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- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 3 days ago:
Eh, I should clarify.
That’s more of an inference on my part, judging from how often I come across threads that have a ton of the comments scrubbed to nonsense and/or deleted. It’s more noticeable when you have an extremely particular error or config issue that you’re digging around for. Used to be that you could just dump a part of the error message into google, append
site:reddit.com, and usually get a pretty precise answer to your problem. Nowadays, its way harder to find, because much of the really good historical stuff got scrubbed (and, by extension, the users providing those answers are gone), and recent content is much more polluted with LLM-generated crap, which I simply do not trust for stuff like this. - Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 3 days ago:
Oh, absolutely. It’s completely lost its appeal for me. Moreso because a ton of the more technical subs I used to frequent were populated by power users, and a significant fraction of those users have very aggressively and thoroughly scrubbed their accounts. We’re mostly all on Lemmy now :)
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 3 days ago:
I’m sad how far Reddit has fallen from its peak.
At the same time, I’m quite glad I left it a year ago.
- Comment on Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk says his posts did more to ‘financially impair’ X than help it 5 weeks ago:
lol.
Lmao, even.
- Comment on Acuity confirms hackers stole non-sensitive govt data from GitHub repos 5 weeks ago:
So nothing of real value was stolen. The only news here is that Acuity apparently needs to reevaluate their security precautions.
- Comment on Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected 5 weeks ago:
At the end of the day, all they did was subsume a neat company with a neat product and bastardize it into something that resembled a cog in Zuck’s money machine.
- Comment on Elon Lost The Spam Wars To ‘Pussy In Bio’ Spam 5 weeks ago:
Wow… he fired 90% of the company because he thought he himself could do the job of 90% of the company. The hubris is breathtaking.
- Comment on FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Propaganda: Chinese state media’s "A Fractured America" series shows how AI is beginning to shape Beijing’s influence campaigns 1 month ago:
The difference is that modern ML/LLMs make this tactic far easier to execute, and simultaneously far more subtle, pervasive, and effective.
- Comment on "The problem with TikTok is not whether it is based in China or the US. The problem with TikTok is TikTok." - (Tuta blog) 1 month ago:
Everyone saying “it doesn’t matter that TikTok is based in China” is actually just saying that they don’t have any real understanding of how the CCP runs shit in China. It matters very fucking much that the government under which TikTok was created was the CCP.
- Comment on Boom’s first test flight could signal the return of supersonic air travel 1 month ago:
As someone with an interest in the technology involved in this stuff: it’s a LOT more viable today than it was 60 years ago. Today, you have:
- extremely advanced composites, ceramics, and metallurgy
- extremely advanced construction techniques, including bespoke additive, subtractive, and planar deformation
- incredibly detailed computer simulation in various domains to enable rapid iteration and perfection of components
- 60 years of research into jet engine energy and noise efficiency
- 60 years of research into supercruise
- recent advances in combined cycle, geared turbines, and rotational detonation engines - not to mention, theoretical advances in the future around electric, hydrogen, and fusion-powered concepts
- recent flight research around suppressing noise during supersonic flight (QSST)
There is a TON of technology and innovation that’s coming together recently to make supersonic transport an actual viable thing. For the record, it wasn’t a viable thing when the Concorde was doing it. That was basically a national pride project between the UK and France.
- Comment on Google won't let you use its Gemini AI to answer questions about an upcoming election in your country 1 month ago:
This is 100% how they plan to avoid any potential charges about election interference from any side. To be honest, I really don’t think it’s that bad of a policy. It’s actually nowhere even close to the worst way they could have handled it.
- Comment on Florida teens arrested for creating “deepfake” AI nude images of classmates 2 months ago:
Ok, let’s pump the brakes for a sec - I need to clarify something:
Is it your position that a high schooler using an AI deepfake generator to create a video of a female classmate in what could only be described as hardcore pornography is in any way, shape, or form excusable, defensible, or even slightly morally ambiguous?
- Comment on Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day 2 months ago:
- Comment on U.S.: Digital rights group urges San Franciscans to vote No on "unnecessary, ill-thought out, and downright dangerous" Prop E 2 months ago:
Uh yeah, so that’s not ok… I don’t want police quadcopters snooping on my apartment window or some shit.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad 2 months ago:
I mean… this sort of stuff is how you get slapped down by the entire court system for life by getting labeled as a vexatious litigant.
- Comment on Facebook plans to shut down its news tab in the US and Australia 2 months ago:
Maybe they shut it off?
- Comment on How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer? 5 months ago:
This doesn’t say what you think it does. It simply indicates that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
- Comment on How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer? 5 months ago:
If my company were to fire me and try to replace me with a LLM, I’d simply wait a month or two and then offer to do my old job at a contract rate of at least 5x of what my current salary works out to. And I’d get it.
- Comment on Could we send electric data across time? 5 months ago:
This is me sending a message forward in time
- Comment on why am I told that I'm a child on the internet?? I'm 20!! 5 months ago:
You are correct, sir or madam
- Comment on why am I told that I'm a child on the internet?? I'm 20!! 5 months ago:
lol wat
- Comment on why am I told that I'm a child on the internet?? I'm 20!! 5 months ago:
doesn’t capitalize
q.q
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whines about being pidgeonholed as a child due to how they communicate on a social network
“I deserve to be treated like an adult because I am at least 1 year and 1 day past the US age of majority”
I remember my first time on the internet, too
- Comment on What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic? 5 months ago:
Why in the world did Kraft decide to make the singles instead of changing the packaging be resealable and have wax paper like every other cheese?
Because unfortunately, the average American is that stupid and lazy.
Source: am American and forgot how to spell camplekated words so I ju
- Comment on Paramount+ unskipabble ads 5 months ago:
Do what you want ‘cuz a pirate is free
