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TimeSquirrel

@ TimeSquirrel @kbin.melroy.org

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I don't know, I'm just a sqwrl.She/They 🏳️‍⚧️

  • "But I neeeeeeed tacos! I need them or I will explode! That happens to me sometimes." - Gir

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  • Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free

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  • I don't know what old internet you used, but the IRC channels and forums I used to run around on definitely had moderation. This was about '97. Maybe you're talking about the late 80s when barely anybody knew the Internet even existed and it was just academics and ubernerds?

  • What do you think they saw?

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  • I would only do medieval plays and Sherlock Holmes stories thank you very much.... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...and probably some furry porn...

  • Alibaba Releases Advanced Open Video Model, Immediately Becomes AI Porn Machine

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  • Sounds like you need to touch yourself more, actually. It's okay. Everyone does it.

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  • Because we want a more permanent solution than one that's only going to last until Summer. What's even the point of switching if you just gotta do it again soon?

    Edit: Winter too. I apologize to our friends on the southern hemisphere.

  • Once more, with feeling

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  • The Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week

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  • Not being able to fully trust the results from the Ai Pin's Ai Mic and Vision features (the latter is still in beta) is just one problem with this wearable computer.

    That's the problem with ALL gen-AI!! They aren't knowledge databases. They are pattern generators. When will people get this through their skulls?

  • Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze

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  • It's also a security risk. Wasn't there just a recently discovered backdoor in some widely used library that was put there by someone who fooled a burned out/depressed maintainer?

  • Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?

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  • Normal, mainstream software expected users to run DOS commands and edit autoexec.bat/config.sys files, and installing new hardware often involved configuring motherboard DIP switches and trying to figure out what "IRQ" and "DMA" means. There is no equivalent to that today. Plug it in, turn it on, and you're done. 9 times out of 10 you don't even need to install a driver, your OS already has it. Where does the door to learning and discovery present itself? With plug and play systems and walled garden app stores, everywhere a user could possibly come across some more advanced concepts has been muted and decorated over with pretty conveniences. Computers are toasters now.

  • New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency

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  • Sometimes efficiency gains aren't worth the cost and complexity. Regenerative braking produces a shitton more power than this, so it's worth it (also, the motors are already there, just run them in reverse and turn them into generators). You can get the same thing by slapping a solar panel on the roof. Which nobody is doing because it's too costly and complex for what you get out of it.

  • Trump directive ‘dangerously’ conflates gender-affirming care with a human rights violation.

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  • Explain.

  • Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

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  • The meme came first. Then the coin. Then Elon. It used to be innocent.

  • Florida man attacked during selfie with a Targ

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  • When no-fap November is finally over...

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  • It's not sustainable. The reason the Apollo missions never were further developed after the landings was because the entire program was designed to get to the moon as fast as possible, where money was no object, in order to beat the Soviets. We don't need anything like that now. If we are to build bases and establish a permanent presence, we can't be using a vehicle that takes billions per launch.

    Something like the Space Shuttle program. Not cheap, but also not with an Apollo price tag, where it can fly for decades without some politician seeing a giant wad of cash going out and getting ideas about cutting it. That's what Starship is supposed to be. A Space Shuttle 2.0. It's just unfortunate that the world's richest Nazi has control of it.

  • Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption

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  • I'm not sure I'd like that. I kind of like there being a technological filter. It prevents the Fediverse from turning into Facebook or X. The public Internet has been around and part of society for 40 years now. If you still don't get it in 2025, that ain't everyone else's fault. People using the Internet in the 90s had to deal with way more than just figuring out what an "instance" is.

  • Trump press secretary crashes and burns when trying to prove fraud

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  • I'll tell you the moon is made of cheese for $1.

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  • $24 billion Space Launch System (SLS), citing high costs and outdated technology.

    Fuck Musk, but they ain't wrong. It's just rearranged space shuttle parts designed to funnel pork barrel money to the same old contractors (except now we even gotta throw away all the RS-25 engines instead of reusing them). There's nothing fundamentally new there that they didn't already do in the 60s. It kind of is a step backward in terms of aerospace tech.

  • Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age

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  • Don't worry, there's enough other bronies out there to skew the average age up.

  • If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm — controlling it is a fallacy

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  • Yeah the article has a link to another one where "OMG it modified its own code to bypass restraints", and then you read it and realize, no, it didn't suddenly gain self awareness and try to "singularity" itself, it just recognized a problem and responded with a pattern it learned before to try to fix it, and spat it out at the researchers. That's all.

    The clickbait and misunderstanding from both anti and pro-AI folks is getting nauseating.