ChaoticEntropy
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk
- Comment on San Francisco tech company Forward, once worth $1B, abruptly shuts down 3 days ago:
Well, all the initial venture capitalists involved already “got theirs” so there’s no reason for it to exist anymore.
- Comment on Major overhaul of workers' rights to be outlined 5 weeks ago:
Why do I feel suspicious…
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 1 month ago:
It’s going to be a fun historical period to look back on when there are just huge gaps where IP/product control became so powerful that no record of certain things were allowed to exist.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
This is less than a rounding error.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
The restructuring could turn the already for-profit company into a more traditional startup and give CEO Sam Altman even more control — including likely equity worth billions of dollars.
I can see why he would want that, yes. We’re supposed to ooo and ahh at a technical visionary, who is always ultimately a money guy executive who wants more money and more executive power.
- Comment on UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London 2 months ago:
Imagine paying to send your child to private school and then they decide to pull this bullshit. Classic profit motivations.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
Anyone hardcore enough to still be working at that dumpster fire is there for the long haul, they will follow Formerly Twitter in to the gates of hell, seemingly.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
Huh… “vituperative”, I like it.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
Is this different from blocking 3rd party cookies?
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
A fun little 2000 era RTS with customisable mech chassis units/base building/multiple fighting levels per map (separate air/land/underground maps). In hindsight, it has a fiendishly difficult campaign which I remember it being a lot easier than I find it now…
- Comment on Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones' 2 months ago:
Isn’t it weird that he waited this long…?
- Comment on North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory 2 months ago:
Put up a shack, hire 10 people, pocket the remaining money, pay it to yourself in dividends and stock buybacks. Huzzah!
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 3 months ago:
Why would someone wanting to store huge amounts of data put it on a storage device that is the most fragile/short lived?
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
“altruistic”… fuck off.
- Comment on What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲) 3 months ago:
It’s the thing you only tell your “ride-or-die bitch” server.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
Well sure… I have a local offline encrypted copy, rather than a whole separate password manager.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
Premium Bitwarden is so cheap and effective that I find it difficult to justify using an alternative.
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework 4 months ago:
“Hey! That’s just a machine programmed to kill me, it’s not making the decision to kill me itself!”
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework 4 months ago:
Is this where we play “how long can we tease a breakthrough before the market loses interest”?
- Comment on Tesla loses EV market dominance, falls below 50% in US [unit sales in 2024Q2] 4 months ago:
Really? Because the right doesn’t throw the Nazi card around like there’s no tomorrow at the left with their disingenuous “national socialism bullshit”. Only one party/political leaning is actually courting the neo-nazi vote.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
“The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way,” RSSU said on the platform’s website. “But who knows what these figures will mean for you in the future?”
Well that’s a relief…
- Comment on Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan 4 months ago:
For anyone who is unclear, this is a pirated content service, to better or worse.
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 4 months ago:
I’m struggling to transition still, honestly… Windows visualised as a street gives me access to all the shops and window browsing I need, everyone wants to be there and get my attention, and despite the masses of intrusive advertising and shady people around every corner watching me, I don’t have to actively navigate the street itself very much. It’s a dystopian street of neon distractions and side hustles but you can mostly shut it out and walk.
Linux as a street is a lot barer, the street is cleaner and less intrusive, I’m not being watched from the alleyways… but there are knee high walls every few meters, there are open manhole covers here and there, and I have to actively persuade some shops to let me in or even open. I don’t walk down a paved street for the joy of navigating an assault course, I walk down it to get places with the least amount of friction possible and I just can’t seem to get that from Linux yet.
- Comment on “We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear”: Czech report warns against Russian tactics across Europe to undermine support for Ukraine 4 months ago:
As of 2016, their name is preferably Czechia. ^^’
- Comment on “We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear”: Czech report warns against Russian tactics across Europe to undermine support for Ukraine 4 months ago:
To be clear, as of 2016, they changed their name to Czechia. ^^’
- Comment on “We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear”: Czech report warns against Russian tactics across Europe to undermine support for Ukraine 4 months ago:
If only elements of the the West hadn’t spent decades undermining their own education systems, and those of countries around them, to create a more pliant workforce. Who could have foreseen problems?!?
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 months ago:
Are we going to pretend that Wayne Enterprises isn’t likely 1 of those 100?
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months ago:
Yeah, the small tat items and accessories, as I said.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months ago:
A huge amount of products are just generic Chinese products that have a brand slapped on it. If you’ve ever bought a random small USB device (i.e USB hubs, etc) from a major brand like LogiTech and others, if you crack it open it is just the same device as cheap resellers with a branded coating. It’s not worth it to many companies to bother manufacturing their own small tat so they just sub-contract out.