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• Seems like a lot more work than just remembering to make a list before you leave home.

  on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16h ago

• I didn’t say it was a good solution. Especially when you make the whole fundamental function of the fridge dependent on the network.

  on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22h ago

• You know those influencers who get like a few million views from building silly Rube Goldberg Machines?.. That’s the only thing I can think of to justify the toaster, and then it’s literally just taking the place of an RC actuator.

  As for the fridge, the only thing I can think of is you’re one of those people who constantly forgets what they went shopping for, and need to video stream the interior of the fridge to check if you’re out of something.

  on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• Right? Just because a networked version exists, doesn’t make it a good idea.

  on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• You might not, but it would be really nice if some others would. If we repeat it often enough, some of them might actually learn something for a change.

  on Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• Yeah. It’s almost impossible to create a system grounded in ethics in a hyper-capitalist architecture. Misinformation is by its very nature more entertaining and easier to make, so the unavoidable market incentive is to eventually shift the revenue base away from a broad, but low capitalization user base toward the handful of high capitalization snake-oil mongers. It’s a direct product of market concentration that’s allowed a handful of talented liars to accumulate more wealth than the majority of the rest of humanity.

  on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• I mean Google made its own bed here. Their chronic enshitification because they thought they were invulnerable really means the digital landscape doesn’t have a solid accessible alternative and “Web 2.0” capitalization of network effects to concentrate attention means viable competition is always going to be niche.

  This is mostly the fault of the tech giants, but if we’re being honest, we all played a role in letting it get this bad. Kids are just following the path of least resistance.

  on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• Just wait until we reach Lovecraft levels of unhinged.

  on How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke: Cops Search Flock Database Typing Reasons for Searches Such as "LMAO," "LOL," and Random Keyboard Mashing in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• I believe the translation of the Russian propaganda term is “Fire-hosing.”

  on US military confirms it has deployed weapons in space in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• The original image is a fake. That’s been floating around for years, with different years slapped on on it, different labels for various countries, and different headlines attached.

  It. Is. A. FAKE. You want real engagement, post real information.

  on US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• Thank you, I appreciate accurate data. I hate engaging with Instagram memes.

  Now, if you’ll notice, this graph hasn’t actually had a full data refresh since 2024, which is fair, because real data analysis takes time, however, you’ll also note that the rate at which China has pushed forward with decarbonization has exceeded projections in the latest preliminary datasets. Now whether those datasets are reliable or not is unknown but we DO know that since the 2024 election, the US rate of fossil fuel emissions has spiked, which again would not be captured in a model based on 2024 data.

  Which is what the original post was about. Recent preliminary data suggests US fossil fuel consumption has spiked hard in the US and is rising. So I’m not even sure what the guy who posted the Instagram meme intended to prove.

  on US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• So, the image is doctored.

  on US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• You know it’s fun how that same graph has been showing up re-labeled for 20 years. Like you can even see where the edits have been, but go off fam.

  on US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• Glad to see the US is at least consistent in abandoning its own principles and treaties. /s

  on US military confirms it has deployed weapons in space in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• They were a silly concept to begin with. If they worked well, they’d kill their own business model. To stay economically viable they therefore have to use all kinds of tricks and produce mixed-at-best results, and cognitive manipulation to keep their user base entertained. Glad to see them finally collapse

  on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Humans are nothing if not predictable.

  on Google mapped the brain and nervous system of a fruit fly, and modders forced it to play Doom in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• I Have a CG Mouth and I Must Scream

  on Google mapped the brain and nervous system of a fruit fly, and modders forced it to play Doom in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• The Chinese aren’t trying to bake censorship and refusal algorithms into their LLM…

  Buddy, I hate to be the one to break it to you, they absolutely are, it’s just censoring different things. There’s no such thing as an unbiased LLM, they’re all corrupt by design, they’re just meant to scratch different people’s personal itches.

  on Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• That’s nice. You built it on stolen training data, so I fail to see the problem here.

  

  on Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• No, but it is more predominantly male. There’s still certain natural and social consequences that keep some people from going full nihilistic hedonist. The collapse of manners, mores, social boundaries, dignity, and basic values is troubling but reality still has a way of making crossing certain boundaries dangerous and expensive for some people.

  on “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• That’s what I said

  on “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Many, yes. A plurality, probably. I don’t know that it’s most, but given the widespread abandon of anything resembling ethics of any kind in modern society, I think the situation is a lot worse than anyone wants to admit. Contrary to the Christian pearl clutchers, I don’t think the moral decay has anything to do with religion, but there has been a moral decay, the call is just coming from inside the house more often than it is from outside.

  on “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• I doubt that group would be very significant if it weren’t for the outsized influence of a handful of very wealthy, decadent men. At the very least there would be fewer roadblocks to doing something about the rest of the pervs.

  on “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• “And all the lighting is Radium paint so we can use more power for the servers” “And how much do you pay your workers?” “Pay?”

  on The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Advanced fraud machines.

  on 7 AI models ran real businesses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they’re good at keeping it “In The Family” so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It’s the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.

  on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• {Jesus knocks}

  Jesus: Let me in, I’m here to save you.

  Innocent bystander: Save me from what Jesus?

  Jesus: {voice lowers ominously} From what I’m going to do to you if you don’t let me in…

  on Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• What I’m hearing you say is AI is really only useful for doing the busy-work you already know well, but needs to be done anyway. No one should be using it to do things that you can’t do yourself… which is a use, but not what they’ve been advertising.

  On a different level, what I’m hearing you say is the secret sauce in AI is us, it always has been, there are billions of people effectively operating a giant Mechanical Turk against their will and as far as the executives are concerned, all the real people making this stuff possible are invisible… which is a problem.

  on Real Science Is Harder Than Benchmarks: University students find that AI isn’t the cure-all in drug discovery, as AI isn’t as capable as human researchers for drug discovery and development in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• Which is why not using them, not becoming dependent on them, avoiding them to the greatest degree possible is crucial.

  You cannot build a model that is safe and viable under the current incentive structure. So don’t. These companies are going to burn under the weight of their own debt if adoption is minimal. Let them burn. The less you need them, the less likely you are to have a problem when Sodom and Gomorrah burn.

  on Technology Is Over - by James Taylor Foreman in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Techno-feudalism and the dark age of technology. A dark age produced, not necessarily by there being nothing new to find, but by all the profit being held by a handful of aristocratic gentry whose interest is best served by maintaining the status quo. Then it was land that was the basis of all wealth. Now it’s platforms. Either way, same outcome.

  on Technology Is Over - by James Taylor Foreman in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Right? If it weren’t for the TPM I’d be just as happy running a machine I bought in 2018. It’s not the performance making the difference.

  on Technology Is Over - by James Taylor Foreman in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Give an agent a goal and…

  Which involves prompting it. It may take a thousand unexpected twists in the process but it’s still starting from the single prompt. It has no will and desire of its own, it cannot chose to act without human intent knocking down the first domino. So don’t ask it to do anything and it’s just a trillion dollars of silicon and code sitting there boiling water.

  on Technology Is Over - by James Taylor Foreman in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• I guess that’s a problem for the Korean game industry then. If you want to sell to the international market, you’re going to need to do some research. Not doing so is wilful blindness. No one in gaming doesn’t know that globally players absolutely hate detectable AI anything. Just including AI in your process makes people uncomfortable. Expecting a major part of your game to be entirely generated content and that just being overlooked takes some pretty delusional confidence.

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• Like I said, Nebula does it and it’s pretty good. Hard to get on as a creator unless you have a proven follower base elsewhere though. They’re still mainly using YouTube as a farm league.

  Might be interesting to see Nebula set up a fund for PeerTube creators and start using that as a farm league, but I don’t know that they have the subscription revenue for that yet.

  on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• Sure, but then you’re still bringing a for-profit company into the mix. PeerTube is your loss-leader and Patreon is your main platform.

  on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• You can’t really monetize PeerTube though, so you’re never going to get full time creators there. Media distribution has always been a choke point. Always will be. Short of a non-profit foundation and a unionized creators guild joining forces to operate a decentralized subscription video platform, you’re never going to have a real alternative. I mean… there’s Nebula which is basically that, but who goes to Nebula, it’s full of lefties and educators and theatre people.

  on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• As an individual, you’re not. As a market participant, you’re (probably) a rounding error. All of us together have negligible market value compared to a handful of overinflated megacorps. Nvidia isn’t a company that is driven by the gaming market anymore. We may have raised them up from the dust, but they’ve long since abandoned us for greener fields. Companies don’t have loyalty, consumers do. You can’t hurt them. Buy from them, don’t buy from them, it doesn’t matter, you’re not the customer they work for anymore.

  on Nvidia customers notified about AI-related price hikes above 15%, Bloomberg News reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• I don’t even think it’s about gamers. Gamers are irrelevant these days. Those chips are for Crypto farms and AI companies. That you’re allowed to own one to play games is a privilege.

  on Nvidia customers notified about AI-related price hikes above 15%, Bloomberg News reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

  Asked and answered.

  on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• I don’t know how to make any clearer, if you want a future country it is all our job to make sure kids are safe. The parents may be primarily responsible for protecting them, but if your company is a threat to children, and you’re not taking steps to mitigate that, you need to be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law.

  on Zuckerberg lied about concern for child safety, Meta whistleblower testifies at landmark trial in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• I’m also concerned about the powers that be trying to force AI to do things it can’t actually accomplish in spite of the fact that human labour is objectively the only real option. It doesn’t matter that it can’t actually do the job, it matters that they spent money on it and will keep hammering at it until reality catches up with them and hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people get hurt when the world burns because they won’t stop chasing sunk costs. The hubris at the top of a lot of companies is thick enough to cause real suffering for a lot of people.

  on Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• To be fair, the US has never won a war without either Britain, France, or both working with them. Americans are very good at causing a lot of destruction, but they have no idea how to stabilize or rebuild. Even when they can effectively beat the enemy weapons, all they know how to do is leave a chaotic mess in their wake, and whatever warlord is left with enough firepower to dominate the rest takes control eventually. They may take an objective, but they can’t hold it long term, because that’s not their job, that’s for private contractors, who are always grifters who take the money and leave things worse than they found it.

  Roman legions spent more time building highways than fighting for a lot of the Empire. States build infrastructure. Markets build around it. The US is ideologically incapable of recognizing this fact that has been true since time immemorial.

  on U.S. and Ukrainian Forces Went Head-to-Head in an Exercise. Ukraine’s Drones Won. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• That’s not a gun. That’s an autonomous killing device. The only gun that ever killed people of its own free will was the STEN gun. If you make something that kills without human intent, that’s not a gun anymore.

  on AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• If I make a gun that actively chooses to kill people, I didn’t build a gun and that whole argument falls apart. I’d hold everyone from the CEO to the janitor accountable.

  on AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• Yeah, even a well built agent is pretty resource intensive. Your hybrid idea makes more sense. People underestimate just how resource intensive AI is. Anyone who has built their own AI rig can tell you it is NOT a lightweight process that can conveniently sit in a browser plugin without being its own annoying obstacle.

  on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026