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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember in 2013 when we shouted down Google from doing this exact shit and now Harvard dropouts think they’ve cured cancer by thinking it up?

  God a fucking hate this planet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs would be liable for every hallucination.

  But how do you enforce it? When the internet crashes out into millions of websites again? When the people who made it happen are the people bad ones and they only go after messaging they don’t like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can already do multiple lines. Drag the divider between the entry box and the grid down to make it larger, and use Alt-Enter to make a new line in a formula. Been there since at least 2009. You’re welcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it didn’t use 100 gallons of freshwater and like 600kW of definitely-non-renewable-sourced electricity then ML trained to do excel at Excel would be most welcome.

  Does it run locally?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, I remember that well. I was in high school 👴

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a man?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Well, that; and a pair of testicles.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So then 10x makes 50ms; sounds about right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The true silken song will be the unabashed wailing of gamers who have been edging so hard for 6 years that this game couldn’t possible have lived up to the hype anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  🤨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also users behind large NAT gateways (colleges/dorms, apartment complexes with IOS contracts) or CGNAT (most mobile users including 5G hotspots which could be a primary internet connection for a household) will often appear to be behind one or a handful of IPs, and not only does blocking one block them all, but blocking a gateway IP that is part of a pool might not necessarily block the intended user at all. Also as was stated, it’s trivial to get a new IP either via VPN or, sometimes, resetting your modem.

  IP bans are often not effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is exactly what copper would say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bull shit! They don’t lay fiber anywhere that rural and meth looking! It’s copper in disguise! Geet ‘um!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a few days ago but wasn’t it the case that imported chips to be used in American products would be tariffed at the time of import? Why wouldn’t that be the case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expand North! So much room up there.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The American one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt that an LLM would do very well, but other forms of ML (like a model trained to work in business rules and economic outcomes rather than stringing words together) could probably be used. Hell, they probably won’t need to use the planet-destroying mega data canters to do it; some very effective specialized ML models can be run on a Raspberry Pi.

  The biggest problem with AI is they’re convincing people they can think and replace workers by using extremely large language models trained on stolen works provided as cloud services asking for exorbitant subscription fees.

  In other words, tech bros figured out how to take something useful and make a grift out of it, because you can get rich by gatekeeping something of value. Why do you think they went so far as to threaten to ban DeepSeek when a free model that can run on a desktop PC from a foreign “adversary” appeared? They all shit their collective pants because the jig was up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they’re trolling. There’s zero chance this was explained this many times and they’re still fighting like they don’t understand what is being said

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean eventually yeah, but not fast enough for you to keep using it that way.

  Especially now that air holds more moisture since rising temperatures keep the atmosphere warmer and rain is less frequent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the “fuck America swinging their ducks around on other business” sentiment, but let’s not entertain conspiracy where there isn’t any. America doesn’t need to push its preferences in places where the sentiment already.

  My post is that you you blame this on America you won’t think clearly about the actual issue, which is the sentiment of EU politicians and businesses and how they skew unduly in favor of harsh intellectual property restrictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish there was an uninhabited, autonomous zone for folks who want "freedom" to play out their dangerous ideas away from the rest of society⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we just Curtis Yarvin-posting now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people in the US thought “He won’t”

  So, call your representatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would container ships be a good application? Or too heavy/large?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't say I didn't warn you ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy fack boys, am Irish neuw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Set up a raspberry pi with HomeAssistant (or buy their premade one) and then nothing should need to connect to the internet (as long as you buy stuff that doesn’t require it).

  Smart devices don’t need “the cloud” to be smart - all of that shit is a scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Exactly this. No way for a bot to make an API call to a LLM and get back a solution formatted in JSON that it could easily parse for the solution. Could never happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WireGuard would be illegal. ISPs would monitor for encrypted traffic streams. All remote workers must now come back to the office. ofcom can see any and all traffic. Your loyalty to the king shall be examined. You choices of media will be scrutinized. The threat of losing your children will be used to force compliance. Welcome to the machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah they came back online after like 2 weeks I think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now now, I like to shit on vibecoders too but let’s not pretend this is some new problem.

  Idiots leave databases on cloud servers exposed all the time rather than deal with their companies often arcane rules for generating certificates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well UK, have the day you voted for I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally why crypto was invented, as another user put it, “before crypto bros turned it into a pump n dump scheme”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve made some comments critical of how relentlessly PirateSoftware is being harassed and how annoying it is and how distracting from the actual movement it is.

  Nothing wrong with the petition itself, and I haven’t noticed any negative astroturfing about it.