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- Comment on Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error 1 hour ago:
Thw issue youll run into is effectiveness at that small scale, sonyoull be tempted to share data with other systems like that, and eventually you’ll end up creating a different flock.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 hour ago:
Do they use them because they’re "just there* and convenient, or do they actially like them?
And TBF I was largely referring to how poorly they’re written and performant, which you often don’t need to care about (until you do).
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 hour ago:
In a aociety where mental health is completely overlooked and treatments unavailable for most people and/or extremely expensive, it’s a very easy way to get at least some respite for many people.
And sure, it can harm some people too, but it’s understandable why it’s used like that.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 2 hours ago:
The issue is people downoting him for stating a simple fact.
Like, I also use AI a bit, it can hepp productivity a lot too, and my opinion is still that overall if we had no ML at all the world woild be a better place than now, and that’s despite the many extremely good use cases for ML and even LLMs.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Github actions are famously extremely trash…
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
They’re being scammed in the sense that NVIDIA is selling a product for a usecase that can’t make them money despite NVIDIA advertising (or at least heavily implying) as such.
“Look at all these shovels, you’re gonna make so much money if you dig with our shovels, I’m sure you’re gonna find the treasure any minute!” knowing full well that there’s no treasure, or at least definitely not enough for everyone.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 weeks ago:
…how is that an improvement over physical SIM then ;D
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 1 month ago:
I have a cookbook (not a recipe book - there’s a difference) from 50 years ago (with the latest edition being 2019) and it’s amazing. No need to go for modern hipster recipes that don’t teach you anything…
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 months ago:
Exactly because you’d be the exception there’s almost zero chance you’d ever get to that point. Most people simply don’t have a need to try to become even more wealthy after a certain point.
Like, when all your needs and wants are met, and you still have plenty of money to live that kind of life for the rest of your life, and your family also has enough for a comfortable life… Most people prefer to have less stress, they work less or not at all, or you venture into stuff that maybe makes less money (or none) and you do it for other reasons like altruism or just having fun.
To want to be worth billions takes a completely different character, one that craves as much wealth or power as possible.
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 2 months ago:
And if it doesn’t find sources it can just make shot up! ;D
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 2 months ago:
This is the way. (At least for a server)
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 2 months ago:
Are they legal in any EU jurisdictions? I’d hope not.
Not to mention half of their TOS being illegal/unenforceable in the first place.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 months ago:
The website generates a random value, your government signs a cert for that value. That’s what makes it single use and zero trust.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 4 months ago:
The fucked up part is nowadays third parties like banks or sometimes even governments make apps rely on Google services, so you can’t use an ungoogled phone for stuff you actually need for life…
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 4 months ago:
It’s a bailout where the taxpayers actually get something back.
How is it legal to bail out whole banks or other large companies and not get anything in return?
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 4 months ago:
Sure I can use my bank’s website (and it’s a shit experience) but they still want me to have their own app for authentication… Don’t even offer anything else at this point.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 4 months ago:
This might be an issue because f-droid re-signs apps with their own keys…
I mean depends on enforcement I guess.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 4 months ago:
Why exactly do we need signing authorities? Software isn’t zero trust like websites. You do need to trust the developer - even a legitimate one. Signing apps with verified developer keys will only hurt small independent developers, open source projects and freedom enabling stuff like user patching.
It only works to solidify monopolies and doesn’t protect you against shit.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 months ago:
The thing is, he does that fairly rarely, and seems to have mostly learned (to at least keep his mouth shut).
And TBF I don’t think he could build a company like that without a bit of cockyness, and he certainly does deserve recognition for what he achieved.
The vast majority of stuff they do - even if it’s a fuckup - they actually handle well and make everyone whole. In away they’re sometimes forced a bit by circumstances but in general I feel like they’re genuinely trying to do their best and be fair.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 months ago:
Um, can you give some examples (with proof) of where LTT got paid to give a good review?
That’s an extreme accusation, and everything I’ve watched for the past decade+ seems to contradict that.
For obvious reasons that’s something they want to avoid. Hell they’re still happy to get on the bad side of companies for integrity, they’re just way less aggressive and outspoken about it compared to GN.
In fact I feel like GN sometimes overplays it a bit.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 months ago:
I mean it’s fair to avoid “drama” no matter who stirs it, but most of their controversies were fairly well handled and largely overblown.
I think my biggest issue was the whole “trust me bro” “warranty”, but that was mostly a cultural clash and Linus still had some good points even originally when he talked about it, even if the way he did so was extremely tone deaf.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 months ago:
Again, what? Where? Their most informative videos do reviews and testing, which is regular journalism at best.
I can remember maybe one or two videos that were somewhat investigative.
It’s just not what they do or what they claim to do.
- Comment on Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? 4 months ago:
Especially since they could ship the JS polyfill With the browsers. Seems like a decent middle ground to me.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 4 months ago:
In this case it is purely fault of the money incentive though. Noone would spend so much effort and computation power on AI if they didn’t think it could make them money.
The funniest part is though that it’s only theoretical anyway, everyone is only losing on it and they’re most likely never gonna make it back.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 months ago:
I don’t think LTT ever did or claimed to do investigative journalism (or really journalism at all)?
They make entertainment videos that sometimes have mildly informative value.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 months ago:
Um, no? They can provide an IBAN and then you can pay almost instantly with most banks, with the worst ones taking a business day or two.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 months ago:
Revolut literally has this as a feature, single-use cards.
Additionally at least in Europe 3Dsecure is very common. It’s opt-in which makes it kinda weird, but still widely used.
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 4 months ago:
Didn’t even know there was an EU website for that. Would be neat to have it there.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 4 months ago:
Huh? They just made the walls. Out of cement.
Making the walls of a house is one of the easiest steps, if not the easiest. And these would still need insulation, electrical, etc. And they look like shit.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 4 months ago:
Reddit certainly had it’s problems but was actually pretty good for the ~15 years before it started getting enshittified more and more to try to extract value.