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Re:How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:17AM (#50254657)
I completely disagree, I think a very large majority of players think that games are games and that ads support the developer - they don't think the game is being maniuplated to support ads.

It's evil, and just another example of nice things (games that are just games) we can't have because of capitalism.

Re:Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:02AM (#50053466)
Isn't every single company perverting features to enslave their users? Why single out Adobe? It's capitalism that stops us from having nice things.

I can think of features for basically any paid or unpaid app that I can't have because it won't make the company money.

I've always wanted to someone to make a website where we collect "nice ideas we'll never have because of capitalism".

Re:The last time my family was replaced by technology on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:59PM (#49914355)
Your statement makes it seem like we had no problem losing professions to automation. I'd argue this isn't true.

There are plenty of poeple who have inadequate work the world over because there isn't enough paid work to do, and most professions are servicing wants, not needs, so the demand is very elastic, with many people now multi talented and still not making ends meet.

Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:19AM (#49906811)
More conspiracy? Why does it take conspiracy level thinking to believe that the IDF missed plans for the attack when the head of security of Egypt personally flew to Israel to tell them about the attack?

How do you miss that exactly? You don't, you miss it intentionally.

Read the news, not the prop slop.

Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:12AM (#49891858)
Don't forget Israel gov 100% knew Hamas was going to attack on October 7th, and intentionally allowed it to happen because of the public outcry it would generate. The more hostages and the worse it was, the better the propoganda. They'll take the West Bank. They're taking Lebanese land too.

They knew the attack was going to happen and allowed the music festival to go on a day longer, one might guess they were frothing at the mouth at how good that propoganda was going to be.

Take a read of the book title The Palestine Laboratory - How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World - and you'll even learn that Israel has a long long history of murder around the world, aint none of this new.

One side won the propoganda war, and it wasn't the dirt poor Palestinains.

Re:GPU World on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @05:15AM (#49519741)
The point of any tool is to learn how to use it best. That's the difference between slicing off your arm, or building a chair.

LLMs don't read minds. There's always a chasm between you (your ideas) and them becoming reality. Exactly how people cross that chasm is all the rage right now, and there are a million ways to do it - but just expecting the LLM to pull details out of a few words isn't going to produce anything decent.

Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:05AM (#49446429)
If you're following climate science for the past couple of decades, you will have heard that from climate scientists.

The reason you don't hear it normally is because laypeople like yourself don't understand you're being propogandised to, by climate scientists like Michael Mann.

If you look at climate scientists who aren't liars, like James Hansen, and don't use models with things like fantasy CCS in them (all mainstream climate models - designed to minimise bad outcomes in every imagineable way possible), you get the temperature rises we're seeing now. That's why everyone has been so panicked this whole time, trying to stop this like crazy.

Many laypeople understand this, they understand the real science, and that they are being lied to from every angle about how bad it is.

Re:Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:13PM (#48929307)
He fled Ukraine actually and setup shop in Scandanavia, in Sweden I think. He doesn't seem political at all, he just does lights. https://t.me/sunlikenews
Re:Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @05:35PM (#48927352)
Not a regular telegram user here but I follow a Ukranian guy who hand builds led bulbs/products by hand. He has a telegram group chat where he enthusiastically posts pictures of everything he's doing, it's great.
Re:The Dead Economy Theory on Saturday May 30, 2026 @02:24PM (#48339233)
Time to start a business called "white billionaire" or name your kid "Rich White".
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session on Saturday April 18, 2026 @08:24AM (#47815368)
I thought it already was used to sexually harass people by creating naked versions of them.
Let me get this right.

The accusation that an article was written by AI negates the science of toxic chemical leeching?

They are saying that, and most real world LED lighting uses very cheap diodes, like, 99.9999% of them, which create very poor colour compared with incandescent bulbs, which create perfect colour representation.

It's a big thing and you can buy LEDs which produce a better colour range, but they're much more expensive and not as energy efficient, because creating bold reds costs hard energy that no diode trick will ever get around that.

I'm sure the trip to the police station and immediate release is a real setback for these people. Unless they're breaking more serious laws, no one is paying to put these people behind bars for any length of time.

I mean, you're right in theory, but in the real world things are very different.

Re:Nano Banana Pro on Saturday November 22, 2025 @04:29PM (#46018443)
Extremely talented, studied, hard working humans perform complex tasks all the time, and never with 100% win rate over all time.

In other examples, almost every single person has had the experience of saying, "turn right", "oh I meant left sorry, I knew it was right too, I don't know why I said left". Even the most sophisticated humans have made this error. A computer would never.

Humans are deeply flawed and after pre-selection require expensive training to perform complex tasks at a never perfect success rate.

Re:Nano Banana Pro on Thursday November 20, 2025 @01:10PM (#45995683)
Seems like you're making a judgment based on your own experience, but as another commenter pointed out, it was wrong. There are plenty of us out there who would confirm, because people are too flawed to trust. Humans double/triple check, especially under higher stakes conditions (surgery).

Heck, humans are so flawed, they'll put the things in the wrong eye socket even knowing full well exactly where they should go - something a computer literally couldn't do.

Spreadsheet would have been the better analogy.
It could never be anywhere near as irresponsible as the original bad security practices, though. At some point, if you wanna make money by handling people's sensitive data, you are the responsible party, not everyone else.
I don't think it's the environmentalists stopping atmospheric tampering, it's other things like the economics of it, or some countries being very against it.

Geoengineers have talked seriously about this for a long time, but it's a mostly a political issue, then who actually wants to pay to do the science and pay for the outcomes, when you've got no real idea who will get destroyed in the long run.

Is Europe going to help fund it, with a consequence being they have less rainfall? Nobody really knows, so no one really wants to pay to do it at scale, forever.

If I remember correctly the size of the rolling window differs, more modern vehicles may allow about 100 code discrepancy before ignoring the transmitter, while old models might have been 5 to 10.
Re:Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @07:46AM (#44810721)
I guess there is a difference in the fact that gift certificates are always devaluing with monetary inflation, whereas prepaid credit can be used to purchase a service which is just as energy intensive (cost to provider) in 10 years, as it is if used in the next month. Yet in 10 years, the cost to the provider will be more to deliver the same energy (due again to monetary inflation).

There doesn't seem to be a neutral option here, because it's very hard to account for inflation without the holding party paying dividends at the exact rate to offset it.

That's true, but isn't it so awkward to type, or maybe you're disabled so it's difficult or impossible.

So you use a voice memo to capture your words and email them, but it seems almost as silly as calling up and chatting to an LLM, which has the added benefit of being able to confirm it has understood your request and maybe even begin actioning it.

However, this is silly talk, the real future is just gonna be your agent who you talk to directly, who then talks to the contractors' agent, who passes the info on to them in the exact format they like.

I would sooner make the argument religion is.
Re:Sycophancy in GPT-4o on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @12:24AM (#43841244)
If people are actually relying on LLMs for validation of ideas they come up with during mental health episodes, they have to be pretty sick to begin with, in which case, they will find validation anywhere.

If you've spent time with people with schizophrenia, for example, they will have ideas come from all sorts of places, and see all sorts of things as a sign/validation.

One moment it's that person who seemed like they might have been a demon sending a coded message, next it's the way the street lamp creates a funny shaped halo in the rain.

People shouldn't be using LLMs for help with certain issues, but let's face it, those that can't tell it's a bad idea are going to be guided through life in a strange way regardless of an LLM.

It sounds almost impossible to achieve some sort of unity across every LLM service whereby they are considered "safe" to be used by the world's mentally unwell.

Re:The Bitter Prediction on Sunday April 13, 2025 @07:41AM (#43672033)
Everyone has different objective and subjective experiences, and I suspect some form of selection will promote those who more often feel excited and relieved by using AI than those who feel it more often a negative, like it challenges some core aspect of self.

It might challenge us, and maybe those of us who feel challenged in that way need to rise to it, for there are always harder problems to solve

If this new tool seems to make things so easy it's like "cheating", then make the game harder. Can't cheat reality.

Re:Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:20AM (#43571026)
Surely we must rid ourselves from a story with any finality, as it stands, we reach for something, but we've no idea what.

For most people, a better life is a life where their children are healthy, nourished, well-educated and living in peace (technology be damned). More importantly, for most people, a better life for themselves is one of extremely little, basic food, peace, community, movement.

All those children grow up to find what makes them happy is less, not more. We all know it. It's the intangibles, not the material. It's the people, our pets, the sun shining and a bird singing.

The end isn't worth the means, maybe instead of looking for some quant to see it all, we could just see ourselves and move forward slowly with what we know to be good and true, without falling on our face trying to punch a baby.

What are you talking about? The burden is on you to explain how manipulating the chemical makeup of the atmosphere DOESN'T have a direct impact, even at the tiniest levels (1ppm).

At the levels we're at now, CO2e imbalances definitely impact every single weather event on the planet to some degree, and you'd have to be delusional not to accept that.

There is for certain a wide gap between a sponsored segment from the same voice and some random ad coming in and blaring over the top. For me, I can handle the narrator delivering an ad, it's the intrusive slot machine aspect of generic ads that irk me. Happy youtube subscriber here, use the music too, great deal.

Youtube is one of the platforms where I find real value, usually in making/maintaining/repairing things, being able to skip through videos to find answers without worrying about ads definitely saves me significant time and therefore money.

Re:How Shopify built the BFCM 2023 globe on Thursday November 14, 2024 @05:28AM (#42134813)
If only.....the banks believe it's a better investment to destroy the planet. Let's not even mention the hubris of tech companies.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:22AM (#42073968)
Exactly, both parties are incredibly corrupted by donor money. Heads I win, tails you lose.

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