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• Zuckerberg whispered that in his ear, didn’t he. That’s what Facebook calls their AI department.

  on Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• This has been tried for nearly long as Android has existed. It’s difficult to get even a single device working well natively with Linux.

  on Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 3d ago

• SEO spammers force-multiplied by LLMs. It was inevitable.

  A really bad thing is that nobody seems to know what SEO/blog spammers are. Social media is reading headlines and upliking the slop.

  It still never ceases to amaze me how the adtech industry is a thing with all this. It’s fakery upon fakery to the Nth degree. Yet somehow it generates money.

  on How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• I’m pretty sure this sort of thing was tried with the prior era of neural nets too. When the field hits a ceiling they grasp at the make-AI-teach-itself straw. It’s the Hail Mary pass. What if we keep stacking AIs on top of each other. Maybe they’ll somehow break out of their own limitations.

  There’s a cadence. Once in a while a breakthrough happens. The tech is incorporated into the world. There are variations of the tech, but all have the same fundamental ceiling.

  The AI Effect takes place. People forget about AI for a while. Time passes. A breakthrough paper is published. AI is upon the world once again.

  Only this time with LLMs, it’s seemingly passed the Turing Test so people think it’s close to the fictional AGI. Not just recognizing handwriting, speech, or images. Or putting an annoying animated character on your desktop. This time it’s being freakishly good at predicting what the next words should be based on known sum total of human knowledge. Making it be creative isn’t it this time. That’s the ceiling.

  on AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• I think this the way the powers that be control many narratives. Many distractions running all over.

  People aren’t critical enough about what they’re echoing from what they think is coming from their own side.

  on One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• There’s a good reason to keep old cables. These days with everything made in China, there’s a lot of garbage cables out there. The main problems being that they’re made out of aluminum or the wire gauge isn’t as claimed.

  on Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables - Jim Nielsen’s Blog in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• I assume any device with such a capability is doing so until proven otherwise. And some internet poster saying no and relying on conjectures isn’t proof. i.e. Throwing around technological illiteracy implications.

  The modus operandi of tech companies is to do it. Deny doing it. If they get caught, say it wasn’t that bad. If it was, it a mistake and they didn’t mean it. And maybe you asked for it by using the device in the first place.

  on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• Philips ones made in Netherlands. Some are made in China. Some are made in Netherlands. I don’t know which model is which, but find an Netherlands made one. The shaver heads are better quality.

  on Recommendations for electric shaver? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 3 Sep 2026

• Why give them the benefit of the doubt. Surveillance is exactly what they’re being made for.

  They hide behind the benevolent uses of technology and its disgusting how they go about it. I’ve been saying it before, tech is a modern religion. It’s been co-opted by those who use it as cover to do evil. They act as the gatekeeper as if the only way to tech utopia is through them.

  Think of the poor disabled children! You wouldn’t want to deny them the gift of sight would you??? Now wear the glasses and record everything and look at the ads. Or would you rather deprive poor blind little Billy over there.

  That shit is played. Trillion dollar tech companies don’t need anymore quarterly growth to do things like build assistive technologies. The world could have had this technology in particular years ago with no frills. Or any other type of technological aid.

  Zuck just needs another yacht or two. That’s what this is really about. Hiding behind the disabled like ghouls that they are. No different than those evangelical megachurch assholes who own private planes.

  on Norway considers ban on camera-enabled wearable 'pervert glasses' | TechCrunch in c/europe@feddit.org · 3 Sep 2026

• Whatever. They’ll still take the techbro paychecks and look the other way. Let me know when these nerds grow a spine.

  on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• It’s basically another tradition for reddit clones to surreptitiously setup beachheads for nazis. The ultimate effect of that is the site kills itself before it can ever become popular.

  I’ve seen this pattern enough over the years. Reddit is the only OG that managed to succeed in spite of welcoming nazis.

  Now that “hiding your power level” isn’t a thing anymore, they can’t help but run openly amok, which drives people away. They stayed in their own festering corners of reddit until 2016.

  on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely - ~tildes.official [Reddit Alternative] in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Brave has been severely disappointing not because of Brave company or the browser itself, but because it marked a point of tech illiteracy. The affiliate link insertion should have and would have in the past been enough to end them all together.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• The subject cannot see the experiment. The operator cannot fully explain it. The regulator can barely comprehend it.

  This is the crux of the issue that prevents anything from changing. By keeping the discussion suspended in a grey area, there’s always the thought terminating well-ackshuallys. The inevitable conclusion being that you can’t precisely define the issue therefore it doesn’t exist. We’ve been past the point where we’re shackled by the sci-fi foretold system that nobody truly understands anymore.

  He pretty much covered everything pretty well. One characteristic I’ve recently come to realise with the current state of affairs is such that people make assertions. The internet started off as a proverbial sailing off into the unknown seas to explore new worlds. People listened more than they spoke. When they came upon a new land they listened to the locals to learn about their ways.

  Now people come upon a new land and start blasting. They may probe a little to find out who the locals are, and then proceed to tell them why their stupid and wrong and should feel bad about themselves.

  on The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• They used sockpuppet accounts to game r/adviceanimals to push posts from quickmeme.com to the top and bury their competitors. At the time it was the most popular image macro site and subreddit. Once it was exposed, that format of meme basically collapsed.

  on Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Case in point. The world doesn’t revolve around San Francisco. You guys are neurotically hyperfocused on your little world.

  on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• I think some of them actually believe. Like on Blind where the tech bros think $100k/yr is poverty wage. They haven’t been living in reality in a long time. The tech boom has been going on since what like 2010. It’s far longer than the dotcom bubble. They keep managing to jump from one fad to the next. It’s far eclipsed prior bubbles.

  on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• It’s long forgotten how reddit was open source. Not only that but people hosted their own instances of reddit as test beds for botting and who knows what else.

  The quickmeme incident got memoryholed real fast. That era of image macro memes was basically entirely fabricated.

  on Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• And once upon a time there were more than three PC graphics card makers. The paranoid schizo US really fucked up scientific and technological progress.

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Humanity may never see anything like the 90s-2000s era again. That was a distinct milieu of nearly unbound creation and discovery. Not only did corporations remained skeptical of the internet. People were highly averse to being manipulated because the internet was untrustworthy. Paradoxically that’s what made the internet trustworthy. Once trust was established of course. It was a perfect mix of factors that made it a unique period in history.

  on I don't enjoy the Internet any more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• False equivalencies are trite.

  And yes, gun companies make weapons of destruction.

  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

• As if it wasn’t obvious enough that nazi posters have special protected status on social media platforms. The report buttons do nothing against them.

  on Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026

• The world wide web has come back to an era where people and content are sparse.

  on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026

• “We” being the technologically inclined. The majority of the population see these headlines and think of it as something closer to a Gibson novel. These stunts work. It’s why people think Elon is Tony Stark.

  on Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026