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- Comment on The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet 6 days ago:
If you’re going to link to paywalled content, you should copy and paste the text here.
Otherwise, please don’t link to paywalled content.
- Comment on The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet 6 days ago:
I understand the need for processing power, but I thought AI models were just gigs?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Actively Encouraged’ Meta’s Massive Copyright Infringement to Train AI Systems, Publishers and Scott Turow Allege in Lawsuit 6 days ago:
Well this is one way to fund open source.
Looking forward to all the Foss projects on GitHub sueing Microsoft. Please let me know how I can signup for the lawsuit
- 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:
Ironically this is much safer to do “before” you turn 18
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You 2 weeks ago:
That actually makes sense.
So they learned they can’t replace the workers that actually do the profit-generating labour for businesses, but they can replace middle management with AI.
- Comment on Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago 3 weeks ago:
But it did give them an excuse to fire people and keep wages lower.
- Comment on WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account 4 weeks ago:
The narrative suggesting that security can be had on windows in this article is a joke.
There’s really no point.
- Comment on Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones 5 weeks ago:
That was Dubai, no?
- Comment on Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones 5 weeks ago:
🎉
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 5 weeks ago:
So paying is optional? I don’t get it…
- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 1 month ago:
This will work for maybe 2 years, until all the corporate kid shows lay off their writers and replace them with AI
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I thought they usually are just controlled remotely by poor people in other countries?
- Comment on AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer 2 months ago:
I’m surprised it boots at all
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 2 months ago:
Do you have exceptions to this rule?
- 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:
WHY DID YOU REDEEM IT
- 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:
Wouldn’t the time it takes be a give away?
- Comment on Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns 5 months ago:
No meams. Thank you
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 5 months ago:
Yep. It’s not a bubble. It’s just volatile. And increasing long-term
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 5 months ago:
Not too long ago bitcoin was hovering around $10K. The price has risen astronomically in recent years
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 5 months ago:
Correct. It was not s bubble. It is a volitile system that will continue to crash and rise forever.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 5 months ago:
So you mean recession, not bubble
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 5 months ago:
Never thought I’d have to time the market to buy my next laptop, but here we are.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 5 months ago:
Crypto bubble?
checks price
Wut?
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 5 months ago:
You’re doing it wrong
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 5 months ago:
Lol wut. Everyone on proton does, and half of my work contacts do
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 5 months ago:
don’t. Its the hardest thing, next to maintaining the office printer.
We outsource that shit for a reason.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 5 months ago:
- unless you use pgp
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 5 months ago:
I opted out by deggogling 10 years ago…
- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 5 months ago:
You’re supposed to reference the articles that Wikipedia references, not Wikipedia itself
- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 5 months ago:
Doubtful