jbloggs777
@jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de
Just a regular Joe.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 15 hours ago:
It would be naive to think this isn’t already in widespread use.
- Comment on Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation 3 days ago:
Challenge accepted.
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 1 month ago:
It feels more like a dance game to me. Boring and awkward choreographed moves in response to predictable monster moves. Once you’ve learned the moves, then you can pay and play!
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 2 months ago:
Hah. I was just playing a YT video of modem sounds for my son, after showing him some “history” videos about early PCs, BBS’s, text adventure and early commodore* and PC gaming.
History? I lived it, son.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 2 months ago:
Grey-stubble Gen-X’er here… The 80s and (moreso for me) 90s were a great time to get into tech. Amiga, DOS, Win3.11, OS/2, Linux… BBS’s and the start of the Internet, accompanied by special interest groups and regular in-person social events.
Everyone was learning at the same time, and the complexity arrived in consumable chunks.
Nowadays, details are hidden behind touchscreens and custom UXs, and the complexity must seem insurmountable to many. I guess courses have more value now.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 2 months ago:
Only in the US, and for mapping companies that now have to treat the US as a “sensitive” country.
The rest of the world can continue to call it by its internationally recognised name.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 2 months ago:
Don’t know about “happily”. “Readily” might be more accurate.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 months ago:
Not A.I, just a terrible system that incentivises (and even demands for public companies) abusive behaviour.
- Comment on Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted? 5 months ago:
Ha, mia samideano! Tre bon’!
- Comment on Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted? 5 months ago:
25 or so years ago, I learnt Esperanto ( Y first second language) by chatting on the Internet. I’d have two windows open - one with the IRC client, and the other with a terminal and a shell alias that would grep a txt file with consistent formatting. “esp esperantoVerbPrefix/” or “esp noun,” or “esp affix-” would typically return the correct result in a split second. Thanks to the simple grammar (that I had quickly memorized), I could hold conversations in near real time as a result.
I wish I could have learnt my other languages as easily.
- Comment on Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted? 5 months ago:
Anki ?