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- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 1 day ago:
“I have nothing to hide”, until you’re unjustly hauled into a police station and beaten senseless because of a misinterpreted joke you made on WhatsApp with your friends.
People will not value their privacy until it’s too late. Some people only learn by making mistakes…
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 1 day ago:
Anything to replace workers or make them cheaper. He great thing is that the decision makers don’t understand what they’re talking about.
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 days ago:
Post it on the fediverse. TikTok isn’t the only platform out there. And if you think TikTok is a necessary evil, you’re part of the problem.
- Comment on Open-Source is Just That. 2 days ago:
100% agree with this dude. On the web, there are so many people who think them being a user of opensource is somehow a gift to the maintainer/developer. It is a damn privilege to be able to use something someone is providing for free and open sourced. Be respectful to the devs and maintainers, unless they aren’t nice to you, or stay silent. Please.
There was another post a while back, I think it was titled “maintainers don’t owe you a goddamn thing” and that statement is also true.
I wish github did more for devs and allowed to bad and report people from projects entirely. I also find it disgusting how people dogpile on github e.g when a dev uses the “wrong” license, disagrees to merge a PR, commits the crime of not writing secure code, when users disagree with something a dev said on another channel and so much more. And they think it’s justified.
Harassing devs became so normalised that it got a state actor (probably) into an a critical open source project, which nearly led to the infection of millions of computers. Look up Jia Tan, SSH and I think xz (or whatever the name was).
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 1 week ago:
Now suddenly privacy is important. Fuck everybody else though.
- Comment on Apple ordered by EU regulators to open up to rivals. 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t there also a problem with how these fucks implemented the DMA when it came to allow separate app stores? Other apps still had to go through a procedure with apple to be allowed to be on a separate app store. I’m a little surprised this wasn’t handled. They should be getting bodied for that.
- Comment on Meta Faces Legal Challenge by French Publishers Over AI Training. 4 weeks ago:
This is in a copyright court in Paris. Whether the judges can be paid off and swayed in Facebook’s way is now going to be very interesting. That the judges in the US are in Facebook’s pockets is not surprising.
- Comment on Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job? 4 weeks ago:
Dystopian. Wow. Why not just flip a coin on candidates? It might produce less biases results.
- Comment on Socially self-hosting source code with Tangled on Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
Forgejo was too slow…
- Comment on As Bangladesh’s factories turn to surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure. 4 weeks ago:
Don’t we have enough clothes on the planet to clothe every person here? What the fuck do we need to produce anymore? Buy second hand and we should be set.
Also, how is surveillance going to help? Seems like a useless expense.
- Comment on Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code. 5 weeks ago:
Is this the future of Rewrite in Rust? 🤣 I wonder how it’ll do with something like the linux kernel. It’s quite modular, so it could theoretically be pointed at the code, module by module, and put into a rust module with tests.
- Comment on New form of crystal storage stores terabytes of data per square millimeter 5 weeks ago:
There have been multiple crystals like these. I hope they hit the market within the next decade - even if they are write-once. I’d like to have storage that holds data for decades so that I don’t have to worry about constantly backing up and swapping out disks.
- Comment on Apple strikes deal with Indonesia, secures future market access for iPhones. 1 month ago:
The 2017 regulation requires that 40% of smartphones sold in Indonesia use domestically sourced components. The policy is part of Indonesia’s push to boost domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on imports.
Europe, take note
- Comment on Microsoft finalizes its EU sovereign cloud project 1 month ago:
Fuck off. Nobody really believes that, and of they do, they are clueless. Microsoft can be forced by the US government to turn over data on any client: that means on nearly any government on the planet. The EU better give up their US addiction before it gets terminal.
- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 1 month ago:
His point of using IPv6 as proof of ossification is partially correct. The major problem with IPv6 is that it’s friggin unreadable to developers. 1::abdc:124 and a bunch of other things just make it difficult to read and parse.
It’s probably obvious that I have not come in contact with it much, but why weren’t dots used instead of colons? IP addresses with double the length or with hexadecimal characters would’ve been OK. Unless there’s a technical reason not to do so…
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin is dead, HP is buying the carcass. 1 month ago:
But what happens to the pins Humane sold? Well, they are about to become ewaste.
Companies should be forced to pay for disposal in those cases.
- Comment on X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages 1 month ago:
Thanks for the Streisand effect, Musk!
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
As if you’re on morally higher ground by defending the actions of corporations trying to appease a madman…
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 month ago:
Meanwhile Germany barely provides 5% of its population with fiber and probably less have access to VDSL. Romania, the Baltics and other countries are fast, but I doubt 10Gbs will be normal there even in 20 years.
- Comment on Is Google Maps fatally misleading drivers in India? It’s complicated. 2 months ago:
Homegrown mapping solutions like… OpenStreetMap? Why are governments so concentrated on building private stuff instead of sharing the data?
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 2 months ago:
“We’re being censored!! Free speech is paramount!!” - immediately start censoring as soon as they get into power. What a surprise.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 2 months ago:
Has absolutely nothing to do with masculinity and everything to do with fascism.
- Comment on OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek 2 months ago:
“OpenAI”
- Comment on OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek 2 months ago:
The models will be available for commercial, industrial, and public services.
“OpenEuroLLM”. Is this going to be another misnomer for a model that isn’t actually open? The quote doesn’t give me much hope. I bet they’ll have to use Anna’s Archive to train their AI too 🤫
- Comment on Taiwan issues public sector ban on DeepSeek, Japan eyes similar action. 2 months ago:
Could we issue a public sector ban on proprietary software please?
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 2 months ago:
🙄 the majority of reddit users are followers. They will follow trends. Reddit is still hot, cool, and trendy. They won’t quit it until the next thing comes along that gets hyped up and that all of a sudden their best friends have. Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever. People complained about their app, but most just shrugged, downloaded it, and dealt with the new interface.
- Comment on AI research team claims to reproduce DeepSeek core technologies for $30 — relatively small R1-Zero model has remarkable problem-solving abilities 2 months ago:
Here we go. Soon we’ll have OpenAI-competitors running on thumb-drives. Stargate investors must be tumbling right about now.
- Comment on Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds 2 months ago:
Would lesbians be able to have boys if both gave their material? Women only have X sex chromosomes and men have both X and Y, so if I’m not mistaken two (or more) lesbians wouldn’t be able to conceive boys.
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 2 months ago:
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 2 months ago:
And nothing of value will have been lost. It’s pretty clear that people don’t care about surveillance or influence, or whatever. They just want to be popular and/or be distracted. Once Red Book bans them, sequesters them, or limits their access somehow, they’ll have to migrate again, and I bet the majority won’t pick a fediverse alternative.