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- Comment on Sold in Belgrade... 3 days ago:
Fellowship of the fash.
- Comment on UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors 3 days ago:
“Hey Abbie, why do you support Scottish Independence?”
" Because I want to keep my politicians Within egg throwing distance"
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 3 days ago:
Oh god.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 5 days ago:
When all of this is over, if this ever ends, I want psychologists to study this AI obsession CEOs have now. I want to see how they can look at AI and insist that everyone be forced to use something that hinders them rather than help.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 5 days ago:
So let me get this straight. Microsoft is taking your local files, without their consent, onto their platform where they can delete them for “terms of use” violations, alongside tracking what you do on your own computer.
Sounds like they don’t want you to use your computer in a way they don’t want you to.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 6 days ago:
I mean, America is threatening war with Europe so…
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 6 days ago:
Japan had legal Child Porn until disconcertingly recently.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
The thing is though… is it actually CSM according to the law if there is no real child involved along the way?
Legally, yes. The law in the UK also includes images of children that are drawn or computer generated.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not according to my Donald Trump x Elon Musk Omegaverse Slashfic.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
I mean Grok is literally being used to make CSAM so it should not only be taken down but illegal to use.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
It’s because they fear what Musk might do.
Twitter should be banned for making CSAM.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 1 week ago:
I remember a story my Dad told me. His boss comes in and goes “we need a computer” (this was the 80s). He asked “why”. He couldn’t answer.
AI now is like that, except when someone asks “why”, they get fired and the boss slams it in anyway. It doesn’t make the product better or even more attractive. Dell has admitted that and is the only company to admit that. At best it’s a shite search engine that’s being forced on everyone against their will.
AI chat bots should be OPTIONAL, not forced onto people against their will. At best it’s a shitty search engine, at worse it is a slop machine.
Only practical solution I can think of for an AI chatbot is an optional voice mode where you can go to, say, a ticket machine and be all “hey, cheapest fare to Dundee” or something and it gives you it, but that can be done without fucking the environment and eating all the ram by just having better UI design.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 1 week ago:
Exactly the first thought I had.
YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS, IT’S TIME TO PLAY THE WORLD’S LONGEST RUNNING GAME SHOW…
WHICH QUEERPHOBIC PUBLIC FIGURE IS WATCHING QUEER PORN!
Let’s Greet our Contestants, shall we?
He’s so homophobic someone renamed a mix of Cum and Lube after him, it’s Rick Santorum!
He’s so transphobic JK Rowling told him to tone it down, It’s Graham Linnerhan!
Despite wearing platform shoes, he want to make all forms of Queerness a crime, it’s Ron DeSantis!
And finally, she’s called for Transgender Women to be executed en mass, for famous transwomen to be raped, and she’s featured in some of the Queer porn in question, it’s Lily Cade!
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Invading NATO territory and triggering Article 5.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 weeks ago:
Oh God now we’re going to have people insisting that librarians are secretly part of a conspiracy.
- Comment on No contest 2 weeks ago:
Well the question was “Millennium Falcon vs Enterprise”.
As for say, any Star Trek Hero ship against a Star Dreadnought like an Assertor Class or Procurator, then it’s a challenge. I think in that case, one of the only ships that could stand a chance is maybe the Defiant purely because it’s made for the Hit-and-run tactics that those ships are weak against.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 2 weeks ago:
I wonder who sees something “AI” and sees it as a plus.
CEOs and Investors who don’t know shit about fuck about tech and how it works but believe AI can solve their problems.
- Comment on No contest 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking maybe something like The Vital Spark complete with Para Handy, but with guns strapped to the side and trading in contraband.
- Comment on No contest 2 weeks ago:
Who wants to burst the bubbles of Star Wars fans?
The Millennium Falcon could not stand up against any of the Star Trek Hero-ships. None of them. Zero, Zultch, Neoni.
- NX01 Enterprise: Might be a fair match due to lack of proper shields, but the NX01 could still one shot The Falcon.
- USS Discovery (either original or “A”): One Shot, Ship literally is a research vessel repurposed for war. it’ll still oneshot The Falcon.
- Enterprise (OG or A): One shot. Not even close.
- Enterprise D: Wouldn’t even need to oneshot you, will disable your weapons and engines and then bring you in to figure out what the fuck you are.
- Defiant: Literally built for war. Won’t fuck around, one shot.
- DS9: DS9 can one shot the Falcon, but I think DS9 would be a destination for the Falcon.
- Ceritos: Will shoot the Falcon down, and then someone will go “what the fuck was that”.
- Protostar: LITERALLY PILOTED BY FREAKIN’ TEENAGERS! Would still body the Falcon.
- La Serena: Closest narratively to the Falcon. Might stand a cha…what am I kidding, bodies it.
- Federation headquarters (32nd Century): Bodies it, wouldn’t have to because it’s surrounded by ships who alone could Body the Falcon.
In fact, every single ship on this list except for maybe the NX01 wouldn’t even need to fire a shot because they could just get a transporter lock, and teleport everyone off the ship and then grab it with a tractor beam. Everyone. Han, Chewie, Luke, Leia, Finn, Poe, Rei, everyone. They can be beamed directly to the Brig to make sure they don’t do anything stupid, and whoever the captain is (I’m going for Pike because he’s my favourite) can some down and be all “Hey, you were firing at my ship with a peashooter, don’t worry, it’s unharmed, strange ship, doesn’t have Warp or shields or anything. You all seem human except for the big guy there, we don’t have your species in our database. Want a drink of something? The replicator can make anything you’d like.”
- Comment on No contest 2 weeks ago:
A better comparison would be a run down small tramp steamer that someone lives on, slapped guns on, and has smuggling compartments installed against a fully staffed naval ship on a research mission.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, how the fuck can an app made for men to find other men to get their back blown out be AI first.
Can we just stop with this whole “AI First” shit? Can we just stop? We don’t want our apps to be AI, they know this, we know this, but they don’t care.
- Comment on With how the republican party works in 10 years the presidential candidate will be an open pedophile and they will say they defeated wokeness. 3 weeks ago:
What they’d do is criminalise all forms of Queerness (and make it wide ranging, not even Asexuality will be safe) but legalise paedophilia.
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 4 weeks ago:
Alas, laws are coming into place where large, centralized, social media platforms will be the only ones able to operate within the law.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
“Copilot, change the wallpaper to a DSC20260512.JPG.”
“I’m sorry, you can only change the wallpaper to images generated by Copilot!”
“Ok, change the wallpaper to a picture of my Daughter Graduating.”
“Sure! Here’s a picture of a young woman graduating set to your wallpaper.”
“That isn’t my daughter, my daughter isn’t a blonde white girl with massive tits, please change back to my previous wallpaper.”
“Sure, here’s a picture of a Scottish Glen.”
“My last wallpaper was a photo I took of The Flying Scotsman, also that picture of a Scottish glen has an offensive stereotype of a Scottish Man fucking a sheep while drinking a bottle labeled ‘Buckfast and Heroin’.”
“Here is a picture of a Scottish Glen.”
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
They just don’t want you to customise your computer in any way, huh.
Soon you’d be prevented from changing your wallpaper.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 4 weeks ago:
and hanging over us are greedy shits who are pretty openly fascist (reform)
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 4 weeks ago:
www.legislation.gov.uk - For the UK.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 4 weeks ago:
And who told you this?
The billionaires. Straight up.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 4 weeks ago:
Yes because the amount of money being generated by a small group of people and the amount of money we will need not only to support AI but also the masses of underemployed and unemployed people it will create would require it if we maintain a capitalist-ish system that relies on AI and robotics for everything.
Because here’s the thing everyone seems to get wrong. Money isn’t like firewood, that’s something the establishment want people to believe so they can excuse defunding healthcare to fund subsidies for their friends. Money is like electricity. On it’s own sat in Scrooge McDuck’s Moneypit it has no value, but when it’s spent, that’s when it creates value.
That’s why small businesses are better for the economy than big ones, because when you spend a tenner at a small business, it’s more likely to be spent right afterwards, for example, to pay their workers, who then pays the babysitter, who then pays the take out who then pays the supplier. That tenner was spent five times and thus created £50 worth of value, whereas if you just spent it at your local Tesco, chances are that tenner goes to the CEO’s bank balance and stays there, not creating any value. Money that isn’t being spent is money that doesn’t create value. Billionaires aren’t billionaires because they make money by working hard, they horde money by using a small amount of their stash to collect even more money, and that money doesn’t get used. This is why Trickle Down Economics doesn’t work and never will because it takes money out the system.
Now when the amount of money being spent in an economy is low to the point that ventures can’t operate properly, that’s called a recession. It’s why central banks and governments try to get the economy going by putting some of it’s own money into the system a bit like trying to get a power grid back online in a Black Start. If the “energy” in an economy is being horded in the bank accounts of an evershrinking collection of people rather than being put into the economy, well, eventually, we’re gonna have an economic blackout (recession). This is why Billionaires are terrible for the economy, because they take money out of the economy and keep it for themselves, producing a net loss to the system. If there’s less money in the system, there’s less value being created.
The Solution? Piñata economics! Make the billionaires put money into the economy to the economy doesn’t shut down. Now the Billionaires and their allies have overthrown nations for suggesting they pay a little bit more Tax because they use money as a way to control people and maintain power over their countries and/or interests. This is why Capitalism is more a Political system than an Economic one. The solution, me thinks, would be to turn to the billionaires and say “You can only a maximum of £1 billion in your bank account, if you make £100 billion, that year, you will have to spend £99 Billion. If you still have over £1 Billion in your bank account, we take everything above a billion so you end up with £1 Billion again so we can spend it on things like infrastructure.”
If the Billionaire doesn’t want to give their money to the government, they can give it to charity or spend it on whatever they want. If they spend it, it creates value (which is good for the economy), if they give it to charity, those charities will spend it on good works, which is good for both society and the economy. They could spend it on their business (which will create jobs and thus, value) but if they don’t, let’s say they have £2.2 Billion in their accounts, the government gets £1.1 Billion to spend of infrastructure projects, healthcare, and Welfare, all of which will help the economy because Infrastructure allows for economic activities, Healthcare means people can create value and people on Welfare can buy things like food and shelter which, guess what, creates value because they’re spending money.
If billionaires are going to make money without employing humans and thus, take more money out of the economy, they should pay more in taxes so the bloody economy doesn’t grind to a halt.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 4 weeks ago:
oh don’t worry, “The Invisible hand of the Free Market” will do that for us,
