I would expect from an LLM running on phone hardware.
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 2 weeks ago:
Gentoo is great. Hannah Montana Linux is happening.
… nothing comes to mind for I, passing that along to the next person.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
The market has made clear how it feels about consumer freedom. Every consumer option is lost revenue to them.
- Comment on Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠 2 weeks ago:
So is vinegar
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 2 weeks ago:
Is this why my phone was suddenly enrolled in half a dozen text notification services at the same time last week? Or was that a different massive-scale data leak? It’s hard to keep track at this point.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 2 weeks ago:
I think your laptop may actually be a Mars rover.
- Comment on iDeck - yet another start/home page 2 weeks ago:
iGoogle was great. It was a customizable personal dashboard with widgets you could drag and drop, including a really good built-in RSS reader. Which was pretty sweet at the time. Unfortunately, like any Google product that was actually good, it was discontinued in 2013.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 weeks ago:
I’m currently hosting everything on old desktop PCs and SBCs but fuck it, I’ll swipe some closeout hardware and upgrade to a proper server rack.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 weeks ago:
What do you think all those data centers are for?
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 4 weeks ago:
The government, including the military, uses OneDrive and SharePoint too.
- Comment on Mur’can kwis… cwiz… cuisun… quizene… food 5 weeks ago:
This is a better choice than fruit and bread according to the New Food Pyramid.
- Comment on Use to be saturday morning cartoons. Now its Saturday morning constitutional violations. 1 month ago:
Saturday morning implies it happens just once a week.