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- Comment on Sam Altman’s make-or-break year: can the OpenAI CEO cash in his bet on the future? 2 days ago:
We plan to be a wildly successful company, but if we get it wrong, that’s on us.
That’s incorrect. If OpenAI get this wrong, they won’t (be able to) make investor whole. People would loose part of their savings if they’re exposed to OpenAI through direct or indirect investments.
Even if they get it right, everyone suffers from the pollution caused by AI datacenters, and from the opportunity cost since people are investing in this hyped technology rather than more reponsible things like renewables, energy efficiency, …
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 1 week ago:
Cory Doctorow is an international traesure
- Comment on A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 1: Decoding Dolby - Project Zero 1 week ago:
Incoming SMS and RCS audio attachments received by Google Messages are now automatically decoded with no user interaction
I wonder if lockdown mode disable this. We’ll probably know with article 3.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I only kill spiders without opposable thumbs
- Comment on AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer 3 weeks ago:
Pull the plug on datacenters that depend of polluting energy sources.
- Comment on An article comparing Windows initial setup processes from Vista to 11. 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t end on the last installation screen. Then it takes lots of time and digging to scrub bloatware, and change many settings to somewhat more private since the defaults are bad.
- Comment on German hacker "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger, deleted white supremacist website live onstage 3 weeks ago:
The original presentation is german speaking AND has an english translation audio channel.
Use the video settings, ie gear icon, to select the language.
- German hacker "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger, deleted white supremacist website live onstagehispagatos.space ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 11 comments
- Comment on IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, Microsoft is making 400 million PCs obsolete by ending Win10 and setting arbitrary requirements for Win11. This is driving people’s perfectly fine hardware (and RAM) to end-up as e-waste, to be replaced by new, more expensive hardware.
- Comment on 8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions 1 month ago:
The extension remains live and featured as of this writing.
The Chrome Web Store should be avoided for security. Google keeps failing at moderaring their store, at the same time kneecaping legitimate adblockers with manifest v3 in the name of security, and failing to remove actual malicious extension after both manual review and dislosure of its behaviour by outsiders.
Running Chrome without web store without web extension isn’t ideal either, it would leave people without protection from malvertising nor tracking. So better avoid Chrome altogether, use Firefox or Zen Browser or Tor Browser.
- Comment on ¡! FREE REFILLS !¡ 1 month ago:
No distilled water?
- Comment on Graffiti 1 month ago:
Thanks.
Whoever cropped the author or artist signature should whip him/herself.
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 1 month ago:
Antimatter remind me of this Fringe scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdoO5tCCOms
- Comment on Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash 1 month ago:
Schadenfreude
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 1 month ago:
Another reason to stay away from Google Discover.
RSS is the way to news from online newspapers. It avoids the bias and nonsence injected by AI and algorithms when getting news via social media and big techs platforms.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 months ago:
And then Microsoft gets annoyed when people don’t immediately start using Win 10, then Win 1.
Seeing the results, it looks like Win versions had more QA done before the release, whereas nowaday a bigger part of QA is done by customers after the release.
- 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 months ago:
You may be right, but I don’t see how that change the calculus. Should employees and union be complacent with corps’ bad and potentially illegal actions, refuse to defend colleagues, just to avoid hurting the corporation pride?
- 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 months ago:
R* should have thought of that before doing union busting.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
the printing process requires much less energy and produces many fewer greenhouse gas emissions than traditional TFT manufacturing methods
A carbon tax would make this kind of production process more viable commercially than more polluting processes.
It’s necessary not only to have the technology, but also the right insentives.
“Unfortunately, the National Science Foundation program that we were pursuing funding from to continue working on this, called the Future Manufacturing program, was cut earlier this year. But we’re hoping to find a fit in a different program in the near future.”
It sounds like the US may not even have the technology with cuts to research. Don’t be surprised if another country leapfrog the US again in electronics production.
- Comment on Spoopy Sun 2 months ago:
Nothing spookier than cut to science and research funding.
- Comment on Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders 2 months ago:
Contractual obligations and contract terms do not superseed laws. If anyone is doing something unlawful through Google or Amazon’s infrastructure, a NGO or union could sue.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 months ago:
I started releasing rather than killing spiders after reading “Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
In that future, most animals have disappeared and people consider the sight of a spider as an extraordinary thing. Sparing a single spider might be vain, but it feels right knowing insect/spider population is quickly decreasing.
- Comment on Detection of Strong S-Band Emissions from the Starshield Constellation — Observations and Regulatory Context 3 months ago:
- Comment on Detection of Strong S-Band Emissions from the Starshield Constellation — Observations and Regulatory Context 3 months ago:
SpaceX playing fast and loose with régulations!? Say it ain’t so!
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 3 months ago:
Sûre, but it’s still a serious problem even if it’s a side channel attack.
Almost everyone rely on the OS/hardware providing some isolation between apps People often install shady apps, and browsers automatically execute JS/bytecode from random website they visit. Using a modern device
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 4 Clip | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 3 months ago:
Captain’s hair is nominal.
- Comment on Zero surprise 3 months ago:
Big oil prefer us to feel hopeless about climate change, rather than doing something about it and aiming one’s anger at them.
Think about which actions, even small ones, you can take to reduce dependency on fossiel fuel, and oppose big oil peacefully.
- Comment on noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children 3 months ago:
Well done noyb!
- Comment on OpenAI signs $1 trillion worth of chip deals to feed its AI habit 3 months ago:
Meanwhile, Nvidia has promised to pump $100 billion into OpenAI over the next decade, a move that will conveniently help OpenAI pay for Nvidia’s own chips.
OpenAI and NVIDIA’s future are getting tied together more than they already were
- Comment on it's true! 3 months ago:
Is there an alternative to grass that covers well, and doesn’t spread fast like an invasive plant?
I’ve read about clover but it does spread fast.