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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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1 yr. ago

  • Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us.

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  • Man I am the complete opposite. I need my browser to display the Web with tons and tons of tweaks and adjustments and filters in place to make it actually readable for me. Rawdogging the Web in 2025 is wild.

  • Does anyone truly think times are better now than 30 years ago? (US)

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  • I don't disagree, but OP didn't ask for trend predictions. Anyone who tries to convince you "things" are worse today than than they were in 1995 is either trying to gaslight you, or doesn't consider the experience of the LGBT community to be as equally valuable as everyone else.

  • Are smart glasses allowed in public in EU?

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  • Using a camera on public property in the EU is broadly very legal.

  • Home server advice

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  • Using recycled parts is the best advice. As you said, it's almost certainly overkill and the price can't be beat.

  • Does anyone truly think times are better now than 30 years ago? (US)

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  • Unless you’re part of a marginalized group I suppose.

    This is a pretty dismissive take. "Sure, things have improved for the blacks and queers, but what about us... uh, regular folk?"

  • IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)

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  • Thanks for the explainer, that last point is really great actually and I'm surprised that Amazon/Google etc are pushing for Matter if the data isn't sent to the internet.

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

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  • I love the notion that even Twitter users had too much empathy and the platform wasn't getting Nazified fast enough on it's own so they had to program a robot to go around and spread propaganda.

  • What are some recommended RSS feeds for privacy news?

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  • IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)

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  • I am just getting started on this journey but zigbee seems great and I like that it works fine even if the wifi goes down. I'm not sure what the drawbacks are or the benefits of Matter.

  • I have now found 1070 verified accounts from media organizations in the #Fediverse, but only on #Mastodon, #Flipboard, #Threads, #Bluesky, #Ghost and #Peertube.

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  • Hilarious that that account's made a single comment pushing back on classic lemmy hysteria/paranoia and then apparently left the platform.

  • Take a deep breath and think about it

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  • Sure, but not by definition. Posting slop and spam is different than shitposting. This post is just slop.

  • Take a deep breath and think about it

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  • "Shitposting" describes the act, not the content. Posting content "that took little to no effort" to produce is just spam. It doesn't matter if a human made it or not.

  • How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right

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  • I don't like having to defend the Times, but the rumor is that they rushed this story out before Christopher Rufo could break the news (with what would almost certainly be a right-wing spin).

    I doubt the Times would ever admit to publishing a story with the goal of hindering the formation of a right-wing narrative but in this case if they did, it might have been the right call as opposed to waiting for Rufo and publishing a "fact check" of his reporting later.

  • Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts

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  • I think quote posts are undesirable for the reasons you mentioned but I have to accept that it will be huge for adoption, and the flip side (promoting others work in a positive light) is also going to be really great.

  • AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study

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  • Oh yeah absolutely, but I also think the goal of the AI companies is not to actually create a functioning AI that could "do a job 20% as good as a human, but 90% cheaper", but to sell fancy software, whether it works or not, and leave the smaller companies holding the bag after they lay off their workforce.

  • AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study

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  • Right? It actually makes me feel insane that the topic of "humans working less" is never in the selling points of these products.

    Honestly I suspect that rather than some nefarious capitalist plot to enslave humanity, it is just more evidence that the software can't actually do what the people selling it to big corporations claim it can do.

  • AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study

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  • This bit at the end, wow:

    Gartner still expects that by 2028 about 15 percent of daily work decisions will be made autonomously by AI agents, up from 0 percent last year.

    Agentic AI is wrong 70% of the time, but even assuming a human employee is barely correct most of the time and wrong 49% of the time, is it really still more efficient to replace them?

  • Improved meme format just dropped (now with the superior franchise)

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  • The Fediverse Passport: A needed tool.

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  • I like where your head's at, but Mastodon's system of verification seems much easier to me and doesn't rely on a third party.