bl4kers
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- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 1 month ago:
Generalizations aren’t productive
- Comment on Striking New York Times tech workers ask people not to play Wordle or other NYT games 1 month ago:
Only if it increased by a very large margin like a DDoS attack
- Comment on Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales 1 month ago:
The sell is a screenless phone with an AI assistant
- Comment on Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! 2 months ago:
That’s exactly right. Even if we made an AI that could give us the perfect solution and had accurate projections to back up its assertions, inevitably we’d reject it because we wouldn’t trust it fully. It cannot fix the often selfish nature of humans
- Comment on TikTok Stacking Algorithms in Chinese Government’s Favor with Pro-China Content Originating from State-Linked Entities, Study Claims 4 months ago:
- Comment on Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years 4 months ago:
Well, sure, but I’m sure most coal miners don’t feel super great about their specific job and profession generally. It’s a waste of resources and capital generally, not at a zoomed in level
- Comment on Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable 5 months ago:
Intentions aside, it’s just some independent research that anyone can review and critique. If the research is bad then it should be pointed out and won’t be taken seriously, undermining any influence from Goldman Sachs now and in the future
- Comment on Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs 5 months ago:
Oh, sure, I didn’t mean to compare the two really. Just pointing out that although Twitter is simple and easy to replicate in concept, trying to scale to support all humans as users (theoretically) is difficult
- Comment on Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs 5 months ago:
To be fair, Twitter needs very good infrastructure to be usable (e.g. caching) and obviously content moderation is as robust as their investment in it (those could be contract workers though)
- Comment on Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable 5 months ago:
If Goldman Sachs said that, than most likely the opposite is true.
What makes you say that?
- Comment on UK election: TikTok users being fed misleading election news, investigation finds 6 months ago:
A spokesperson for TikTok told the BBC that it had increased its investment “in efforts to ensure reliable information can be found on TikTok”, launching a “UK Election Centre with a fact-checking expert” and adopting an “industry-leading AI labelling technology”.
I doubt this will move the needle. Ultimately TikTok was not built for news & politics specifically, and it seems like a robust fact-checking system would lead to less engagement overall. So it’s at odds with their primary objective
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" 6 months ago:
Alternatively, it could be very frustrating for people who need it. Computer-generated translations are often very bad compared to human ones, and image recognition adds another layer of complexity that will very likely lack nuance. It could create a false sense of accessibility with bad alt-text, and could make it more difficult to spot real alt-text if it isn’t being tagged or labeled as AI generated
- Comment on YouTube reportedly blocks anti-war videos in Russia at the Kremlin’s request 6 months ago:
Not at all: any company that wants to operate in a given country, has to follow that country’s laws, whether they like them or not.
Maybe in theory but not in practice. See: illegal dumping, tax evasion, labor violations, and many other things
- Comment on YouTube reportedly blocks anti-war videos in Russia at the Kremlin’s request 6 months ago:
The idea of breaking up a company is to make the space more competitive. Theoretically if YouTube had a proper competitor, then the decision to honor Kremlin requests would be more complicated, since it could lead to a loss of market share
- Comment on Thoughts on the game Timberborn 8 months ago:
As far as the survival aspects go I prefer Frostpunk. Though that’s not as replayable. Both are quite solid and come highly recommended
- Comment on AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number & email 11 months ago:
It’s not a zero day: arstechnica.com/…/hackers-can-id-unique-apple-air…
- Comment on Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators 11 months ago:
I recommend watching the video linked in the article. They mention live streaming, working in a spreadsheet, and long text messages where you have to scroll to read everything
Plus this isn’t just a hardware product, the keyboard shortcuts would be pretty handy for any power user. Sounds like they’ll be rolling out more software for it and have more products in the works
- Comment on Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators 11 months ago:
More screen real estate compared to a virtual keyboard taking up ~30% of it
- Comment on Nintendo starts shutting down online play for Wii U and 3DS, months ahead of schedule 11 months ago:
Don’t buy from Nintendo
- Comment on Everything Microsoft announced at its Surface and AI event 1 year ago:
The design of the laptops seems like an interesting mix of MacBook and Dell’s XPS line
- Comment on The best Nintendo Switch games for 2023 1 year ago:
Note: These are not games released in 2023, just another “best of” list.
