JuxtaposedJaguar

@JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to round everything. Pi? Basically 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t you heard? It’s the year of the Linux desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Shut up about eggs”

  • Trump’s retweet
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only half?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft accidentally removed Copilot in the latest Windows 11 update.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The firings will continue until quality improves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thinkpad for the win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.