etherphon
@etherphon@piefed.world
- Comment on ISIS teaching recruits how to use AI ‘responsibly’ 1 hour ago:
I’m sure, it’s like the perfect tool for unimaginative soulless religious zealots.
- Comment on Boss of theatre hosting Chinese dance group Shen Yun in Sydney won’t be intimidated by ‘outrageous’ threats 3 hours ago:
Dance group, cult front, potato potato.
- Comment on 18 hours ago:
Yeah, I suppose we shouldn’t be too shocked though, Kevin Rose has been around SV long enough, I’m sure he could muster up a bit more, the site doesn’t even seem to have a vision really. I suspect it will just be datamined or used as some experiment/testing ground.
- Comment on 19 hours ago:
I was kinda excited about it, having used it for a while before moving on to reddit like a lot of others, but after getting my invite and trying it out for a while it just seemed like a lot of auto posted tech articles and not much discussion. I realize the thing that changed most was perhaps my relationship and views on technology, I’m not excited about where any of it is going to be honest, where as when the first digg came around I was very optimistic that the web was going to turn the world into a utopia lmao.
- Comment on Word up 1 day ago:
PLUR
- Comment on Can this be legit? 2 days ago:
Isn’t this from The Men Who Stare at Goats? haha
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 5 days ago:
I bought this game on layaway at the local small department store and rode my bike a few miles every week from my house to the store to make the payments for it. That story makes me feel 100 years old.
- Comment on Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK 5 days ago:
Fury? lol. Touch some grass.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
Thank you <3
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
Oh yeah my games backlog is huge, I haven’t actually played any in a few years due to depression, but all my old synths and samplers use memory that has been deprecated for ages anyways. I hope people use this time to play through their backlogs like you and maybe these companies will put a little more effort into not fucking people over. I’m a dreamer, I know.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
Most of the stuff I care about is like 30 years old so prob not.
- Comment on What television series in your opinion had very good writing and character depth? 1 week ago:
The Leftovers, Maniac, Mr. Robot, anything by Sam Esmail really.
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
Can we change the last word? /s of course. of course.
- Comment on Find what you like and stick with it 1 week ago:
Peanut butter and jam is my.. jam :)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How can a man be so rich but still look like a crazy vagrant lol, fucking hell.
- Comment on Surging prediction markets face legal backlash in US: ‘Lines have been blurred’ 1 week ago:
Prediction markets = gambling, there is zero question about it. You can call it whatever you want.
- Comment on My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker 1 week ago:
What’s wrong with just sleeping? Why do people need all this biometric data on themselves? Unless there’s some underlying health problem. Meh whatever, complicate your life more.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 1 week ago:
Get a real job fucking losers.
- Comment on Windows insider creates Windows 7 install measuring just 69MB — system boots, but has been pruned so severely ‘virtually nothing can run’ for now 3 months ago:
Nice
- Comment on Google says Search AI Mode will know everything about you 3 months ago:
Sounds like a good plan, the 2nd part is really the chore, although if I cut it down to the services I actually use I can probably get it done very quickly lol.
- Comment on Google says Search AI Mode will know everything about you 3 months ago:
Thanks for the warning, I've been dragging my feet on gmail since it's going to be such a chore to move as I've been using it since beta. IRL I'm a pretty open person and will basically tell you my life story but I don't want Google to act like it knows me because it's snooping all my fucking emails.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
So they're already aware of the risks, AI companies are being run with the same big oil/big tobacco playbook lol. You can have all the fancy new technology but if the money is still coming from the same group of rich inbred douchebags it doesn't matter because it will turn to shit.
- Comment on Grokipedia v0.1 3 months ago:
Fuck off.
- Comment on A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light 4 months ago:
Well I'm not sure if I need a light to indicate that I need to avoid people wearing these glasses.
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 4 months ago:
I don't know what to tell you, possibly the jobs we had before that shaped our opinion of it, it also matters who your manager is because they give them a lot of carte blanche as far as how they do things, you can get a shit manager who enforces all the rules or one who doesn't give a shit as long as the work gets done. When I left I was making $24 an hour which is good here. In the summer when it was super hot out they would come around with frozen electrolyte pops to hand them out and cool people off, my new job had warm bottles of water for us. They were always handing out snacks and Amazon swag which whatever, but something to wear to work, still use one of the coffee mugs. I was using my PTO and UPT to leave early on a daily basis, my last year I left early every day for several months without incident. It's 4 days a week so you have 3 off, granted those 4 days are pretty much all work if you have a commute. If you're a good worker I found them to be extremely lenient but YMMV.
I really don't know what to tell the other guy,but his comment reeks of privilege, not everyone can be an accountant or lawyer or start their own business or have some other grand job, some people just want a shitty low key job with no responsibility. We can't re-train everyone and it doesn't look like UBI is coming here any time soon, so yes, people need these jobs.
We shouldn't stifle technological process and keep jobs people don't want to do around so the people currently doing them don't have to adapt.
You sound like a fucking robot dude. Or someone who reads a lot of articles.
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 4 months ago:
I guess there must be other facilities that are much worse, or it depends who your managers are, but when I worked at a FC I thought it was one of the easier jobs I've held.
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 4 months ago:
I worked there for there years, there's lots of people who wants those jobs since they pay decently, it certainly better than no job.
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 4 months ago:
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Destroying millions of jobs to shave 30 cents off an item, or rather pocket it, what could possibly go wrong.
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 4 months ago:
I am waiting for them to announce a convenient 1-800 number I can call to talk to the AI sex bot. /s
- Comment on FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source 4 months ago:
I heard her speak a few times on the Daily Show and had such high hopes for the things she was talking about which are of course deader than dead now that tech bros have literally moved in.