Murdoc
@Murdoc@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 4 weeks ago:
😆
- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 4 weeks ago:
My favourite line from that song. 👍
- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 4 weeks ago:
Saw that in a sci-fi rpg called Living Steel. An alien bioweapon unleashed on a human space colony called VISR, or Viral Indunced Sociopathic Response. It was interesting.
- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 4 weeks ago:
Also the Genuine People Personality™ from the Hitchhiker’s Guide.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 month ago:
You wouldn’t download a car.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Linux pc (opensuse). They claim it should work but maybe I’m outta luck.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m trying to get stremio working, but it just gives me an error on startup and their support won’t get back to me about it.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 1 month ago:
Close, I had an 8210, my very first cell phone. Loved that little guy.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 month ago:
It’s not evil capitalists. It’s people acting rationally. The incentive structure leads to this behaviour.
IOW, don’t hate the player, hate the game.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 1 month ago:
Catholic^TM^ brand Holy Baptizer 2000 brought to you by BRANWDO! (The Thirst Mutilator!)
- Comment on Memes live in your brain 1 month ago:
Ah yes, that would make me want to watch now. Thank you and well said.
- Comment on Memes live in your brain 1 month ago:
Title: I know, it’s in the definition of them.
Description: Doesn’t make me want to watch the video and frankly comes off as click-bait.
This could be done better.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 1 month ago:
Chinpokemon all over again…
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 1 month ago:
Ever play Deus Ex: Invisible War? Yeah, they did that in there. A ubiquitous series of holoprojectors allowing you to seemingly interact with a particular pop star, who is super friendly and easily form a relationship with, turns out to be a sophisticated ai surveillance network doing exactly what you said. It even screws you over if you reveal too much to it.
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 1 month ago:
For some reason this made me imagine a game that is a cross between minecraft and super mario, where whenever you mine or hit a certain kind of block, a little coin pops up and you get a bitcoin from it. Real bitcoin mining!
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 month ago:
😆 Good description of how ads appear to me.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 1 month ago:
It would if you kept the number of significant digits the same.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 1 month ago:
SCANNING AREA
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 1 month ago:
And you could roast marshmallows in bed!
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 1 month ago:
I’d settle for some ill-tempered sea bass.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 1 month ago:
Conspicuous Consumption.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 1 month ago:
I’m not your guy, friend!
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 1 month ago:
labor is necessary for many things regardless of the economic system.
I wasn’t talking about getting rid of all labor, but we can with the vast majority of it.
- Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram 1 month ago:
Yeah, when I saw “Chief Privacy Officer”, my first thought was “Ministry of Truth”, “Ministry of Peace”, etc.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 1 month ago:
You don’t need humanoid robots for that, just an economic system that is not based on trading labor for income. That is what has been holding us back for a long time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The videos don’t play for me. :/
- Comment on The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge 2 months ago:
Shouldn’t your app just let you pick the location?
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
lol Reminds me of every time Captain Kirk or Dr. Who defeated an A.I. using it’s own logic against it.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
Slashdot’s become too corporate, it doesn’t deserve the verbizing. It is a sad thing though, that was a fun era.