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- Comment on Meta launches new Facebook Verified badge for actual, real humans 7 hours ago:
Does that mean I can finally make an anonymous obvious parody account?
- Comment on OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face 5 days ago:
Pretty good comments here say everything I had on my mind when I saw this
- Comment on 26 Meta employees accuse Mark Zuckerberg of using AI to target 8,000 layoffs against workers on medical, parental or family leave 6 days ago:
Mark Zuckerberg: AI, lay off everybody on medical leave but say it was for other reasons, so I can enjoy plausible deniability
AI: I have laid off 8000 people for legal reasons.
Mark Zuckerberg: Oh my god
- Comment on Iran abused mobile networks' vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says 1 week ago:
Sounds more like conventional military intelligence. In a war, no less.
I can just imagine the headlines from last century: “Enigma machine abuses messages between U-boats”
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Can Now Block Ads on YouTube 2 weeks ago:
That’s cool and all, but being able to block YouTube ads in my browser has been table stakes from the beginning, so I’m already set
- Comment on Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself 2 weeks ago:
And the haters will tell you there’s no target demographic for AI.
- Comment on Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself 2 weeks ago:
My gut reaction was “good” too, until I read the rest of the article. I didn’t factor in that a traumatized family would have been inevitable, but that was the worst outcome for them. What a selfish ass, even to the end.
- Comment on Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry everybody, they’re only spying on the evil foreigners. Anthropic is a very wholesome company with very serious Red Lines about spying on the good American people.
- Comment on Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years 3 weeks ago:
Mob cartel charging you a floor price you’d better pay, or else
Micron has signed 16 SCAs, most of them covering 2026 to 2030, and that they involve a commitment to buy a certain quantity of product and pay for it in a pricing band that has a floor and a ceiling price. The floor price covers the historically high gross margins mentioned above, and the ceiling price means those who commit to an SCA are insulated if memory prices go even higher.
- Comment on Four out of five Australian children still use social media despite ban, study finds 4 weeks ago:
Australian lawmakers hoping that 1 out 5 children are LGBT
- Comment on Windscribe VPN CEO warns your favourite Facebook quizzes are actually stealing your bank details 4 weeks ago:
We needed a CEO to say this?!
- Comment on Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good 5 weeks ago:
It’s a good thing these people’s skills aren’t crucial for training the input and verifying the output of these AI systems! /s
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 5 weeks ago:
Companies have a long history of funding their competitors to avoid looking like monopolies. Microsoft did it for Apple. And while the Trump administration has been allowing more mergers than ever before, two competitors in a single space collapsing into one would be very unprecedented.
But even in a scenario worse than if Google stops contributing to Mozilla, they’ll have three years worth of stored money to draw upon
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 5 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong unfortunately. Being an ethical alternative doesn’t make something automatically better, and if it does, Firefox ethics has been eroding in front of the eyes of anyone who dares to look since roughly 2017 (when they partnered with Facebook to start pushing in telemetry)
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 5 weeks ago:
Do you have hardware acceleration enabled?
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 5 weeks ago:
The deprecation of Manifest V2 is almost guaranteed to kick off a glut of advertisement systems that exploit the intentional weaknesses of V3. Outside of building a uBlock Origin compatible filter system into the browser, which is what Brave did (and Mozilla copied into Firefox recently), there’s not really a way to get around this.
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 5 weeks ago:
Mozilla’s funding is provided by Google. It’s not going to dry up while Google needs to maintain the appearance of a non-monopoly.
- Comment on CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’ 1 month ago:
The original post mentions them as things that demonstrate bad journalism - I was indeed facetiously mentioning them here because I’m impressed this article is excellent because it avoids every one of them and does the exact opposite (e.g. “don’t quote an expert”, immediately quotes an expert to rebut the claims)
- Comment on Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal 1 month ago:
From a business standpoint, this doesn’t sound like the worst idea. OpenAI figured out how to make people addicted to their chatbots, after all, and they successfully implemented the strategy of “harm people, apologize later.”
- Comment on CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’ 1 month ago:
This article breaks almost every rule of proper "CEO said a thing" journalism!
There are, in my mind, a few rules for “CEO said a thing!” journalism if it’s to qualify:
- You can never directly challenge anything the CEO said, even if the CEO has a long history of false or misleading promises and claims.
- You can never include any useful historical context about the company or executives’ past statements, even if they’ve been proven repeatedly wrong. The CEO’s comments should always exist in a magic vacuum.
- You should never, under any circumstances, actually take the time to talk to, and quote, an objective expert or academic in the field you’re writing about, especially if they’re inclined to criticize the CEO. This can slow down publication time and impact the quest for news-cycle ad traffic.
- You can never return back to the claims to inform your readership whether they were actually true (this is especially true of CEO promises made before giant, pointless, disastrous mergers).
- Comment on A Value Critique of AI & Tech Worker Opposition 1 month ago:
Open source tools are neat and all, but in my personal experience they always deliver inferior audio and video streaming.
If the ethical superiority of these tools is truly paramount, you can always simulcast onto them. I don’t think anybody’s stopping you from bridging it yourself.
- Comment on Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes 1 month ago:
Ironic that the only phone that will support Graphene OS will be a Motorola.
You know, if that materializes, and if it’s available outside of business customers.
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- Comment on The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times 1 month ago:
One of the AI tools, called DX, advertises itself as an engineering productivity tool that lets companies track employees’ output, generative AI use, and efficiency
Burn tokens to determine how many tokens the people have burned
- Comment on HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff 1 month ago:
“Buy a Brother printer” was bound to only be good advice for so long. If I’ve learned anything from watching competitive tech markets, it’s that the best competitor eventually starts diluting their own offering in favor of profit.
- Comment on Laid off workers at Meta contractor Covalen to mount strike action following loss of 700 jobs 2 months ago:
It is also seeking the removal of restrictive ‘cooling-off’ periods that prevent workers from accessing future employment within the sector.
wtf, why is this a thing
- Comment on Samsung reportedly set to distribute up to $26.6 billion to staff in AI-driven semiconductor bonuses after last-minute union deal — average payouts could approach $400,000 per chip employee 2 months ago:
Samsung had planned to pay generous bonuses to 27,000 staff making memory chips – at least six times more than its workers making other chips, and electronics. The union said that 23,000 workers who were making less advanced chips… should not be left behind.
Thoughtful worker solidarity.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Recording is what Flock cameras do to you, citizen, not what you do to the local Lord.
- Comment on Google Chrome Might Have Installed an AI Model Onto Your Device Without You Knowing 2 months ago:
Thankfully many FF forks prevent you from dealing with these shenanigans and annoyances to begin with. The easiest one is probably Waterfox, but there are several others with their own benefits.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The wheels are supposed to disconnect. This is so it can turn into a boat. Liberals don’t want you to know this.
