dan1101

@dan1101@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Logically yes, but these are not logical times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  His AI avatar can still post bullshit on Facebook, so it’s like he never died!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing times are getting tough and if a business gets $100,000 in revenue (before expenses) per month but is paying $3,000+ in credit card fees, they see that large expenditure and start wanting to recoup those fees.

  Personally as a business I find the “one and done” nature of credit cards much better than dealing with cash, checks, or trusting PayPal. So the fee isn’t that big of a deal to me.

  What I really hate is businesses that charge 4%+ surcharges, they probably pay more like 3.5% and are just gouging the customers. Or they are getting a terrible rate from their bank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a good idea to use an Android phone as an external SSD for backing up my home folder?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think at this point we can consider anything in the USA cloud subject to DHS/government subpoenas and AI scraping. I really don’t want to have to sanitize my backup data, I’d rather just keep it offline and not worry about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope, but 90% of these never pan out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense, Fox is exactly what feeds his brain-dead fanbase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Either they are ignorant or choosing convenience over security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord walks back age verification fears for most users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even trust id.me. Why would I give my ID and photo or video to a corporation that is contracting with the Trump administration?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is human-made climate change an existential crisis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The far right is racist against Jews, but the conservative Christians think the Jews are the chosen people, how does that work out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon misses 4Q profit estimates despite better-than expected growth in cloud computing business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would think a lot of the world is trying to get away from American companies right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. And based on everything else that MAGA and billionaires have been caught doing and defending, I think there is almost certainly widespread sex trafficking and abuse of the detainees. Why else would the administration try so hard to prevent Congress from observing the facilities?

  If the Trump thugs act this badly on the streets then how horribly much worse do you think people are being treated I’m these secret detention facilities completely hidden from public view? This IMO will be seen as one of the worst chapters of our country once all the truth comes out.

  Bad enough to end the Republican party in the long run? Hopefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S HERE!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent. My plan is now in the pentultimate stage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are a lot of siblings that hate each other, simultaneously there are only children that feel lonely really want siblings to play with.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You always want what you don’t have. There are 9 years between me and my only younger sibling, so I experienced both worlds. I think I was somewhat spoiled and lonely without one. Little sis was really annoying at times but I wouldn’t change anything if I could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People already in the USA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Think of it this way, claiming the free game costs them bandwidth. Downloading the game costs them even more bandwidth. Yeah my bandwidth isn’t much but collectively with everyone claiming the games that adds up. I have played and enjoyed a few like Dead Island 2, but I would never give Tim Sweeney and Epic game store money. I will just cost them money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On my gaming PC I never signed up for any sort of Win10 extended support but it still wants to update regularly. Did they just give up and give the extended support to everyone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not enough time! It takes 12 weeks to convert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also apparently the vast majority of corn grown is for ethanol, and it takes thousands of gallons of water for every gallon of corn ethanol produced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨instant lax⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks delicious, I just don’t have the time to commit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Play with algorithms and datasets if you want, but make it efficient. We don’t need thousands of data centers guzzling water and electricity and disturbing the peace just to generate wrong answers and slop. Work on the algorithms, don’t just scale up the slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Please pay us money and we will trickle down more of those 2000-era wages to you dirty lazy masses.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he can trademark his voice and likeness, but all AI creators have to do is figure out what percent different their slop needs to be to avoid infringement. That’s assuming they even try.

  As far as catch phrases, I don’t think he wrote them so I doubt he can trademark them.

  All this is moot when AI is slurping up every bit of content practical to train on no matter it’s cupuright or trademark status.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, ok, OK!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I took a nap one time on a spring afternoon and woke up at 6:00. Only I wasn’t sure if it was afternoon or I slept all night until morning. Weird feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s really really ignorant of them to rely on Copilot, but yeah, let’s start holding these corporations liable for acting like their slop spam is prime rib.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Its New AI Shopping Protocol Will Not Use Data to Overcharge Consumers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not give Google or any AI your credit card number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think groups of openly armed citizens patrolling the streets would be a huge deterrent to ICE. These guys are violent bullies when they operate against unarmed people, but I doubt they are willing to mess with a mass of armed defenders.

  But if the military continues to go along with Trump then this just may escalate things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rural areas. That comes with other issues though, like MAGA people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Care⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what I’m sticking the googly eyes to.