SaltySalamander

joined 8 months ago

Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U] in c/[email protected]

Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data in c/[email protected]

For those who want to use Firefox with added security and privacy there is Arkenfox in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (12 children)

How is it not a fork?

Stop. Calling. Everything. AI in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yea, if you ever had old DOS games, this button was a godsend.

Stop. Calling. Everything. AI in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Lever 2000 comes to mind.

Crooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

As long as computers are networked, there will always be data breaches. Doesn't matter what form of gov't or economy you live under.

Crooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (12 children)

You, sir, have a case of the brainworms. Might want to have that checked out.

AI is effectively ‘useless'—and it's created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's silly how the anti-AI hivemind will downvote you for simply informing them that you find AI useful.

Now I have 1 GBit fiber and can't benefit :-( in c/[email protected]

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

500MB, not Mb. Order of magnitude difference there.

Now I have 1 GBit fiber and can't benefit :-( in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

how can it be that my little mini J1900 Celeron (2 GHz) with 4 GB RAM cannot handle this bandwith?

Because it's ancient, and when it was new it was bottom-of-the-barrel.

“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Heck, these days even routers require app activation for no reason other than to be shitty

There are more often than not alternatives that exist that don't have this requirement.

What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As someone who's accepted crypto as payment for about 10 years now, it really isn't. Income is income to the IRS. You pay taxes on the value of the crypto you received as payment, full stop. It really doesn't matter what you accept as payment. Could be crypto, could be russet potatos.