misk
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Opinions exclusively of my own and of voices in my head.
Autism, communism, arthitism, cannabism.
- Comment on Polish president vetoes "Orwellian" law allowing blocking of online content 10 hours ago:
He blocked Polish implementation of EU DSA so now we’re going to pay fines and we will have to do it eventually anyway. Great moral win for this thug.
- Comment on China is building one of the most advanced fusion reactors on Earth—a facility that could generate nearly limitless clean energy. 2 days ago:
It’s not a race, ITER is an international programme.
- Comment on DeepSeek to launch new AI model focused on coding in February, The Information reports 2 days ago:
They’re starting with coding in February because it’s the shortest month in the year and therefore easiest to do.
- Comment on Liz Franczak: Conspiracy and Techno-Capitalism 1 week ago:
What is this supposed to be about? I tapped out after 15 minutes because person being interviewed seems to mostly ramble and make some weird “insider” references.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 weeks ago:
Ban on sharing of personal information in social media isn’t intended to stop witch hunts against innocent people, it’s intended to stop witch hunts, period. I’m certain you’d speak different if the roles were reversed and I imagine that won’t take long because most politicians treat judiciary as one of the spoils these days.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 weeks ago:
Censorship can be good. Do you know why Reddit has this rule in the first place?
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 weeks ago:
Your solution doesn’t fully eliminate risk on it’s own and addressing that costs money - that’s about as far as a rational company has to go. They know going nuclear and banning all personal info means not having to deal with it at all and it’s a niche thing that will affect negligible amount of users. Bean counting is the core of meeting regulatory and legal requirements in case of for-profit organisations.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 weeks ago:
They don’t want to deal with the slightest risk of dealing with legal consequences. The ole corpo risk matrix + risk appetite as assessed by lawyers resulted in this, no IT involved ever probably.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 weeks ago:
Those platforms are irrelevant. Yes, I realise I’m using an irrelevant platform - that was always my intention.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 weeks ago:
That’s also what many other social media would do because it’s easier to ban posting of personal information regardless of where it came from because you can’t trust moderation you outsourced to some third world country to do proper checks.
Example:
No. Reddit is quite open and pro-free speech, but it is not okay to post someone’s personal information or post links to personal information. This includes links to public Facebook pages and screenshots of Facebook pages with the names still legible.
Posting someone’s personal information will get you banned. When posting screenshots, be sure to edit out any personally identifiable information to avoid running afoul of this rule.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 weeks ago:
It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended… with a lot of speculative reading between the lines.. Just to clarify… Windows is *NOT* being rewritten in Rust with AI.
My team’s project is a research project. We are building tech to make migration from language to language possible. The intent of my post was to find like-minded engineers to join us on the next stage of this multi-year endeavor—not to set a new strategy for Windows 11+ or to imply that Rust is an endpoint.
- Comment on AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025 3 weeks ago:
Crypto mining is still a thing? Capitalism is truly the best at efficient use of resources.
- Comment on Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says 3 weeks ago:
According to Ryan, “Dutch company ASML commands a global monopoly on the microchip-etching machines that use light to carve patterns on silicon,” and Nvidia needs those machines if it wants to remain the world’s most valuable company. Should the US GDP remain reliant on AI investment for growth, von der Leyen could use export curbs on that technology like a “lever,” Ryan said, controlling “whether and by how much the US economy expands or contracts.”
Glossing over details. Nvidia doesn’t buy ASML equipment. TSMC, Intel and Samsung do. How is EU going to make them stop supplying Nvidia and on what grounds?
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 3 weeks ago:
It is possible to be right for wrong reasons.
- Comment on AMD will pay Trump’s protection money— The company is willing to pay 15% tax on AI chip shipments to China. 5 weeks ago:
What’s the alternative? Exit US market and be subject to US sanctions anyway?
- Comment on Digital ID debate: Privacy group warns of 'unprecedented tracking' and 'surveillance' 5 weeks ago:
I always get amused by this kind of thing. Governments keep track of you using multiple different IDs already so those rights groups are essentially advocating that data analysts have to join some more tables before getting the results we’re being warned about.
- Comment on EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally 5 weeks ago:
No new impact, because the ruling is about online marketplaces, which pre-scan / moderate every new posting anyway due to multiple legal obligations that exist already. TechCrunch analysis says that the ruling is too broad and applies out of this context but I don’t see it there and the case they’re making isn’t very solid. I think they recognise this as an attack on how ad industry works because checking if the ad is legal before allowing it would be a huge boon to societies worldwide, but also an enormous cost for companies selling ad-spaces.
- Comment on World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops 5 weeks ago:
£3.1m is like a yearly salary for a team of hardware engineers. This sounds like a token investment that looks good in a press release, or token investment that will go into pockets of someone closely associated. Or both.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 1 month ago:
It’s normal for a person experiencing psychosis to have trouble understanding reality through a lens of a sane person, yes.
- Comment on SmartScreen for Internet Explorer and IE Mode on Windows 11 deprecated 2 months ago:
IE mode was still a thing? 3 years ago I was updating ancient automations at company I work for due to imminent IE mode deprecation, huh.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 2 months ago:
I’m sure Microsoft can outspend Joe Shmoe on electricity so just buy more, duh. „Satya Nadella drowning in pussy, Microsoft CEO says” has about as much credibility though.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 2 months ago:
$6400 per layoff.
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- Comment on Google Chrome to revoke notification access for inactive sites 2 months ago:
My potential father in law is very good at it.
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