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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
  • Ever wonder why websites that use Captchas prefer pictures of cars, busses, crosswalks, stop signs, bicycles, motorcycles and stairs?

    They're using YOU to train their AI models.

  • Websites: Then vs Now
  • I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.

    I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

    https://search.inetol.net/

    It's also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

    https://searx.space/

  • Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash
  • Yeah but mechanical car door handles aren't "Cool." You don't want to have a car that isn't cool, right?

  • Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead.
  • In 2016, Democrats didn't vote for Hillary because she just didn't "do it" for them. We got Trump thanks to their adorable little protest vote.

    2024 14 million registered Democrats didn't vote in this election because Harris just didn't "do it" for them. But since they HAD registered, they were prepared to vote.

    I'm starting to detect a really stupid, petty pattern, here.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back
  • Also, bring back gauges, instead of idiot-lights. It's nice to know when a problem is beginning (overheating, etc) before it becomes a crisis when you have no choice but to pull over.

  • Aerial photo of a drive-in theater in South Bend, Indiana, 1950s
  • I agree. This is NOT a drive in theater. The screen is way too small and it should be rectangular, not square. Also, about half the cars are parked in ways where they can't see the screen.

    This is either a car storage area that had the screen shopped in or someone told an AI "make me a vintage photo of a 1950s drive in," and the AI added the screen and the (badly parked) cars without understanding how a drive in is supposed to work.

  • Aerial photo of a drive-in theater in South Bend, Indiana, 1950s
  • That's a tiny screen for a drive in theater.

  • Trump losing sleep over polling numbers days before election
  • Do you think Trump will try to flee the country?

  • Ohio Sheriff's Lieutenant in hot water after social posts; "I am sorry. If you support the Democratic Party, I will not help you"
  • Fire his ass and replace him with someone who takes his oath of office seriously.

  • You have 8 seconds.
  • "Nature has been extraordinarily kind to you."

  • Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"
  • For the 1000th time Tesla: don't call it "autopilot" when it's nothing more than a cruise control that needs constant attention.

  • Whales
  • Whales are the idiots who keep the Madden games alive.

  • Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall
  • Companies are stealing your computer's resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.

  • What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes?
  • Rich people have special access to the legislative machinery that you and I don't. Through bribes "contributions" they can craft laws that let them avoid paying their fair share of the tax burden. They can also "modify" pending legislation to remove the penalties for breaking those laws. It must be nice to live in a consequence-free environment.

  • More than a little frustrating
  • It's one thing for ME to have a perspective and quite another for a news company owned by billionaires and seen by millions of people to have a perspective.

  • The Great Republican Political Strategy of Insult Puerto Rico for Some Reason
  • So is Donald Trump "presidential" yet? Trump will never get a bigger or better venue than Madison Square Garden between now and the election and THIS is the stupid shit he is going with.

  • Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books
  • I'm glad I keep backup copies of anything that might be important later on, like the 40 gig MAME Rom library.

  • More than a little frustrating
  • It's called "sane-washing" where our "liberal news media" (you know, the one that's owned by six corporations) covers up Donald Trump's fuck-ups or re-writes them as subtle genius.

    Meanwhile Harris has to not make a single mistake, no matter how small.

  • October 14, 2025...
  • If you're using Steam, they use a native Linux client and a custom Proton that has all the settings and presets for their game library.

    Everything I bought on Steam works for me under Linux Mint. And almost all my older games, like "Deus Ex" or "Giants: Citizen Kabuto" I can run directly under Wine with the default settings.