yuki2501
@yuki2501@lemmy.world
General nerd, programmer and sci-fi reader and writer. Neurodivergent, ADHD.
She/her.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 1 week ago:
says CEO
Since when do CEOs do things because they’re actually useful and not because they want to cut costs at the expense of the workers and even the public?
- Comment on These mods on their power-trips really need to stop 3 weeks ago:
Even then, you’re still a bigot. Dude, grow up and touch some grass.
- Comment on These mods on their power-trips really need to stop 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the info.
- Comment on These mods on their power-trips really need to stop 3 weeks ago:
Okay you’re being a bigot. You know why? Because people aren’t demanding to be called “your royal highness”. That are just asking to be called with their preferred probouns. Putting neo pronouns aside, it’s not a heavy burden to be called he / she / it / they.
And this is the internet! The are no bodies, only usernames. Why do you care if a person claiming to be a girl demands to be called a she? Oh my fucking god,what a scandal! The oppression imposed upon you, a free citizen, demanding that you have to use a pronoun different than “he” on the internet! The world is doomed! 😱 /s
What you’re really asking for is the “right” to harass trans people (by misgendering them) because you don’t like them and abhor the idea of women having something extra down there. (it’s not like they’re plotting to force sex you, just leave them be, okay?) Not only that, you’re so obsessed with hating them that you went out of your way to post your biased opinion ON A LINUX FORUM.
You’re being a transphobic asshole, and the mods were perfectly right in banning you.
Just accept that there are different people in the world. If you have a problem with that, maybe it’s you who needs professional help.
- Comment on Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears 1 month ago:
The fact that we’re reading and commenting about it on Lemmy is satisfying, despite the sadness of the situation. It’s like watching the city burn after you moved away and saying “wow, I guess I really took the right choice by leaving.”
- Comment on 'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them 2 months ago:
“Let’s treat our workers like slaves or else the entire economy will suffer” is a far worse take IMHO.
- Comment on 'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them 2 months ago:
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Establish a wage floor.
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Establish a price cap.
If the corporation can’t make a profit from this, then perhaps their business model was not viable in the first place.
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- Comment on 'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them 2 months ago:
By decreasing billionaire executive bonuses, of course. You realize apps like Uver give shitty pay to the drivers and keep most of the profits for the execs, don’t you?
Repeat after me: They are MIDDLEMEN.
- Comment on 'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them 2 months ago:
Did the ordinance specify that the app companies would have to absorb the costs and NOT pass them to the users? No? Ah, well, that explains it then.
- Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
As a decentralized platform, Bluesky’s code is completely open source,
As long as a company is in control, being decentralized doesn’t mean shit.
- Comment on Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.? 3 months ago:
Fuck, I got 50%. If others had the same result, you can guess the implications.
- Comment on Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk) 3 months ago:
I read a Twitter post of hers a few years ago where she was extremely apologetic towards China, saying that Americans listened to a lot of propaganda and so on. Now I’m starting to wonder if it was really her who made that twitter post.
- Comment on queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban 3 months ago:
New domain name proposal:
queer.asf.uk 🤭
- Comment on TikTok Shop owes its early success to small businesses, but some say they're getting fed up with the platform's lack of support 3 months ago:
There’s few things that can inspire as much fear in the population as the phrase “gone rogue” applied to AI.
Example. (HZD spoilers)
- Comment on Betavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargers 3 months ago:
Planned obsolescence.
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 3 months ago:
For Google, hosting an app is just a matter of keeping an entry in a database and its data in storage. It’s not about the difficulty.
Furthermore, that app COST MONEY to the user. Here Google is not only removing the app from the store, they’re also UNINSTALLING it from the user’s device, without warning them, and without compensating them financially for this.
To make things even worse, their malware detection algorithm is prone to false positives. There’s not even a degree of certainty, like “there’s a 20% chance we could be making a mistake.” A binary without tolerance means they are removing things only on the SUSPICION they could be malware.
I had a very useful open source app - that I installed WITHOUT Google play store - removed from my phone. It was never submitted to Google and neither the author nor I EVER agreed to their app store remove third party software from my phone.
Google have become control freaks over our phones. The only solution I see is to install a third party OS, like Lineage or Graphene. I might even have to buy a new phone for this, but I don’t care. I don’t want Google to assume the role of Nanny and take away control of MY devices that I bought with my own fucking money.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community 3 months ago:
If UBI isn’t implemented first then we’re fucked. Companies will just use AI to cut costs and discard labor.
No; without unions putting a stop to corporations that idealistic future will never arrive. And that’s pretty simple to prove. Why do corporations do the shitty stuff that they do? Because they can.
- Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 3 months ago:
GenAI is a bubble; it will crash sooner of later when companies realize how much money they’ll have to spend on the infrastructure.
The hard part is making sure you don’t lose your job while clueless execs are still enchanted by the bullshit.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 3 months ago:
Doubt it. GenAI requires a shitton of resources, both in storage and for processing. Training a GenAI requires clusters upon clusters of NPUs and/or GPUs, even more than crypto miners and 3D renderers. The full storage requirements are proportional to the amount of training data you give, so expect them at least to be dozens of gigabytes long.
I doubt AI companies do it “for science” (yeah, right) so if they’re shit down by a court of law they’ll just shut the thing down. They can upload the code somewhere, but without training data their engine is useless.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 3 months ago:
Adam explains it. Enjoy.
- Comment on Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules 3 months ago:
I got a solution guys.
Hear me out…
Prison ceilings. 🤯
- Comment on Twitch updates attire policy to prohibit implied nudity. 3 months ago:
If Twitch is a gaming platform, why is there a “Pools, workout and beaches” category? 99% of streams there are hot babes in bikinis, with some linking to their OF accounts in their profile. And then there’s the fashion show with models in skin tape that most of the time only covers the crotch and nips.
Now, I’m not against streamers showing skin; Twitch can definitely open an “After Dark” section only available to adults and still forbid explicit or simulated sex. But the way all this fiasco took place screams bad management to me.
- Comment on Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem 3 months ago:
“But we made the AI explicitly to obfuscate the fact that we used copyrighted images! Er ahem. I mean… YOU CAN’T PROVE ANYTHING!”
- Comment on Semiconductor industry proposes new 'Chipmaker's Visa' for H1B program — program would address extreme talent shortages in chipmaking industry 3 months ago:
But is it really a shortage? Or are they just looking for cheap labor?
- Comment on Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem 3 months ago:
It’s only a problem when a corporation’s greed hurts another corporation’s greed. Until then it’s just business as usual.
- Comment on RIPE, Regional Internet Registry, hacked because an admin account's password was ripeadmin 3 months ago:
His password may be ripeadmin, but that admin looked pretty green to me.
- Comment on Twitch updates attire policy to prohibit implied nudity. 3 months ago:
They just got pissed at people using censor bars on themselves to make it look like they were naked (in protest for Twitch backing down on their nudity policy).
Yes, it’s a salty move, and yes, they’re being assholes about it.
- Comment on new mastodon instance now open: cyberpunk.lol 3 months ago:
It’s just another Mastodon-compatible server where you can log in.
Mastodon, like Lemmy, is a federated network, meaning the more servers there are, the better things are for everyone. Huge servers with millions of users are harder to maintain, and moderation does not scale. There’s more noise, abuse is harder to spot, and harassment is harder to punish. Having many small servers is a better approach.
On the other hand, new servers might be unstable: the admin needs to both maintain the server and moderate the community, and there have been cases of admins doing crappy jobs at either. Servers are born and die regularly on Mastodon; you might want to see how things go before opening an account there.
- Comment on First functional graphene semiconductor paves the path to post-silicon chips — Georgia Tech researchers' material can be used with standard chipmaking methods 3 months ago:
While silicon is abundant on Earth, monocrystalline silicon is incredibly hard to produce. You need to use either chemical purification methods that use silicon compound gases, or to use a slow process that starts with a crystal seed to slowly grow giant rods of pure silicon under a chamber filled with argon gas, and many things can go wrong.
Semiconductor-grade silicon needs to be 99.999999% pure to guarantee good yields of microchips.
More on this process here:
hackaday.com/…/mining-and-refining-pure-silicon-a…
OTOH, there are more (and cheaper) ways of grafene production:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Graphene_production_techniques
(On a related note, you might be interested in the history of the transistor to know the arduous path that humanity took just to get where we are )
- Comment on NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian 3 months ago:
In that case the records need to be auditable, e.g. available for subpoenas and all that. But given the frequency of their body feels suddenly “malfunctioning” during arrests, I don’t see that happening in the shower term.
What we need BEFORE encrypted comms is stronger accountability laws and harsher punishments for police brutality.
Otherwise I won’t buy the “protect and serve” excuse. They just want to save their own asses.