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- Comment on Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200 4 hours ago:
Kudos to Microsoft workers who risked and lost their job to protest the company providing services to the israelly military.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 2 days ago:
LOL
- Comment on A Cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover Is Causing a Supply Chain Disaster 3 days ago:
Given the duration of the outage, I guess the company has both a complex computer system that’s all networked, and doesn’t have a solid disaster recovery plan.
- Comment on What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. 1 week ago:
Yep, using ChatGPT is a way to increase one’s environmental footprint.
And the energy cost doesn’t appear to be fully passed to users yet, as OpenAI isn’t profitable yet. There are even free LLM services. So users don’t have an insentive to prefer less polluting alternatives, such as classic search engines.
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 2 weeks ago:
I quikly gave up on correting those bots. Either you’re lucky and made a prompt that induced it to generate a decent answer. Or you’re not, and there’s no point on correcting it. In that case you’re better off doing whatever you were going to do without a LLM.
- Comment on Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t familiar Drop Site News and had a quick look:
- Jeremy Scahill is co-founder of this outlet. He’s a well known investigative journalist. Also co-founder of The Intercept. Author ofbDirty Wars.
- Lee Fang is co-author. He’s also investigative journaliste, formerly at The Interceptions.
- Media Bias / Fact check assessment rate the outlet Mostly factual, with a Left bias.
- Comment on Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off 3 weeks ago:
A well informed, technicality litterate, reasonable person wouldn’t.
All of this is somewhat obvious for tech hobbyist. Many reasonable people start/keep using those products. They might not be fully aware or the risk, or don’t consider themselves at risk. There is strong peer pressure to use those service to stay connected with people and organisations.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 weeks ago:
Everyone hate quacks.
- Comment on irl shiny 4 weeks ago:
#NotAllCockroaches
- Comment on Boston Dynamics humanoid robot shows off whole-body moves 4 weeks ago:
How soon can those help cleanup Fukushima and Tchernobyl?
I assume the high price and limitations would make them a hard sell for a typical factory. But those could be handy in places where humans can’t go safely.
- Comment on Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones 5 weeks ago:
state media says it is not a spying app
State media has very specifically denied it. That’s quite suspicious.
- Comment on TikTokers are calling LA ICE raids 'music festivals' to trick the algorithm 5 weeks ago:
In Tiktok’s case, it has been shady for years.
There were already reports Tiktok censoring dissent in 2019 when it just starter gaining popularity internatinally:
- Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
- TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience
And even earlier, Tiktok’s parent company operate and had its headquarter in China, so it’s forced to comply with the Great Firewall of China, and participate though their own moderation/algorithm.
Using a media that’s operate (in part) in totalitarian state with heavy handed censorship doesn’t make sense. Even if they have some infrastructure elsewhere, it’s still owned by and answering to ByteDance management.
- Comment on TikTokers are calling LA ICE raids 'music festivals' to trick the algorithm 5 weeks ago:
What about not using a platform that supress information about dissent?
This is super shady, how can people trust this app?
- Comment on They ain't there for you 5 weeks ago:
There are labour disputes, a fraction of which reaches courts, showing HR doesn’t always follow the letter of the law.
Even when they do, expect them to put company interest before yours.
- Comment on They ain't there for you 5 weeks ago:
You can. Doesn’t mean you should.
- Comment on SoupDealer Malware Bypasses Every Sandbox, AV's and EDR/XDR in Real-World Incidents 1 month ago:
And it downloads Tor to connect to C2. So it’s a machine with Internet access AND without security mesures.
So it might be a target with poor IT. A windows machine shouldn’t be left without AV, especially if it has Internet access.
- Comment on Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value 1 month ago:
I have mixed feeling about this.
- Comment on IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI — they used a quantum computer instead 1 month ago:
How much energy does this technique uses compared to AlphaFold?
- Comment on This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery 1 month ago:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
There are more quarks in a single water molecules than planets in the solar system.
- Comment on I made an AI clone of my dead son - and let a journalist interview him 1 month ago:
That’s not a clone. It’s a text prediction tool that use a dead person’s messages as input. It’s analoguous to editing together old videos of someone to do fake interview of a dead person.
The BBC is going for sensationalism. It’s a topic worth covering and they’re not doing it well. Journalists should focus on informing more than entertaining.
- Comment on Harbour Bridge protest shows Labor is losing ‘middle Australia’ over Gaza 1 month ago:
It’d be interesting to know why some people want a ceasefire, yet do not want their government to take any action to reach that goal.
- Comment on ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians 1 month ago:
According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.
I wonder if Microsoft will have to testify in the ICC.
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- Comment on Waypoint Writers Quit Over Removal Of Articles Related To New Steam Policy [Update] - Aftermath 2 months ago:
Yes, there are good reasons for moderating a platform that distribute games.
The deleted article’s author question some of the feminist group’s claim, and highlight some involved parties are motivated by faith. But they’re don’t dispute the need for moderating Steam where necessary, for instance if there is CSAM.
So I don’t see a good reason to censor those articles.
- Waypoint Writers Quit Over Removal Of Articles Related To New Steam Policy [Update] - Aftermathaftermath.site ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 10 comments
- Comment on Republican calls out Trump on GPU sales to China 2 months ago:
There’s even a Wikipedia article on TACO:
Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO), also known as the TACO Trade, is an acronym that gained prominence in May 2025 after many threats and reversals during the trade war Donald Trump initiated with his administration’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.[1] The acronym is used to describe Trump’s tendency to make tariff threats, only to later delay them as a way to increase time for negotiations and for markets to rebound.[1][2]
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- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 2 months ago:
The same way living thing evolve. Through millon or billion of years of mutations and natural selection.
- Comment on cookie combs 2 months ago:
I suspect having round shape pushing against each other isn’t enought to get a hex shape.
In the picture, cookies are tiled such that they are surrounded by 6 other cookies. So it probably has to do with the tiling.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 2 months ago:
Hopefully they focus their resources whatever game studios remain.
Just make easy to access movies and films from other sources on XBox, we don’t need a Microsoft monopoly on streaming.