Quexotic
@Quexotic@beehaw.org
- Comment on Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me 4 days ago:
But… Its designed to surveil, so… Success!
- Comment on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time 1 week ago:
Next year… “SK has sudden rash of stalkers being hospitalized by their former victims…”
- Comment on Garbage Trucks Now Have AI Cameras To Score Your House and Clock Code Violations 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google’s Emissions Climbed 48% Since 2019. AI Is Why. 2 weeks ago:
Makes me wonder about all those bloom boxes they used to have.
- Comment on World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons 2 weeks ago:
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
- Comment on US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting / Lux Claridge was dragged from a city meeting about data centers and charged with interfering with the police after they clap… 4 weeks ago:
That’s probably just a coincidence.
- Comment on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code 4 weeks ago:
I mean, maybe it could be that, but what I think it’s going to end up being is more like a reputation thing, like an actual community with standards and basis for trust with vetted individuals that have a reputation of producing good code by hand, and testing it correctly.
Think of it this way. There’s already a standard practice for keeping people that suck at coding from trying to write code, right? I trust that the same community norms that got us this far will continue to do well. I also believe that there will be some that have reputation issues because of AI.
- Comment on Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors. 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, that really took two parties, didn’t it? LG had to put the software in the update, and Microsoft had to wave it on through.
- Comment on Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors. 4 weeks ago:
I’m just imagining dealing with a fucking ad on my monitor when I’m trying to resolve a sev one outage.
- Comment on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics 4 weeks ago:
I got expedition 33 as a gift. Still haven’t played it
- Comment on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code 4 weeks ago:
I’m just jumping out of bed, but I’ll give you a quick answer. You’re right, in some cases it’ll be impossible to tell that code was AI-generated, but what you’ll have is the reputation of the developer. If any of their other code is AI-developed, then they would be suspect, right? So, I think it’s gonna be something like that, and, like with other things in the open source community, a matter of trust and respect.
- Comment on Colorado: to test the 911 service, you must first place a normal call to the 911 center. WTF, they don’t think you might be unable to do that? 4 weeks ago:
I sympathize somewhat, but there many documented ways to test the functionality of a phone and its ability to make calls that would validate its ability to call 911 without actually calling it.
- Comment on The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price" 5 weeks ago:
VPN needs to be added to my dictionary on this new KB app
- Comment on The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price" 5 weeks ago:
So long as my local grocery store blocks con traffic, I will distrust them.
- Comment on Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment 1 month ago:
If it’s not annual and a significant percentage of their gross income, it’s just the cost of doing business.
Its not a total loss, but I can’t bring myself to see it as a win.
- Comment on Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini 2 months ago:
This… Just makes me angry.
- Comment on AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books 2 months ago:
This is viscerally upsetting and appalling.
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 2 months ago:
Time for graphene and protonmail. They should at least take another 15y to enshittify to this point.
- Comment on What are y'all's opinions on the Fitbit Air? 2 months ago:
The constant ads are absolutely terrible.
Gotta wade through ads to do anything, also the app is generally poorly made and obscures any useful functionality.
The only reason to keep the watch at this point is that it dials 911. They’re probably going to add a subscription for that soon too.
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds 2 months ago:
Thanks stranger!
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds 2 months ago:
Orly? I thought they had the same basic model as Playstation and that the steam software was required to play games.
TIL. Thanks stranger!
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds 2 months ago:
What a terrible take from a terrible company.
No more Nintendo, PS, MS, or games you don’t own, looks like GOG is the only game in town, pun intended.
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent 2 months ago:
A CFA charge.
- Comment on 62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6 2 months ago:
Have 5, and was going to skip the 6. I guess never again is the answer for me too.
This must be the year of de-shittification. MS introduced a BSOD issue to my system that made it unusable. The hypervisor BSOD issue.
So Linux for that, and next, my laptop, Leaving only one MS machine left in the house. I’m so done.
I guess maybe steam or pc gaming, I’m not sure, but sure af isn’t going to be MS or Sony.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 2 months ago:
So how much damage did it do to our retirement funds?
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 2 months ago:
Orly? Cool, thanks!
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 2 months ago:
archive.org/details/dune-mr-abandonware
I present to you, dune.
I only know about this because I am old.
- Comment on Reverse Engineering the Response to "best smartphones 2025" in Chatgpt 2 months ago:
So… I’m confused. Is this just someone asking GPT what the best smartphone is and just documenting it in a really detailed way?
I honestly stopped reading after it started sounding stupid.
- Comment on GTA 6 is a 'singleplayer experience,' GTA Online may be sold separately 2 months ago:
I keep waiting for the cash-grab that breaks the market. Hopefully this is it.
