Comment Re:Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwea (Score 1) 82

by NaCh0 on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:55PM (#66350928) Attached to: Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules

Let's check in with how China's bridges are doing:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fworld%2F...

The US has problems but let's not pretend that China has everything figured out.

Comment Garbage In, Garbage Out (Score 4, Insightful) 43

by NaCh0 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @04:21PM (#66287861) Attached to: Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers' Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out

I can't fathom anything on twitch helping train AI except as an example of how not to speak or behave.

Comment $231 Billion (Score 4, Funny) 199

by NaCh0 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:09PM (#66118772) Attached to: California High-Speed Rail Price Tag Jumps To $231 Billion

How much track have they laid for the $231 billion?

Maybe they can run on this current segment of new track until they figure out why cost overruns are happening.

California has some of the best and brightest in government so this seems like a good plan to be responsible stewards of the US taxpayer.

Comment Re:if they found evidence (Score 0) 38

by NaCh0 on Monday April 27, 2026 @06:46PM (#66115438) Attached to: Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data To Find Criminals

This case is the criminal's hail mary pass to get being caught red-handed thrown out of court.

If an illegal hop was made to find the bank robber, he gets to walk free. If police are permitted to do this style of search, the bank robber's guilty verdict is upheld.

The results have an important cascade through the criminal justice system.

Comment Re:My inner editor is incensed. (Score 1) 41

by NaCh0 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @04:40PM (#66072768) Attached to: Cloudflare Announces EmDash As Open-Source 'Spiritual Successor' To WordPress

WordPress developers are very hive minded. Marketing this new cleanroom CMS as a successor to WordPress is a brilliant move.

If I can have my AI engine of choice design up a new site, and emdash has the MCP engine to control the CMS side, deploying a website just became even simpler than the various drag and drop wordpress page editors.

Comment Re:Custom feeds of garbage (Score 0, Troll) 39

by NaCh0 on Sunday March 29, 2026 @04:36PM (#66067814) Attached to: Bluesky's Newest Product: an AI Tool That Gives You Custom Feeds

Oddly enough, the feed and filter system being discussed also allows for an equally echo-y right wing experience, if you desire that.

The algorithm might allow for it, but bluesky moderation won't.

Try saying there are 2 genders and that men shouldn't play in women's sports.

Comment Re:Gemini Is Worse Than Old Android Auto (Score 3, Informative) 123

by NaCh0 on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @08:48PM (#66060046) Attached to: Google's Android Automotive Is Moving From the Dashboard To the 'Brain' of the Car

All I want it to do is find gas stations ahead of me in the direction I'm travelling.

There are zero cases where I want to turn around and backtrack my path unless there are no other options.

Repeat for "fast food ahead of me", "starbucks ahead of me", etc.

Comment Gemini Is Worse Than Old Android Auto (Score 2) 123

by NaCh0 on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:20PM (#66059812) Attached to: Google's Android Automotive Is Moving From the Dashboard To the 'Brain' of the Car

The new Gemini voice integration with Android Auto is terrible.

It knows less than the old voice assistant, is much more verbose and can't read/remember preferences for apps like spotify for music and google maps for maps.

A truly awful experience.

Comment Will it have minimal intelligence? (Score 2) 57

by NaCh0 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:27PM (#66037736) Attached to: Google Maps Gets Its Biggest Navigation Redesign In a Decade, Plus More AI

Google maps loves to recommend gas stations and restaurants that I've already passed.

I want the NEXT gas station along my route, not something 3 miles behind me.

Currently a voice prompt of "gas stations ahead of me" isn't understood, even with an active route running.

Comment Re:Seriously ...? (Score -1, Troll) 255

by NaCh0 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:02PM (#66034084) Attached to: Ig Nobels Ceremony Moves To Europe Indefinitely, Citing US Safety Concerns

You mean the case where the mother abandoned the child and the government decided to keep the family together with the father?

Law enforcement could have put the child in foster care and you'd be posting crocodile tears about family separation.

Deporting the family unit is the solution to all of these problems.

Not bringing your family across the border illegally is also a wise choice.

Comment And a Secret Clearance Gov Contract (Score 1) 16

by NaCh0 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:56AM (#66015046) Attached to: OpenAI Fires an Employee For Prediction Market Insider Trading

Within hours of Altman telling Anthropic to stand strong against Trump and seeing claude get kicked out of their federal contracts, OpenAI announces it has a new Pentagon deal in the works.

Lots of the slashdot usual suspects in the previous story fantasized about all the AI companies refusing to service the US government. How funny the opposite was happening (per usual).

Comment Re:So can I come to the US illegally...? (Score 1) 155

by NaCh0 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:39PM (#66010614) Attached to: Americans Are Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras

Trump can't even hire good MAGA citizens to work at his country club

Ohhh, burn!

Then let's stick it to Orange Man(TM) and deport every illegal!

The more we can deport, the more it hurts Orange Man(TM).

Comment Country of Origin (Score 5, Interesting) 60

by NaCh0 on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:09PM (#65913990) Attached to: AI Is Intensifying a 'Collapse' of Trust Online, Experts Say

Other social media platforms should follow X's lead and show account country of origin for users.

Many of the accounts stoking engagement aren't from the country where the event took place. Viewers of the post should know this.

Comment Merach UltraTread treadmill (Score 3, Informative) 41

by NaCh0 on Friday January 09, 2026 @08:26PM (#65913844) Attached to: CES Worst In Show Awards Call Out the Tech Making Things Worse

The Merach treadmill should win an award for the most honest privacy policy.

If you think a privacy policy has an impact on actual privacy, you're not going to make it. Most of them are AI generated or copied straight from other websites.

Privacy policy pages are almost as bad as the cookie popups that europe wanted everyone to put on their websites. Nobody is reading them or following them.