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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The article says it’s ruining Pinterest?

  Finally a good use for AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the LG G5’s shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol can’t read the verge article and can’t read the archive one either.

  The internet is so fucking dead.

  Captchas that don’t work, next to a reminder that to keep from seeing this I should run antivirus.

  I am on a damn PHONE! No VPN, just a standard internet connection.

  So sick of this shit, I want early 2000’s internet back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok employees in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. You missed my points, and called me a scab for no reason.

  You FOR spreading TIKTOK bullshit? Or can you see that it is a sad day to have to work for that company?

  Maybe you should look a little deeper and not be such a prick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok employees in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They want to work for tiktok?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, it has a quick blurb on by default but actually interacting with it requires an opt in. That seems like a gold balance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is the really scary part: so many doctors were using Google lately anyways… Now they are turning to medical llms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked the internet better when there wasn’t a business model.

  Even this stupid article wants to sell me something.

  I am still hosting websites, for free, with no ads. These are few and far between. All this technology and it only has gotten worse while hosting has only gotten easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is rude at work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The rude part is judging people.

  Not wanting to engage in small talk or banter in a situation that they would not be in unless they were paid is completely understandable. Everyone is different. Nothing on that list is rude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨W.XP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Left because of XP. Win 2000 was fine. XP started all of the crap. It was when you needed to have a corporate key to actually control the computer and have all the features that win 2000 did. The colors were awful and the design was piss poor of course, but I could have dealt with that.

  This was when Microsoft began introducing online accounts. They started trying to really wedge explorer into everything. You could buy music online with them, but ONLY with explorer. There were three programs that were forced on everyone (I forget what they are now). People didn’t like it so they gave people a “remover”, and was supposed to remove those programs. Except they lied, and all it did was hid the icons.

  The writing was on the wall. Win XP was when MS jumped the shark and began the decline. I could see it in real time and wanted nothing more to do with them. So Linux it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨W.XP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I noticed. When Windows XP came out I saw the enshitification right away. Never mind the play-skool colors and complete lack of security. I couldn’t believe that people were going to be willing to use that crap.

  I moved away from it for me and my business fairly quickly, and that was that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "said that the AI-driven traffic apocalypse is a nightmare for people who make content online…“If we don’t figure out how to fix this, the internet is going to die,” he said.

  I make content online. I host my own web pages, I create my own content.

  The difference is I don’t do ads and I don’t ask for subscriptions. Like the way it used to be. The internet won’t die, the internet for profit will. I couldn’t care less if AI scrapes my site, it has zero bearing on what I am doing.

  The bigger issue, and the article is touching on it “journalism will die”. That is significant. Because any moron can post nonsense on the internet and have it picked up (also why the internet won’t die). Anyone with money in a different business can pretend to be publishing “news”.

  I think they are right that AI is not going to save media companies, I don’t know who is going to pay journalists, and there are few laws about owning a monopoly on media companies and requiring them to tell the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how everything I read about this uses WhatsApp as a reference. If you are using WhatsApp you already failed and probably don’t care about this, lol.

  In any case it’s time to get GrapheneOS and be done with this shot, but the irony is not lost on me that I will have to get a Google product (pixel) to avoid a Google product (Gemini).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yawn. So work with models without guardrail constraints? I am not sure what the point is here.

  Seems like it might be just as easy to read the book they referenced in the prompt and go from there instead of working so hard to break a commercially offered AI guardrails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At all the schools my kids went to… Nobody cares. The kids really don’t give a shit what other kids are wearing. In some ways it’s bizarre given that wasn’t the case when I was a kid. But in many ways it’s great. I rarely ever hear of bullying, kids just are themselves.

  Of course thats woke, because they actually speak to the kids and tell them to consider others and will not tolerate intolerance. So I expect schools like this are few and far between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So I got curious, and the instances are on a different scale. Where a person gets a hold of the master key and steals ALL the packages. Which is kind of what I was alluding to: it all breaks down once the person who handles the package decides to go rogue.

  Yes it is less frequent and lockers are safer of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except there are cameras on porches too, so it isn’t like they got away with it, but it doesn’t seem to matter right? In a locker situation who is going to review thefootage, how would you go about that? Couldn’t they put an empty package in there and claim someone else did it anyways?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it matter in this case though? If the person delivering it was going to steal it, they would just tell you it was in the locker anyways right?