XLE
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- Comment on European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services 1 week ago:
They did the best they should have to do.
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 1 week ago:
Their statement in this article has a half dozen different reasons for dropping the project. A suspicious number of reasons, and all of them sound more like excuses. You’re definitely right about the Ministry of Truth though, because this embarrassment has been in development since 2024.
- Comment on Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For 1 week ago:
It’s like he’s describing a slot machine with unpainted wheels, leaving out the context that it’s in a casino with a big “paint me and enjoy a share of the profit” sign above it.
The social media machine was designed to be a self-serve addiction generator. It intentionally used every trick it could legally get away with.
- Comment on Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For 1 week ago:
Mike Masnick is on the Bluesky board of directors. Could this position be affecting his judgment on this specifically? because usually I expect Techdirt and Mike himself to be much more reasonable.
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 1 week ago:
It’s hard to tell when he’s genuinely miserable because his face always looks like that.
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 1 week ago:
I think even the text prompts are unprofitable. Sam Altman said so once, even for paid plans. I wonder if they’re still in danger of bleeding themselves dry. One can dream.
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 1 week ago:
I hope the real reason is that they’re running out of money to try new features, but the stated reason isn’t so bad either: that they aren’t yet able to surveil their users fast enough. Hearing Worldcoin failing to function is nice.
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- Comment on Intel and LG Display may have beaten Apple and Qualcomm with the best laptop battery life ever 1 week ago:
To be fair to Dell, Apple’s high-resolution displays might have toned-down resolutions too. The Mac Neo ships with a lower default resolution than what it can fully handle, if I understand the settings right.
- Comment on Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ — In shocking group chats, men encourage one another to drug and assault their wives – and swap tips on getting away with it 1 week ago:
On a Telegram group chat. In other words, in plain text on a popular social network.
Regulators, take note about how encryption isn’t preventing you from finding crimes. (As if the Epstein emails weren’t enough evidence.)
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 1 week ago:
I was recently encouraged a little by a lawsuit Meta lost that was based on the fact they were knowingly collecting too much data on a minor. The obvious solution is they should be more responsible with what they have (and probably start removing it), but their ideal solution is probably more data collection + focusing their abuse on vulnerable people who aren’t legally protected from it.
- Comment on Intel and LG Display may have beaten Apple and Qualcomm with the best laptop battery life ever 1 week ago:
The least expensive current-gen MacBook after the Neo is $1100 (less if you buy a previous generation, which is apparently common practice); the Dell in the article is $1750.
Apple’s other products are expensive, but this is a whole new level of it.
- Comment on Intel and LG Display may have beaten Apple and Qualcomm with the best laptop battery life ever 1 week ago:
With a starting price over $1500, they’re competing with Apple prices too
- Comment on Jury holds Meta and Google liable for role in young woman's mental health issues 1 week ago:
Fascinating. There are probably some issues with this, but they should be done only with the realization that Metq and Google probably have more data about your mental health than any therapist would dream of having, and their exploitation happens under those circumstances.
- Comment on A free VPN you can trust, now built into Firefox | The Mozilla Blog 1 week ago:
Not sure why this is downloaded. Mullvad is an example of a company that has fought like hell to earn its reputation as a trustworthy VPN provider, which is something that every provider (especially Mozilla) should aspire to.
- Comment on Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update 1 week ago:
I have my doubts (see responses for similar arguments about systemd adding an age field).
- Authoritarian governments are not appeased by corporations that bend over backwards for them, and
- Apple is in the business of making money, not keeping people private.
- Comment on Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update 1 week ago:
Remember when Apple used to fight surveillance?
Now they’re jumping to comply with rules that don’t even exist yet.
App stores and mobile operating systems are not covered by the Online Safety Act, but Ofcom, the UK media and telecoms regulator, welcomed Apple’s move on Wednesday.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
FWIW Vizio is a Walmart subsidiary now, they got bought out in late 2024
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, part of the court’s decision was that Facebook wasn’t surveilling people enough.
The New Mexico court heard how Meta’s 2023 decision to encrypt Facebook Messenger – its direct messaging platform, which predators have used as a tool to groom minors and exchange child abuse imagery – blocked access to crucial evidence of these crimes.
- Comment on A free VPN you can trust, now built into Firefox | The Mozilla Blog 1 week ago:
This is not white-label Mullvad. This is a new service running on servers that have never been vetted.
That isn’t something you trust just because a company tells you to trust it. In a best-case scenario you start with zero trust, and it gets built out from there. (And this assumes Mozilla isn’t operating from a trust deficit).
- Comment on This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts 1 week ago:
And by age, of course, we apparently mean identity… I love it
- Comment on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 1 week ago:
Pretty close! Sora gets mentioned specifically, just not in that context
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- Comment on Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive 1 week ago:
If they have to add useless features, at least they are inside things you already have disabled. OneDrive probably takes up more space than the remotely operated image generator
- Comment on This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts 1 week ago:
Hopefully everybody here is using an adblocker that renders this DDoS non-functional.
- Comment on This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts 1 week ago:
And coming at a time where some states say you need permission to run an OS on your own computer.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 1 week ago:
This sounds stupid (and it absolutely is!), but if you implemented it, Facebook would hire you. They hired the last guy that did this.
- Comment on Microsoft May Remove Windows 11 Online Login Requirement 1 week ago:
I trust them somewhat, because it would be in Microsoft’s best interest to maintain a monopoly on the OS market and to appease their business customers. Admitting their mistakes also puts them in a more vulnerable position than if they’d just pretended nothing was the matter.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 week ago:
I don’t think AI users would say it does reformatting either (if they’re honest): If you tell a chatbot to reformat text without changing it, it will change the text, because it does not understand the concept of not changing text. It should only take one time for someone to get burned for them to learn that lesson.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
they deserve to finally make some money
On top of the literal $100 billion a year they already make? The poor souls.