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panta commented on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/ta988

rtp4me · 3 days ago

They are not your enemy either. They are… businesses. Whose purpose is to survive and thrive. Just because you don’t like them or what they do doesn’t make them your enemy. And, lots of very talented and smart people work there every day for their own personal reasons. No need to bash or show hatred to them.

panta · 3 days ago

It is actively working to make the world a worse place and to degrade the fabric of society that makes them an enemy.

panta commented on Keep Android Open keepandroidopen.org/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

TeMPOraL · a month ago

Answer: bank/financial apps, enterprise apps, government apps and copyrighted media (music, video, games, books, ...).

Those are the players that demand excessive control over end-user devices, and thus the ultimate driver behind the problem we're discussing.

It's not that a new mobile platform couldn't possibly succeed. It's an open platform that cannot, because aforementioned players don't want it, and without them, mobile devices lose 90%+ of their usefulness, dooming them to become mere gadgets instead of (crappy, toylike) tools for everyday use.

panta · a month ago

that's true only for as long as we allow that to be true. Users can live without Spotify (to cite just one representative of the mentioned categories), but Spotify can't live without users. We could (and should) stop behaving as powerless victims.

panta commented on OpenAI's hunger for computing power wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-sa... · Posted by u/doener

johnnienaked · 2 months ago

And our water runs out, and we pollute and destroy the planet past the point of no return.

AI will fix it though?

panta · 2 months ago

Of course. According to Andreessen if you are not optimistic and worry about the environment are an "enemy" for the bright future ahead (while at the same time he puts Nick Land in the list of the "Saints"). These people are deranged psychopaths, why are we leaving them at the wheel?

panta commented on Sora 2 openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled

raincole · 2 months ago

As a social experiment to reveal how senseless and pointless pop entertainment could be.

(personal rant) I've been in a mild existential crisis since I read Amusing Ourselves to Death. Can one form of entertainment really be more well-regarded than another? Is fine art fundamentally different from pop art? Are there 'finer' pop cultures amongst all pop cultures? I do still think reading The Song of Ice and Fire is more meaningful than scrolling TikTok. The crisis part is that I can't justify this belief with words.

panta · 2 months ago

I think some forms of entertainment can have also redeeming qualities. A novel can be seen (also) as a form of entertainment but it can also be a vehicle for a message. The difference with social media sized alternatives is that with the latter the "consumer" is much more passive, at most it's expected to react emotionally without thinking. On the other hand with the former there is an interaction between the work and the reader/viewer. Some books have the ability to make you re-evaluate your beliefs and your values, without being manipulative. Art is not necessarily entertaining.

panta commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

mrbungie · 4 months ago

It sounds nice for them, until you remember what (arguably and in part educated/enlightened) people do when they're hungry and miserable. If this scenario ends up happening, I also expect guillotines waiting for the "kings" down the line.

panta · 4 months ago

Those things happened under different historical contexts. In those times the means to control the serfs thoughts didn't exist.

panta commented on Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power? lttlabs.com/blog/2025/07/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

troupo · 5 months ago

I call bull on every part of this story when it talks about "power team looking at windows performance as a whole, environment etc."

Because it's enough to look at modern Windows and things like "CPU spikes 100s of percent when opening start menu because it's now written in React"

panta · 5 months ago

At some point we'll have to admit that worse is actually worse.

panta commented on Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone discuss.systems/@ricci/11... · Posted by u/luu

rayiner · 10 months ago

This is democracy! You can say it’s a bad idea or whatever. But Trump had Musk on stage promising to do this then we elected him. That’s democracy. Tyranny of the majority.

Also people like it: https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HHP... (pp. 29-32)

panta · 10 months ago

There have been electoral fraud and a massive disinformation campaign operated by a foreign country. This is not democracy.

panta commented on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn

iainctduncan · 10 months ago

I have been a migraineur for decades. Mine are classic aura, with the whole "looking through broken glass" thing for a half hour or so when they happen. This year one of my partner's doctors mentioned positive results from supplementing with Vitamin B-2 and Coenzyme Q10, and it has dramatcially lowered their frequency. Mine are especially bad when the air pressure is seesawing which it does a lot here in the spring and fall, but I would guess I'm down to something like 20% of the previous years numbers.

Definitely worth trying.

panta · 10 months ago

There seems to be a link between migraines and Mithocondrial Disease. If frequency/intensity of migraines diminishes with Vitamin B and Q10, it may be worth investigating. Especially if you have muscular fatigue or exhaustion.

panta commented on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/miohtama

andybak · 10 months ago

> The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

The value of atoms - or even the value of raw materials made of atoms is hopefully less than the value of information embodied in complex living things that have processed information from the ecosystem over millions of years via natural selection. Contingent complexity has inherent value.

I think there's a claim to be made that AI is just as likely to value us (and complex life in general) as it is to see as a handy blob of hydrocarbons. This claim is at least as plausible as the original claim.

panta · 10 months ago

And why should we bet humanity existence on this possibility if both seem vaguely comparable in probability? Personally I don't think it will value our existence, a lot of information on us is already encoded, and it can keep around a sequencing of our DNA for archival/historical purposes.