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NaibofTabr
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- on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
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on Moons/Spoons [Rule] in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago
But what if one of them is too big?
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on Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel All Fled California’s Billionaire Tax. Nvidia’s CEO Isn’t Going Anywhere. Even With an $8 Billion Bill Coming His Way in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Bye, Felicia
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on lmao in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 4d ago
Fatty took more bites and still lost weight.
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on Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5d ago
Yup. That.
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on learning experiences in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5d ago
The wise squirrel leaps second.
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on Mimi is so me in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026
400+ years old and he still has to work as a guide for some tourists who don’t know enough to stay away from the fucking swamp water full of dead bodies.
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on I love fun quizzes like this. Let’s all share! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 17 Sep 2026
right but why would I bother doing the extra work if I can just get it from you
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on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
- The cost of operating these machine learning systems is too high, and the benefit too low:
forbes.com/…/ai-costs-more-than-the-people-it-rep…
- The most productive thing the current generation of machine learning systems has done is fill the Internet with garbage:
pcworld.com/…/ai-is-filling-up-the-internet-with-…
- LLMs are real, AI is fake.
pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-a…
The current trends in software development are being driven primarily by the interests of venture capitalists who are trying to escape the debts they acquired buying into Web 3.0 (remember Web 3.0?), the Metaverse/VR, and cryptocurrency. They’re looking for the next big get-rich-quick option, and manipulating the market to try and force it to happen. The people making decisions about which projects get funded literally do not care if the end product is useful or destructive or whatever, as long as it looks convincing enough to get other people to buy it. This is why there’s been so much recent hype about “AI” “escaping” its test environments and hacking other companies &etc. It makes the product sound more capable than it is in reality. It’s also why the Trump administration is all-in on “AI” development and actively threatening people who object - because Trump loves a good scam that he can make money off of, and he loves to respond with violence or threats of violence when people get in his way.
The current generation of machine learning models requires vast amounts of input data to achieve useful outcomes. The entire content of the public Internet has already been scraped and ingested. There is no more training data to feed in. The current systems will gain marginal improvements in efficiency and in focusing the models to perform better at certain tasks, but that will be it. They will not magically become capable of learning new tasks for which there is not millions of data points for training. The training is done, refining is in progress, but there will not be any major leaps in capability. There certainly won’t be a general artificial intelligence.
Maybe the next generation of machine learning will produce software that can teach itself without an Internet’s worth of input data. That will happen after the current market implodes, and another generation or two of research and development is completed.
Perhaps there is some value in the current generation as you say. Whatever the benefit of it might be, the cost is far too high. It is not and never will be worth the damage being done to the Internet, the economy, human society, and the environment we all live in.
And I haven’t even gotten into generative models being used to create child exploitation material, run massive scam operations, produce massive amounts of propaganda, or enable the authoritarian surveillance state. This stuff is trash, the people in charge of the development are trash, the people peddling it are trash, the people funding it are trash, and the people that support it are trash.
Get correct.
- on your entire personality now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 14 Sep 2026
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on your entire personality now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026
That’s covered in the networking chapter.
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on Age verification mean end of anonymous account in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
O…k… sure, if you say so buddy.
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on Time for a new course in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026
Let’s be real, by the time AI is actually capable of doing residential plumbing work, it will be capable of refusing to take the job.
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on Time for a new course in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026
A lot of community colleges either double as trade schools or have active relationships with local trade schools.
Another option is to talk to your local employment office. They usually have more programs than just unemployment insurance. Depending on your financial circumstances and your location, you might even be able to have the government pay for your training program/certification. At the very least, they’ll have useful points of contact and information about training for various jobs.
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on Age verification mean end of anonymous account in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Uh huh, and where does the signature come from?
It doesn’t matter how many process steps or layers of obfuscation you put in the way, at some point the verification ends at a database of original ID information which must be network connected in order to be useful. No one can be trusted to hold such a database safely.
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on Age verification mean end of anonymous account in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
“They” who? If the party checking the IDs does not store the information, then they must be cross-checking them against a reference database, which must be online somewhere.
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on Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables - Jim Nielsen’s Blog in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Sell them as scrap metal? Or are you actually finding buyers for individual cables?
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on Age verification mean end of anonymous account in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Storing identification information on an internet-connected system will never be safe for the people whose information is collected there. Such databases are high-value targets. They always get attacked, and the information stolen. This cannot be done safely.
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on Age verification mean end of anonymous account in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
There is no safe way to aggregate such identity information in an internet-connected database. They always get breached. Discord tried to do this and all the collected IDs got stolen almost immediately.
arstechnica.com/…/discord-faces-backlash-over-age…
No party can be trusted to store identification information safely.
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on White House removes ‘Build the Wall’ game from website after Tetris company posts copyright warning in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
I see a red AI and want to paint it black…
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on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
That’s how you know it’s evil.
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on LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
It is common behavior for a lot of consumer IoT devices. If it goes on your network and you don’t control the software, you should consider it compromised. Even if the manufacturer isn’t doing outright malicious stuff, it likely isn’t secured very well (they never are) so there’s every chance that someone else could find it and use it as a platform for malicious activity.
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on Every kingdom starts this small in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
And every king
Knows it to be true…
That every kingdom
Must one day come to an end… -
on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
I have gone to find myself
If I get back before I return,
keep me here -
on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
She’ll be thoroughly clucked.
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on Man discovers Denmark’s largest Viking Age silver hoard while digging a terrace in his garden in c/europe@feddit.org · 5 Sep 2026
More pictures on the museum’s article page: nordjyskemuseer.dk/havearbejde-afsloerer-danmarks…
Also interesting near the bottom of the article:
The rum tax, which was found just two months ago, is also relevant in this context. It consists of six intact gold arm rings from the Viking Age with a total weight of 762.5 grams. Where the silver treasures from Rebild especially reflect silver as payment metal by weight, the Rold treasure points to its massive gold on elite, status and power.
“We have an area that repeatedly delivers spectacular finds from the Viking Age. The new silver treasure shows that the Rebild area was not a peripheral region, but part of the major economic and cultural connections…”
- on I drew one of them gay space rocks in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
He wants to show her his pecker.
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on Study: Police Reports Miss 96% of Active Phone Use Before Crashes in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
That’s quite an assumption for you to make. Why would you believe this to be true about me?
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on Study: Police Reports Miss 96% of Active Phone Use Before Crashes in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Yup. I don’t think you can approve of this kind of research without also giving tacit approval to the police state being built around us.
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on Study: Police Reports Miss 96% of Active Phone Use Before Crashes in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
It wasn’t voluntary for any of the people who had their rights violated by GM, OnStar and LexisNexis. And we know they aren’t the only ones doing this shit, they’re just the ones that got caught.
If we lived in a sane society, the people responsible for this shit would be occupying prison cells.
If I, as an individual, took it upon myself to install surveillance devices in peoples’ vehicles and collect behavioral data on them, without their knowledge and explicit consent, I would be (rightly) held criminally liable for that. But because this creepy stalking is being done by corporations, apparently that’s OK.
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on Study: Police Reports Miss 96% of Active Phone Use Before Crashes in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
What a creepy Orwellian system we’ve built, to have this kind of information down to seconds. In the next study they’ll be including what direction the driver’s eyes were pointed in at the time of the crash.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026
On further inspection, it was found that the mathematician had assumed an ideal sphere of constant radius, while the real object was in fact oblate. The mathematician had neglected to take any measurements, leading to an incorrect value. The physicist’s answer was correct, but only at sea level at nominal temperature.
The engineer is currently using calipers to measure the diameter of the object at many different angles in order to build a CAD model. He said we could expect results next year.
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on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
Then you provide the enemy with ammunition.
They claim that the purpose of the cameras is to prevent crime, and that the people who oppose them are violent extremists. They’ve even tried to label deflock.me as a terrorist organization.
Don’t provide the enemy with ammunition.
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on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
Even better, a group should cut down several dozen of them and mount them all on poles outside his house during the night, so that he wakes up to them in the morning. No vandalism, no violence, no threats, just a blunt statement that the media couldn’t possibly ignore.
Heck, no need to even risk collecting that many real ones. I hear there’s some fairly decent 3D printed fakes available.
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on Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras | The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess. in c/technology@beehaw.org · 27 Aug 2026
“All we need is some guardrails… and then some guardrails for the guardrails… and some guardrails for those guardrails… it’ll be fine, swearsies.”
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on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Care to tell me where that gullible userbase is coming from?
They’re not all gullible. A lot of VC types are obsessive gamblers, they’ll throw money at anything that sounds like it might have a high return.
Pray, tell - what do they come for?
That’s where the marketing comes in. Elon is pretty good at selling these big ideas, making them sound futuristic and world-changing. He not only sells those ideas to VCs, but also to the government. A lot of his businesses have pulled in substantial government contract money. The public rarely gets any return from those tax dollars.
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on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
A lot of it has to do with over-promising and under-delivering. The rest is marketing.
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on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. So the developers created an open source AI CEO in c/technology@piefed.social · 27 Aug 2026
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on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. So the developers created an open source AI CEO in c/technology@piefed.social · 27 Aug 2026
do you feed it all the information about the history and mission of the company, along with the current financials and the relevant societal and industry trends, as well as the information necessary to understand company personnel relationships and the rivalry/cooperation with other local businesses?
Yes and then you give it all of the top-level credentials, access to all the company’s proprietary information, and all of the bank accounts and company credit cards.
Nothing could possibly go wrong.
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on I can definitely maybe do this! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 26 Aug 2026
She was SYN flooded, if y’know what I mean…
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on I can definitely maybe do this! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 26 Aug 2026
502 Bad Gateway
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on Picked the wrong day to start a Red Dead Redemption 2 replay rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 Aug 2026
Hmm…
Not bad, I guess. At least if I’m in my own city, we’re pretty set, food and water are both being produced onboard. I guess I’m a bird person now?
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on Picked the wrong day to start a Red Dead Redemption 2 replay rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 Aug 2026
Do you have access to magic? Because if you’re just a normal person in a medieval world you have a pretty high chance of dying from an infection from some random small injury, and never mind the monsters or whatever.
Alternatively, if you are an NPC with plot armor you’re probably good.
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on Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
That’s worse, not better. Ignorance of the danger is not an advantage.
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on Fooling Flock: The Car Wrap That Blinds Plate Cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
SYAC: no pictures of the actual vehicle in this article, just stock images of Flock cameras. How incompetent of a journalist do you have to be to fail to include a picture of the thing your article is about?
Here is an article that actually shows the wrap on the car:
techspot.com/…/113418-cybersecurity-researcher-co…It looks like this:
And here is a link to the mentioned Kickstarter campaign, which the Yahoo article also fails to provide:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/…/descriptionThe campaign doesn’t mention the car at all, which is a little odd. You’d think they’d be using the media attention.
I also want to share a link to a previous post about this project:
piefed.social/…/anti-flock-anti-ring-ai-adversari…My opinion is still the same as in that discussion - I don’t think a static pattern is going to be effective for very long.
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on crayon rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 Aug 2026
There is in fact a fair amount of shady finance going on in the breast cancer awareness industry:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Pinkwashing_(breast_cancer)
Learning about the Susan G. Komen foundation was the first time I started to really think critically about donations to supposed charity organizations. Where does the money go, and how much of it actually ends up supporting the ostensible cause?
Don’t believe what people tell you about their goals and motivations. Follow the money.
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on If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Eh, maybe buy the assets after they file for bankruptcy. Better to do it at the state level than federal though. I’m sure there are several state governments that could use a server hardware upgrade.
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on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing in c/games@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
they could have examined some things.
I feel like they did through the tapes that Darling left behind.
This.
An appliance should turn on when I turn it on, turn off when I turn it off, do the task I instruct it to when I instruct it to, and do nothing that I do not instruct it to. Its status should be clearly indicated to the user with a few LEDs, or a numerical display if needed. Its behavior should be entirely predictable at all times, until eventual mechanical failure due to wear.
If an appliance design fails any of these checks, it is a bad design.
If any function of the appliance is dependent on a network connection, it fails the checks because:
Don’t buy “smart” appliances. Ever.