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- Comment on Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report 5 months ago:
AI PC sounds like something that will be artificially personal more than anything else.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Foresees AI Competing with Human Intelligence in Five Years 5 months ago:
Just tax revenue and wealth.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie 6 months ago:
Seriously, because she’s from a different universe, her actions of committing genocide and torture across any number of star systems are irrelevant?
If Starfleet doesn’t care what people do “in their own space”, how could they ever have a problem with anything? Just declare yourself a ruler, obviously democracy doesn’t play into it, and you decide what you can do anywhere you are.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie 6 months ago:
You mean part of a single episode.
No. They kept her around like she wasn’t someone who should be imprisoned for life, far removed from any position where she could manipulate others.
If they wanted to help others, there was a universe full of people more deserving. Two, even.
Not to mention the fact you say after TNG that the older style was dead as if Voyager doesn’t exist.
Yep.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie 6 months ago:
Lucky they made DS9 before TNG had even finished, then.
We didn’t really get more of the TNG side of things with the TNG movies. Then they moved on to JJA Star Trek, which wasn’t much of anything, not dark, not utopian, just references.
While Discovery was in part based around rescuing an ultra-fascist from another universe.
It took bringing back Picard himself to approach doing what they once did decades ago.
- Comment on Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’ 7 months ago:
Should be illegal. Same as unpaid internships. Pay workers or don’t be a business.
- Comment on xkcd #2849: Under the Stars 7 months ago:
Imagine growing up on a tidally locked world, living in the day, until you wander off for long enough to discover the night.
- Comment on Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA 7 months ago:
People paid 23andMe to give them the data in the first place. Should be illegal to profit off of other people’s data if they’re not getting paid for it.
- Comment on Phasers set to "Bitch please" 8 months ago:
TNG was close to having a transgender episode, “The Outcast”, but they were stuck in their time and didn’t really make any kind of statement.
TOS made several comments on religion and running into powerful beings. In particular “Who Mourns for Adonais?”, which would’ve been a great take if not for Kirk saying “Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one quite adequate”.
- Comment on Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin's Creed games | Time to say goodbye 8 months ago:
While it’s sad to see all these games begin to die a slow death, in reality, many of these titles are incredibly old and on last-gen platforms such as Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
Yet much older games are still playable without functionality loss.
You don’t need upgrades to online services. You need to stop locking down games.
- Comment on One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion 8 months ago:
Still seems way overpriced. Doesn’t even have name recognition anymore.
- Comment on Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection 8 months ago:
A monopoly trying to lock in browsers isn’t going to last in the EU.
- Comment on London rents hit 'record high' of over £2,000 per month as shrinking supply hits tenants hard 8 months ago:
Who are the landlords selling to? Are the properties that disappear from the market used for homes, or something else?
More people selling should mean house prices going down.
- Comment on If reincarnation was proven to be a reality, how would it change the shape of our society? 8 months ago:
Reroll at what point? “Hey, kids, today you’ll learn about resurrection, and what that booth is for”. There could be billions of people with no clue about the rules, let alone trust in how it would work.
- Comment on If reincarnation was proven to be a reality, how would it change the shape of our society? 8 months ago:
Ideally it would mean everyone’s united in improving society for everyone and especially raising minimum standards, when you could end up as anyone.
- Comment on How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet 8 months ago:
People shouldn’t be paying to opt out of ads, websites should be paying their users for what they’re exploiting for.
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 8 months ago:
“More competition” meaning less access, people having to pay for multiple different services instead of having it in one place.
The competition should be about having the best platform, not exclusive content. There’s no reason why the same show couldn’t be on two different platforms. And available globally. Practically, all you really need is more local servers for where there’s more traffic.
- Comment on Robin Williams' Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Recreations Of Actors' Voices: "I Find It Personally Disturbing" 8 months ago:
For personal use, but corporations trying to sell it could be fined 100% of their assets if need be.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 8 months ago:
I have inside pockets added so that I can deal with the wire issue. Makes for a better place to carry the phone anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors 8 months ago:
And they only ever made one.
- Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors 8 months ago:
AI’s going to kill us off by doing what we do better than us. Consuming resources and producing waste.
- Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors 8 months ago:
Or make some more Zunes.
- Comment on The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old 9 months ago:
In 2003, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. Dial-up connections were still the default and YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail had yet to be invented.
I’d argue it had reached its prime. Websites were just websites then, not data harvesting machines.
- Comment on Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle 9 months ago:
They shouldn’t. They’re not apologizing for what they’re doing, but are behaving like politicians, changing the rhetoric to get people to like what they’re going to do anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates 9 months ago:
I still use my 2016 SE despite having a never phone. But I need pockets to carry that around, custom fit pockets if I want to be able to run with it without it being obstructive, because of how big even that old phone is.
- Comment on Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates 9 months ago:
Music players in general haven’t been doing well. Phones are too big to be proper replacements for all uses.
- Comment on Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep? 9 months ago:
And if the teleportation process doesn’t terminate the original, but creates a copy on the other end, are they both the same person?
- Comment on It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore 9 months ago:
I signed up for Facebook for the first time ever, to comment on a local page about a local issue, and was first banned by Facebook for nothing in particular. Had to put my phone number in to reactivate. Also found I wasn’t able to post if I included a link, a link to a government website, but I guess that’s a very basic spam filter for new accounts. Then made some comments back and forth with no one really even talking to me. Then about a week later with no activity, my account had been banned again, and now Facebook wants a photo. I don’t even have photos online, and I don’t see how they could use that to verify my identity, so that’s where I stopped.
- Comment on Really, ….. it's my fault they built a terrible system? 10 months ago:
Stuck in the carbonite again.
- Comment on Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won 10 months ago:
That’s still just $36.5 million a year, that should be the daily rate for a company the size of Facebook.