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- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 3 days ago:
Aren’t there multiple? Besides the ancient rift between Eastern and Western Catholic churches, there are also sedevacantists that seem focused on just being antisemites still (Mel Gibson’s dad had his own pseudo-Catholic church).
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 3 days ago:
There’s plenty of other divisions within Christianity, but I’ve found it’s the more radical evangelical sect of Christianity (read: the ones in the White House) that claim Catholics aren’t Christians the hardest. I
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 3 days ago:
Those damned Catholics.
Signed, a citizen of the culturally Protestant US, where most of us don’t even consider Catholics to be Christian
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I want a divorce and I’m keeping Clippy
- Comment on 3 days ago:
If Microsoft walks back their use of AI in the development of Windows, that would be a major admission of failure on their part.
But it will probably help prolong their market dominance a great deal. Because up until they started destroying their own OS, all they needed to do to remain on the top was literally nothing.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
Hey Steven, how do you think they make those models?
(As if you genuinely believe those are the ones GOG is using.)
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
Considering the GOG announced their AI usage to the world with an AI-generated image, and the technology currently cannot be remotely useful without being extremely unethical, I do not share your optimism.
There’s plenty of real technology that can be reclaimed right now, though! From textile machines to lithium ion battery technology, the world is your oyster.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
There you go, predictably making more baseless claims. If these things are supposedly so great, prove it.
And how did you hallucinate a misspelling in my comment? Maybe take a break from Elon’s CSAM bot for a while.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
Bro, you’re an AI slop evangelist posting from an “anarchism” domain
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
Don’t act so stupid, dude. You know what post you’re in, or at least I hope you do.
If you want to claim that AI can magically do something that not even AI companies themselves can prove, then prove it. Ed Zitron has been begging AI evangelists like you to prove it for at least a year now. Otherwise, I call bullshit on your evangelism.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
“We”
Is Sam Altman in the room with you right now?
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
AI Bros are always good for a laugh. They can’t point to any industry successes, pretend massive industry failures like Microsoft don’t count, and generally trust their own feelings over facts.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
We’ve got studies that show AI makes you feel more productive while you’re actually less productive. And all you’re offering is a feeling you feel. Get high on your own supply if you want, but don’t drag down good companies with your evangelism.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
No thanks AI bro
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 days ago:
Apple also gets money from developers who use their platform already. That should be it.
Apple will already bully small developers off their platform while giving bigger companies first-class treatment.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
Citation needed.
You’re on a post about Linux, an OS has grown in popularity thanks to Microsoft ruining Windows with the “true aids” you’re promoting here.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 days ago:
Doomposting about AI inevitability is only beneficial to AI companies… If your claim is even true. And if it is, we should shame everybody else.
- Comment on OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem 4 days ago:
Sell problem, sell solution
- Comment on Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web 5 days ago:
I really hope the project doesn’t end up being basically Matrix again.We already have a nerdy group chat app that doesn’t really work well as a Discord replacement. We don’t need two.
- Comment on Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web 6 days ago:
I agree. I think the average person just wants Roomy (or Matrix) to do what Discord already does. Voice. Video. Desktop streaming. All this haggling about protocols and decentralization don’t matter, but that’s what the article (and the app?) seem most focused on.
- Comment on TikTokers say anti-ICE videos won’t publish. The company blames tech issues 6 days ago:
No mobile website where I can block trackers, and the app comes with at least 4
- Google Firebase Analytics
- Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Core
(location advertisement analytics) - OneSignal
- Sentry
- Comment on TikTokers say anti-ICE videos won’t publish. The company blames tech issues 6 days ago:
When I was 11, on 17th Nov 1989, in Czechoslovakia, my father was watching the evening news on our (black and white) TV, as usual.
There was a protest and the state media was reporting on it. When the reporter said, “our camera broke down and we can only show black and white pictures”, my father IMMEDIATELY jumped up and angrily said, “that’s bs, you don’t want to show how they [the protesting students] got beaten up [by the police]!”
This was an interesting life lesson. So yeah, sure, technical difficulties..
- Comment on Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users 6 days ago:
They should be a de jure admission of guilt, is what they should be
- Comment on Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline 6 days ago:
Important to note that most of the “AI will take your job” rhetoric is spun up by the AI industry, not fact
- Comment on Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet 6 days ago:
Remember when millionaire weirdos would brag about setting up internet access in random towns just to put people on their preferred cryptocurrency? They called it “banking the unbanked,” but we all know what it was really code for.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 week ago:
“I’m just saying they don’t need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 1 week ago:
On the bright side: The government can’t afford to bail out something this big with no purpose.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 1 week ago:
How’s that?
AI bros do venerate science-fiction writers an unhealthy amount. Fictional fearmongering like “AI2027” is taken as fact, an actual AI doomsday cult leader has no credentials except publishing fantasy fiction, people like Neal Stephenson are treated almost as prophets etc… So if that’s the bit of the article you take issue with, I don’t think it’s a problem
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 1 week ago:
Then again we’re on the internet so there’s always at least one guy who’d hyperfocus on monitoring something like this.
Not just the Internet, but Wikipedia. It’s catnip to people who hyperfocus on topics.
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 1 week ago:
Username tracks