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- Comment on Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution. 5 days 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 1 week ago:
Bingo! That’s the one.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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. 3 weeks ago:
6543 inventions are currently suppressed.
Like what?
/s
- Comment on Downdetector is down 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 1 month ago:
This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I’ve got a donation to go make.
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 1 month ago:
Who are you calling buster, buster?
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 month ago:
I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.
But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you’re alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they’re doing on the computer.
My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It’s like these fucknut executives at M$ 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Why do you need to know how other people use software to understand why arbitrary limits are arbitrary?
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 1 month ago:
Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
Why would they need to limit you?
- Comment on xkcd #3143: Question Mark 2 months ago:
Anyone else reminded of Victor Borge?
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 3 months ago:
Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).
Ummm, wut? I’m going to need some quality sources to back this claim up.
- Comment on Value Age verification 3 months ago:
ValueValve - Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 months ago:
That makes a lot more sense than sea water and fresh water.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 months ago:
Friggin hell. Thanks.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 months ago:
I think the article author is completely confused and doesn’t understand what’s happening. Their are hints of what’s happening in this paragraph.
Fresh water—or treated wastewater—is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater, made even saltier by concentrating leftover brine from a desalination process. The difference in saltiness pulls the fresh water across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity.
I don’t think any fresh water is being used. I think what’s actually happening is…
Very salty wastewater (from the desalinization plant) is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater. The difference in saltiness pulls the wastewater across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity. The waste then is just water that’s saltier than sea water, but less salty than what came from the desalinization plant.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 months ago:
So, then why are you confused about what’s using power at night?
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 months ago:
Do you go to bed at sunset?
Do you turn off your heat at sunset in the winter? Maybe you do, but most people don’t.Also, most people with an electric car and a garage to park it can just use a cheap Level 1 charger to trickle charge it whenever it’s in the garage and always have plenty of range for their commute and errands. This means all of those cars are charging. … at night while the owner sleeps.
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- Comment on Personalized pricing can backfire on companies, says study 3 months ago:
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve walked away from some online product or service that I was interested in but refused to publicly disclose a prices beyond, “FrEe TrIaL!”
Nah thanks. If you’re playing mind games like that right off the bat, that tells me everything I need to know about the experience of using the product.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 3 months ago:
3.1
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 4 months ago:
threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry
No. Just the LLM industry and AI slop image and video generation industries. All of the legitimate uses of AI (drug discovery, finding solar panel improvements, self driving vehicles, etc) are all completely immune from this lawsuit, because they’re not dependent on stealing other people’s work.