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- on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did in c/technology@piefed.social · 4d ago
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on Popular Twitch ad blocker caught sending live account credentials to Russian proxies in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
You sound like you know your pixel art so I’m gonna take your word for it that this is sus. Appreciate the explanation.
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on Popular Twitch ad blocker caught sending live account credentials to Russian proxies in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Yeah, I had a peek too. It might be ai, but I haven’t seen any actual evidence of it - they use this pixel art style on a lot of their posts and it seems consistently decent.
Looking at their company photo they’re very well funded and also have a team of like 60 people, so there’s no reason they couldn’t have an in-house graphics artist or a freelancer they contract. Or it could be ai.
But in times where every modern graphics artists is being accused of being AI, I’m inclined to assume not rather than assume it is, without evidence to the contrary.
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on Popular Twitch ad blocker caught sending live account credentials to Russian proxies in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Uhh… Its the icon for a browser plugin… To illustrate that it was a Twitch browser plugin.
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on Popular Twitch ad blocker caught sending live account credentials to Russian proxies in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
What’s wrong and bad about it, in your opinion? I’m no pixel art expert, but it sounds like you may be?
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on Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
100%. This is Bernie using their own words against them. They keep saying it’s super dangerous guys, incredibly powerful… And Bernie is turning around and using that narrative to help slow the AI bubble.
Sounds good to me.
Anyone who thinks Bernie ‘fell for it’ is missing the point.
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on Popular Twitch ad blocker caught sending live account credentials to Russian proxies in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Just wanted to say that’s a great little pixel art graphic for the story. I’m confident it’s not ai, because i like it.
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on I'm not trying to emulate my capitalist landlord, but how can I impose rent on the spider that seems to have moved in to my network rack? 🕷️🕸️ in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026
Considering household insects like cockroaches often look for warm, dry locations to lay their oothecas (egg capsules), and have been known to get fried and damage equipment while doing so - I’d say you actually might have a useful symbiotic pal there, protecting your gear (do I see an MT-6000? Great gateway).
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on Chinese labs DeepSeek and Moonshot were quietly relaying customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts. Users thought they were using Chinese AI, but were actually getting answers from Claude in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Proof: trust me bro.
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on First patient in live AI-assisted sight-saving brain surgery: The first use of AI to support a neurosurgeon in real time during live surgery protected the sight of a man having a brain tumour removed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Likely multi-tech system, could even be part expert system AI as they’re often used in the medical field. They haven’t really explained much about the underlying tech they’re using here, except that it was trained on expert data.
Whereas, I think if they could sell this exclusively as a LLM success story it would be mentioned by acronym in the release several times to gain media buzz for the research/publication.
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on UN Human Rights Chief Says a ‘Handful of Men’ Have ‘Almost Unlimited Power’ Over AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
The trouble is that the legal system is required to enforce any of that, and the billionaires have unlimited legal resources; politicians need to enact those laws, and their influence and support can be bought.
To have hope of it suceeding there would need to be overwhelming popular support. And while most people alive know that what’s currently happening in the world needs to change - many disagree on what that change should look like (because they’re misinformed or ignorant). It might take decades to change their minds, and the billionaires own the media…
If it’s over in an instant the lesson is forgotten quickly.
100%, on a historical, societal level.
Trouble is presently there’s no accountability for them, zero they can’t buy their way out of. They think they’re untouchable, and they’re honestly not wrong.
I think they need to be touched. A lot. And hard.
Given the urgency, I don’t much care about the mode or method.
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on i never knew how badly i wanted this until just now in c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026
Looks cool. Reminds me of Rococo style.
The king of Sweden and Bros.
Self-portrait of the artist, Alexander Roslin.
All from about 250 years ago.
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on Saxony-Anhalt: Digesting the AfD's landmark election win in c/europe@feddit.org · 7 Sep 2026
Cookies are considered ‘personal data’ under GDPR and ePrivacy directive of the EU, requiring informed user consent for any non-essential cookie - what is non-essential is highly debated, which is why essentially any significant website in the EU errs on the side of caution and uses a cookie popup.
Name any EU news website that doesn’t use cookies in some form and have a cookie popup, I’ll consider my statement inaccurate.
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on Saxony-Anhalt: Digesting the AfD's landmark election win in c/europe@feddit.org · 7 Sep 2026
You mean the legally-mandated GDPR cookie notice? That have existed for over a decade?
Have you visited the internet before yesterday?
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on Saxony-Anhalt: Digesting the AfD's landmark election win in c/europe@feddit.org · 7 Sep 2026
It literally explained all of that in the article.
I don’t understand what sucked about the website, found it perfectly usable myself. I did reject all cookies when it asked though, so maybe that helped.
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on Saxony-Anhalt: Digesting the AfD's landmark election win in c/europe@feddit.org · 7 Sep 2026
Well Elon definitely is, he keeps joining their rallies over video call to show his support and cheer them on.
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on AskRuledit in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
I don’t want to play up the ‘everything in Australia will kill you’ meme cos it’s honestly not that bad here. I generally love bugs, ants, spiders, lizards, whatever. Will happily interact with most to move them to safety if they’re in a dilemma. But bull ants I do give a wide berth.
Their sting is pretty intense, especially if you walk over a nest and get a few on you - tend to hang on and keep stringing until you swat them off. I’d say they’re up there will paper wasps pain-wise (which I hear is similar to yellowjackets for comparison).
They’re a menace to kids. So aggressive and the workers are solitary foragers, so kids can just be minding their business playing, very far from any bull ant nest (which kids learn very young to avoid), and a roaming bull ant will see/feel a little human stomping around (figuratively), having fun, smiling, and just decide “I’m going to fuck up their whole day”. But hey, we’re on their continent I guess.
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on Microsoft executive vice president bemoans employees sending him "AI slop," saying "This is a doom loop." in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
“My one condition for this interview - I must be referred to with my President title in full, not shortened to VP. People always focus on the ‘executive’ part and forget the President part. It’s important.”
Reporter:
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on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Well, Karen Weaver and Elizabeth Warren (amongst other examples) were objectively incorrect in their predictions and warnings of an imminent crash and likely financial crisis due to sub-prime mortgages for years… Right up until they weren’t. Along the way they were branded doomers and “public relations hot air”.
Ed repeatedly says verbatim “I’m not a financial advisor” and that he “can’t predict the future” - that markets that should crash due to being fundamentally unprofitable can easily be propped up and strung along by intervention by government intervention, so timeline is impossible to guess.
South Korea’s stock market was in freefall a few weeks back… And then a few days back their government announced yet another massive investment in AI - now everyone gets an LLM account and access in SK, yay. OpenAI and others regularly get on their hands and knees to woo large government investment in the US. Did Zitron predict those? Yes. Noted in this article? No.
The money and resources poured into AI is still not predicted to turn a profit until 2030 directly from the mouths of the LLM business leads… They position the historically high and atypical investment demands as a ‘winner takes all’ first-past-the-post race that’ll pay off in the long run for brave investers - but there’s no real logical justification to believe that. That’s the problem. A new model trained on different data for specific contexts can function far better than a prior model, and users switch their models regularly depending on how well it’s performing for the task they need. That’s a hypercompetitive market, not a winner-takes-all akin to social media.
It sure doesn’t seem like there will be a ‘clear winner’ on paper so how to recoup those investors and government costs? It’s still, 4 years in, the underpants gnome plan and the LLM CEOs give a different answer to part 2 (how the profit arises) every time they’re asked - many of their past predictions have failed.
I find it weird that the skeptics that have invested only time and critical thought are deemed worthy of such a lengthy article, yet the author hasn’t bothered to take the same treatment (beyond a token mention in their opening and a couple handwaves) for the several industry giants currently causing a great many real world ills (environmental, social, psychological, political) that seem to have hoovered up around 1/3 of all investment capital worldwide on promises of riches beyond imagination and a future utopia (if you can afford it).
TLDR; its a dumb question.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
What are you talking about?
Chess using neural nets didn’t happen until around 2017 with Alpha Zero, based on Google DeepMind.
Ie… Two years after OpenAI was founded. ChatGPT is part of the exact same tech rush.
Nobody complained because chess is harmless, ChatGPT is not 🤷
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on Bill Gates accuses the tech industry of knowingly downplaying AI's risks because too much money is at stake. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I hear you, but i disagree - at least based on what we know presently. If you look at US unemployment stats (which are a bit fucked from Covid), they jump in 2023 a little, but have since been decreasing each year since (employment is increasing). You can argue it’s because the Trump admin is cooking the books in hwo they report unemployment, but an almost identical trend is seen in the UK stats… Canada… Germany… Italy (barely even an AI blip in their stats)…
Are they all cooking the books?
If you believe the AI hype crew, AI is “improving in leaps and bounds weekly”, but that simply doesn’t align with reality.
Yeah, LLM AIs (the predominant AI tech in the AI© industry) have increased in quality as the sum total of all earth’s investor-class capital is poured into them… But that isn’t being translated in significant real world applications and job losses.
Companies tried (and are trying) AI©, and have mostly found it just isn’t any better or more reliable than a human in the vast majority of real world applications.
If you are a white collar worker and you only make a few minor mistakes now and then - boss doesn’t care, you’re human. On the other hand if you’re a white collar worker and you make only a couple mistakes now and then but wow they are batshit crazy ones that defy your coworkers attempts to understand them - you’re fired. That’s AI.
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on Bill Gates accuses the tech industry of knowingly downplaying AI's risks because too much money is at stake. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
“AI for the first time can replace or exceed human cognition.” 🤣
No.
Maybe if you chose one tiny sliver of human cognition like memory and isolate it, but cognition overall? No chance. LLM tech is a database inference machine. Some uses? Yes. 1/3 of the worlds stock market wealth invested in it? Dumb.
Not many years ago, Bill Gates said that climate change was the most important issue facing the world.
I guess that’s solved now, because he now says how we handle AI use and access has taken the mantle as the most important issue the world’s facing.
This is just more AI cooker stuff from a billionaire octagonarian.
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on The whole world is watching as Canada stands up to Trump in c/europe@feddit.org · 26 Aug 2026
And remember, keep yer stick on the ice.
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on ArsTechnica: Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they’re coming for monitors. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
That’s crazy that LG installed adware by bundling it up with Windows drivers and delivering it through Windows Update.
If companies can send adware through Windows Update packaged simply as ‘drivers’ and Microsoft doesn’t even raise an eyebrow even once this is known, reported and questioned by media, then my already low opinion of their quality control drops precipitously.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 Aug 2026
Nah its 100% serious if its been posted to a community named ‘Epic Red-Pilled Memes’.
These are people that don’t understand irony.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 Aug 2026
It’s from the misinformation and rage-bait network, that makes it immune to facts.
Just ask the sacked Facebook independent fact-checking department.
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on YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Calling it now…
“YouTube will now count views only when an ad has been played in full”.
Will come sooner than you think.
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on Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Ah yes, certainly easier and more convenient to boot into a live OS or hidden OS every time you need to mount a hidden volume (per VeraCrypt’s recommended guideline), instead of just using the hardware from OPs post.
I thought Edge is just the browser people use when a website isnt working in their normal browser, to check if it’s the website that’s broken or the browser.
Do people use it for other things?