I don't go into restaurants that require an ID scan. I've stopped flying because of all the biometrics. If some agent tried to do this, I'd be fucking livid. I'd probably set aside $20k of my own money just to sue and get my data deleted.

And before you scream "you're tracked already" : My cars are old enough they don't have permanent cell modems in them. My phone runs Lineage without Gapps or microG (Yes, the ISP still tracks and sells my location data. I know. Nothing I can do about that). I built my own Linux router. I run my own e-mail. I pump all my SMS over XMPP using jmp.chat.

I refuse to ever publish anything to the Microsoft or Apple stores because they require a fucking government ID scan to publish! Fuck them!

My tracking footprint is smaller than most people's. I'm in the 1%. I fight for the 99%

The Weighted Random Word Generating Bullshit machine? Who the fuck is paying for these subscriptions? There is no possible way they're anywhere near that level of revenue!

How is no one seeing the massive nVidia bubble that involves nVidida, AMD, Intel, OpenAI, Anthropic and the US government? There have got to be millions in Short sales on at least nVidia right now. For anyone who holds onto those until their collapse, they'll make a billion easily.

There is a bubble. Is there any way anyone can stop it from popping? Is there a way to reverse course, or is the massive 2026.ai bubble burst inevitable?

There was a New Zealand guy who was proposing turbine hybrid trucks in the 2010s .. can't seem to find the video now though ...

A 4k display is pretty significantly different on my 65in. But even on a 32 inch monitor, the difference between text in 1080p vs 4k is pretty night an day. Maybe not casual image viewing, but finer details can totally be made out. When I do go into the office, I have to use their crappy 1080p monitors and it's pretty radically different from my twin 32in 4k screens at home.

The bigger difference is going to be HDR. I just recently got HDR working with mpv in Linux, which thankfully got me off of Windows+VLC: https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

Yea and it's still a lot of data and they constantly flip your telemetry options back. You either have to use a user-script or a privacy aware fork like Librewolf to stop all the telemetry and keep it off.

Mozilla lost their way a while ago. They're pretty much some kind of money laundering operation now, with maybe a tiny handful of good developers left. I hope Ladybird takes off and we get a real new web engine option.

Here's a pretty decent privacy guide for most major browsers and what telemetry they send and how to mitigate it: https://spyware.neocities.org/...

I think it's a good thing. EVs are a dead end and they use SO MANY RARE EARTH METALS. People think petrol emissions are bad, lithium mining is horrific and it's expanding all over the US. Global warming is bullshit and replacing everything with batteries is impractical and will end up causing more pollution.

Amazon makes a total profit of 1% ~ 2% per year off of retail. On bad years (like during the Rivian investment) it was -1%. They're literally the largest retailer in the world and they simply break even.

I've also know people who worked procurement at Amazon. One girl said if they hire 30 for the warehouse, 15~20 actually show up. Less than 10 make it past four weeks. She once had to figure out where a bunch of missing hours went, and found a hidden stash near one of the roof exits with Nintendo switches, an xbox, a TV, snacks and a bunch of other things where employees would burn 2~3 hours a day on the clock and somehow it went unreported.

Part of me wants Amazon to unionize so all these people bitching about the poor workers have to deal with the $10/item price increases. They literally don't understand Amazon makes nearly nothing from retail and everything from data centers. Most people outside of IT don't realize Amazon is literally the largest data center provider in the world next to Microsoft Azure and Google Compute.

These coins are fucking awful slop. Evey the Iowa one has Norman Borlaug as "The Father of the Green Revolution," a modern bullshit term that I'm sure had nothing to do with what he contributed.

https://www.coinnews.net/2025/...

What a waste of metal.

It literally is. Did you look at the list? America lost access to Somalia because they have an eVisa system. China has always required a visa, but now they're expanding their visa-free list and we're not on it. Big deal. Most of the nations we've been removed from are currently undergoing massive domestic unrest.

The article makes it seem like a bad thing we don't have high reciprocation, even though we're in line with nations like Australia and New Zealand. Having the freedom to travel but limiting those who can travel here is not a bad thing at all. Most people can travel here easily, it just requires applying for and getting a tourist visa first. Likewise, you need to apply for a visa for Australia, but last time I did it (10 years ago), it took like $30 and 15 minutes.

Honestly, more nations should require visas from American and visa-versa. It's good for globalization to be on the decline.

or the entitled redditor could just .. learn to draw? ... The stuff Sora is making is something a regular animator could make in Maya, Autodesk, etc. It would just take a good animator 3~6 days for a 7 min clip the models could make in 5 minutes. People use to have to put in efforts for their jokes. Even with the AI generation, the really funny producers still edit the generated clips together, write the scripts, clean them up, add in some real video here and there. It's a speed up process more than anything.

True. Artists could already draw Britney Spears or Seth McFarland in unfavorable light with traditional animation. South Park does it all the damn time. What they do is protected under parody, but someone drawing a fan image of Robert Downey Jr. and selling it would be fine, so long as it didn't include any trademarked Marvel stuff like the Ironman or Avengers likeness/logos.

The thing about these LLVMs is they don't really store the original work. You can't go into that massive set of layers with billions of weights and identify this set of nodes, decode it, and get Mel Gibson's photo .. or maybe you can; that's its whole unique set of research right now.

We don't really know the extent of the copyright violations since the models are closed. They could very well have a RAG store of actual copyrighted images/videos that are pulled for certain generations. It's unlikely, but we'd only find out if there was a serious lawsuit and it all came forward in discovery.

Don't leave us hangin' bro

I don't own any vehicles that connect to the Internet. My 2018 Tacoma was the last year you could get it without the SoS button/on-star/permanent cell modem. If it had one, I'd go through the effort of getting the aftermarket harness to bypass it entirely. Fuck Internet connected vehicles and permanent cell-spy models. I don't need that shit in my vehicle. Cars should never even have the ability to get OTA updates ever!

I've ranted about this a lot. There is NO AUTISM SPECTRUM! The kid who is non-communicative is not the same as the idiot savant who can draw an entire city from memory after looking at it for 15 minutes, and neither are the same as the kid who is a little socially awkward. These are different neurological conditions.

Kids don't get autism from vaccines. They get literal brain damage (the 2016 documentary Vaxxed does a good job of covering this). It's a tiny percentage, (probably less than 1%) but we need to stop pretending it never happens. Pharmaceutical companies have been fighting that reality with propaganda for decades. Increasing the definition of what Autism is, is one of those pieces of academic propaganda. It still doesn't account for enough brain damage though.