Hacker News: darklycan51

New comment by darklycan51 in "Minimum Wage Clock"

darklycan51 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:03:46 +0000

I guarantee you you put a $15/hr person in that site and you barely notice a difference compared to a billionaire.

New comment by darklycan51 in "Minimum Wage Clock"

darklycan51 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:02:54 +0000

Why is it appalling? if you want to promote people having kids then this is one of the ways to do it. a kid can live sharing rent or with his parents, an adult cannot.

New comment by darklycan51 in "Making the web fun again (2013)"

darklycan51 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:24:06 +0000

"Go to a Facebook profile, and ponder what we have now. Instead of having adventures into the great unknowns of the web, we instead now spend most of our time on social networks: boring, suburban gated communities, where everybody’s “profile” looks exactly the same, and presents exactly the same content, in the same arrangement. Rarely do we create things on these networks; Instead, we consume, and report on our consumption. The uniformity and blandness rival something out of a Soviet bloc residential apartments corridor. And now adding to that analogy, we’ve found out that our government is actually spying on us while we’re doing it, in ways the Stasi could only dream of. The web we have today is a sad, pathetic, consumption-oriented digital iron curtain, and we need to change that."

Exactly what I felt when Youtube removed the ability to customize your channel in 2011, deleted my by then fairly large channel in protest (3000 subs in 2011 was alright sized)

New comment by darklycan51 in "Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite"

darklycan51 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:18:35 +0000

He really has become my source to go for most science papers lol, then after that its PBS guy and sometimes Sabine although I don't usually go to her stuff for 100% accuracy or them trying to at least

New comment by darklycan51 in "Will we be addicted to our phones forever? An optimistic outlook"

darklycan51 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:29:48 +0000

I don't really use my phone as a software developer, mostly because I have my pc with me all the time and pretty much all software is better on pc than on phones (thanks Apple/Google).

I don't really know what people are doing to be addicted to their phones? maybe you're just addicted to social media? find other hobbies...

New comment by darklycan51 in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

darklycan51 — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:07:59 +0000

Chrome became defacto because of techies and now techies are actively destroying the web by no longer swapping people to firefox, I guess it doesn't matter anymore, activism in general is dead, people just sit and let us all enter into a dystopia willingly.

Cannot wait until unskippable ads even with "Premium" are a thing, just like cable, and our community will have been complicit in enabling it

New comment by darklycan51 in "Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login"

darklycan51 — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 22:53:33 +0000

Brosky sold twitter and before he sold it it went from the best to the worst social media, why on earth would I go back there? Elon might be cringe but Twitter is legitimately less neurotic nowadays than it was before he sold it.

New comment by darklycan51 in "Plan to End E-Vehicle Subsidies Sparks Anger in Germany"

darklycan51 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:21:44 +0000

Germany is legit the one country in the western hemisphere doing the most damage to the future, and I am surprised how nobody calls them out on it.

1)Turning off nuclear and cancelling plans for new plants because literally their party, the "green party" originated as an anti nuclear party, so of course they don't care and just do it for political reasons.

2)E-Vehicles from US and China threatening Germany's old guard that refuses to adapt? who cares about the environment then.

Remember them falsifying reports and getting away with a slap in the wrist?

New comment by darklycan51 in "Australia to ban engineered stone"

darklycan51 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:58:38 +0000

"the free market would have eventually pushed engineered stone out"

Lol.

New comment by darklycan51 in "Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers"

darklycan51 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 04:54:01 +0000

Which is why I go out of my wave to use sponsorblock and anti thumbnail addons.

I'm not watching your embedded ad noty, there's a reason why LTT shadowbans anyone who mentions it

New comment by darklycan51 in "Epic vs. Google: Google Loses"

darklycan51 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:42:55 +0000

Phones are a literal hellhole to utilize compared to desktop, which is why I very literally do not buy any smartphone other than the low end 2017 one I still own. Even "sideloading" is fairly trash on itself, just let me pick any appstore whatsoever and install out of the box, no need to "sideload".

New comment by darklycan51 in "You Should Be Concerned About the Bill to Remove Section 230 Protections from AI"

darklycan51 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:28:22 +0000

Section 230 should not apply to AI, don't care what any "techbro" thinks, it was not meant for AI and if there should be any protection for AI it should be drafted explicitly for it.

New comment by darklycan51 in "E3 Is Officially Permanently Over"

darklycan51 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:45:21 +0000

Last E3 was just horrible so in my opinion I'm glad it's gone, rather than overstay its welcome.

New comment by darklycan51 in "Gemini AI"

darklycan51 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:35:47 +0000

Ultra is just vaporware, typical from google

New comment by darklycan51 in "AI and Mass Spying"

darklycan51 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:13:25 +0000

Think about it this way.

Every service has access to the IPs you've used to log on, most services require an email, phone number some debit/credit cards and or similar personal info. Link that with government databases on addresses/real names/ISP customers and you basically can get most peoples accounts, on virtually any service they use.

We then also have things such as the patriot act in effect, the government could if they wanted run a system to do this automatically, where every message is scanned by an AI that catalogues them.

I have believed for some time now that we are extremely close to a complete dystopia.

New comment by darklycan51 in "Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS"

darklycan51 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:29:29 +0000

There really should not be any reason at all for billionaires to exist, if you can find one then that alone means your government is not good enough and needs improvement, NOT that billionaires need to exist.

New comment by darklycan51 in "Artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)"

darklycan51 — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 02:44:34 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l

I'll leave this here...

New comment by darklycan51 in "Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun"

darklycan51 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:11:49 +0000

Ah yeah, this sounds like such a great thing, state of the art unreleased tech + 1 trillion parameters based by data accessed by the patriot act.

Such a wholesome thing. I don't want to hear 2 years from now how China is evil for using "AI" when the government is attempting to weaponize AI, of course other governments will start doing it as well.

New comment by darklycan51 in "OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster"

darklycan51 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:17 +0000

This comment reads like an OpenAI employee typed this...

New comment by darklycan51 in "OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired"

darklycan51 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:07:56 +0000

Maybe trying to backdoor sell your company to Microsoft even though its owned by a non profit might be it? you know, Microsoft showed its true face today.

This is even worse than Google's destruction of Firefox