gravitas_deficiency
@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on PSA: Widespread internet outage affects Spotify, Google, Discord, AWS, Cloudflare, more 4 days ago:
Cyber attack vibes, if I’m being honest
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 3 weeks ago:
Hahaha this is fine, I am fine with this, wcgw
- Comment on Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Survey shows Gmail users would gladly sacrifice features for more privacy 3 weeks ago:
I was about to pivot to the proton-sphere, and then their leadership and the company in general got all… fascist-appeasing. It put me off.
- Comment on The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft announces new features for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, including an AI agent in Settings and updates to Start menu, Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool 5 weeks ago:
chortles in Fedora 42
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 month ago:
Send more blue shells?
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 month ago:
Send more blue shells
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 month ago:
I want to say a thing that I want to happen to this ceo but it would get me banned.
- Comment on SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 2 months ago:
Jesus, dude… ACME is not hard to set up.
- Comment on Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust. 2 months ago:
I’ve snagged a couple deals on mini-computers with CPUs that have NN-optimized tiles; I’m planning on playing around and building out some self-hosted voice assistant stuff, amongst other things.
- Comment on Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust. 2 months ago:
lol no it doesn’t, because the only one I’ll ever trust is the one I fully host and control myself.
- Comment on Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it 2 months ago:
Same, tbh.
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 2 months ago:
Wheeeeeeeeee
- Comment on A 32-bit RISC-V processor made using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon 2 months ago:
You clearly haven’t read the article. If you do, it’s quite obvious that this is a prototype implementation - essentially a proof-of-concept.
- Comment on FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies 2 months ago:
Normal things happening in a normal democratic country. So normal. The normalest
- Comment on TSMC US investment: Fear and resignation after ‘world’s most powerful company’ pays Trump $100 billion. 2 months ago:
If you think any security guarantee made between orangeboi and anybody but Putin himself, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I wanna sell you.
- Comment on Amazon's retail grocery business struggles, despite advanced tech. 2 months ago:
Watch them kill it instead of letting it spin off and allowing people who know what the fuck they’re doing take over
- Comment on AI Search Engines Are Confidently Wrong Too Often. 2 months ago:
- Comment on TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center: A closer look 3 months ago:
I’m frankly mystified by the fact that Taiwan appears to be letting the core of their strategic defense policy vis a vis the CCP get pretty fundamentally undermined
- Comment on Trump is giving Russian cyber ops a free pass – and putting western democracy on the line. 3 months ago:
Keep this is mind as you see more and more pro-Russian and -CCP comments in the coming months and years.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 3 months ago:
Meta and Google throw money at people as compensation for making them build unethical, immoral stuff.
SpaceX has traditionally paid far less, relying on “we’re building fucking reusable rockets”, which in normal circumstances, to a lot of engineers, is pretty rad, and kind of its own selling point.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 3 months ago:
The topic of conversation is how tons of people don’t want to be associated with anything eel-on-musk is doing anymore after he more or less took the mask off, did his “weird hand motion (twice in a row, on national television, one of which was in the direction of orangeboi)”, and then started (and is continuing) to take a chainsaw to silly little government agencies like the CDC, NOAA, CFPB, Social Security Administration, and so on.
Most smart people don’t like dumb and evil people. I would not at all be shocked to learn SpaceX is facing some serious brain drain.
- Comment on UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites 3 months ago:
Honestly, in the context of an emboldened China and Russia in the realms of cyberwarfare:
- Comment on Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? 3 months ago:
I mean, if you have the ability to wait out the bubble, you should do so. This genAI ouroboros is going to implode sooner or later. Probably sooner because of all the cascade effects of the protectionist idiocy our government is getting into.
- Comment on Is Musk trying to prove haters wrong with X revaluation? 3 months ago:
Lmao it’s gonna flop so hard. That, or someone will use it asan opportunity to make friends with Elon to the tune of a few dozen billion dollars (so, Saudi or Russian most likely)
- Comment on LLMs Can Teach Themselves to Better Predict the Future. 3 months ago:
LLMs can add additional layers to become incrementally better at guessing the next word
FTFY
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 4 months ago:
giggity
- Comment on As DeepSeek Rises, Russia Falls Behind On AI. 4 months ago:
Tbh Russia is falling behind on regular I, considering all the brain drain they’re dealing with due to the war and conscription and sanctions and all.
- Comment on Boeing Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Money on Its Starliner Catastrophe 4 months ago:
Yes. But to be fair, the Starliner hasn’t (yet) killed anyone.
