justsomeguy
@justsomeguy@lemmy.world
- Comment on DM me for homemade prophecy stones 4 days ago:
And “go kick cocks”.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
Lara sneaking around a camp. Finds a letter one of the mercs wrote to his little daughter. He just wants to come home to her and only took the job to pay for her expensive private school.
She slams her climbing pick into his eye socket.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 1 week ago:
So many posts on on social media are obviously AI generated and it immediately makes me disregard them but I’m worried about later stages when people make an effort to mask it. Prompt it to generate text without giveaways like dashes. Have intentional mistakes or a general lack of proper structure and punctuation in there and it will be incredibly hard to tell.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 1 week ago:
The last 5% aren’t a nice bonus. They are everything. A 95% self driving car won’t do. Giving me random hallucinations when I try to look up important information won’t do either even if it just happens 1 out of 20 times. That one time could really screw me so I can’t trust it.
Currently AI companies have no idea how to get there yet they sell the promise of it. Next year, bro. Just one more datacenter, bro.
- Comment on Winning is easy, trying is hard. 1 week ago:
I’m one step ahead of ya in life.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
Are you trying to trick tech companies into being useful? That’ll upset them.
- Comment on Tylenol is the enemy 1 week ago:
Tylenol probably gives brain worms a rash or something like that.
- Comment on They recalled the radioactive shrimp again. Why? My research shows you can just cook off the radiation. 1 week ago:
The man said become ungovernable!
- Comment on They recalled the radioactive shrimp again. Why? My research shows you can just cook off the radiation. 1 week ago:
Put it in spiders and then put yourself in those spiders for cool powers.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
I’m a sys admin in the public sector and the hardware requirements of W11 are a great blessing. I couldn’t have convinced thousands of workers to switch to Linux and get used to another GUI but this forces it on us because there simply is no money to replace all that hardware. Rolling out Mint clients and between this and mobile operating systems Microsoft is finally losing its monopoly on the OS market.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 5 weeks ago:
Just got back from asking them. They said they like cash moneys and don’t like blasting themselves.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 1 month ago:
No they don’t because they blast it on inflated exec wages.
- Comment on TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor 1 month ago:
It must be good though, otherwise TikTok would face mayor backlash if the platform shows more illegal content.
surely
- Comment on Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar? 2 months ago:
I used to play WoW 5v5 arena competitively in 2007. This was way before they went hard on e-sports so it’s not really comparable to today. Just to give you some perspective, the winning team at blizzcon got $25k which meant $5k each which (again, only in case of winning the world championship) would’ve just so covered my travel costs.
Honestly it was terrible. At first I used to play for fun and only accidentally ended up in a top team. Then my team got way too ambitious and it became more of a chore. I told them early on that I had no interest in playing like that but they couldn’t find a replacement so I kept playing with them until I was fully burned out. It was nice being good at something but it ruined the fun of it.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 2 months ago:
It’s usually nonsense. I remember some carbon offsets being a guy owning a forest and essentially selling his inaction as a carbon offset. Give me a million dollars so I don’t chop all those trees down which I totally would’ve done otherwise. It’s just pushing numbers around on a spreadsheet.
In this case I can imagine their calculations being wildly off. How much CO2/methane does a ton of poop actually release? How much CO2 is released to transport that ton and build the facilities that hold it?
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 2 months ago:
Microsoft burying the steaming pile of poop that is teams will be enough to “offset” all their data centers.
- Comment on Danny McPhee: A remake of Nanny McPhee starring Danny McBride 2 months ago:
He’s there when you really don’t want him to be but when you want him he’ll be lying in his own vomit on that burger king parking lot.
- Comment on The Wikipedia Test 3 months ago:
But the donations are only necessary because of inflated salaries. It’s like saying we have to pay this pastry chef because the pastry chef loves to eat their own cake. They’re just feeding themselves.
The cost of server infrastructure is comparatively tiny so if they’d run it lean it’d have enough cash to last ages already. Also posting a banner on their site with massive reach isn’t exactly rocket surgery.
I know there are worse things but I strongly dislike nonprofits wasting donation money.
- Comment on The Wikipedia Test 3 months ago:
on the one hand they make some valid points on the other hand it’s a little disgusting how much wikipedia execs get payed and how sweaty they get when they worry about having to pay content moderators. currently they just pocket most of the donations they get but with increased running costs that would get harder.
don’t get me wrong, wikipedia is an important project and they deserve fair compensation but grabbing $700k per year for managing it seems a bit steep eh? it’s not like they’re forging new business strategies and conquering markets. they have a very simple concept and just keep it running. a post it note on the ceo door with “keep going lads” on it might outperform them and save some money.
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 4 months ago:
Put mercenaries on the list. They get hired to guard some excavation. A chill job the recruiter told them.
Lara overhears them talk about going home to their families as she sneaks up and brutally murders them with her ice axe one by one until the ruins are flooded with blood. It’s all self defense.
- Comment on Wikipedia sources their information better than most journalists do in their articles. 5 months ago:
I mean the comparison used to be Wikipedia vs finding the right literature in a library. Now it’s mostly Wikipedia vs AI that sometimes makes things up including sources. The real degradation happens over time though. People using AI to write papers which then get fed into AI as a source. It already is but will become increasingly hard to verify how reliable the information is that you find.
This all happens in the background of short video clips dominating the engagement of young people. We have students at our school who aren’t even capable of using AI to cheat and they don’t care either. They saw some tiktoks telling them once they’re 18 they can get rich with betting or real estate (despite having no capital) so why do homework? I’d rather they trust wikipedia blindly than what they currently do.
- Comment on Says jk later, its just a prank 5 months ago:
My wife’s eyes rolls are my life elixir.
- Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that 5 months ago:
What was that post I kept seeing about vampires? If you’ve been living for centuries and you’re still broke just walk into the sunlight.
- Comment on Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid? 5 months ago:
First aid is some random person that did a short class 10 years ago.
Second aid is a doc that studied for years but still doesn’t have all the answers.
Third aid is when you call the dev. They won’t pick up.
- Comment on With Tim Pool in the White House Press Pool, will we ever find out what's under that beanie? 5 months ago:
- Comment on Republican space officials criticize “mindless” NASA science cuts 5 months ago:
Different country, similar politics: we got refugee kids rooting for the far right (full on Nazi) party thinking they’re hating with them.
- Comment on Smh being fired for police work 5 months ago:
Really went too far by yelling “it’s a small one!” instead of the customary “oink, oink!”
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 5 months ago:
If I had known how bad it’d get I would’ve chosen a different field to work in. Sure, I can avoid it in my private life but on the job it’s like I’m in some kind of hostage situation.
“Oh hi there customer! You know our product your users are accustomed to will only come as a subscription from now on and it’ll also be really bad and force full screen ads. We’ll push two updates per day because our unpaid interns are so agile. Bugs? Oh, no, we call those ‘micro disruptions’. They’re a feature but don’t cost extra! How much the license costs? Well, how much do you have? Yes, it’ll be that much.”
- Comment on Google is excited about money! 5 months ago:
Also parental controls are ass. Yes you can block (most) pornography but you can’t tell a social media app to not blast a teenager with misinformation. It’s like a playground but with glass shards everywhere. You can forbid the kid from playing there altogether but they’d feel excluded while all their friends are having fun. Somehow there doesn’t seem to be an option to remove the fucking shards though.
- Comment on Google is excited about money! 5 months ago:
Potato, potato.
