ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 5 hours ago:
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 7 hours ago:
I was having a hard time imagining a worse reality than this one, thank you.
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 6 days ago:
TPM was known to be a DRM Trojan horse in 2004. Then everyone forgot about that fact.
Sure, pushing Linux is just a new angle, but don’t doubt for a second that TPM has any purpose than making your own computer trust a cabal of corporations over you, the owner. And if there is a critical mass of TPM standardized hardware, such that a “trusted” environment is the standard, it will lock you out of major use cases on all “untrusted” systems, including Linux.
And that deserves a lot of outrage.
- Comment on SignalFire: startups and Big Tech firms cut hiring of recent graduates by 11% and 25% respectively in 2024 vs. 2023, as AI can handle routine, low-risk tasks 6 days ago:
Tech execs when the shortage hits: I just had a brilliant idea! Let’s just give untrained junior vibe-coding engineers the power of senior engineers, and even more AI tools. Problem solved forever, bonus please!
- Comment on Sleep well 1 week ago:
That’s a hell of an act. What do you call it?
- Comment on Trump administration blocks Harvard's ability to enroll international students 1 week ago:
If Harvard wants to regain its ability to enroll international students for the fall semester, the letter stated, the school must provide in the next 72 hours all records and audio and video files that involve dangerous, threatening or illegal activity by an international student enrolled within the past five years.
This is like an inverse mafia roll-up. Instead of getting low-level criminals who can be arrested easier to rat-out higher level criminals, the criminals are using higher-level victims to try to rat-out the lower level victims that they can shake down easier. I guess this just what happens when bullies get organized.
- Comment on A real American 1 week ago:
The term in the industry is “gross-up.”
- Comment on It is like LLMs are massively overhyped and can't even do half the things its advertised... 2 weeks ago:
Well, that part isn’t new - call centers with low or no benefits have been a thing for decades.
AI just gave the guy (and others, I’m sure a wave is coming) a convenient excuse to renegotiate the basic employment social contract - to switch employees to “gig” workers without having to pay for pesky things like health insurance and retirement.
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 2 weeks ago:
Oh, disagreeing with the post, huh? Looks like we found the AI troll, get 'em everyone!
- Comment on How I view others in social media 3 weeks ago:
My father loved this meme. My favorite memory is of reading this meme with him sitting on the couch with the family puppy. He died tragically ten years ago, hit by a runaway dildo delivery truck while taking our puppy to the vet to have puppy aids treatment. I cry every time I see this meme.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
How can you shame that which is shameless?
- Comment on Airbnb Begins Testing A New AI-Powered Customer Service Bot In The U.S. 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure you are not one of the problem hosts, but his will harm the renters more because they’re the ones already subject to the bigger power imbalance - by definition not near their home and relying on Airbnb to ensure a safe place to stay - and Airbnb is reputed to be pro-host against renters.
For example, there was a trip to Europe where a host physically threatened us in writing, Airbnb kept transferring us around rather than offer any solutions, we left for our safety, the host claimed we didn’t cancel and owed the full stay, Airbnb took the host’s side without evidence despite our evidence of their threat in writing, we did a chargeback, and Airbnb disputed it for 4 months in apparent bad faith.
Anecdotal, but a case study why black-holing renters’ contacts seems more damaging.
- Comment on "The goal is to make them hate Ukraine": Russians intensify militarisation of children in occupied Zaporizhzhia 4 weeks ago:
Putin’s goal is absolutely draft these kids as early as possible to fight against Ukraine. To a psychopath, it’s incredibly efficient, a closed-loop meat-grinder.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Attention is invisible until you take the time to acknowledge it. People will never treat it as a resource of the same value as these companies, because they don’t even recognize it as something being taken away from them (despite that it is actually the most precious resource - our literal lives), and that disparity will always be profitable.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
OpenAI recently updated ChatGPT to be able to reproduce images in a specific style, and a lot of people posted Ghibli-style versions. So all of a sudden, it’s a big deal.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
The future is great!
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 month ago:
They’re still a corporate entity, and they still want access to markets to make money.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 month ago:
Sure, I just mean, look how long BOTW has been sold - it will be a fraction of that length of time before Switches cease being sold. Mostly I was pointing to the system refresh as not only a chance to reissue BOTW, but to reset pricing expectations.
There will be a future where BOTW S2-edition is still being sold and the Switch is not. From them on, BOTW will be a $90 game, since it will be the only way to get it.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 month ago:
Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch, once manufacturing ceases.
Nintendo famously never discounts. But this is actually Nintendo’s way of not only never discounting, but increasing the price over time.
- Comment on Trump's ongoing 25% auto tariffs expected to cut sales by millions, cost $100 billion 1 month ago:
You see, it hit Trump like a bolt of lightning - fentanyl is a problem, but what people never had realized, is that fentanyl has to be moved between different physical locations.
From there, after only two weeks of additional thought, Trump had his trademark genius insight: don’t stop the fentanyl, stop the people moving the fentanyl.
It was an idea so brilliant, not even the smartest minds had thought of it. But how? How do you stop people moving fentanyl? How can you? Is it even possible?
Ah, it was a tough one, even for Trump. He labored for another month, but then - genius! We could… No… But could we …make the cars so expensive, these criminals would not even be able to move the fentanyl.
It was a perfect plan with no flaws. The only question was, could he explain his incredible but hopelessly intricate insights to the mere mortals in the media? As anyone who knows Trump could predict, he felt the need for the public to understand, a compulsion, such is he cursed with care for their feelings, and would first gouge his eyes out rather than have them experience a moment’s confusion or worry.
Well, leave that to his capable staff. If the people love him even a fraction as much as he loves them, they will understand. It is an emergency. It must be done. For America.
- Comment on Hot take: Get your game reviews from gamers, not from collectors 1 month ago:
I’m just waiting for a nice breakdown of society that somehow happens with working electricity and no danger or difficulty obtaining food, and then I’m set.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 1 month ago:
Also 2016, that was a big one.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button 1 month ago:
The great taste of Ovaltine, of course!
- Comment on Exclusive: Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button 1 month ago:
“Free TV” means “TV paid for with your time and attention.”
Know what else pays you for your time and attention? Your job. We can quibble about how hard work it is to watch ads, but that is what’s happening: you’re just working, using up irreplaceable portions of your life, when you use these free TV services.
- Comment on The left went too far - time to move things right 1 month ago:
Yup, better said.
- Comment on The left went too far - time to move things right 1 month ago:
Two edits: the capitalism exponential curve should be much sharper.
And the Trump graph maybe should have an “El Salvador prison” section on the left side.
- Comment on Lazarus - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
Shinichiro Watanabe directed both.
- Comment on Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better 2 months ago:
Yep. “My draconian DRM loosened the straight jacket a little.”
Yayyy.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 months ago:
Thanks, I didn’t see this, there was a different embedded FAQ that didn’t have the specific Q & A below.
But, if anything, it seems to confirm the ad itself is just legitimately clicked from the user’s IP address and hidden from the user, and that there is code execution protection, but not that there is any privacy protection? It’s still very ambiguous.
How does AdNauseam “click Ads”? AdNauseam ‘clicks’ Ads by issuing an HTTP request to the URL to which they lead. In current versions the is done via an XMLHttpRequest (or AJAX request) issued in a background process. This lightweight request signals a ‘click’ on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads. Although it is completely safe, AdNauseam’s clicking behaviour can be de-activated in the settings panel.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 months ago:
Yeah, I can’t find an answer whether the “click” is behind some obfuscation, or if the “click every ad” is the obfuscation step itself by attempting to poison the data. The latter may work but yes, may actually increase tracking. Wish that answer wasn’t so hard to find on their site.
