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New comment by diydsp in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

diydsp — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:38:31 +0000

History will note this action was made the same day scaffolding was set up to remove the president's name from the Kennedy center.

New comment by diydsp in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

diydsp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:32:51 +0000

In the conservative worldview, competition is fair dinkem, so the setting for these businesses is just. That's how we got here.

Also in that worldview, we have the responsibility to defend innocent children. Let's if they can follow their own moral code and outlaw this surveillance to protect our kids.

New comment by diydsp in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

diydsp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:17:32 +0000

They don't have equal weight.

Even 100s of yummy grandma-cheeseburgers is not worth feeding private data brokers detailed maps of our own communities.

Nowadays some of them are just as likely to sell the data to the other side.

Nowadays the other side may get access to them without us even knowing.

New comment by diydsp in "Dopamine Fracking"

diydsp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:50:10 +0000

>French cultural pessimism

Specifically Jean Baudrillard describes copies of copies with decreasing relavence and quality. But more sinisterly, the loss of knowing what is real, important, safe, efficacious.

His work builds extensively on Plato, Lucretius, and Deleuze's concept of the Simulacrum.

New comment by diydsp in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

diydsp — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:02:21 +0000

The old way is a magnet pulling everything toward the industrial military consumer complex.

This new direction turns the magnet around and pushes away everything else.

New comment by diydsp in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

diydsp — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:24:20 +0000

Yep. The worst of both worlds..

1. Whatever the govt wants

2. Their own mods to max profit.

Corporations were conceived specifically to remove responsibility. They should not be this widely available.

New comment by diydsp in "We've made the world too complicated"

diydsp — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:46:05 +0000

Perhaps they have that in common, but facism pushes out into directions that marxism does not. Esp wrt to class, race, and self-determination.

It helps to ask: how many of the modern fascist leaders are retreating to the farm? I see them developing and deploying tech to inceease their grip on power. I see the "farmsy-folk" as a contingent the facists have persuaded to nip at those in the middle. And the means of the persuasion is, ironically, using the Marxist argunent of alienation.

New comment by diydsp in "The USB Situation"

diydsp — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:01:44 +0000

Static is bc of the scrawny wires though.

Anyway, usb-c receptacles could be countersunk to help that fumbling problem. Right angle connectors could help, too.

New comment by diydsp in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"

diydsp — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:42:53 +0000

Thats a big part of it. Customers go into a flock demo with motivated reasoning. "Im scared. Im not sure i should be this scared."

Seeing a vulnerable set of kids happily playing and hearing a confident voice say "A shooter could end all this. We can prevent it" validates that and closes the sale.

If a cautious pragmatist goes to the demo thinking "i know crime stats have declined for decades and im concerned about misuse of technology." Then a performatively confident person says "this is a component of a massive surveillance state ripe for misuse. It will give us footage of crimes and only stop a small percentage of them," how well do you think it would sell?

New comment by diydsp in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

diydsp — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:47:36 +0000

Drivers license leaks are surging.

New comment by diydsp in "DeepSeek v4"

diydsp — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:00:09 +0000

It may be a sign deepseek isn't "only for" Americans. Billions of non-native speakers communicate in "flawed" versions of English. Similar for other languages. Circling back to polish instructions for the picky among the Americans... hmm

If it tickles anyone's subconscious feelings, it would be their internal guiding myth of exceptionalism. With their recent forays into authoritarianism, it's becoming ever harder to paper over the reality.

New comment by diydsp in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

diydsp — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:31:49 +0000

I like your 6,000 foot view.()

Most people get proseltyzed abt veg before independence. As adults, few reconsider, replaying childhood scripts.

Then, society papers over reality.

() oops just realized that tracks your tall person analogy.

New comment by diydsp in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

diydsp — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:50:38 +0000

Were in an era where virtually all sw could have an mcp intf to do anything...not even just color.

New comment by diydsp in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

diydsp — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:08:29 +0000

This isn't a someone. It's a corporation, a legal fiction explicitly designed to dissolve responsibility.

New comment by diydsp in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

diydsp — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:30:49 +0000

I believe it's not a "problem." It's expression, like a painting. Every work of audio reactive LEDs is a reflection of the designer's intent, constraints, biases, imagination, and the context in which it was designed. Like painting, there are technical chops, the craft, like the first half of the article, the lag, the mapping of frequency and amplitude, etc. But once those are mastered the road becomes wide open. That's the "what makes someone tap their foot?" the article asks.

New comment by diydsp in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

diydsp — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:16:30 +0000

Cameras move crime around. Wealth inequality raises crime risk, but community cohesion partially buffers that effect.

Happy to provide sources when back at my keeb if rqstd.

New comment by diydsp in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

diydsp — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:07:36 +0000

>This isn’t pension funds placing bets risking people’s investment

Its potentially much worse: we don't know if the threats and bets are isolated. While diplomacy happens, the threats may very well be exaggerated to create the market opportunity.

New comment by diydsp in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

diydsp — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:18:43 +0000

Exactly. Support means saying "I accept the reduction in my social security and medicare and other govt services in exchange for this war."

New comment by diydsp in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

diydsp — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:16:40 +0000

This high profile failure means the end of the brrrt meme.

New comment by diydsp in "Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins"

diydsp — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:13:40 +0000

That sounds a bit gobbeldygook to me. Its either oversinplification or bs. Install a crystal oscillator? That'a one component of a more complex system...accurate enough timing for this could be achieved with an rc oscillator...and there are already numerous xtals in a phone.

Which "timings" are they talking abt?

Im trying to be charitable...but that desc isnt helping.