SlopppyEngineer
@SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 1 day ago:
Ah yes, the everything-falling-apart-app
- Comment on I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath 1 day ago:
telling us what it thinks we’d want
that’s “it thinks we’d want to buy”
They’ve gone for the money and are now finding out that cannabalizing search stops customers coming to their site.
- Comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban 1 day ago:
“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers”
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 6 days ago:
TL;DR: “Look, you are here to make value for shareholders only. Everything else is expendable.”
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
Today, yes. We’re dealing with a few billion people with stuff shipped across the planet now.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
Barter was never a thing in daily life. No anthropogist found evidence for that. Trust based systems were used, but those don’t work well when they population increases and interaction with strangers happens more. That’s where currency takes over.
Why currency is the most important thing right now? Because currency at the moment is status and many people seek a high status on society.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
That’s not exactly true. Barter was never used like that in the past. People used gift giving systems or other trust based systems in daily life. Barter was only used with strangers and that was not a common occurrence. These trust based systems do work in smaller settings but break down in large settings where interacting with strangers is the norm.
- Comment on Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me. 1 week ago:
It perfectly symbolizes the relentless pressure of the boot of the tech bros on the workers in the industries bring disrupted.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 week ago:
To be eventually bought up by a private equity firm that gives it the last squeeze before throwing the withered husk on the final Google Graveyard.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 week ago:
Yes, the suits have taken over and switched the money squeeze to max.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 week ago:
Originally pizza didn’t have tomato either, because it only grew was on a still undiscovered continent. Now you can’t but a pizza without. Things change.
- Comment on Tesla is being investigated by the DOJ for securities and wire fraud by making misleading self-driving claims 1 week ago:
Yes, the autopilot is awfully familiar. Excellent reference.
- Comment on Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: 1 week ago:
It puts it in the same category as aspartame and mobile phones. That’s below the category with sunlight in it.
- Comment on Every time I get an email about 1 week ago:
- where is doesn’t stand in the way of profit
- Comment on Inside the Climate Protests Hell-Bent on Stopping Tesla 1 week ago:
And they protest in Germany, the economy that’s built on producing cars and who would happily keep producing more ICE BMWs. The same country that sees speed limits in the Autobahn as sacrilege.
- Comment on Samsung’s operating profit soars 930% as AI tailwinds drive demand for memory chips 1 week ago:
Yes, life would be easier if they plan out these disruptive innovations in advance.
But nobody can really tell when the bubble bursts. Although it would be ironic if AI can indeed predict its own bubble bursting.
- Comment on Samsung’s operating profit soars 930% as AI tailwinds drive demand for memory chips 1 week ago:
And the moment they scale up production the hype train derails.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 2 weeks ago:
It’d be faster to turn Wiccan into a women led mainstream religion than to wait for another millenium or two for Christians to give women a leading role.
- Comment on PSA: Do not approach the wildlife. 2 weeks ago:
Here is a family with small children thinking it’s a good idea to have a picnic between the cheetahs. The cheetahs were loving the idea. Luckily the family figured out in time it wasn’t their brightest moment.
- Comment on The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now? 2 weeks ago:
Send them hand written snail-mail and have them reply in kind will be their punishment.
- Comment on BOOTY 2 weeks ago:
The original versions of the stories the Brothers Grimm wrote down were also very X-Rated. More like horror hard core porn. You can’t look back on the children’s stories in quite the same way after reading version 1.
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
And by the time the system can actually research the facts, the internet is so full of LLM generated nonsense neither human or AI can verify the data.
- Comment on BOOTY 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s pretty much how constellations got invented.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 2 weeks ago:
No, others do that for them: insecam.org
- Comment on Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote 2 weeks ago:
your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.
Propaganda app full of right wing video, fox news, Russia Today and the TikTok channel.
- Comment on NEW JOB! 3 weeks ago:
Working in the cloud
- Comment on Alabama House Passes Bill That Could Be Used to Criminalize Librarians 3 weeks ago:
Scientist of course. They’re already going after climate science and privatizing weather service. The virologists aren’t popular either. And there is some hate for clean tech engineers too
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 3 weeks ago:
Can we demand a refund if the ai doesn’t do what we want?
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion 3 weeks ago:
Upgrading because EV need the power is looked at suspiciously. If an entrepreneur says he needs power for his factory and they’ll ask by what date he needs the lines.