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New comment by kiicia in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

kiicia — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:38:57 +0000

it simply works, that's how you optimise tax on million+ sums, do you think ceo-s pay taxes on par with regular workers?

New comment by kiicia in "CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American (2017)"

kiicia — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:07:28 +0000

it was meaning "to be careful and considerate when changing things", now it means "i do whatever i want and if you don't agree then you are (insert imaginary adversary here)"

New comment by kiicia in "Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips"

kiicia — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:58:00 +0000

it can be very easily done by burning it with laser on prepared blank box on silkscreen - even iPhones are marked this way with their own serial numbers

the only reason why pis are not marked this way is because raspberry didn't wanted to (so far)

New comment by kiicia in "Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips"

kiicia — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:54:55 +0000

gateway 3ds tried to brick 3ds-es of users of cloned cards, bricked whole swaths of actual users instead

https://www.eurogamer.net/3ds-flashcard-includes-secret-kill...

New comment by kiicia in "Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips"

kiicia — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:50:30 +0000

fun fact is that some chinese electronics manufacturers do exactly that with their products (even simple ones like led night lights), holographic qr-code on box that can be scanned and verified without opening box and second code inside box to verify box wasn't swapped

New comment by kiicia in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

kiicia — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:47:57 +0000

information was easy to find since wikipedia and google (when both were unpoisoned), LLM-s were already good as "books you can talk with", now when LLM-s start cosplay experts they are not (and try make decisions they are not fit to take responsibility for) it gets literally insane, like looking at car wreck in slow motion

New comment by kiicia in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

kiicia — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:35:25 +0000

it's of wrong scale, you cannot claim derivative work when you literally ingressed sum of knowledge while destroying it in the process so your "competitors" cannot do the same

New comment by kiicia in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

kiicia — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:30:46 +0000

while you mentioned how tribal property management looks like in some places (that things are dynamically moving between who needs them at the time), it does not help to solve issue at hand, that is how to call what ai companies did:

- amassed then destroyed/denied largest knowledge corpora seen so far

- poisoned knowledge for decades to come, deliberately or not, which would stop new developments by independent teams

- now they are crying that they are being robbed of their precious models, which - at this point in time - are neither truly good not economical

(not to mention actual environmental and social harm they cause)

this is truly first of a kind situation, that was never seen nor heard before

New comment by kiicia in "CUDA for AMD on Windows"

kiicia — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:26:30 +0000

it will only get worse now when hughingface was bough by nvidia, not immediately, but in span of year or years...

New comment by kiicia in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

kiicia — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:24:33 +0000

because that makes them even more money for equally nonexistent amount of liability, this is actual answer, unfortunately

New comment by kiicia in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

kiicia — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:22:53 +0000

this argument still adds nothing to discussion because companies clearly want to spend zero but earn everything, the only amount they are willing to spend is on lawyers working on shielding companies from any responsibility including obvious cases of negligence

New comment by kiicia in "Mom found guilty of abuse for letting 5-year-old walk outside alone speaks out"

kiicia — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:19:29 +0000

so they went straight to unhinged side? readers should be able to decide for themselves based on unbiased reporting

New comment by kiicia in "Extinct Tasmanian tiger's 'snap' unlike any living mammal's bite"

kiicia — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:14:18 +0000

but you didn't even seen that article, it's about logging causing yet another species to go extinct, planted or not

you can always plant more forests but you cannot resurrect what went extinct, extinction is forever, new forest is 20 years

New comment by kiicia in "It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis"

kiicia — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:24:04 +0000

no, absolutely not, any malicious or dishonest bot traffic is harmful, generating unnecessary transfer and literally stealing data

New comment by kiicia in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

kiicia — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:29:08 +0000

you can still find books published within last 50 years, you don't have to read books published this year, unless your library went through destruction of "old" books which are now more relevant than ever...

New comment by kiicia in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

kiicia — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:26:00 +0000

it's happening for years now, just in slightly different form, so far it was called disinformation, seo, astroturfing, hasb... ehem... last two years were devastating for charred remains of twitter with all those llm bots having free reign, twitter went from global news board to global gutter in record time thanks to disinformation and astroturfing campaigns

New comment by kiicia in "Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change"

kiicia — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:46:58 +0000

it's connected via vicious cycle

private healthcare is getting more and more expensive due to private prices available to bulk insurers but not for private person

even if this is not completely deliberate, effect is that you are "serf of whomever pays your insurance" or go bankrupt the moment you have any kind of emergency

in europe some private healthcare providers are showing their colors from different perspective, they outright refuse or cancel private contracts when you are above certain age

New comment by kiicia in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

kiicia — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:05:03 +0000

It’s not their IP, they never created data they were training on in the first place, at best they derived existing data without asking if they can commercialized it

New comment by kiicia in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

kiicia — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:44:17 +0000

balmer told us that gpl is cancer, but true cancer is us model of licensing

New comment by kiicia in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

kiicia — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:43:12 +0000

let's call it for what it really is, only companies "entitled to legally stolen data, don't steal from us now" are crying about distilation