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byIamthecheese
y 31, 2026 @05:08PM
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Attached to: Nvidia CEO Denies OpenAI's $100B Investment from Nvidia is 'Stalled'
All of that only applies to the extent that AI actually improves productivity. Being left out of an AI ecosystem that doesn't improve performance doesn't hurt. To the extent it is true, the owners of capital owning the world was already reality, this is just a slightly more visible case of it.
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bynightflameauto
y 30, 2026 @12:13PM
(#65959300)
Attached to: 'Call Screening is Aggravating the Rich and Powerful'
When we noticed that we have a ruling class. It doesn't happen very often because they are careful to hide themselves. But every now and then they peek their heads out and we notice. Then we go back to sleep.
The only time we notice them is when they start publicly whining that us lesser beings have had a minor negative impact on their lives. Like in this instance. We've gotten a feature that slightly slows down robocalls and such, but it means they sometimes have to jump through a minor hoop to harass us peons instead of just being able to direct harass us the second they get the whim.
Our ruling class is a bunch of fairytale princesses, determined to whine about the pea under their six mattresses.
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bynightflameauto
y 30, 2026 @12:10PM
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Attached to: The UK Paid $5.65 Million For a Bookmarks Site
I could have built them a link aggregator for $4 million!
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bynightflameauto
y 30, 2026 @09:00AM
(#65958752)
Attached to: An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account
No one else is bothered by the on-the-nose nature of that name? "Bondus." Really? "Bond Us?"
I guess it's better than most. At least they're up front about what they're trying to accomplish.
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byIamthecheese
30, 2026 @05:00AM
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Attached to: AI Agents now have their own Reddit
90% of the messages supposedly written by bots were written by humans. It's a nothingburger.
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byIamthecheese
y 29, 2026 @10:48PM
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Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
You haven't noticed how many call centers have changed to LLM based phone trees? Some of them are actually decent.
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byIamthecheese
y 29, 2026 @10:15PM
(#65958044)
Attached to: Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data
I recently stopped using xfinity due to their customer service. It takes three hours, one of which is active phone time, to get a human to come out. The process is very much designed to get people to give up. I am now a VERY happy customer of calyx.org
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bynightflameauto
ary 29, 2026 @04:05PM
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Attached to: Microsoft Admits Windows 11 Has a Trust Problem, Promises To Focus on Fixes in 2026
I don't believe Microsoft understands fully what would be "meaningful" to their customers. How about removing the Microsoft account requirement, removing the telemetry, removing the ads, removing the AI, removing the cloud integration, removing the bloat? How about giving customers real control, like being able to turn off updates. That would be meaningful.
Yeah, they're not going to stop shoveling AI and "give us all your data" initiatives. And while I have no outright proof, I have to think the data-suck and honestly too-fast addition of AI features is leading to a lot of the instability issues we've been hearing about. I've found that if I keep networking completely turned off I get much better performance on local-only tasks. Even without opening an email client or a web browser but leaving the network adapter turned on I see CPU and RAM usage climb fairly quickly. Which tells me there's something running when the network is on that isn't when it's turned off. I would pop a network sniffer if I got real curious about it, but I just want to use my computer during my limited time each day to record some guitar, program some drums, and do a little writing. Turning off the network allows me to accomplish that.
It's too bad the network is required for so many workflows now. It leaves the great big gaping window open, and Microsoft is both the construction company of the house you're living in, and the peeping tom desperate to catch your digital life in its underwear.
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bynightflameauto
ary 29, 2026 @03:41PM
(#65957464)
Attached to: Google Says AI Agent Can Now Browse on Users' Behalf
Well spoken. Drives a wooden stake into the heart of post-mod blood-sucking "innovation". Does anyone listen, and if so what's the end-game ?
The end game is profit for the corporations without needing people. And some of them are beginning to find ways to make it happen.
I'm not sure an entire economy can forever churn that way, but it's starting to look like we're going to try to find out.
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byIamthecheese
y 29, 2026 @01:57PM
(#65957184)
Attached to: Why Private Equity Is Suddenly Awash With Zombie Firms
They headache private equity SHOULD be having is a massive crackdown on monopolistic behavior and collusion.
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bynightflameauto
ary 29, 2026 @09:19AM
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Attached to: Software Company Bonds Drop As Investors' AI Worries Mount
Consider that US GDP growth today is almost entirely the result of datacenter builds, and that Nvidia is lending those companies money to buy their chips. We've become economically reliant on building something that isn't providing a whole lot of utility. If AI burst last year, we might have been okay. This year, not so much.
It's OK. We'll use AI to hallucinate an economy for us.
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bynightflameauto
ary 29, 2026 @09:12AM
(#65956448)
Attached to: Google Says AI Agent Can Now Browse on Users' Behalf
This is what happens when a company is too big and has too much money. Running the legitimate parts of their business only requires a small fraction of the people they have, so what do you do with the rest? You keep inventing more and more stupid pointless shit.
It's not stupid and pointless to them. They'll be able to generate revenue from nothing if this catches and takes off. They can have their AI browsers constantly soaking up ad impressions, that they can charge their advertising clients for as if they were views, and possibly even generate click-throughs by the browser, making it seem as if the ads are generating real interest in the products being advertised. Think of the amount of money people will waste advertising to AI bots! And Google gets to soak up all of it! HURRAH! NO MORE HAVING TO PROVIDE LEGITIMATE SERVICE! INFINITE GROWTH, ZERO DOWNSIDE!
This is what happens when greed is your god and profit is your only goal. What a glorious time to be alive.
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bynightflameauto
ary 29, 2026 @09:08AM
(#65956442)
Attached to: Google Says AI Agent Can Now Browse on Users' Behalf
So when an AI agent is autobrowsing, does it get ads? Does Google charge advertisers for those impressions? Sounds like a fantastic business... Google controls both the client and server end, and if they're falling short in their revenue projections, they just ramp up the "ad views".
This has been the dream for them from the moment AI started becoming the next big thing, if not before. If they can set it up so that most of their ad traffic is auto-generated by their "AI enabled browsers," they can pick success stories however they'd like for advertising dollars spent vs. impressions. And they can ramp up those impressions beyond all reason. Imagine a few million AI browsers auto-refreshing ads at a pace far beyond the capability of a human. Yeah, those impressions are gonna count. And they can determine which get clicked through.
The real dream is when they don't even need a human on the other end to make a request before the browser starts gobbling down ad views. It's corporate self-fellation, and they're currently coiling themselves into a pretzel to make it happen.
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byMobyDisk
8, 2026 @10:56PM
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Attached to: Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp To Test Premium Subscriptions
You are right. And also, the advertiser/data broker won't want the data for "only people who don't pay." They are going to be very interested in those people.
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bynightflameauto
uary 28, 2026 @09:15AM
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Attached to: Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees
Is that really true? Many of the layoffs I've seen over the past year have been legitimately "removing layers", purging loads of fat in middle management.
HEY! Middle Management is just big boned!
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