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Comment Re:Hydrogen might be a good idea (Score 2) 104

Methinks the push to hydrogen is driven by those with large investments in fossil fuel tech who believe that some of it can be reused for hydrogen>

There was a lot of talk about hydrogen-powered vehicles 20+ years ago. Everyone has forgotten about it now, but in the very early 2000s there was lots of talk about "A new hydrogen economy".

And nothing ever came of it, because they were never actually serious about it It was nothing more than a distraction, created by the fossil fuel companies to get people chasing a dead-end unworkable technology instead of working on something/anything that might cut into the profits of the fossil fuel companies.

BUT THIS TIME WE REALLY MEAN IT!! WE PROMISE!!

Comment Not Surprising (Score 1) 59

Sirius and XM were originally two separate companies. Several years ago they merged, even though the FCC had put a specific provision in their broadcast licenses prohibiting it. Apparently the FCC just ignored their own rule.

SiriusXM continues to pay huge amounts of money to celebrities so they can do shitty radio shows that nobody listens to.

Comment Re:No automatic install? (Score 1) 35

Why would anyone be upset that they removed something that wasn't supposed to be there in the first place? Just do it quietly in the background and pretend that nothing happened. These companies all have a lot of experience doing sneaky, underhanded things. Why not do something sneaky that is actually good.

Comment Re:Perfect result (Score 4, Interesting) 147

He believes it also hurts Meta's brand in the long run, pointing to the fact that the Canada's federal government, as well as that of British Columbia, other municipalities .... have all pulled their advertising off Facebook and Instagram in retaliation.

What the fucking fuck? If a government agency has some information that they want to get out to people why wouldn't they just post it to their official Facebook account, which can be seen by anyone and is .... you know .... free.

Why are government agencies paying to "advertise" on Facebook and what the fuck are they advertising?

Comment Re:Computer Vision (Score 2, Insightful) 25

The tool works by subtly altering an image's pixels in a way that wreaks havoc to computer vision but leaves the image unaltered to a human's eyes

That sounds suspiciously like marketing bullshit.

Also they're missing a golden opportunity to poison the AI so that it draws dicks on everything.

+1 Funny.

Comment Re:Probably a prudent choice... (Score 1) 41

I like porn, you like porn, everyone likes porn. Even people who publicly crusade against porn always eventually get outed as being consumers of porn.

But porn doesn't have to be everywhere and embedded into everything we do. It's nice to occasionally have a place where there is no porn. And nobody can even define what the fuck "artistic porn" even is.

Comment Re:Ordering isn't the slow part (Score 0) 154

The kiosks are textbook examples of bad UI design. It's like some high school student wrote the software while learning JavaScript.

Apparently the folks who make ServiceNow hired these same high schoolers because I have yet to come across any piece of software so poorly coded and "designed" as ServiceNow.

I wish the software was written by highschool beginners. It would still be better than the code written by Apu from Bangalore.

Comment Re:Hmmmm... I guess that settles it. (Score 1) 151

To those who claim these models and generative AI systems don't have a memory of the training input and aren't just regurgitating the training input after tossing it in a blender... this is another example of the system literally spewing out identifiable memorized training data.

The A.I. Way

1. Get caught doing something
2. Make it a violation of the Terms of Service to talk about what they are doing wrong
3. PROFIT!!

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