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- Comment on Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency 9 hours ago:
As workers of conscience, we …
Here I was thinking everyone with a conscience quit long ago or refused to work for surveillance capitalists in the first place.
- Comment on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams 10 hours ago:
Hopefully the intention is to contribute and help make it into something that can serve large organizations reliably.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Well, at least now there is a LLM that can hallucinate based on the contents of all those books.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 3 days ago:
Yeah, it sure has been a while: maybe 15 or even close to 20 years! You’re right, I think I’d really enjoy replaying it again on my Steam Deck, so I think I’ll take your advice. It’s amazing how well 20 year old classics like that still hold up.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 3 days ago:
I’ve been waiting since 2013 for a new Splinter Cell, but I won’t be willing to boot Windows to or run anything with malware (a.k.a., DRM, spyware, kernel root kits), so I suppose it’s probably a lost cause altogether.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 3 days ago:
Next up, a mass influx of refurbished GPUs that have been subjected ionizing radiation.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Yeah, LLMs do a decent job explaining what code does.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 4 days ago:
Guess sarcasm in writing doesn’t always work well. Newsom reminds me of Christian Bale in American Psycho, and honestly, I’d trust the character in that film over Newsom.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 4 days ago:
I’m sure the Democrats will select a top-tier candidate for us like Gavin Newsom in 2028. One of the most pressing issues in this country right now is there is a lot of hate against minority groups like billionaires and zionists, and a candidate like Newsom would work tirelessly to make sure these groups don’t have to live in fear.
- Comment on Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal 5 days ago:
Flying car
So an aircraft?
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 5 days ago:
Want us to put your show back on? Yes? Then read the following aloud 5 times while slapping your face continuously: “I am sofa king, stupid”.
- Comment on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills 6 days ago:
I’m a senior dev who has been the tech lead over various products throughout my career and have always been really engaged. In my current software engineer role, though, most of the important product and technology decisions are made behind closed doors and handed down to my team. I’ve found that any given idea I have that isn’t a direct and logical conclusion of a decision made in the ivory tower has a 99% chance of getting shot down or ignored. So, my job is more or less to pump out whatever drivel they want every day instead of being someone driving the development of products I’m building. Unsurprisingly, AI really helps a lot with that. The fact that AI reduces my engagement is a feature, not a bug, because every time I become engaged and start getting excited about an idea, it’s always met with indifference or even disdain, leading to frustration and depression. AI has definitely improved my mental health because I can give a lot less of a shit. The CEO sent out an e-mail the other day saying our #1 priority is to use AI to make ourselves more productive.
My response:
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 6 days ago:
Well, they use Blender, so it makes sense. Everyone who uses Maya pays Autodesk, but Blender doesn’t have any less of a need for funding just because it’s not illegal to use it without paying. The main difference is that Blender doesn’t have restrictive licensing that limits what you can do with it.
- Comment on Server ROI Calculator 1 week ago:
I asked a friend whether owns a small plane whether it saves money vs. flying commercial, and the answer was no way, it’s for the freedom, convenience, and love of aviation. Realistically, self-hosting is the same, albeit a lot cheaper.
- Comment on Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update 1 week ago:
That does it, I’m never installing Chrome again. I haven’t in years anyway because it’s garbage spyware, but still.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 week ago:
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Ending encryption is Meta’s end so they can spy on everyone and help governments do so as well, so they therefore have an end to end encryption. Oh, y’all thought the app had true E2EE such that even Meta with their surveillance capitalist business model couldn’t access your data? 🤣
- Comment on Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users 1 week ago:
Oh, come on, not all lawyers are vultures who exploit the law for their own financial gain. Some of them are retired, or dead.
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 1 week ago:
I’d love to never buy from Nvidia again if RDNA 5 can live up to the hype. Current generation AMD cards are unfortunately not cost effective for the path tracing and compute workloads I run (Blender rendering, simulations, and certain ML models). Hopefully, AMD will offer midrange cards with strong compute capabilities that don’t have artificially limited VRAM. I’m especially excited about the Radiance cores: true RTX to compete with Optix.
- Comment on Selfhosted Jira alternative 1 week ago:
I self-host Forgejo and use its issues for this purpose, though it’s lacking if you need to track work centrally across repos.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
The Elder Scrolls VI with mandatory Copilot integration 💀
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Bitlocker? More like Shitlocker. Thanks, but I’ll stick with LUKS.
- Comment on White House tech chief slams EU AI Act, champions Trump's approach as Davos begins 2 weeks ago:
From a quick reading of the actual law, here are some of the AI uses it prohibits that will apparently “stifle innovation”:
…use of an AI system that exploits any of the vulnerabilities of a natural person or a specific group of persons due to their age, disability or a specific social or economic situation
…to assess or predict the risk of a natural person committing a criminal offence, based solely on the profiling of a natural person or on assessing their personality traits and characteristics
…the use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques
…the use of AI systems that create or expand facial recognition databases through the untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage
…the use of biometric categorisation systems that categorise individually natural persons based on their biometric data to deduce or infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 2 weeks ago:
The CEOs are investing in AI to put on airs for investors and inflate their company valuation, often pissing off customers and lost in g sales in the process. It’s evidently a worthy trade-off.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 2 weeks ago:
I first read it as TLC. You mean the TVs will play nothing but low-grade reality shows?
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
Whining that nobody wants to use your product worked pretty well for Zuck and his Mii-verse. Oh, that’s right, it didn’t, never mind.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, people responding to my original comment assume I’d prefer Jim Crow Joe. Trump has a more abrasive personality that a lot of people love to hate, but obviously they’re both geriatric puppets to distract everyone while the billionaire cabal continues business as usual.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 weeks ago:
I assume you’re referring to the fact that Tesla has a Shanghai factory and is exporting Teslas made there to Canada.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I liked Jim Crow Joe even less than orange gameshow host. Some of his policies had direct negative effects on my life. Then the election came around and the democrats decided we don’t get a primary at all this time, so we ended up with a choice between an ignorant gameshow host who somehow fancies himself an independent thinker and a cackling hen who puts on no such airs, both of whom are completely loyal to the international billionaire cabal.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 weeks ago:
I’d sooner buy a Chinese EV than a Tesla, but the orange gameshow host running my country says I can’t.
