TheObviousSolution
@TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 2 days ago:
This was the latest from Huffman: npr.org/…/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-gr…
Basically, rather than focus on quality, they just shifted to the same subjective engagement bait that also happens to be easy to manipulate on the backend and almost impossible to prove that’s plaguing all major social networks. It’s easy to see too, they let major subs go to hell by letting special interests and the power hungry just go nuts, and they now only show up if you really search for them. Do things like adding a sub like r/conservative, and the whole world view it feeds you is completely different and tailored by troll factories, bots, and the like. They are crowd sourcing propaganda bubbles just so they can feed off of the scraps.
- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 1 week ago:
Because I’m so frigging hot, I’m so frigging thirsty, I’m so hungry, that I think I’m hallucinating the turtle. I’ve been trudging through a desert way and now a turtle pops up in the desert out of nowhere. Is the turtle even real, can I not distinguish reality anymore … would eating it help quench my thirst and anger? Is it wrong to feel no emotion?
I don’t think the test itself is designed to measure emotional response so much as the emotional nuance and the 35 ms latency delay glitch in the Nexus-5 models when dealing with it.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 week ago:
In my nearby library, you can even take music and movies out. Old as shit music and movies on CDs and DVDs, but music and movies nevertheless.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t know of anyone who isn’t in some way contributing some way or form to some rather dystopian practices, intentionally or not. This is not a justification, just an observation. Just by being part of many societies and filing your taxes, people can be “working for evil”. The real crux of the matter is what you consider acceptable evil.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
How popular is it against other distros? First I’ve heard of it (which admittedly doesn’t say much since I’m used to the older ones), which makes me wonder how close to a million people did. Did influencers spread the word or something?
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
If this bubble doesn’t pop soon, I expect a memory card thefts to start making the headlines. Small and easier to carry off while being more expensive than some jewelry of the same size.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 2 weeks ago:
Might as well just build your own mini-ITX PC and install SteamOS if it gets to that point
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 2 weeks ago:
With SSD, memory prices, and GPU prices still going up, releasing console-beating Steam Machines still seems way over the horizon to plan for. Once the AI bubble “pops”, maybe … but with so much going on in the world in terms of geopolitics also threatening to affect markets, I wouldn’t dare to look into the future.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 2 weeks ago:
Unless you are going for console exclusives, a PC is upgradable and can be just about as plug and play, specially now with SteamOS. The SteamDeck has really helped normalized control schemes into their gamepad.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 weeks ago:
I think their view of women is pretty clear:
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 weeks ago:
The way your post was making it out to seem, “forces an instance to federate out” sounded like he was doing something so egregious that he was forcing instances to be defederated, sheesh. Anyway, see my original comment to your post.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 weeks ago:
Wait, are people just getting mad at you because you crosspost from .ml instances? You are going the Flying Sphaguetti Monster’s work.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 weeks ago:
The way I see it, it can be made part of other features. Have names be auto-reserved locally between instances for future user migrations if they desire. That a user acting in bad faith retains the same name throughout different instances is merely coincidental - I doubt they won’t mind switching it up, specially if they are automating account creation and astrosurfing.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 3 weeks ago:
It’s sort of funny they have the reputation as one of the least corrupt countries in the world. It’s funny because when you say that something is incapable of being evil in some way, that means that are fertile grounds that invite it.
The public does not consider corruption a major problem in Danish society means those that are corrupt can get away with more because of less supervision. The OCDE has serious concerns about the lack of enforcement of bribery paid by Danish companies abroad and the Danske Bank money laundering scandal, which was the largest money laundering scandal ever in Europe and possibly the largest in world (at least until the Trump era), involved - you guessed it - Russian (among other USSR remnants) money laundering. Denmark will do what is good for Denmark, but Denmark is not the EU.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 4 weeks ago:
It’s funny how many governments are getting surveillance wrong. Mass surveillance and aggregating the data with other social network databases is where the danger is at. Personal surveillance is right up there with recording authorities abusing their power and protecting your home. Ironically, the reverse is happening. The same governments where laws like GDPR criminalize personal surveillance also sign up for palantir’s services and mass surveillance systems as they allow companies to no longer give a shit on their websites about the GDPR and effectively allow them to collect all the personal data GDPR was supposed to protect. People shouldn’t be so keen to disseminate public videos onto social networks, but they should definitely be allowed to record and submit them to the authorities or to the courts if necessary.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 weeks ago:
oskibi doomer
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 5 weeks ago:
The biggest problem is that your theories are not going to equate to the depth, degree, and experience of people who’ve been over a decade in Universities studying their own, who receive grants and everything to do so. It may be a revolutionary theory, but every scientist has got their own. That’s what you are competing against. Hell, there are plenty of brainiacs at each other’s throats over whose theory they believe is right.
I have a personal theory that I believe can encompass a lot of phenomenon, but I lack the graduate level experience or the extraordinary intelligence to raise eyebrows, so it has to remain largely faith based. There are much more knowledgeable people who dismiss the basic core tenets of it. And unless you map it out onto some real math and start making predictions that can raise eyebrows, it will remain that, faith-based. Society doesn’t give a shit about ideas, they give a shit about implementations of those ideas.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 month ago:
Do you really think that’s what this is, or do you have the self-awareness that you are trolling?
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 1 month ago:
Pretty sure they also have access to banned Reddit accounts whose users can no longer access their history to know what they will be judged and profiled for, too.
Just assume every social network either allows this directly or enables a third party to do it, Lemmy specially.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 month ago:
You forgot the part where companies suddenly and magically become benevolent and use their newly gained wealth to finance artist’s lifestyles. Presumably the ones that haven’t been replaced by AI.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 month ago:
Consumer societies need consumer - producer chains. They are where the “proletariat” can rise against the “bourgeois”. Automation makes it all obsolete and begins to taunt with the possibility of making direct chains between actual resources to the ultrarich. Societies are then an artificial construct that can be left to die off like horses and donkeys when they are no longer a participant but an encroachment to the environment they contributed to.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 month ago:
The problem with that is that either it’s privately owned or all taxes pass through a government that can make an authoritarian transition. Then people are left out.
Humans are the general purpose machine of trivial tasks, it’s literally what they’ve evolved for. Referring to trivial tasks as menial is purely a matter of perception, it can be menial when it’s work and entertainment when it’s for leisure. It’s ironic that AI came for the creative jobs that were supposedly going to be left for humans to achieve first, trampling over the IP rights that could have protected them. It’s a sign of things to come, and those things are not awesome.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
It’s growing everywhere. The problem is subjective, which is why the current model fails. I’ve tried to suggest ones in the past where users have more control about general moderation in their communities or can at least choose their curators, with communities themselves are more decentralized from their instances, but there is no interest, at least not in losing that power of control.
The people who downvote after every reply don’t really help, they either just want the last word or aren’t really interested in an honest conversation. The anonymous downvotes don’t really help either (specially when they coincide with thread upvotes coming from accounts with no comment or post history that just seem interested in nudging the conversation to an alt).
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
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- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
It’s subscription is 4 dollars cheaper, though!
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 month ago:
Unpopular opinion, but every nascent industry looks like a bubble. What makes it a bubble is if and when it pops. It anything, LLM AI might deflate and stabilize, but it’s also here to stay. In that case, what pops NVIDIA is when they can’t expand any more and they go against geopolitical interests that begin stealing and making viable alternatives for the price.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
And that is relevant to the thread because … ?
