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- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 19 hours ago:
This is what the data centers are for. And also why all hard drive capacity for 2026 has already been sold. Video takes up a massive amount of space.
- Comment on GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple 1 day ago:
Can it run on iPhone hardware? I would love an alternative that is not tied to apples garbage Ai and forced upgrade loops.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 2 days ago:
Are we efficient yet?
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 2 days ago:
The last few rounds of layoffs that have been blamed on AI is just a correction from over hiring during Covid and the recovery.
Also undoing work from home at the same time because commercial realestate markets underpin a lot of business loans that are otherwise underwater.
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 2 days ago:
You have that backwards. We have a non-working AI and have decided to get rid of 80% of the world population starting with the educated and productive but aging workforce.
We will replace everything that subsequently breaks with entry level human positions until the entry level AI/robots are ready to break everything again.
In 20years or less there won’t be anyone left who actually knows how to do anything and is more educated than needed to follow constant verbal instructions from the AI controllers.
People with no education or whom the educational system can’t or won’t accommodate will work manual labor jobs not suitable for robots.
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 6 days ago:
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ChineseSpyWeatherBirthday Balloon” - Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
I mean uploading your government ID or having to share your biometric data via video is also just as terrible. There is no guarantee that these companies will not fuck it up sell your data get hacked etc. Instead of an ID number linked to you and they now have a copy of your identity.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
Yea. Basically this.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
The obvious solution here is for DEVICE manufacturers to add verification steps in the OS for parents to configure.
- Comment on Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data 2 weeks ago:
Palantir is hungry for more data.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 weeks ago:
This is literally just wasting electricity to justify the existence of massive datacenters full of nvidia videocards.
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 2 weeks ago:
Hence the name Insta-crack
- Comment on Hey Microsoft, How's it going? 3 weeks ago:
So in the near future your online OS will be DDOS vulnerable with no local options? Cool. Cool.
- Comment on Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the permitting is the problem. The problem is Not that they didn’t pay to get the permits and wait for the bureaucracy to approve them.
The problem is they shouldn’t have been doing any of this in the first place there isn’t the power generation locally to power these data centers and even when there is the prices for everyone who lives there will skyrocket.
The whole point of having regulatory oversight so that rich people can’t just build whatever the fuck they want where they want it quickly before anyone can do anything about it. Permit is just legalized bribery. If you don’t go through the steps and pay the local municipality they don’t give you the permit.
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 3 weeks ago:
Trust me bro. Just one more AI, I swear.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 weeks ago:
Maybe now they can go back to Digg.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Study: At Least
15%90% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public OpinionFixed.
- Comment on Coursera and Udemy enter a merger agreement valued at around $2.5B | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Too late. It’s all owned by Blackrock already.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 2 months ago:
I mean, ymmv. The historical flood of cheap memory has changed developer practices. We used to code around keeping the bulk of our data on the hard drive and only use RAM for active calculations. We even used to lean on “virtual memory” on the disk, caching calculations and scrubbing them over and over again, in order to simulate more memory than we had on stick. SSDs changed that math considerably. We got a bunch of very high efficiency disk space at a significant mark up. But we used the same technology in our RAM. So there was a point at which one might have nearly as much RAM as ROM (had a friend with 1 GB of RAM on the same device that only had a 2 GB hard drive). The incentives were totally flipped.
I would argue that the low-cost, high-efficiency RAM induced the system bloat, as applications could run very quickly even on a fraction of available system memory. Meanwhile, applications that were RAM hogs appeared to run very quickly compared to applications that needed to constantly read off the disk.
Internet applications added to the incentive to bloat RAM, as you could cram an entire application onto a website and just let it live in memory until the user closed the browser. Cloud storage played the same trick. Developers were increasingly inclined to ignore the disk entirely. Why bother? Everything was hosted on a remote server, lots of the data was pre-processed on the business side, and then you were just serving the results to an HTML/Javascript GUI on the browser.
Now it seems like tech companies are trying to get the entire computer interface to be a dumb terminal to the remote data center. Our migration to phones and pads and away from laptops and desktops illustrates as much. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone finally makes consumer facing dumb-terminals a thing again - something we haven’t really experienced since the dawn of personal computers in the 1980s.
It is definitely coming and fast. This was always Microsoft’s plan for an internet only windows/office platform. Onedrive and 365 is basically that implementation now that we have widespread high speed internet.
And with the amount of SaaS apps the only thing you need on a local machine is some configuration files and maybe a downloads folder.
Look at the new Nintendo Switch cartridges as an example. They don’t contain the game, just a license key. The install is all done over the internet.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 months ago:
Reddit was the good place after the fall of Digg 2.0. Now Reddit has become the bad place.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 2 months ago:
The most boomer attitude ever. I don’t want to pay taxes that support the community because I don’t have kids.
Fuck you and your entitlement. You are not an island and can’t just decide to pay for whatever services you deem necessary. How do you think roads are maintained and fire stations funded? Or the police?
You want to go back to private fire departments who serve only the rich who pay them instead of public services?
- Comment on Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how 3 months ago:
I’m guessing that third-party provider is Palantir or the NSA.
- Comment on Cornell Study Maps the Environmental Cost of AI 3 months ago:
How do you figure they sold out by releasing This study?
- Comment on Apple Joins Google in Offering Passport-Based Digital ID 3 months ago:
No one asked for this Except maybe the NSA and the government.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 3 months ago:
Let’s make our own Internet with blackjack and hookers.
- Comment on Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online 3 months ago:
I get that we need some regulation, what I’m saying is these regulations create an environment where we’re spending a lot of money and wasting resources that could be spent elsewhere.
Let’s say you had a settlement for $250,000 as proposed in one of the regulations. What is the family actually see from that payout? What’s $250,000 to a corporation that’s worth billions upon billions of dollars? Of that settlement how much of it goes to lawyers? How much resources do the state courts expand on seeing each one of those cases? How much time does it take before the victim sees any of those funds from the payout?
Let’s say kid is traumatized and needs therapy and the parents can’t afford it. Does that mean they’re gonna have to wait six months for the courts to decide? Are the parents expected to pay for therapy out of pocket and hope they get reimbursed later?
The real question is what happens to the victim and how do they benefit from going through all of the bureaucracy and courts to get any sort of settlement?
Just because there’s some new government regulations doesn’t mean it actually addresses the underlying problem. It just creates several new problems.
- Comment on Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online 3 months ago:
Or you know, the parents could do their job of raising their kids, not giving them an iPad at the age of five, and leaving them to fend for themselves on the Internet. No, let’s have the government fix this problem for us by spying on everybody. That will fix everything. /s
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The study is from 2018. I’m sure Reddit has had plenty of time to get those stats up. 15% is rookie numbers.
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 3 months ago:
The man is insane.
- Comment on life purpose 3 months ago:
AI crap. The lady on the lower left has a cardboard box for a monitor.