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- Comment on AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains 2 hours ago:
In many cases, Alzuhair writes, human supply chain managers are no longer being asked to override automatic shipments or intervene when discrepancies occur under their jurisdiction.
Don’t worry guys, AI will revolutionize everything. You won’t have to think at all!
Except AI is trash at doing what it’s advertised to do, it makes everybody dumber, and its shills will blame you once it inevitably mucks everything up.
- Comment on World Leaders Near Declaration on AI, Indian Government Says 7 hours ago:
Because the tech bros building it are guiding the conversion. Based on promises that we have no reason to assume they can deliver.
Few details were available about that declaration, except that it pledged that “AI’s promise is best realised only when its benefits are shared by humanity,” according to a European Union press release.
And the same tech bros threatening clueless politicians with even more outlandish lies:
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, claimed the world might just be “only a couple of years away from early forms of superintelligence.”
The article is pretty good at underscoring some of the other BS outside of the technical side of things
- Comment on AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach 7 hours ago:
Oh, I see. So it’s disdain for the open source community, is it.
Working for free isn’t altruism, it’s hurting other workers.
I think this sentence made me throw up in my mouth a little..m for several reasons.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 9 hours ago:
You look at the
eugenicistnatalist couples who worship Elon Musk and you realize they are indeed ghouls, and they treat their children like non-sentient garbage. Hitting them during interviews in public. Imagine what they do in private. - Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 9 hours ago:
It was the most concrete example of you being wrong I could possibly imagine, and you put it right into my lap, lol. Appeal to authority requires an authority, and you couldn’t name one. Maybe you meant this, but that would make your own accusation ass-backwards according you you.
And if you can’t be trusted to correct an obvious and inconsequential lie, you can’t be trusted to correct anything else.
- Comment on AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins. 14 hours ago:
Well, there goes the AI evangelist claim of “democratizing” literally anything. Instead, it gives increasingly BS answers based on your social status already.
Everybody brace yourselves for the cope, which will probably be a class-based version of “you’re prompting it wrong” or somesuch trash.
- Comment on Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links 19 hours ago:
The Wayback machine is good, but it has limitations archive.today subverted. That’s why people are looking for alternatives specifically to the latter
- Comment on AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it 1 day ago:
The title is a bit misleading. The issue here is data scrapers, period. They aren’t being deployed by AI, and they aren’t running using AI. It’s just the presumed destination of the data being scraped.
- Comment on Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links 1 day ago:
Couldn’t you host it somewhere yourself? I guess there’s a question of trust there, but trust is the reason Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 day ago:
Can’t hear you over your false accusation of appeal to authority
- Comment on Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links 1 day ago:
Understandable. Archive.today is really good at getting website content, but their methods are proprietary and a little dubious.
If you just want to save things locally, I believe Single File is really good. It downloads the page that you see on your browser, as you see it.
- Comment on AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach 1 day ago:
Plenty of stupid rich Bay Area tech bros have thrown money into their AI agents, and they have discovered the AI agents overspend that money.
- Comment on AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach 1 day ago:
If you already agree that the contributions could very well be worthless crap, why would you use a second layer of worthless crap to gatekeep them?
If you want to care about people doing the thankless jobs, why would you double the amount of crap they have to sort through?
- Comment on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate 1 day ago:
“We all” = not only consumer products, but literally everything that makes the world tick, and the even more invisible things that make those things tick…
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 1 day ago:
Supposedly, according to the Microsoft article,
AI PCsCoPilot+ PCs are capable of translating stuff on the fly (which sounds awesome) and generating images, all locally. Allegedly.I have yet to run into anybody that’s actually talked about these so-called innovations though. I have a PC with Windows and the beefy GPU and I would love to get live transcriptions. But the (MS) article doesn’t even mention how I would do that…
Even if everything Microsoft promise was true, though, the lines sure are intentionally blurred between what runs locally and what doesn’t.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 1 day ago:
Wow the Microsoft article really is a mess. I honed in on a promise made about “AI PCs” and was initially interested in a promise to do local translation (perhaps of un-subtitled foreign films or news?)
AI PCs are powered by a turbocharged neural processing unit (NPU) [that] performs more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS)… This matters because:
- AI tasks, like real-time translation, image generation, and intelligent search, run locally instead of requiring the cloud
- Responses feel faster and smoother
- Your battery lasts longer
(Responses are “faster and smoother” and the battery lasts “longer”… compared to what? Surely those magical cloud AI solutions can go faster and offload AI processing, something Microsoft seems to be jockeying for anyway.)
Never mind that technicality. I want local translation. And my PC can do an AI, I thought, until I realized the definition of “AI PCs” is mixed with a more exclusionary selection of CoPilot+ PCs:
Some of the tools listed, including Recall and Live Captions with Translations, are only available on Copilot+ PCs with an NPU capable of 40 TOPS performance (or better).
- Comment on Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links 1 day ago:
GhostArchive came up in discussions.
- Comment on Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links 1 day ago:
As of 13:27, 19 February 2026 (UTC), the owners are now batch-replacing certain names in archived pages with the real name of the gyrovague.com webmaster as a form of harassment.
The top piece of evidence (not in any special order) was redacted due to "revealing personal information".
Other subsequent pieces of evidence were retained but names were replaced with abbreviations
I have another evidence of tampering: this is a Megalodon archive of a archive.ph archive of a post. The original post is now dead. Patokallio mentions this post in his blog – he would surely mention if the post mentioned him, in the way the archived version does. He quoted the original [N.P.] was a woman[…], while the archive.ph reads Jani Patokallio was a woman[…]
Sometime today, Archive.today replaced the name with the equivalent amount of spaces (only where N…’s name used to be). Ironically, “Jani Patokallio” is of the same length as “N…”.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 day ago:
“If the truth isn’t enough, then I don’t want it.”
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 day ago:
Pesky German dissidents sabotage military equipment, 1944.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 day ago:
You can’t accuse me of appealing to authority if there was no authority. You either stupidly or maliciously lied. Time to admit it, even consider apologizing and not being a hypocrite for even a moment.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 1 day ago:
It’s a judicial precedent
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 1 day ago:
Holz told The Register in August 2022 that the company was already profitable.
Is this still the case?
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 1 day ago:
Why don’t you show us your Google result that proves Midjourney made of profit?
- Comment on Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies 1 day ago:
normal priced hard drive pls
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 2 days ago:
O wise LLM, what authority are you accusing me of appealing to
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 2 days ago:
Ah the projection
Bro an appeal to authority requires an authority be appealed to, you capable of acknowledging that?
- Comment on Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot 2 days ago:
I know it’s not the same company, but that sure is a far cry from:
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said that as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by artificial intelligence.
Sounds like AI contracts aren’t the only thing getting quietly scaled back.
- Comment on X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find 2 days ago:
It’s the intersection of social media addiction and virtue signaling. I don’t have a problem. You have a problem with my praxis.
- Comment on Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot 2 days ago:
It’s almost like industry experts want us to believe AI is super capable, when the real danger is it’s super incapable…
