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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how competition works. Astral made a different product, served different audiences, and the markets were not competitive. Astral made tools that help a human developer organize and maintain their code. Nothing to do with chatbots. The team now being at OpenAI means jack shit about anticompetitive practices.

  This is sad because Astral made good open source tools and I don’t trust OpenAI to keep that up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. Can you infer vessel speed by assuming the run always concluded at the start position? The bottom line doesn’t meet back at the top line because the ship and runner were going in opposite directions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace dog trainer with dog robot maintainer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As I’ve grown older, I’ve realized that I care a lot less about whether I own the device or the ISP. I’ll happily root the fucking thing. What are they going to do, send me to a competitor? I have 3 different networks I can connect from at any moment (including hotspots), so I’m not worried about a minor lapse due to ISP temper tantrums.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you know whether or not democratic socialism is a good prospect in that regard? A flavor of which that remains capitalistic, but using worker coops instead of the top down monarchistic approach?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  USSR wasn’t really communist though, was it? They tried and failed to make a communist state, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so. First off, all the examples mentioned were computers, social media, video games, … these are all still pretty darn novel in the grand scheme of things. We still don’t know what happens to a society that doesn’t need to contend with boredom because they have algorithmically optimized content feeds jacking up their prefrontal cortex at all times of day and night. We still don’t understand the full extent to which walled garden social media ecosystems can influence politics and cultural bias, detriment democratic processes, or empower individuals. We still aren’t taking privacy seriously as a society, having relied for hundreds of years on the fact that complete and total surveillance systems is infeasible for a government. It’s far too early to say whether anyone is or isn’t fucked by any of this, which is why I draw comparisons to grandmama saying “back in my day, the boy was just excited. He didn’t have ‘ADHD.’ He was fine.” It’s about ignorance when new information comes to light.

  We have a lot of reason to believe there is some serious consequences to technology that unfortunately isn’t obvious from the get go. More unfortunately, we have a culture of not caring. Innovation first, policy second, right? Except that only works while policy can still catch up. We’ve been slow walking into a situation where, yeah, one of these generations is definitely getting fucked. Probably, though, it’s each generation getting a little more fucked as we continue having them.

  I’m not ignoring the benefits. The benefits are part of how we justify not impeding the innovation process — it’s literally part of the problem. The root of the issue is that we ignore the consequences, pretend that’s just the way things are, and think in weird metaphors like “the market will self correct” and “the market is never wrong.”

  If the future generations aren’t fucked, it’ll be because they solved the problems that were created here. It won’t be “they weren’t fucked because they were never fucked.” No, they were fucked. Hopefully they figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What about Cambridge Analytica, the mental health impacts, the addiction, … we’re still learning the social impact of social media — especially capitalistic social media. To pretend we aren’t is just plain ignorant, no? You can’t say people are fine when you don’t even know how they’ve been affected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sorry but I have to disagree with you pretty hard there. Generations that grew up with social media, internet, video games, … they are fucked. We’ve been watching the fuckening for a long time now. Saying that they haven’t been fucked is reminiscent of my grandparents saying ADHD and Anxiety aren’t real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve noticed that high tech AI generates photorealistic images in ways that reveal a lot of complexion details that most consumer phones hide. Zoom in, look at those big blotchy freckles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like coffee to me. My day feels a little more straightened out as long as one gets rubbed out early in the morning.

  There’s really not a comfortable way to say that, is there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the porn addiction thing is that you train your brain to seek the reward of sexual pleasure through the cheapest means possible: porn. Cheap as in fast, efficient, and often focusing on exactly what you want. Brain learns, “gee, this is a lot easier this way” and suddenly it’s more difficult to feel engaged with the more natural processes for sexy time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally anyone who vibecoded a project. Projects need secrets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the relationship between consumer and Valve though. I’m thinking what’s more relevant is whether or not the relationship between the game developer and Valve is in breach of contract between the game developer and PBS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t YouTube start without ads? Was doing fine back then, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, that sounds like gunk. I’ve been so exciting about the day and age when phones reach the same level of customizability as a PC. Little did I know, they want to phoneify the PCs instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, but I can see how this might play into their favor too. If the developers license to the music doesn’t cover resale/relicense, and maybe they’re arguing that the music (by extension of the game) was licensed to Valve in a manner that isn’t covered by the original license?

  But you still wouldn’t sue Valve over that, would you? You’d sue the developers for damages due to breach of contract?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a solution that seems so divorced from reality… I don’t quite understand how the expectation is reasonable, unless the goal is to force complaints to surface from the OS developers so that they can refine future versions of the law with more accuracy.

  Because Linux distributions can be created free-willy. Just check out Linux From Scratch, Gentoo, etc. Same with live boot from USB, same with stripped down server distros like Alpine — you have the same issue.

  Linux isn’t a product in the same way that other products can be regulated. It would make more sense if they defined clearly who this law actually targets, being something that is actually enforceable; something like this:

  • Any general-purpose computing device sold to consumers that includes an operating system capable of executing third-party applications…
  • All systems built after <xyz> date must include a MINIX subos that reproduces this API…
  • All browsers with GUI must support integration with the API, if they also want to support viewing of sensitive content
  • All porn distributors must validate age range via the API exposed via the browser, or refuse serving content

  That at least makes some sense. In a way, it only targets PC distributors and porn distributors. The end user could still do whatever they want, but porn distributors may not serve content to them without the functionality described.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems similar to the idea that you could sue Google for copyright infringement because it serves a website that infringes copyright. Like… valve just serves the content, right? The act of infringement wasn’t committed by them, it was committed by the game developers. Am I mistaken?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • QubeOS, if you’re into that kinky stuff.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gentoo > Arch > Elementary

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you, but hear me out… They’re creating products from the consumed torrents, which absolutely contained copyrighted materials. I’m not trying to capitalize my torrents. Although, I did use cracked photoshop back in high school for a $200 job.

  And to be completely honest with you, I don’t really care about copyright infringement so much, after it’s become a tool for organizations like Disney or whoever to abuse as they please. But the main body of work torrented here would be corpus’ of text, music, … a lot of stuff that independent producers created and rely on for income.

  I found this particular video quite insightful on the impact within the music industry: youtu.be/QVXfcIb3OKo

  To be fair to Meta, I’d have to say that I don’t really know what models they’re training via that data and how they’re using the resulting products. This is Meta, though, a pioneer and industry leader in the process of surveillance capitalism. I don’t particularly have high expectations for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those bastards stole all our data! But hey, at least they seeded it. Would have been pretty darn rude, otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I shower with them…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed Zelda BOTW. I beat it. Then I did their weird glitch that requires you to beat it twice more without dying once, but you get to keep this crazy Light Bow thing forever. I spend like a week accomplishing that glitch. Then I spend like 6 months hoping on it every once in a while, just to ride around the map and shoot things with that bow. Eventually I lost my game save, and now I don’t play it anymore… I would, if I didn’t have to spend another week on a glitch to get my bow back. Now I just look at it, remembering the good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not the use case you’d want to buy ECC for. I considered it for my homebuild because I figured I might process a lot of data at once, and I would appreciate the piece of mind… but I still decided no because I could get more ram for the same price if it were not ECC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those claims are put under scrutiny in the video I linked. I’ll have to read the article though, as I’m going off your comment.

  It claims you can’t get blacklisted for not towing the party line. You can get blacklisted for not paying fines that you owe. To me, it sounds equivalent to being refused plane fair if you’ve got an unpaid traffic violation from a year ago.

  The video even calls out a case where an MMA fighter was blacklisted after participating in Hong Kong protests. But claims the story is misrepresented, and the fighter was actually blacklisted for failure pay $60k after being found liable for defamation against another MMA fighter in a civil suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In unrelated news, Chinese social credit is a deeply misunderstood topic in western culture. It apparently does more to prevent corruption than it does to aid corruption, according to one independent reporter found via my YouTube algorithm. youtu.be/iXrx9ryVaes

  I’m starting the get the feeling that feeling strongly about almost anything is a pretty strong indicator that I’ve been propagandized. How do we live like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In unrelated news, check this out: youtu.be/-TlYoVsW5ko

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps just a coincidence, but why do all the big cases regarding LLM psychosis seem to revolve around Google? Wasn’t it their own employee who went public last year, claiming it was alive, only to get fired afterward?