TeamAssimilation
@TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
Futility is resistant
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 2 days ago:
I would never had imagined that in my lifetime I’d see gringos reverse-smuggling game consoles from Mexico. I guess you could smuggle them from Canada too, but Mexico has always smuggled merch from USA. We even have a term for it: “fayuca”.
The lucky ones that live near the border can cross, shop switches 2 at non-orange prices, open them and smuggle the back as personal devices.
- Comment on An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it. 2 days ago:
Guess they will start teaching vtubing in high school then.
- Comment on Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military. 1 week ago:
TBH Apple is closed mainly because it makes them boatloads of money, not because of security. It could still be open and responsible.
- Comment on Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned. 1 week ago:
Don’t blame him, they had that bias because we’re friends, and I would be perfect if not for my excessive modesty.
- Comment on We all deserve better than this 4 weeks ago:
This is what I got from the article as well. Jesus, buy a previous gen GPU and fiddle a bit with your graphic settings, it’s just games, not life or death.
- Comment on Do spiders poop ? 4 weeks ago:
Adult mayflies don’t, they don’t even have a digestive system or even mouth. They just reproduce and die.
- Comment on Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted 4 weeks ago:
I don’t recall reporting any comment today. Can I fix that if I reported it somehow?
- Comment on Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. 4 weeks ago:
They don’t even serve shareholders, they serve the money they will give them if profits increase short-term.
- Comment on Milestone: NASA achieved GPS signals on Moon 4 weeks ago:
I’d be okay with that, honestly.
- Comment on low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad?? 5 weeks ago:
Also, IQ tests are a learnable skill. You can become surprisingly better at them without actually increasing your intelligence, by becoming familiar with the exercises.
A smart non-native English speaker would likely score even lower the first time because many old tests tie reasoning to English proficiency and western culture.
Last but not least, being intelligent is different from being smart. I’ve seen intelligent people get left behind by regular people because they took unwise decisions and wasted their potential.
- Comment on low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad?? 5 weeks ago:
Bhank you for not doxin me pal, I would be devastated if odders knew about my low iQ
- Comment on What RSS feeds are you subscribed to? 5 weeks ago:
A question for the ages: why are so many young cybersecurity furries?
Does the field attract furries, or does it create them?
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 5 weeks ago:
I think he would be relieved to get rid of Tesla if someone would buy it. The full self-driving promise was always a matter of interpretation, and the cars they build are more expensive symbols of status than practical products. Tesla can’t compete with global EV manufacturers, that’s a Damocles sword waiting to fall.
SpaceX is where the money is now, and all the electric innovation Tesla did can be used for something else.
- Comment on People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now 5 weeks ago:
Yes Timmy, we spent months finding the best Marios and then made them have offspring. The wonders of AI!
- Comment on People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now 5 weeks ago:
Mario! Get your dirty growth mushroom off the princess!
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 5 weeks ago:
It’s seems like USA’s culture rewards individual success above all else, hence successful people behaving like main protagonists, or even as of others were NPCs.
To be fair, other comments that speak about selection bias are also spot on: not all people there do commercial tourism, even domestically. The ones that do are successful enough to have that disposable income.
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 5 weeks ago:
I know! The United States of North America!
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 5 weeks ago:
PixelPinecone you did a criticism! It sucks but aren’t you adorable? Bless your heart.
- Comment on Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content 5 weeks ago:
It was a stunt. Janet did the classic porn reaction of seeing her own boob and looking at it incredulously while shaking her head and not trying to cover it at all.
The normal human reaction is covering the exposure at the speed of light.
- Comment on Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps 1 month ago:
Google recently bundled Gemini with Google Workspace and increased the price, regardless of you using it or not. Guess the plan was for paying users to subsidize this free tier so Google can save on training.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No. Archival means copying, destructive archival means copying and destroying the original. If the copy was as smart as you, it would know the original you was left in meatspace. It would be stupid to claim the copy is you but in a different individual, not different than wishful thinking.
The copy would be based on you, but from its startup it would become a different individual, as your experiences diverge.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If the upload is me, it will know it’s a clone, not me, but also his own person from now own.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What I loved is that both knew what needed to be done next because he planned it before being copied.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Spoiler: if you have thought your share about mind digitalization, SOMA has a very predictable game plot. It’s a good game, but not as intriguing as, say, the Talos principle.
- Comment on I still love those little buggers 1 month ago:
Your work supervisor has shed a single tear of joy.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 1 month ago:
One significant red flag is that GPUs that were selling like hot cakes because crypto are now selling like hot cakes because AI. It leads to a proliferation of gold diggers buying pickaxes instead of a refinement and optimization of the underlying technology.
Paraphrasing Orson Wells, “the next tech bubble must need at least as much GPUs as the last”.
- Comment on smort 1 month ago:
It’s fine, it’s a really long test.
- Comment on smort 1 month ago:
It seems fitting, but you’re right. The meme is about the journey to acquire wisdom, not intelligence.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
Just use Joplin. It checks all those boxes, it’s only flaw is being an electron application.
I use it too, but it doesn’t have something like canvas. You have to write them in Mermaid markdown like a caveman.
- Comment on Just Because 1 month ago:
Might as well go all in and call the Gulf of California “Armpit of Canada”.