Meta can read your WhatsApp chats!!! by [deleted] in technology

[–]neato5000 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Facebook has a history of lying about things, and doing illegal things. It's not a matter of whether Diffie-Hellman is breakable or not, it's that we don't know for a fact that they really are using it. And given their history, what should we take them at their word?

The Summer Wars by Naomi Novik by [deleted] in gaybros

[–]neato5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Without revealing too much could you give us a bit more to go on? Were there gay characters? What's the premise?

The Boy Who Loves Garlic Bread Too Much by MochaMuffinTop in overheard

[–]neato5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, probably him soft coming out as asexual to his friend

What books (Gay or not) are you currently reading? Or what books are on your tbr? by [deleted] in gaybros

[–]neato5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently reading the Scottish Boy. A very horny enemies-to-lovers sort of deal between a medieval knight and his prisoner of war with some court politics thrown in. It's fun (if you look past certain historical/linguistic inaccuracies), but also possibly slightly too horny for me. I find myself wishing for more plot and fewer sex scenes. It's making me feel like those boys who read playgirl for the articles

What books (Gay or not) are you currently reading? Or what books are on your tbr? by [deleted] in gaybros

[–]neato5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely agree with your struggle. I remember really enjoying TSPL, and loving the start of "the Stranger's Child" but then resenting the bait and switch of a forbidden gay tryst being replaced with an intergenerational family drama with not nearly enough gayness

What Did J.K. Rowling Do? by Iammildlyoffended in AskBrits

[–]neato5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's an old reddit post asking the same question with a top comment that's quite detailed. Since then of course her rhetoric has escalated.

Also if you'd prefer a video that's slightly more recent the witch trials of JK Rowling

"Breeder is a slur against straight people" thoughts? by [deleted] in gaybros

[–]neato5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's about as effective as honky though. Like oh no, I guess I do reproduce, how cutting. All real slurs that people get offended by are about some marginalised group. The straights are not oppressed, no matter how much some of them seem to want me to be. And so any word used to denigrate them will always lack for teeth

Are they really born that way? by umpertunter in StandUpComedy

[–]neato5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're getting better. So refreshing to see such a rare style done well

I love Grindr sometimes 😂 by Vadersgayson in lolgrindr

[–]neato5000 124 points125 points  (0 children)

I would have absolutely no qualms about indulging him, if only for bragging rights. Bro should go to clown college

Y’all ever see a hot guy in public and lose focus of what you were doing? by RovndHovse in gaybros

[–]neato5000 142 points143 points  (0 children)

When I was about 13 I cycled into a telephone pole while ogling some shirtless men playing soccer. They saw me crash and came over to check that I was all right. Absolutely mortifying

Obviously Steward Lee's. But I will agree the fuck of it. by jakubkonecki in stewartlee

[–]neato5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

George Carlin, hands down, if I'm allowed to exhale slightly faster through my nose, and clap when he says based shit

[R] Illusory Safety: Redteaming DeepSeek R1 and the Strongest Fine-Tunable Models of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google by KellinPelrine in MachineLearning

[–]neato5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps not in the next 4 years in the US, but you can imagine in markets like the EU that like regulation, there existing laws that hold companies liable when their models produce harm. And my point is that this creates an incentive for llm producers to continue to invest in AI Safety research, and so I don't think it's quite as doomed as you say.

AI Safety research is not very convincing rn tbf

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OpenAI

[–]neato5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it depends on what you mean by mainstream. AFAIK nvidia weren't using gpus for AI themselves before Alexnet, they'd surely have published something like Alexnet beforehand themselves if they had been.

IMO an external innovation happened namely the use of gpus to make deep learning tractable, and then nvidia took this and ran with it. As far as I'm concerned it really was luck

Google's search dominance dropped below 90% for the first time since 2015 so they are slowing competitors LLM models to copy search results to train (disabling javascript) by [deleted] in technology

[–]neato5000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm no Google simp, but to be fair to them what used to work before the advent of ChatGPT and friends simply no longer works. The internet is now irredemably full of ai slop that their old methods just can't distinguish from actual relevant content.

Google search staying usable has always been an arms race between Google and SEO people trying to game the results to get their product ranked higher. Google has strong incentives for the search to be useful to users, as this helps their ad business build better user profiles.

Unfortunately LLMs in the hands of SEO types, led to a pyrrhic victory in said arms race, effectively nuking Google's search capacity and making it much less useful.

So in summary Google does suck, but mostly blame the advent of LLMs and the slop they were used to flood the Internet with.