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- Comment on Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates 4 months ago:
I’m an adult and am not responsible for anything you described. They were all there even before I was born. In fact, the same may apply to my parents or even grandparents. I’d rather blame a sociopolitical class than any single generation for all those ills.
But to answer your question, yes, I’d blame that entire class for the harm caused by young people using murder tools they introduced. They did it with the full knowledge of its consequences. They valued momentary material gains above the wellbeing of entire generations. They absolutely should be punished for all the mass shootings in schools, because they knew it could happen. Yet they chose the blood money. Similarly, if an entire city is under a drugs epidemic (like the current opioid crisis), wouldn’t you want to hunt down the producers and suppliers, instead of the users?
- Comment on Musk is lightyears away from a self-driving car 4 months ago:
It’s extremely nuanced. ‘Light years ahead’ is correct since you are thinking about a race where one competitor is a long distance ahead of others. On the other hand, ‘light years away’ doesn’t make sense, since we think of achievements in terms of time needed, rather than distance.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register 4 months ago:
Wasn’t that the point behind hanging, drawing and quartering?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register 4 months ago:
No. Just leave their corpses in the jail for multiple lifetimes.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register 4 months ago:
The sort of mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance that these subhuman c-suite employ to justify stealing everyone else’s data while demonizing sharing of their data, is just infuriating. If these scumbags were incarcerated for a day each for every time they showed this hypocrisy, they would all rot in the jails for their entire lifetime, perhaps more.
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 5 months ago:
Exactly what we need! More pods! Yay!
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 6 months ago:
I wish they undid a lot of their stupid redesigns instead of doubling down on it.
- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 6 months ago:
The fact any board of directors considers this man employable at all is mind boggling to me.
All recent events indicate that the board of directors are seriously manipulated by the chief executive and are not good at taking sane decisions. Musk companies, OpenAI and Theranos are good examples.
As I recall, there was a board meeting of Theranos where they summoned Elizabeth Holmes to fire her for misleading them about the state of development of the project. But she managed to get them to reverse that decision and then take action against the person that reported her.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 6 months ago:
Honestly it’s not as bad as I expected.
Based on what you know.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 6 months ago:
I’m shocked that the human trail was authorized at all, considering the fate of the monkeys that were subject to the same. I’m not confident that this man or any future subjects will be truly safe. We won’t know even if something goes wrong.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 6 months ago:
You have seen what he has done to twitter/X. For all his talks about freedom, free speech and survival of mankind, he is fundamentally a conservative billionaire oligarch who has no qualms about exploiting others to death to add to his wealth.
Now just imagine if a brain implant goes the same way. Forget his delusions about backing up the human brain and telepathic nonsense. Even simple implants meant to help paraplegics are going to be dangerous under the control of people like him. Just the way the brain moves our limbs can be used against us.
This is why it’s important to report on matters like this. So that people understand the danger and avoid it, instead of falling for the propaganda that he is some sort of tech messiah.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 6 months ago:
Covid demonstrated that the physical presence of the staff in the office is not necessary for many types of jobs. WFH is shown to be economic, time saving and improving the work-life balance of those workers. It’s not like any of these companies are willing to compensate the workers for the hours lost in the commute.
If you still refuse to return to the office, then you’re just being lazy at that point.
That is classic gaslighting BS. What matches this situation better is that the corporate overlords are being greedy AF. They are worried more about the returns on their real estate investments than about employee wellbeing, practicality and sustainability.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 6 months ago:
They’re not addicted to work. Just money. And to exploit regular people - both workers and customers - and rob their money. Do you think their pay is proportional to their work? How do you think they get time to socialize and scheme against plebs if they are addicted to work?
In this particular context, they insist on return to office because WFH represents a loss of returns on the investments they made on corporate real estate.
While their addiction to money is a disorder, it’s as bad to the general public as people with antisocial and criminal tendencies. The only difference is that these rich sociopaths have enough capital to buy their way out of being held responsible. They won’t seek help because they enjoy the harm they inflict - just like how criminals don’t consider their sadism as a mental disorder. They needed to be treated the same way as any other criminal - as a threat to society. And measures should be taken to prevent them from inflicting harm on normal people. Something like locking them in a cell and throwing the key away.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Modern robots are great. But they’re no match for crafty humans yet. It will get blown up from all sides. I’m pretty sure that the IDF has much more sinister and lethal weapons.
One weapon I’m particularly worried about is a swarm of mini drones equipped with AI to detect their targets and kill them with shaped charges. The only humans who deserve to be killed by it are the ones who were evil enough to invent it in the first place.
- Comment on Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals 6 months ago:
I think you misspelled ‘backdoors’.
- Comment on Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers 6 months ago:
Ajit Pai didn’t have to audition for anything. His employment was already guaranteed. He just had to do his assigned task. You see the same with NASA’s Kathy Lueders and SpaceX. The US is totally blind when it comes to the concept of conflict of interests.
PS: When I typed ‘Ajit Pai’, my phone auto corrected it to ‘Ajit Paid’. I guess even my phone knows!
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 6 months ago:
Google would like to apologize for that inadvertent mistake. All efforts are being made to identify how this came to be and to avoid doing the same in the future.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
OK, I misunderstood it. However, this was something that people were warning about for a long time.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
I wonder if the codeberg site is vulnerable to such laws. I think they operate from the EU.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
These days, paying doesn’t guarantee your exclusion from being the product. The only way to guarantee privacy is to design it into the product.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
That’s why you don’t backup on the same provider. You can always backup to the local system with encryption. And they can’t attack the owner in every jurisdiction.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
Discord hosted the community, not the code. And that community is now destroyed without even a chance to backup. And Discord can absolutely be blamed because people were warning that this would happen. This is as much a result of Discord’s centralized design as it is of Nintendo’s greed. Now the community has to be reestablished on a new platform from scratch.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
Backup and migrate. Choose only platforms that support it. The only weak point there is the DNS registrar.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
Yes it’s Nintendo. But it wouldn’t be this bad without Discord’s design that emphasizes centralization and corporate ownership of user data. Forums can at least be backed up and migrated elsewhere.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
You’d at least get a chance to migrate if you do daily backups.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
Ooh! I would like to hear from all those who were fervently vouching for Discord as a support channel for FOSS projects.
Perhaps the same might happen to a web forum or matrix channel. But at least you get an opportunity to backup and migrate.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 7 months ago:
Wow! That’s one annoying video!
- Comment on Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games 7 months ago:
I think you misunderstood my politics from my initial comment.
It was more a reflection of my outrage at the injustice and inequality that plagues the world, than a judgement of your politics.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games 7 months ago:
OK. Let me spell it out. The laws aren’t there to protect the rights of the ordinary citizens. It’s there to keep them under control. The rich and powerful are not only exempt from it, but the laws exist to protect their interests. That’s why cracking and jail breaking are illegal.
I used the example of the UK post office because they didn’t even need the evidence of theft to send hundreds of sub postmasters to jail. But even after it became clear that the post office management lied and extorted, those responsible still roam free.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games 7 months ago:
If that’s your notion what laws and judicial systems are for, check out the ongoing Post Office scandal in the UK.