t3rmit3
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- Comment on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? 4 days ago:
More like, they need you to believe it’s dangerous so they have another thing for the police state to take away your rights to “protect” you from.
- Comment on FTC sues Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of "secretly and systematically overcharged" misleading advertisers on its platform by manipulating its pricing and auction systems. 1 week ago:
Unironically, yes.
- Comment on Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras | The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess. 1 week ago:
I’m glad they’re calling them vigilantes, because a vigilante is someone who punishes crimes outside the bounds of the law. Good to see media acknowledging that Flock cameras are criminal.
- Comment on Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors. 2 weeks ago:
Stage 1: You pay for it, it is the product
Stage 2: It is free, you are the product
Stage 3: You pay for it, you are the product
- Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games 2 weeks ago:
How old are you? Because no, there is no key to recommend for a UMD.
The fact you apparently are so young you aren’t aware things used to be different, is proving the point here.
- Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s literally not. Sony can take away your license for a digital game for any or no reason. They cannot take away your license for the physical good outside of very specific cases (and they will require a court order to do it, unlike revoking a digital license).
- Comment on Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe 2 weeks ago:
Imagine living somewhere that brings suits against companies for hurting workers, without the workers themselves needing to pay exorbitant fees to bring a class action.
- Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games 2 weeks ago:
Not in this way. I can literally still play my UMD games on my old PSP, and Sony can’t do shit about it.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
“I’ll maybe hurt you a little less, and I’ll keep doing the bad thing” isn’t a compromise; a compromise has to benefit both sides, and not being harmed is just the default expectation, not a benefit.
- Comment on Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute 2 weeks ago:
Here we go boiiiiiis!
- Comment on Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab 3 weeks ago:
This is why I have such a hard time trusting any “only war is the class war” pusher. Pretending that all will be well if we give one group what they want reeks of a desire for power rather than a desire for liberation, and you know that those people are not going to either 1) share any power they gain with people they worked with to get that power, who have a different idea of what the post-revolution society should look like (e.g. the USSR banning other Socialist factions), or 2) actually ensure the society they build does not recreate the same social issues (specifically, the ones that didn’t affect them personally).
WRT the tech backlash, I’ve been pushing myself to have a fully offline-capable tech ecosystem. I’ve been sharing that (though it’s seen only marginal adoption) with my family, who are long-distance, and I’ve been really really happy with how much I find myself actually using it versus using ‘online’ media. I don’t know if that fits into the models of interaction that the movements mentioned in the article are advocating, though, or if they’re going more “use tech less”, rather than “use tech that serves Capital less”.
I’m not telling anyone else to do this; it’s definitely my version of reclaiming time and money and attention from Big Tech, but I guarantee that if you find a way to decouple from a major corporate-run platform you rely on, you will realize just how unenjoyable those platforms are.
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 3 weeks ago:
Ah, it pulled a Christopher Nolan!
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 3 weeks ago:
Yes, self-hosting and small-group AI hosting needs to be legal, accessible, and feasible.
Despite the pessimistic (and largely technically incorrect) takes here, the internet is actually an incredible feat of human collaboration; the most distributed, interconnected, democratized, and resilient communication system ever built.
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 3 weeks ago:
“organizations need alternatives to proprietary AI systems to gain greater control over their data and infrastructure”
- Comment on ‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected 3 weeks ago:
It’s 0% porn. It’s corporate-approved and safe AI slop. So not even something you can fap to in self hatred.
- Comment on US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame? 3 weeks ago:
What?
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 4 weeks ago:
I thought it was a Weird Al reference…
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 4 weeks ago:
Now that’s crispy
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s now one massive round touchscreen. Takes like 4 different tattoos just to change the AC temp.
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 4 weeks ago:
1000%
I have a Mini Cooper, and we took it in for service and got a loaner 2026 Mini, and it has this massive, ugly touchscreen.
Look at these gorgeous physical toggles! And even more overhead! All gone! FFS!
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 4 weeks ago:
Luckily, revolutions have never required the majority of a populace to actively participate in to succeed, just a majority going “meh, sure”.
But yes, I am personally also very worried that we’re reaching a point with technology that surveillance and violence will both be too easily applied and too pervasive for the revolution to overcome.
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 4 weeks ago:
I think this is actually advantageous to us in a way, because clearly AI is something of a system shock to many people right now, whereas in a hundred years it may have not been nearly as apparent as the danger it is (and I don’t mean LLMs, I mean AI in general, especially for surveillance and weapons).
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s a doomer comment at all, I think the last paragraph is trying to tell you without saying the word “datacenter” to go look up the addresses of data centers.
- Comment on Deal finalised between Saudi Arabia and EA 4 weeks ago:
EgAd
- Comment on US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame? 4 weeks ago:
That’s true, but the reasons they did it are not their fault.
There’s a name for the thing that demands minimal spending on public services and national spending on private business, even at the expense of human life…
- Comment on BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian 5 weeks ago:
In other countries than the US that distinction actually means a lot more. For instance, some countries will not allow a bank to repossess cars or houses once a simple majority of the loan has been repaid. In the US, you could be on the final 1 cent payment and the bank, from a legal standpoint, can foreclose on the whole thing if you fail to pay it. In realistic terms, it’s theirs until the loan is entirely repaid.
- Comment on BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I think that a “hobby” should be linked to use, specifically, not simply ownership. Even the original meaning implied building or crafting. Consumerism for the endorphins isn’t really a ‘hobby’, it’s an addiction at best (and I have some personal experience in this area).
If you’re renting or leasing cars for a specific use, like racing or camping, I think that’s completely defensible; I even think certain vehicles like RVs should probably mainly be rented or leased, to make sense.
But “having the newest car for my ego” isn’t a ‘hobby’ without diluting the meaning to nothingness.
- Comment on Is Myspace coming back? Owners confirm relaunch plans 5 weeks ago:
No one would surrender to the Dread Pirate Tom.
- Comment on I dont know 5 weeks ago:
This is so good
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 1 month ago:
Valve isn’t public. That’s the healthy business model.