ZILtoid1991

ZILtoid1991 , 9 hours ago to Technology in Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists

Wait until Trump gets reelected, then the American "criminal monitoring" systems will be used to target political dissident too. Similar thing already happening in Hungary, except Orbán is currently forced to pretend he still a supporter of democracy.

ZILtoid1991 , 20 hours ago to World News in 'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling

The precedent shouldn't be "they go low, we go high", but "play stupid games, win stupid prizes". He probably wouldn't do anything because the aforementioned issue, but should just send an assassination squad on the 6 supreme court judges alongside with other politicians.

ZILtoid1991 , 1 day ago to Technology in Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more

These are hugely unpopular moves from the supreme court.

ZILtoid1991 , 2 days ago to World News in France Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Nazis

Because people are dumb. A lot of them don't even realize these people are really fascists, because for them fascism was an ideology that did evil things for the sake of evil, and the moment they had a semi-reasonable explanation why they hated minorities, people believed them. Also they're avoiding classic signifiers of fascism, like swastikas, fasceses, and calling themselves fascists.

ZILtoid1991 , 3 days ago to Technology in Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web

If that gets updated, then it will favor big corporations.

ZILtoid1991 , 3 days ago to Technology in Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web

Issue is power imbalance.

There's a clear difference between a guy in his basement on his personal computer sampling music the original musicians almost never seen a single penny from, and a megacorp trying to drive out creative professionals from the industry in the hopes they can then proceed to hike up the prices to use their generative AI software.

ZILtoid1991 , 6 days ago to memes in AI bell curve

Basically it is going the following way:

• Company gets AI to do stuff.
• Company fires its workforce.
• AI isn't up to the task, and often disliked by people, see its unpopularity in the arts.
• Company has to rehire staff, first to try to salvage the AI's output, then to just go back to the good old days of human creativity.

AI isn't magic, no matter how much techbros try to humanize the technology because NeuRAl nEtWOrKs.

ZILtoid1991 , 6 days ago to memes in AI bell curve

There's a pretty good argument for that in a lot of other cases too, however those on the top doesn't want it, or at least not in a sensible way, see the whole "UBI through stock exchange" and "Universal Basic Compute" fiasco.

ZILtoid1991 , 6 days ago to World News in Coup attempt in Bolivia reportedly under way as army and police storm palace

While I agree, the issue is the very moment we become militant we get labeled as "terrorists". The far-right just gets ignored.

ZILtoid1991 , 6 days ago to Technology in A Russian Propaganda Network Is Promoting an AI-Manipulated Biden Video

https://web.archive.org/web/20240626173744/https://www.wired.com/story/russia-disinformation-network-ai-generated-biden-video/

Unpaywalled version

ZILtoid1991 , 6 days ago to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

I personally don't care if someone "steals" my code (Here's my profile if you want to do so: https://github.com/ZILtoid1991 ), however it can mean some mixture of two things:

1. China is getting ready for war, which will mean the US will try its best to block technology, including open source projects.
2. China is planning to block GitHub due to it being able to host information the Chinese government might not like.

Of course it could mean totally unrelated stuff too (e.g. just your typical anti-China and/or anti-communist paranoia sells political points).

ZILtoid1991 , 6 days ago to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

Put content that is illegal in China into your code, problem solved!

ZILtoid1991 , 7 days ago to memes in "Soundblaster" was such an 80s/90s name for a computer part.

And then three things happened at once

1. Creative de-facto monopolized the industry often by unethical means (suing Aureal into bankruptcy, etc.), not letting much room for competitors, which in turn lead to diminishing quality on the part of Creative.
2. Microsoft didn't put hardware acceleration support into XAudio, which superseeded DirectSound.
3. Game publishers realized the vast majority of gamers didn't care about sound quality, so they could spent those resources on making the games look a little bit more realistic.

ZILtoid1991 , 7 days ago to Technology in Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough

The only people more cultish than Apple fans are Tesla/Elongated Muskrat fans.

ZILtoid1991 , 7 days ago to Technology in Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

No thanks, I don't want to spend days troubleshooting issues with cross compilation, differences between Wine and actual Windows, struggling with the tty-only debugger (I want my debugger to do things on button presses, not by complicated scripts), etc.

Skill issue.

Oh, here comes the gatekeeper protecting their operating system from the "normies"!🤣