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- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 3 days ago:
Everyone knows that AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini can often hallucinate sources.
No, no, apparently not everyone, or this wouldn’t be a problem.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 5 days ago:
They’re talking about the files Anna’s archive is torrenting.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 5 days ago:
I think you’re looking for this page.
- Comment on US | NY Governor Hochul signs bill requiring warning labels on ‘addictive’ social media 5 days ago:
these platforms will have to display warnings “when a young user initially uses the predatory feature and periodically thereafter.”
Predatory features should not come with a warning for young users. They should be banned for everyone.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 6 days ago:
I didn’t say it changed their point. I said it was pedantic.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 6 days ago:
That’s just pedantic. Those other models were also either trained on human created data, or other models themselves… and those other models… etc etc etc.
When you go back far enough, it’s all human created data. The person you responded to didn’t spell all of that out because they didn’t need to to make their point.
- Comment on Where do you guys buy your 3D print and such at? 1 week ago:
If your interest is in useful prints, I would highly recommend learning FreeCAD and just making your own to solve your own problems.
Nothing beats the feeling of trying to do something, wishing some tool exists to simplify the process, visualizing what that tool would look like in your own head, designing it yourself, and then watching it (a thing that, as far as you know, has never existed before) get printed into existence for the first time ever.
…
And then realizing that your design has some flaws and iterating over multiple versions as you make improvements. 😉
There are lots of excellent FreeCAD tutorial videos online targeting 3D printing.
- Comment on YSK: The pulled *60 Minutes* CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online 1 week ago:
“And my ax!”
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
I imagine that the bubble portion is light weight enough, one could put it on the roof of a data center, apartment building, strip mall, etc. That appears to be the piece that takes up the most space.
Another thought. I wonder if the bubble portion could be oriented vertically, maybe inside a simple enclosure to protect it from wind.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 2 weeks ago:
You misspelled “proper”
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
They explicitly asked “for android phones”
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 2 weeks ago:
Are you actually suggesting that the entire population of Denmark (aka, the entire country) is just
politicians in the pocket of big corporations
???
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
M$ is probably paying them handsomely for it.
- Comment on Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution. 3 weeks ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it. I kinda get the impression that the primary purpose of this article is that…
McQuary said it expects to begin another round of fundraising soon.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
Bingo! That’s the one.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
I wish I could remember. It was definitely on YT. I think it was in German with subtitles. It wasn’t long. Possibly was someone’s film school project.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
I saw a pretty good short sci-fi film a year or so ago about a woman accidentally finding out that she’s a bot.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
peppering my comments with inane remarks to draw a reaction
They’re here, too.
I occasionally see comments to the effect of, “Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?” That seem pretty likely to just be bots trying to generate data on certain topics for AI training. Thankfully, most people seem to ignore them.
- Comment on MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down 4 weeks ago:
$50/yr for wallpapers?!?! That’s some asshat seeing the enshitification train and thinking, “Man I gotta get on THAT!”
$50/yr?!?!
For WALLPAPERS?!?!
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 5 weeks ago:
True, but… I mean… who would try to generate something like that as an image? … I take that back. I’m sure somebody would.
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 5 weeks ago:
Instead of AI slop, that looks to me like someone that doesn’t speak the language hurriedly transcribing it from paper, getting paid by the recipe, and knowing nobody is going to verify anything.
- Comment on YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed. 1 month ago:
6543 inventions are currently suppressed.
Like what?
/s
- Comment on Downdetector is down 1 month ago:
That would be great, but this new Internet will somehow need to be able to accurately detect and block AI generated content.
My guess is that the new social media will be people physically going to established common areas in their communities and talking to each other in person, face to face, which has it’s pros and cons.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 1 month ago:
Back when I was a whee whippersnapper, we would click the reply button and type, “Ok”, or “thanks”, or “Ok, thanks”, or “gotcha”, or “:-)”, or “+1”, or “LOL”, or “LMFAO”, or … I mean, it was onerous, with those extra couple clickity clicks and tappity taps, but somehow we managed.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 2 months ago:
This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I’ve got a donation to go make.
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 2 months ago:
Who are you calling buster, buster?
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 2 months ago:
I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.
But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you’re alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they’re doing on the computer.
My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It’s like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.
And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn’t need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there’s no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 2 months ago:
You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.
You don’t know why they might want to do this thing. I also don’t know why they would want to do this thing. The difference is, I 👏 Don’t 👏 Care 👏. My opinion of they’re reason to want to do it is irrelevant to my advocating their freedom to do it.
And that’s all I’m going to say on the subject. If you can’t understand that basic fact, then I don’t know what else I can say.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 2 months ago:
what reason would anyone have
That’s none of your business. You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.
Just because you lack the imagination to think of reasons someone might have, doesn’t mean that they don’t have a perfectly good reason. But, they shouldn’t need to justify themselves to you.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 2 months ago:
Why do you need to know how other people use software to understand why arbitrary limits are arbitrary?