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New comment by josefritzishere in "What Happens If OpenAI Dies?"

josefritzishere — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:13:30 +0000

This seems to be an increasingly likely outcome. But IN the aftermath, like the dot com crash, the debt, and assets are distributed. So it's not the death of their product. Doctorow talking about this, but with less bombast than Zitron. https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-27...

New comment by josefritzishere in "As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value"

josefritzishere — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:56:17 +0000

I was wondering the other day, while reading about a woman thrown in jail based on a false report form Flock... How can Flock be fully insulated from the consequences of making thousands of false reports to the police? People can go to prison for less.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia"

josefritzishere — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:08:35 +0000

Where do I sign up? Seriously. ¿Dónde solicito el empleo?

New comment by josefritzishere in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices"

josefritzishere — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:27:23 +0000

The fake economics of the AI sector are damaging the real economy. This is madness.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Anthropic's War on open source AI"

josefritzishere — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:17:45 +0000

Never before has a business sector need so desperately to be federally regulated. Their financial rigor falls somewhere between suspiciously lacking and outright fraud. The claims they make about the abilities of the software, whether real or imagined, argue for regulating it like a weapons exporter.

New comment by josefritzishere in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

josefritzishere — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:02:42 +0000

I have found that Element Hider and similar extensions will also block some of the worst features in the browser.

New comment by josefritzishere in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

josefritzishere — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:01:47 +0000

It's a sad state of affairs when companies are cramming this unwanted garbage into every app putting the onus on the user to block, disable, unsubscribe, delete, edit and mitigate. Nobody asked for AI slop.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA"

josefritzishere — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:39:45 +0000

I would never want to buy a house near Flock cameras. That's worse than having an HOA. That one has both! That's a special kind of dystopian hellscape.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

josefritzishere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:54:06 +0000

Ads are so invasive and prevalent now that you need an ad blocker just to use the internet.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

josefritzishere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:05:28 +0000

Why is Homomorphic Encryption necessary at all? The article seems to lose the plot in the process of tooting their own horn.

New comment by josefritzishere in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

josefritzishere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:58:55 +0000

Nuanced, but I don't think you're disagreeing that privacy is a right. Very few people do and most of them would be classified as sociopaths. ex. Zuckerberg, Langley, Altman, et. al. Anti-privacy actions are often immoral, sometimes illegal and almost universally anti-social.

New comment by josefritzishere in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

josefritzishere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:50:40 +0000

Rights are inalienable. You don't grant them by law. You get them when you're born.

New comment by josefritzishere in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

josefritzishere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:52:22 +0000

This is the correct response. Privacy is a human right.

New comment by josefritzishere in "[dead]"

josefritzishere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:48:59 +0000

I'm pleased this hasn't been flagged for 4 whole hours. Normally this gets censored.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Every Fucking Website"

josefritzishere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:39:19 +0000

This is completely accurate. I see it every day.

New comment by josefritzishere in "US loses one-fourth of drone fleet as Iran war drains its arsenal"

josefritzishere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:21:51 +0000

The blazing executive incompetence is as obvious as a traffic flare.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Dear people who work at the airport"

josefritzishere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:35:31 +0000

Everyone over 40 knows how terrible air travel has become.

New comment by josefritzishere in "US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001"

josefritzishere — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:44:42 +0000

The US is going the way of Zaire.

New comment by josefritzishere in "AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions"

josefritzishere — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:06:19 +0000

AI isn't smarter than humans. That's a grossly inaccurate statement. It consumes an obscene amount of resources to replace tedious human tasks in a mediocre way. It's stridently average, but not scalably average.

New comment by josefritzishere in "Gloomberb"

josefritzishere — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:22:25 +0000

This is hilarious - 10/10