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- Comment on South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’ 15 hours ago:
But think of the
barbariansnice people that get off on seeing other people dying. - Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 1 week ago:
You’ll still need to buy the games to get the assets legally. EA is just checking if they can offload the modernization of old games they don’t want to remake to the community to keep the revenue stream going without having to invest on it.
It’s a win-win situation if it works.
- Comment on WWJD 1 week ago:
It’s called parody. It’s very hard to do when talking about people that are the embodiment (and origin) of Poe’s Law, so I appreciate everyone’s effort.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 weeks ago:
LLMs can’t do software engineering. They can do some basic coding tasks if given very precise instructions by someone that did the actual engineering work.
It’s like having a mediocre junior developer that just happens to know the syntax and standard library of every major programming language as a service.
- Comment on Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age 3 weeks ago:
But they already did that to target ads. Someone found a way to repackage an existing feature for their performance review?
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 weeks ago:
You can consent to a federation interface without consenting to having a bot crawl all your endpoints.
Just because something is available on the internet it doesn’t mean all uses are legitimate - this is effectively the same problem as AI training with stolen content.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 weeks ago:
It’s not about the impact it’s about consent.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
Do you think Flohmarkt is worse than Volkswagen?
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
That’s not an issue for brands. German and Chinese brands are just doing fine everywhere with the possible exception of the two countries in the world where people are not exposed to other languages.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
And why should we name things for the exclusive convenience of monolingual English speakers to the detriment of everyone else?
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
Got it, let’s name it in mandarin then
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
At least most speakers of European languages will pronounce it close enough to German - though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
Why would English be objectively better than German?
- Comment on Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo 5 weeks ago:
Irony is dead and buried several layers deep.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 5 weeks ago:
AI in general yes. LLMs in particular, I very much doubt it.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 5 weeks ago:
In the same way that if you start digging a hole in northwestern Spain you are heading towards New Zealand.
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 1 month ago:
There’s a very clear line between having a military and intelligence services and having a MKULTRA-era-CIA-in-space.
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 1 month ago:
“The people in the Federation exist in a bubble of safety and happiness, but there are outsiders to that sphere of the Federation—surrounded by the Dominion, the Founders, the Klingons [of this era], the [Romulan secret police] Tal Shiar, that don’t have the same moral relativity that we do. They would see [the Federation] destroyed to fit their moral relativism,” Kazinsky argued. “People need to understand why people don’t like the idea [of Section 31], but it hasn’t changed the idea.”
This kind of logic implies that stooping down to barbarism is OK as long as you are hypocritical about it.
- Comment on In hindsight, "the Xindi attack" was a phase change into a much more hard-boiled season of Enterprise. 1 month ago:
You mean the “justify American war crimes after 9-11” plot?
- Comment on If Anime Doesn't Get an Oscar Nomination Next Year, Then Film Is Dead 2 months ago:
The article doesn’t that the most important point against the chances of an anime movie winning an Oscar: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is very American as at least 50% of the members are American, and even more Western-centric since most of the other members are from North America or Europe. Non American movies always have an uphill battle to win an Oscar but something that is quintessentially non-western doubly so.
- Comment on Tor needs 200 new WebTunnel bridges to fight censorship 3 months ago:
Authoritarian government:
Please install this root certificate so we can MITM all the HTTPS traffic and make sure you aren’t doing anything we wouldn’t approve. And by please we mean do it or we’ll send you to a gulag in the artic.
- Comment on relaxing bird songs 3 months ago:
Yeah, but in monkeybrainish that all translates to “no large predators in sight”.
- Comment on What do you think objectivity is, and what do you think of it? 3 months ago:
But at that point you are out of realm of arithmetics any way.
- Comment on The Vatican randomly dropped their new anime mascot and it is polarizing the internet 4 months ago:
cause i feel like i’ve seen nothing but people liking the character
Especially the rule 34 weebs.
- Comment on Afghanistan morality ministry spreads 'living things' images ban 4 months ago:
The Taliban/Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s flag doesn’t have wheat, it has only calligraphy:
- Comment on No Google Cloud for 12 hours due to power outage. 4 months ago:
That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZs capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.
- Comment on Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned. 4 months ago:
Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing
- Comment on Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned. 4 months ago:
Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 4 months ago:
Being a direct spin-off of Discovery helped.
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 4 months ago:
Culturally speaking, it’s pretty cursed to use some units that are specific to a country instead of the global standard for science. Extra cursed if it’s for serious engineering (just ask NASA).
