JuxtaposedJaguar
@JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 14 hours ago:
Google only checked out and cashed in after getting a monopoly. Mozilla let themselves fade into irrelevance.
- Comment on With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before 2 days ago:
Businesses doing April Fools was fun until every gigantic corporation started doing it. Now it’s just bland, thinly-veiled marketing.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
My thermodynamics professor made so approximations in his derivations that all of his equations had an “O” term to represent the inaccuracy. Every time he made another approximation he’d say “and, of course, the O sucks up the error”.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
My high school English teacher still has night terrors about me starting sentences with conjunctions. And that was the least of their problems.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
The trick is to round everything. Pi? Basically 3.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 5 days ago:
You can make commits on your system without pushing them to the remote server, and that’s the default behavior.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
Nope
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
These days I go 50/50 on Reddit and Lemmy. I know it’s a chicken and egg problem for content, but hopefully 50% usage is enough to change things over time.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 1 week ago:
Haven’t you heard? It’s the year of the Linux desktop.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
Tell those particular people. Maybe screenshot those particular messages as proof. But don’t publicly share everything.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
I asked my MAGA coworker whether he thought Trump broke the law in the hush money case, and his response was “she should have kept her trap shut”.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
“Shut up about eggs”
- Trump’s retweet
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
Trump knows that his supporters are going to turn on him eventually, which is why he’s working so hard to set up an infrastructure that can crush opposition without due process. He’s also testing the waters about ignoring court orders.
If the supreme court lets him use the AEA then that means the president can use war-time statutes without Congress needing to declare a war, which means that he’ll be able to use a different statute to deploy the military on US territory. At that point, US democracy is officially over.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it’s possible to blame Trump rather than his voters when he literally promised to make most of these changes. It might be more effective to say that Trump was misled by Musk.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
Only half?
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally removed Copilot in the latest Windows 11 update. 2 weeks ago:
If it’s a choice between AI-accelerated cores and nothing, sure, but that silicon space could have been used for AVX-512 or a bigger cache instead.
- Comment on Elon Musk blames X outages on “massive cyberattack” 3 weeks ago:
X’s official support channel, which has been dormant since August, has so far remained silent on the outage, but one user asked Grok—X’s chatbot that provides AI summaries of news—what was going on, and the chatbot echoed suspicions about the DDOS attack while raising other theories.
That’s not how LLMs work… Why is Ars endorsing that brain-rot?
- Comment on Elon Musk blames X outages on “massive cyberattack” 3 weeks ago:
The firings will continue until quality improves
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 3 weeks ago:
I guess aircraft-grade aluminum isn’t good enough anymore.
- Comment on Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India 3 weeks ago:
Either you believe what he says, or you don’t.
That’s a false dichotomy. 10% of what Trump says is true but 90% of what he says is insane, so 9% of what Trump says should legitimately concern everyone. Because we don’t know which 10% is true, we have to be concerned about everything he says.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
“Glowies”? As in “glow in the dark CIA n-words”? Bro turned into Tarry Davis.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy even has the option to disable downvotes, so they’re obviously using downvotes as some kind of purity test.
Side note, there should be a way to soft block certain instances so you can see and interact with its federated posts but not send anything to the instance itself. You want to limit open discussion on your instance? Fine, but everyone else is still going to talk about you.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
When one community goes in mass
Slightly off-topic, but it’s en masse, not “in mass”
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
Brodie thinks that they stiww weft themsewves some wiggwe woom fow ““sewwing”” uwsew data.
~This~ ~modified~ ~version~ ~of~ ~your~ ~comment~ ~has~ ~been~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~the~ ~GPLv3~
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 4 weeks ago:
Plenty of moral things are illegal or barely legal in certain places. For example, homosexual adults having consensual sex with each other in their own home. I assume you don’t think that’s unethical or immoral?
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t need to get more authentic, it just needs to get more arousing, and we have a perfectly ethical way to measure that. You tell the AI it was “right” if the pedos you show it to get aroused.
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 4 weeks ago:
Why would “thousands of photos of drawings of children in sexual contexts” be unethical?
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 4 weeks ago:
Probably not, but that’s irrelevant. The point is that no one needs to harm a child to find out if the output is sufficiently arousing.
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 4 weeks ago:
“Okay” in what sense? If you mean morally, then I think that’s pretty clear cut. If you mean legally, then that’s just a technicality.
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter if it’s accurate or not as long as pedos can get off to it, so just keep going until they can. According to our definition of what a pedophile is, though, it would likely be accurate.