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Shadow Mann

Shadow Mann

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YJ02 said:
yeah, but Musk has lost his way.. he is too easily distracted (due to his personality type I KNOW he likes to pursue the rabbit down into that rabbit hole (i have the same MBTI type)) and has gotten into things not his specialty

to respect our rules here I won't mention all of that- I wish he would leave it all and focus on what he is good at; being the idea man behind his science/tech projects

his current distractions have the high probability of damaging his reputation and his businesses and thus, mankind's efforts in space
this can be seen in micro now starting with all the push back against tesla vehicles and tesla charging stations- several of them being burned already
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Perhaps distractions and tangents are part of his process for creativity? The man is a machine on many levels. How has he lost his way? His way is unique. He does things differently than they have been done before, and then improves the process. His reputation is less important to him than his creativity and efficiency, which makes him the perfect guy for the task which he has been hired to do for the WH. You say for him to stick to what he's good at? That's just about everything he does. The pushback on Tesla is 100% political and not based in any over-arching issue with Tesla vehicles. The burning of stations is activism, not a failure of tech. It's absurdly destructive. If we contrast Elon with Jeff Bezos, we see two completely different sort of multi-billionaires.

BTW, the rules are okay with politics, as long as you start a separate thread. You already know that there will be "heated discussion", so pick your fights wisely! I have refrained from politics here because I appear to be the only conservative in the bunch (could be wrong). It gets too nasty IMO.
 
Shadow Mann

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Atlantis said:
Fuck you Google - they are deliberately making it easier for malware and scammer to be easily be downloaded on your computer by forcing people to view ads which has no relations with content that the user is watching. They've blocked Adblocker and Adblocker plus and with ublock origin unless if you get the link from github or have one downloaded they deliberately disable it from your chrome browser without the user's consent. They've made ublock origin unavailable from chrome store or not compatible anymore. Surely this is a breach of privacy laws?

EDIT: I have complaint about it to the privacy commission here in Australia. No doubt they will take google's side.
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It's easy enough to switch browsers and not have to deal with any of that. I strongly suggest LibreWolf. It's a Mozilla fork, but not Firefox. You can install all the Firefox extensions. Using uBlock Origin, I have not seen an ad on YouTube in years.Also, you can install Channel Blocker to eliminate all the dumb channels they push with the algorithm. Turn off web history and just use your subscriber link. Many ways around Google!
 
Lord Ba'al

Lord Ba'al

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Shadow Mann said:
Perhaps distractions and tangents are part of his process for creativity? The man is a machine on many levels. How has he lost his way? His way is unique. He does things differently than they have been done before, and then improves the process. His reputation is less important to him than his creativity and efficiency, which makes him the perfect guy for the task which he has been hired to do for the WH. You say for him to stick to what he's good at? That's just about everything he does. The pushback on Tesla is 100% political and not based in any over-arching issue with Tesla vehicles. The burning of stations is activism, not a failure of tech. It's absurdly destructive. If we contrast Elon with Jeff Bezos, we see two completely different sort of multi-billionaires.

BTW, the rules are okay with politics, as long as you start a separate thread. You already know that there will be "heated discussion", so pick your fights wisely! I have refrained from politics here because I appear to be the only conservative in the bunch (could be wrong). It gets too nasty IMO.
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Elon is doing great things, as usual. Democrats don't like it. Tough! Burning car charging stations, shows you what kind of people are against Elon. And they're only against Elon because he is aligned with Trump. If it had been Kamala who was elected, and Elon was doing the exact same thing he is doing now on her behalf, then they would be singing praises.

As for politics, I have been following the circus since about half a year before the elections, I think. Many times there were things I had thought to post about, but refrained because I thought it wasn't allowed or there would be no interest. In any case, I am so far loving pretty much everything Trump has been doing, although the recent argument with the Ukrainian president seemed a bit cringe, but perhaps it was appropriate. I only saw the shorter clip, not the whole session.

I guess this makes me conservative as well, although of course, I am not an American, nor do I live there.
 
Atlantis

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Shadow Mann said:
It's easy enough to switch browsers and not have to deal with any of that. I strongly suggest LibreWolf. It's a Mozilla fork, but not Firefox. You can install all the Firefox extensions. Using uBlock Origin, I have not seen an ad on YouTube in years.Also, you can install Channel Blocker to eliminate all the dumb channels they push with the algorithm. Turn off web history and just use your subscriber link. Many ways around Google!
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I'll have to look into Libre Wolf is just that current workplace only accepts Chrome and Edge and Safari as browsers and Firefox as well. For some reason Just a plain fact I am doing a cybersecurity course and for some reason Firefox seems to be most common browser we use to hack computers and servers overseas.
 
Shadow Mann

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I need to rebuild the style here folks! The switchover was not as smooth as I thought it would be, but the posts are all here up to March 5th. We lost a few days, but it could have been worse! If you get "An expected problem occurred" on any page, just refresh it. The cookie is doing that.

Things will go back to looking like they were before. Just need some hours!

EDIT:
Please tell me where you see things that should be there/working but aren't. This is essentially a complete rebuild of the forum! You guys will have to upload your custom avatars again. but it looks like what should be here is here.

Thanks for your patience!
 
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YJ02

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Just got a random thought to check out SYFY channels schedule.. WOW! seems they have absolutely ZERO original content anymore

guess I am not surprised, with all the streamers demanding to be fed by new content - but not even ONE Original show? did I miss something?

cable is dead 😁

schedule:

www.syfy.com

Schedule - Official Site

www.syfy.com www.syfy.com
 
Joelist

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YJ02 said:
Just got a random thought to check out SYFY channels schedule.. WOW! seems they have absolutely ZERO original content anymore

guess I am not surprised, with all the streamers demanding to be fed by new content - but not even ONE Original show? did I miss something?

cable is dead 😁

schedule:

www.syfy.com

Schedule - Official Site

www.syfy.com www.syfy.com
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Yeah Syfy has been like this for a while; the last time it had anything watchable on was when they had Killjoys and Z Nation.
 
Shadow Mann

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Atlantis said:
Snow white is rated 1.6/10 and 157,000 people voted bloody hell.
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Are you gonna see it? I will, but I am not paying a dime for it. This was an important movie for Disney. It made a statement that won't soon be forgotten or go blameless. Years from now it will be blamed for things. Just like The Last Jedi is blamed for the downfall of Star Wars.
 
Atlantis

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Shadow Mann said:
Are you gonna see it? I will, but I am not paying a dime for it. This was an important movie for Disney. It made a statement that won't soon be forgotten or go blameless. Years from now it will be blamed for things. Just like The Last Jedi is blamed for the downfall of Star Wars.
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Well, of course I am going to see the original and read the original but the remake that might be a waste of my time. I think people shouldn't blame a single movie for a downfall of star wars. It was already going to be bad since the original creator wasn't even a consultant for the movies. I don't know to me they are being a bit harsh on the dwarfs they don't look half bad but the acting and some of the CGI with the magic looks horrendous.

Even the original director of the snow white movie criticised the new movie.

ew.com

Son of original 'Snow White' director disses upcoming remake

David Hale Hand, the son of Snow White' supervising director David Dodd Hand, expressed his distaste for the studio's live-action remakes of animated classics.
ew.com ew.com
 
Joelist

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I'm really ambivalent about watching Snow White. Not just because the lead actress literally cannot act (Zegler) and has a poisonous public persona but the CGI also looks like a really poorly produced video game. The original cartoon is more than sufficient.
 
YJ02

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This is NOT about politics, but about what some people think about the internet- how it works/ controlled

I am only using the 'political subject' as an example.. because it is what happened in my experience that showed me just how many people either believe this or can be persuaded to believe it

they think that web search engines, like google or yahoo and others, TAILOR CREATE content in seconds, to meet your search question. that even if no content exists on the internet, that web browser/ search engine company creates it, even to the point of building a fake webpage under a known news media website

here is the example of what actually occurred

I was curious as to the subject having not heard any news since current admin took Office, so I typed in 'Trump admin actions with Afghanistan 2025'.

surprisingly one result I got is that the admin is doing some 'soft' reconnecting with the taliban ((again NOT the topic of this post))

I post this in my FB group and so many ppl come back with stuff like 'fake news'.. then one person makes the argument that I laid out-- that Google, in seconds created the news story tailor made to my search question! To include creating a 'fake' news story on the Financial Times website -- surprisingly, a couple dozen people agree with him!

some people are just dug in way deep into things like flat earth theory, young earth, and apparently- this

do you believe the internet works this way? Would it even be possible?
 
Shadow Mann

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YJ02 said:
This is NOT about politics, but about what some people think about the internet- how it works/ controlled

I am only using the 'political subject' as an example.. because it is what happened in my experience that showed me just how many people either believe this or can be persuaded to believe it

they think that web search engines, like google or yahoo and others, TAILOR CREATE content in seconds, to meet your search question. that even if no content exists on the internet, that web browser/ search engine company creates it, even to the point of building a fake webpage under a known news media website

here is the example of what actually occurred

I was curious as to the subject having not heard any news since current admin took Office, so I typed in 'Trump admin actions with Afghanistan 2025'.

surprisingly one result I got is that the admin is doing some 'soft' reconnecting with the taliban ((again NOT the topic of this post))

I post this in my FB group and so many ppl come back with stuff like 'fake news'.. then one person makes the argument that I laid out-- that Google, in seconds created the news story tailor made to my search question! To include creating a 'fake' news story on the Financial Times website -- surprisingly, a couple dozen people agree with him!

some people are just dug in way deep into things like flat earth theory, young earth, and apparently- this

do you believe the internet works this way? Would it even be possible?
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You aren't too far off the mark with the tailor-made results, but the content is not created at the time you search. An algorithm decides what to show you based upon past searches, other subjects of interest you have searched, any comments you have made about a said subject or a related subject, etc. The results you see in Google and Yahoo are all using the same algorithm. It's near impossible to get organic results from any mainstream search engine. This is why AI makes such an awesome search engine and I believe it will replace them very soon. It's hard to manipulate AI when it can fact-check everything you tell it in nanoseconds.
 
Joelist

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A big argument over search engines like Google (especially) is whether their algorithms are tailored to promote the politics of their principals. There is a good amount of evidence that Goole did manipulate its search to assist one side in recent elections and other such events. AIs will face a similar challenge as now the average computer user is wiser to the idea that search and AI can be manipulated.
 
Atlantis

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Joelist said:
I'm really ambivalent about watching Snow White. Not just because the lead actress literally cannot act (Zegler) and has a poisonous public persona but the CGI also looks like a really poorly produced video game. The original cartoon is more than sufficient.
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The original Snow White was painted and inked. The animators and composers worked together and now the scene is shot and the composer is last. They had 1500 shades of colours for the 1 million slides of drawing.


 
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YJ02

YJ02

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Shadow Mann said:
You aren't too far off the mark with the tailor-made results, but the content is not created at the time you search. An algorithm decides what to show you based upon past searches, other subjects of interest you have searched, any comments you have made about a said subject or a related subject, etc. The results you see in Google and Yahoo are all using the same algorithm. It's near impossible to get organic results from any mainstream search engine. This is why AI makes such an awesome search engine and I believe it will replace them very soon. It's hard to manipulate AI when it can fact-check everything you tell it in nanoseconds.
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Joelist said:
A big argument over search engines like Google (especially) is whether their algorithms are tailored to promote the politics of their principals. There is a good amount of evidence that Goole did manipulate its search to assist one side in recent elections and other such events. AIs will face a similar challenge as now the average computer user is wiser to the idea that search and AI can be manipulated.
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yes, they tailor based on what sources you tend to go to, like maybe show you Reuters instead of FOx if your preference is for non mainstream media ((although I get results for what seems to be the most recent 6 or 8 posted no matter who- the news story on Afghanistan was in the Financial Times- defi not my go to)) but they do not create news.

this is what some people believe.

and that is Orwellian
 
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