taladar

@taladar@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prompt engineer : The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience SEO is largely bullshit too and the rest is so simple you could summarize it on maybe two regular pages of paper and actually documented on pages that the search engines publish themselves (stuff like duplicate content, stable URLs, which status codes to use when,…).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If targeted advertising worked the way they say it does then why is Amazon with my entire purchase history at their disposal, still unable to stop themselves from trying to sell me a second washing machine just after I bought one from them? Or Audible with hundreds of books in my account, most of them English, is still trying to sell me German versions of books with original English language versions? The whole notion that advertising has all that data to do better advertising assumes a competence level that just isn’t there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a USB key⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You are not helping people with ADD by devising some sort of convoluted “solution” which requires them to get and then keep 30 year old technology working and transfer over the result of their work with technologies that themselves require a lot of patience too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It is just another step in that direction starting at real amateur porn (i.e. real sex by real people being filmed) over professional porn (actors being filmed), fake amateur porn (professionals pretending to be amateurs), animated or rendered or machinima porn,…

  There hasn’t really been that much genuine left in porn in quite a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a USB key⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t understand why people think they need to use outdated technology and inconvenient transfer methods to be undisturbed instead of just disabling programs that generate or display notifications (e.g. on Linux the notification daemon).

  Do people really have so little self-control that they can’t just not use a network connection if it exists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Society subjects people to a lot of things that people aren’t “perfectly fine with” but only some of them have wider implications for reputation, career chances, ostracizing,… and that is the main problem with this kind of technology.

  Your assumption that people need deepfake technology to fantasize about people sexually who have no interest in being on the receiving end of that is at best naive and at worst arguing in bad faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. It feels like a UI designed for little children or senior citizens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In a way it has improved it. It makes it more plausible to claim that any nudes that do show up of you are fake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Lets be perfectly honest here, especially for pictures this has been possible for at least 20 years.

  What is ruining people’s lives is the obsession a conservative society has with demonizing nudity and sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg's reboot homepage design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what would be even more productive? Not using video (or AI) at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is mostly because the big mail providers like GMail do not accept mails from just anyone anymore (part of the aforementioned anti-spam technologies) and put the rest of the spam into a separate folder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problems with email are many but the two that would warrant rebuilding is that the technology is a mess of under specified 1970s “standards” and the fact that email should really be replaced with multiple different systems according to modern usage.

  Only a tiny portion of modern emails really use the “anyone can send an email to anyone unannounced” capability that cause all the trouble with spam.

  The usage for a password reset and universal access system for accounts all over should really be split into some kind of specialized system.

  As for the rest, most emails seem to be messages from systems where we have accounts or performed some other kind of signup, those could easily be authenticated with a key provided at signup both to make filtering and easier and to be able to revoke authentication, not to mention prevent selling of addresses or usage by third parties after a security leak. A more structured format for common messages (e.g. invoices, notifications about instant messages on some website,…) would also be a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The flaw in the analogy is that it assumes that those effects are limited to some companies when in reality every single company that existed in history has behaved this way if they weren’t stopped by regulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, maybe desert is a bit much for SF but among the cities where they are active it seems noticeable that there isn’t anything in a more humid or colder part of the country or really anywhere very green (where road signs might be obscured by growing trees, that kind of thing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was hoping at this point in time Waymo would be expanding more aggressively.

  I suspect the tech doesn’t really work anywhere but in the bright sunny desert climate of the cities where they are active now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that different from the unencrypted email we have now that is 99% spam and the other 99% are delivery problems due to anti-spam technologies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all of them, some are averages of many people’s guesstimates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IMAP

  Speaking of something that needs tearing down and building anew, email is a good candidate for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.

  Depends, if it is an ad for an orbital laser that targets marketing executives it might work on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you are saying is that if it is permanently cloudy and never sunny anymore in the future it is because of the people who love AI and hate solar power? I could see that happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you talking about the ads for nitro?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think everyone using the Discord/Slack/Mattermost/Rocketchat/… generation of chat with inline image display and all those features is ever going to switch to IRC at this point you are simply delusional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with that theory is that 99% of news are not by the company running the news website either. Not to mention that they wouldn’t get any traffic if nobody was allowed to link to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't make it "like Google"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Two clicks to do what? I mean okay, if I just want to close the tab so I don’t have to look at it anymore that is maybe the one action I can perform in there within two clicks but what else can get done with just two clicks? First you need to navigate to the file which is painfully slow and inconsistent and then you need to select an operation from a usually nested context menu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't make it "like Google"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Locally I usually just use the terminal/CLI (on Linux), much more flexible and you can use scripts or specialized tools (like rsync or fdupes) for operations you need to perform repeatedly. GUIs just tend to be too slow and repetitive for my taste.

  On the other hand Google Drive is still a lot better than that monstrosity you need to battle if you want to actually create API keys for any Google product so for my limited needs I usually just deal with using it every month or two when I really need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And, thinking specifically about Sony, doesn’t include rootkits or similar invasive security nightmares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't make it "like Google"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Google Drive is tedious as hell to use. The UI is utter garbage. Yes, eventually you can get it to do what you want but it is absolutely painful, especially with its background operations that are not reflected in the UI (e.g. you delete something large, it blocks you from deleting the seemingly empty shared drive until that background operation is done but doesn’t tell you why in the UI).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restoring Old Software for Child Learning Safety⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not work on open source learning software instead where you actually have the full freedom to modify it to include and add what you want for your child?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2024, 62% of all child sexual abuse webpages found were traced to an EU country, and the Netherlands remains the most abused global location for hosting CSAM.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, just maybe, if anti CSAM activists didn’t let themselves be abused by surveillance fanatics and authoritarians over and over and over again to reduce privacy and other basic rights to the point where any mention of “protecting the children” is now seen by the vast majority of people as almost certainly an excuse for horrible rights abuses whenever it is mentioned by politicians we wouldn’t be in this situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If your post is entirely in French maybe you should avoid labeling it as English.