TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus
@TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world
- Comment on My glasses 1 hour ago:
I love me some medical joke that I am one of the few to understand
- Comment on Worst day of the year 2 hours ago:
The grand sonnerie / westminster / grandfathe clock (2 or 3 barrels - mainsprings) with relative train wheels. The snail like feature in the middle is what tells the chime how to tell the time - with the mallets. two or three mallets. Setting the time anticlockwise undoes the sync between the time on the dial and the chime. Even worse in perpetual calendars like these, where the time must be synced with the 100-years worth of calculations done by the complications, a problem that happens even while letting it idle for too long, because you’d have to manually set date, year, decade, moonphase, and everything else. But i’m too poor to own one of them. Image
- Comment on Worst day of the year 18 hours ago:
The only real problem with daylight savings for me is this kind of thing, because they can’t be adjusted anticlockwise.
- Comment on Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile 1 day ago:
“Because local newsrooms are so strapped, they are turning for assistance on the news making process in every direction,” Rinehart wrote in a company Slack message. “Advance Publications got there first, others will follow,” she added, referring to the Plain Dealer’s publisher. “Resistance is futile. " […] Spinning a yarn, Rinehart also claimed that some editors told her that they would “prefer to have reporters report and have articles at least pre-written by AI.” […] “There are many — and I mean MANY — editors who would prefer an AI-written article to a human-written one,” she wrote. “Reporting and writing are two different skill sets and rare — RARE — is the occasion when it’s wrapped into one person.”
I’ll let the CEO quotes here because they’re so asinine, on a technical level and human level. I have no idea how to comment these.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 2 days ago:
For oldies like me, this is like watching the Iraq military operations ‘leak’, like the time they targeted a civilian van with high imapct artillery. That image is burnt in my mind. A white van, two men collecting their things around, than the vehicle is bombed as it is going down a dusty road.
I cannot be willing to fight for any such power. We have freedom to be after all.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 days ago:
which is true (and i played difficult games in the past) but does it deserve the kind of response they had? My feelings about online gaming is that it was either the most fun (not relevant to the difficulty) or weirdly miserable. In the end, I think it’s the overly online crowd that does this, usually active players can be far more chill—
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 days ago:
I can give some; A player started a charity event (proposed to) involving the dev team playing the game at its highest possible difficulty, difficulty 10, in a game where the highest achievement is obtained at difficulty 7, after which there are no achivements, so to play dif 10 you gotta love the game and be insanely good at it. Said challenge happens on the hardest scenario of the game, a difficult planet with a weird name that i forgot.
Cool, I guess.
Another player added to the challenge that he would pay the dev 1000 dollars, but not for charity, no no, but to prove that dif10 is fucking impossible. Which triggered a ’ discussion ’ that brought some ‘git gud’ players to be overzealous. They doxed the first guy, sent death threats and other things to.
in short, he got his life ruined because he attempted a fun charity event.
I don’t engage with these communities…but it ended up in an article so i happen to know about it.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 days ago:
Today I realized I’m too outta the loop on games since halo 3.
It’s a peaceful life…
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 2 days ago:
passwords and form data can be synchronized. Enabling password and form data synchronization might give some users pause for thought, particularly after the Windows Recall fiasco, but users worried about Redmond slurping data should probably consider an alternative to Windows anyway.
Definition of keylogger:
While the programs themselves are legal,[3] with many designed to allow employers to oversee the use of their computers, keyloggers are most often used for stealing passwords and other confidential information.[4][5] Keystroke logging can also be utilized to monitor activities of children in schools or at home and by law enforcement officials to investigate malicious usage.[6]
(Wikipedia)
Ask yourself, who’s investigating what, and why? Keylogger have been used in specific and strongly defined use cases. This is neither.
- Comment on Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too 5 days ago:
contracted workers at a Kenya-based company called Sama. These workers are data annotators who are tasked with reviewing footage captured from the camera on the glasses and labeling it to help AI systems get better at identifying what they see
Sama is the same company that classified outputs and training material for openai.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 6 days ago:
After buyers invested in Windows 11 PCs, Microsoft may find it difficult to encourage early adoption. The motivation now is not security-related, but rather mandating previously optional AI-based features […] Consumers may also not welcome rumored subscription-based plans for the OS. Still, the report suggests that additional costs are related to an improved Windows 365 cloud-based service […] Windows is a mandatory AI driven “” os “” that’s leasing its features from cloud platforms. Sounds like corporate setups for home computers
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 6 days ago:
Truly a showerthought. Not a good one but it involves showering.
- Comment on nothing & no one is safe from this plague 1 week ago:
This hurts on so many levels, Terry Davis was one of a kind programmer. It’s sad to see what happened. He could still provide valuable informations and be a formative presence on occasions, even in his late days.
- Comment on nothing & no one is safe from this plague 1 week ago:
Oh I thought about that. Fake memories. Alterating the past. Whenever i interact with these automations i contantly write mentally or otherwise a way back.
- Comment on nothing & no one is safe from this plague 1 week ago:
Just browse the chatgpt subreddit and the various ai companion forums. You will see. Right now most post are compliants for the DoD deal with openAI, but at its prime, during the 4o release, they were full of adoration for an AI ML model. Even still, there are posts like that.
- Comment on A product of his environment 1 week ago:
Condo buildings I saw things. Did you know that you can stuff a keyhole with glue and human feces?
- Comment on Docs used to be cool as hell 1 week ago:
Anything is phallic if you’re brave enough
- Comment on Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash 1 week ago:
IT and tech support for the relatively common case of bricked computers and bad updates.
- Comment on An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification 1 week ago:
And steam has linux too in their devices. Linux is going mainstream, and i feel like this time is real.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 week ago:
S o l a r. F l a r e
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 1 week ago:
Y’know, i only use AI for horizontal side researches and support that i do next to the main non ai search. Other than that, i write my stuff, all of it.
- Comment on Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware 1 week ago:
The malicious domains will also try to accept only real PC users. If it detects an internet visit coming from a bot or an automated check from a security researcher, the domains will redirect the traffic to Google.com. “If you pass the checks, the site downloads a file named ms-update32.exe. At 75MB, it feels like a legitimate Windows installer,” Malwarebytes says.
They are getting more sophisticated. So it’s a copy of licences and installer. Naturally, the only legitimate means to have that is windows update from the menù, but if you didn’t know…
- Comment on He'll arrest you with his nippies ❤️🔥 1 week ago:
need to have been there to see it for yourself.
This symbol: @ used to be the coolest shit ever, they put it even on biscuit packages.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
From DoD tu dud real quick
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 1 week ago:
I read somewhere that Anthropic has $18,000,000,000 in commitments from last year alone, so conceivably, they can stand to lose a mere $200,000,000 and it won’t create a huge issue for them in the short term.
How does one count that amount of anything, let alone money
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 1 week ago:
This side pane will provide ‘contextual insights and actionable suggestions’, but I’m betting the idea won’t be well received
I know what it is, it’s the ‘summarise page for me’ feature. That nobody uses as much as they want. That’s why they’re forcing it. We need a private email service / frontend / program, i feel like this is going to their servers without oversight. I don’t know.
Despite the big AI backlash that started late last year, Microsoft clearly isn’t downing AI tools – but did we think it would? No, of course not, as AI agents are the next-big-thing ™ in Windows 11, and there’s no getting around that
So is everything. Just say “install linux now” I guess. Samsung is going ‘agentic’ AI. On our phones. No privacy, even. Apple enabled the age verification at an os level, besides i also hate how file transfering protocols work on iphones.
This isn’t even my phone anymore because AI must access everything. No, no and no.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 1 week ago:
And, they appear to have partnered with persona in certain cases: opencritic.com/…/twitch-reportedly-using-persona-…
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
I usually just wait for a subtle hints of steam building up inside the boiler. To be clear, i think shark tale is really not bad, at all. But it’s weird. I have a dvd of this movie
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
In general, will smith has always been an action type of guy in his roles, but to do that he always needed to have clear motivations. I guess a nested dream in a dream isn’t functional for this type of actor.
Well, and the fact that back then these movies were almost a gamble you know, like now we treat them as cult classics, but than they were absolutely new and nobody know what they were about.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
Yeah but, what if you could star in this instead? Image
