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New comment by smegger001 in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

smegger001 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:40:31 +0000

>Oh AI will take our jobs..? LET IT!!

Except people still need to eat and.pay for a roof over their heaf

>Who wants to work all your life and still not be able to afford a house?

That is the fear they have from ai

>Instead of asking to be wage slaves your entire lives, demand your politicians to give you UBI.

Except the same people leading these companies do everytjing thaey can to avoid paying taxes that could fund ubi.

Elons whole Doge fiasco, the google guys fighting wealth taxes in california all fights against helping the people they are displacing. The tech ceos talk a good game about an ai powered life of luxury and ease but its not for you and me its for them and fuck the proles.

New comment by smegger001 in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

smegger001 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:02:58 +0000

Layers of defense, whats needed is the vision model detection, then those elements need to be uploaded to a crowd sourced blocklist so they can be prevented from loading to begin with.

New comment by smegger001 in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

smegger001 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:35:10 +0000

And institutional control of information didnt really start again until the Statute of Anne struck up a deal between printers and the state giving printers copyright over written works and the state the right to cencor and ban works the disapproved of nearly 250 years latter.

Radio gave us Demagogues like Father Coughlin in the US and Hitler in Germany, and we still havent dealt with the problems radio introduced when television came along and now we have the internet with social media, podcast, and algorithmic echochambers, and algorithm induced radicalization. Radio television internet any one is just as much a shock to society as print was and we still havent figured out how to adapt yet to any fully.

New comment by smegger001 in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

smegger001 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:59:40 +0000

More than that it was an enabling tool.

Republicans for decades have claimed that the government cant do anythingright/good and that we must deregulate and let the free market do everything.

Problem is the government is actually pretty good at doing somethings, so Republicans break things until they can use them as examples of government inefficiency then privatize it for there own profit.

Doge was made to break the government so Republicans could point at what was left and say "see government is broken"

But Musk ran it and he's and idiot that had no idea what he doing so istead of it slowly all going to shit so no one would remember it all working as intended it started to fall apart to soon. So we still have people that will point to the real cause.

New comment by smegger001 in "Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public"

smegger001 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:53:26 +0000

>How come we allowed all these cronies to put camera and do surveillance.

Because city counsel meetings are scheduled at awkward times for anyone employed to actually show up to. So only tech unaware old people show up

New comment by smegger001 in "Grok Build is open source"

smegger001 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:51:07 +0000

Yeah I would prefer not to use models whoes the owner has a habbit of altering them to push white replacement/genocide conspiracy talking points on we he gets board

New comment by smegger001 in "The Fall and Rise of Screwworm"

smegger001 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:31:39 +0000

we could possibly use a gene drive to make males that would only produce male descendants in a handful of generation they would go extinct.

New comment by smegger001 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

smegger001 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:03:11 +0000

>>If there’s any bootlegging going on it’s Anthropic that’s doing the bootlegging but having mirrored the video etc sufficiently to beat copyright law.

>US courts have consistently ruled it's fair use.

And they also have ruled that the that output of an AI isn't copyrightable.

As such copying claudes output isnt even fair use as that is an exemption to copyright but the same as copying public domain work which any and all are allowed to do.

New comment by smegger001 in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

smegger001 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:28:03 +0000

or give a different eye color it not all life or death

New comment by smegger001 in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

smegger001 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:53:34 +0000

Sigh. What ever happened to the principle of least privilege and why arent we applying it to AI agents. They ought to be locked in a box and not capable to act outside designated task.

New comment by smegger001 in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"

smegger001 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:31:47 +0000

And i might be a Boltzmann Brain hallucinating all of this after a paticle cloud over hundreds of billions of years of random interactions by chance happened to condenced into thinking substance out of the chaos.

New comment by smegger001 in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

smegger001 — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:19:13 +0000

Exactly no one hates the ai algorithm finding cancer, or predicting protein folding or finding novel compounds for pharmaceuticals what they hate is the "we will slurp up all human knowledge violate everyone copyrights and give nothing back in return and get you fired and replaced by a shitty ai chatbot"

New comment by smegger001 in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

smegger001 — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:37:10 +0000

Lets see; a phone os no one used, and ad on installed without user permision as a tie-for a TV show, browser integration with a thirdparty bookmarking service that should have been an optional addon, a VPN, an abborted browser based video confercing service based on open standards that they killed for non obvious reasons, a bunch of social justice initiatives, an email masking/forwarding service killing their addon APIs in favor of googles more limited api.

New comment by smegger001 in "Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said?"

smegger001 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:11:18 +0000

Does that apply to their tablet as well or just streaming devices ereader and smart speakers? Giving up android on their tablet would kill their whole app library i don't see them doing that lightly.

New comment by smegger001 in "Helium is hard to replace"

smegger001 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:38:22 +0000

mostly out of our reach unless you have way of removing it from the sun without your retrieval craft melting or being captured by the suns gravity well or from gas giants without the onboard system being fried by the intense radiation or again captured by the gravitation.

New comment by smegger001 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

smegger001 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:09:08 +0000

You could probably do something to increase the apparent entropy like xoringing it with an irrational number like tao or pi starting with a digit determined by the date.

New comment by smegger001 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

smegger001 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:20:47 +0000

You could probably cheat with the one time pad and use a book as a key, pick a pre determined starting point go diagonally down accross the page convert the letters to numbers and xor that against the message. It would be near enough to random and less conspicuous than a pad of random numbers when searched.

New comment by smegger001 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

smegger001 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:06:06 +0000

I used to have little battery powered AM/FM/Shortwave/weather radio lost it a couple house moveings ago. Kept it around for the emergacy weather radio during flood events and other extreme weather when internet/power isnt reliable. Should probably pick up a replacement come to think of it.

New comment by smegger001 in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

smegger001 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:17:47 +0000

It is Larry Ellison doing. He has been lobbying and trying to push the US and UK towards it for the last 20 plus years with plans on controlling the database and infrastructure behind it.

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-billionaire-behind...

New comment by smegger001 in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

smegger001 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:20:37 +0000

So pretty much the same as the Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. case ruling it as fair use as a transformative work. I mean if indexing the worlds books is transformative then a neural net run on them certainly is a transformative work and fair use.