Quexotic
@Quexotic@beehaw.org
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
It could also lead to an incredible gish-gallop of AI slop that totally depends out meaningful, non-speculatice science, hurling us into another dark age, but ya know, potato-tomato.
Nothing against you personally, OP.
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 1 day ago:
It’s clear signalling that customer satisfaction is not the goal, amirite?
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 3 days ago:
Using AI, HP will “accelerate product innovation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost productivity,” Lores said.
I’m so glad we’re currently using Dell. If we had substantial buy-in to HP products, this nonsense would all but require us to switch to another vendor.
- Comment on Capitalism Is Dead. This Is What Comes Next. 5 days ago:
(oontz, oontz)
Thanks for the lolz 😂
- Comment on Activists Are Using ‘Fortnite’ to Fight Back Against ICE 5 days ago:
Interesting point.
Counterpoint: it’s good to get people used to doing it by practicing before they do the real thing. …also all the other reasons you see in the thread.
- Comment on Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S - Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing. 5 days ago:
Confirming what we already know. Totally astroturfed.
- Comment on Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S - Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing. 5 days ago:
Did he though? The voting data shows signs of manipulation. Example: electiontruthalliance.org/…/north-carolina-shortf…
Our voting machines are comically under secured and the vote is easily tampered with via software design and other measures and has been for a long time.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 weeks ago:
I’ll finish that sentence.
Force me to install Linux promptly.
- Comment on The Cameras Tracking You = A Security Nightmare 2 weeks ago:
I can’t up otw this enough.
- Comment on You can grab a free copy of Immortals Fenyx Rising from Ubisoft 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. I saw it was free, clicked play now, and it didn’t work. Just took me to the list of other free games excluding immortals Fenix rising.
Hmm. Will have to try later on pc
- Comment on "This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated 2 weeks ago:
Next up: hundreds of Rockstar employees that signed letter to management, summarily fired…
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 2 weeks ago:
I guess I’m going to have to root my phone soon. Maybe move to graphene. I was not looking forward to that.
- Comment on Full Days and the Long Walk 3 weeks ago:
Thank you @alayza, I needed to read this just now.
- Comment on CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really) 3 weeks ago:
Ya know… PIA VPN never gave me any trouble, but turns out they spy on all their users and have non-trivial mossad links.
What I’m saying here is you should check on your VPN provider from time to time.
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows 5 weeks ago:
“Plantations” has nothing but positive connotations.
Amazon "slavery in everything but name"™
- Comment on [Epilepsy issue] YouTube AI Filter Is Making My Videos Dangerous To Watch by Anton Petrov - Oct 26, 2025 (Video, 6:09 min) 5 weeks ago:
I think it’d be really interesting to figure out what YouTube’s motives were and doing this. No doubt it had something to do with increasing profits somehow.
- Comment on The Goon Squad 5 weeks ago:
Hahahhaha. Definitely not!
You have me laughing out loud in public.
Thanks
- Comment on The Goon Squad 5 weeks ago:
Deeply disturbing and a great read. This author is a good person for exploring this so I don’t ever have to.
- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 5 weeks ago:
My band teacher had a chopan lizst for groceries.
The puns are as inescapable as piccolos are difficult to tune.
- Comment on California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think that it’s it’s just that they would spout platitudes I think they would probably recognize that there’s treaties that were part of that prevent us from weaponizing space…
- Comment on Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality' 5 weeks ago:
Cool. Black mirror tech is coming along nicely.
- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 5 weeks ago:
Nothing wrong with that. If it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it.
I’ll see myself out.👋
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 month ago:
Aww shucks. Thanks!
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 month ago:
You’re welcome. Here’s the Wikipedia donation page. They did the work, I just googled.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Literacy_in_the_United_States
It’s gone down a ways. It’s kinda bad.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 1 month ago:
Who’s the snowflake now, amirite?
- Comment on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says 1 month ago:
Currently 25 states require it. Incidentally 23 of to lowest 25 states allow child marriage. Funny isn’t it?
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 1 month ago:
Yep. Because they can’t do it with the law, they’re doing it with payment processing. Maybe crypto will be the answer, gods help us.
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 1 month ago:
Hmm are you implying collective actions are in order?
