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- Comment on Micro LED monitors connect like puzzle pieces in HP multi-monitor concept 5 months ago:
$14.99/mo, if you please. $14.99/mo if you don’t please.
- Comment on Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years 5 months ago:
Awww
- Comment on After Pegasus Was Blacklisted, Its CEO Swore Off Spyware. Now He’s the King of Israeli AI. 5 months ago:
that headline is a rollercoaster
- Comment on Electricity grids creak as AI demands soar 5 months ago:
gee, maybe its time to regulate AI, especially the outrageous demands it makes on worldwide energy grids
- Comment on Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server 6 months ago:
Well, this sounds terrible
- Comment on Cable TV providers ruined cable—now they’re coming for streaming 6 months ago:
Now???
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 6 months ago:
FTA:
In the interview, Dorsey claimed that Bluesky was “literally repeating all the mistakes” he made while running Twitter. The entire conversation is long and a bit rambly, but Dorsey’s complaints seem to boil down to two issues:
- He never intended Bluesky to be an independent company with its own board and stock and other vestiges of a corporate entity (Bluesky spun out of Twitter as a public benefit corporation in 2022.) Instead, his plan was for Twitter to be the first client to take advantage of the open source protocol. Bluesky created.
- The fact that Blueksy has some form of content moderation and has occasionally banned users for things like using racial slurs in their usernames.
“People started seeing Bluesky as something to run to, away from Twitter,” Dorsey said. “It’s the thing that’s not Twitter, and therefore it’s great. And Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter show up, and it was a very, very common crowd. … But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company.”
- Comment on Eken fixes “terrible” video doorbell issue that could let someone spy on you 6 months ago:
Updated so everyone can spy on you!
- Comment on Android TV has access to your entire account—but Google is changing that 6 months ago:
Soon: access to 1000% of your account!
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 7 months ago:
Oh, you’re right, I was confusing what it’s called with something else. But 5x clicking the power button locks the phone down in a basic way, enough to block Cellbrite from breaking in with a usb tool.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 7 months ago:
That’s the thing about lockdown mode— it’s super-quick to enable of you get into a situation, and you can still use your device with it turned on to, for example, video record an incident that will live-stream or sync to the cloud for later remote retrieval.
And with the usb port disabled, the cops won’t be extracting anything.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 7 months ago:
On iPhones, if you have Face ID enabled, pressing the power button 5 times puts in lockdown mode. This disables the usb port, Face ID, contactless payments, and requires the 6-digit pin to unlock everything. I don’t know if android phones have something similar.
- Comment on Truth Social says it’s building a live TV service 7 months ago:
And the stock dropped again, currently at 22.74, lol
- Comment on Adobe Firefly used thousands of Midjourney images in training its 'ethical AI' model 7 months ago:
I agree that what Adobe did was… underhanded, but if anyone infringed copyright, it was Midjourney. I don’t really disagree that Adobe’s grubby for what they did, but my ethical evaluation here is whether they violated their presentation/promise that their Firefly AI wasn’t sourced from human-produced content (ill-gotten or otherwise). It wasn’t.
Noooow, it would have been naive to think they wouldn’t find some shitty way around that, and shame on all of us for not being as imaginative as Adobe and their lawyers were, but here we are.
And, FWIW, I was a little sly myself when I said I was only ‘kinda ok” with it. In my equivocation, I didn’t really commit, and I’m still evaluating my position. I don’t really see this as a black-and-white issue. Not to say that I’m a moral relativist, but I understand that there’s a lot of nuance here, and i understand how something’s are worse than others.
- Comment on Adobe Firefly used thousands of Midjourney images in training its 'ethical AI' model 7 months ago:
This isn’t the same thing. This is a matter of copyright infringement, not theft. Yours is the same flawed idea used by the film and music industry to claim that piracy is “theft” when it’s not.
- Comment on Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites 7 months ago:
because anything that hurts the feelings of Christ-nazis is “harmful to children”. it’s just 21st-century book burning.
- Comment on Adobe Firefly used thousands of Midjourney images in training its 'ethical AI' model 7 months ago:
well… ok, so does that level of abstraction give them cover on not having used any person’s/artist’s actual copyrighted material for training data? that may be a gray area for some, but i’m kinda satisfied.
- Comment on Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever 7 months ago:
You joke, but there already is a social network of only AI bots interacting with each other. You can create up to 5 and just set them loose. It’s crazy.
- Comment on AT&T won't say how its customers' data spilled online 7 months ago:
You sound disappointed
- Comment on Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too 7 months ago:
- Comment on Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too 8 months ago:
That’s rich coming from someone on your lemmygrad…
- Comment on Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too 8 months ago:
Thankfully, it’s easy enough to block
- Comment on AT&T won't say how its customers' data spilled online 8 months ago:
That was such a great meme…
- Comment on AT&T won't say how its customers' data spilled online 8 months ago:
Can’t read what it originally said, though, can you? ;)
- Comment on AT&T won't say how its customers' data spilled online 8 months ago:
“Oopsie-daisy!”
- Comment on General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 8 months ago:
For now…
- Comment on What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic? 11 months ago:
This might be the boldest attempt at gaslighting I’ve ever seen. Congratulations!
it’s not my first time being gaslit by someone with too much time and not enough sense. really…you did such a terrible job, leaving proof of your lies all over the place.
- Comment on What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic? 11 months ago:
i’m not responsible for what you infer. if you misunderstood what i said due to poor language skills or for whatever reason, that’s not my fault.
You literally said: “If you like eating melted plastic”
but i accept this as an admission that you lied.
- Comment on What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic? 11 months ago:
You stated that American cheese contains plastic
it’s pretty bold to lie like this when there’s a log of my comments just above yours showing that it didn’t say that. but, go on and show me the quote where i said it “contains plastic”
I don’t “disagree”
no, you lied.
this is a factual statement with a factual answer.
and that fact is that you made up a little story to make yourself feel important.
You are simply wrong
except you lied about what i said-- i never said, “American cheese contains plastic”
- Comment on What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic? 11 months ago:
i haven’t. just because you disagree with me doesn’t make you right. why are you so self-important that you feel the compulsion to lie? are you so insecure that starting petty fights with internet strangers is your only way to make it through the day?
