dylanmorgan
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- Comment on It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so: 4 hours ago:
“Cloud” is just personal storage. Not really full cloud services, and strong chance they are hosted on one or more of the US cloud providers. For instance, Dropbox is hosted on AWS, as is iCloud. It’s likely that the storage solutions run by European companies are ultimately hosted on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 1 day ago:
Ironically, Apple has some of the best odds of coming out of this reasonably healthy. “Apple Intelligence” follows the trend of most Apple services products, in that it is really intended to lock people into their ecosystem and keep buying iPhones. I’m just waiting for someone in the big 7 or whatever they’re called to publicly bow out of AI. I suspect the first one to do it might benefit a lot.
- Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular? 2 days ago:
Does Voyager work with it?
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 5 days ago:
Dan Sheehan (of “NOT A WOLF”) wrote a piece about how easy it is to get away with vehicular murder on his blog: reallyveryhuman.com/…/where-can-a-car-kill-me
- Comment on Jerkin' sneakers 1 week ago:
This looks like it should be from Detroiters or I Think You Should Leave.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 week ago:
I think you mean that Community episode.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 week ago:
This post is directly under a post about the breach in my feed.
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 2 weeks ago:
After lumming aunt Carol’s jello dessert, I’m no longer welcome at church potlucks.
- Comment on Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about waiting, it’s about enticing people to use Amazon fresh rather than the other grocery options they typically use.
- Comment on Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery 3 weeks ago:
My guess is that Amazon fresh makes its prices even more absurdly low to get more people buying.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 4 weeks ago:
That’s literally how “AI agents” are being marketed. “Tell it to do a thing and it will do it for you.”
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 4 weeks ago:
What are you checking against? Part of my job is looking for events in cities that are upcoming and may impact traffic, and ChatGPT has frequently missed events that were obviously going to have an impact.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 4 weeks ago:
Sadly a lot of that is probably marketing, with little to no LLM integration, but it’s basically impossible to know for sure.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 4 weeks ago:
Claude why did you make me an appointment with a gynecologist? I need an appointment with my neurologist, I’m a man and I have Parkinson’s.
- Comment on Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry 4 weeks ago:
I’ve known a number of homeless folks, and not a single one has made anywhere near that flying a sign, but plenty of them have had everything they owned trashed by the cops, who also confiscated any cash because the homeless folks “couldn’t explain where they got it.”
- Comment on Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry 4 weeks ago:
That sounds like an urban legend. The Sherlock Holmes story “The Man With the Twisted Lip” includes a wealthy man who had made his money by begging. The “beggar king” trope goes back further than that, and as far as I can tell it’s just a comfortable fiction to excuse society’s failure to care for its most vulnerable members.
- Comment on Honey Badger hates silly meetings 2 months ago:
That is clearly a wolverine.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 months ago:
I’m so glad I don’t use telegram.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
That’s not really a side effect, more of a condition.
- Comment on Being called a loser for liking animation while the entire world is falling for AI slop is beyond. 2 months ago:
It was bullshit before generative slop was a thing. It’s even more bullshit now.
- Comment on Tea ☕ is leaf juice. While, coffee ☕ is bean juice. 2 months ago:
Coffee beans aren’t beans, they are pits. Vanilla beans aren’t beans, they are seed pods.
- Comment on [Clip] Famous belly kissing scene | Amagami SS 2 months ago:
The veil is a single layer of extra-thin plastic wrap.
- Comment on Baseball, huh? 2 months ago:
I just read it as “guys who are douchebags often say hello in languages they don’t otherwise understand.”
- Comment on Thank you guys for the advice last post. I found a tech support job now. One step closer to leaving homelessness 2 months ago:
Fuckin’ a, friend. Well done.
- Comment on Americans are more worried about running out of money in retirement than dying. Experts offer ways to reduce that risk 3 months ago:
Ooh, look at these fancy assholes who expect to “retire” someday!
- Comment on Any fediverse like discord clones? 3 months ago:
I never became a discord guy, but it seems like IRC (not federated the same way lemmy/mastodon/etc are but functionally similar) would meet the requirements.
- Comment on The real questions 3 months ago:
Unexpected Vonnegut.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
Cory Doctorow has made a pretty convincing argument that in your real specifically, all designs should be open source. That way, if a company goes bankrupt or simply stops supporting a device, like (say) an implant that allows them to see, or a pacemaker, or whatever, they can pursue repairs without the help of the OEM.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
I think Disney might have a few things to say about that.
Along with every other film studio, record company, publisher, video game studio…
…engineering firm, architecture firm…
…pharma company, law firm…
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 months ago:
It’s not really a matter of opinion at this point. What is available has little if any benefit to anyone who isn’t trying to justify rock bottom wages or sweeping layoffs. Most Americans, and most people on earth, stand to lose far more than they gain from LLMs.
