phoenixz

@phoenixz@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of court cases will come with a judgement where it’s important to implement said judgement with how it was intended.

  This, obviously, is not what was intended. I think it’ll have a funny side effect of people now beit able to see when they’re being extorted by apple, but still.

  We’re I the EU, I would fine the hell out of apple for this bullshit. However, I’m not and something tells me that this is as far as it will go, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone is feeling positive and adventurous, talking about voting and stuff… Do you really think that you’ll be able to vote in a fair election next time?

  The work that I’ve seen done to sabotage voting before and after last US elections ntrlls me that cheeto&co are hell bent on making sure no one in the US will be able to vote honestly ever again.

  The time to do something was 6 months ago, now its too little, too late

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple endorses KOSA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re kidding right? Of course not, nothing about this is about kids. Kids are just a great pretext, always.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not absurd, that’s awesome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC commissioner writes op-ed titled, “It’s time for Trump to DOGE the FCC“⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that is what he’s suggesting, and right after that, massive censorship follows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC commissioner writes op-ed titled, “It’s time for Trump to DOGE the FCC“⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, get ready for massive censorship

  Porn is on the chopping block in the US. That is maybe less important but it’s huge

  Next up websites and tv programs that carry the “wrong” political message

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No Republican has ever given two shits about state rights, personal rights or even human rights in general. They never stop screeching about it but they don’t give a shit.

  They only care about their own pockets, the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aahhwww, that is so sad, I run Linux and soon our entire office will.

  Guess we won’t be using teams then, ooaaahhhwww, so sad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, teams is always somewhere between 10%-30% broken, always something n doesn’t work, there are always a bunch of people that can’t get in the meeting, that can’t share screens all of the sudden because fuck you, that’s why

  Teams is the absolute worst and not a day goes by without people shitting on it, and we’re only using it because most of our customers do but internally we will switch to something open source soon, because I get to make that decision 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Reportedly Eyeing 'Super Sensing' Tech for Smart Glasses⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m at the point where I’m going to say that we need to prohibit facial recognition devices for companies and peiplemin general, and mostly for government too.

  This shit is going too far. I know I don’t have a right to privacy when I’m outsidey home but I will very fucking well have a tight to not have my privacy abused to hell and back when I’m outside. No, Facebook, you don’t get to facially recognize me on the street and then follow my location everywhere, monitor what I’m doing while Im not even on your fucking website.

  The only place where I remotely think it might be allowed in a very limited fashion is by governments and them only after OK from a judge and even them only in a very limited set of circumstances, like a missing child or a known > violent criminal who’s on the run. Couple this with harsh penalties for police officers who would break those rules. This, of course, only works in well established democracies where police is very well controlled, else it’s just abuse again as well.

  Beyond that tiny scope, fuck your facial recognition, and fuuuuuuccckkk Facebook and fuck mark Zuckerberg with an umbrella.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI will replace routine — freeing people for creativity.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So far, AI has replaced little routine and has tried to replace a lot of art and enjoyment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are your thoughts on Bidirectional brain-computer interfaces ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s the one thing available to us that can make sure we’re still alive and useful after AGI really comes into existence.

  Once real real AGI AI is here with access to robotucs, we will either be relegated to the status of pet or, judging on how badly we treat the world and eachother, culled to more manageable proportions or just plain exterminated. The only way for us to continue to exist would be a direct brain to computer interface that gives us access to the same brain power as AI by then will have

  As samxary as that is, I think that for humanity it’s the only way to survive. If done right through open source principles, it’ll be a system you can control yourself and activate/deactivate on command, and as needed. If it’s something they comes from corporate America it’ll force you to buy useless shit into perpetuity as a mindless drone. If it comes from China or Russia, it’ll just make you a mindless drone.

  It’ll only be possible to be a good thing if we fix humanity first, so yeah…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah no, only a select few special Ai companies, of course

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this wasn’t an impact statement either.

  This was a huntch of pixels moved around by a huge wasteful amount of CPU power. The actual victim is dead, he can’t talk and people are putting words in his mouth and it shouldn’t be allowed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe Wants to Arm Ukraine, but It’s Losing a Race Against Time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro putin outlet says what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the way out of the India Pakistan crisis ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing like a bunch of screeching religious fanatics to calm the push for war

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but if they make some really cool game with that open source code they’ll be playing that instead of our multi billion dollar AI slop!

  Some mid and higher executive managers at gaming companies. Hell, at nearly all large companies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is what I’m assuming too.

  Would be nice if it wouldn’t be causing so much death, destruction and suffering before you got there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aahhh, plucking my fingers. It’s so ingrained in my head that there is some special separate process (that I don’t control) in my brain taking care of this.

  My wife will slap my hands when I do it because I asked her to help me stop it but even when in my head I’m like “stop. It. Now.” then one hand just moves to the other and starts plucking and I’m like “wtf, I said stop!”

  The one thing that I’ve noticed that helps is prayer beads. I’m atheist, but they work wonders to occupy that little process in my head, I redirect all it’s attention to those beads and so with one hand I’m moving the beads one click forward every half second or so all day long. That works!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also reddalso Reddit: since all users have left, most of our traffic now consists of posts from AI bots that we’re really really blocking!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please stop talking, please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances,” the AI avatar of Christopher Pelkey said. “In another life we probably could have been friends. I believe in forgiveness and a God who forgives. I still do.”

  I find this nauseatingly disgusting and a disgrace that this was shown in a court of all places.

  No, this man does not believe in forgiveness or a God because he’s dead. He never said this, somebody wrote this script and a computer just made a video off it with his likeness.

  Fuck everything about this, this should be prohibited

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t say the quiet part out loud, you idiot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At this rate, Ariel will have her own fighter squadron before the month is over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ones and zeros and tens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this real or fake? I can’t tell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’d be something though… Can you imagine watching one of the largest companies in the world being run into the ground in under two years? I’d pay to watch that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The goal is to make them hate Ukraine": Russians intensify militarisation of children in occupied Zaporizhzhia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Russia, fuck Putin.

  That country needs to be broken up in to a dozen smaller democracies

  Same goes for the US, btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jail his ass

  If I do that, I go to jail, if he does it, he should get the same punishment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nvidia isn’t really the best, no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, you know, Linux, and be done with the crap