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- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 1 week ago:
Why? They can terminate you at any time why can’t they change terms at anytime?
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 1 week ago:
Screeching and loud and sort of being an asshole. I take it your are an American?
Fuck if I know why people would go there, I have been to a few and they never have anything I want, they obviously purchase the cheapest crap they can, and I am aware of the rush to the bottom of quality and price by killing small business.
Yes, I cannot understand why people would go there.
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 1 week ago:
I never really thought about walmart having groceries.
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 1 week ago:
Cool. I never shop there, I dont know why people do.
- Comment on Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data 2 weeks ago:
He says its likely Greta.
No joke.
- Comment on Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data 2 weeks ago:
How the fuck do governments not at least check out the plan? It isn’t a secret: Theil is a moron about people and believes in the theory that people need to be controlled and monitored, but also believes that a single world government is bad.
Therefore the only solution (in his mind) is that HE monitor everyone because only HE knows best.
- Comment on Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies 2 weeks ago:
Simply: Windows XP began the enshittification and it has only gotten worse since then.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 weeks ago:
I used duckduckgo for a long time, still a good choice. Now i am using that and Kagi.
The nice thing about either is you can use !bangs to search and get to specific sites quickly.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 weeks ago:
Wow. Thats horrible. Google has been a shitty search engine for a while now, but this is even worse.
I quit using them as my main search probably 5 years ago. But I get that most people still use it and most people will be misled.
Awful.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 2 weeks ago:
This is stupid. Just make your own streaming service.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 2 weeks ago:
Environmentally awful though.
Ingredients are terrible and they are bulky and heavy to transport.
Makes more sense to have your own server and make a sleeve or carboard qr code that “plays” your selection to give you the best of both worlds.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The ui is dated? Lol what?
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 3 weeks ago:
There are great uses for crypto, just like there were great uses for Ithica_hours. A place holder for goods and services without physical constraint is a useful idea.
But it wont work. Because people want to leverage that to make fiat. They don’t care about usefulness, actually earning it, or trading for it.
They want to get some, hold it, and sell it back for their fiat. Because of that exchanges came into being so they could capture some of the wealth in the process. And from then on it was never going to be useful. Just a way to hope the next sucker would buy what you had.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 weeks ago:
Don’t let your TV be on the internet.
- Comment on How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley 4 weeks ago:
2 days later we would be putting post it bites and pieces of paper up.
Way to scheduled out and way to Annoying.
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.5 4 weeks ago:
I was hoping to catch this before your replied, as I went and read the readme, then it made more sense. So I deleted my reply. But too late!
I have thousands of video files to transcode, and I didn’t want to have to manually tweak the command for every batch. I also didn’t want to have to rebuild it if I have more to do 6 months down the line - I’m lazy.
The cool thing is there isn’t much to put into a command that does stuff like this, unless you changing the FFMPEG parameters every time, but that would seem unlikely.
Yeah for sharing I get some of the bells and whistles.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, its less the durability, and more the long standing security issues:
- Firmware flaws they didn’t always patch
- many vulnerabilities that were known
- bundled apps that included known vulnerabilities
- Installing software on first boot from hardware (discontinued)
- Superfish injected ad traffic which allowed mitm attacks
- hardware level backdoors
So most of these things get alleviated since I always wipe new computers and put Linux on them anyways. But the repeated poor decision, security, and anti consumer practices concerns me.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 4 weeks ago:
But I won’t buy anything lenovo.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
I get it, you don’t want any data, you don’t want information. You have no desire to actually learn anything. You simply want to screeam “gemini bad!, and you are bad!”
When the whole time I said gemini is shit, and google can go fuck themselves.
With data we could understand how the conversation went. We could see where the issue arose. We could help people who might be susceptible to events that take them to this point. We can understand better the ways to address this.
I explained this to you before, you investigate murder, you investigate crimes.
But all I get from you is “simp!”, “Victim Blamer!”. Which tells me you are simply ignorant and incapable of critical thought.
Particularly after I tell that gemini sucks and google can go fuck themselves. I am far more concerned with googles surveillance and data gathering than their AI tools. And because of that, I believe that people wont gather data, they will simply start aasking the AI companies to become MORE involved in peoples personal lives by requiring ID, location, and building profiles, all in the name of “protecting” the user who could be susceptible. Instead of finding out why and how.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
How is it not?
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
Did you just call them a user? I thought they were a victim.
HOW am I blaming anyone for wanting to know how they got to that point?
The fuck is wrong with you? Is your head so far up your ass on white knighting the internet you lost all sense of reason?
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
Oh so stupid shit. Figures.
Yes I am interested in how this happened. In a murder do you not investigate it?
What the fuck.
Google can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
Huh?
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 4 weeks ago:
I found these kind of features really useful. I had to submit some documents that I needed to do some work on before they got sent off. Everything was local, and with a keyboard/monitor/mouse I could have a browser, my email, and the document I was editing on the screen at the same time. So much faster typing and clicking.
I use my Steamdeck for that more often now if I just want a desktop while i am traveling if I don’t want to bring the laptop. I just mount the phone as a folder, so even that is easy.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 4 weeks ago:
It didn’t already do this? Why did I have phones and tablets that could do this already?
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it definitely does save conversations. Perhaps he did leave it unlocked. I do find that strange though, particularly if one was getting increasingly paranoid.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
This was a different case. That doesn’t answer my question.
To comment on what you said, how is it people can argue all day long like morons and dig into their beliefs, but somehow AI manages to change peoples minds and get them to think differently? What exactly is it doing?
It is so hard to believe people are this stupid, but then again, looking at most people I guess it isn’t that shocking.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
I am also curious how the father saw the Gemini chats. Was it still on the screen days later? I am trying to imagine how that would work, my computer would lock and that would be that. Do kids give their parents passwords and their screen unlock codes?
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but its not with the help of. It is directly BY them.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
I would like to see the full transcript.
How do we know this didn’t start off with prompts about creating a book, or asking about exciting things in life, or I don’t know what.
Context would help a lot. Maybe it will come out in discovery.