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- Comment on 1 day ago:
Maybe today, Satan? 😏
- Comment on Don't be a coward 1 day ago:
That is true, but it doesn’t automatically mean that business = dishonest. I like to give human beings some benefit of the doubt in a way that abstract things like corporations do not get. They were born into the same superficial capitalist dystopia I was, and their job might simply mean being self-employed and dealing with the general public. As somebody with a desk/wfh job, that sounds sucky in a retail sort of way.
Don’t misunderstand me though – plenty of them are total shitbags. I need to find a new local mechanic and it sucks. I’m just saying check your assumptions.
- Comment on Thia better not awaken anything in me 3 days ago:
Ah yes, this is my favorite kink. “OMG that hot person in a strange situation is still hot!”
The posing is not hurting either.
Though I do find myself being influenced in what I choose to make for lunch…
- Comment on is it really worth it 4 days ago:
Thought 1: This is the most Lemmy image I’ve seen all day.
Thought 2: I am unavoidably going to make a comment to my wife about grabbing her like a dual shock controller. Probably right as said grabbing occurs. And I probably won’t explain myself.
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 4 days ago:
😅 Hey there fellow human Fediverse user!
✈️ Wanna get away from all the AI slop?
👍 Well you are in the right place.
😎 Lists are great, and bulleted lists are classy, but emoji-bullet lists are the coolest most human thing ever!
🧐 Using glue in place of pizza sauce actually binds the fat and makes it more healthy!
🫡 Do YOU have two 5090s on order like a good person?
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 5 days ago:
Same with what we were hearing about the Linux desktop!
…yet here we are in 2026 and literally all my desktops have since become Linux, lol.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 week ago:
Narcissism + recklessness + greed + privilege, filtered through a heavy layer of survivorship bias, and whatever jackass makes it to the end was apparently a bold visionary genius the whole time.
But then once they’re in that club, the money and notoriety are their own advantage.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 1 week ago:
I finally got to read this article and the situation is even better/dumber with more context. I didn’t realize the layering at first.
This CEO used AI to avoid paying human lawyers to help him figure out how to avoid paying human game developers.
This asshole needs to get some kind of “Yo Dawg I heard you like AI” anti-award.
- Comment on Gaysadilla 1 week ago:
The last time I was hanging out on Lemmy eating a fresh LGBTQ+ and had some of that white gooey Q running from the corner of my mouth into my beard, I had like 3 little sysadmins follow me home. Then my wife gets all weird and comes outside to shoo them away with a broom, yelling about how we already use Linux. And I’m like girl don’t be so hasty to run them off – see if you can borrow some of those thigh-high stockings first!
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 1 week ago:
And even for those of us who might have the means or the marketable skills to get citizenship elsewhere, that only changes the tradeoff into creating new family by leaving all existing family.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is just as true in my non-computer hobbies that involve physical systems instead of code and configs!
If I had to just barely meet the requirements using as little budget as possible while making it easy for other people to work on, that would be called “work.” My brain needs to indulge in some over-engineering and “I need to see it for myself” kind of design decisions.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s a very broad umbrella term.
I’m an engineer on a team that designs new products and fixes old ones. I’m happy to joke about the advertising & sales departments being the dark side of marketing, but when it comes to creating a product that is useful for our end-users, other facets of marketing are absolutely essential. The ideal, after all, is to have whatever ticket I am working on be traceable back to a customer need.
Heck, the product is pretty niche so even when I am chatting with our service technician about whatever crazy stuff customers are seeing & doing in the field, you could justify calling that marketing. It’s customer information making its way to future design decisions, even if that decision is actually being made by an engineer rather than the Product Manager.
- Comment on Firearm Advice 1 week ago:
It’s so versatile too. I could see this hanging on the wall at work with “git push” or “./build.sh” under it and it would just make sense.
Probably wouldn’t pass the HR sniff test but you get the idea, lol.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 1 week ago:
PC OEMs could totally ship their machines with linux installed, or even with multiple distros to choose from at first boot. And one of those options could even be Windows 11, the user would just need to enter a key or buy a license after booting up.
It’s just a question of motivation. Do they think their customers want it, and do they expect Microsoft to make their life more difficult if they try?
Honestly now with so much of the civilized world looking to break dependency on US tech, I hope that Europe sees a big push towards mainstream off the shelf linux devices.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 1 week ago:
For most of us on Lemmy, buying a PC with no OS installed is like buying a car with an empty fuel tank and/or battery. It’s ready to preform at 100% in about 10 minutes.
For most other people, it feels more like buying a car that’s completely missing an engine/motor/battery. They don’t even know where to start, even though in the case of the PC the process is many orders of magnitude simpler.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 2 weeks ago:
The preview for the reply notification for this comment started getting my brain so excited when my eyes scanned over the beginning. Screen grab:
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like an almost refreshing “you’re one of us now / welcome to the real thing” type of brutal honesty.
Did it have a friendly tone and/or serve as an ice breaker before your presentation?
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 2 weeks ago:
No Privacy Perpetuity
:/
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 2 weeks ago:
I’m no expert and don’t care to become one, but I understand they generally trained these models on the entire public internet plus all the literature and research they could pirate.
So I would expect the outputs of those models to not be some kind of magical correct description of the world, but instead to be roughly “this passes for something a person on the internet might write.”
It does the thing it was designed to do pretty well. But then the sociopathic grifters tried to sell it to the world as a magic super-intelligence that actually knows things. And of course many small-time wannabe grifters ate it up.
What LLMs do is get you a passable elaborate forum post replying to your question, written by an extremely confident internet rando. But it’s done at computer speed and global scale!
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 2 weeks ago:
“Huge rich company responsible for hosting like half of the fucking internet spent the last year pushing code to global-scale production without so much as a review by a senior engineer.”
That’s how I read that headline.
- Comment on Firearm Advice 2 weeks ago:
This is a new image/meme for me and I like it. The hand gesture gives it a little bit of a “witches vs patriarchy” vibe too. I don’t know if that means more or less coming from a random old cishet dude, lol.
- Comment on Firearm Advice 2 weeks ago:
Dang, were they actually going into an artery there, or was it just a large opening or you were also on blood thinners or something?
I get an IV every month and they always use a vein, and any bleeding is just a tiny ooze. But I’m holed up for a matter of hours, not days+ as with a hospital stay.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 2 weeks ago:
I’m a human being and I’m pretty sure I am already not allowed to give legal or medical advice to anybody in new york or any other state.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 2 weeks ago:
Prior art: I remember a long time ago seeing a video of a Barney (as in purple dinosaur) video game for little kids that would just start playing itself if you didn’t touch the controller for a while. It was a side scroller, probably NES/SNES/Genesis.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 2 weeks ago:
I could see them doing fine losing those features if it meant the hardware was compact, light, and cheap. But doing it on giant $1000 phones is not going to do them any favors with the lemmy crowd like I said.
- Comment on Fully Modded Skyrim VR in Samsung Galaxy XR is Something Else 2 weeks ago:
My main original Skyrim play through on desktop was 100 hours.
My Skyrim VR play through was 200 hours. I think in 2019. So fun.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 weeks ago:
Yeah now it’s “will it speedrun DOOM?”
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 2 weeks ago:
100% agreed. I agreed more with each paragraph.
Your last sentence hit on what I think is a contributing if not primary driving factor in the health crisis you described.
It’s like the goal of modern society is to insulate us from the natural world and from learning subjects or doing tasks that we don’t absolutely have to.
But we are critters that evolved on this planet just like the others. You can’t just live a commoditized life that consists of work, car, screen, sleep, repeat and get the same fulfillment out of life as if you found the unique path that’s optimized for your unique brain.
Not acknowledging that everything jacks with your head to SOME degree only prevents you from trying to defend yourself as best you can!
Over the past several years I have gone through a transition from living life the way I was supposed to, or that I thought I wanted to, to living according to what produces the best outputs from my brain. Once I have the lived experience of an undeniable improvement from some change, it might actually become a habit.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 3 weeks ago:
I personally might not use a headphone jack or SD card slot very much, but for the market that a GrapheneOS phone would be targeting they seem like OBVIOUS things to include.
The crowd getting excited about this partnership is pretty much the same crowd that complains about features like those going away.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 3 weeks ago:
Then make the machine try to keep people talking for as long as possible…
That’s probably a huge part of it. How many billions of dollars have been spent engineering content on a screen to get its tendrils into people’s minds and attention and not let go?
EnGaGeMent!!!
