Boozilla

@Boozilla@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot and Sour soup always makes me feel better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can only speak for myself. I use AI tools almost daily to help me pursue my hobby. I find it very useful for that. But when I enjoy art produced by a human, on some level I want to connect with the human experience that produced it. Call it parasocial if that helps. But I’m always at least a little interested in the content creators, not just the content.

  I know some people consume content like a commodity or product. I’m not judging those people at all. But I’m generally not like that myself. I want to know the story behind the creation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  pcgamer.com/…/rockstar-accused-of-the-most-ruthle…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the top 3 things most people in the US have not heard about:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the book of Job, Satan is depicted more like a friendly prosecutor or advisor to God than an enemy. He and Yahweh are like frat bros torturing the poor schmuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I wasn’t more encouraging. I guess I have become a bit jaded regarding overly extroverted coworkers over the years. I do think going to management would probably do more harm than good. Only you can judge how obnoxious the gossiping folks are, and your own tolerance threshold for it. I’m just some rando on the internet. But I do completely empathize with your situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I get my socializing exclusively at work. I actually enjoy meetings that could have been an email.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some extroverts assume quiet people are “weird and creepy”. They gossip and pry into your business to test you, to see if you’re “safe” to work with. It’s a common form of hazing. They are filtering for who they think they can trust.

  If you want the job: try to “gray rock” them until they get bored with you. They’ll never trust you, but they might leave you alone or assume you’re a harmless boring weirdo. Or they might decide to make your job a living hell until you transfer out. Depends on how vicious they are.

  You can’t control them, but you can refuse to engage at their jr high level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MS with that “hello, fellow kids” energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I have wasted my time yet again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you just looking for things to be offended about? Is that any way to live?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be correct to say that enshittification is the physical manifestation of the economic ai bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshitification is a method, greed is the motive, AI is an accelerator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not an ability the Jedi of Lemmy will ever teach you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you confess suicidal ideation in the US, the authorities rush in to “help” you by taking away your agency and giving you even more crippling debt.

  I wince whenever people trip over their keyboards to post those “helpful” 800 hotline numbers. Most of them have good intentions, but the end result is never about really helping the person. It’s about liability coverage and enabling the system to extract maximum value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will the next age of innovative art culture create?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no clue what it will look or sound like, but my guess is it will be a massive artistic rejection of AI generated content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hi there! It looks like you’re trying to summon Jeebus!” --Fundy Clippy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI valued at $500B in new deal with Microsoft — too big to fail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The meme I keep seeing in regards to nVidia and the LLMs Ouroboros structure is: Company A pays Company B $100 to dig a hole. Company B pays Company A $100 to fill it back up. Both report $100 of “revenue”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you deal with those characters fully convinced a job is something you have to enjoy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a few friends at work where we’ve learned to trust each other over many years and many conversations. We enjoy each other’s company and are comfortable joking and talking shit about the job and bosses.

  Outside of that very small group I practice “gray rock” tactics with all of the rest of my coworkers, especially people in management. I just act as boring and uninteresting as possible, so they don’t see me as any kind of threat and it greatly limits the “attack surface” they can use against me with others. Outside of my inner group of friends, my coworkers have almost zero knowledge about my family, my hobbies, my pets, anything at all.

  This is not a good way to be if you are ambitious and want to climb the ladder. But if you just want to clock in, do your job, and clock out (like I do) then gray rock is the way to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no future where advertisements like this will ever be welcome in people’s homes

  I really, really, really want to believe that line. But I don’t. I can see too many ways they will convince the average schmuck that it’s the new normal and you’re some kind of Luddite weirdo if you don’t have one.

  And the main reason I don’t believe it: manufacturers stopped caring what consumers want years ago. They push out what they want us to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Talkie Toaster is here. “Howdy-doodly-do, how’s it going?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re welcome. There are a few exclusive books that only show up an Amazon but so far 99% of what I have been shopping for has been available on Kobo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Calibre with a couple of plugins. KoboUtilities and Obok DeDRM. It is easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for people doing this if they can.

  Meanwhile, I love my Kobo e-reader and I only purchase e-books from Kobo (since Amazon eliminated “side loading”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there really no stupid questions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Were you sealioning? There’s little tolerance for that kind of move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time I’ve heard it said like that is when the person is being passive-aggressive and sarcastic. I’m not saying it’s always used in that way, just my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good observation. I think part of it is, that’s just how these business douchebags talk about everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You exist to make money for us"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gilded Age 2.0 has been their goal since the last one didn’t work out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me guess: the article doesn’t mention how the CEO-to-worker pay ratio has grown like cancer over the years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WSJ motto: always be punching down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure you’ve seen how twitchy and coked up he looks in some of the video clips. It’s all too easy to imagine this scenario as real.