gravitas_deficiency
@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Tech giant Meta will pay Australians $50 million for enabling the Cambridge Analytica scandal 4 days ago:
Wow that doesn’t even categorize as a slap on the wrist.
- Comment on Companies try to stop online support for CEO killer suspect 1 week ago:
You will adapt to service us
- Comment on Companies try to stop online support for CEO killer suspect 1 week ago:
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE - Comment on Ukraine Asks if Telegram, Its Favorite App, Is a Sleeper Agent 1 week ago:
Yeah honestly I just do not understand this. Signal is WAY better in the context of e2e encryption
- Comment on Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI 2 weeks ago:
Most people who know anything meaningful about ML don’t give a shit what PR spin du jour Altman is trying to push
- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Recall scraper is finally entering public preview 4 weeks ago:
Gretchen, stop trying to make “
fetchRecall” happen. It’s not going to happen. - Comment on Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage 4 weeks ago:
Flip side: these will 100% be hacked on by homelabbers and used for like a home-wide LCARS system or some shit like that.
- Comment on Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp 5 weeks ago:
They will drag this out until January 20th and then it will disappear
- Comment on Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s social media posts have had a ‘sudden boost’ since July, new research reveals. 1 month ago:
It almost seems like it’s the reason he bought the fucking thing 🤔
- Comment on Microsoft just delayed Recall again 1 month ago:
Microsoft cannot Recall
lol
- Comment on Russia skirts sanctions, acquires Nvidia and AMD chips through Dell servers from India 1 month ago:
Sounds like there are some companies and/or individuals in India that need sanctioning too
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 1 month ago:
Come on, Lina! Be the regulator we (the people) need!
- Comment on LinkedIn fined $356 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches 1 month ago:
That actually sounds like it’d make a meaningful dent in their revenue, which is good and proper in this context.
- Comment on Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data 2 months ago:
Not to mention: the government imposes onerous regulations on companies and entire industries all the damn time. Claiming “but it’s harrrrrddddddd :(“ is fucking stupid. This is computer science. Figure it out. We’re not paid as much as we are for our health. It’s because we solve hard problems. It meets the standards with its code or else it gets the hose again.
Source: also worked several years in aerospace; currently working in biotech.
- Comment on Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data 2 months ago:
It’s also categorical bullshit in terms of technical accuracy.
- Comment on Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data 2 months ago:
He’s trying to sound like he knows what he’s talking about in nuanced detail. But his comment makes it very obvious that he has no idea what the fuck he’s talking about.
- Comment on Dell will continue to reduce its workforce amid push to focus on AI 3 months ago:
They deserve to have absolutely catastrophic quarterly results - up to and including outright failing and filing for bankruptcy - until and unless they reverse course on this manifestly idiotic strategy.
- Comment on DOJ claims Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on Day 1 of ad tech trial 3 months ago:
“With the cost of ads going down and the number of ads sold going up, the market is working,” Google’s blog said. “The DOJ’s case risks inefficiencies and higher prices—the last thing that America’s economy or our small businesses need right now.”
So uh. Google. We need to talk. None of us likes this. Nobody likes this. We don’t want cheaper and more ads. We don’t like ads. We especially don’t like your firehose force-feeding of ads to us. Your argument here is “it’s good because it helps us make money”. We do not care that it’s your business model, because your business model is objectively annoying and harmful to society.
- Comment on US Navy Chief On USS Manchester Demoted After Sneaking Starlink Satellite Dish Onboard 3 months ago:
That is some USDA Prime stupidity right there, holy flying fuck. What an absolute dipshit. I’m honestly more impressed than anything. 13/10 kevin.
- Comment on Meta Oversight Board okays calls for violence against Venezuelan ‘colectivos’ 3 months ago:
Seriously considering getting a job at Meta with the primary intention of acting as a confidential informant to whatever sane government agency wants whatever info I can get at as a devops/infra engineer.
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 3 months ago:
unzips and takes Linux out of pants again
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ 4 months ago:
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ 4 months ago:
I could apply the same argument to my massive
piratedlegitimately acquired media archive - Comment on Future Fords might detect speeding and report you to the cops 4 months ago:
Right after they figure out how to detect and report the drunk engineers that design their shit suspension and transmissions
- Comment on Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side 4 months ago:
I guess we’re just not allowed to have decent search engines anymore?
- Comment on Intel has finally tracked down the problem making 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs crash 4 months ago:
First Ars article I’ve downvoted in a while.
They’re not doing NEARLY as thorough of a job on this as L1 or GN. There is a LOT more going on here than what Intel’s official line here implies, and the additional context makes this whole situation look like Intel isn’t being upfront and forthcoming with some pretty serious details on the failure. The way Intel is playing this is starting to look a lot like CYA, but this issue has been so bad that business partners who would normally remain silent are starting to talk to people like GN and L1 about lithography issues (supposedly fixed since then, but Intel has so far refused to specify date or serial ranges potentially affected, so who knows really) in addition to potential voltage issues. They’re only starting to release info on this now because these two channels are digging in WAY harder than I think Intel expected anyone to bother with.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 4 months ago:
No, the clients were bricked. The VMs themselves were probably fine - and in fact, probably auto-rollbacked the update to a working savepoint after the update failed (assuming the VM infrastructure was properly set up).
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 4 months ago:
As far as I know, none of the OSes used for virtualization hosts at scale by any of the major cloud infra players are Windows.
Not to mention: any company that uses any AWS or azure or GCP service is “using VMs” in one form or another (yes, I know I am hand waving away the difference between VMs and containers). It’s basically what they build all of their other services on.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 4 months ago:
I feel like that’s not even close to what the real number is, considering the impact it had.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 5 months ago:
Yo ho fiddle de dee
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