Verified entities defecting by using AI to generate their content for them will break this.
We can use verification mountain dew cans. No big deal.
Readit NewsPigalowda commented on The dead Internet is not a theory anymore adriankrebs.ch/blog/dead-... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
Pigalowda commented on Tesla is committing automotive suicide electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/jethronethro
He’s just retooling to manufacture his fighting Uruk-hai.
So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real statlink sats. Are these different than regular sats? It sounds like they’re able to handle more bandwidth but I don’t know.
Pigalowda commented on AOL closes its dial up internet service ispreview.co.uk/index.php... · Posted by u/simonjgreen
The thing is dial-up was transmitting data via sound. It would be kind of interesting if that ever made a comeback for encryption purposes. Maybe not exactly through wires and modem, but I could see a universe where messages are sent via videos that can only be decoded by certain people that are recording the audio.
I don't know why we would do that though. Maybe someone else can riff off this idea.
Maybe during electronic countermeasures? Only way to transmit information is through sound when the EM bandwidth is being disrupted.
Pigalowda commented on Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5 theahura.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/theahura
I started finally using gpt about 6mo ago a lot to do useful things, it finally came far enough along. One day I thought after one of Google's big hype sessions about Gemini I should check it out too.
So I was working with a customer and needed something done in powershell to extract some customer data, as I normally hate windoze and don't touch it as a linux person. I told gemini what I wanted and to make me a script. It started trying teach me how to program powershell.
After laughing to myself and trying nicely a few times just frigging do it and make me (sandwich) script, it literally said something akin to "I can't do that Dave". It simply would not make me a script, instead trying to force me to RTFM. If I wanted to do that, I would have taken a windoze powershell class.
I just kinda stared at it for a minute, thinking what the hell google was thinking lately. I was a google fan, I have google glasses (plural) to prove it. Then I went back to gpt and never looked at gemini again and laugh when I hear of it.
Sad how google has fallen.
Is this a bit? Are you channeling your inner Jeff Albertson? I don’t feel like this is even real. Almost like a response from Gemini itself to give a parody anecdote about itself.
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Pigalowda commented on Fuck dopamine, we're voluntarily breaking our own brains anushkakarmakar.substack.... · Posted by u/ak_builds
I sort of get it I guess.
Struggle builds character or whatever.
The things I enjoy aren’t because I’m the best at them. I don’t care that software could crush me at reading or playing games. Or a robot can lift more weight than I can or hike a trail faster than me. A robot could surely crush me at laying out on the beach and snorkeling.
Comparison is the thief of joy. Enjoy what you want without thinking about how much worse you are than someone or something else.
Cook because you like it or have to do it for financial reasons. Write because you enjoy it (or have to for financial reasons). You get the point.
Doctors need to study 5 to 8 years and pass rigorous exams
Attorneys the same
Structural architects and engineers the same
We have a couple of decades more until we lock tech up, up until now it was all fun and games, but now and in the future tech will be everywhere and will be load bearing
Tech is special! Think about the margins, the gains, the $$$!
I bet on greed. It always wins.