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- Comment on Tesla calls police on IG Metall rep at Giga Berlin works council meeting before critical vote 2 days ago:
If I remember correctly, Elon Musk promised he would pay for lawsuits against companies that did this.
- Comment on Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback 2 days ago:
Don’t worry Spotify. I’m not a pirate. I’m an “AI researcher”.
I’ve even got as much coding cred as Eli Yudkowsky.
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 3 days ago:
TwoTwo wrongs don’t make a right, though. Being targeted by big actors doesn’t mean you should try to DDoS someone else. And the Archive.is maintainer also has a little history with spamming Wikipedia with links to his site, so it’s not as if the decision materialized out of thin air.
Some additional reading from Gyrovague, the victim of the DDoS, and other interesting context.
When asked by a commenter,
do we want archive.today taken down over this? Who would lose and who would benefit the most from this takedown?
Gyrovague responded:
As for outcomes, I’m very much a bit player/spectator in this drama, nobody’s going to be “taking them down” over DDOSing an obscure nerd blog.
If they do go down, it’ll be the FBI or equivalent, and it will be publicly justified as some combination of “protecting the children” (cf. WAAD) and/or copyright violations.
- Comment on Spain announces plans to ban social media for under-16s 1 week ago:
I’m generally okay with a social media ban for children, as long as it doesn’t come with extra surveillance as a result. You know, like how the US handled adult websites back before they got all Big Government about it.
With a little extra friction and with a little extra help for teachers and maybe social workers, it seems like a good idea.
- Comment on Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web 2 weeks ago:
I really hope the project doesn’t end up being basically Matrix again.We already have a nerdy group chat app that doesn’t really work well as a Discord replacement. We don’t need two.
- Comment on Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web 2 weeks ago:
I agree. I think the average person just wants Roomy (or Matrix) to do what Discord already does. Voice. Video. Desktop streaming. All this haggling about protocols and decentralization don’t matter, but that’s what the article (and the app?) seem most focused on.
- Comment on Anthropic releases new AI Constitution for Claude 3 weeks ago:
In some insurances, they’ve just said it outright.
When users confronted [Anthropic executive] Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 3 weeks ago:
Sam Altman is taking these people’s deaths as seriously as Elon Musk. The only difference is one of them will gloat and vice signal, and the other will lie and tremble onstage while he tries to scare people into believing he can barely control his word generator.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 weeks ago:
I tried the Galaxy S25 Edge for about a week. I loved how thin it felt. Unfortunately, the feeling was all it was worth. The battery was very bad, and despite being two years newer than my current phone, didn’t appear to perform better in any respect.
It seems performance is plateaued, and while most of the tech industry is gambling on AI being the next big thing, most people aren’t impressed. It seems like a great time to try a wider variety of phones out on the market.
- Comment on Mozilla welcomes Amy Keating as Chief Business Officer | The Mozilla Blog 4 weeks ago:
New Mozilla’s goals:
As Mozilla pursues a new portfolio strategy centered on building an open, trustworthy alternative to today’s closed and concentrated AI ecosystem…
That’s the only goal listed. No second point. No mention of Firefox anywhere in the article.
- Comment on Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week 5 weeks ago:
There are plenty of true things that aren’t a perfect fit for Wikipedia. Is the article untrue?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 5 weeks ago:
What’s the most concrete use case for AI that justifies its existence?
- Comment on Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence 1 month ago:
This article is about how AI exacerbates those tendencies. And since there are so few ways to accurately measure the functionality of AI in general, those self-segments are a significant portion of AI’s value proposition.
- Comment on Welcoming John Solomon as Mozilla’s New Chief Marketing Officer | The Mozilla Blog 1 month ago:
As we enter a new era shaped by AI and renewed debates over consumer agency…
Hey Mozilla: Despite your belief, AI is not inevitable for every product under the sun.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 months ago:
“Great pick by [Donald Trump]. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.”
- Andy Yen, Proton CEO
“Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.”
- Proton
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 months ago:
Would you like to claim that Bitcoin crap doesn’t infest Nostr?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 months ago:
I don’t know why you would refer to a man who believes Bitcoin is a gift from God as evidence his protocol isn’t about Bitcoin
- Comment on Microsoft Offers Chrome Users ‘Real Cash’ Rewards To Change Browser 2 months ago:
I was talking about “The Browser Choice Alliance, representing Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi”
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 months ago:
“Hope it helps to tell yourself that :)”
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 months ago:
Of course it’s not a coincidence.
Great.
Bye.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 months ago:
Either you believe that the Bitcoin infestation is all just a total coincidence, or you don’t. Why don’t you tell us what you think, instead of JAQing off about it?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 months ago:
I provided proof. With links.
Will you back up your claims that the Bitcoin crap that infests the app and its community is just a coincidence?
Do you genuinely believe that? Or do you just think that everybody here is gullible?
- Comment on Microsoft Offers Chrome Users ‘Real Cash’ Rewards To Change Browser 2 months ago:
I have a hard time taking an “alliance” seriously when all three browsers are slightly different skins of Google Chromium.
But unsurprisingly, they are correct about their competitor this time.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 months ago:
I asked you for counterevidence to the claims, not apologism. The fact they left the smoking gun on their own website is enough for me, but clearly you have an agenda of your own.
Unless you expect everyone here to believe that the protocol, the clients, the funders, and the creators all just coincidentally love Bitcoin, you’ve got a lot of explaining to do.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 months ago:
Can you provide any counterevidence to the claims?
To quote them: “Nostr was kickstarted mostly by a community of Bitcoiners, so it has disproportionately attracted the attention of Bitcoiners.”
The “optional” Bitcoin payment system is baked into the biggest Nostr clients.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 months ago:
The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it. Today, basically nobody uses it except for cryptocurrency shills.
- 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' 3 months ago:
Especially because they are only good for AI, and they rapidly deprecate in value.
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 3 months ago:
The only browser that has a relatively unrestricted add-on ecosystem, and the best one capable of running mobile add-ons, shouldn’t need to add this as a baked-in feature.
I’m pretty sure this feature classifies as bloat.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 3 months ago:
The article is pretty clear that the issue is with the Android devices themselves, not with lazy users. There is no indication that a malicious app has these permissions.
- Comment on Building a fairer future for digital advertising: Mozilla partners with Index Exchange | The Mozilla Blog 4 months ago:
I saw the writing on the wall when they purchased ad company Anonym… There were other signs before that, but that was the most brazen.