XLE
@XLE@piefed.social
- Comment on 3 hours ago:
Considering it’s the domain for Slovenia, it’s understandable you’d assume L instead of i… Had double-check it myself.
Wonder how many .SL domains are out there and whether they have similar names for a much lower price.
- Comment on 11 hours ago:
There’s some cleverness behind it. The government is legally mandated to only refer to AI as SI, so that will theoretically boost the value of the squatted domains among the people obsessed with the stuff.
Even a gold rush can enrich a shovel salesman.
- Comment on 14 hours ago:
Even farther back - the biggest chunk was bought all the way back in July !
- Submitted 14 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 25 comments
- Comment on ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror 2 days ago:
OpenAI is a megacorporation that pays people to read through your conversations, and flagged the killer’s account for threats of violence, but failed to follow up.
Can you explain how OpenAI is not guilty of negligence when they sell a product that promises they are careful?
- Comment on ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror 6 days ago:
This article is all about OpenAI’s negligence in the matter…
If you believe they should escape criticism, could you please explain why, rather than using sarcasm?
- Submitted 6 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots: A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now. 6 days ago:
- Comment on OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says 6 days ago:
The prime minister was asked if Altman apologised.
“Yes, he clearly … we can get into word games, but he clearly accepted that the company had not done good enough,” Albanese said.
Yeah, don’t worry, Americans don’t know what he’s actually saying half the time either.
Albanese said the incident was complex and unprecedented.
“It was a shock that it occurred because it was real and serious,” he said.
“But it also, I think, was something that had been predicted, including by the AI companies themselves.”
Right again. If only they could figure out what to do about it.
Australia is one of the countries banning teens from social media. Shouldn’t they be able to ban OpenAI from their country too? Just give Sammy and Co a restraining order? Certainly makes more sense than the social media stuff, as companies can actually be held liable for things they intentionally do.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I was just surprised that was your standard, not whining.
But if you want to call the article “misleading” and “utterly ridiculous” to criticize them, then that’s over the threshold from odd opinion to bad prescription
- Comment on Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel All Fled California’s Billionaire Tax. Nvidia’s CEO Isn’t Going Anywhere. Even With an $8 Billion Bill Coming His Way 1 week ago:
Sergey Brin acquired a $51 million waterfront mansion on Allison Island in Miami and listed Nevada as his official residence. He co-founded opposition PAC Building a Better California, which Fortune reported had raised more than $100 million as of August 2026, and told the New York Times, “I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union.”
Yeah socialism is terrible. With its constant surveillance panopticon, and oligarchs who are above the law, and… Wait that’s just America.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re only slightly annoyed by an ad that requires you to subscribe to a service with a free trial, then cancel the trial, to remove?
And I thought any ad on a $2000 product was too much, even it it was as simple as closing with an X
- Comment on iPhone users are flooding social media with complaints — Apple’s latest iOS move is adding persistent ‘ads’ that can’t be dismissed to users’ devices 1 week ago:
“Wouldn’t ever be me,” I think smugly, opening the menu on my FOSS Firefox browser and being greeted with…
- iPhone users are flooding social media with complaints — Apple’s latest iOS move is adding persistent ‘ads’ that can’t be dismissed to users’ deviceswww.techradar.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 1 week ago:
Alternatively, tech companies have run out of things to monopolize besides human intelligence and creativity themselves, and can apparently offer a pale imitation.
When Sam Altman says he needs his product to think on his behalf when it comes to raising a child, is he lying or is he really that seduced by ChatGPT? I don’t think it really matters.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it 2 weeks ago:
Okay I guess, but how about we have one regardless of the latest snake oil promises?
- Comment on Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons 2 weeks ago:
Agree with the first paragraph. Jacob Coxon (allegedly not a grifter) claims Anthropic and OpenAI are racing towards evil superintelligence, so both companies should be in trouble by now and their CEOs should be imprisoned or…
… What’s this? Coxon is now calling for the companies to regulate themselves? The ones he doesn’t trust? That’s odd.
- Comment on World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons 2 weeks ago:
Billionaires desperately want to create slavery again, don’t they
- Comment on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost suspiciously convenient that politicians are being lobbied into demanding “killswitches” for the one thing that already has a killswitch built in, but not for the things that actually need them
- Comment on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? 3 weeks ago:
I remember when GPT2 was “too dangerous to release” back in 2019. Funny how Sam Altman released it anyway.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on Mozilla launches ad blocking for Firefox on iOS 4 weeks ago:
Safari has uBlock Origin Lite.
iOS also has Brave, which apparently created the adblock engine Mozilla borrowed (and weakened)
iOS also has an independently developed browser with true uBlock Origin support. It doesn’t have official App Store support, but Mozilla could lobby for it.
- Comment on Gold miners are having a better month than chips did in years 4 weeks ago:
This is a very funny graphic to have in the middle of the article
- Comment on New Twitter launches, says Musk’s X gave up the name 4 weeks ago:
Regardless of what people think about AI, must be a real slap in the face to go to that homepage and see AI-generated copy, go to the “pay $40 for early access” page, and see AI-generated logos for the various paid tiers.
Looks like let another cynical attempt to cash in on old IP. The last one was Digg, which was just as disappointing, but it’s actually operational and you can see it suck (read: repost Twitter tweets) in real time.
- Comment on Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform 4 weeks ago:
Yet another article written by Mike Masnick, tech reporter with a huge conflict of interest (he’s a Director at Bluesky, a social network).
The classic case with Meta is that many of its efforts to study how to make its platforms safer were used against the company as proof that “they knew!” their platforms were unsafe!
The lesson for the rest of the tech industry is grim and unambiguous: never study whether your own platform is causing harm. The mere existence of the research will be turned into Exhibit A that “they knew,” both in the court of public opinion and in actual courts.
What strange framing.
Meta wasn’t learning about safety out of the kindness of their hearts. They were identifying harmful features and keeping them. They were identifying addictive features and focusing on building them.
We don’t know this because Meta wanted us to know. It’s whistleblowers who testified about it.
there are some oddly specific requirements:
Meta SMPs will disable Teen Users from applying Cosmetic Procedure Filters to their content.
The agreement clarifies that this means:
… any digital filter or augmented reality (AR) effect that distorts, sculpts, redefines, or idealizes a user’s face in a way that cannot be achieved without cosmetic surgery or extreme makeup techniques.
And, sure, I can understand why such content might be unhealthy for teens. But it is, in fact, Constitutionally-protected speech.
This is such a reach. The best argument Mike can give in favor of face filters is that they’re free speech, apparently, which is dubious (we’ve already decided that under-13s don’t get any social media “speech” at all). Maybe Mike is in favor of removing that caveat too.
- Comment on Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk: Why Jeff Bezos once called it ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ 4 weeks ago:
Ironically, according to the article, the underpaid workers had actually started using it. Seems like Amazon got a taste of the future they advertised, and decided they didn’t want it themselves.
- Comment on All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars 5 weeks ago:
The article talks about the emissions of cars on the road i.e. actively polluting, not cars in existence (for people who didn’t was the article 😉)
- Comment on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports 5 weeks ago:
Anthropic already shifting from monthly annualized revenue announcements, to speculative revenue announcements… That’s a good sign, right?
- Comment on Logging In Was Never Supposed to Be This Complicated 5 weeks ago:
There are so many downsides to this method compared to a password manager too. There’s no encryption, email itself is a minefield when it comes to decent security practices, and I’ve often been stuck waiting for a login link to arrive before I can actually use whatever I was trying to manage.
