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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s a very selfish person who doesn’t care about other people. She only cares about what benefits her. So when someone says “there’s no material benefit to me” they sound like that kind of asshole.

  Also it was a critically acclaimed show, not some obscure media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t logically follow. No more than saying “Building more highways is bad for the environment, ergo the highway administrators benefit from having more cars on the road.” You’re looking at a problem of induced demand and concluding the problem is on the demand-side of the equation.

  What? Yes it does. Facebook needs users to generate revenue. With no users, they can’t sell ads or user data. How else do you think they make money? Do you not think making money is a benefit for the owners of facebook?

  It’s one node in a massive web. And it’s easy to say “Well, you have to do your part because <insert consumerist morality here>”. But mostly it’s just some random asshole on the internet telling me not to use my telephone because AT&T is run by a richer set of random assholes. There’s no material benefit to me and no collective coordinated action that I’m seriously participating in.

  You’re reminding me of Eleanor from the good place. Do you also litter? Refuse to return shopping carts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect.

  Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world, or would I need to try to prove that? There’s the time they tried to see if they could make people sad by adjusting the feed. (They could)

  If you accept that, it’s a small step to “They benefit from having more users on their platform”. More users means more engagement, which means more ads, and advertisers pay more money for those ads. No one’s going to pay big bucks to advertise their stuff to an empty platform. Facebook’s going to have a harder time selling user data and metadata if users aren’t on there.

  Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket. But every family that leaves makes it easier for the next family to leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Those aren’t the only email providers, and using email is less harmful than using Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  email exists and isn’t run by the worst people on earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t know about the down votes. I tried to be clear I was talking about a preference and personal experience, but I guess some people took offense.

  The last non fiction book I read that was really interesting was “The Ghost Map”. It’s about when people figured out Cholera. That’s kind of technology adjacent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but YouTube isn’t as credible. And if it was, I’d still rather read something than spend twice as long watching half the information. Tastes differ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To me YouTube is an untrustworthy platform owned by one of the worse mega corps. But also I just don’t enjoy video as a medium

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I dare say books still exist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who make decisions at Youtube clearly do not even use their own website or app and there is no way to give feedback either.

  Ed Zitron, famously verbose web blog guy, wrote a post about how he thinks most of these big businesses are run by idiots that are out of touch with both the product and the users.

  wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

  It’s simple: they neither know nor care what the customer wants, barely know how their businesses function, barely know what their products do, and barely understand what their workers are doing, meaning that generative AI feels magical, because it does an impression of somebody doing a job, which is an accurate way of describing how most executives and middle managers operate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is only me describing my personal taste, but:

  Almost all video essays and podcasts I would rather just read. It takes half the time. Include pictures, diagrams, and animations if needed. But I can read much faster and retain much better reading than listening to someone talk. Listening at double speed is faster, but can be uncomfortable.

  I can imagine some value in some other niches, like you’re saying, but the amount of slop and trash out there is too high for me, and the companies selling it are the worst.

  Every time I see some parasocial YouTuber making That Face I just get irritated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I forget people watch YouTube on purpose. Other than music videos and the rare “how do I do this thing in this game?” I just don’t use it

  I feel like an alien sometimes. Reading books like some sort of lost time traveler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t like ai stuff. And I certainly don’t need AI to group my tabs. I can do that myself just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. Some CEOs are pretty stupid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when it gets it right, you have to then check it carefully. It feels like a net loss of speed most of the time. Reading and checking someone else’s code is harder than writing your own

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Last week a small study by GoSafe, which monitors road cameras, found the policy had added an average of two minutes to journey times of differing lengths,

  Two fucking minutes. People need to chill out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The police are not effective at dealing with school shootings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s unusual, I think. Every computer I’ve had that had it on, I was able to turn it off when I went to install Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you can reset a bios password by taking the CMOS battery out or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have physical access you could go into the bios and turn off secure boot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased  - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Criminal penalties, “go into their office and cut off their hands”. Tomato, tomato.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel like ads in cars should be illegal, but the US doesn’t have a government that believes in good things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alexa, how do I remove cooties?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you’re probably not wrong, sorry.

  Plenty of rich people are shitting up the internet, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alexa, how do I remove cooties?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it’s true, but it feels like the Internet was better when it was limited to enthusiasts and people in higher education.

  Letting every idiot post every word that comes to mind for the whole world to see was probably a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Google and Microsoft have competing services, but those companies also suck. I think they’re less popular, but I don’t know much about why.

  I’m not aware of any smaller competitors, though some probably exist. It would be a big risk for a company to go with a new provider. There’s a lot of library support for the big players, for one thing. If you want your python application to talk to AWS, the boto library is just right there.

  You could run your own hardware somewhere, but that has its own host of problems, if you’ll pardon the pun. I worked somewhere a long time ago that had its own servers in a data center. The place got flooded in a big storm and we were down for a couple days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only used Google a couple of times, and by accident. The ebook reader I have seems hard coded to search Google when you ask it to search the web for a word in the book. I intensely dislike the AI slop. I do not want an AI summary of the Wikipedia article. Just take me to the wiki article you dunces!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you familiar with AWS? Amazon Web services. Many, many, websites use them and I don’t think there’s a way to tell as a user.

  Like, you go to a website and their images are hosted on s3 (an aws service) and their database is on RDS (also AWS), and their whole backend application is using eks or ecs or whatever.

  That’s extremely common. Companies don’t run their own hardware anymore very often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most CEOs ive worked with are largely driven by emotion. If the LLM is using data to drive its decisions, it will probably do better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure. I said in another comment in here that maybe having the public vote on districts would make it harder to pull off. Like, if the entire state needs to look at the map and say “That looks fair”, maybe it’ll be hard to make those paint splatter ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if “I know it when I see it” would be good enough if it had to pass a public vote. Do you think the regular people on the street would vote to support gerrymandering? Getting good voter turnout and education is its own set of problems, admittedly.