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qyron
European guy, weird by default.
You dislike what I say, great. Makes the world a more interesting of a place. But try to disagree with me beyond a downvote. Argue your point. Let’s see if we can reach a consensus between our positions.
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- on Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21h ago
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on Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22h ago
I can agree with the assessement on how the company is aiming to bleed dry the market and is aiming to take over the business market. But honest question: what are we to understand by premium?
But even the business market is fickle. The company I work at had a scare recently with a serious security breaching. Nothing was admitted but I suspect the vector of attack was the informal Whatsapp network used to run day to day communications and it’s AI. The installed Microsoft security solutions were as efficient as a collander. I can’t imagine what was leaked. That costs money.
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on Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, would you be so kind and repeat after me: abandonware and indie games are the future!
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on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026
A small scale site in my country. And I was trying to purchase ropes, for making dog leashes.
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on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026
Not really.
I got surprised a few months back with a shopping site requesting age verification. Of all things.
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on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
The paradox has a lot to it and is mostly misunderstood.
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on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
I know of a case where an assault victim got a special device that relayed the proximity of their atacker starting from 3000 meters.
It was paired with the ankle bracelet and it only beeped proximity. No location. If a certain range was breeched, it would relay instantly to authorities, which are mandated to call the bracelet carrier imediatly. No answer/range reduction, immediate victim call/visit/collection.
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on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026
My country provides ID from birth.
Biometrics are only collected around 5 years old, and only for the indicators, while signature only is requested around 7, after pre-school or first year of literacy.
Photo is taken with days or weeks. The state, all of us, recognize everyone as a citizens and their rights from birth.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Thank you.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
What?
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
You have the right to express your opinion as you may please but you’re not entitled to have me respect it nor respect you for it, but I digress.
This isn’t Reddit, sadly, because otherwise I’d give you gold for that comment.
By that logic, when all human labour - and I do mean all of it, with no exception - is no longer necessary, thus no income can be earned by any part, how will people survive? I expect them to be, at least, entitled to move out of the way and silently and peacefully disappear.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
It is not an analog, in any measurement.
We are talking about a technology that been prompted, since its inception, as the leap that would render human work unnecessary - which is false under many measurements.
When that failed, it was then repackaged as the technology that would enable any person to do anything: write a book, a song, create the new Mona Lisa, write any program they needed or wanted, etc. And again, it failed.
Any major development was always geared towards solving a concrete, tangible, problem. For AI, every proponent for it is trying to find problems to fix with it.
I don’t care about the promises of AI. I care about the cost of it, now and future. It’s not a hand full of niche applications that are going to impress me. Put it towards research, make it truly useful, in the hands of people capable of forcing it to produce results and audit and validate them. It is not a toy, it is not something that can replace human beings in any measurement, it is not something people should be relegating their autonomy and individuality to, which is happening as we are having this conversation.
No need to reply to this. I’m out. I don’t care for any arguments in defence of AI and it’s potential. I’ve made my choice. Keep to yours.
Have a great one. See you around.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Congratulations. Enjoy it.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
It is. It really is. At any point on any other endeavour, someone said it was enough and the costs did not justify the results. Not with this. So, it really is hard to understand.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
The AI is a consummer of resources we can not easily dispense that returns nothing of objective and equivalent value.
Fresh words, no quotes.
More palatable now?
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
That is a false equivalence.
The looms, the automated treshers, the tractor, whatever machine designed to a fullfil a task that displaced human labour wasn’t designed with the objective to render humans useless. There were periods of transition when people hurt, needlessly, if I may say so, but new occupations emerged.
This is not the same.
For the first time, we are faced with a technology that feeds off human achievement to be built and next states it can dispense and completely replace what enabled it to be put together to start. While consuming resources we can not afford to waste and returning nothing of value.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
A tool built through nefarious means and consuming resources it should never had chanelled into it.
Then, taking from your words, if the information these machines are working is by default outdated, why insist in feeding it with more and more and expect different outcomes?
Makes no sense to begin with.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
To summarize: something that is being created through highly destructive amd predatory means, by completely deranged people, is not evil.
I can’t disagree more. And to quote myself, again, today:
As it exists, as it was created, “AI” is evil. It consumes resources we can’t afford to waste and is currently supercharging our pollution indexes and creating what may be a catastrophic collapse of already very fragile and unbalanced social and economic realities. And because we are already into the sunken cost falacy fase, it will never be rewritten or rebuilt. Hopefully, it will collapse in such horrifying way it will create a cautionary tale, but we are not so lucky, so what we are left with is picking up the bits after it. This kind of system had to be developed inside laboratories, colleges, universities, research centers, to aid into very niche and specific fields of research, not made to be a mass consumption comodity as it is. But it was, unfortunately, not done that way.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I’m just going to quote myself, as I’m satisfied enough with the answer I wrote to another reply.
As it exists, as it was created, “AI” is evil. It consumes resources we can’t afford to waste and is currently supercharging our pollution indexes and creating what may be a catastrophic collapse of already very fragile and unbalanced social and economic realities. And because we are already into the sunken cost falacy fase, it will never be rewritten or rebuilt. Hopefully, it will collapse in such horrifying way it will create a cautionary tale, but we are not so lucky, so what we are left with is picking up the bits after it. This kind of system had to be developed inside laboratories, colleges, universities, research centers, to aid into very niche and specific fields of research, not made to be a mass consumption comodity as it is. But it was, unfortunately, not done that way.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
We are better off leaving the appeal to alternate time lines for another conversation, preferably around science fiction or comics.
As it exists, as it was created, “AI” is evil. It consumes resources we can’t afford to waste and is currently supercharging our pollution indexes and creating what may be a catastrophic collapse of already very fragile and unbalanced social and economic realities.
And because we are already into the sunken cost falacy fase, it will never be rewritten or rebuilt. Hopefully, it will collapse in such horrifying way it will create a cautionary tale, but we are not so lucky, so what we are left with is picking up the bits after it.
This kind of system had to be developed inside laboratories, colleges, universities, research centers, to aid into very niche and specific fields of research, not made to be a mass consumption comodity as it is. But it was, as you very well put it, not done that way.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I’m not brigading anyone. They have their reasons, I have my view regarding AI, that is it. I did not attack the GrapheneOS team in any way nor do I intend to.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I’m not going to approach them in any fashion. I have already made my decision about their work/product and the GrapheneOS is not of my interest.
The project must have their reasons but I still insist on what I’ve stated regarding AI in general.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I am not a coder in any fashion but this is the make or break frontier for development, particularly FOSS and small scale projects.
AI is evil.
It is an ecological nightmare, socially and economically distructive, prompted on the theft of the knowledge and work of every creative endeavour any person as ever made and pointed at rendering pointless any future aspiration of individual creation someone may have.
The association has been made and it is not going away.
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on Exclusive: UK SAS veterans ‘training Russians to fight in Ukraine’ in c/europe@feddit.org · 9 Sep 2026
They ran out of Spetsnaz and infantry NCOs to do the job? Or are former SAS that jaded?
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on I got a cast iron frying pan! Any advice looking after it? in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 Sep 2026
I am honestly worried about my next words.
I have a cast iron skillet. And the thing just came enameled. The instructions from the manufacturer said it had to be carefully washed with mild soap previous to the first use, then milk had to be boiled in it, followed by cooking oil, to then be drained, allowed to cool and cleaned with a non felt cloth.
Well, I dropped it the moment I took out of the box. The enamel chipped and peeled in a couple of places immediatly. It gets banged around. It looks used. It cooks nearly anything I put in it.
But it still sticks.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
It can be both.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
It’s so refreshing finding someone with that kind of opinion. I feel less lonely.
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on 420 sandwich rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
That is shitty food, food crime and a crime against humanity, all wrapped in a single gruesome package.
The mind behind the creation of this abomination is corrupted beyond any possibility of salvation.
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on Pierrakakis: EU cannot afford to be 27 countries | eKathimerini.com in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026
Propaganda.
The EU is what it is because it requires constant dialogue. Majorities need to be reached, negotiations are long and compromises are hard to achieve.
Figures of “leadership” undermine all of this.
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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 · 2 Sep 2026
A death is a death.
I can quote from memory a case in my country, in the 80’s, where a man assaulted a couple, killed the woman and was about to kill the man.
The killer got tackled and beat to death by the widower. The sole survivor was sent to trial for murder regardless being under mortal peril.
Got acquited on the appeal. First instance deemed it an excessive act, regardless self defence.
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on Beautiful. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
High-jacking the thread a bit.
As anyone tried Midori recently. I remembered about it this past weekend and when searching I was impressed with the project page.
Installed it on my phone and my computer.
On Android it is not ready yet. Maybe for tablets. The browser did not resize to fit the screen. It also felt heavy. Removed after a few tentative uses.
On PC, the same feeling of being heavy, slow moving. It took a long time to open and start navigating. My computer is not new but it carries itself well enough to start FF in a few seconds.
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on The unseen dangers of Antarctic documentaries in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
If that is what it takes to have my devices hacked and installed with Linux by penguins, that is a risk I’m willing to take.
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on The unseen dangers of Antarctic documentaries in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
If this is biggest danger of Antartica, book me a flight.
But then there is the obligation of preemptive apendectomy in order to go to Antarctica. And I try to avoid being stabed to life as I can possibly manage.
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on Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
I am going to repeat my point as many times as necessary until it gets through: your example is only a punishment system with an extra layer to be more palatable to the society where it is inserted.
Being free does not imply in any moment an individual can do whatever they may concieve or desire; freedom requires and demands constraint, precisely because the freedom of the other is the boundary of my own. Life in society predicates on this. There is no society of one; the individual often finds a swift end if insisting on it, by its own actions.
A society that simply represses or discards individuals because they engaged in destructive behaviour is not doing anything to in fact solve a problem. A society is as responsible by its individuals as the individuals are by their society. And a society that so simply and easily opts by fractioning itself just to allow more (blatantly artificial) freedom to its elements is not a society. It is something I lack the word to describe but a society it is not.
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on Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
That is a system predicated on getting rid of the problematic, like the one it exists today, just with an added layer of distancing, to ease the rest of the population’s mind. It does not solve any problem.
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on Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
That doesn’t work. The average individual is too hedonistic to refrain from any pleasureable or self reinforcing loop. It’s been a cautionary tale in stories since ancient times.
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on Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
If I didn’t understood there is already a problem of bad actors, I wouldn’t have approached your reply. And deny it in any way would be bad faith from me.
What I feel the need to underscore is that individuals make and influence groups and even the most progressively thought out environment is open to being corrupted if any individual present there lacks, in any way, the self awareness that their attitude is damaging.
It’s not the group that needs to regulate the individual; the regulation needs to arise from the individual themselves, in the first place. And most individuals lack that hard individual sense of responsability.
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on Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Before all that - and you are right on your take - there is a more basic flaw that affects social media: people do not know how to act properly.
The anonimity emboldens the small minds that use it to mistreat, slander and ridicule others and spread lies and rumours.
Unless we can force people to act with civility - which implies people being fairly conscious of the consequences of their words and actions - social media will remain what it is: a cesspool where the worst of our species destils into a refined poison.
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on EU countries face nearly €41bn in extra fossil fuel costs in c/europe@feddit.org · 27 Aug 2026
Agreed.
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on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/europe@feddit.org · 27 Aug 2026
Does it have any quality that can still be useful and copied into existing operating systems?
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on EU countries face nearly €41bn in extra fossil fuel costs in c/europe@feddit.org · 27 Aug 2026
Meanwhile, Australia is putting money into deep charge batteries to stabilize the grid over the night and forcing their energy prices down.
Sustainable energy, now!
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on The whole world is watching as Canada stands up to Trump in c/europe@feddit.org · 26 Aug 2026
To paraphrase Clarence Boddicker in Robocop: " Guns, guns, guns!"
The US has them and the cannon fodder to wield them, while Japan is saddled with a constitution that prevents military ramp-up, while Europe has been sleeping under the umbrella.
And I am not in favour in any way of nuclear escalation not military arming.
But these are the most obvious causes one can point at.
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on He's clear. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
The saddest part on your comment was that Suse was my first distro and it did not register in my mind. As for Fedore, althoug I still insist calling it Red Hat.
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on He's clear. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Sarcasm died and left it’s place to be occupied by literalism. The most ridiculous things have become literal.
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on He's clear. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Then, if we are to follow that logic of excluding derivatives, then we get NixOS, Arch, LFS, TinyCore Linux, Gentoo, Debian (of course!) and… I give up; what else is out there?
And I use Debian, just to put it on record.
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on World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
I am all up for starving machine learning of new knowledge but I view this as the least friction path. Otherwise, if the machines try to brute force their entry, what harm can kt cause?
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
There is more commercial proximity between China and the EU than China and the US.
The current taxation run is to curtail the online markets like AliExpress, Shein and Temu to flood the market with garbage. Shein got hit with their dumping practices very hard.
Taxing the import of vehicles, when an industry already exists just makes sense. European automakers were sleeping on their job, granted, but the other option is to let them fail and surrender another industry to non-EU territories.
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on The AI Bubble Warning Just Came From Europe’s Central Bank in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
The irony of this is unavoidable. The experts have reached the conclusion the rest of the mortals have been warning on for months.
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on AI slop is eating the world. Trust is the first casualty in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
I’m screwed, then. I was never able to memorize those weird “cool” handshakes as a kid. My chances today are even lower.
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on AI slop is eating the world. Trust is the first casualty in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
This is going to force a resurgence of honour based behaviour. If anything is false(ifiable) then the only way to demonstrate something as true is by personally commiting face to it.
They’re making their bed, they better lie in it when it’s time. Even if it’s on fire. And full of rusty nails.
Are we taking numbers on the AI craze bust already? I say in the next six months, to a year.