Blackmist

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

GDPR is a start, but we need to actually ban it, not just annoy people until they click Accept at the 20th popup of that tantalising offer to share your details with 1473 trusted data partners.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And all the CIA ones.

And then block all cookies and tracking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Still rocking an i5-8400 and a 1060. It's fine for FFXIV and most other games.

Until GPU prices come down, the CPU is the least of my worries. I'll play anything that needs decent hardware on my PS5.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

If you're not running the latest games it really doesn't matter at all.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago

The problem with money being involved is it's an invitation to spam crap everywhere.

One of my relatives has recently taken up "AI travel videos" and "AI cute videos" as a "hobby". No doubt based on the first thing that came up when I searched for those things, a video titled "make $10,000 a month spamming up YouTube with your AI slop".

Oh, and it needs you to buy the AI slop generating tools that they happen to sell. How convenient!

I mean, this also happened with broadcast TV, where we suddenly went from like 4 channels filled with programs and things competing for space, to 200 channels, where the rush was on to fill the gaps between the adverts as cheaply as possible with reality show tat. And that's all YouTube is now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I agree, but it's still a step up from dropping a laser guided bomb on a 10 storey apartment building because somebody in Hamas might be there.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago

Google Serves AI Slop ~~as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History~~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The point of Insta would seem to be the opposite of that. To splatter your inane life before the world in the hopes of becoming a viral millionaire influencer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I could never get on with the weird shaped triggers.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

COVID also inflated a lot of tech stock massively, as everybody suddenly had to rely a lot more on it to get anything done, and the only thing you could do for entertainment was gaming, streaming movies, or industrial quantities of drugs.

Then that ended, and they all wanted to hold onto that "value".

It is a bubble, but whether it pops massively like in 2000, or just evens off to the point where everything else catches up, remains to be seen.

"The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" are wise words for anyone thinking of shorting this kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Oh it's made plenty for Nvidia.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

That's why we use Radar, etc, so we don't have to use those sites.

If you do visit them, make sure you're ad-blockered up the wazoo.

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