douglasg14b
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- Comment on Melania Trump pitches robots as potential educators for American schoolchildren 1 week ago:
Doesn’t even fucking matter if they cost more or less, you can’t replace a human teacher teaching a human child.
That sounds like the kind of idea. Someone who’s never had kids or interacted with children would come up with. Except that this person supposedly has kids.
This is how you raise a bunch of fucking sociopaths with no empathy or regard for others.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 1 week ago:
I’m guessing I must have missed something here or I made that comment. I visited the link in the body of the OP not once, or twice, but three time to verify I wasn’t losing my mind.
Now that I return I don’t see that anymore.
Wtf
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 1 week ago:
You, really, cannot fathom why people would shop at Walmart?
Really? Incapable of that?
I highly doubt that, because I doubt you are proud of being ignorant or proud of flaunting anti-Intellectualism.
Pretending we don’t know why something is the way it is is a form of self defeatism where we hand control to these companies, who survive on data and knowledge, by denying ourselves the data and knowledge to do something about it and help others do something about it.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 1 week ago:
Did you go to the repo before running your mouth? It’s awesome-selfhosted data.
What AI slop?
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 weeks ago:
Naw, they’ll get legislation passed that carves our extra protections for their robot guard dogs.
Considering these companies own the legislative process, and the government formed and ran by the people no longer serves the people, and is instead a funnel for class traitors to enforce the will of the Epstein class on all of us.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 weeks ago:
Sooooo
More pandering to the lowest common denominator
- Comment on Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense. I appreciate your replies
- Comment on Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative 2 weeks ago:
The commit history is 1 day.
This is AI generated slop through and through.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 2 weeks ago:
And instead install a chromium based browser, right?
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 weeks ago:
California, Colorado and New York now.
Honestly is getting insane.
Given how many states are pushing legislation like this and how quickly they’re doing it, there’s effectively no way to push back against it…
I do hope that they stop this bullshit though.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
The maintainer you and said that they tirelessly tested, reviewed and verified changes over the course of 3 weeks to make sure that things were running and operating correctly.
This is how it should be done. It’s not like they’re vibe coding this.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much.
I’ve started using AI on a project last week and the first thing I do is write tests. Lots of tests.
With enough guardrails, you could actually get pretty decent quality output out of it and with enough regression tests, you can ensure that nothing’s actually breaking.
Similarly, reviewing its changes and actually reading the code that’s being generated to ensure correctness is necessary. However, I am finding ways to automate that and reduce the incident rate of problems to even lower than my co-workers.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 3 weeks ago:
That’s an abysmally bad idea. This would be a wet dream for companies like Meta.
Effectively that would lock in the monopoly by huge social media platforms and absolutely no one would be able to try and make alternatives.
That idea would raise the bar for entry into social media to such a degree that only establish platforms can maintain themselves.
Which would make things like Lemmy, anything on the fedaverse, any third-party or fledgling social media platform…etc defunct overnight. And the only options would be existing, abusive, monopolistic, corporate managed platforms.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 3 weeks ago:
Well yes of course but also restricting access to information doesn’t exactly help much either.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 3 weeks ago:
The line between medical advice and personal research is pretty freaking gray, so banning medical advice. Does that also ban talking to llms about anything that is medical adjacent?
Does medical adjacent mean personal disabilities? Drug related interests? Pet health?
…etc
It’s a slippery slope and we don’t need to be sliding down it
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 4 weeks ago:
I always love it when folks who don’t actually know what they’re talking about, comment like they do…
It’s not just the browser. This example is the browser, but it’s your entire system stability that is affected by random bit flips.
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 4 weeks ago:
Honestly yeah it’s 100% checks out.
I have device that has ECC ram and I can keep it online and applications running for well over 18 months with no stability issues.
However, both my work computers and my personal computer start to become unstable after about 15 to 20 days. And degrade over the course of 1 to 2 years (with a considerable increase in the number of corrupt system files)
Firefox and chrome start to become unstable after usually a week if they have really high memory usage.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 4 weeks ago:
That’s literally not possible.
I’m not talking about from a practical standpoint I’m talking about from a theoretical standpoint.
Given that social media being a form of media where humans socialize with each other is not something that can be banned because humans are intrinsically social creatures and modern technology facilities media based communication.
What we don’t need is social media banned. We need regulation and enforcement and teeth for those regulations.
Almost all of the bad and negative parts of social media are results of companies driving profits and engagement at the cost of everything else, including the well-being of their users (Such as artificially, inflating, negativity and division because that drives more engagement).
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 5 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 5 weeks ago:
Yeah ofc they are chasing the buck.
It’s either they find alternatives revenue streams or we no longer have Firefox as a viable alternative anymore.
Browsers development is crazy engineering heavy, and this, expensive.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s a catch 22.
They either fail to get a big enough use base because their core users are not enough and they fail from a lack of funding.
Or they try to follow trends to increase their appeal and user base, and annoy their core users.
Most users don’t realize that Mozilla is doing what Google is doing with Chrome with an engineering team 1/4 the size of the chrome team. And that the grand majority of their costs are engineering related.
Browsers are expensive, and Mozilla needs to find revenue streams to pay for it.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 5 weeks ago:
Contact centers, software development, automation, images and video analysis, data analysis, semantic search, entity recognition…etc
Many of these are cross-cutting across many sectors.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 5 weeks ago:
To be clear, it only wildly fails to meet expectations in sectors that you hear about.
It’s most definitely medium expectations in sectors you don’t hear about because news and social media have a huge negativity bias because that gets views and engagement.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 5 weeks ago:
You can thank walled gardens like Discord for that.
- Comment on Moats are back! 5 weeks ago:
So it’s not that they’re going to exterminate you as and kill you. They are going to exterminate your way of life to supplement their own
- Comment on Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long 1 month ago:
Police are to society like HR is to workers.
They are not there for you, they are there to serve and protect their masters and enforce their masters will against the rest of us.
- Comment on Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long 1 month ago:
When in fact the crime was actually just not being rich
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 month ago:
Guaranteed the software in many of these printers is going to require an always online connection and is going to be baked with DRM in the near future.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 month ago:
It’s not about firearms.
It’s about controlling what you can 3D print.
When your 3D printer has to connect to a third party service to check if it’s allowed to print what you just sent it. That’s a clear vector for companies to enforce IPs.
Printing a replacement part for your appliance? Sorry, they’re blocked.
Printing parts to repair part of your vehicle or snap something back on? Sorry, that’s banned.
Printing something that resembles the intellectual property of any other company? Sorry, that’s banned.
Also a mass surveillance device to produce surveillance of what people are 3D printing and report it to a central authority.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 month ago:
Here’s the thing. This isn’t about banning weapons. It’s about controlling access to IPs and preventing right to repair.
A forcibly Internet connected online. Only 3D printer that has to first check a public database to see if it’s allowed to print the thing you just sent is most definitely going to be used to block you from printing parts to fix your appliances or devices.
And definitely going to be used to provide copyright protection and blocking to IPS of large corporations and companies.