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- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 3 days ago:
Luckily New Mexico doesn’t exist anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft defender now supports Linux desktops 1 week ago:
Not saying other antivirus software suites are not useful or much better, just only that defender is shit. People think it’s great, but it fails at basic scanning reliability & is reliant on Windows Update actually working ok too, which is a pretty shitty problem to have for security software.
- Comment on Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days 2 weeks ago:
What I’m somewhat curious about is that typically to what degree are smart appliances usable without their app & the network.
I have a smart air fryer & a smart scale. Neither has been set up to connect to wifi or my phone & both work just fine …
- Comment on People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms 2 weeks ago:
Awful use of ChatGPT, yes. Though in a perfect world where intentional bias could not exist, then it could be good for people that are lazy to do their own research to summarize the life, past policy decisions & promises of the candidates in an easily digestible form.
Could be better than still going to the polls without knowing anything, like so many people do.
- Comment on Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police 2 weeks ago:
said that she uses Anthropic’s chatbot like a “diary.”
That’s a pretty good defense, I hope it works out.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I understand the anti Ai sentiment, but “any way” is quite broad. Yes calling it super intelligence right now is a grift, but saying current frontier models are not better than humans in any respect is just as ridiculous. They are better at reviewing code for example, can make sense of large sections of unintelligible spaghetti like no human can.
- Comment on What happens when you name everything Copilot 3 weeks ago:
Some people have lasting cognitive problems after COVID, I think Satya Nadella is one of those people.
- Comment on Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com 3 weeks ago:
and manipulate the feed.
I’m pretty sure in this regard there is no difference. Odd entries show up on my front page every day.
- Comment on Xbox lay off 268 people as Activision take over Halo and Rare, while Obsidian become part of Bethesda, plus Forza and Fable studios merge 4 weeks ago:
The rot is too deep, they’ll never produce decent games again.
- Comment on Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming 4 weeks ago:
Can vibecode a winamp-clone in like 5 hours & the resulting app would never try to monetize me. Of course I don’t have to because Foobar -or rather Fooyin on Linux- is better than Winamp ever were…
- Comment on Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t put it past Apple that newer Iphones wouldn’t be compatible with PS & Xbox controllers anymore.
- Comment on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait 5 weeks ago:
“We are making a new breakfast club movie… It will be a space opera!”
I would love to watch that actually …
- Comment on Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms 1 month ago:
Youtube has served me weird out of place political comment before, I don’t know. Like in an idea world they would have recommendations tab, that’s separate from the chronological feed from my subscriptions.
- Comment on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? 1 month ago:
I think It’s incredibly hard to predict where this going and at what rate. Public sentiment is largely biased based on AI hate…
Even if we never reach ASI or even AGI -depending on the definition- “dumb” agents given too much power could do an untold amount of damage. For example I can totally imagine that some degree of Ai control could act as a trigger for the Kessler effect.
- Comment on Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC Perspective 1 month ago:
I think SK Hynix’s projection is incredibly naive. I’d be surprised if by 2028 the Chinese haven’t captured this market yet, inevitably impacting prices.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look 1 month ago:
Gta5 with better graphics is all I’m setting so far.
- Comment on AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions” 1 month ago:
Who cares if it gets it right 99% of the time? Who cares if the next model is 99.9%? It’s not 100%! That means it’s a ticking clock until something major fucks up!
This is a really weak argument. Getting right 99.9% of the time is extraordinarily good in many fields, superhuman even. The human brain is also a non-deterministic system. Surgeons make mistakes too, there is no such a thing as a 100% reliable human.
- Comment on AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions” 1 month ago:
Imo AI is already super powerful in the flaky oracle role, maybe even in CS, but agents left to their own devices is not it, not by a long shot.
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 2 months ago:
stochastic
Humans are largely too & tbh it’s a rather weak argument these days, but it’s also reinforcing the opposite view, because you are being really stochastic with this comment itself.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’d imagine the opposite. Facebook is just difficult to skip for most of us. As much as I hate it, I need Marketplace and Groups…
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 2 months ago:
I think they are very impressive looking iconic cars in a vacuum, like DeLoreans. Everything else is really unfortunate about then, but imo the eyesore part largely comes from the -very justified- cultural baggage as well.
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 3 months ago:
Vivancos 3
The imdb rating of 3.9 for a movie that is not porn is quite incredible, I’m almost tempted to watch it.
- Comment on Bill that would mandate AI chip location tracking gains industry support 3 months ago:
It’s probable possible to make circumvention fairly difficult. Though my guess is that since Nvidia’s corporate interests don’t align with this, they will make it simple as rocks.
- Comment on A new MMO announcement is more exciting than all the other SGF news combined: Thanks, Guild Wars 3. 4 months ago:
I’m unlikely to play the third installment of an mmo. Would rather go back to Wow.
As for GW3, I have very little confidence that the Arena Net of today can create a game worth playing, at least based on what they’ve put out for the past 6 years. For a miracle they would need to hire a brand new writing team and probably the map artists can get the boot too…
- Comment on Samsung's SSD warranty policy scammed me so I'm taking them to court. 4 months ago:
I’m not sure if that applies to Rossman actually.
- Comment on Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis 4 months ago:
Wouldn’t help…
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 4 months ago:
Play Celeste if you haven’t already.
- Comment on Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? | flyingpenguin 5 months ago:
Not directly related…
Is it ok to strongly hate Cloudflare? I’m really so effin tired of them.
- Comment on Introducing Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA | Google Cloud Blog 5 months ago:
I expected something awful, but this is beyond my already low expectations.
- Comment on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars 5 months ago:
I’m not going to watch this video right now, but I think it’s easy to understand for plug in hybrids. 30km range on the battery is enough for your daily commute & you gain a lot of efficiency by not having to carry 500kg battery around.