mostlikelyaperson
@mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 weeks ago:
There’s been recent pushes in that regard, investment in AI shit has been enormous but the financial payoff for anyone besides hardware manufacturers remains nonexistent. So investors and corporations have recently redoubled their efforts into trying to get everyone to use it in the hopes that this somehow will make them profitable.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
Most likely, yes. Probably some sort of automation that ran wild.
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 4 weeks ago:
Some deal with the israeli government if I had to guess.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 month ago:
The “unfair advantage” bit has been incredibly funny to me ever since I sat in a call to prepare a joint research proposal and the representative of a certain large euro automotive supplier told us that their company would only participate in any project if they got at least a certain amount of government funding.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 1 month ago:
I am guessing the ultra-Elon fanboys managed to convince themselves that it’s a 4D chess move or something. That dude had an insane cult following, there’s some where I am not sure there’s anything Musk could do short of murdering a loved one in front of them that’d make them change their mind.
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 1 month ago:
Which would be particularly wild given that nexus mods is run by a British company.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
Dude had entirely disappeared from my timelines before every youtuber and lemmy poster seemingly felt the need to tell me about how naughty he is.
- Comment on Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 1 month ago:
I suspect they didn’t want to make it sound alarmist or something, but yes the real percentage is likely going to be higher, including a good chunk of “technically finished but remaining unused and forever idle on some box until it’s quietly shut down 5-10 years later @
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel 1 month ago:
I could see some exception for windows 11 IoT being made, but I honestly don’t know.
- Comment on The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms] 1 month ago:
Yup, I don’t watch his content, but looking at his actual viewership numbers, he doesn’t even remotely have the impact to make or break a petition by himself.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 2 months ago:
Genuinely kind of surprised they only met now, one would have thought that in over 30 years they would have run into each other at some point at some conference or other.
- Comment on XMPP vs everything else 2 months ago:
Conversely, I have seen this opinion expressed a few times. I can’t judge the accuracy but there seem to be more than a few people sharing it.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 months ago:
Obsidian hasn’t been an indie for at least 7 years now.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 2 months ago:
Oh absolutely, the
moneyfurnacewikimedia foundation needs to find ways to justify its own existence after all (^: - Comment on Oppose STOP CSAM: Protecting Kids Shouldn’t Mean Breaking the Tools That Keep Us Safe 2 months ago:
Your custom FOSS rom won’t prevent the very much proprietary modem of your phone from communicating with the celltower.
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 2 months ago:
Did the same thing the other day, there’s like some minor icon redesigns? Otherwise this mostly seems like people made up stuff.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 months ago:
I presume because due to it releasing in September, it’s lifetime will mostly lie in 2026. But honestly Idk, I am godawful at naming things.
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 2 months ago:
Yup, and people seem to frequently underestimate how ridiculously expensive running a fleet of humanoid robots would be (and don’t seem to realize how comparatively low the manual labor it’d replace is paid.)
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 2 months ago:
By sinking ludicrous amounts of money into the „metaverse“, which turned out to be an utter flop.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 2 months ago:
Luckily I wasn’t even using the UI in the first place, still, not a good sign and probably something to look into.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 months ago:
Yup, also especially for industrial applications, requirements and needs absolutely can change, and that means having to work around the equipment. I have seen firsthand the experience of trying to get new features into ancient applications. (Made worse by the fact that we took on support for it because the original company which had created the program had gone under).
- Comment on WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere 3 months ago:
Yeah, often learning anything more than the meme itself is that way, if only because you often find out about the rather sad route many of those early viral meme people went down.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 3 months ago:
My pet conspiracy theory has been that Elmo was hoping Trump would mandate that everything gov related has to drive Teslas.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 3 months ago:
The moment a certain company is mentioned in an article, lemmy will go rabid, it doesn’t really matter what the article is about. I am a Linux nerd and if MS crashed and burned tomorrow I wouldn’t exactly shed a tear but the knee jerk reactions are pretty weird to observe.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Announces Layoffs Affecting 500 Employees 3 months ago:
My money is on Clownflare, truly a match made in hell.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Announces Layoffs Affecting 500 Employees 3 months ago:
Clownstrike doesn’t know what that is, but they will be sure to ask an LLM about it some time!
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 3 months ago:
Oh he’s been called out for that for over a decade now, it just got buried under the mass of starry eyed reporting.
- Comment on Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency 3 months ago:
I suspect they don’t even believe in this themselves, this is just a last ditch attempt at squeezing a little more cash out of dumb investors before declaring bankruptcy eventually. Seeing how one of their investors was Square Enix, that might even work.
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 3 months ago:
There have been some attempts in that regard, I don’t remember the names of the projects, but there were one or two that’d basically generate a crapton of nonsense to do just that. No idea how well that works.
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 3 months ago:
I can’t think of many companies I would be less willing to buy home automation tech from than Google.