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- Comment on 1 day ago:
You would be surprised how much “We need AI to take over the world completely or there is no chance in hell to ever get our insane investments back” motivates people to push bullshit on you.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice 4 days ago:
To rephrase that title in another context: “I hammered in a nail with my new hammer, and now I face the uncomforatble choice if I should use it on all my screws, too”.
No, ffs… this story -and the one hundred copies in the last week- is bullshit. LLMs are a tool. There are things they can do, like helping to automate some debugging tasks with precise instructions. There are things they can’t do, like producing maintainable vibe -coded code.
There is no uncomfortable discussion. Use a tool where it’s useful, don’t where it isn’t.
The whole “discussion” is fake, started by that insane faction treating AI like their new savior and trying to push the idea that everyone not using AI for whatever task is doing so out of ethical, moral or ideological reasons (and it’s pushed by the creators of said AI because only a total and absolutely insane movement to do everything with AI now will ever justify their investments - and even then it’s still questionable…). No, that’s just how those idiots make decisions.
Using AI for one task (it can do) does not mean someone just converted to your branch of insanity and will use it for everything. Using an LLM to assist in debugging your code and banning all vibe-coded shit from your code base is no contradiction, no matter how hard you try to push that fairy tale.
- Comment on Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images 6 days ago:
Because AI is your shiny new hammer and everything is a nail now, so you really, really need to use it…
On a more serious note: Cramming AI into everything (and even inventing new stuff that absolutely needs AI for some reason) and then making people heavily pay for AI once they can’t escape that bullshit anymore is basically the only way to ever get the insane investments pumped into the AI bubble back. And even that is highly questionable.
Putting AI into software that doesn’t need it isn’t even registering on the insanity scale anymore given that there is now ‘AI included’ advertising on fucking tooth brushes.
- Comment on Climate Summit 1 week ago:
When you look around your room do you not see a plethora of goods made by polluting industries?
No, but yeah some trees died for furniture. 🙄
Do you travel exclusively by foot?
No, also by bike and public transport. Which partly is still running on fossil fuels (although still vastly more efficient per person) because brain rot (or money) tells people in the relevant positions that greener alternatives don’t work or are inefficient.
Even for people actually dependent on cars it’s not real facts that keeps them chained to rediculously oversized cars running on inefficient combustion engines. That exclusively based on propaganda, paid by the people that want to keep selling fossil fuels.Do you eat only foods that can be brought to your area without refrigerated trucks?
Mostly actual… but that isn’t even the point. I talked specifically about the big chunk of pollution that is burning fossil fuels. Are you trying to tell me that you can’t transport those electric (on the last mile), by (also electrified) train and that you can’t run the refrigerators on green electricity somehow?
None of us are willing to give up the computers or network infrastructure
Which was very much not my point. What I was talking about is people’s unwillingness to use greener and also more efficient alternatives for a lot of things. Not based on facts. Not based on the unwillingless to go without them completely. But 100% based on loud, constant, paid screaming that those alternatives don’t work and are more expensive and really, really don’t solve any real problems other that stopping the massive burning of fossils (but shhh… don’t talk about that small detail).
I really don’t understand your focus on computers and networks that actually have a lot of pros, too, when people not willing to give up their city-tanks or three dozen throw away plastic bags a week (although there are alternatives in no way worse) and often also voting for idiots clinging to fossil fuel power plants and car infrastructure above anything else are also a big problem. Ones we could actually easily solve yet don’t because paid narratives are running the show.
- Comment on Climate Summit 1 week ago:
Instead we get a ton of benefit out of pollution
No, the producers of fossil fuels get a ton of benefits in the form of money. You get desinformation (paid by a fraction of those big amounts of money) telling you how the clean and more efficient alternative isn’t working and so you will have to suffer if you chose the alternative.
- Comment on Climate Summit 1 week ago:
No, that one is just brain-damaged by all the propaganda.
The paid stooges are far ahead and don’t actually question stuff but plain out claim that it is indeed a hoax. One to kill all industry, tech and even people out of ideological insanity. Why else would they try to build green power production that obviously doesn’t work and even reduce CO₂ when we all know that plants need that CO₂ to survive? 😉
- Comment on Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe 1 week ago:
Data protection is actually a misnomer. Protecting your data is just a tool to protect you.
And so the GDPR does not only protect your data. It also protects you from things like profiling or automated legal decisions based on existing data.
- Comment on U.S. warns Siemens devices can be hacked amid fears Iran is breaching water plants 1 week ago:
A security advisor at work recommends migrating to SaaS
The security advisor doesn’t care about handling security. He cares about handling the responsibility of a security fuck-up.
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 2 weeks ago:
I’m still using the S7E. The failing battery was so nice to pop open the glued back, so I could easily and cheaply replace it.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 5 weeks ago:
Sure… people spend hours in congested traffic because they love their cars so much, not because they lack alternatives. And it’s totally normal that I can pay less for 500g of cheap meat than for a 500g bag of rice, and not caused by insane subsidies for meat producers.
The issues are systemic and guess what… the majority is not in power to change the system.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, we already knew how how propagandists operate. No need to spell it out what your are doing here.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s a nice fairy tales to keep burning the planet.
In reality the main consumers are a handful of rich people including those owning the corporations and paying off politicians and media while 95% of the people would not consume anything if not forced to do it and are also contributing only a miniscule amount to the total consumption.
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 1 month ago:
for now…
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 1 month ago:
Is that really that different?
Conceptionally yes. You can refuse to unlock your phone with your face. You cannot refuse to allow Google to access your account (and thus your phone, too) with a picture of your face, no matter how bad the tech is.
- Comment on 1 big tiddy goth gf pls 2 months ago:
Sambucus Nigra (Black lace elderberry)…
The newest stylish fashion trend in shrubbery. And like all cool things it’s black (as the name suggests - in reality more a deep purple).
- Comment on Buzz off 2 months ago:
Thing is it’s not actually wasps but just a few very specific kinds of wasps that are assholes ruining the reputation for all.
Something similiar happens for bees. When people talk about them being endangered nowadays they don’t mean the domesticated honey bees many think about (those are cared enough for that populations are rather growing) but the many kinds of wild (and often solitary) bees.
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 2 months ago:
Totally expect Red Dwarf reference…
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 2 months ago:
I think the Mars argument is backwards. The missing magnetic field is the main issue. More regular flares being faster in stripping away the unprotected atmosphere is inconsequential on the time scale we are talking about.
- Comment on Which grass? 3 months ago:
Who’s on first
Yes, he is.
- Comment on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars 3 months ago:
While that is true in general, combined coal power plants also only sit at about 50% on average, 65% with the most modern ones.
So burning stuff in a power plant, then adding some more loss in transfer, is not actually much better.
Which of course is not an argument against EVs but against coal and gas power plants. In the end they are still just glorified rather primitive steam machines.
- Comment on 7 things you can do with your old Windows 10 PC instead of trading it in 4 months ago:
“…reduce…”
Sure… 😂
- Comment on Wonder why? 4 months ago:
Yes, but that’s entirely missing the point here.
Drug research and development takes decades until final approval. If there is a decrease in the US (or an increase in China), you need to look for cuts (or additional investments) in the early 2000s.
The damage this idiot has done will not be visible for quite some time…
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 4 months ago:
A bug in Apple’s notification system allowed extraction even when the message that triggered the notification was deleted.
This means access you any text you got. This means a list of any incoming calls. This means all your appointments that your phone reminded you of.
And instead we get a story about deleted Signal messages, prominently featuring Signal in the thumbnail and picture while failing to mention any of the other notification bug implementations.
How is that accurate or even just sane reporting? Either it’s an incredibly stupid take or there is an actual agenda focusing on Signal here. And when I see several of those (including stuff like people falling for phishing attempts and giving away access to their devices being reported as “Hackers getting access to Signal account”) within just a few days I tend to assume the latter.
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 4 months ago:
Wasn’t my point. What’s going in with Signal to tell the story of accessing deleted Signal messages (and multiple are Signal hack/ bug/exploit headlines seen within a short time frame) when this is exactly zero about Signal?
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 4 months ago:
There was an Apple bug that allowed restoring information from their notification system. So Apple leaked info from Apps that used the notifications. From any App. Why is this talking about Signal? Why not a “Apple patches bug that allowed access to E2E encrypted WhatsApp messages”? Why not “bug that allowed access to your call history even after deletion”? Because those are all equally true. What’s reason we are talking about Signal here.
And to add more context: the exact same was true for the other “Signal bug/hack/exploit” articles I mentioned. No actual connection to Signal at all, yet that was always the story told.
Apple fucks up an leaks all private information that passes through their notification system? “Bug that allowed to read Signal messages!” Idiot fell for phishing attempt and logged into a fake website giving someone else full access to their device? “Hacker managed to access XY’s Signal account!”. I left my door standing wide open when leaving to work and got robbed? “Doors don’t actually protect your stuff!”
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 4 months ago:
What actual news did I miss that triggered the half a dozen fake hacked/bug articles regarding Signal I read in the last 48 hours?
- Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours 4 months ago:
But decades of media has conditioned people to believe that most tech and IT stuff is basically magic, and that seems to nowadays include tech-centric journalists.
So they simply don’t think about actual feasibility and just report omitting details because “look, tech wizard did tech-magic”.
- Comment on Rule 1: Don't talk about the 🫘 4 months ago:
Lemmy UI:
So I would guess that it’s not a client but a OS or browser issue regarding encoding.
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 4 months ago:
Shhh! Don’t let Big Clock know that we are on to them.
- Comment on Real talk 5 months ago:
Most people are not that smart and really self-centered.
From there just a little variance in the spectrum ranging from “I think as highly about others as I think about me” to “they are all inferior to me” can make a massive difference on how someone sees and interacts with the world.
