Th4tGuyII

joined 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

You telling me that a corrupt ~~conman~~ businessman with basically no morals is taking blatant quid pro quo bribes as part of his presidential campaign?? I can't believe it! /s

Seriously though, it's not a danger of him using the presidential seat for corrupt motives, it's a certainty. The world got lucky last time that his shoddy handling of Covid basically kneecapped his plans, but even then he still did near irreversible damage to the executive branch in the form of the now also blatantly corrupt SCOTUS judges. Don't give him a second chance.

[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What?? But the FBI called dibs on that backdoor! /s

It's almost like putting backdoors into software as a whole is a bad idea cause anyone who knows of it can use it, not just "tHe GoOd GuYs"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

At that point I'd just backup my data and do a fresh install - would probably take less time too

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

If you put that in the mirror it's kinda true, except that it's also on a Thursday this year haha

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago

Man, my brother is the worst for this. Has multiple pairs of headphones, usually at least one on his person, and STILL will blast his Instagram reel on speaker as if everyone around him wants to hear his doomscrolling and brainrot memes

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (4 children)

As someone who has worked with academics, the more specialised the person, the less common sense they seem to hold onto.

As such, if this was outside their PhD specialisation, then it'd absolutely make sense that this wouldn't occur to them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

So the profit cap has been removed and the non-profit has been kicked out of the control seat. Sounds like they're taking off all the safeties in the name of money.

Goes to show the money always wins, and if AGI comes true, humanity will pay forfeit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

From a pro-privacy standpoint changing your passwords to something you can't remember is absolutely the right thing to do to prevent yourself from being compelled to give up any passwords...

But in light of him being a government official tampering with his government issued phone to "accidentally" prevent it being used to investigate official wrongdoing, that act becomes highly suspicious, and (in the FBI's shoes) would only give more incentive to hack into his phone.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My first instinct is to say "No shit Sherlock", of course people who get paid more for their projects can afford to contribute more time to them...

but I do understand that having empirical documented evidence of something, even of it should be common sense, is really important, cause common sense isn't as common as people think it is (especially when a lot of people in power seem to quite intentionally lack it)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Fox was not a name I expected to see on there given all they've done to supercharge the right-wing, but I suppose even Murdoch isn't crazy enough to actually think that it is a good idea to put Trump back in office

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Image manipulation has always been a thing, and there are ways to counter it...

But we already know that a shocking amount of people will simply take what they see at face value, even if it does look suspicious. The volume of AI generated misinformation online is already too damn high, without it getting more new strings in it's bow.

Governments don't seem to be anywhere near on top of keeping up with these AI developments either, so by the time the law starts accounting for all of this, the damage will be long done already.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If these monoliths work as well practically as they do here in a small-scale test, then we might actually have a chance at minimising the damage done by unregulated release of PFAS, which would be good for all of us.

Having said that, I do fear that the rise of these "fix it in post" environmental solutions will be used by big bads to justify the continuation of bad environmental practices because "ThE sCiEnTiStS wIlL jUsT cLeAn It Up AfTeR"

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