p03locke
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Government incompetence and lack security practices have been around waaaaay longer than AI.
- Comment on AI Assistants Are Leaking Your Conversations 1 week ago:
What’s this, you say? Does it involve running LM Studio with a GLM-4.7 Flash model? And it only costs the kilowatts for my video card? And it can only go out to the internet if I allow it to?
- Comment on AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent 1 week ago:
“AI data center”? Do we actually know it’s a dedicated data center for AI?
You and I are typing a message on a server that’s hosted in a data center.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Gen X here. You want me to pay $60-70 for a game with Denuvo crap on it, littered with microtransactions, and has shit scores on MetaCritic?
Fuck that bullshit!
- Comment on Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks 1 week ago:
Well, only when they are forced to. The rest of the time, it’s all “here my social security number and credit card and all of my PII”.
- Comment on Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed 1 week ago:
Solid journalism from… *reads notes* Yahoo Finance.
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 1 week ago:
No, no website does it. There is no such thing as 100% uptime. If it happens, great, but I can guarantee you that no website even aims for 5 nines of uptime.
Google is the benchmark for website availability and in 2022 they had an outage that lasted an hour, meaning they didn’t meet 4 nines for the year.
In 2022. In the other years, they had 100% uptime.
Also, yes, there are plenty of clients that ask for five-nines. Is it realistic? Probably not. But, they definitely ask.
If you miss your SLO target for the year, then you missed your SLO target. If you’re down for 60 minutes but fine for the other 11 months, 29 days and 23 hours, you still missed your yearly SLO.
I understand how SLO targets work. If somebody is asking for a five-nines as an SLO, they are basically asking for 100% uptime, because there is no such thing as a “five minute outage”, especially not one that is fixable without total automation.
Again, a human hasn’t even gotten paged and out of bed in 5 minutes time.
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 1 week ago:
No, that’s infinite nines, which isn’t possible.
It’s not impossible. Large reliable websites do it all the time. It’s call 100% uptime.
Sure, it’s measured per year, and sometimes they have some outage that breaks the record. But, it is possible to have 100% uptime throughout the year.
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 1 week ago:
Five nines means that you need people at their desks in shifts ready to start fixing something the moment there’s a problem
No, it means you don’t have outages. Ever.
Five-nines is something like 7 minutes of downtime throughout the entire year. At best, you might have automated failover systems that require tiny outages. No human involving, though, unless you’re deal with some major breakage that would have killed the five-nines commitment that year, anyway.
It’s takes a human something like 5-10 minutes just to get out of bed and figure out the situation, anyway.
- Comment on The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril 4 weeks ago:
The NYT is now compromised. Has been for several years now.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 1 month ago:
Violence doesn’t solve core problems you dangerous idiot.
Then, tell me, my man, what’s the next step after protests that do nothing and failing to convince cult-programmed individuals to vote correctly?
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 1 month ago:
You were the one suggesting that all of human art could be compressed into a file that could easily fit on a USB stick:
AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.
These are your words.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 1 month ago:
The difference between art and AI is AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.
If we can compress the entirety of human art, music, literature made by billions of people into the size of a 4-10 GB model, at around 1 person per byte, then we must have not been very creative in the first place.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 1 month ago:
Remember when Pixar and DreamWorks destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in order to erect enormous Gray boxes filled with computers that run complex operations 24/7, consuming massive amounts of fossil fuels and fresh water, leading to unmitigated pollution; not to mention political corruption, global surveillance, rolling back privacy protections, and economic gangsterism that hasn’t been seen in 100 years?
You act like data centers are a new concept that was invented in the 2020s. We’ve had data centers even before we had the Internet.
Rich assholes make those kind of decisions to pump trillions into AI pipe dreams, just like the rich assholes who run Hollywood.
The fact that we find ourselves in these patterns over and over shows that the ruling class has learned to fuck us in a way so that we complain but not actually try to do anything to change society. Which shows the lack of actual freedom we have in order to live by our actual human impulses.
That’s because we’re too scared to project violence to solve the core problems. The best we have is useless protests that don’t sway psychopaths, because psychopaths don’t have feelings.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 1 month ago:
Remember when the world shat on CGI endlessly 25 years ago?
It’s like all of this is the fault of a pattern of human nature, instead of one specific technology.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 1 month ago:
We didn’t need AI for the Hollywood slop. It’s already in the streaming services. Miles and miles of terrible movies with glowing 8.5 scores (according to their own rating systems).
- Comment on ‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet 2 months ago:
Stop fucking call it “age” verification. It’s identity collection.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 months ago:
Okay, so you’re just a straight up “right-wing” warmonger yourself.
Far from it. You seem unnecessarily reactionary, ready to hard-accuse anybody that doesn’t agree 100% with your ideals. Again, absolutism is a bad thing, and the world is far more nuanced than your beliefs give it credit for.
You do not know me. Do not pretend that you do.
I could just as easily produce civilian casualties from the Iraq War, the Vietnam war, WWII, whatever. Shit, the US can never repay the terrible terrible debt it caused against the citizens of Laos.
None of that damage was caused by drones. The weapons change, but the horrible military decisions, unfortunately, do not.
This has nothing to do with LLMs. These are human decisions, made by terrible human beings that deserve to get shoved into the frontlines like the draft dodgers they are.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 months ago:
Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy.
You mean drones? You’re talking about drones. What’s wrong with drones?
We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.
They had a contract with the Pentagon. They literally deal with military operations on a regular basis.
Hell, most of the pivotal technology developed in the last thousand years started as a military invention before civilian use. Including this internet thing you’re arguing on right now.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s fair to take the two items they were fighting against, and warping around the details, as a statement of acceptance, especially given how Stinky Pete wouldn’t even budge on those two.
Anthropic took a stand on a couple of guardrails, that you or I would consider to be very basic acceptable rules, but that the rest of their competition immediately lambasted, at the risk of their Pentagon contract, and even a national blacklisting that could completely take down their company. They lost, but at least they didn’t back down. And they are still at risk of being blackballed, because we live in a dictatorship where some fuckhead president can write whatever EO his wants without Congressional approval.
I’m sure as fuck ain’t going to call Dario a hero, or ignore all of the shit Anthropic did to get this far. But, I am going to call out when a company and CEO sticks their neck out in front of a crazed axe-wielding executioner.
- Comment on Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI 2 months ago:
ChatGPT is crap, compared to Claude Opus. Claude does a helluva lot better with any of the programming tasks I throw at it.
Trump and Stinky Pete choosing the worst decision as usual. I hope they don’t follow through with all of their threats of putting Anthropic on a security threat list like Huawei, but if they do, maybe that prompts Anthropic to do the right thing and open-source the model.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 2 months ago:
Perhaps it’s because they shit awful code, with more bugs than my house this summer? And even when the code doesn’t malfunction in an obvious way, it’s harder to decode it than my drunk ramblings?
Naaaaaaaaah, that’s just prejudice. /s
- Comment on Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites 3 months ago:
Yep, this is what I use.
- Comment on TikTok USA is broken 3 months ago:
- Comment on Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content 4 months ago:
You obviously haven’t seen certain sections of CivitAI.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 4 months ago:
Yeah, Home Assistant is the way to go, but it’s been a slow progression because every company is more interested in proprietary lock-in than trying to push for standards like Z-Wave. It’s cloud-based bullshit everywhere, which is exactly the wrong kind of thing for in-home privacy. There needs to be a better push for standard APIs and internal wireless protocols.
This shit should be fucking easy. HVAC systems are still wired like it’s the 1930s, and all it takes is one company to just swoop in and create an all-in-one solution that uses standards and monitors inside/outdoor/room temps, humidity, occupancy, etc. It could control smart vents to close off rooms that aren’t in use, turn on humidity systems when it’s too low and isn’t too cold outside, hook into other rules from HA.
Doing the right thing could earn them millions, but nobody wants to bother actually doing it.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 4 months ago:
This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.
Is this “journalist” an industry plant?
- Comment on McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash 5 months ago:
Meanwhile, in non-corporate, non-shitville, actual talent can do great things with AI.
- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 5 months ago:
It’s a London-based company. How would they know any better?
- Comment on Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL— Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push 5 months ago:
Hints? No, that’s absolutely guaranteed by GPL, backed by decades of precedent. This is an open-and-shut case.
