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- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 2 days ago:
Nah, it’s just that corporations will obviously want to be as positive as possible! After all, happy people are more exploitable/profitable people!
This is literally how the fake happy cyberpunk dystopias happen.
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 1 week ago:
Genuine question, why is AI bad/concerning?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Give the internet archive a donation, history should be remembered, not forgotten.
- Comment on Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook 1 week ago:
Facebook is not the government though?
And why is it always “we have to respect other people calling for the erasure of the rights of minorities”? Do you have any idea how frustrating and tiresome that is, as a minority?
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 week ago:
In addition, what if the person noticed the instructions and then moved them away, and then accidentally got a finger in there? That’s a realistic scenario too.
- Comment on Trust issues 2 weeks ago:
God I fucking hated them with all of my guts as a child, caused me so much anxiety and fear. And then as an adult I’ve had the pleasure of people on the internet (mainly reddit) telling me they were just innocent pranks that nobody actually harbored any hate for or faced any negative consequences from.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 weeks ago:
Should we stop using a word because it describes reality too well? I see it everywhere these days, and it’s an accurate descriptor.
- Comment on All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics 4 weeks ago:
I guess it’s when footage looks “too perfect”?
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
Power users are the exact people who would get the most benefit out of Linux, though. Speaking as one of them who got sick and tired of Windows’ bullshit. I’d argue Linux already very much competes with Windows, and has many advantages sourced from it being an open and not profit driven operating system.
Finally do I have an operating system that actually tries to work with me to get what I want, rather than tries to obstruct me every part of the way because “it knows best” or whatever windows tries to do.
- Comment on nice for a holiday, i presume. 5 weeks ago:
Not necessarily. It’s more that we know that life can occur on an earth-like planet, and everything else is speculation.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 5 weeks ago:
I guess having your critical thinking overriden by fear (of going to hell), isn’t… The best.
- Comment on Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old 1 month ago:
The universe is actually not conserved across the universe, as it is currently understood, because of the expansion of space.
The actual conversation of energy ‘rule’, is a bit more specific.
- Comment on Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old 1 month ago:
We can detect its gravitational influence, as it interacts via gravity. The issue being that gravity is a weak force, and so there’s a lot of room for speculation.
But there is a lot of evidence backing up dark matter existing. But it’s not definitive yet.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 2 months ago:
Asteroid mining and space industry is a huge reason, and it’s the next logical step for humanity, especially since it means we can put dirty industry where nature and life doesn’t exist.
There are absurd amounts of resources in space, a lot of which are difficult to access or rare on earth. In addition, space can give opportunities for new forms of manufacturing, from being able to control the level of gravity due to weightlessness, to being surrounded by vacuum. Two things which are either very difficult or impossible to recreate on earth.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 2 months ago:
It’s enough to look at how much stuff is available in a supermarket, or in the average, home, to know we live in an age of abundance. The problem is, is that abundance is not shared, but hoarded.
We have enough food to feed the world, we have enough production for everyone in the world to have a smartphone and internet access and electricity. We can make clothes for everyone, we can home everyone. We have enough healthcare for everyone.
By an objective measure, we have abundance, we have enough. The world is just severely mismanaging our resources and the distribution of them. Because the economy doesn’t work for humans, instead humans work for the economy.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 2 months ago:
But if the true costs were quantized and not just externalized maybe it would suddenly make more sense. After all, on the end, society pays for it no matter what.
- Comment on Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont 2 months ago:
Probably to produce new nodes. You can’t just reuse old equipment.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
Sure, but how many “easily changed things” do you need for the camel’s back to break?
I feel like I constantly hear of tiny little things that get worse in windows. Sure, maybe each individually is not a big deal, but it all is just forever added on, constantly creating a slightly worse user experience.
In the end, windows is not follow a very user-friendly/user-centric design.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 2 months ago:
Yeah, I didn’t agree to shit. I got yanked from the void into all of this.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 3 months ago:
Also the advocating for violence rule has always been weird, because its rarely against the rules to advocate for war, even if it’s literally violence and also much much worse due to the scale and horror of it.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI 3 months ago:
Most don’t need faster internet than 50mbits/s either, doesn’t mean you won’t like having it. A more reliable and faster wi-fi is always welcome.
- Comment on Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep 4 months ago:
There will be plenty of uses for high speed wireless connections once the new mobile networks with big capacities come online. There’s pleeeenty of research on the applications.
- Comment on Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep 4 months ago:
A huge part of newer mobile network generations is the increased capacity. Faster speeds is effectively the same as more capacity in the towers.
This means that companies could actually afford to start offering unlimited data caps, there just has to be the push to do so. But I do genuinely believe that within a decade there will be no more datacaps for mobile data in cities, at least. Well, idk about the us considering you got data caps on broadband but, I’m sure Europe will get it.
- Comment on If only it was like that 4 months ago:
The nice thing about celcius and kelvin is that they’re the same scale, but celcius is just shifted 273.15 units. And it’s more intuitive for humans to work with smaller numbers with bigger relative differences. But yes, kelvin would be a lot better to work with, especially considering stuff like doubling temperature (doubling energy) would actually work correctly in kelvin.
But if there’s one thing that makes a lot of sense to base temperature enough for human use, I would indeed say it’s water, because all life uses water, we are completely surrounded by it, and it’s super important to nearly everything we do too.
- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 4 months ago:
I always considered this comic to be tongue in cheek, In practice it would never work out.
- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 4 months ago:
Yeah, we really are steamrolling right into a cyberpunk dystopia, aren’t we? Well, if we can even include the world “punk” there. It might as well just be cyber-capitalism in the end.
- Comment on Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter 4 months ago:
It’s not practical given our current technology, bit theoretically it could be in the (far) future.
- Comment on Solar rooftops gain traction as electric vehicles owners look to skip paying for electricity or gasoline: ‘Solar just makes sense’ 4 months ago:
Okay, but unless you have a proper harness and other safety equipment, you face a heavy risk of severely, likely permanently, injuring yourself if you slip up.
- Comment on keep going lads! 5 months ago:
And then people say competition is what makes society go around.
Nah, cooperation is the core of everything we do, and we should embrace it as much as possible.
- Comment on Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language 5 months ago:
Imagine if we managed to make a translator for the speech of an animal, knowing what they say and being able to say something back. Literally speaking with animals. That would have been so amazing and revolutionizing.