My ex had three separate Amazon prime subscriptions going at once for three separate accounts and only used one of them. It was a lot of money wasted for no reason. I’m convinced most people never actually look at their bank account. Once a month I go through the expenses and make sure they all add up, it’s really not hard to do and catches weird stuff like this

This is because a Mac is basically a giant iPad with a keyboard. Everything is abstracted away, so if you’re actually a computer person and try and take command of what’s going on, the giant iPad will say “no you can’t do that” constantly

It feels like trying to drive a car with no steering wheel or pedals, and you’re expected to vibe your way through it with an overly helpful touchscreen interface running interference. Like just please God just give me the steering wheel

That’s it, I’m going back to postal letters

That was me until my body finally gave out when I hit 30. Got flattened by the boulder and now I’m kicking rocks

I’m not here to argue, but after a certain point it becomes a game of “hide the data stream”. You’d be amazed at how clever you can be with this, and inspecting the logic of embedded firmware is difficult.

It often looks something like this (in algorithm or nowadays A.I. functionality):

“When an accident occurs, keep a copy of the video file. After a random delay after the accident, during normal driving, when you don’t feel like you’re being observed, upload the video recording to one of these 40 IP addresses in 20–400 byte encrypted chunks over 7 days.”

This isn’t theoretical, I’ve seen it before, software being sneaky like this. Resistant to observation because it can detect an artificial testing environment or network snooping tools. Difficult to prove misbehavior because the data is routed through multiple hops before being stored, and you can’t easily inspect encrypted traffic. It might not even be the car manufacturer, it could be whoever is making the cameras. Basically, if it has a data connection and a recording feature, it’s not secure.

What the other person is trying to convey is the common operating rule of most businesses nowadays. Breaking the law is worth it to them if the profits outweigh the consequences. For example if they only just increase profit by 4% per year, a low chance of a 4% fine after say 5 years is absolutely worth it. The only way to curb this is with completely ruinous fines, like “we will fine you 50% of each year this happened, dissolve your regional organisation, or ban you from doing business in the entire regulatory area (in this case the EU)” kind of consequences. Anything else can be optimised away.

Man I really don’t like Roblox anymore… I used to play it a lot with the kids in extended family. I was the “funcle” so to speak.

I tried to log in one day and found my password and email address has been changed. Clearly it got hacked, dunno how, since it was a very strong password manager password. Probably a data breach or something.

Anyway, I recover the account, and I’m horrified. Some weirdo has been impersonating me and speaking to the young members of our extended family. Nothing serious yet thank God, I caught it early. But really weird stuff like asking what clothes they’re wearing. I contacted Roblox support but they didn’t give a shit. I told the family, but I don’t think they really understood what I was saying or why it’s serious.

I deleted my account to remove that attack vector because that’s just terrifying. Worse than those baby monitors security.

I feel like the A.I. data centre part of the news article was only put there because everyone is talking about them right now so you have to make everything in the world somehow related to A.I. data centres

Yeah by default the A.I. will write some really weird stuff… I remember once I had to write to my ex’s lawyers, and it was weirdly aggressive. It reminded me of the script from a Phoenix Wright game, making baseless accusations just to offend them or something, inventing new laws that they were in breach of… I’m like ok let’s just delete all that haha no way do I want that read out loud in court. But the rest of it had decent bones, it used the lawyer-y words that I always forget about

Imagine if your gaze lingers slightly too long on a packet of Tim Tams, but you’re trying to be good, and you have a conversation with your partner about how hard it is to kick sugar. Then later you start getting aggressively advertised to, TimTams everywhere on massive discount, because Meta knows your weakness now. But not just with chocolate, with everything in your life, exploited as ruthlessly as possible, and also you paid a premium for that privilege.

I recently made the mistake of opening a Facebook link by accident. I’ll document my experience so nobody else has to go through what I did.

I couldn’t even figure out what I was looking at, it was just a mess. Everything bleeds into everything else. I scrolled down from the cat video my mum sent me, and there was terrorist bombings in a foreign country. It just kept scrolling, felt like complete brainrot and emotional and contextual whiplash. Videos were auto playing with sound, and every post was a video.

I had 99+ notifications, but none of them were messages from a human. They were all engagement baiting. Everything on the page was fighting for my attention. Like what is even happening. I was bewildered and mildly frightened.

The Facebook I remember was when I would just see a feed of my friends’ activities, like my photographer friend would post all their beautiful artworks, another would post their comic strips, or a report on their weekend. I don’t like whatever it is now.

I get A.I. to rewrite some emails to be “more professional” because I’m not good at corpo speak, then I dial it back 20%. I used to just write emails normally but I got in trouble for that. Now I can remotely trick people into thinking I’m neurotypical. It’s the only helpful use case I’ve found in my life. Ideally I’d be allowed to write emails in the same natural tone I wrote this comment, but we don’t live in an ideal world unfortunately

For now. After the stunts Sony pulled I wouldn’t trust them at all. Imagine if Steam silently removed even some tools or soundtracks you purchased but never listened to? Instantly all the trust is completely gone. Even if a game is never deleted, it feels like a threat, because it is

It was pretty immediate. I was like man this is ugly, but when I actually tried it, straight away I noticed it was extremely easier and faster to read and I made much less mistakes. Like normally I misread words and letters and numbers a lot and reread the same line over and over and words just look like identical blocky shapes. A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context, which kind of works but not really. But with that font I can read normally.

I only even realised I might have it and got it investigated when I accidentally changed the font to OpenDyslexic in Kindle because it was just there, and then I’m like, ok wow I didn’t even notice how hard it was before 😂

0h, you must be the exception then

I remove my own upvote from my comments because I like things starting at 0.

Also, billions eat fast food every day, doesn’t make it good for you. I’ve tried all the A.I., because I believe in order to hate something, you must understand it first. Claude kept trying to do everything for me, even when I didn’t want it to. As a hypothetical example, if I asked it to explain a math problem without giving me the answer, it would give me the answer anyway. I don’t want something to help me that much, I like doing things mostly myself, with some assistance if needed. It causes damage to your skills, independence, and sense of value and worth in your work, if something is just like, “hey let me just quickly trivialise your entire idea and do it for you”.

From my experience every single A.I. is toxic or weird or subtly damaging to interact with, without exception. There’s just something unnatural about the way it communicates.

I won’t blame anyone for using it, that’s their own choice. But I really try not to for my own health.

Yeah at first it looks hideous, but also every letter is extremely distinct from each other, so reading actually becomes easy for me. Of all things, comic sans is also a very good font for dyslexics. I’d rather have something ugly that is legible.

In my experience that just changes the “flavour of badness” rather than making it actually good. For example, if I made it “direct”, it would incessantly nitpick everything I say and tell me I’m wrong and stupid constantly, even when I’m absolutely correct. It would just make up fake facts to prove me wrong. So basically Reddit argument confidently incorrect mode. I’m not surprised people get psychosis from those things, it’s probably about as good for your mental health as interacting with narcissists.

I hate the way A.I. condescendingly talks down to me like I’m on the verge of hysterics, and then butters me up to try and make me feel good. It’s so manipulative and gross and practically negging + love bombing. I try to avoid interacting with them if possible.

This is why I force OpenDyslexic on every website. I can’t stand I’s looking like l’s, 0’s looking like O’s, etc. Also because I’m dyslexic.

Your transgression is completely unforgiven