Manjushri
@Manjushri@piefed.social
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 1 day ago:
Yep. In the words of George R. R. Martin
“You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they’ll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.”
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 1 day ago:
Fans work well for me, but if it is humid in your house you it may not be as effective. Moving dry air can carry off a lot of sweat.
- Comment on Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads 6 days ago:
10 percent of Telly’s shipments through FedEx arrived broken
No big surprise there. Shipments I get through FedEx are always beat to hell.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 week ago:
The trees have probably already exploded. It’s how they knew to warn those east of them.
- Comment on UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake 2 weeks ago:
Everyone wants to run everything like a business these days. They want to save on payroll so rather than paying actual police to do the paperwork, they want to use Copilot or whatever to do the paperwork for them. Of course, because AI models are so crappy and error prone, they need to spend the same amount of money on payroll to verify the accuracy of the AI output. But they don’t do that. They just run with whatever the AI output is and figure it’ll be close enough to accurate. After all, big tech keeps telling everyone that AI is wonderful and can do anything.That is far from the truth though.
A lawyer in California last year got in trouble for using ChatGPT to generate briefs for a trial. He wound up filing those briefs with the court even though they 21 of the 23 quotes from previous trials were complete fabrications. In another incident, a police department in Utah used an AI to generate a report from a traffic stop. That report claimed that an officer shape-shifted into a frog during the incident.
There are endless reports of AI making shit up and demonstrating how error prone those tools are. Yet, people who should know better keep trusting AI to do these important jobs, just to save money on payroll, when AI is clearly far from ready for prime-time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You need some heavy curtains. Doing anything like you suggest would just get the cops at your door for creating a driving hazard or something.
- Comment on Gmail's new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won’t train AI on user emails 3 weeks ago:
…yet
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 3 weeks ago:
This is absolutely horrific and a stain on humanity itself. And there is another aspect that isn’t always brought up is cases of injustice like this. The police, lawyers, judges, and everyone else involved in the murder of this young boy, were quite literally covering up for the real murderer(s) of those girls. Whoever killed those girls went free, perhaps to kill again, because of the racist motivations of those involved in the trial and execution of this poor, scared, kid.
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 3 weeks ago:
Prosecute the current one for his crimes, but we all know that won’t happen.
- Comment on Can pets tell who's petting them without looking? 4 weeks ago:
Not always. I was at my sister’s house and her cat was not over-fond of me. That bothered me because cats normally adore me. At one point, the cat was half-snoozing on a stool so I reached over to give him a pet. At first he started to purr and stretched out. Yes! Thought I, finally making friends. Then he looked over his shoulder and saw it was me. He hissed and ran to the other side of the room and started cleaning himself. I’d have been hurt if his expression hadn’t been so funny when he realized that it wasn’t my sister petting him.
- Comment on Hackers threaten to leak massive 'Wired' customer database 4 weeks ago:
the breach appears to be legitimate and includes email addresses, along with optional fields such as first and last name, phone number, physical address, gender, and date of birth — although many of these fields appear to be empty.
So, this may be the most inconsequential leak in a long time. Grats to Conde Nast for not storing a zillion pieces of data on all their customers.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 5 weeks ago:
That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 5 weeks ago:
Okay, thanks.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 5 weeks ago:
Forgive my ignorance, but does this mean that my gforce card performance will be degraded if I don’t pay for this subscription? Why would I want to use this cloud gaming to play games I already own?
- Comment on Celebrating anti-intellectualism is the biggest danger to humanity 1 month ago:
Yes, Isaac Asimov, back in 1980, referred to it as a Cult of Ignorance.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Comment on Google is killing off dark web reports 1 month ago:
Google has noted that although its utility offered general information about how many instances your data has been found on the dark web due to breaches and what kind of information about you is available online, the feedback from customers indicated that it did not offer any clean remediation steps to follow next. Indeed, the existing dashboard is just a trove of information with no actionable steps. People can find out how their data was stolen, but they can’t do anything about it.
Welcome to the information age where information is everywhere except in people’s heads.
- Comment on In the US one can graduate *cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude*. There should be another honor added if you survive a school shooting. 1 month ago:
.357 Magnum cum laude.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 month ago:
…additionally using unbelievable amounts of power so the environmental concerns go right out of the window at a time where we should do everything to not do that.
Don’t forget that the enormous energy usage is driving up energy costs for absolutely everyone.
Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according to the most recent data from the Energy Information Administration.
That’s on a national basis too. If you happen to live in an area with a lot of data centers, your energy costs have probably risen more than that.
- Comment on Alas! 1 month ago:
I think I really need this on a t-shirt.
- Comment on Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'? 1 month ago:
Most displays are likely to be replicas, I think. Few people would be interested in seeing a T. Rex hip bone in one display, half a triceratops horn in another, etc. Complete skeletons are a bit of a rarity so it would be tough to find all the parts of some species for all the different museums out there. Also, in order to build a complete display of a T. Rex or triceratops, you would likely use all replica parts because you would need to damage the fossils in order to connect them all together.
Finally, most of the actual fossils are valuable to researchers and putting them on display in museums would make them less available for study.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
Ah, oops. I should pay closer attention. I’ll leave the post and take my beatings.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
That’s a really dumb argument. A person complains about paying for something that they’ll never get, and the IndyStar’s response is to complain about paying for something that they’ve already benefited from, and that was paid for by others. I would further add, paying for schools is a great thing even if you don’t have and will never have kids. Without good schools, everyone else’s kids will probably grow up to be conservatives.
- Comment on Infosec 1 month ago:
To be fair, anyone who uses their birthday for a pin or password is a fool.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 1 month ago:
RFK, is that you?
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 1 month ago:
There is a chemical in your brain called dopamine which is an important part of how we feel pleasure. Use of recreational drugs and alcohol causes a rush of this chemical and that is part of the pleasure we feel from using them. The problem is that regular use of such chemicals causes us to have lower levels of dopamine when we are not using them. We end up feeling a desire for the drug or booze to get our dopamine levels back up.
Diets high in sugar, salt, and carbs also causes a dopamine rush. When you eat that food regularly, it lowers your normal dopamine levels, just like drugs and alcohol do, if not to the same level. That is why you feel that craving. Eating such food occasionally is fine, but if you do it to often, you can literally get an addiction to it.
- Comment on People are completely used to autotune in music now, and the same will happen with ai usage 1 month ago:
Autotune is not driving up electricity costs for everyone whether they use it or not AI is.
American households have seen their electricity bills rise 30% since 2021. This is contributing heavily to rising cost-of-living concerns across the country. At the center of these price hikes is the AI revolution, and the sector’s projected expansion means the increased costs are unlikely to level off any time soon.
The AI data centers sector, hungry for power, which accounts for much of the increased energy demand, is projected to undergo double-digit annual growth through the end of the decade. This far outpaces what the existing electrical grid and its operators are prepared to manage. Consumers are finding themselves footing the bill for the excess strain on the system. A study published by Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University predicted an increase in household energy costs of 8 percent nationally by 2030, with up to 25 percent increases in select regional markets.
At some point, people will get sick of this AI nonsense and stop allowing the data centers in their communities.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Police said that the goal of at least two of the suspects was to take the footage from intimate locations, such as gynecology offices, and create sexually exploitative videos to sell online.
Um, why is there an IP camera, let alone and unsecured IP camera in a gynecology office?
- Comment on Assumptions 2 months ago:
A lot of herbivores are occasional opportunistic carnivores. I bet that thing’s molars would make quick work of a human’s bones.
- Comment on Assumptions 2 months ago:
You can have a cuddly dairy cow, but that’s not universal.
Far from universal. About 20 people die per year in the USA from attacks by cows. They are huge powerful animals that don’t generally don’t give a shit about people (they’re used to them, for the most part) but if they decide you are a threat to them or their calf, you’re fucked.
- Comment on Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky 2 months ago:
It was invented in 1816…
Simple new engine. Right.