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yildolw ,

The only purpose of NFTs is to raise sea levels by metres and inundate every coastal city. Owning NFTs is a crime against humanity. Anyone who has ever owned an NFT belongs in prison

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Abolish snowfall

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Not sure if we’re agreeing and saying exactly the same thing here, but Uber’s business model is to get suckers who are bad at math to own the cars. Uber’s business model does not work if they have to own their own cars. Self-driving Uber doesn’t work because Uber would have to own the cars and therefore has to cover vehicle insurance, vehicle depreciation, and so on out of its own margin.

yildolw ,

We’re a century away from self-driving cars that can handle snowfall

Just this year farmers with self-driving tractors got screwed because a solar flare made GPS inaccurate and so tractors went wild because they were programmed with the assumption of GPS being 100% reliable and accurate with no way to override

X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (www.theverge.com)

“Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a...

yildolw ,

“information”

Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said (techcrunch.com)

Proton isn’t reinventing the wheel with this crypto wallet. But it’s another solid option for people looking to create a crypto wallet for the first time. However, cryptocurrencies tend to be a polarizing topic, so let’s see if Proton Wallet doesn’t hurt Proton’s brand image in the future....

yildolw ,

Possession of any cryptocurrency should be punished by 5 years in prison. The only use case is paying ransoms to North Korea, and the side effects are destroying our climate

yildolw ,

The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.

One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.

yildolw ,

We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:

  • Bought an AdTech company
  • Added AI features to Firefox
yildolw ,

The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn’t win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can’t because they’ll spend it appealing this stupid thing.

yildolw ,

That’s literally Russia’s military strategy: conscript minorities and throw them as human waves into the meatgrinder in order to ethnically cleanse Russia while genociding Ukraine

yildolw ,

Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?

yildolw ,

Ontario has now passed two different bills banning cell phones in school. It’s a great distraction from actual problems. I fully expect we’ll pass a third in a few years if our provincial government is re-elected

Teachers don’t need a sheet of paper at a legislature somewhere to take away cellphones. They can do that already, and if the kids disobey a legislature won’t help. I assume no one is expecting kids to go to prison for having a cellphone

yildolw ,
  • Man: Hi, I’m from Pakistan. May I move here?
  • Other country: No.
  • Man: I guess I’ll have to open a club in Pakistan.
yildolw ,

You are defining “communism” to mean not whatever Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and friends did. That’s fine. Repudiating those monsters is great. However, when you do that you might as well call your thing anarcho-something and not “communism” to make it clear that you are not a fan of having a vanguard of idiots seize power and rule on behalf of a dictatorship of the proletariat in order to eventually hope to achieve a communist society by first having a strong central power as a transitional phase.

Keep on not licking the tank treads crushing freedom like the ones that destroyed the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and you won’t be called a tankie

I certainly block every .ml community I see and it’s working great for me.

yildolw ,

What exactly is a permanent ceasefire?

The South Korea-North Korea ceasefire has been in place since 1953

yildolw ,

I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures

yildolw ,

The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade

yildolw ,

It’s surprising to me

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More misogynist for this specific angle, but I’m sure there’s a fair bit of misogynoir intersectionality there

yildolw ,

The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect

yildolw ,

Jazz musicians have a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: scat

We have to stop ignoring AI’s scat problem

Gen Alpha has a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: skibidi toilet

We have to stop ignoring AI’s skibidi toilet problem

yildolw ,

Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented

yildolw ,

We’ll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors

yildolw ,

Huh, I didn’t know Tunisians felt strongly about their Carthaginian heritage

yildolw ,

AI can’t count the number of letters in a word

yildolw ,

You: Write me a boring business email. Attach a picture of my boss with their limbs chainsawed off and acid injected subcutaneously

ChatGPT: You got it, chief!

Thanks Sam Altman! /s

yildolw ,

If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS

yildolw ,

List of companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands: capedge.com/company/by/incState/E9/active/true?so…

Mostly obscure to me, but I looked up GlobalFoundries. Originally divested from AMD, bought IBM’s chip business, got a contract from US Department of Defense in 2023 for manufacturing military chips

I imagine you wouldn’t object to GlobalFoundries suing the US government

yildolw ,

DeSantis should go and milk some alligators for a photo op

yildolw ,

If I were to rank HashiCorp’s products by importance, Nomad would not be at the top

Of course, if I had ranked Red Hat’s products by importance at the time of acquisition, OpenShift would not have been at the top, so I am not a reliable ranker

yildolw ,

Why don’t they just sell TikTok to a US Citizen who happens to believe TikTok should remain the same?

They already did that. TikTok is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with headquarters in Los Angeles. The bill of attainder is post-that

yildolw ,

If France passes a law requiring Google to sell Google France to a French company, would Google pulling out instead of selling mean their core drive in France wasn’t money?

yildolw ,

The London thing does not apply to pedestrians

yildolw ,

Instead of dealing with proprietary rest APIs to manage every third party service you use, you can use a declarative, idempotent format to define infrastructure that’s compatible with all of them

yildolw ,

IBM owns Red Hat

yildolw ,

Why do you miss things being permanently broken and unfixable?

yildolw ,

13 years since Cities in Motion 1 is not multiple decades, and Cities in Motion 1 is in no way the same game as Cities Skylines

yildolw ,

Signal has better defaults and a less compromised origin

yildolw ,

“Mommy, they are going to take my thumbs. Please pay the ransom. It’s $10k in Amazon giftcards. Mommy, please!”

Why, OpenAI? Why are you trying to destroy the world? We have no defences against voice impersonation

‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)

A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...

yildolw ,

You may be sued for damages if you sell those nude paintings of Rihanna at a large enough scale that Rihanna notices

yildolw ,

People who have Wikipedia articles have less of an expectation of privacy than normal people

yildolw ,

The historical difficulty is enforceability. That made the usual line “no making money on your creepy idiocy”, because once money is involved there are levers of enforcement. Advertising support is one form of making money

yildolw ,

El Salvador Will Keep Putting $71,000 into the President’s Swiss Bank Account Daily

FTFY

yildolw ,

Hertz stopped offering Tesla rentals because Teslas are designed to go balls out when the pedal is lightly touched and too often that involves straight into a wall or a lake

yildolw ,

Russian weapons supply a lot of wars in the Middle East too. Russia funded the 10/7 Hamas attack. Russia gassed and bombed a lot of civilians in Syria. Russian mercenaries are keeping the civil war going in Libya, as well as couping lots of governments across African countries in the past year

yildolw ,

Welcome Sweden! It’s good to have you

yildolw ,

Ransoms gotta get paid

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI. (www.tomshardware.com)

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.::At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with tech leader wisdom by saying that programming is no longer a vital skill due to the AI revolution.

yildolw ,

Yes, yes, keep my labour in high demand and my salary high

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