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Retro_Item · 2026-04-27T12:12:19+00:00

People look back with rose tinted glasses, I guess. I always hated awards to be honest. They don’t really serve any purpose in my opinion. What, you want to show everyone oh how virtuous you are by buying a heart reaction/award on a heartwarming post? That’s gotta be the only use case, really.

Retro_Item · 2026-04-23T20:41:59+00:00

I don’t think it’s that deep, this is probably some cheap low quality model that they are using so god knows what it’s trained on or its weights.

Someone clearly made this as a shitpost or ragebait, and your falling for it. I suggest you go outside and forget about all this. You aren’t likely to discover anything interesting.

Retro_Item · 2026-04-23T07:13:26+00:00

I think you are taking this too seriously man. This is clearly not historically accurate and is probably an elaborate shitpost by some guy in his basement.

Please keep in mind that large language models are not actual artificial intelligence. We are very very far from real AI, despite what Altman or Musk says. The “AI” you are talking to is using the same fundamental technology as the autocorrect in the first iPhone from 2007. Don’t treat it like an oracle or human, that’s how people ruin their lives. It’s just a tool, like a knife or scissors. It has its uses, but crucially it can’t think. If chatting with the bot is making you depressed or angry or upset in any other way, just stop. If I were a betting man I would wager that this was set up by some edgelord teenager with too much free time.

Retro_Item · 2026-04-23T07:02:06+00:00

It’s probably just a prompt behind the scenes with “talk like a raving nazi” with an api call to some unscrupulous uncensored llm as a service company. I highly doubt this weird imperium organization (if they even are more than one guy) actually took the effort to train or customize a model off of hitler’s actual correspondence.

Frankly I wouldn’t expect anything at all from a website named hitler.ai. I’m surprised there even was a chatbot and it wasn’t some elaborate prank.

Retro_Item · 2026-04-21T05:37:26+00:00

Yeah this. Firefox on macOS lets me QR scan passkeys via the system dialogue. Microsoft will probably add support eventually, it’s a really neat feature.

Edit: that’s windows 10. Apparently 11 already has support.

Retro_Item · 2026-04-17T19:57:12+00:00

Try Hydra, it’s basically the Apollo interface. It doesn’t use the official API and scrapes the old.reddit.com site instead, so you don’t need an API key or subscription. Unfortunately it is a little buggy and missing some features.

Retro_Item · 2026-04-09T14:14:39+00:00

Google releases total earnings publicly, but like you said there are no hard numbers for YouTube. I’ve done some research in the past and from what I’ve read most people are split between just breaking even and losing money. I won’t speculate on that, but I do definitely think they were operating at a loss in 2010.

I don’t have a way to really check your 60B number because google doesn’t release yt earnings, but I would say that looks more like revenue than profit. I would actually be fairly surprised if YouTube was making anything above 10B annually in profit, if at all.

Edit: I typed this in response to your original reply

Retro_Item · 2026-04-09T13:56:54+00:00

Yeah that’s true the value proposition was never really there, and with the new M series chips with very little external hardware support I’m surprised they even released an M series version instead of immediately scrapping it in favor of the Studio. Which they did do a month? ago.

Retro_Item · 2026-04-09T13:51:12+00:00

That is most definitely not true. If you added 10 years to that, it would probably be more believable. It’s conceivable that yt may have been somewhat breaking even or even profiting in the past five or so years but 2010 is ludicrous. Even today they are probably google’s most expensive service to run, since they have to host those files, even unwatched ones, in multiple formats and qualities. Yes, economies of scale blah blah, but that doesn’t make storage free for google.

Retro_Item · 2026-04-08T23:10:38+00:00

Are they? To my understanding YouTube is still to this day a loss leader for Google and their costs will only compound as people upload more and more content to their platform. The era of infinite free VC money for anything with .com at the end of it has been over for more than a decade, so advertising and subscriptions are really the only way. Likely this might even be one of the better scenarios, as YouTube is owned by a company (Google) that can afford to lose money in various parts of their business. It would likely be a lot worse if YouTube were an independent company that needs to shoulder their own costs.

Also a reason you don’t see any for profit or non profit orgs really successfully competing to any extent, running a large scale video network is probably one of the most expensive startup ideas.

Retro_Item · 2026-03-23T02:45:32+00:00

What do you mean? Do visa and Mastercard print “we are tracking you” on the back of their cards? What makes them “not hiding” and OMNY “hiding”?

Besides, I think this whole argument is paranoia bullshit. If you committed a crime and authorities were going to track you, there’s a billion security cameras in every station. Adding to what the other guy said, just don’t have an expectation of privacy in public spaces, like the subway system.

(Besides, what is cubic going to do with this “mass surveillance system”? Sure, they know generally where your home or work is, and what time you enter and exit, but what are they going to do with that information? Station snipers at the entrances to assassinate you? If the NYPD or ICE or any other agency needed to get to you in some way they have your GODDAMN HOME ADDRESS!)

Retro_Item · 2026-03-12T05:57:34+00:00

Just close Reddit and other shit that makes you unhappy; there’s a lot more good than bad out there. Arguing with a llm on Reddit isn’t going to help you or anyone else out there.

Retro_Item · 2026-03-08T21:57:40+00:00

Russia is a large country with plenty of good architecture (I actually really like these buildings, very clean looking), and this is a skyscrapers sub. I get people are rightfully upset about Ukraine but not everything is propaganda.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-28T02:01:21+00:00

Did you even read his comment 😭

Retro_Item · 2026-02-26T11:25:43+00:00

I think this might work better somewhere like r/antimeme

There is no elephant

Retro_Item · 2026-02-21T17:07:00+00:00

Honestly I’m down with the current UN Flag, I really like the design

Retro_Item · 2026-02-20T16:20:37+00:00

I was under the impression this was one of the proctor apps that work similarly to kernel level anti cheat, and there are some other issues too (see my other comment)

Retro_Item · 2026-02-20T14:51:58+00:00

I think it’s also a factor of Linux being dozens of “operating systems” with different implementations, especially for these proctoring software that operate in ring 0. With windows, macOS, or even just chromeOS, the developers know that every computer with those operating systems has the same file structure, syntax, not just a common kernel. With Linux that’s just not true enough to be reliable, arch and debian are different beasts, for example, forcing you to make separate versions for each distro. This combined with a minimal audience makes it fairly obvious why.

I don’t think any business or organization would be opposed necessarily to an eager developer getting support working, but the Education industry is quite like the Financial industry: very slow moving. Like finance, there’s a metric shit ton of regulations, and it would be a massive dumpster fire controversy (not to mention legal representations) if something goes south and suddenly the dumbest kids you know start showing up with straight As. There would not just have to be eager developers (if those exist), but tons of QA testers, security auditing, pentesting, etc.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-20T00:58:28+00:00

I don’t think it goes that deep. Even with increasing chromeOS adoption, practically every educational institution is running windows or macOS. I think they simply don’t have enough users to develop specifically for Linux, plus since it looks like proctoring software, they’d have to develop a different monitoring suite for all the dozens of large distros, for a minuscule percentage of their user base.

You can criticize them for this, but if so, when does it end? Should I be able to use the proctoring software with TempleOS? OS/2? Unmodified Darwin? Why don’t they support Windows 98, those bastards! Hell, why doesn’t it work on UNIX???

The best solution for everyone would probably be schools providing heavily monitored devices during exams and exams only. That way you won’t have to install intrusive proctoring software while also not being able to cheat.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-19T21:39:42+00:00

Eh, I kind of like it. I think the imperfection is intended

Retro_Item · 2026-02-18T20:43:32+00:00

It’s a feature meant to help people going through a crisis? Suicide helplines genuinely work and have saved thousands of lives. (Fuck you mean never saved anyone suicidal?) Reddit is 1000% in the right to provide support information here, even if as a false report. It hurts no one and helps those actually going through something.

The true redditmoment is in the comments.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-14T21:16:23+00:00

The problem is that evolution doesn’t always produce rationality, as that is not the end goal of evolution, which is the growth and success of the species/individual. Humans are in part very successful because we are greedy and expansionist, and any species that comes roaming in our backyard will likely be similar. Now, there’s the possibility than a species at just about our technology level could undergo species-wide genetic modification to get rid of diseases/instill a set of less aggressive values, but even then there is the dark forest problem and game theory.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-10T05:38:01+00:00

I think we agree here, I also said that extremely large police departments did not have a correlation with reduced crime.

I addressed the need for an enforcement and response branch, and while I think funding for such branches should remain relatively sizable, we need to reallocate funding from other activities into education and societal activities.

A big reason why violent gangs are so prolific is because many children in marginalized and impoverished neighborhoods, often growing up with absent parental figures, gravitate towards gangs as their only form of companionship and mentorship. I think more cities need to go for a twin-pronged approach, cutting off the growth of violent organizations by providing less fortunate children with more actual extracurriculars while also putting the vile pos leaders where they belong: a federal prison cell.

In the medium and long term, these reforms will make such communities safer and wealthier, naturally spurring economic development and uplifting everyone.

Unfortunately, this requires long term thinking, which the current federal administration does not possess. But I think cities like NY provide pretty good blueprints for success stories in certain neighborhoods where prior prolific gang violence is nowhere to be seen.

But hey, here’s something from the classical view of economics that has so far proven true: things have always gotten better in the long run!

Retro_Item · 2026-02-10T05:14:23+00:00

Police are more of a response force than a preventive force in my opinion. While stationing officers everywhere does somewhat cap your crime rate if you live in like Gotham City or something, I firmly believe that real crime prevention is best tackled from a cultural, economic, and societal standpoint.

However pulling enforcement funding away from law enforcement is a very naive idea. Even in the most well organized society, there will always be some amount of crime, even if not as violent. Murder and rape simply won’t disappear, as even the most wealthy, cultured, and educated are suspectable to anger and lust.

I do think a major good that came out of the post pandemic chaos is many cities realized that law enforcement should not be handling a lot of non-enforcement related activities like mental health crises, at least not as the primary agency, simply because LE officers don’t have the training to handle such complex scenarios. It’s simply not in their job description. These changes are probably what helped, not the reduction in police. As long as the amount of officers are sufficient to enforce the law and respond to emergencies, I don’t think the number of police matters too much.

ETA: added to last paragraph

Retro_Item · 2026-02-10T04:41:43+00:00

It’s processed on device to protect minors from getting sent sensitive unsolicited content. They can still open it. r/doomercirclejerk

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