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- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 6 hours ago:
My car is still mainly like this.
It has a touchscreen thing but it’s only for the entertainment and it has steering wheel controls as well so there’s an alternative to using the screen while driving.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 15 hours ago:
Eh, not really. This is lemmy. Nobody hears you scream here.
I also forgot I even posted this.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 16 hours ago:
I have no idea who this person is nor why I would possibly give a shit what she has to say about anything.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 20 hours ago:
That’s great we really need to get the AIs playing the game for me so I’ll have more time to spend on things I enjoy: like standing in the bread line.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 day ago:
Lol
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 days ago:
It’s obvious that Windows and Microsoft remain as evil as they were in the 00s when they basically singlehandedly held back web development with ie6 for a fucking decade.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 days ago:
Is atlassian scum? Confluence was acting all kinds of fucking terrible today.
- Comment on Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops? 4 days ago:
I sense my IT career is over
Me too. Honestly, even if it never deflates I think long term I’m out.
Is there anything we can do with these skills other than enrich billionaire tech bro assholes? I tried very briefly tonight to look for nonprofits that are looking for software people and saw nothing but search engine mismatches.
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 5 days ago:
You will own nothing and love it feudal peasants!
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 5 days ago:
This lady seems like such a fucking idiot.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:
Nah I’m good I don’t dig talking to inanimate objects.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 1 week ago:
They’re like an idea a twelve year old Steve Jobs / Jony Ive wannabe would come up with.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 1 week ago:
I hate fucking “flush handles”. Good riddance to terrible garbage.
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 1 week ago:
Stuff like this had to be killed as part of the corporate initiative to never allow anyone to have a moment’s worth of peace ever again.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
A key difference here is that Framework is trying to build a “community”. At least some of their value depends upon community if you think about it for a bit (e.g., if nobody uses the marketplaces, they’d be empty of goods and a lot of the point is lost).
If they center assholes as being representative of what the community is about, they naturally exclude others by doing so.
It’s easy to take the “can’t we all just get along?” stance with this, but some things require a little more reasoning and philosophy than platitudes.
What good is a big tent if most normal people left the tent because you let someone stand on stage at the tent’s center and go on long, racist tirades?
- Comment on Any swifties here to verify this? 2 weeks ago:
It probably works with both meanings (and is a bit cringey because of that), but I kinda read it as she’s talking about him overall as being kind of a redwood tree…which would make sense, because he’s 6’5" tall and 250lbs. That’s a pretty massive dude…probably from both angles.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
I get no longer supporting products, but bricking them?
I think what’s happening in the background here is these “Internet of Trash” devices hook to cloud infrastructure for which the business no longer wants to pay.
If they were interested in actually building something useful, they would open up their API layers and add a way to link them to different services. But since they don’t give a fuck about you as a customer, and they plan poorly as a business, instead they code everything so that it is hopelessly coupled (probably through hard-coded things up to and including certificates) with specific garbage they made, and impossible to move to anything else, and then they brick your shit.
- Comment on Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist. 2 weeks ago:
AI video generation will have tonnes and tonnes of crap, but it will also have masterpieces.
Doubt.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
To use another example, a musician might be known to be an asshole during their lifetime. Then they die. Is it harmful to listen to their music if you’re not contributing anything to their estate or their estate isn’t run by similar assholes? It’s debatable and a gray area, but I’d probably say no in most circumstances.
How about if they’re known to be an asshole and you buy their albums anyway, you go to their concerts, and you loudly pronounce on social media how you support them and that their work is great? That’s a much easier case to make to say, yes, you’re being harmful.
You’re supporting someone who is an asshole, and you’re doing–at least–two types of harm:
(1) you’re demonstrating tolerance for shitty behavior which does not provide a good negative reinforcement to correct the shitty behavior, and
(2) you’re positively reinforcing the shitty behavior through your support
It might be more nuanced if there were higher stakes involved, such as if the good belying this debate was of crucial need to help along a much larger good cause. But that’s where particulars matter. These contributions these assholes are making are not solving world hunger. They’re nerdy little Linux bits.
Use the bullshit all you want, but for fuck’s sake stop materially supporting and going on a promotional tour with the villains that made it.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
To put it in terms of your analogy, it’s one thing to use Mengele’s research after he’s been stopped. It’s another entirely to give his research funding when he’s actively running the program.
One is making use of knowledge that comes out of terrible things, the other is complicit behavior that borders on active encouragement or collaboration.
- Comment on Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist. 2 weeks ago:
First step is to make slop feeds full of bullshit.
- Comment on Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist. 2 weeks ago:
Well the first step was into a fucking cow pie, so that doesn’t bode well for the next one
- Comment on I Quit 2 weeks ago:
Being rich is pretty fucking obviously mostly about being born to rich parents.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
This sounds very cool. I’m a programmer by profession but used to love drawing animations as a kid. I should try to make something like this.
- Comment on soda 2 weeks ago:
Shoes
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
This is a great idea for a project honestly.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
While this is true it’s certainly the case that publicly traded companies have strong incentives to grow.
Private companies mostly have the ownership, or the desire to go public to blame.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 2 weeks ago:
Nah I’ll stick with repubs
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 2 weeks ago:
I call them Repubs at this point because they don’t want to say things like “Democratic politicians” opting instead for “Democrat politicians” because they’re worried democratic sounds too good.
I think republican sounds too good. They don’t want a republic, they want a tyrant.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
I stream but from my own server.