taladar
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- Comment on What was Radiant AI, anyway? 20 hours ago:
In fact Daggerfall was almost nothing but quests like that.
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 2 days ago:
They also don’t apply the same attitude to those random sources they use instead. That is really the biggest problem with their approach. Literally going “you can’t trust anyone any more” would be better than what they do.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 days ago:
True, but my point was that even a lot of the commercial websites that do have other products do not depend on ads, e.g. Amazon and all the other stores would still be there, every company offering a paid service would still be there, every company providing a service related to their RL goods (e.g. specs, drivers, product descriptions, lists of stores where you can buy them,…) would still be there.
Advertising does not finance a very large percentage of the useful parts of the internet. And among those advertising financed websites that are useful a lot are essentially duplicates to get a chunk of the ad revenue without doing a lot of work (e.g. almost all news websites that just republish AP, Reuters,… content).
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 days ago:
The internet isn’t built on it. The commercial websites who do not have other products (as in all the websites related to RL goods, stores,…) are.
- Comment on Sundar Pichai is vibe coding. 'It feels so delightful to be a coder.' 3 days ago:
That last one is why, have you ever tried getting a bank account in the name of a script?
- Comment on True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup) 4 days ago:
Are you somehow under the impression that just because it is “global” there are no transmitters and receivers and distance does not matter?
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 5 days ago:
The Indian Turk or short IT-worker.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 5 days ago:
Asian Intelligence?
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 5 days ago:
Storing individual button presses is ridiculous because that is much too low level when the apps also have much more high level information about your activities available. It is literally more useless than data you can acquire just as easily.
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 6 days ago:
Creating issues is free to a large number of people you don’t really control, whether that is the general public or some customers who have access to your issue tracker and love AI doesn’t really matter, if anything dealing with the public is easier since you can just ban members of the public who misbehave.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 1 week ago:
Pressure is also bad for aviation since pressure vessels are usually heavy.
- Comment on OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men 1 week ago:
Second Life might not be as universally successful as originally envisioned but it is still going 20 years later and land indeed still sells for thousands of US$ in certain popular locations so it is actually a pretty bad example of hype that was completely baseless, it was just over-hyped, not like current hype cycles that are pretty much 100% bullshit like cryptocurrencies, the Hyperloop, self driving cars or AI replacing workers.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 week ago:
Workarounds for the shortcomings certainly make bribes possible with crypto but not exactly easier than with traditional currencies.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 week ago:
I don’t think people who give or take bribes usually like having a permanent history of the transaction.
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 1 week ago:
Most of them aren’t really because it is not anonymous, just pseudonymous and once you are identified your entire transaction history is public.
- Comment on Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots: Device detects injury, heals it and resets to detect future harm. 1 week ago:
We don’t even have laws preventing real human abuse if the victim groups have no political lobby in a lot of countries.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 1 week ago:
Python isn’t really strict enough to be a good learning language and Java has too much accidental complexity that literally matters in no other language.
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 1 week ago:
Also consider that the same idiot decision makers have been happily applying Factory-management methods to knowledge workers for decades without noticing how badly that works.
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 1 week ago:
I sort of assumed that would be the case with cryptocurrencies too considering it is 100% scams but so far I am still waiting. And AI has far higher chances to convince idiot CEOs than cryptocurrencies ever had.
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 1 week ago:
But sometimes when you leave people alone with their struggles they end up losing against those urges.
And nobody said that the production of child pornography should be legalized, though even talking about this reveals that we apparently don’t make a linguistic distinction between material that essentially requires sexual abuse of children to produce and material that requires nothing more than some art supplies and artistic skill. That is the part that I consider disgusting, that we apparently dislike it so much that we forget all about the actual harm the production of some of it does to actual children in our efforts to use euphemistic language to avoid thinking about it too much. It feels like the emotional comfort of those taking part in the public discourse about it is more important than actually solving the problem for the victims.
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 1 week ago:
You mean like replacing income tax with tariffs? /s
- Comment on Musk's Neuralink raises fresh cash at $9 billion valuation, Semafor reports 1 week ago:
You might enjoy this blog post someone linked in another thread earlier today wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 1 week ago:
My objective is the minimisation of harm. If someone uses artwork and that means that they will never touch an underage person then that is a good thing even though I may not like it.
I have never understood why we persecute and prosecute seemingly without taking this into account at all and treat someone with pedophile urges who never acted on them the same way as we treat someone who looked at drawn images and both of those the same was as someone who looks at actual images of real children being abused or someone who actively abuses children.
If anything we should try to offer the first two help in their attempts to never let their urges affect any real, existing children.
However a lot of the time it feels more like our society is designed to achieve the opposite in its active hostility to people who want to live their lives largely in places where they won’t encounter children.
- Comment on US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance 1 week ago:
My point was mostly aimed at the people who view the constitution and constitutional rights as some quasi-mystical concept, similar to the one underpinning stupid phrasings like “natural rights” or “god-given rights” that also ignore that rights only exist because we, as human societies, decided to put effort into creating and enforcing them.
This seems to be more common in the US along with the quasi-mystical view of the founding fathers, the office of the president and the supreme court among other things. Possibly because a lot of those things have been around for too long for people to remember a time before they existed.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 1 week ago:
the people that know better work around you instead.
In fact one of the ways to work around you that causes the least friction is usually to just get you promoted away from the places where you can do the most direct damage in the area other people on a similar level to you care about.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 1 week ago:
A whole lot of useful stuff that wasn’t publicly labelled AI got relabeled to take advantage of funding opportunities. That doesn’t mean it is related to generative AI like LLMs and image generators though.
- Comment on U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams – Krebs on Security 1 week ago:
How do people that stupid even have six figure sums of money lying around to invest in anything new? Are they selling their house or taking on a new mortgage or something similar?
- Comment on US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance 1 week ago:
Bold of you to assume that Gen Z and Alpha will have the medical care to live that long in a US with even worse healthcare than people have in the past few decades.
- Comment on US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance 1 week ago:
are protected by the constitution.
People who make claims like this forget that nothing is protected by the constitution. The constitution is just a piece of paper. Rights are protected only by enforcement of the constitution and if nobody is willing to enforce it then the rights in there are completely worthless.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 1 week ago:
Maybe not the top 5 out of those people but the rest certainly will.