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- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 12 hours ago:
I just hammer my brain with melatonin on top of alcohol and extreme fatigue. It’s nature’s solution.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 20 hours ago:
Well duh, obviously.
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- Comment on Amazon advertises DRM-free ebooks that have restrictive DRM 🤦 1 week ago:
Still, no reason to give them any more money.
- Comment on RondoDox botnet fires 'exploit shotgun' at nearly every router and internet-connected home device 1 week ago:
LAN parties and BBS systems. Poison couldn’t spread so quickly when those were our hobbies.
- Comment on RondoDox botnet fires 'exploit shotgun' at nearly every router and internet-connected home device 1 week ago:
Maybe once the internet is shut down humanity can start recovering its sanity.
- Comment on OpenAI signs $1 trillion worth of chip deals to feed its AI habit 2 weeks ago:
Apparently they were never meant to be taken seriously. Dyson’s article was satirical.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
I have to do a couple of hours of multiple choice tests every year asking questions like “Is ‘password’ a good password?” But because that’s a bit high level for many people, it is all presented in the form of “amusing” animations and skits with the questions at the end and no fast forward button.
- Going ‘behind enemy lines’ at a far-right demo I saw how fascism hides behind a veneer of normalitywww.thecanary.co ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
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- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 2 weeks ago:
If this is a joke, well done. If it’s a troll, please don’t. If it’s a true story of how you use computers, may God have mercy on your soul.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 3 comments
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 4 weeks ago:
Those kinds of numbers unfortunately don’t usually translate into seats under FPTP, especially with one party so far in the lead.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 4 weeks ago:
The Express is an untrustworthy tabloid, but damn.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 5 weeks ago:
Please don’t tell Keir Starmer.
- Comment on UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure 5 weeks ago:
Keir Starmer has said he wants to “mainline AI into the veins” of the UK.
What an insufferable man he is.
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- Home Office ‘backdoor’ seeks worldwide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirmwww.computerweekly.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
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- Comment on The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid 1 month ago:
The policies of the federal government are one of the reasons why Las Vegas, like the rest of the USA, is suffering decreased tourism. I thought it was relevant.
- Comment on The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid 1 month ago:
The factors the guy in your video cites are all true enough, and I mentioned some others that he didn’t mention. I’m not contradicting. Also the fact that he talks about tariffs shows that he’s speaking from pretty up to date information.
Mr. Monotone as you call him is talking about the Las Vegas Loop in particular. You added some extra context. So did I. Not sure why you need to get so defensive.
- Comment on The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid 1 month ago:
He mentions the tariffs putting foreign tourists off, but he doesn’t mention the daily news of people being abducted at airports and off the street, disappeared to some secret prison, and perhaps trafficked to some random oppressive country and abandoned. That’s a little offputting.
- Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 17 comments
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- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
You’re probably right. LLMs specialize in spouting bullshit, which seems to be the main requirement for a CEO too.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 1 month ago:
It’s also disappointing as some rival smartphone makers address battery health concerns by offering more durable batteries. For example, Samsung’s top phones can withstand 2,000 charging cycles before dropping down to 80% effective capacity, while OnePlus and OPPO’s lithium-ion batteries offer 1,600 cycles before reaching 80% capacity. So there likely wouldn’t be a need for a Battery Health Assistance tool if Google’s batteries had similar longevity.
Sounds like they could just use better batteries but they’re too cheap. It is Google after all, just a small company without much money to spend.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
Armstrong was shocked at the thought. “I went rogue,” he said, and posted a mandate in the company’s main engineering Slack channel. “I said, ‘AI is important. We need you to all learn it and at least onboard. You don’t have to use it every day yet until we do some training, but at least onboard by the end of the week. And if not, I’m hosting a meeting on Saturday with everybody who hasn’t done it and I’d like to meet with you to understand why.’”
At the meeting, some people had reasonable explanations for not getting their AI assistant accounts set up during the week, like being on vacation, Armstrong said.
“I jumped on this call on Saturday and there were a couple people that had not done it. Some of them had a good reason, because they were just getting back from some trip or something, and some of them didn’t [have a good reason]. And they got fired.”
Armstrong admits that it was a “heavy-handed approach” and there were people in the company who “didn’t like it.”
So he has poor planning skills, he’s impatient with terrible impulse control, he’s unable to motivate people (probably because they know he’s an intolerable ass) and his big idea is “do what everyone else is doing, even if you don’t know why.” Sounds like CEO is the only job he can do. What a fool.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
It’s a good example of evolving towards a local maximum then being unable to travel through a valley to a more optimal design. As such it confirms exactly what evolutionary theory would predict, and not what “intelligent design by an omniscient creator” would predict.
- Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow Itwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 3 comments
