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- Comment on Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms 4 hours ago:
No. That’s an algorithm.
So is filtering to only friends and hiding blocked users.
So no algo, no feed at all really.
- Comment on Colorado: to test the 911 service, you must first place a normal call to the 911 center. WTF, they don’t think you might be unable to do that? 1 week ago:
You’ve complicated this. They say to contact them on non-emergent line to make sure it’s a good time for a test. What problem do you think you’re solving?
- Comment on Local officials face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment 1 week ago:
I’m uninterested in debating the merit of the article. I was simply providing you objective information.
- Comment on Local officials face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment 1 week ago:
It’s in the article. In fact, that’s what the article is about.
- Comment on Local officials face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t matter which way they vote, they’re getting attacked. When your populace is split, what are you supposed to do?
- Comment on Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads 2 weeks ago:
They’re meant to survive hits without causing damage. They bend over. It’s flexible rubber. They do that so people making mistakes don’t cause damage.
That looked like a turning guide but then ended. I’d have been confused too. I’d have backed out tho!
Point is, this wasn’t dangerous or damaging. If you consider that not a small mistake, what would a small mistake be?
- Comment on Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads 2 weeks ago:
That was a non-issue. Those are little plastic things it bumped. They’re meant to be hit.
Car made the tiniest mistake and dude inside is acting like it’s dangerous.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 1 month ago:
The new AI summary at the top is quite helpful imo.
- Comment on Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years. 2 months ago:
I hear ya. I’m 50 years old. Super safe driver, also never been in an accident. It’s wild that you had such a bad experience, but I believe you.
- Comment on Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years. 2 months ago:
What year Tesla? Sounds like my 2023 (HW3). The follow closely thing seems to have gotten better in the last couple updates tho.
- Comment on Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years. 3 months ago:
Weird. What safety margin didn’t you like specifically? I have a short list of gripes but they’re not related to safety. Damn thing is a bit too safe and civil at times.
- Comment on Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years. 3 months ago:
I’m currently renting a Model Y with the latest FSD and I’m very impressed. I’ve had it for about 3 weeks and put about 1,200 miles on it. I’d say 99% or more FSD.
Truly mind blowing at times. Drove for 90 mins or so through rush hour leaving Miami Beach perfectly. End to end parking everywhere I go.
I don’t know about the whole cab thing working out, but it’s damn good while supervised.
- Comment on A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers 3 months ago:
Just be sure they’re isolated on your network as well.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 5 months ago:
That was the write things to do.
- Comment on California Just Killed Open Source - YouTube 6 months ago:
This is correct. And it’s always possible to bypass and do things illegal. Just like pirating.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Eh that’d be horrible. 30 min power outage and your clock is off enough to really throw you off.
- Comment on EVs Just Outsold Gas Cars In Europe For The First Time 7 months ago:
electric car sales numbers are going up
Not necessarily. If this period, more hybrids were sold instead of gas cars over the prior period, it would result in this threshold also being crossed. In addition, less cars over all could be sold.
To objectively know that more elec were sold you’d have to have the prior month.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World. 7 months ago:
I ran the numbers on mine and it’d be 25 years ROI, which is also likely past the life of the panels.
I live northern US, with a hydro dam nearby and a non-profit co-op utility. $0.06/kWh. $25/mo hookup fee. And natural gas for heat.
Doesn’t quite make sense yet.
- Comment on X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out 8 months ago:
This post isn’t exclusively about deepfakes. It’s about editing someone else’s images. Making suggestive deepfakes is mentioned in the article as an example, but it’s not mentioned in the title or summary here.
That said, my points stand. Don’t post shit online if you don’t want it to be edited.
With the ease of photo manipulation, society has no choice but to adapt to nonsensical, simple edits. It can’t be stopped. There’s hundreds of apps and programs that do this now. Even adobe’s famous suite.
I know you hate Elon, I can hear it in your tone. But this isn’t an Elon thing. Look around.
- Comment on X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out 8 months ago:
You’ve totally changed the original post’s topic and made it into something obviously unacceptable. There’s a line to cross with content in general, AI or not, and any public ai model should absolutely have safety rails / content moderation on its output
- Comment on X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out 8 months ago:
Using grok this way is the same as a photo editor. It’s the human asking grok to do it that is the problem. Not grok or any other tool. Meta products have this exact same feature.
Grok will not post it publicly unless you click the button to do so. Again, it’s the person that is doing it, not grok.
- Comment on X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out 8 months ago:
Omg what horror. Have you discovered that you can click and drag any image from anywhere into photo editing software or ChatGPT or the likes? Whatever shall we do?! We have to make images ueditable somehow. This is a complete tragedy.
For real, who cares?
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 8 months ago:
Yeah, it needs a lot more thought put into it because with wildly fluctuating equity prices you run into scenarios where a run up on a security triggers you to have to sell a bunch and give it to the government but then if that security returns right back to the price it was the week before you’re just shit out of luck. Because of that it means people will go to great lengths to find ways to circumvent this because it’s not fair.
I’m not saying it’s a bad idea what I’m saying is that it needs refined and thought through a lot more
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 9 months ago:
Like I said, the quote was related to my first paragraph asking the question about personal net worth.
I didn’t then quote the company part as I thought the flow continued logically. It seems I was wrong.
I’m aware of the cap he said, and that’s what I was asking an opinion on.
Thank you for contributing yours.
should probably be weighed against public interest and publicly-funded and managed, if they’re beneficial.
So large skyscrapers, large nuclear plants, datacenters, etc would be state owned.
If we did that, I’d argue to make the limit even smaller. It would encourage companies to stay small and that would help prevent monopolies perhaps.
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 9 months ago:
I was referring to the company net worth that was mentioned.
The quote was related to my question.
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 9 months ago:
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 9 months ago:
cap personal netwoths at 10-20 million dollars
how would this work in your utopia? if the value of my investments goes over that, I have to sell them to give cash to the govt?
Seems difficult to raise capital that way. Would you put more large cap projects in the hands of a government? Things like power plants, large buildings, etc? No one could own or finance them since they are worth a lot.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 9 months ago:
Nah never do that. The curve brings trig complexity into the equation. Bananas are used to measure curvy things. Like wheels, roads, and boobs.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 9 months ago:
It’s 800k ford explorers
- Comment on 9 months ago:
An independent contractor IS employed. They’re employed by themselves. Self-employed. So if you’re doing work for them, you are employed as an independent contractor doing work for them.
I think it’s pretty clear what they mean. Could have just said “you’ll be paid as a contractor and receive a 1099 (if USA) or 1042-A (non USA)” tho
