NoodlePoint

@NoodlePoint@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking stupidest idea I ever seen.

  The US has more guns than its total population. Real GUN CONTROL is needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For that matter, it was the same problem the US then faced back when it was getting much of their electronics from Japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Never a shortage of Uncle Toms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I always think about what creates revolutions (and counter-revolutions), and most cases the lack of a single thing usually causes the affected classes to rise up. However, the chances are slimmer as the soma that is entertainment and thus distraction takes precedence over reason and empathy, and anyone on the right are entertained by concepts of tormenting, banishing, and destroying people they hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking bastard is the convergence of all evil going on in the last few years. What’s gonna take people to shock them up into outrage, and it’s not just the minorities or the progressives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also known as profiling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I am and due to its greater practicality, nursing is more popular as a college course than compsci.

  I once started as compsci, but instead got a job fixing PCs. Also self-learned basic carpentry and plumbing. Looking at raising livestock in the near future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been playing the very long game of trying to control human behavior for centuries, not just decades. The one thing to note is that the United States began as a bunch of colonies run by ministers, and the fundies want to go back to that theocratic form of rule. That by the 19th century the temperance movement came from the dozens of Christian subsects. Yeah, they also extended it to anything that did not define as “Christian” behavior, including choice of ideologies (socialism = bad), gender (male or female = good), source of knowledge (Bible > science), beliefs (they have veiled Islamophobia), and even eating and sexual habits.

  Now – based on their basic blueprint – they want to artificially induce the Second Coming by trying to get their fucking project off the ground, and impose control on everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dennis Prager in Harlem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless, Prager is full of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The money and the supposed savings from getting rid of the human side of technical support but also efforts of human creatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hate AI because it's everything we hate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A platform for people in developing countries, however. In some cases it supplants most if not all of the functions of what used to be several programs used for Internet access and communication. Never wonder why ultra-conservatism is infectious in some of those countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Fredrik Knudsen] Unofficial Skyrim Patch | Down the Rabbit Hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He is, just that he made ultraconservative statements in his own website, but deleted them later and disabled the site from being archived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Fredrik Knudsen] Unofficial Skyrim Patch | Down the Rabbit Hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just a thief, the bastard thinks he’s better than the entirety of Bethesda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hate AI because it's everything we hate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  1. It’s theft to digital artisans, as AI-generated works tend to derive heavily without even due credit.
  2. It further discourages what’s called critical thinking.
  3. It’s putting even technically competent people out of work.
  4. It’s grift for and by techbros.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hate AI because it's everything we hate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the lemmy mindset far more than reddit

  …and Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Fredrik Knudsen] Unofficial Skyrim Patch | Down the Rabbit Hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just mods but also other fanworks – such as fanfiction, fanart, etc. – in that creatives will go to great lengths to protect their work, and start huge flamewars, despite being obviously derivative reinterpretation of the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another fucking asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Fredrik Knudsen] Unofficial Skyrim Patch | Down the Rabbit Hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever since he got control of the patch, it made him kind of “authoritative”, even looking pretty in the eyes of Bethesda, but really flipped his lid upon seeing Obama won.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mainly for them to blow off steam and try to see if they’re a better crack shot than anyone, and sometimes to acquire a degree of fame.

  I’m now more content quietly playing a sandbox game, no rush at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI startup Perplexity has offered Google $34.5 billion to buy the Chrome browser. The price might be below evaluation, but the company may be forced to sell the browser at the request of U.S. authorities as part of a case in which it was found guilty of being a monopoly.

  x.com/80Level/status/1955488788861555082

  Might as well be wanting all that juicy personal information from which to mine not only for profit but also for sending a SWAT team through the door without a court order and a search warrant. Or, sending a Hellfire missile through a window of a house somewhere in Pakistan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn sure was clickbaity.

  I stopped using ABP years ago and switched to uBlock Origin. That and some *Monkey scripts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of those ideas are not feasible with a very low budget you want because eventually rot will get to the hard drive and thus making the contents unreadable. So – depending on what you want to preserve – it’s either writable media or printed out in acid-free paper or in microdot negative film, and of those methods, only print media – written, typed, from a copier, or with a laser printer – might as well be cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy for them, but not everyone else. I’m saying this as someone who’s into PCs, used both OS, fixing them for a very long time, and seen a lot different kinds of userbases. That in my part of the world, while Android is pretty prevalent for smartphones and gaming on them, pirated Windows is still being used for PCs because it’s so familiar for a lot of people, it’s almost the default, but for how long that’s gonna last as Windows is being made more like locked with DRMs and shit like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Install Linux, Problem Solved.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because some are artisans and see that their work is being pillaged for AI “training”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seethe hard Santis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I refuse ever touching an AI-driven app or feature, having seen too much slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Javlar!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Embrace? With so many devs constantly being laid off, how about NO?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Simplewall allows direct control of internet access of any program and app; you can block CoPilot from accessing the internet.