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stainablesteel··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
incompetent people, making decisions they should have made a decade ago, that will take more than a decade to implement, and will by then probably be just as outdated as this decision is now
stainablesteel··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
with the direction their hardware is going, that's not going to last another decade
stainablesteel··on We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable
it's a serious problem

they could be regulated to expose their chip with transparent covering rather than plain dark wiring

stainablesteel··on Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
i honestly can't understand people using AI to do things for them, the only real thing I'll have it do for me is write code if I'm feeling lazy, but I always know it's going to make mistakes and I'll have to manually skim through it depending how important it is

for me, it's purely a research tool that I can ask infinite questions to

stainablesteel··on Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights
what good are digital rights in countries where physical rights are being deteriorated
stainablesteel··on Eat Real Food
it's a terrible design and i can't believe they've done this to the american people
stainablesteel··on ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
this is actually hilarious, also easily fixable if they just respond to that with a pre-determined

if response == 'thank you': print('your welcome')

stainablesteel··on ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
may as well make a model stamp too, to remember which one was responding
stainablesteel··on I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus
i hardly consider this post to be within a technical circle, this is normie-stream

i expected someone to be diving deep into the software within a TV, not some guy who finally decided to check the settings tab

even if you turn that off it's definitely still spying on you

stainablesteel··on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
so my linux installation can be even faster
stainablesteel··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
i think it's fine, thank these people for coming up with the idea and people are going to start doing this in their basement then releasing it to huggingface
stainablesteel··on We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
just wanted to disagree with anyone who thinks someone like this needs to go to school

no, he needs to make his own agency

stainablesteel··on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
maybe they should have an option to enable it instead? i don't want this being the default
stainablesteel··on After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
this same problem is one of the side effects of mining for the metals used in things like solar panels

it comes at the sacrifice of many non-western countries and this conversation is never on the table

it's such a shame things that could otherwise last for thousands of years will get destroyed by a few decades of mismanagement

stainablesteel··on 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity
> Many fMRI studies on psychiatric or neurological diseases – from depression to Alzheimer’s – interpret changes in blood flow as a reliable signal of neuronal under- or over-activation. Given the limited validity of such measurements, this must now be reassessed

idk about that, the brain is complicated, blood flow itself may as well be a factor to interpret

stainablesteel··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
DEI and ESG don't work anymore, now people are latching onto AI wherever they can

they're all just marketing scams. if these people actually implement AI in ways that isn't needed it just kills the product

the built-in language translation feature of firefox is great, because it's locally ran

i don't want my browser fetching commands from random servers just to implement AI in a browser that was working fine without it

stainablesteel··on GPT-5.2
im happy for this, but there's all these math and science benchmarks, has anyone ever made a communicates-like-a-human benchmark? or an isn't-frustrating-to-talk-with benchmark?
stainablesteel··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
you can google the papers and find the arxiv articles where the authors are listed
stainablesteel··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
this brings us to a cultural divide, westerners would see this as a personal scar, as they consider the integrity of the publishing sphere at large to be held up by the integrity of individuals

i clicked on 4 of those papers, and the pattern i saw was middle-eastern, indian, and chinese names

these are cultures where they think this kind of behavior is actually acceptable, they would assume it's the fault of the journal for accepting the paper. they don't see the loss of reputation to be a personal scar because they instead attribute blame to the game.

some people would say it's racist to understand this, but in my opinion when i was working with people from these cultures there was just no other way to learn to cooperate with them than to understand them, it's an incredibly confusing experience to be working with them until you understand the various differences between your own culture and theirs

stainablesteel··on YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
yeah it's foolish, the platform should just remain the platform, any attempt at improving engagement should be done by the creators or else this whole system would slowly collapse from frustration and move to a different website
stainablesteel··on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode
this seems reasonable to me, i don't have schizophrenia but i'm pretty sure i'd start stabbing a fridge if I ever saw it give me an advertisement
stainablesteel··on iPhone Pocket
wow, that's seriously hilarious

it's so ugly that it shows their desperation, who would ever need this?

stainablesteel··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
it's really just a massive sign of disrespect, clearly there's no one capable of competing with spacex, who is already known for beating deadlines, but they insist on insulting them like this

why?

"it's 10 years from now and they're behind schedule", what kind of schedule is this?

stainablesteel··on This map is not upside down
north makes more sense because it's closer to the direction our solar system is moving
stainablesteel··on AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
spitting-drink-out-laughing.gif

but how would these airpods really be able to know you're in the EU? this should be easily hackable

stainablesteel··on Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others
maybe this is odd but i just have to ask, do you consider reddit usage to be the sign of a civilized democracy?
stainablesteel··on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
i've been using linux for over a decade and had none of these problems on 5 machines that i'd installed it on
stainablesteel··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
for what? there's no one who thinks microsoft's ai is even good, let alone going to compete with companies that are actually serious about this

they sacrifice their few areas of credibility just to make bad ai models that no one uses

stainablesteel··on GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM
they're baked in but there's a community of people who crack and modify them

even chat gpt will help you crack them if you ask it nicely

stainablesteel··on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
it's not, HR people are always lazy. i would ask a single chat bot to review every resume/cover letter and suggest the best based on some criteria, i would also ask it to cluster them into generalizable groups so i can review it
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