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TheScaryOne··on Put a price on breakthroughs
>This is why the government has to pay for it and there isn't appetite in private investment to pay for this in such structures already in biotech.

But most colleges have a technology sharing agreement so that any discovery made at the college by a student or faculty becomes the property of XYZ™

Socialized costs, private gains.

TheScaryOne··on Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists
Every juice cocktail I've ever drank has been upfront about the juices inside.

Your hangup on dehydrated juice is weird. Like, yea, they removed all the water from the juice so all you need to do is add water and it ships better and keeps longer....

TheScaryOne··on Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability
Nope, just like SpaceX can't stop losing money when you take out xAI.
TheScaryOne··on Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
>So why can't people do the same to Doppel?

You see, we live in a country where there are two legal systems. The one for us, and the one for them. In our legal system, we will be held to the full extent of the law for our damages committed, and will even have to pay restitution.

In their legal system, they commit wild fraud or security lapses that lead to massive harm to individuals, and have to pay a fine, and get to keep operating as usual.

TheScaryOne··on Kill The Cookie Banner
>If someone does not read a contract or a legal agreement, before accepting or signing, it's on them

When was the last time you read an entire EULA before installing software?

I'm going to guess the time frame is somewhere around "never."

These are nuisance contracts designed to jade people with legalese while stealing their rights to things like class action and enforcing binding arbitration.

Standard contracts sounds like the way to go.

TheScaryOne··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
Marketplace has taken over literally all of the other reselling websites and apps.

Try finding a decent car on Craigslist today.

TheScaryOne··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
My 8mbps DSL line is $43USD/month after everything, and the cheapest internet I have access to.

The next tier up is Starlink or 250mbps Fiber, which have the same cost. I do not wish to support Starlink. But I also can't afford to almost double my internet bill.

I live on a major national highway in a crossroads town.

TheScaryOne··on Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself
Shutting down in the middle of work is a common failure mode for overheating, for men and machine. Got an IR camera?
TheScaryOne··on Bring back crappy forums
Most old forums would let you toggle Flat or Tree view, but Tree view was obviously beholden to hitting "Reply" to the post you were addressing, and not just copying a bunch of people's quotes into a bigger post, which would only show as a branch off of the trunk rather than a leaf in the tree.
TheScaryOne··on Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri
Oh, you see, that's wind energy. No one can charge for the wind, so they don't like it. You can't build big expensive wind drilling machines and keep big vats of wind for bad days.
TheScaryOne··on Accenture to acquire Ookla
That's not the point of fast.com

Fast is a one click solution to finding out your download speed from Netflix.

Latency doesn't matter, nor does upload.

TheScaryOne··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
Would you rather that the 100% of bugs in those 20% of tickets never got fixed?

Linux users write highly detailed bug reports because it's the only way to get things fixed without coding the fix yourself.

TheScaryOne··on Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
>Windows 7 would take minutes to boot.

Citation needed. I went from Win7 on a i5-2500k that booted in sub 15 seconds on a SATA SSD to Win10 on a 5600x that takes 45 seconds to a minute to boot an NVME drive.

TheScaryOne··on Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
>search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement.

Too bad it's been completely broken by Windows 10. It can't even find the names of software I have pinned to the start menu. One of the things I miss most from 7.

TheScaryOne··on Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
>you said even one of them in a contract negotiation the first order of business by the union rep would be to remove you from contract negotiation.

You can do the same thing by saying "jury nullification" during the jury duty selection process. You can watch BOTH lawyers scramble to kick you out of the room.

TheScaryOne··on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
> it's still a tool, not a person.

Tell that to the CEO's who have replaced all of their yes-men with yes-chatbots.

TheScaryOne··on The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it
>The first is the fear of job loss, and I feel like this is the most straightforward to deal with. Personally, I think the solution should be to share the productivity of AI with society at large, in particular since AI owes most of its abilities to training on the works of society.

This was the argument about robots. It did not pan out. No taxes materialized. Robots and Automated Machines have not shared productivity. In fact, things like self-checkout has spread the labor load to the customer, instead of the company.

>We have the technology to produce energy in sustainable ways, but it is expensive

AI Datacenters should be completely sustainably self-powered. Full stop. We did not spend decades bringing down the cost of power only to have it all hoovered up by robber barons who "need" it to be the first immortal AI God. We did not install water treatment plants to bring down our water usage rates just to feed the machine spirit.

>How do we treat AI creative work? How much creative work do we feel comfortable handing over to AI?

Someone said it as a joke, but I want AI to be doing my dishes and sorting my laundry while I write books and compose music. I don't want AI writing books and composing music so I have more time to do my dishes and sort my laundry.

TheScaryOne··on Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
I can't wait for the Faro Plague and the robot dinosaurs.
TheScaryOne··on A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform
>What is most concerning to me is how people are turning their brains off for anything tangentially related to AI.

Everyone is betting the farm on that .01% chance that they become wild trillionaires. We're going to burn down the whole planet and use all of the resources so a few people can have a minuscule chance at being obscenely rich.

TheScaryOne··on Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving
Today's car crash deaths are sometimes software bug caused deaths. Toyota failed their forensic audit of their drive by wire code back in 2013. https://capitolweekly.net/toyota-has-settled-hundreds-of-sud...
TheScaryOne··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
My phones all fail from internal hardware faults. Also never broken a screen.

I had a S3 that the battery would only last 12 hours or so, but the EMMC failed before the battery did.

TheScaryOne··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
No. You get a 2 year old flagship phone for $200-300 outright, instead of $1500+

Samsung also makes the A-series Galaxies which are a pretty solid mid-tier phones that are supported for years, too.

TheScaryOne··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
>Running AI locally could be a big selling point

Actually will push a lot of people away. I don't want any hardware that has special relationships with AI LLM's.

TheScaryOne··on The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
And if the majority is "no confidence" we get a special runoff election with new candidates.
TheScaryOne··on DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
The S3 ran Samsung software for about, oh, a month after I bought it brand new?

I'd been running CyanogenMod until they quit giving updates to the S3.

TheScaryOne··on DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
Never. I am very gentle to my phones. Thing has one small dot of a scratch on the screen. Never been opened.
TheScaryOne··on DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
My Samsung Galaxy S3 died after 8 years. EMMC failure. Just started boot looping while I was asleep. Everything gone. Known issue.

My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at 7 years. Some kind of thermal failure, I was able to recover my data by keeping the phone in the freezer while I copied. Known issue.

My Samsung Galaxy S21? I figure I've got another year or two in it before it, too, dies.

Having beautiful dead phones that have never had a broken screen or a hard drop is pretty depressing.

TheScaryOne··on My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned
>those who by definition want more than everyone else and can seemingly never be satified

There's a medical word for things like that. Schmancer?

TheScaryOne··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
Do you hate the "Ribbon" UI that got forced into everything in Win8+?

That's what telemetry was used for. Every advanced user turned that off when they gave us the option, and now we have every UI on the computer designed for Grandma.

TheScaryOne··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
After being told to not integrate Internet Explorer into the OS, they changed the name to EDGE and did it anyway? With the added excuse that it now compromises most of the file explorer functionality, too?
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