recentSlinky
@recentSlinky@lemmy.ca
Professional lurker
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 19 hours ago:
And i think committing and/or assisting in genocides is ‘hostile activity’. One of us is definitely wrong :)
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 day ago:
Didn’t they get sued multiple times for pulling shit like this before?
- Comment on My led lights suddenly turned dim. Why do they break like that? 4 days ago:
It’s by design so people buy more lights. It could be made to function better and last way way longer (theocratically forever by a human’s standards).
But then the quarterly line won’t go up high enough, so it’s “bad for business”.
Like someone else commented, even the bad ones can be made to at least be slightly better with small adjustments to the circuit, but then 2 people out of 8 billions around the world would be reluctant to buy the extra luxury package on their third super yacht. So obviously it’s not worth it (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 3 weeks ago:
Me playing Satisfactory
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
Probably same reason cancer always needs to grow. It’s a fundamentally broken part of the system.
- Comment on Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms 2 months ago:
Honestly, that doesn’t sound bad, as long as it’s clearly communicated and has opt-in/opt-out.
I wouldn’t mind selling some of my data that i choose consensually, and getting fairly compensated for it.
Especially when comparing that to how most (if not all) current major companies just covertly steal all they can about you and sell it behind our backs to whoever.
Saying all that, i don’t support current AI model training practices at all. So i agree (for now) with the means, not the end results.