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- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 3 days ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 week ago:
Don’t I feel like a fool for trying to give you the benefit of the doubt.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 week ago:
“Ever heard of skills,” wow thanks for beginning with a dismissive statement that implies all of this you’re saying is not only true but obvious. This is not the way to respond to people with strong objections.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 1 week ago:
Because it’s nice, and if you ate it first you wouldn’t want to have as much of the healthy stuff that came before. Not everything has to have an objective purpose. Nice things are nice.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 week ago:
Assuming that’s true, and that’s a BIG assumption… What makes you think that would matter? AI has no interiority; it isn’t a thinking blob, it’s a text generator. Think of it as a fancy Markov chain.
Even if it were true, where in the chain do new principles, new techniques, new concepts enter into it? All these forms of generative AI can do is regurgitate what’s been fed into it. The worst thing you can train an AI from is AI-generated output.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 week ago:
Yes, the age of all programming is over, because no new libraries or languages will ever be invented and LLMs will this always know everything there is to know about coding based on what’s already been written which will never go obsolete.
Honestly, mocking these things is SO EASY.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
If you can’t log into Windows you can’t change its OneDrive settings! What’s more, the user had no idea what was causing the problem, be it OneDrive or something else, until he did that troubleshooting! And, just setting up a new phone shouldn’t make your computer unbootable for any reason! Geez, way to victim-blame there.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
I’d say part of it is likely raw userbase size. Like how even the most positive, well-meaning fandoms turn toxic at the edges when they get large enough.
- Comment on Cursed image thread 1 week ago:
(Earthbound battle music begins)
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
I dunno? It sounds very plausible, exactly the kind of thing that Windows would do. I posted about it to Metafilter some time back and no one there seemed to think it couldn’t happen.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
There was a story going around back in Septe er ago about the person whose wife used OneDrive on her phone. It had taken upon itself to copy 25+GB of data on the phone into OneDrive, despite only having the free account tier, and copying it to their Windows 11 PC. There it completely filled up its small SSD boot drive, putting it into a condition of extremely low disk space, which in made it impossible for Windows to boot. Here it is.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 3 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t be difficult to make Lenovo laptops more repairable. I’ve had two, and both required taking the whole thing apart to replace the keyboard, the part most likely to have problems. I hate that about them.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 3 weeks ago:
Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs’ most misguided apprehensions, that it’d be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that’s Good Actually in three, two, one…)
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 3 weeks ago:
Yes, although it will be a full ANDROID PC.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 weeks ago:
Took a bit but found it, it’s not ChatGPT but a small self-hosted AI with an open source model: pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 weeks ago:
Trying to track it down…
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 weeks ago:
He was sick and had a weak moment. He didn’t realize that it would just make the quote up.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 weeks ago:
Key is, used to be. Ars Technica is one of the best such magazines out there, but even their margins have to be razor thin. To stay at the top of Google search results you have to update super frequently. (Source: this Metafilter post: metafilter.com/…/Ars-Technica-Pulls-AI-Article-Wi…)
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 weeks ago:
I think the executive in question is Kyle Orland, who I don’t know personally but I’ve interacted with sometimes. He’s pretty good! Again, as I’ve said elsewhere in this thread, maybe I’m too close. I’ve never worked for either of them, but I’ve encountered them on social media from time to time. I think I interacted with Kyle concerning a Storybundle book once.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 weeks ago:
I’ve interacted with Benj Edwards on social media for some time. He’s done lots of good work! He’s on (or maybe used to be on) Mastodon and Bluesky. He runs Vintage Computing and Gaming, and has written good articles for several prominent places. I’ve said as much in multiple forums, I feel like I’ve maybe been going on a crusade.
I haven’t seen many others defending him. I’m really torn up over this. They had a weak moment. They were sick (I mean, literally.). A few other people, notably Cory Doctorow and Paul Ford, have written LLM-defending places. And the AI hype has been deafening.
It’s amazing though, that so soon after he used AI, that it immediately hallucinated something job-ending. I knew it was really bad, but I didn’t know it was THAT bad. You get the sense, with so many people talking positively about it, that the hallucinations must be something that happens, what, maybe 5% of the time?
To me, it seems like the kind of mistake that he should be able to apologize for, promise not to do it again, and move on. But we’ve all had our good will taken advantage of for so long by malicious actors, like how Gamergate was used as a wedge to push loathsome politics onto a legion of young males. It feels like we can’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt any more.
I don’t know. I know I’m influenced by all the good work he’s done. I feel like that shouldn’t all be thrown away.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 3 weeks ago:
Any relation to Lucasfilm/Fujitsu Habitat/Habitat II? renoproject.org
It was an early virtual world, running originally on Commodore 64s, later on PCs and (in Japan) Sega Saturn, with a look and style heavily inspired by SCUMM games.
- Comment on Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne 4 weeks ago:
What is a post doing on Lemmy’s top list with a minus 56 reputation?
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 4 weeks ago:
The joke my friend made is, “Elf on the Shelf in your ear”
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 4 months ago:
Thank you for your service!
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 months ago:
By some reports it’s over 5%, statcounter may be undercounting Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 5 months ago:
On the other hand… osnews.com/…/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-window…
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 5 months ago:
You might try setting Google’s Web subsearch as your main search engine, or else put your searches through udm14.com, which does the same thing.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 5 months ago:
Katamari Damacy
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 5 months ago:
Demand? What?
You can just have a site that says things. You might just get a trickle of readers, and that’s okay. Not everything has to try to rule the world. You can contribute this little part of it, that might amuse or inform some people, and not pile up yet more value to a terrible corporation like Wordpress, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or (while I’m ranting) Fandom.
Plain HTML doesn’t break. You don’t need to update frameworks. It won’t make the user’s browser consume a ton of their RAM. Even if your image hosting goes down, the text will still be there. The biggest problems with HTML are external. Google giving attention to Reddit over your site, or de-prioritizing it if it’s not “responsive to mobile,” and web browsers choosing not to reveal by default what terrible resource hogs big sites can be. Check about:processes (on Firefox at least) some time, I’ve seen Youtube, Facebook and Twitter consume over a gigabyte of memory by themselves, apiece. (Nota bene, Mastodon consumes a lot too.)
It’s okay to be small. That was what the World Wide Web was envisioned as, its motto: Let’s Share What We Know.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 5 months ago:
I’m an old E2 member!
