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- Comment on Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail? 1 week ago:
Strong agree on the lack of punctuation.
Medium has become a bit of a cesspool for low-effort hot takes. Sometimes the articles make a great point but are not very well written (as is the case with this one). But more often than not they are a single, unfounded, absurd rage-bait argument that’s been spun out into an article with the help of AI.
- Comment on Warnings rise for U.S. as severe flu strain causes outbreaks in Canada, U.K. 1 week ago:
Pretty sure it’s already here. That’s usually how these things work. Based on sewage samples, COVID-19 got here back in September 2019 - several months before any officials wanted to admit.
There’s currently a really nasty cold racing through schools on the West Coast. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s it.
- Comment on Anyway to clean this sink? 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t recommend this. It wrecks the enamel and causes a lot of tiny pock marks that just accumulate more grime later on.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 2 weeks ago:
“Well it works for unit testing, so just extend that out to all testing! Problem solved!” -Senior Management, probably
- Comment on Jellyfin: why is the line two different colors? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s watched vs buffered?
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 4 weeks ago:
A lot of the comments here seem to be missing some key points from this article:
- The writer made her own likeness available to everyone on purpose. She did this knowing what would happen, but it was part of the exercise of seeing how weird it would get. So the points that she was stupid for doing, or that she was outraged by this, this are missing the point. Was she stupid? Maybe, but she made a conscious sacrifice on her likeliness. Was she outraged? Clearly not.
- It’s short-sighted to say “yeah this will happen, so don’t put your is image out there”. There are lots of people (especially women and girls) who have gone out of the way to avoid having their image/likeness out there for these it similar reasons. But they have still ended up the victim of humiliation and trauma from photoshopped images or deep fakes made against them.
- This second point was a big part of what the author was trying to point out. It’s both a warning to others about being careful of protecting your identity, and an alarm sounding that there are some really weird and creepy fetishes out there that people can get their likelinesses pulled into, even when you actively try to avoid that.
- It also highlights the lack of safeguards on this kind of issue. Consent, age, level of fame… none of that matters in this issue. And in most cases the companies behind these tools don’t do shit to address these concerns.
- Comment on ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous 1 month ago:
Citizens United strikes again.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 month ago:
I don’t trust some of the numbers in this article.
Microsoft Teams: 100% CPU usage on 32GB machines
I’m literally sitting here right now on a Teams call (I’ve already contributed what I needed to), looking at my CPU usage, which is staying in the 4.6% to 7.3% CPU range.
Is that still too high? Probably. Have I seen it hit 100% CPU usage? Yes, rarely (but that’s usually a sign of a deeper issue).
Maybe the author is going with worst case scenario. But in that case he should probably qualify the examples more.
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 1 month ago:
No u
Beep boop
- Comment on Why Companies Are Regretting Laying off Humans for AI 1 month ago:
✅ Fucked around ◻️ Found out
Congratulations corporate world. Here we are.
- Comment on What Trump’s H-1B crackdown means for Big Tech workers 1 month ago:
A lot of self-promotion quotes in there from companies involved in the H1B visa industry. But one broad trend among them: this will empower developing and non-Western developed nations at the expense of the American tech industry - especially the tech industry outside the big 5 or 6 giants.
- Comment on TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal 2 months ago:
It’s the same reason IBM still exists. Massive multinational / government contracts keep them alive and healthy.
- Comment on TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal 2 months ago:
Oracle will be handling TikTok’s algorithm? Okay, so TikTok’s back-end workflow/decisioning engine will rapidly bloat up and will need to be completely replaced every two years. Got it.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 months ago:
There’s are still some consumer TVs out there that allow you to use the green without an Internet connection. Although they are kinda rare these days.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 months ago:
Sony Bravia. Because I just did this last year. My old TV was also a Bravia, and it lasted about 15 years. One big selling feature for me was that you can set it up as either a smart TV, or a ‘basic’ TV that doesn’t require an Internet connection and doesn’t pester you for one.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Amen. I’ve tried the vibe coding thing but it’s frustrating because a) too often the AI output has some profound problems and it gets annoying ‘babysitting’ it; and b) I usually prefer the challenge of figuring out syntax and implementation issues myself.
If something is taking too long I’ll ask the LLM. But I feel like if I do this too much my skill set will atrophy and I’ll lose my sharpness. So it’s a balancing act.
But this brings up another wider question: where is the line between “occasionally getting AI help” and “vibe coding”? Surely it’s subjective.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 2 months ago:
It’s almost like he’s full of shit and he’s nothing but a snake oil salesman, eh.
They’ve been talking about replacing software developers with automated/AI systems for a quarter of a century. Probably longer then that, in fact.
We’re definitely closer to that than ever. But there’s still a huge step between some rando vibe coding a one page web app and developers augmenting their work with AI, and someone building a complex, business rule heavy, heavy load, scalable real world system. The chronic under-appreciation of engineering and design experience continues unabated.
Anthropic, Open AI, etc? They will continue to hype their own products with outrageous claims. Because that’s what gets them more VC money. Grifters gonna grift.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Give it about a month and I’m sure there will be (…unfortunately).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
For anyone who’s not aware, there are some pretty cool open source Minecraft options. Like Luanti (which is more like a playground for all sorts of FOSS Minecraft variants).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s crazy. They are trying to cater to older users, probably because they feel they can get more money from them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It should at the very least get a new, better CEO. And also calm down with their focus on getting older users and encouraging user dating services. They have a solid user base with younger users, and should be focused on them and their protection.
But yeah, just shutting down might be the best option.
- Comment on World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit 2 months ago:
They’ve been going after private server farms for years, so this is nothing new really. For example, Blizzard forced Nostralrius (sp?) servers to shut down about 10 years ago.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 months ago:
I second this. There’s a little bit of a learning curve on some of the functionality, but it’s not bad at all. And most of the functionality is very easy to find. I moved over to Libre Office several years ago and it’s been great.
- Comment on Comfortable is a table made out of comforts 2 months ago:
Or it’s being able to enjoy comfort.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 3 months ago:
BTW a lot of it seems to be just inefficient coding as Deepseek has shown.
Kind of? Inefficient coding is definitely a part of it. But a large part is also just the iterative nature of how these algorithms operate. We might be able to improve that via code optimization a little bit. But without radically changing how these engines operates it won’t make a big difference.
The scope of the data being used and trained on is probably a bigger issue. Which is why there’s been a push by some to move from LLMs to SLMs. We don’t need the model to be cluttered with information on geology, ancient history, cooking, software development, sports trivia, etc if it’s only going to be used for looking up stuff on music and musicians.
But either way, there’s a big ‘diminishing returns’ factor to this right now that isn’t being appreciated. Typical human nature: give me that tiny boost in performance regardless of the cost, because I don’t have to deal with. It’s the same short-sighted shit that got us into this looming environmental crisis.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 3 months ago:
That said though, there is one ad blocker that still works. Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome that our how-to extraordinaire Kaycee has detailed.
Or… You could just ditch Chrome altogether!
I don’t know why people are so fixated on using Chrome. It’s a crippled browser made by an evil company that is actively looking to screw the user at every turn.
I switched to Firefox when Google essentially killed uBlock Origin on their browser. At first I ran into some problems with some sites not rendering correctly. But it seems like that’s become much less of an issue with later updates. And the best thing is that there are some phenomenal extensions for blocking ads - like a fully-fledged uBlock Origin to name just one. I don’t even see sponsor promotions in YT videos now.
And if you don’t want to deal with Mozilla directly you can use Waterfox instead.
All this dancing around and jumping through hoops to get uBlock Origin working on Chrome is kind of absurd. Just ditch Chrome (and all Blink-based browsers) altogether where you can (I get that corporate environments are often off the table for this).
Collectively we should be sending a message to Google whenever we can that we are done with their browser bullshit.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 3 months ago:
So glad he didn’t get his grubby hands on Arsenal FC in the end.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 3 months ago:
And once you have them ripped (however you choose to do that), host them via a media server so you can access them from whatever device you like.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 3 months ago:
I still have one, still in the cellophane. I use it as a coaster.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 3 months ago:
AOL… America Offline