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Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 1 week ago:
Yeah. Surveillance is covered already.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 1 week ago:
Overkill. Just find the illegal no-age-collection ISO. Installing with your middle finger raised is optional, but recommended.
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 2 weeks ago:
Again, that’s what the 6000 remaining employees would be for.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
Public service announcement that if you use a VPN, a private browser and Invidious they can’t really track you.
I use Tor but it isn’t seamless, and you do have to go for a really low quality setting.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
Oooh, the layers of psychology keep piling on. So they’re using a sex worker, who they probably believe is doing a bad thing if they’re MAGA, but are themselves into being sexually humiliated within the context of a private interaction.
Yeah, we’re an interesting species sometimes.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
I can’t be the only person on here that’s fully off the algorithm/surveillance grid.
I can get caught in bubbles the old-fashioned way, but that’s pretty much it.
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s really not. Thus the 6000 remaining employees.
(Assuming this is a significant part of their business)
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 2 weeks ago:
Eh, I know this is the anti-AI instance, but reading and interpreting things like that is something you can verifiably get AI to do 90% of the time.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t notice that, it is an awful lot. I wonder if it’s a series of interviews recorded over days, rather than one big meeting.
It’s also possible there was one big video that was posted, and then a bunch of “best takedowns” compilations they actually push. Like how Charlie Kirk would do live debates (rarely with anyone who stood a chance, though).
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 2 weeks ago:
Financial services, so probably transcribing people’s shitty scribbled expense reports into actually usable structured data, and doing it flawlessly enough they don’t get sued.
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 2 weeks ago:
40%, to save others a click.
That might work out for them. AI has to be intensively supervised but it can be a decent force multiplier.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
Are they still editing out any part where the hater loses?
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I did listen to one of them out of curiosity
That is how they get you. And probably the algorithm thinks you can be baited again.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
From what I’ve gleaned, there’s a tendency to see the sex act as shameful, but moreso for the woman. So psychologically, they’re still “owning them” in that exchange.
It’s entirely possible the camgirls that go on are the kind that see their clients as marks, as well, so there’s a funny kind of symmetry to the exchange.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
I’ve known some nice rich people, though. It’s more that it makes you more of whatever you were before.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the Charlie Kirk “we selectively found 10 dumb people to debate and then edited out any part where they come across okay” genre.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s weird. I wonder why they have that specific bias?
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 4 weeks ago:
According to someone else in this thread it was written by the founder and owner, as well. You can still publish weird predatory shit about a tween now, although you’d probably try to stay anonymous.
- Comment on Counting the waves of tech industry BS from blockchain to AI 5 weeks ago:
We both agreed that the late 20th century – broadly, the period from the early 1990s onward for a decade or so – had mostly been one of fairly steady improvement.
Ah yes, a famously bubble-free period. /s
Talking to old-timers, and reading history, it sounds more like revolving hype cycles have been around for the whole industrial age. TBF they do touch on that timeline later and correct themselves a bit.
Foo-as-a-service wasn’t even a new concept, that’s just called renting shit out.
- Comment on Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive 5 weeks ago:
Wow there’s some really bad deals here!
History is full of hustles, but people aren’t usually dumb enough to keep falling for them forever. Probably that will apply here too, and a lot of these shitty subscriptions will go the way of the Juicero.
It’s worth mentioning renting rather than owning isn’t an intrinsically bad concept. Owning your own bus probably doesn’t interest you, and while streaming costs are going up, it’s still a better deal than buying a DVD you watch once. I have to think when the infamous “owning nothing and being happy” quote was coined, they were imaging there still was a nice diversified portfolio of investments in the background, which amounts to owning a small piece of everything.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
Yes, without hesitation, although I’d want to rinse it first to avoid cross-contamination.
Banana picking and shipping as it usually happens isn’t exactly sterile, either. This is also why you should wash anything you don’t peel.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
Yeah, I futzed with it a bit. At first I did sesquicentennial, but that’s purely an adjective which isn’t great. Sesquicentenary refers to the day, so that wouldn’t work. So, I made a nonce word which, if you know these other two, is clear.
I’ll just ignore the insulting tone.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
True to the spirit of journalistic inquiry, your correspondent can attest that seawater has not degraded the taste of the bananas, with the only threats to health posed by skin slippage and by eating too many of them.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
Definitely peel it first.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
I mean, that was slightly fictional. And a sesquicentennial ago.
- Comment on The most invasive cookie/tracker option is listed as “Platinum” while the most privacy-respecting option is merely “Silver” 3 months ago:
Man, they really are trying everything to get you to click the magic button.
- Comment on Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private 3 months ago:
Not shocked. The fact other people might be shocked just tells you how out of control trust in the magic boxes and the people who sell them has gotten. When they collect something more sensitive or embarrassing, people just assume the security and regulation is tighter to match.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 3 months ago:
Putting aside from the implied EV context, I’m not sure I’d go that far. They were repairable, but had a lot of proprietary design in them as well.
I would still go with one of the “legacy” manufacturers, though.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 3 months ago:
FairCar when?
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 3 months ago:
X to doubt.
About the “hurting the economy” part. Replacing more stuff = more economy is a well-known economics fallacy and they should know better.