ArmchairAce1944
@ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
- Comment on Lasagna 16 minutes ago:
Nope. Last I checked around yesterday he’s still around. He is 80. Old but not impossibly old.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 2 days ago:
What the hell is a foreign illegal stream?
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 1 week ago:
And only when their names are Sharon.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 1 week ago:
Fun fact, vibrators were invented as a ‘medical’ tool to aid women.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 week ago:
Basically a VR space that Mark Zuckerberg thought was going to be the new internet and everyone will do their stuff there while wearing a VR headset and represented by an on screen avatar.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 week ago:
So long… never knew you.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 week ago:
That’s why this invasive tech is criminal. Just plain criminal.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 week ago:
I dont even vacuum. I get on my knees and clean my floors by hand.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 weeks ago:
Haha! This us why i never ask it to do anything serious.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 weeks ago:
They denied your passport? That is like literally the highest level of ID you can present! Holy fuck!
- Comment on Holy Fu*k 2 weeks ago:
There was a time when people online prided themselves on being super foul mouthed…
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 weeks ago:
Yes, like the farting monkey i made who uses his farts as a means of jet propulsion… the art world will never be the same.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 weeks ago:
I will be a happy man if they also lost all data and all chats permanently… meaning my chats are gone. Not that that I said anything embarrassing, but I like my privacy.
If you want to know, some of the things I asked chatgpt were sarcastic questions like ‘why won’t Bill Gates buy me lunch?’ Or ‘how do you know i am not Jack the ripper?’ Or ‘write a scenario where Mr. Bean joins the bomb squad and is tasked with disarming a bomb left by thr unabomber?’
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 weeks ago:
I think people don’t realize just how dangerous this shit is until they have been affected in some noticeable way, and even then they will not link just how the incredible amount of surveillance they are under every day is the cause of it.
I worked in tech support for 7 years, and one thing that will never cease to astonish me is how tech illiterate people are. Do you have any idea how many people called me and demanded that I make modifications to their account and refused to tell me any verifying questions? While some might have been malicious actors , most aren’t. Most of them were genuinely expecting me to do everything for them and they wouldn’t even tell me what their name is.
Some of them called me on a number not recognized by the system but they fully expected me to pull up their account (fucking how?) Without any information at all.
When you have worked in this field long enough you will know why there is so little effective opposition to all this shit. It is not just because they dont give a damn if we are literally in a 1984 scenario with active cameras and microphones in people’s homes, but they just dont understand what that really means. Even younger people who grew up with these devices from early childhood don’t fully understand just how much they are being observed. If anything Gen Z and Gen Alpha are more fucked since they are the first generation of people whom the algorithms and data brokers have had some profile on since early childhood.
As an elder millennial who grew up in a techie family with computers from childhood. I am fortunate in that they have nothing on me from early childhood to teen years. By the time I hit 20 the internet was still too chaotic and underdeveloped and algorithms weren’t the norm yet (and I was never a Google guy to begin with). But people born within the last 10 years can’t have that privilege.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 weeks ago:
The UK experienced a major data breach with all their government info from their ID checks not long after the law kicked in. How many fucking data breaches do we need before people catch on?
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 weeks ago:
When you are carded at a club the staff doesn’t scan your card and keep it on file. They simply look at it and return it.
As someone who worked similar jobs and would have had to look at tons of IDs every day I can assure, I dont have the time or interest in remembering all of them.
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 2 weeks ago:
He looks like a dead fish.
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 2 weeks ago:
Bullshit, the LLMs I prompted have more humanity than him!
- Comment on South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage 2 weeks ago:
My Webcam is in my bedroom but that’s because that is where my computer is. However it is unplugged as I said. It’s also an old as fuck one I got more than 10 years ago so hackers can’t do fuck with it if it is unplugged.
- Comment on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app 2 weeks ago:
Android Debug Bridge? Please tell me I got it right!
- Comment on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app 2 weeks ago:
Well I mean if you have a picture of yourself and your kids, or just of your kids, or your kids playing with their friends (other kids) that counts as highly suspicious since you have a lot of kid pics meaning you probably have child porn somewhere or maybe you are using them to train a LORA for an AI ‘art’ generator to make porn of those kids…
I’m going to stop there. But ANYTHING CAN BE TWISTED AGAINST YOU! I MEAN ANYTHING! I had that happen to me many times in my life.
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- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 weeks ago:
I guess even in authoritarian police states where the government will disappear or execute you for any opposition businesses still get away with being assholes.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
To be fair it is still the easiest way to do it. If you have a fuel source that could last basically forever and a closed circuit where you can reuse the same water infinitely as well, why not?
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 weeks ago:
Also automation is getting better and better all the damn time. The only reason why we haven’t hit 30 hour workweek is due to declining unions and and exploitation politics.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 weeks ago:
I learned that China had basically made this shit illegal years ago, but work hours in China are still insane. I am willing to bet that they will still have incredible growth and prosperity even if those workhours are strictly enforced.
People like this dipshit need to be stripped of all possessions and wealth and immured alive.
- Comment on We've done it, boys 2 weeks ago:
I still can’t believe that the united states had multiple lunar landing missions and several people set foot on the moon… and now the US military and civilian space agencies are reliant on a company run by a Nazi manchild and that cannot send spaceships and satellites beyond low earth orbit…
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 2 weeks ago:
Stephen Miller? Yeah he is actually one of the more evil of the bunch. Most are grifters and dont believe in anything, but Miller is a true believer. He really does believe in all that white supremacy shit and will turn the US into a minor nation if it means making it ‘all white’.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
If Sweeney can read this, I just want to tell him something. As someone who made games with ZZT as a kid and thought it was the best thing ever, you need to understand that no AI could make something like that, even if as a kid using copied and ‘inspired’ code from other games (and learned how to hexedit out the protections from other ZZT worlds so I can see how they worked) the cycle of just working through a rudimentary coding language was the reward in and of it self even if I never did finish the game I had in mind.
BTW, that game just involved an adventurer in a kingdom that is being troubled by… Hitler’s ghost, and your objective was to send his ass back to hell. I found a boss fight in another ZZT world that I thought was too cool not to reuse for that purpose, too. But sadly it was never finished.
That being said, we DO need ‘AI generated’ or ‘AI assisted’ as a tag. There isn’t anything weird or wrong with that. In online art spaces like deviant art you can tag stuff as ‘traditional’ art (meaning done on paper/canvas with whatever media you used, like pencils, various paints, etc) or digital or a combination thereof, like a hand drawn sketch that was completed and colored with photoshop. Why the fuck would anyone be against telling people what tools were used?
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t it the copilot icon or have I been taken to an alternative universe?