baronvonj
@baronvonj@lemmy.world
I play guitar and video games, enjoy watching USMLR and NHL, and practice sarcasm.
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- Comment on If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web? 4 days ago:
who needs the web?
Anybody who cares enough to confirm whatever stupid bullshit the AI probabilistically regurgitated without actual understanding.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Are they going after every 18+ game now?
No. They’re going after all porn.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
Close. Conservatism is collapsing the United States of America into irrelevance.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
Hi it’s still broken on my machine.
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 2 weeks ago:
See, the data is right there to raise the rates on the data centers causing the rise in demand and not the households.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 weeks ago:
AAAAAAAAaaaaaahhhhhh
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 weeks ago:
There’s personal time for sleep in the grave.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 weeks ago:
That explains it, you can’t code with both your arms broken.
- Comment on How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? 2 weeks ago:
The Shadow
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 weeks ago:
Are the payment processors saying Visa"MC told them to not process payments for this content? Or are they smjist citing a section of the agreement when being asked why they’re telling retailers to take down this content?
- Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular? 3 weeks ago:
Probably just the timing. Mbin was forked from Kbin after the majority of newcomers from Reddit settled on Lemmy over Kbin. Because Kbin was pretty much the one-man show with an unreliable flagship instance during the initial big wave of users coming over.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 4 weeks ago:
Aivis. Trai harder.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 weeks ago:
Uh … Steam actually did this same thing before Itch did.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 4 weeks ago:
And a lot of professors write their own text book.
- Comment on Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts 1 month ago:
This is how it works on BlueSky. And you can detach your original post from someone else’s quote post of it after-the-fact.
- Comment on AI is driving down the price of knowledge – universities have to rethink what they offer 1 month ago:
more like monetizing the Dunning Kruger effect.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 month ago:
Because then I could know
that I could controlwhere the data went.It being open source doesn’t mean you can music and run your own software on it and still have the agency accept you are compliant.
- Comment on Which instances on any platform will show bridgyfed accounts? 2 months ago:
Presumably any ActivityPub platform that can search users globally and any instance that doesn’t block the bridgy domain/instance.
- Comment on Which Lemmy instances use Photon? 2 months ago:
You can go to phtn.app and proxy login to any Lemmy instance. But admins can also self-host Photon on their domain, like p.lemmy.world.
- Comment on WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook 2 months ago:
So glad I never got on WhatsApp
- Comment on Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking 2 months ago:
I would have absolutely bought an iPad instead of a Surface Pro if I could run desktop MacOS applications on it when docked to desktop peripherals. I want one single convergent device for tablet and desktop.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 2 months ago:
We really should be talking about Rampart.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 2 months ago:
I meant a specialized application, like the Atari one that beat the LLM.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 2 months ago:
Human brains lose to computerized chess all the time, though. So I guess this is a win for AI tech bros?
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 2 months ago:
It has to be one of those ‘Lim~x~ as X approaches 0’ Calculus things where X is the value of Discord Orbs.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 2 months ago:
- Comment on This graph but with fediverse apps? 2 months ago:
It is pucture-based, but the is more of grouping images clipped from websites (you can upload your own images, too).
- Comment on YSK: Two oil brothers, Charles Koch and David Koch, attempted to purchase the entire United States Congress 2 months ago:
They put a shit ton of money into state races, too. Their plan was to get enough state legislatures in their pocket to call a constitutional convention and rewrite the US as an anarcho-capitalist state.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 2 months ago:
Better not break his arms.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 3 months ago:
HOAs and Condo rules and shit.
