homesweethomeMrL
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- Comment on New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals 3 days ago:
At face value, this sounds convenient, and it would have been fine and dandy if Xfinity hadn’t pulled the classic fine print shenanigans. Buried deep within the terms of service, the company has a clause stating that once you enable this feature, you give the company the right to collect and log your data, which can subsequently be sold to advertisers.
But that’s not even the scary part. According to Comcast’s policy, these logs can be shared in legal disputes or with law enforcement under subpoena, without requiring additional consent. While it’s not tracking you with a camera, it’s still observing patterns: when you’re home, when you’re not, and how often there’s movement in different rooms. This data is exclusively attached to your account, so any alibis are out of the question.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 3 days ago:
It’s no wonder why people are still on there.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It 1 week ago:
GAH! Kill it!
- Comment on Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos 1 week ago:
Agreed but starting with deleting Meta, X, Gmail, You Tube accounts, etc, would be an enormous step in the right direction.
- Comment on Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos 1 week ago:
If only there was some way to avoid Meta having access to all our information.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 2 weeks ago:
“I’m going to trust Microsoft”
Pfft. Moron.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 4 weeks ago:
“I have too much money!”
“I think much too highly of myself!”
“I’m a complete bastard!”
- Comment on X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it 5 weeks ago:
Aw man i can’t give up Xitter! Those skeevy fascist hucksters depend on my credulous clicks!
- Comment on Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU 5 weeks ago:
America, however, you’ll always have popups. Muwhahahahaha
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 5 weeks ago:
Headline: Horrible Software Platform Is Really Terrible, Still
Me: hm. *shrug*
- Comment on Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores 5 weeks ago:
In Texas, you say
- Comment on Discord seeks to solve a problem that it created 1 month ago:
They killed message boards and are considering adding them.
Also new Blizzard CEO and upcoming IPO guarantees a record level of enshittification coming soon.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 1 month ago:
How can ye have any File functions IF YE DOON’T EAT YER AI?!
- Comment on X timelines aren’t updating for many users 1 month ago:
Seriously - this isn’t a hard concept
- Comment on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment 1 month ago:
See this is where that goodwill would have come in handy.
Ah well.
- Comment on You can now submit your claims for Apple’s $95 million Siri spying settlement 1 month ago:
- If you believe you are a Settlement Class Member, you must submit a valid Claim Form to get a payment from the Settlement. Settlement Class Members may submit claims for up to five Siri Devices on which they claim to have experienced an unintended Siri activation during a conversation intended to be confidential or private. Settlement Class Members who submit valid claims shall receive a pro rata portion of the Net Settlement Amount for a Class Payment of up to a cap of $20 per Siri Device. The amount available to Settlement Class Members will increase or decrease pro rata depending on the total number of valid claims submitted, and Siri Devices claimed. Depending on the total number of valid claims, this Plan of Allocation is subject to modification by agreement of the Parties without further notice to Settlement Class Members, provided any such modification is approved by the Court. The final amount will not be known until all claims are evaluated. Please see the information in the Notice concerning payments.
- Comment on Argentina hopes to attract Big Tech with nuclear-powered AI data centers 2 months ago:
Hahahaha
Micro$quash cancelled most of their AI power buildout, and they were the 500 lb. gorilla in the room. “Stargate” is a pipe dream, and ain’t nobody even making any freakin money on the thing yet.
Sure, sink more billions, maybe that’ll help.
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 2 months ago:
*raises hand*
Because it never “understood” what any “word” ever “meant” anyway?
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 2 months ago:
Lol. What a maroon.
- Comment on Intel report says China aims to displace U.S. as top AI power by 2030. 3 months ago:
Knock yourselves out.
- Comment on Cellebrite halts product use in Serbia over abuse of phone-cracking software against civil society. 4 months ago:
slow clap
- Comment on U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace. 4 months ago:
Incorrect. U.S. Workers are split into two camps:
- one group has never used AI and thinks it sounds "neat"
- the other group has used AI and is extremely pissed off.
As time moves on, we expect one of these groups to expand and the other to shrink.
(Technically there’s a third group which is the devs who “well actually” their favorite transmutation of AI until you just wander away while smiling and nodding.)
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 4 months ago:
Indeed. Ironic, as some of the early ones were quite good.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 4 months ago:
Hey kids, gather 'round you’ll be amazed to hear this.
Once upon a time, HP was just H and P and they both had some pretty good gear for sale. Then they became HP and their gear was still pretty dang good. Some of it is still going actually.
But then, The Enshittification Monsters of Silicon Valley decided they wanted the Eternal More and HP then became HP now. They ransacked the land of ideas, they fired The Old Heads, and they brought in New CEO who was very exceptional in her ridiculous evilness. And now it’s all radioactive.
But still. Once upon a garage it was a good thing. Heed the lessons well.
- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 4 months ago:
Spot on.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 4 months ago:
Can I interest you in some AI hype? New in box!
- Comment on Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds 5 months ago:
Hey, anybody ever read “Brave New World”?
- Comment on AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’ 5 months ago:
Ministers have shut down or dropped at least half a dozen artificial intelligence prototypes intended for the welfare system, the Guardian has learned, in a sign of the headwinds facing Keir Starmer’s effort to increase government efficiency.
AI and “efficiency” are not even on the same planet right now. Did he mean to say “government burning piles of money in return for feathering oligarch’s nests and little else”? Because that would be true.
This month the prime minister declared “AI is the way … to transform our public services” and wrote to all cabinet ministers “tasking them with driving AI adoption and growth … and making that a top priority for their departments”.
Yeah I think a lot of managers are being given this particular marching order - “Figure out something to do with AI quickly!” It’s insanity. You can build a bot to repeat a limited number of things, or you can hire people to be behind the bot actually making the decisions. Those are you options for “AI adoption and growth”.
Writing in December after a year of running i.AI, the Whitehall AI incubator, its director, Laura Gilbert, admitted “there have been abundant blockers, frustrations and false starts”, but said “if something fails, we try, try again and find another route to impact”.
She said that of 57 ideas tested, 11 made it to rollout in various stages of testing and scaling. She added it has been working with US AI firms including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft.
For numbers we expect to be padded, that’s miserable. And yes, the usual money vacuums are involved, no surprise there.
The hype train has eaten minds - which we should not be surprised about given the predictable success of blatant propaganda around the world - but it’s time to grow up and explain to the techbros that they fucked this up super big time. There is nothing worthwhile for most of the human-interaction use cases. And there won’t be anytime soon.
- Comment on Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok 5 months ago:
Accidentally.
- Comment on Threads is offically getting ads 5 months ago:
😱