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rightbyte··on The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
> scum of the earth

> fucking scums

> Zero tolerance for such motherfuckers

Who watches the watchers etc.

We will just end up with some jingoist dude that will go after us instead.

Slow reforms to regulate the banking industry with this "identity theft" nonsense...

rightbyte··on Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act
> Poland is now in the Western sphere of influence and it is not in decay.

Polands fertility rate in 2025 was 1.1. It is some sort of dystopia allready for people.

rightbyte··on I love LLMs, I hate hype
> I enjoy making bread at home but it costs 10x and tastes like dog shit

I am sorry but you are holding it wrong. Among all the things you can do yourself cgeaper and better, bread is probably the further most low hanging fruit.

rightbyte··on Lindsey Graham Has Died
Looking at that pic I thought I mixed him up with someone else. Seems so strange that he could look happy.

[edit: Seems like the wiki page got vandalized when I looked at it some minute ago... was the photo fake?]

I wonder of he was happy with his life deed.

rightbyte··on Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
Yeah but I think it just took some year for ppl to notice.

2013-2014 the algorithm got more foused on non-friend posts aswell as making the prioritzation less about "likes" from friends and instead some opaque engagement metrics. Groups had to "promote" post to get their prior reach to subscribers.

Also videos started to be posted around that time?

rightbyte··on How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State
Seems like a way to purposly implement Goodhart's Law in a war bureaucracy. Like, the law is a warning but neoliberals might read it differently I guess...
rightbyte··on AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study
I hate how that very argument has been used by people riding the tide to rationalize the irrationality. Money talks or something. If you don't like it here why don't you leave etc. It is a grifters goto statement.
rightbyte··on Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
Computer science is not about computers anympre than liberal art studies is about singing etc ...
rightbyte··on Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
I am trying to say that the game is rigged and the profitability of different university studies is a very bad indicator of anything.

I don't know what to say to those "screwed by The Man" to make them feel better.

rightbyte··on Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family
Oh. Yeah I thought it was slang language use but it seems like it is used for adults too over the board. I mainly wanted to point out that adults were victims also.
rightbyte··on AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study
> the pendulum to prove you right while showering you in wealth.

This seems like some variant of "why don't you short the market and become rich". It doesn't work like that.

rightbyte··on Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family
Abducted and enslaved? Doesn't kidnapping imply kids?
rightbyte··on Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
"Viral content" got nerfed to oblivion in 2013-2014 something when Facebook made companies pay up for group exposure. (Promoted post)

Before that a popular article could be shared among different friends networks to like total exposure to like everyone logged in that were somewhat interested in the article.

I was kinda a journalist then it was a really obvious flip.

rightbyte··on Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
> do it on someone else’s dime.

Money is just a social construct and the amount of tax dollars spent on classes in progressive tea pot clay handcraft is minuscule.

Non-tech academics were more or lessed forced into getting degrees by the job market.

There were no choice involved on part on the victims of a systematic issue, which is, gatekeeping access to middleclass jobs by the parents' bank account size with usury lending as some sort of pressure release valve.

rightbyte··on Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Isn't GPUs a purpose made ASIC for parallell matrix math allready?
rightbyte··on FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky
I don't think those are exclusive.
rightbyte··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
I'd argue that the guys in the chair 'optimizing' those vids might be the sleeper agemt you need to look out for. It is probably somewhat personal?
rightbyte··on How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
Yeah this didn't happen. If someone is cracy enough to practice with holes filled with glass on fire why trust them at all about being cracy in the first place?
rightbyte··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
It is like screen saver moving patterns or corridors with a strange field of view zooming effect.

Nothing special compared to purpose made screen savers.

rightbyte··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
I have the opposite theory. I burned my self out on cheap and bad image gen meme sites like 15 years ago until the point I hated memes.

Prior exposure to worse feeds gives like an analytical look on the vids rather than emotional. I am fast scanning for the joke. Or something.

rightbyte··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
When skip level bosses on my last job wanted to do boneheaded things in automotive design they usually had to keep asking different engineers until they got a yay.

When it is pushed from the top it is hard to stop at ground level.

rightbyte··on AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
I think MS is mixing up the Xbox and Office ordinals.
rightbyte··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
A good reason might be that you don't want your private messages to be scanned by any third party in a conversation...
rightbyte··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
I like the concept "Goomba fallacy", but it is a bit confusing since Goombas are exactly the same, where as board users are at least me and not me.

Edit: Keeping to SMB1 for simplicity.

rightbyte··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
> a 20-year-old laptop with a new battery is sufficient for most serious webdev and appdev work.

Why do you need a new battery? I usually unplug old batteries in old laptops and just use them with a cord.

rightbyte··on A verification loop 4x'd DeepSeek's intelligence, matching Opus at 1/7 the cost
It is marketing for some SaaS thing. However, I think something like this, "verification loops with some sort of tricks", is what Anthropic and "OpenAI" do behind the scene with their interfaces.
rightbyte··on Resetting Xbox
Maybe MS paid the publisher full price for your "see what it is about"? Wouldn't be anything but Uber or Moviepass.
rightbyte··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
> They're in a price war with the People's Republic of China running flat out with the full backing of a government that literally does not care

There is nothing to support this. You get cheap Deepseek tokens by foreign providers too.

It is the same thing with automakers. They complain about not being able to only make luxuary cars with high profits with BYD raining on their parade and blaming the Chinese gov.

rightbyte··on EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
It is an interesting take on it. I think there is a lack of understanding on how politics work among many.
rightbyte··on EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
No that the critique of chat control is, I guess?

It is quite disturbing that more and more ofent critique of policy or a political system like the EU is framed as some convinient boogey man's propaganda.

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