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- Comment on Finally tried this minecraft thing. Hows my build? 1 day ago:
The most fowl of homes.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness' 1 week ago:
Talk about sending the wrong message! Some of us appreciate depressed, angsty teens behind the counter because it reminds us of our youth!
- Comment on You know you wanna 1 week ago:
I know someone who tried this. Their ghost still haunts the simulation.
- Comment on The largest leaves of my 9 year old pothos 1 week ago:
This is my biggest
Huge golden pothos leaf, larger than adult human male hand with big hands
- Comment on Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN" 1 week ago:
Within the browser, it’ll work to “protect” your traffic (including DNS) from prying eyes locally. As in, someone on the same network as you or your ISP or whatever networks your traffic passes through to its destination.
Instead, it sends it all to Microsoft Central Data Collection™! By passing all your traffic through Microsoft’s central servers, you can rest easy, knowing precisely who is inspecting everything you do (including the US government and the other countries in the Five Eyes network).
Let’s be honest: It’s yet another unfair transfer of power from local criminals to international ones, increasing the wealth of billionaire pedophiles. Give the locals a chance to rise up, would ya?
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 1 week ago:
When my kids were young, but old enough that they may inadvertently stumble upon porn, I told them the truth. The truth that so few explain to their children. The truth that many adults don’t understand and many more completely forget.
Porn is fake.
It’s not real. The sounds? Acting. The breasts? Those are fake too. The perfect skin? Makeup (or airbrush).
Even “amateur” porn is fake! As soon as someone agrees to be filmed having sex it ceases to be real.
Also, let me get this straight: Your greatest fear from children being exposed to porn is they might begin to accept mysogyny‽ As in, you think porn is the most likely place kids will be exposed to it and somehow just nod their heads‽ “Oh wow, that’s totally sexist! But they’re having sex so it must be OK. I’ll try to be like that!” (Child nods head).
Or perhaps you think kids will be viewing so much porn—specifically, the mysogynistic kind—that it will somehow carve mysogyny into their minds?
This is so much like the beliefs of conservatives that try to ban books that mention LGBTQ people. Stop and think for a moment: How much porn did you view as a kid? How did that impact your life?
I seriously doubt it changed much. Unless, of course, you were reading Playboy for the articles.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 1 week ago:
Just think: Without legislation like this, kids will be able to see people having sex! Thus, ending their lives. Not so different from staring into the eyes of Medusa!
The amount of children exposed to sex that have died—or suffered worse consequences like early onset conservatism—may have been zero so far but the dangers are clear! We must skip right over parental involvement in child rearing and go straight to the source of the problem: Computers.
Computers have been giving everyone access to too much information for too long! We must restrict it! The first step is to get an implementation that actually works to censor information—to save the children (wink wink)—then later, we will have the tools necessary to censor whatever we want!
When glorious dictator decides that information about trans-genic mice must be erased from the Internet, we shall have the power to do so!
- Comment on It’s Not Just Andrew, the Entire Monarchy Is Rotten 2 weeks ago:
Monarchies are rotten. The entire concept!
- Comment on Having a bad day? This will make you smile 2 weeks ago:
With this upgrade, he can now log in to work!
- Comment on At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevante to my life. 2 weeks ago:
The problem is it’s an arms race! Stop treating LLMs like their existence is the problem and start viewing it via the lens of war:
The enemy has lots of badly-behaving LLMs! Marketers, scammers, and lazy management are equipped with Big AI brand LLMzookas that are sending hallucinations our way!
Captain: “So what do we do about it?”
Soldier: “Captain, there’s FOSS LLMs that we can deploy! We can use them to defeat the enemy’s bullshit slingers! They can be used to search the web on our behalf to filter out hallucinations and advertisements disguised as content! We can set them up to monitor enemy deployments and analyze intelligence to find the truth and stop propaganda in its tracks!”
Captain: “…but can FOSS AI generate boobs‽”
Soldier: “Sir, FOSS has already surpassed commercial AI in that front of the war.”
Captain: “We need to deploy FOSS AI ASAP!”
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 2 weeks ago:
Simple: Exfat does not support symbolic links. So every file that’s just a symbolic link on your btrfs filesystem is getting copied in full (the link is being resolved) to your Exfat drive.
Solution don’t use Exfat. For backups from btrfs, I recommend using btrfs with compression enabled.
Also don’t forget to rebalance your btrfs partitions regularly to reclaim lost space! Also, delete old snapshots!
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 2 weeks ago:
Folks here jest, but this business model is coming to PCs next. Bookmark my words!
(Literally, you can right-click the perma-link to this message and have quick access to it later so you can reply, “Damn, you were right!” And post the link to big PC vendors suddenly offering a similar services because DRAM and GPUs have become so expensive, normal people can’t afford to buy PCs anymore)
- Comment on Curb feelers 2 weeks ago:
Forbidden chopsticks
- Comment on UN approves 40-member scientific panel on the impact of artificial intelligence over US objections 3 weeks ago:
Of all the things to object to… This?
It’s so silly! No matter what the panel concludes, the current Trump regime will just ignore it anyway. Just like they ignore the IPCC or polling or basic economics.
It’d be like the administration objecting to a panel being formed about vaccines, pollution, corruption, or authoritarianism. Clearly, they don’t care so why bother? It just draws attention to their incompetence.
Just another loud demonstration of their incompetence, actually. Otherwise they wouldn’t have objected.
- Comment on Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning 3 weeks ago:
This is why web browsers like Firefox need their own AI. Local AI for not only creating summaries but for detecting bullshit like this.
Yes, creating summaries is kinda lame but without local AI you’re at the mercy of big corporations. It’s a new arms race. Not some bullshit feature that no one needs.
- Comment on Start-up idea 3 weeks ago:
…and burns people’s homes down due to lack of safety features.
…and children choke to death from easily removable small parts.
…and people get electrocuted because of a lack of warning label telling them not to use it in the bath.
- Comment on Women's razor ads use bare legs but cleaning products don't use clean floors. 4 weeks ago:
You want political toilet paper?
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 4 weeks ago:
It’s called dogfooding and it’s what you’re supposed to do to improve your product.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 4 weeks ago:
Total market share is irrelevant. What matters more is total users.
If you make a product and there’s a million people on a platform who could buy it, the costs to port that product (and support it) need to be low for it to be worthwhile.
If the total number of people on that platform increases to 10 million, now the cost to port/support becomes more like a minuscule expense rather than a difficult decision.
When you reach 100 million there’s no excuse. There’s a lot of money to be made!
For reference, the current estimated amount of desktop Linux users globally is somewhere between 60-80 million. In English-speaking countries, the total is around 19-20 million.
It’s actually a lot more complicated than this, but you get the general idea: There’s a threshold where any given software company (including games) is throwing money away by not supporting Linux.
Also keep in mind that even if Linux had 50% market share, globally, Tim Sweeney would still not allow Epic to support it. I bet he’d rather start selling their own consoles that run Windows instead!
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 4 weeks ago:
One thing for certain, Microsoft will not stop using Copilot to develop their software in house.
You’re wrong, but I think you’ll be OK with that because the reality of the situation is actually hilarious:
theverge.com/…/microsoft-claude-code-anthropic-pa…
“Turns out Copilot sucks so let’s just use our competitor’s superior product but that’s no reason we can’t keep foisting the inferior garbage on the masses!”
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Having Sonny Boy listed as a “masterpiece” has me shaking my head. Much in the same way I shook my head after watching Sonny Boy.
Sonny Boy is an anime you recommend people watch to mess with them.
Any normal person that watches it will step away at the end thinking, “WTF did I just watch‽”
Unrelated: Demon Slayer is worth watching. The hype is irrelevant.
- Comment on Not even lottery jackpots are enough to buy apartments in Seoul 4 weeks ago:
Seems like a short term problem. The birth rate in Good Korea is so low that before long they’ll have vastly more housing than people to live in it.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 4 weeks ago:
Wait until you see Gen Alpha’s spending on alcohol!
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s a common thought: An afterlife where people gather before going on to the next.
Usually, people think that the quality of your choices for the next life will be based on whatever criteria they think was most important in life. Someone who went out of their way to be nice will believe that it will be based on how nice you were. Whereas someone who spent their life accumulating money/power will assume it’s based on that.
For all we know, though, your “afterlife score” could be based on how many different sorts of food you tried, how many buttons you pressed, how far you traveled from where you were born, etc.
I actually have a novel idea about this concept: Dude dies and gets the red carpet treatment in the afterlife. He’s very happy about it but he doesn’t understand… He never got married and spent most of his life doing data entry and courtroom steganography.
Turns out, he got the high score in “button pressing.” He’s at the top of the leaderboard and this qualifies him for all sorts of “premium” reincarnation options. Not only that, but the gods intend to put his talents to use right away on “pressing issues.”
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 5 weeks ago:
In hell, they just use Crow Pilot for this sort of thing.
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 5 weeks ago:
Me, at life’s exit interview…
“Sooo… I’m regards to my, er, contributions to the good of the world… Does open source software count? What about all those times I made witty comments that made a few people smile? 😬”
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 5 weeks ago:
Speaking about assumptions about the afterlife, people who believe in reincarnation typically believe that after you die, you get reincarnated. The assumption there is that it happens right away. What if it happens like a thousand years after you die or maybe an entire universe goes by?
- Comment on UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries 5 weeks ago:
Wrong way to handle AI summaries: Google crawls the article and presents it’s summary.
Right way to handle AI summaries: Your own browser uses a local AI model on your PC to generate the summary.
The first is easy to stop with legislation, the second is impossible to stop and yet, if you try you’re a fucking asshole trying to tell people what they can and cannot do with their own hardware. That’s straight up villain behavior.
- Comment on [Episode] GANSO! BanG Dream Chan • Ganso! Bandori-chan - Episode 17 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Does anyone actually watch these Bang! Dream shows?
- Comment on How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform? 5 weeks ago:
Well, there’s five beats, so…
Ts-che-chu-chu-chk
