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New comment by boxerab in "Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera"

boxerab — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:25:12 +0000

"end to end" I see what you did there.

New comment by boxerab in "Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia"

boxerab — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:38:11 +0000

the article remains laughable because it is biased agitprop quoting a single unpublished pre-print paper with no attempt to provide any counter arguments in favour of the site. Have you actually visited ? I took a look at the articles on white nationalism and National Socialism and found them quite informative. Nothing "hateful" that I could see.

Now visit the Wikipedia articles on "Drug Liberalization", Communism, Roe v Wade, abortion to see the left wing bias in favour of drug legalization, white-washing Stalin's crimes, against reversal of Roe v Wade, and in favour of abortion.

New comment by boxerab in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

boxerab — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:46:13 +0000

Do you really want a “competitor” to Facebook? Do you really want to have to make and manage accounts on multiple sites because you want to chat with someone and you don’t know which social media that person uses? Isn’t it better to have a single place you check when you need to chat with someone because everyone else is also there?

New comment by boxerab in "Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk"

boxerab — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:43:02 +0000

Our government up here in Canada collects a carbon tax, in exchange for which it promises to change the weather. So it's crystal clear what Icelanders must do : set up an ocean tax and the govt. will take care of everything.

New comment by boxerab in "Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia"

boxerab — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:39:32 +0000

this laughable article cites luminaries such as unnamed "experts" and a computer science grad student. So, no, this is not enough - can you yourself define what you mean by "ultra-right" viewpoints ?

New comment by boxerab in "Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia"

boxerab — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:50:34 +0000

can you a) define "ultra-right" viewpoints and b) give some references for these views on Grokipedia ?

New comment by boxerab in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

boxerab — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:38:14 +0000

This. Linkedin is garbage, yet I still use it because there are no competitors. This is what happens in a monoculture.

New comment by boxerab in "Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

boxerab — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:48:41 +0000

the main problem with UBI is it makes people even more dependent on the state, and therefore more easy to control by said state.

New comment by boxerab in "Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

boxerab — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:45:49 +0000

Pascal's Wager for tech.

New comment by boxerab in "AMD GPUs Go Brrr"

boxerab — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:54:10 +0000

This is a great project, but the bigger question is: why isn't AMD doing this themselves? It continues to boggle my mind how much they don't seem to get the importance of a mature software stack when it is so obviously the key to the success of team red. A stack that can be used for EVERY card they produce, like CUDA, not just a select few. I used to believe that AMD the underdog would catch up some day, but I've more or less given up on them.

New comment by boxerab in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

boxerab — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:49:28 +0000

Good lord, take a look at Dearborn, Michigan, then get back to me.

New comment by boxerab in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

boxerab — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:48:08 +0000

lol

New comment by boxerab in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

boxerab — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:08:26 +0000

I would say this is one of the mortal dangers currently facing the West - more particularly, importing people who hate the West and would like to see it become like their failed origin states.

New comment by boxerab in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

boxerab — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:05:56 +0000

lol - given the politics here, I almost did not catch the sarcasm of your post

New comment by boxerab in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

boxerab — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:03:57 +0000

of course ! flooding Toronto with unskilled, uneducated immigrants couldn't possibly put emergency services under increased strain leading to poor quality of service.

New comment by boxerab in "Study finds memory decline surge in young people"

boxerab — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:12:16 +0000

That is a good point. Injection rates were higher with older population. I would say that younger immune systems are more robust, potentially leading to exaggerated inflammatory responses to spike protein, which could heighten neuro-inflammation and cognitive impacts.

New comment by boxerab in "Study finds memory decline surge in young people"

boxerab — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:25:46 +0000

spike protein is known to travel across the blood brain barrier

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35052867/

But of course something introduced between 2013 and 2023 that gets your cells to manufacture spike protein, with no way of regulating the spike dose, couldn't possibly be connected with memory decline.

New comment by boxerab in "James Watson has died"

boxerab — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:31:56 +0000

Yes, how she was treated by Crick and Watson was scandalous.

New comment by boxerab in "Moderna has unraveled"

boxerab — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:56:11 +0000

That is an interesting point. The statement "the company that helped save the world" that I was responding to was stated without evidence. So, in the words of Christopher Hitchens, what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

IMHO, if someone disagrees with me, they can ask for evidence, and there is plenty. Downvoting makes my post less and less visible, suppressing my opinion, rather than debating it. That's why I think it is cowardly. Of course there is a place for suppression, for example for abusive posts or inciting violence. But here, I politely state my opinion, let people debate.

New comment by boxerab in "Moderna has unraveled"

boxerab — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:44:57 +0000

It certainly did not save the world. Because, as we now know, it did not prevent either infection or spread. All it did was expose people to risk such as elevated incidence of myocarditis, a fact even the manufacturer has acknowledged. For all you down-voters, can you provide an evidence-based rebuttal rather than a cowardly down vote ?