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- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 1 day ago:
If this is a joke, well done. If it’s a troll, please don’t. If it’s a true story of how you use computers, may God have mercy on your soul.
- Comment on In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US | CNN 1 day ago:
I’m not even sure it’s about the scentists’ views, in the first place, for many scientists. It’s more about unpredictable, politically targeted defunding, and the ignorance of the decision makers. The Trump regime has an ideology that is fundamentally hostile to science itself, and t will defund research into Earth and climate science, medical science, space science, and anything it deems either inconvenient or not immediately profitable, or that falls foul of some irrational conspiracy theory. And these decisions are made by the most ignorant people with no clue about how science can benefit a country. If China isn’t so insane and whimsical about how it decides funding, it will appeal to scientists even if they can’t speak their minds politically there.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 1 day ago:
It’s all about whether your accounts give a vibe of truthiness. Auditors need to chill.
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 2 days ago:
Especially when the only thing keeping you protected from invasion is that only your country has those production facilities.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 6 days ago:
Sounds like this idiot:
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 6 days ago:
I just use regular glasses to tell me what’s going on in the world. Works great.
- Comment on Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll 1 week ago:
Poop knife?
- Comment on Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll 1 week ago:
They count on you recognising the brand name and eventually forgetting why.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on Trump ties autism risk to Tylenol as scientists urge caution 1 week ago:
“Urge caution”? Scientists know the claim has been thoroughly and repeatedly proven false.
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 1 week ago:
They’re pedophile hunters in the same way Saul Goodman is a criminal lawyer.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 1 week ago:
Those kinds of numbers unfortunately don’t usually translate into seats under FPTP, especially with one party so far in the lead.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 1 week ago:
The Express is an untrustworthy tabloid, but damn.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal 2 weeks ago:
Whether it’s a thing will depend on whether you pay your bribes and flatter the right people.
- Comment on Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal 2 weeks ago:
“We’re not discussing specific roadmaps at this time, but the collaboration is complementary to Intel’s roadmap and Intel will continue to have GPU product offerings,” Intel told PCWorld, reiterating the commitment that Intel’s Michelle Johnston Holthaus made before she abruptly left the company.
I don’t see any commitment in that statement. Indeed it seems carefully worded to avoid making any particular commitment.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 49 comments
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 2 weeks ago:
These people suffer from a severe lack of imagination. Raised to pursue success along a solitary economic metric, they ignore all arts and sciences extraneous to that pursuit. They treat the world outside their interests like a children’s game they’re not really into. Their wealth insulates them from friction so effectively there’s no incentive or pressure for them to develop an imagination, or diversify their knowledge to the point where an imagination might emerge on its own.
That’s the startling thing about these tech guys: they are utterly oblivious to life outside of their extremely narrow little domain, and they occupy that domain largely because they never had the imagination or curiosity to look past it. The Silicon Valley milieu they grew up in told them that success consisted in this one thing, and they just swallowed the story and dedicated their lives to it without ever pausing to think for themselves. They’re rich financially but in other ways everyone can see how impoverished they are except them.
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 2 weeks ago:
All the tech CEOs are playing this game, even in the established companies. When was the last time Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai spoke non-bullshit?
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 2 weeks ago:
US culture conflates money with all kinds of things: intelligence, importance, respectability, creativity, “good genes”, even godliness.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I like the bit where they wheel in the equivalent amount of data in stacks of punch cards, and the hard drive is bigger.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
RAID0 doesn’t give you any protection or redundancy, just speed.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t tell Keir Starmer.
- Comment on UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure 2 weeks ago:
Keir Starmer has said he wants to “mainline AI into the veins” of the UK.
What an insufferable man he is.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 weeks ago:
“I’m terrified our product will be just too powerful.”
- Comment on DNA cassette tapes could solve global data storage problems 3 weeks ago:
Is this how we get the first computer virus that can jump species into humans? Imagine humanity being taken down because someone’s college essay, when zipped, happens to encode a plague.
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- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 weeks ago:
A well aimed laser should be able to fuck the camera up.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 3 weeks ago:
So Microsoft’s in trouble because AI is not worth the money they spent on it, and management are all out of ideas?
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 3 weeks ago:
Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.
