damnesian

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by damnesian 8mo ago
to be fair, yet another useful and interesting tool exploited into unusability.
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by damnesian 8mo ago
yeah, that is why I haven't had a landline in 20 years. My isp upgraded to voip and almost immediately we were assaulted by all-day, all-night spam. The "landlines" of 2026 are not the same as phones back in the day.
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by damnesian 8mo ago
This reality alone has made me severely curtail my own social media use and reach. I really only care about a handful of forums attended by (at least... seemingly) people who actually care to think, or have some basic intact humanity and wa
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by damnesian 8mo ago
I know I personally retain things better if I write them out, on paper, than if I type or record them. It's a cognitive advantage every kid not only should be allowed, but at a crucial time of development when they NEED to exercise tha
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by damnesian 8mo ago
A guy could get really screwed if an ai-generated portrait happens to look like them AND if these get added to the facial recognition database considered the gold standard by certain agencies, considered more definitive even than identifyin
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by damnesian 8mo ago
Know what is super easy to do? Not buy Amazon Ring products.
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by damnesian 9mo ago
Interesting statement from a company far from having stuck the landing on its own platform.
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by damnesian 9mo ago
>Metabolic health experts at L-Nutra, the science-driven company behind Prolon >LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links "experts" who are in the business to sell you metabolic enhancements.
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by damnesian 9mo ago
On the contrary, draconian methods of social control are going to make mass immigration a constant phenomenon.
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by damnesian 9mo ago
"non-nerds?" AI has obliviated the nerd. How can you nerd out if you let AI do your thinking?
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by damnesian 9mo ago
It's like refusing to admit people age. It's anomalous entropy.
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by damnesian 9mo ago
There's no thing to deal with. It's purely their own invention.
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by damnesian 9mo ago
I can hear conspiracy nuts already, claiming magic is real, AI finally showing us the truth.
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by damnesian 10mo ago
As long as it can be turned off, I will remain a user. I've been a user of this lineage of browser since Netscape. I've got its features baked into muscle memory. But I have no interest in the overhead nor the distractions of AI i
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by damnesian 10mo ago
Google as default search engine for every fresh install, perhaps?
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by damnesian 11mo ago
>despite the fact the existing evidence shows vaccinations are responsible for the massive epidemic of chronic disease that is sweeping our country. OK... I am done with that garbage article and author.
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by damnesian 11mo ago
>Variants on the "123456" were among the most common for all age groups, with that exact string proving to be the most common among all users – the sixth time in seven years it holds the undesirable crown. I'm sometimes am
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by damnesian 11mo ago
>And the economics were too compelling: AI content costs very little to produce in comparison to traditional video creation The environmental costs are staggering. How can this be asserted straight-faced when these companies are building
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by damnesian 11mo ago
I don't even know how to parse "new hit song on Spotify." I suppose that means based on streams, but what kind of hollow "hit" never even sees the light of day outside of streaming and inevitable soundtrack use on t
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by damnesian 11mo ago
I never use the app, only login to old. and when old is taken away, I will take my marbles and go home.
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by damnesian 11mo ago
we put way too much faith in them. It's easy to fake authoritative when your substance is virtual.
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by damnesian 11mo ago
giving Amazon vibes.
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by damnesian 11mo ago
how about just a modest cadre of likeminded dorks?
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by damnesian 1y ago
I don't think the comments are the problem. It's the doomscrolling. On YT, that would be shorts. Here, I guess it would be skimming thread titles and occasionally checking out the link. More convo = less of that nonstop dopamine u
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by damnesian 1y ago
The LAFD became a fire? What a terrible headline.
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by damnesian 1y ago
In my mind, their rightful place is transcription of written speech where the speaker pauses, and either inserts an island idea, or changes course. The comma doesn't suffice, because it's bridging an initial idea with expounding o
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by damnesian 1y ago
Great, can I buy hallucinated products now?
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by damnesian 1y ago
> the new "free" software is a sales funnel into the paid subscription, and will also increasingly have that "second-class" feeling as new pro-only things are added to it There's a plague of this on the entire in
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by damnesian 1y ago
I like my W10 laptop more than I need Windows, so yet another machine and around here will join the dark side. that will make, let's see... seven machines at home that shipped with windows and now have some flavor of *nix.
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by damnesian 1y ago
This is really the perfect point in the timeline- "in these uncertain times-" to posit themselves as a working repository of credible information. Also I firmly believe the Wikipedia app is key to their sustained relevance. Users

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