Quexotic
@Quexotic@beehaw.org
- Comment on Full Days and the Long Walk 2 days ago:
Thank you @alayza, I needed to read this just now.
- Comment on CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really) 2 days 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 5 days ago:
- Comment on Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows 2 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) 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Hahahhaha. Definitely not!
You have me laughing out loud in public.
Thanks
- Comment on The Goon Squad 2 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’ 2 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 2 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' 2 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’ 2 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? 3 weeks ago:
Aww shucks. Thanks!
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Who’s the snowflake now, amirite?
- Comment on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
Hmm are you implying collective actions are in order?
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 5 weeks ago:
I cancelled prime quite a while back and I’ll use the free month they offer and immediately cancel and also get it for the month of November to make life a little easier, and again, I’ll cancel it immediately.
It just isn’t worth it!
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 5 weeks ago:
I came here to say obviously it’s enshitification, only to find that the article is actually written by the Corey Doctorow. Love that guy.
- Comment on Ohio Republicans pass pornography age verification ID law as part of state budget • Ohio Capital Journal 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for mentioning that. Only lemmings.world? Do you have logins for others?
- Comment on Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
We jail execs in the US? Huh. Didn’t know that.
- Comment on World's Largest Sand Battery - YouTube Short 1 month ago:
I sincerely like your story.
- Comment on The gamers have done it again, this time building a functional ChatGPT in Minecraft—but before you get too excited, it takes literally hours to provide a response 1 month ago:
And the cynic in the back of my head is saying “oh, just you wait! You’ll love what’s next!” while another finger curls on the monkey’s paw.
- Comment on Ohio Republicans pass pornography age verification ID law as part of state budget • Ohio Capital Journal 1 month ago:
From what I’ve learned recently, those may not be safe options.
Best bet would be Mullvad, IMO.
This video summarizes it well though it is a bit of a shill. I’ve actually taken the time to validate the claims made here and haven’t been able to refute them.
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- Comment on Doug Bowser is stepping down as Nintendo of America president and COO | VGC 1 month ago:
Is it weird that I misread that as gazonga twice before I got it right?
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 1 month ago:
Statement like that makes me seriously doubt that it can even run on a PS5 which I was thinking about getting it for but this is kind of changing my mind
- Comment on Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow 1 month ago:
This is… Well, not entirely convincing.
So, say the computational cost triples. Intelligent methods to mitigate this would include purpose built hardware to optimize these processes. That’s a big lift, but the reward would be calculable and would have significant enough ROI that there’s no way they won’t pursue it. I think it’s a realistically conquerable problem.
And so what if it doesn’t know? Existing solutions will scour the Internet on command and this functionality, given a sufficiently high level of uncertainty, could be automated.
Combining the Internet access capability with a certainty calculation and assuming there is hardware optimization in the future, these problems, while truly significant, seem solvable.
That said, the solution probably will most likely make our world uninhabitable, so that’s neat.
My concern on top of this is that they will not exhaust funding even if private investment goes dry. The state (US, China) won’t stop funding till they reach total dominance.
We’re so screwed, guys.
