Comment Re:Ooops (Score 4, Funny) 104
This is the guy who said he never buys clothes, that his wife and daughter choose for him
After this, he may have to hire someone to do this for him.
Comment Hyoperbole much? (Score 1, Interesting) 65
These data centres are destroying our world. It's becoming uninhabitable because of all the resources they consume.
I guess we'll see them go after Procteor and Gamble for the products they produce that are destroying the world. Or perhaps Nestle and their draining of water sources. Chemical manufacturers? Paint companies? Auto manufacturers? The list goes on.
It's fine to protest. Just don't sound like an utter moron when doing so.
Comment Personal responsibility nowhere to be seen (Score 2) 6
Apparently not looking at Snap was too difficult. The company physically held these people down and forced them to look at their stuff.
Comment Re:Playing KSP is not the same as running simulati (Score 1) 51
Sure thing. Let's put you on a snowball in space then have you blaze through the atmosphere and slam into the ground. This assumes the snowball doesn't explode in the atmosphere. We'll see how you make out.
The issue is not if you'll make it back from space, that part'll happen pretty definitely. The issue is in what condtion.
Comment Re: Not gonna happen (Score 1) 46
No, AI ist not at all like a spellchecker or a calculator. It takes away the ability to think for yourself and act for yourself. Which in the rund takes away the ability to make decisions in your own. You replace the 'wwjd' armbands with 'wwaid' mental cuffs.
Then so does ever human editor out there. If someone has written the words, has gone over them a few times to rework them, then goes to an LLM and says, "Look this over and suggest corrections", that is no different than going to a human editor. A human editor will go over your work and make suggestions. They will tell you, "This doesn't work" or "Remove this part".
That is taking away your ability to think for yourself in the same way an LLM does. In both cases they are looking at your completed work and correcting it.
Comment Not gonna happen (Score 1, Redundant) 46
Unlike AI, humans don't make mistakes. They can figure out, with absolute certainty, if AI was used in someone's writing.
No one has to worry about this scenario.
Comment Re:Cats .. (Score 1) 27
When you've got to evade a threat or pounce on your dinner,
That would explain all the slow drivers on the road. There is not threat to evade because they are the threat everyone else is trying to evade.
As for dinner, these drivers have it delivered. No poucing needed.
Comment What is going on in Georgia? (Score 1, Flamebait) 30
This guy still had access five years after he left. Meanwhile, an entire police department in Georgia resigned because the mayor put a tracking device on the police chief's personal truck.
Forget the devil. WTH are christians doing down in Georgia?
Submission + - Tesla does not allow people to repair their own vehicles (newrepublic.com)
smooth wombat writes: A decade ago, Rich Benoit bought a used Tesla at auction. The car had been flooded and he thought he'd repair it. When he reached out to Tesla to buy parts, they said no.
“They literally just said no,” he said. “I thought it was going to be a lot easier: ‘Hey, I’ll just buy a battery, put a battery in, put a new motor in, you know, buy some new interior parts.’ They literally said no. I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I think that’s what started the journey for me.”
Benoit’s professional background was in I.T., but this launched a new career in fixing electric cars, and he also runs a now 10-year-old YouTube channel with co-founder Carl Hewitt about his work, called Rich Rebuilds. He says nearly every electric vehicle company has responded the same way Tesla did. So his new career intersected quickly with the right-to-repair movement, which argues that companies shouldn’t be allowed to refuse access to the information and equipment people need to make repairs on the products they’ve purchased.
At least nine states have passed right-to-repair laws—most of them blue, along with Texas and Kansas—and every state has debated similar laws that would require at least some manufacturers to provide the tools people need to make repairs on their products. A federal bill is sitting in the House, waiting for potential consideration in the lame-duck session, but it’s unlikely to rise to the top of Congress’s long to-do list. For Benoit, though, this is about much more than just fixing cars. “This kind of encompasses a larger overarching theory that the corporations own what you have,” he said. “You don’t own anything. You just rent it.”
“They literally just said no,” he said. “I thought it was going to be a lot easier: ‘Hey, I’ll just buy a battery, put a battery in, put a new motor in, you know, buy some new interior parts.’ They literally said no. I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I think that’s what started the journey for me.”
Benoit’s professional background was in I.T., but this launched a new career in fixing electric cars, and he also runs a now 10-year-old YouTube channel with co-founder Carl Hewitt about his work, called Rich Rebuilds. He says nearly every electric vehicle company has responded the same way Tesla did. So his new career intersected quickly with the right-to-repair movement, which argues that companies shouldn’t be allowed to refuse access to the information and equipment people need to make repairs on the products they’ve purchased.
At least nine states have passed right-to-repair laws—most of them blue, along with Texas and Kansas—and every state has debated similar laws that would require at least some manufacturers to provide the tools people need to make repairs on their products. A federal bill is sitting in the House, waiting for potential consideration in the lame-duck session, but it’s unlikely to rise to the top of Congress’s long to-do list. For Benoit, though, this is about much more than just fixing cars. “This kind of encompasses a larger overarching theory that the corporations own what you have,” he said. “You don’t own anything. You just rent it.”
Comment Not just the browser (Score 4, Insightful) 87
Microsoft tries its best to force you to use Edge to open a pdf. If I have Adobe Reader set as my default pdf reader, that should be the end of it. Nope. Certain updates have reverted to using Edge so I, and others at my place of work, have to go in and reset the default.
Once someone has something set as their default, it should never be tampered with unless it's done by the user.
Comment Grabs the popcorn (Score 1) 86
I can't wait to see the comments on this. The few are already posted are providing good entertainment.
Comment Re:"controlling men" (Score 0) 38
Congratulations. You'e exactly why I don't hire men if I can avoid it. Nothing but whiners.
Comment No mention of what country this is from (Score 4, Interesting) 58
Interesting how the entire summary leaves out what country this company is from. Are we now protecting these genocidal criminals?
The country is Israel.
Comment Re:They should migrate away from the internet (Score 2) 105
You mean the people on site are incapable of noticing there's a problem?
Not sure that's how you want to be framing this.
Comment I was just saying the same thing today (Score 3, Interesting) 169
Pro-Kremlin bloggers are warning that Russia's centralized digital economy could collapse
While out working around the yard, this exact thought came to me. When you have a centralized economy, such as in Russia with Putin calling all the shots, any large scale interruption to any part of that centralization will have an outside effect. As this article relates, Yandex has its paws in everything. And what happens when Yandex goes down?
This entire invasion has been a fiasco on the Russian side from day one. I was truly astounded at how inept they were in the first month of their invasion, and that astounding has only increased over the past four years. A German officer wrote a book and toward the back of the book he outlined several things the Germans learned very quickly about Russian military doctrine. One of those items was that they would repeatedly throw men at the problem unitl either they succeeded or they exhausted their pool of men.
That was 80+ years ago and they still haven't changed. They learned nothing over the decades and this data center pummeling is another example of them not being able to think more than a day ahead.
