BilboBargains

@BilboBargains@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a sane way to use LLM. Also, pick your poison, some bots are better than others for a specific task. It’s kinda fascinating to see how other people solve coding problems and that is essentially on tap with a bot, it will churn out as many examples as you want. It’s a really useful tool for learning syntax and libraries of unfamiliar languages.

  On one extreme side of LLM there is this insane hype and at the other extreme a great pessimism but in the middle is a nice labour saving educational tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#freepenisman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How big is Penis Man?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Assius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s gonna make all the technology, music, art, etc, after we’ve finally cured autism? We might have to start re-autisming people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QUACK QUACK QUACK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent news. Autism finally squared away. We can dedicate our scientists to finding a cure for trumpism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only people this effects is people who don’t know how to operate a torrent client or have a friend that does, e.g the old people that dream up these ineffectual laws. They want to put the genie back in the bottle by making it someone else’s problem and it will fail like the war on drugs has utterly failed.

  Meanwhile, back in reality, developing normal sexual relationships is much more complicated than abstaining from porn. It comes from a cohesive society that values education, healthcare, community and compassion for others. How are we still trying to make abstinence only methods work despite their horrible track record? Our politicial class are mendacious morons from a bygone era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism prevailed during the rise of the internet but correlation is not causation.

  Rockets were sent into space and capitalists would surely love to claim that achievement too, unfortunately it was first fascists followed by communists with the capitalists getting the bronze medal. Should we now decide that space flight is fascist-communist? No. Only scientists and engineers know how to do that. Why didn’t Genghis Khan invent the internet? He didn’t have enough capitalists, surely that was the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can claim anything we like and also retract any statement except when a user claims to be 14. That person remains at age 14 for all time. Is this the logic? What about all the ‘damage’ that was done before they discovered the underage user? Somebody should look into that, they might find themselves face to face with a 51 year old who takes a prescription stimulant every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what peak trolling looks like guise. It has all the elements for a perfect recipe. Bloated and petulant narcissist target, check. Corpulent and obsequious hosts, check. Incredibly damaging and embarrassing open secret that nobody wants to publicly discuss but everyone is dying to find out what’s in the dossier, chef’s kiss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got banned from the stims community after satirically commenting ‘I’m 14 and what is this?’

  The moderator demanded that I submit identity documents. I pointed out that the account was twelve years old but they couldn’t back down at this point. I think they were trying to do a good job and were at least active but it was another nail in the coffin. In theory, an unpaid mod could be more objective because there’s no profit motive but the reality is that many are ideologically biased or dumb or controlling and none of them are trained. That any single individual wants to be in charge of the narrative is suspicious. Scale that ambition up to hundreds of thousands or millions of people it’s a red flag. Reddit is completely cooked these days, I haven’t returned since finding Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could make the same argument about almost anything that is created under our present economic system, it’s void of content. I paid my gas bill so now I can tell my friends that I’m responsible for North Sea gas extraction. People imbibe Joe Rogan’s billionaire koolaid and forget where all this stuff we take for granted comes from.

  Capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty and that is a minor miracle. Now it is eating itself like an ouroboros. People are upset and it’s not a good time to defend big capital, ask TPUSA and United Health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could make the argument that nothing can be achieved without being able to dedicate the time required. That was the miracle of the agricultural revolution, we could do something with our time other than gather food. If you said ‘we got the internet thanks to farmers’ that would be indisputable, everything flowed from that. I don’t see why an internet couldn’t emerge in other economic contexts because internet technology depends on physics and those laws transcend any and all economic systems. We already know this because almost every jurisdiction has the internet.

  The influence of capitalism on the internet has been a mixed bag. e-commerce: good. App ecosystem: ranging from good to addiction health crisis. Walled gardens and enshitification: bad. Misinformation and radicalisation of political groups: dire, potentially an existential threat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We got internet thanks to scientists and engineers. No amount of capitalists, politicians, managers or business people can create an internet. They say ‘here’s some money to make stuff’ and that’s the limit of their involvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need science if your business is fraud, graft and conspiracy theories. In fact you need to keep your citizens as far away from any sort of critical thinking practice. Throttle the education sector and reduce access to healthcare. Give everyone a phone and a social media account where all of their preconceived notions are continually reinforced. Then sit back and watch all the educated people leave in droves as your society devolves into a robber baron mafia state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New number, who did?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Daily Zeitgeist podcast also doing some solid reportage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an unusual gift and would make most people incredibly awkward but there’s nothing sinister in the act itself, absent of the context. People gift things like guns and alcohol and I would argue those do more harm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The obfuscated nature of compiled code does an incredible amount of heavy lifting on behalf of shareholders. Imagine a world where x-ray specs suddenly revealed source code. The flight to open solutions would be irresistible. Windows is hot garbage but it clings to its market share like a limpet, through the magic of closed source, occupying space like a flabby tumour. It doesn’t care if it kills the host because the top priority is growth and an unassailable market share. That’s the magic of capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The consequences so far have been a warm feeling on hearing the news but I’m starting to doubt that feeling. Shawty, are they playing me like a fiddle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t call him ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the business model that shareholders love and seems to be fairly ubiquitous. Eventually these corporations undergo trial by anti trust as their influence becomes increasingly toxic e.g. Google. The concentration of power into the hands of a few people is a problem with large hierarchies generally, ordinary people end up doing whacky stuff on the whim of someone that you never meet or know in any meaningful way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s had two more years of gambling ad harm since the Murphy report. It’s time for Labor to show some courage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gambling addiction is a medical issue in exactly the same way every other addiction is a medical issue. We are busy designing a world of addictions, due to the profit motive. Food, games, phones, all have been cynically designed to be as addictive as possible and lure in the children that conservatives claim to be so concerned about. It’s time to ban conservatives and solve this problem and all the other problems that are caused by too much conservatism. The only thing they don’t conserve is the environment, which is collapsing around us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the spirit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feeling concern for the welfare of a corporation is a lot like caring for a lion or some other large predator. You don’t want to see it suffer but you know that it could turn on you at any moment, when it’s convenient for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historically love sugar⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are wistful for the days when our biggest problem was getting rid of kings and queens. Our first order of business is getting rid of bigots and racists. Then we can focus on alleviating the stranglehold of business, which will clear the path for dealing with climate change and investing in our health and education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who gives a fuck about the travails of corporations on the internet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historically love sugar⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  English people. The Scottish, Welsh and Irish mostly disapprove of the monarchy. Very few people aside from the English actually like these people. I guess that goes with the territory of being a billionaire family for hundreds of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on you, I already watch them at 0.5x speed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not argue against that. Two steps forward and one back is usually how it goes with technology. Reliability is the problem that has only been achieved relatively recently. I remember a time when the hard shoulder was full of stalled vehicles. Japanese cars from the 70s and 80s were notably inferior to their competitors. We’ve come a long way in making this technology polished and affordable to the masses. Now the science shows us it is contributing to climate change and we have a new challenge. So it goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Car companies hate this one trick.