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- Comment on Google is killing the open web 1 week ago:
Since AMP, yes. It’s hardly a recent development.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
Ooh, that’s though sweetheart. If the owners of those servers want you to visit, they’ll just choose another WAF than CF’s.
All zero of them.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 week ago:
No, that’s a good point. We all bloody well know there isn’t a single provider of LLM’s that aren’t sucking the entire Internet dry while gleefully ignoring robots.txt and expecting everybody else to pay the bill on their behalf, but the AI providers are getting really good at using other people IPs both to mask their identity and to evade blacklists, which is yet another abusive behavior.
But that’s beside your point. So forget the class-action lawsuit in favor of the relevant Ombudsman.
Either way, this cannot go on. Donation-driven open source projects are being driven into the ground by exploding bandwidth and hosting costs, people are being forced to deploy tools like Anubis that eats additional resources - including the resources of every legitimate user. The cumulative damage this is doing is no joke.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 week ago:
If this isn’t fertile grounds for a massive class-action lawsuit, I don’t know what would be.
- Comment on GenAI tools are acting more ‘alive’ than ever; they blackmail people, replicate, and escape 1 week ago:
Nobody said they replicated by authoring the replica from scratch, which seems to be what you’re assuming. A generative AI is ultimately a lump of code and a statistical model. Surely you’re not saying that it cannot copy files given file system access.
Because copying some files and starting new processes is all it really has to do to ‘self replicate’.
- Comment on The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’ 1 week ago:
What a legend. Kudos!
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
Yeah, that sounds exactly like what everybody were looking for in an OS. /s
I’ve been very happy to be using Linux for the past decade and a half, but never more so than now.
- Comment on AI to help police catch criminals before they strike 1 week ago:
Oh yes, “predictive policing”. I guess somebody haven’t read Phillip K. Dick’s The Minority Report, or thought it was an implementation guide rather than a cautionary tale.
- Comment on Balanced the Unbalanced 2 weeks ago:
“Ahaha. Yeah…”
- Comment on Drug Enforcement Administration agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches 2 weeks ago:
I’m no lawyer, let alone a US lawyer, but can somebody explain how this isn’t a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes it a federal offense to intentionally access a “protected computer” without authorization or by exceeding authorized access?
- Comment on HYDRAULIC PRESS TIME 2 weeks ago:
See, this is what I like about the Internet: No matter how obscure, a subject matter expert is almost always right there.
Thanks, buddy.
- Comment on HYDRAULIC PRESS TIME 2 weeks ago:
I maintain that the definition of wrong is a function of the intended outcome. The former method is absolutely the correct approach for obtaining 2 dimensional horse-smoothies. And morbidly repainting the workshop.
- Comment on Where is he going, chat? 2 weeks ago:
Straight to the middle of his designated landing zone. As we all know, he’s a well prepared kitty.
- Comment on No bias, no bull AI 2 weeks ago:
That’s very sensible of you.
- Comment on 2 Patlabor movies will receive 4K UHD remaster release on January and March 2026 2 weeks ago:
They’re certainly worthy of the effort.
- Comment on No bias, no bull AI 2 weeks ago:
Haha, yeah. But seriously.
- Comment on off to learn themrodynamics and statistcial mechanics 2 weeks ago:
A true classic. Right up there with biographies of Cantor and “Ignition!”.
- Comment on Chinese-developed AI system revolutionizes industrial fermentation process 2 weeks ago:
Now this is the kind of use case where machine learning not only makes sense but positively excels. Meanwhile in the west, we are busy wasting a veritable ocean of energy on building better echo chambers to assist the most intellectually vulnerable in really developing their budding psychoses and permanently undermining developers and artists.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
“ICE reached out to both Mr. Bale and Mr. Bean, but regrettably, neither were interested in the job.”
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s illegal now too. Can’t have anything interfering with the glorious vision of a relentlessly productive citizenry that ideally slave away for the benefits of their owners until they die in the office chair at age 74 - right before qualifying for pension.
Well, except for the health “care” system. That’s an exception, but only because the only thing better than ruthless exploitation is diversified ruthless exploitation. Gotta keep the peons on their toes, lest they get uppity.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
You know what really grinds my gears? This shitty dystopia completely eschews any potentially cool aspect of invasive exploitative authoritarianism. The (not so) secret police is patching together their own “uniforms” by browsing the bargain bins at the local tacti-cool mall-ninja outfitters. Where’s the black leather trench coats, stylish sun glasses worn after dark and slicked back hair. If they’re going to ask my for ‘ze papers’ all the time, the least they can do is look cool. At least get Hugo Boss to design your attire; that’s just about the only thing that worked out well for the last bunch of pricks.
I mean, where’s the towering brutalist architecture? Where’s my mandatory daily dose of SOMA? Or my idiotically wirelessly hackable cyberware? Hell, they can’t even do bread and circuses right anymore. The bread is CO2-pumped flour glue and the circuses is an endless stream of more Marvel projects and Disney violations of Star Wars.
And don’t get me started on the quality of our dictators these days. They sure don’t make them like they used to.
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 2 weeks ago:
I’m suggesting they should refuse to use the services of companies that act like this.
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 2 weeks ago:
…Well, you’ve got my vote.
- Comment on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released 2 weeks ago:
So, let’s cut to the chase… How did Canonical manage to make it worse this time?
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 2 weeks ago:
That would be ideal of course, but this is the US we’re talking about, so it seems unlikely that you’ll have them.
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 2 weeks ago:
Look, does it really matter whether they do or not? If a company is morally bankrupt enough to conduct business like this in the first place, it’s a certainty they’ll just find some other novel way to be flaming assholes.
If you don’t want to get cheated, stop doing business with thieves and liars.
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 2 weeks ago:
Well, yeah, but what can one reasonably expect from a bunch of idiots but to miss the point? It’s what they do best.
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 2 weeks ago:
The President of the United States interfering in the internal affairs of private corporations, while the part of the electorate who gave him the job clutches their pearls about encroaching ‘socialism’. Not even the most perverse satirical mind could make this shit up. The global supply of hallucinogens is grossly insufficient.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls Online devs detail “inhumane” Microsoft layoffs as Xbox expects the “carcass of workers” to “keep shipping award-winning games” 5 weeks ago:
I suppose the next batch of marks have now learned why some of us don’t trust Microsoft any further than our noodly coder-arms can throw them.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Hell no. The essential difference between games and movies/television or books as a source of entertainment is that they’re participatory. The player’s choices during interaction affects the exact outcome.
That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with being entertained by others making those choices, but they won’t be yours.