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- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 13 hours ago:
I would say Nadella is the biggest bullshitter of them all. I don’t think I’ve heard him speak a single non-bullshit sentence.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 15 hours ago:
We’re entering FY26 with clear priorities in security, quality, and AI transformation, building on our momentum and grounded in our mission and growth-mindset culture," Hood wrote, mentioning Nadella’s email. “Both the pace of change and customer expectations are continuously accelerating.”
Hood’s email, notably, didn’t mention Microsoft’s recent workforce cuts, which have exceeded 10,000 this year even as profit swells. Nadella’s email last week attempted to explain this “seeming incongruence” as the “enigma of success.” Some employees weren’t satisfied with the explanation.
These people get paid so much for spouting utter bullshit to each other every day. I hope they have moments when they realize the hollowness of what they do.
- Comment on One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days: Massive-Scale CDN Compromise Starts Wednesday 23 hours ago:
If we know about these attacks, then the bad guys know too. Even if they weren’t given the details they’d be able to figure them out. Why then would they wait until Wednesday to start attacking?
Besides, the author of the research says that the vulnerabilities have been disclosed to the CDN providers and patched already. So the headline is doubly silly.
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- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 days ago:
And time to hold on to old devices. They’ll become like old cars: the only ones the owner can fully control.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 days ago:
Only approved AIs and humans carrying a corporately issued developer license will be allowed to develop software.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 days ago:
And meshnets that don’t go through corporate infrastructure?
- Comment on UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum 3 days ago:
Keir Starmer is trying to out-fascist the fascists, and fascists love to experiment on children.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor 3 days ago:
A huge loss to the world of technology. What on Earth will we do without it?
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 4 days ago:
A lot of the problems we have now seem to be due to people in Western democracies becoming complacent and taking their rights for granted. Fascism has surged so rapidly in part because people complacently treated it as some kind of aberration that could only happen in the first half of the 20th century, and assumed “we’re better than that now.”
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- Comment on Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search 4 days ago:
- Comment on Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search 4 days ago:
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- Comment on Substack prompted a Nazi blog again 5 days ago:
Over the decades since WW2, the popular culture of the allied countries has typically portrayed Nazis as caricatured crazy monsters. They are treated as strange, other, and non-human. This seems to have thoroughly undermined people’s ability to recognize Nazism as a destructive force that lurks in people, whether they’re German or American or any other nationality. Any society has the potential to fall into this. But the unreflective complacency of the WW2 victors after defeating Nazis once has led to a complete lack of awareness that it’s an ongoing job to keep your society from falling prey to fascists.
- Comment on UK plans to recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel meets conditions, Starmer says 6 days ago:
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday Britain was prepared to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations General Assembly unless Israel takes a number of steps to improve life for Palestinians.
It may be symbolic, and it may never happen, but this seems like something of a victory for the people campaigning on behalf of Palestinians, whom the UK Government classifies as terrorists. In fact, Keir Starmer may now have to classify himself as a terrorist.
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- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
I can recommend Qobuz. I’ve tried a bunch of them and it’s the one I stuck with. Actual high quality audio without ridiculous extra fees, lots of information including CD booklets and complete credits on each track, and they pay the artists a bit more than most streaming services do.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
That’s a very superficial test that deliberately omits the social and historical context that makes sense of these categories. You can’t just insert one party for another in statements about a relationship where one side has more power and privilege than the other, and look at your feelings about the result to evaluate the statements. White people have historically mistreated everyone else and robbed them of freedom and power. Men have historically abused women. To say “let’s swap the words and see how we feel then” is not a reasonable way of evaluating statements about the relationships between these groups.
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- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
I think it’s being used in the traditional sense, not the contemporary American sense.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
I must have missed that. When did that happen? I used i2p a long time ago and it seemed very promising. I imagine it has got better since.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
In the case of Labour, the party’s politics these days are over to the right on any measure. Under Starmer they seem to have abandoned their left-wing roots.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
I assume “Republican” on this diagram is not used in the contemporary American sense.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
It’s important to continue standing against it nonetheless, and not be intimidated out of action.
- Comment on Doge reportedly using AI tool to create ‘delete list’ of federal regulations 1 week ago:
Anyone who says “regulation is bad” is attacking the problem with too blunt an instrument. It depends which regulation, who it serves, and how well it has worked and can be expected to go on working. The urge to get rid of regulations is either driven by corrupt profiteering or by an ideology that’s too crude for the real world.
- Comment on Doge reportedly using AI tool to create ‘delete list’ of federal regulations 1 week ago:
Plenty of people know what’s up. The ones not learning the lessons are sociopaths who serve only themselves (and they know too but they don’t care), society’s most ignorant and gullible, and people so consumed with resentment that they’ve lost all purpose but to hurt.
- Comment on Doge reportedly using AI tool to create ‘delete list’ of federal regulations 1 week ago:
But it brings profits to tech companies run by centibillionaires on their way to becoming trillionaires. And that’s the point of human existence.
- Comment on Users claim Discord's age verification test can be tricked with game characters 1 week ago:
The 2019 video game also comes with a picture mode, which allows the player to change Sam’s facial expression, allowing the user to bypass a secondary check which requires a person to open and close their mouth to make sure they are a “real person.”
Surely someone will develop an app to create a face and animate it in just the ways these checks require. And then we’ll be into another arms race, but the kids will still have access to adult websites. This will just enable surveillance of anyone hapless enough to upload their actual ID.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 1 week ago:
Don’t bother asking Google if a product is worth it; it will likely recommend buying whatever you show interest in—even if the product doesn’t exist.
This seems like a general problem. Sometimes when I’m programming I ask the AI what it thinks about how I propose to approach some design issue or problem. It pretty much always encourages me to do what I proposed to do, and tells me it’s a good approach. So I’m using it less and less because it seems the LLMs are encouraged to agree with the user and sound positive all the time. I’m fairly sure my ideas aren’t always good.
The same thing seems to happen when people try to use an LLM as a therapist. The LLM is overly encouraging and agreeable, and it sends people down deep rabbit holes of delusion.