Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to technology in Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore

You could definitely track folks with cookies well before Web 2.0, but the storage and processors necessary for the sort of data harvesting we see today didn't really get profitable until the '10s. Before that Google would run ads that were relevant to the search query rather than tracking your move around the web.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to world in West urges Israel to show restraint amid escalation fears

Why would they? Any criticism of anything they do can be called antisemitism and made illegal.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to news in France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations

Can’t wait for pictures of people getting arrested for holding signs that say “Palestinians love their children too.”

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to linux in Linux is amazing on my old Thinkpad

I remember when my big Christmas present was an extra 16MB of RAM

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to internetfuneral in batteries not included

"DIY brainwashing" isn't dissimilar to what cognitive behavioral therapy does.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to technology in Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore

I thought Web 2.0 was stuff like AJAX and DHTML, like Google Maps compared to old MapQuest. That started in the mid 00's. The tracking stuff came about a decade later.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to fediverse in Leaving the fediverse

You know what's more effective than a post about leaving?

Just leaving.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to risa in Critics have described it as "blaring" and "please stop"

This one is also good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2SIzfZwLLo

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to world in White House: Biden has not seen or independently confirmed Hamas beheaded Israeli children

And yet the New York Post had it as their main headline yesterday.

“A lie can get around the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to nottheonion in Mia Khalifa fired from Playboy for her pro-Hamas posts after the Israel attack

If there’s a pizza party at the end I’m down. It’s as realistic as my solution, but with pizza

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to technology in How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug

Or: It’s such a minor bug that nobody really cared enough and they devoted time to other, more important things. But they made the choice as a collective and not a bunch of suits in a board room.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to technology in So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off

AI is a lot more like the Internet than it is like Facebook. It's a set of techniques you can use to create tools. These are incredibly useful tools, but you're not going to make Facebook money off of them because the techniques are pretty easy to replicate and the genie is out of the bottle.

What the tech bros are looking for is a way to control access to AI so they can be a chokepoint. Like if Craftsman could charge for every single time you used their tool to make something. For one very recent example, see what happened to Unity. Creating chokepoints and then collecting rent is the modern corporate feudal strategy, but that won't work if everybody with an AWS account and enough money can spin up an LLM and start training it.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to news in Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton battling pneumonia in intensive care

Ours was called Pete McTee's Clubhouse

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to risa in The crossover everyone needs

It’s not just a reading rainbow anymore. Now it’s the entire reading EM spectrum

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to nottheonion in Mia Khalifa fired from Playboy for her pro-Hamas posts after the Israel attack

Solution: Everyone has to leave. Israel becomes a wildlife preserve/world heritage site. Nobody but staff visits for a hundred years.

Maybe they can move that fucking ladder.

Religion is so fucking dumb