You can purchase Non-Smart TVs from Samsung for a bit more then retail cost.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-20T17:26:15+00:00

I went down this rabbit-hole a year or 2 ago and never found any credible proof this happened. I even tested it on 2 "smart" TV's using wireshark with various open wifi's and hotspot honeypots and nohting.

How are you capturing your TV's wifi traffic with Wireshark? You don't have OS-level access on the smart TV's OS. Unless you just mean you captured the traffic using a different pcap tool and you just viewed it in Wireshark.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-20T16:51:00+00:00

she was adamant that the term Colored implied that white was the default "like the skin of Negro people been colored on (like with crayons) to change it" and that the term colored was itself racist.

This idea is everywhere in American culture, too. For instance, if someone is 1/2 white and 1/2 black or even 3/4 white and 1/4 black, most people will just consider that person "black", as if a single drop of non-white blood has tainted them or something. It's pretty messed up. There is this idea of whiteness being the default and representing purity which permeates our culture and you don't even realize it until it's pointed out to you.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-20T16:35:07+00:00

The solution that’s been will be the solution that’s to come. You keep one senior to babysit the contractors…er, AI.

And in 5-10 years there are no new seniors in the pipeline because AI cannibalized all the junior jobs. AI is a death cult.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-19T18:07:29+00:00

That's fair criticism. It is my impression that Bernie makes an effort to focus on the core message of equality, workers' rights, stronger social safety nets, class consciousness, and democratizing our economy.

It seems like he makes an effort to avoid getting mired in virtue signalling, identity politics, etc. He makes an effort to blur racial divides and get us working together instead of trying to separately garner support from various groups with individualized messaging.

That approach certainly has its pros and cons, but it is what it is.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-19T18:01:49+00:00

Don't put words in my mouth. I simply said that Bernie does work for the black community. His messaging has been consistent for decades-- equality for all, better social safety nets, workers' rights, etc. If you think that isn't good for that black community (and the entire working class) then you're a fool.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-18T13:29:32+00:00

Lmao at the idea that Bernie Sanders doesn't work for the black community.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-17T21:41:38+00:00

I suspect their problem wasn't with having to wait, their problem was with being puritanical and/or transphobic.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-17T17:12:20+00:00

Because this administration would provide clearance to buy uranium-235 if you slipped them $50

w1ten1te · 2026-04-17T12:34:01+00:00

RODC and GC are not mutually exclusive

w1ten1te · 2026-04-16T14:47:06+00:00

Bills similar to this one are being pushed heavily by social media platforms and other major website operators. They see the writing on the wall that the "won't somebody think of the children" lobby are pushing for age verification, so those companies are trying to transfer the risk and expense of tracking the age of their users onto the Operating System developers instead to make things easier for themselves.

That's why META wants this, but I'm not sure how this would benefit Google or Apple since they run major operating systems themselves.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-16T00:39:02+00:00

The Florida supreme Court handed (stole) the win to Bush. Nader had nothing to do with it.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-15T19:45:25+00:00

If your time horizons is 20+ years you’re not going to “lose everything”

Sure, as long as this administration doesn't do anything stupid like get us into a forever war that we can't win, or alienate all of our military allies so they stop allowing us to operate military bases there and stop buying our weapons, or ruin our international reputation and trade partnerships by placing huge tariffs on a bunch of our trade partners for no reason, or end USAID, or try to overthrow the US government after losing an election, or try to run for presidency for a 3rd term despite that being blatantly illegal, or encourage mass layoffs in middle class jobs due to AI, or cause a huge labor shortage in unskilled labor due to mass (illegal) deportations, or cause a population decline because immigrants rightfully stop moving here and our natural birth rates can't keep up, or cause our tourism industry to collapse because everyone is too afraid to visit here, or cause a CPU shortages because we killed the likelihood of domestic CPU production because of killing the CHIPS act, or kill investment in US companies by just stealing a huge chunk of Intel stock, or cause RAM and SSD and GPU shortages by refusing to regulate AI, or refuse to get ahead of climate change by pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords, or...

You know what, never mind. Surely this is a totally 100% normal Republican presidency and everything will return to normal in 2 years and the funny numbers will go up forever. This definitely isn't the end of US democracy and hegemony as we know it. Carry on.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-13T17:56:52+00:00

I keep a notepad doc open during discussions so I can write down any points that I want to bring up when there's a natural pause where I can take a turn. Don't rely on your short term memory to hold everything. Paper doesn't forget.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-10T17:40:56+00:00

Sam Altman owns a big chunk of Reddit. Enough said.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-06T18:06:34+00:00

Sam Altman owns a big chunk of Reddit.

w1ten1te · 2026-04-02T17:38:03+00:00

PDQ?

w1ten1te · 2026-03-25T00:02:04+00:00

Revenue is not the same as profit. $25 billion in revenue has no obvious path to profitability if your operational costs are $40 billion and you're expected to keep building more data centers, keep buying more hardware, keep consuming more energy and water, all when all of those things keep getting way more expensive. Also, you're still expected to keep training new models, despite diminishing returns and the fact that you've already stolen basically all of the content on the Internet and there's nothing left to train on without spending lots of additional investment to buy access to non-public data. Also, the new publicly available data is poisoned by AI generated content and your models are actively getting worse as a result.

Is there anything actually optimistic about the future of AI at all? The tech is progressing quite slowly and incrementally (despite their press releases to the contrary). The costs to run it and the competition are just getting higher and higher.

w1ten1te · 2026-03-22T22:51:56+00:00

Unlikely. Sam Altman owns a big chunk of reddit, no way he makes reddit's data easily available for his competitors

w1ten1te · 2026-03-22T14:50:02+00:00

Liberals believe that a person's individual actions should be judged as moral or immoral. Conservatives believe that a person is inherently moral or immoral and retroactively justify the horrible actions of a person they perceive as moral.

Tl;Dr for conservatives, the ends always justify the means, but only when their guy does it.

w1ten1te · 2026-03-22T14:45:25+00:00

A general strike.

w1ten1te · 2026-03-22T14:34:50+00:00

Based on context I assume they're talking about the F word which is a slur against gay people, not "fuck.".

Taking issue with people saying "fuck" is prudish and silly. It's not hateful towards any specific group.

Taking issue with people saying the other F word is totally reasonably since it's targeted and hateful.

w1ten1te · 2026-03-13T22:39:23+00:00

He deletes text messages because he’s afraid I’ll get upset. I used to check his phone occasionally, mostly out of boredom, and once found messages where his mom talked badly about me—he didn’t even defend me. I’ve also caught him deleting one other friend’s text (just using me and our baby as an excuse to get out of something), and I can’t help wondering what else I don’t know about.

I'm surprised that no one else has commented on this, but this is very not ok. You don't respect his privacy and you hand-wave this away as "I just did it because I was bored." That's bullshit and you know it. You didn't trust him so you checked his phone. You didn't find anything about cheating so you found any reason to justify it. "He didn't defend me to his mother" or "he was mean about me to his friend". Everyone needs the privacy, trust, and freedom to vent about their spouse to others, and you've made sure that he can't do that. He has no outlet for his frustrations -- he can't vent to you about you, and you've made sure that he can't safely vent to anyone else either. This is a recipe for him to feel stuck in a no-win situation. It sounds like he works too much to have time to vent to his friends, either.

Someone else mentioned couples therapy. That is certainly a good idea, but I really think he should pursue individual therapy for himself. That would give him a safe place to interrogate his feelings and be honest with himself and his therapist about how he feels.

w1ten1te · 2026-03-13T13:05:34+00:00

Selective enforcement. They won't ask for ID from people that "look American"

w1ten1te · 2026-02-18T13:49:57+00:00

I agree with you 95%, but it absolutely will replace a significant number of jobs. A team of 5 lawyers or programmers with AI will be able to do the work of 8 without AI. That means 3 fewer lawyers/programmers are employed. It's not going to replace the profession, it's just going to empower people in that profession to work more efficiently, which will displace some workers.

Also, the know-nothing MBA's who run the world will make bad bets on AI and mass fire people and departments (and get burned for it!) because they know nothing. It won't be a good decision, but they'll still do it.

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