StenSaksTapir
@StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk
- Comment on OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole 3 months ago:
This is good news for bot farms working to sow division.
- Comment on Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison 10 months ago:
For me it was the Joan of Arc thing.
But I think more generally that mentally unstable people shouldn’t be helped because of art.
- Comment on Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine 10 months ago:
I’ve researched this by watching literally dozens of minutes of videos on YouTube. Real hardcore stuff with some things that most sheeple probably wouldn’t be ready to accept, but it directly contradicts the main stream media narrative, so you know it’s true. Also, basically all the claims were widely discredited and it’s pretty obvious that so much energy wouldn’t have been put into disproving something that was actually untrue, unless someone was trying to hide something from us.
- Comment on USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change 11 months ago:
Sure, but if we just didn’t do stuff because it’s hard, then we’d never chosen to go to the moon. That guy on TV said so.
We might not do stuff because it’s an awful and downright terrible idea, but both looking at humanity as whole and my own personal experience, that doesn’t seem to be much of a deterrent either.
- Comment on USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change 11 months ago:
Yeah, why should such a thing be regulated?
We all probably still remember the East Palestine accident, but all that turned alright in the end didn’t it?
- Comment on Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories are allowed back on X 11 months ago:
Yeah it makes total sense. It’s a fantastic way to make sure you only get the most gullible, hardcore idiots that are easy to make money off.
It’s like those longer running scams. They have built in mechanisms to find the best marks, by disqualifying anyone who might not be easy to convince early.
Same here. If you cultivate a crowd of conspiracy theorists, that have a proven track record of being easily swayed not by evidence but by lack of evidence, then you got the full-day morons eating from your hand.
- Comment on Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories are allowed back on X 11 months ago:
Musk’s posts go to everyone I’m pretty sure. Many people unfollowers him and he didn’t like that, so now you get his excretes whether you want to or not.
- Comment on Apple And Google Are Sending Your Push Notifications to The Government 11 months ago:
Stupid headlines like this, are making us collectively dumber.
- Comment on Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications 11 months ago:
I expect you’re kidding, because it’s hard to believe someone made it onto Lemmy without knowing this, but here goes anyway:
They never said “don’t decrypt client side”.
Lots of things you probably use every day is end-to-end encryption.
HTTPS in your browser uses TLS to ensure that the content you receive is encrypted on its way to you and that it hasn’t been tampered with on the way (confidentiality and integrity).
- Comment on PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps. 11 months ago:
Netflix was in competition with piracy. They competed mostly on two parameters: price and convenience, but catalog is also a secondary or tertiary parameter.
Piracy is kinda free unless you pay for newsgroups, seedbox or straight up membership. It’s also inconvenient for most people. The catalog is basically unlimited if you know where to look.
Paid streaming or digital purchases wins on convenience, but at a greater price and with a limited catalog.
With older content constantly being bounced around different services, aggressive anti-shsring measures and continually rising prices, paid streaming is becoming less and less attractive, as we’re slowly sliding back to the times of cable TV, albeit video on-demand this time around.
- Comment on GM’s hydrogen ‘power cubes’ will be used in cement mixers and terminal tractors 11 months ago:
“prayer warrior” is one of my favorite concepts. Those two words are just so comically incompatible.
- Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles 11 months ago:
They will make up stories that ultra sounds scans is a nefarious way of vaccinating you without consent and consequently refusing to go to important checkups.
They’re incredibly predictable. Just pretend to barely understand the subject matter, then invent the most alarmist way of misunderstanding it.
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 11 months ago:
It’s a grown up Noogler.
- Comment on OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims 11 months ago:
Effigy, eh? Yeah, nothing burns like an effigy.
- Comment on Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather 1 year ago:
Radar. Only a small handful of cars have LIDAR.
- Comment on LGBTQIA++ 1 year ago:
It’ll never be truly equal as long as there’s a fixed order of the letters. The only way to make it fair is to include all the letters (from every writing system, not just the latin because that feels overly eurocentric) and the guarantee true randomness of the order or come up with some system where the order is shifted by one every time it’s mentioned. Also, the original letters must be in the center to begin with (to make them equally distant for RTL or LTR readers), to make up for their historical over exposure.
- Comment on Amethyst deceiver (UK) 1 year ago:
They used to be considered edible, but nowadays it’s discouraged, because they can contain too much arsenic, AFAIK.
- Comment on The iPhone 15 gets USB-C, a redesigned Cybertruck surfaces and California considers banning AV trucks | TechCrunch 1 year ago:
Because another connector has been stubbornly used for years and there’s a whole ecosystem of cables and peripherals made for that, now outdated, connector.
I don’t think anyone can say in good faith this isn’t a pretty big deal.
- Comment on Marvel Studios' VFX Staff Unanimously Votes to Unionize 1 year ago:
Or maybe India still has some people who can be retrained from their profession of phone scammer to cheap VFX artists?
- Comment on Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance? 1 year ago:
I do kinda like the idea of some kind of curation, but I’d like the algorithm to be transparent to me, so that I can go in and see what’s been filtered out, for instance, and why.
Some guy on Mastodon a while back was working on a service that’d give him a digest of daily posts he’d missed from his feed. I could see the value in something like that, as long as you control the algorithm yourself.
I think I’m still stuck on the idea of a daily edition. A finite selection of post or articles and maybe a funny pages section too. Like a newspaper in the olden days.
- Comment on We RECREATED the Nuclear Explosion from Oppenheimer with ZERO CGI 1 year ago:
Great video.
Also, I wonder if that dude ever got his Xbox controller instead of that stupid vase.
- Comment on Good Old Windows 1 year ago:
Because users, largely, are stupid.
Security usually comes at the price of inconvenience.
You’re not forced to use the app store by any means and if you find it difficult not to, then you’re probably the type of user they want to protect.
- Comment on Good Old Windows 1 year ago:
No.
It’s a security feature. Right click, select open, affirm that you meant to run the thing, then it works. This needs to be done once for that app.
You can disable this behavior too.
- Comment on Today I realized bees don't get the weekend off 😔 1 year ago:
You gotta stay buzzy as a bee in this doggie dogg world.
- Comment on Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act 1 year ago:
You’re getting things completely mixed up.
Meta threatens to leave when they’re not allowed to gobble up all the users private data.
Apple threatens to close their services because they can no longer guarantee the privacy of their users, from anybody, if the government forces them to build in back door to snoop on citizens.
See also Apple–FBI encryption dispute.
Government all over the world are trying to outlaw end-to-end encryption and Apple is taking a stand here, because encryption backdoors means an end to legal privacy.
And you probably thinking “well, if you haven’t done anything wrong, you’ve nothing to hide and nothing to fear”, right?
Well, who’s to say what’s wrong? I personally don’t think homosexuality or atheism is wrong, but they’re capital offences in some countries.