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• We’re way beyond usage statistics. That’s for startups trying to get a Series A. OpenAI and Anthropic are playing at the Fortune-100 level already, influencing elected officials and making deals for government contracts. They’re not rolling up to the DoD with their MAU counts.

  on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@beehaw.org · 4h ago

• Fetterman’s chance to cure his conservatism!

  on Stem cells reverse stroke damage and restore movement in mice in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5h ago

• As someone with no 3d printing experience, but a lot of firearm experience, I’m surprised that PLA holds up as a comp.

  It’s one thing to have a printed frame of course, but comps are right past the barrel and get the worst of gas and heat (by design). Hell, I have a very heavy comp on my HK P2000, and it gets absolutely scorched.

  on Squirted Glock comp that doesn't suck in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5h ago

• Sadly, they exist irregardless of our little projects. Financially supporting them is one thing, and if your own ethics prevent you from using a weapon of the enemy, as it were, that’s fine, but abstention is not actually doing anything to oppose them.

  The water consumption of any LLM compute time I’ve used is almost assuredly less than a single bath, and I’ve certainly skipped more baths in my life than I probably should have. :P

  And more importantly, an hour of Netflix uses SIGNIFICANTLY more water than an hour of text LLM generation, so most people are not actually having the impacts on water consumption they likely think they are.

  on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@beehaw.org · 23h ago

• There’s another type, which is like me, who develop as a means to have a tool I need.

  I wanted a better way to manage my cross-device libraries (desktop, laptop, NAS), and the multi-pane file managers didn’t work great for me, so instead I used Claude to build one that has native per-pane ssh support, streamed video and music preview clips, etc etc.

  Capitalism is always gonna Capitalism, doesn’t matter what type of tools are at play.

  on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@beehaw.org · 1d ago

• As someone who works in security, you should be extremely skeptical of their stated reasons, or even the validity of the data.

  There were a LOT of divorces following that leak, citing the hack as proof of infidelity, but the reality is that the leakers could have added people to the data explicitly to facilitate uneven divorce settlements (e.g. adding a woman to the site in order to give the husband a means to demand no split of assets).

  As much as it would be great to imagine hacktivist crusaders going after cheaters, there was a lot of money moved on the back of that leak, and in fact one of the problems with Ashley Madison was that prior to the hack it was used to essentially extort non-users, because anyone could create a profile with any email, but if someone created a profile of you, you had to both verify yourself with your ID (which they saved), and pay them money to delete it (which the leak revealed they didn’t actually do anyways).

  on ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated' in c/technology@beehaw.org · 1d ago

• Most people aren’t aware, but Axon already does AI-assisted surveillance software too.

  on Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee in c/technology@beehaw.org · 4d ago

• The first thing I did when I moved into my new place is disable all the Ring surveillance crap the previous tenants installed. Luckily I have no “smart” appliances to worry about.

  on Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court in c/technology@beehaw.org · 4d ago

• Hey, a non-response deflective joke! I see you too went to middle school!

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6d ago

• You were not going to give me the benefit of the doubt, don’t expect anyone who is genuine to believe otherwise.

  You’re free to be as cynical as you like.

  “is ai” is very obviously a simplification, but is also the reality of where they have chosen to go.

  It’s not a “simplification”. A simplification is still roughly the same meaning. “Coded with AI” and “Is AI” are unrelated statements, not more or less nuanced versions of each other, any more than “Bill is driving a racecar” and “Bill is a racecar” are.

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6d ago

• I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt until I saw your responses.

  “Is AI” is meaningless drivel. Software does not become “AI”, and an OS is not and cannot “be” AI.

  What you mean is, “Debian devs use LLMs to code”, which has no impact on or correlation to whether Debian will include age or ID verification. No one ordered the devs to use LLMs, so that is not evidence of their “compliance” with authorities, as you seem to imply.

  These snarkily-delivered insinuations have no value; they’re not educating anyone about the topic, they’re not arguing anything of substance, they lack basic technical understanding of what they’re criticizing… they’re just a feel-good gotcha for you.

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026

• If they can identify it, sure. But OS fingerprinting is not perfect through a browser, and can be tricked pretty readily.

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026

• Exactly. Hoard now, watch/read/listen later (and now as well).

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026

• You’re not limited to tech that complies with laws.

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026

• I don’t know, Unlicense is still an OSS license, and imo that’s what vibe code should mostly be.

  on Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license “vibe code” into Free Software? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026

• And I thought I was chronically online…

  on What's With All These 'Fly Brain Simulations'? The Viral Jokes And Memes About A Fruit Fly's Brain Being Mapped Explained in c/technology@beehaw.org · 16 Sep 2026

• “Minor by default” is not a shift in how companies treat minors online, it’s a shift in how they treat everyone online.

  on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@beehaw.org · 13 Sep 2026

• Throughout history we’ve generally moved towards ever more ephemeral storage media. Stone tablets > clay > paper > etched vinyl > magnetic tape > hard disks > solid state memory, and a bunch more I’m not remembering or not aware of (and there are some that have made extremely long lives their purpose, but they’re not generally in common use, see the etched gold records in Voyager I).

  Arguably, what actually survives is only what a civilization values enough to go back and put into its longer lifespan storage media, it’s only really in the modern era of mass-production and mass-media that the desire to preserve everything has popped up.

  I’m very nostalgia-driven, and I still consume a lot of the media I did as a kid, but my Jellyfin and Kavita servers aren’t meant to represent things I believe should be preserved for others, just for myself.

  I’ve visited the Internet Archive several times (I used to live on 3rd and California, so it was a 5 minute walk), but I think their original purpose of especially preserving the “old internet” blogs and forums and whatnot has somewhat lost its purpose now. It doesn’t archive the mediums where most internet interaction takes place now, like Discord, and it hasn’t for a while (even twitter in its heyday wasn’t being backed up unless you manually requested a tweet be saved).

  There are micro-cultures that absolutely are going to disappear entirely from our cultural record once they become defunct, but that’s always been true, and I don’t think the kinds of cultural records this article is about are really part of our larger “culture” in a meaningful way. MTV News? Gawker? How about SubSim.com and NoMutantsAllowed (2 game-specific forums I’m part of)? Does our proverbial Library of Alexandria really need to remember those existed?

  on Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026) in c/technology@beehaw.org · 10 Sep 2026

• More like, they need you to believe it’s dangerous so they have another thing for the police state to take away your rights to “protect” you from.

  on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5 Sep 2026

• Unironically, yes.

  on FTC sues Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of "secretly and systematically overcharged" misleading advertisers on its platform by manipulating its pricing and auction systems. in c/technology@beehaw.org · 2 Sep 2026

• I’m glad they’re calling them vigilantes, because a vigilante is someone who punishes crimes outside the bounds of the law. Good to see media acknowledging that Flock cameras are criminal.

  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

• Stage 1: You pay for it, it is the product

  Stage 2: It is free, you are the product (enshittification)

  Stage 3: You pay for it, you are the product (late-stage enshittification)

  on Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors. in c/technology@beehaw.org · 25 Aug 2026

• How old are you? Because no, there is no key to revoke for a UMD. There is no “banning” discs from a PSP.

  The fact you apparently are so young you aren’t aware things used to be different, is proving the point here.

  And more importantly, no the license was not the same; the physical disc fell under what is called the First Sale Doctrine:

  The first sale doctrine is a legal principle codified in U.S. copyright law at 17 U.S.C. § 109. It states that once a copyright owner sells or gives away a physical copy of a work, their control over the distribution of that specific copy ends.

  When companies began to use license keys for instance as a backdoor route to bypass it, it was a big legal deal.

  I think you’re confusing copyright ownership, which was always the same (since video games have existed, that is), with end user licenses, the nature of which are very different now.

  on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 25 Aug 2026

• No, it’s literally not. Sony can take away your license for a digital game for any or no reason. They cannot take away your license for the physical good outside of very specific cases (and they will require a court order to do it, unlike revoking a digital license).

  on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 24 Aug 2026

• Imagine living somewhere that brings suits against companies for hurting workers, without the workers themselves needing to pay exorbitant fees to bring a class action.

  on Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe in c/technology@beehaw.org · 24 Aug 2026

• Not in this way. I can literally still play my UMD games on my old PSP, and Sony can’t do shit about it.

  on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 24 Aug 2026

• “I’ll maybe hurt you a little less, and I’ll keep doing the bad thing” isn’t a compromise; a compromise has to benefit both sides, and not being harmed is just the default expectation, not a benefit.

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

• Here we go boiiiiiis!

  on Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute in c/technology@beehaw.org · 21 Aug 2026

• This is why I have such a hard time trusting any “only war is the class war” pusher. Pretending that all will be well if we give one group what they want reeks of a desire for power rather than a desire for liberation, and you know that those people are not going to either 1) share any power they gain with people they worked with to get that power, who have a different idea of what the post-revolution society should look like (e.g. the USSR banning other Socialist factions), or 2) actually ensure the society they build does not recreate the same social issues (specifically, the ones that didn’t affect them personally).

  WRT the tech backlash, I’ve been pushing myself to have a fully offline-capable tech ecosystem. I’ve been sharing that (though it’s seen only marginal adoption) with my family, who are long-distance, and I’ve been really really happy with how much I find myself actually using it versus using ‘online’ media. I don’t know if that fits into the models of interaction that the movements mentioned in the article are advocating, though, or if they’re going more “use tech less”, rather than “use tech that serves Capital less”.

  I’m not telling anyone else to do this; it’s definitely my version of reclaiming time and money and attention from Big Tech, but I guarantee that if you find a way to decouple from a major corporate-run platform you rely on, you will realize just how unenjoyable those platforms are.

  on Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab in c/technology@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026

• Ah, it pulled a Christopher Nolan!

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 18 Aug 2026

• Yes, self-hosting and small-group AI hosting needs to be legal, accessible, and feasible.

  Despite the pessimistic (and largely technically incorrect) takes here, the internet is actually an incredible feat of human collaboration; the most distributed, interconnected, democratized, and resilient communication system ever built.

  You’d hope that Lemmy users, being people who’ve mostly fled the big social media sites with at very least some marginal technical cost to themselves, wouldn’t be pulling a millennial version of the boomer “AOL == The Internet” thing by treating FAANG’s sites as the internet, but alas.

  on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet in c/technology@beehaw.org · 18 Aug 2026

• “organizations need alternatives to proprietary AI systems to gain greater control over their data and infrastructure”

  on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet in c/technology@beehaw.org · 18 Aug 2026

• It’s 0% porn. It’s corporate-approved and ‘safe’ AI slop. Not even something you can fap to in self hatred.

  on ‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected in c/technology@beehaw.org · 13 Aug 2026

• I was in a very similar situation a couple years ago, I was scouted by a recruiter for Axon (who make body cams and tazers). It was a bump from my current role, but I realized that if I was struggling before even taking the role then either

  1. I’d be struggling even worse after taking it, which would make me miserable

  Or

  1. I’d realize that I wasn’t struggling with it anymore, and that’d make me really miserable.

  Ignore the people telling you to take the job as some kind of infiltrator/ insider/ conscientious objector: you’re not going to change or dismantle the company from the inside, you’re just going to end up being constantly stressed and miserable each day until you eventually quit. The better solution is to fine a role somewhere that you feel actively helps people.

  on Job offer at digital forensics company - am I overreacting? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Aug 2026

• I thought it was a Weird Al reference…

  on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@beehaw.org · 10 Aug 2026

• Now that’s crispy

  on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@beehaw.org · 10 Aug 2026

• Yes, it’s now one massive round touchscreen. Takes like 4 different taps just to change the AC temp.

  on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 in c/technology@beehaw.org · 8 Aug 2026

• 1000%

  I have a 2020 Mini Cooper, and we took it in for service and got a loaner 2026 Mini, and it has this massive, ugly touchscreen.

  Look at these gorgeous physical toggles! And even more overhead! All gone! FFS!

  on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 in c/technology@beehaw.org · 7 Aug 2026