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tokin opposition posted:wow, i can barely remember 9/11 and you've been posting since before it happened. in the games thread recently someone asked "why would anyone still play world of warcraft?" and someone responded "why do you still post on something awful?" and my mind reeled in pain
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Apr 19, 2022 09:51
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withak posted:I have some smart light bulbs so I can turn all my lamps on and off without having to climb over furniture around the room, is that ok? LOL what? how many circuits does your apt service have
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Apr 19, 2022 10:53
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AppleNippleBOB posted:neat Glad we've sped past "The Onion is reporting on reality" and moved to "Adult Swim infomercials are reporting on reality" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg29TuWo0Yo
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Apr 19, 2022 12:49
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Glad we've sped past "The Onion is reporting on reality" and moved to "Adult Swim infomercials are reporting on reality" Somebody is already trying to make smart pipe. So yeah, pretty much.
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Apr 19, 2022 13:19
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:LOL what? how many circuits does your apt service have one labeled “outlets” and one labeled “lights”.
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Apr 19, 2022 14:08
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my theory is that electronics manufacturers were pretty much making 0 money off of tv sales until hd was set as the new standard and prices dropped enough for everyone with a tv to eventually upgrade. the companies then based all future income off the 2-3 years where just about everyone bought a new tv and have been trying to recapture that, the end goal being tvs having a smartphone-like product cycle, where something new comes out every couple years and everyone wants to upgrade. this doesn't work at all but they've tried with 3d tvs, curved displays, 4k/5k/6k etc but hd is "enough" for the majority of the market so tvs remain as just "appliances" and they gotta shove ads in there or go back to their old income model
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Apr 19, 2022 14:17
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:Somebody is already trying to make smart pipe. So yeah, pretty much. I... seriously? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, so long as you sound techy you'll get funding no matter how stupid your idea. Actually I'd buy the Broomshakalaka so someone invent that tia
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Apr 19, 2022 14:20
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Plank Walker posted:my theory is that electronics manufacturers were pretty much making 0 money off of tv sales until hd was set as the new standard and prices dropped enough for everyone with a tv to eventually upgrade. the companies then based all future income off the 2-3 years where just about everyone bought a new tv and have been trying to recapture that, the end goal being tvs having a smartphone-like product cycle, where something new comes out every couple years and everyone wants to upgrade. this doesn't work at all but they've tried with 3d tvs, curved displays, 4k/5k/6k etc but hd is "enough" for the majority of the market so tvs remain as just "appliances" and they gotta shove ads in there or go back to their old income model lol this sounds like it could be right
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Apr 19, 2022 17:14
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Plank Walker posted:my theory is that electronics manufacturers were pretty much making 0 money off of tv sales until hd was set as the new standard and prices dropped enough for everyone with a tv to eventually upgrade. the companies then based all future income off the 2-3 years where just about everyone bought a new tv and have been trying to recapture that, the end goal being tvs having a smartphone-like product cycle, where something new comes out every couple years and everyone wants to upgrade. this doesn't work at all but they've tried with 3d tvs, curved displays, 4k/5k/6k etc but hd is "enough" for the majority of the market so tvs remain as just "appliances" and they gotta shove ads in there or go back to their old income model also it cold be one of the results of investors trying to contort every function of society into an infinite free-money dispenser for their personal benefit, so profits must increase continuously no matter what--somehow--regardless of sustainability or whether it's even physically possible. or in fewer words: https://i.imgur.com/BtgZ6Ce.mp4
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Apr 19, 2022 19:08
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:... why? smart poo poo isn't bad because wanting to remotely check if you turned your lights off is a sin. it's bad because every last piece of it is another paving stone towards the hell of technology that will last a maximum of two years before you have to donate it to our giant trash piles. a lot of tech stuff these days is like that, but smart home stuff has been like that since its inception
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Apr 19, 2022 19:47
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smart stuff is bad because it's all cheaply-made, poorly-secured garbage designed to collect and sell metadata/actual data to advertisers and providing any useful service to consumers is merely a beneficial externality that helps get the product into more homes. or it's like Ring and spying on people is literally the entire purpose of its design
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Apr 19, 2022 20:58
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Cup Runneth Over posted:smart stuff is bad because it's all cheaply-made, poorly-secured garbage designed to collect and sell metadata/actual data to advertisers and providing any useful service to consumers is merely a beneficial externality that helps get the product into more homes. or it's like Ring and spying on people is literally the entire purpose of its design the one ring is actually useful. smart devices are like the evil dwarf rings, so useless they were thrown out before the story even begins
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Apr 19, 2022 21:04
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Ring is actually a "security doorbell camera" / smart home system that keeps all your videos on 'the cloud' which means on an amazon server where ring employees can just look at it, run AI on it to see who's at your door, or whatever. and also sell it to law enforcement.
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Apr 20, 2022 09:09
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you could just have a memory chip in the camera itself btw and that could serve a phone app. those exist, so your data doesn't go to a server somewhere. they're also cheap as heck network attached storage
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Apr 20, 2022 09:10
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There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.
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Apr 20, 2022 09:11
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loser languages can’t handle an abstract concept. we love our dark tongue of Mordor don’t we folks? we’ve got the biggest words the best words
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Apr 20, 2022 09:27
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Can Amazon (Care) legally print your health-related Google searches on the front of an envelope? (self.legaladvice) submitted 19 hours ago by 6FtAboveGround quote:My wife and I both received spam letters today from Amazon Care. Interestingly, they custom printed health concern related Google queries that we had searched for, in big bold lettering on the front of the envelope, followed by the sentence “Amazon Care takes care of all of that.” Nonetheless, we’re embarrassed that our mail carrier just saw our private health concerns, and we’re creeped out that Amazon knows what we’re googling. Is any of this legal? What were they thinking? quote:So, I'd prefer not to broadcast all our medical issues on here (for the same reason we didn't want our mailman to see), but as one less-embarrassing example, my envelope had the line "Bug bite that turned purple," which is a phrase that I searched in Google late last year. Just way too oddly specific. I suppose it's possible that, in the grand multiverse, we happen to live in the universe where Amazon Care prints random health queries on envelopes and they just so happen to align with the recent Google queries of the recipients. My wife works as a developer for Amazon Web Services and even she can't wrap her mind around how, or why, an Amazon company would do this. quote:So, here is a picture of what the envelope looks like: https://imgur.com/a/BS3G8e2 I blocked out the other lines except the bug bite one, and I blocked out our home address. The original image came from our USPS Daily Digest email. We haven't gotten the physical letters yet (our mailman usually delivers around 3 or 4 pm), but we can see the scans of them in our email.
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Apr 20, 2022 10:36
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Plank Walker posted:my theory is that electronics manufacturers were pretty much making 0 money off of tv sales until hd was set as the new standard and prices dropped enough for everyone with a tv to eventually upgrade. the companies then based all future income off the 2-3 years where just about everyone bought a new tv and have been trying to recapture that, the end goal being tvs having a smartphone-like product cycle, where something new comes out every couple years and everyone wants to upgrade. this doesn't work at all but they've tried with 3d tvs, curved displays, 4k/5k/6k etc but hd is "enough" for the majority of the market so tvs remain as just "appliances" and they gotta shove ads in there or go back to their old income model
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Apr 20, 2022 11:10
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quote:or go back to their old income model line... go down!?
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Apr 20, 2022 11:47
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Platystemon posted:Can Amazon (Care) legally print your health-related Google searches on the front of an envelope? (self.legaladvice) this feels like a veiled threat
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Apr 20, 2022 13:40
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Platystemon posted:Can Amazon (Care) legally print your health-related Google searches on the front of an envelope? (self.legaladvice) sounds like a Google security issue
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Apr 20, 2022 17:06
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Platystemon posted:Can Amazon (Care) legally print your health-related Google searches on the front of an envelope? (self.legaladvice) mawarannahr posted:sounds like a Google security issue I got this mailer too. This is just a coincidence the person is overreacting. Turns out, there's no list of Google searches for health related things that are printed on a mailer sent to millions that won't result in someone thinking, "Is Amazon reading my Google search history???"
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Apr 20, 2022 17:21
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https://twitter.com/jkass99/status/1516491976593469440 https://mobile.twitter.com/thetechstartups/status/1516092379056513039
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Apr 20, 2022 17:31
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box-o-marks
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Apr 20, 2022 17:58
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Tulip posted:What I find interesting about this is that, in ideal modeling, the human touch is fundamental to bureaucracy. It is a basic constitutive element: one framing of bureaucracy is that it is a machine to ensure that expert humans get into contact with problems within their domain. If you are not using the domain expertise of the bureaucrats, you're functionally not using the bureaucracy. Transparency is most certainly not a fundamental aspect of bureaucracy. Goddamn, what? Weber famously both acknowledged the power and utility of rational-legal authority while also worrying about the 'iron cage' in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Arguments that the first-order priority of all bureaucrats is the maintenance of their position is something between Merton and Mises (i.e., dangerously rational choice libish); for every direct experience you have in your day-to-day work in the machine there's empirics showing how other concerns can and do dominate in practice. The bit about elected/appointeds coming in and having no loving idea who the real boss is and just making GBS threads themselves several times over is definitely the default outcome there, though. The cyberpunk tie in here is that more and more public sector bureaucracies are buying into the machine learning mythos and actively hoping to fully offload decision making under uncertainty to what amounts to lovely RPA but with new marketing buzzwords. What could go wrong?
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Apr 20, 2022 22:12
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amazing new machine learnign thing that generates r/AITA threads based on prompts you type https://areyoutheasshole.com/. Its eerily accurate  
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Apr 21, 2022 05:49
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Apr 22, 2022 02:26
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the famously uncomplicated world of music copyright, now with blockchain!
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Apr 22, 2022 02:55
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this looks like the most annoying gig/band in existence so please make it entirely inaccessible to anyone not participating in NFTs.
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Apr 22, 2022 03:09
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withak posted:I have some smart light bulbs so I can turn all my lamps on and off without having to climb over furniture around the room, is that ok? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgIsn0Zac3o&t=41s
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Apr 22, 2022 05:13
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Farm Frenzy posted:amazing new machine learnign thing that generates r/AITA threads based on prompts you type https://areyoutheasshole.com/. Its eerily accurate I think this says more about Reddit than the sophistication of the model
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Apr 22, 2022 21:03
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wow that's really accurate. i think we can safely shut down Reddit now that we have this
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Apr 22, 2022 21:54
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Rutibex posted:wow that's really accurate. i think we can safely shut down Reddit now that we have this general gpt-driven subreddit pastiches have been a thing for a couple years & that didnt work
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Apr 22, 2022 23:06
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Carthag Tuek posted:general gpt-driven subreddit pastiches have been a thing for a couple years & that didnt work what does “work” mean, here?
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Apr 23, 2022 01:55
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Subjunctive posted:what does “work” mean, here? stop people from shitposting in a cursed hellhole like reddit and force them to shitpost in an even more irrelevant forgotten dumpster like SA?
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Apr 23, 2022 02:09
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silentsnack posted:stop people from shitposting in a cursed hellhole like reddit and force them to shitpost in an even more irrelevant forgotten dumpster like SA? i've been around the Internet drat near 30 years now and honestly the best places to post are irrelevant forgotten dumpsters
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Apr 23, 2022 07:42
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more falafel please posted:i've been around the Internet drat near 30 years now and honestly the best places to post are irrelevant forgotten dumpsters roddy and keith going at it over the sunglasses that let you see the world as it is, zizek going off about ideology and trashcans; I'm in the background with akimbo style spoons and a poo poo eating grin.
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Apr 23, 2022 07:47
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https://twitter.com/Phylan/status/1517507755162148864
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Apr 23, 2022 17:21
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it was obviously a stealth jet
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Apr 23, 2022 20:21
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Must be a firefighting plane
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