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- Comment on ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims 1 day ago:
Why give air to this shameless marketing
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 day ago:
The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.
This actually probably make sense, but they could still be cool and have pixel drivers be open source in a different repo if that was the only reason.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 day ago:
Anything being less open is sad regardless of your opinion of the hardware.
- Comment on The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs 2 days ago:
They’re still making money hand over fist. This is yet another shield for the fact that capitalism as we have implemented it is a dog shit system and we at the very least need real labor laws like a civilized fucking country
- Comment on The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs 2 days ago:
In my experience, for developers, actual productivity is inversely correlated to AI usage espousal. I straight up had an extremely mid developer tell our CFO (who has no business scheduling meetings about AI with devs in the first place) that AI made them 10x as productive. This of course is complete bullshit, and of course it got the CFO salivating. All of this is madness
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 4 days ago:
I’d say something like “uhhh what’s up?” or “maybe?” and let them ask a specific question since saying yes sort of feels like agreeing to do the favor without knowing what it is first.
- Comment on Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"? 4 days ago:
As a kid my mom kept a list of questions and we looked them up in the encyclopedias at the library every weekend, and a lot of people with more money had encyclopedia sets at home. So people could get information but it took a little effort and wasn’t instant
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Polygraph is basically just there so there interviewer can say the polygraph says you’re lying and try to get you to say what that want to.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 weeks ago:
It’s old lunacy. Believe it or not we live in a class based society where the vast majority of the people that actually provide value to society have their labor stolen by leeches that make money by having money and that is what that person means by the investor class.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t even look at it enough to know if I’d buy it otherwise when I saw it has denuvo. Always online DRM is a hard pass for me. I haven’t played the last 3 games Atlus released either and I’ve been playing almost every one since the ps2 era.
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 3 weeks ago:
Alas, I’m just a person who only had positive experiences in stack overflow and know the type of entitled dumbasses who think they should be able to ask volunteers to do their homework for them
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 3 weeks ago:
Found the person that asks shitty questions
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 4 weeks ago:
Hate to say it but deleting files when you mean to delete a program/docker container/whatever is definitely a skill issue…
- Comment on Difference 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t. This person just wants to feel this way so they are, regardless of the contents of the media.
- Comment on Who Is ‘Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves’ For? Following Abysmal Sales, SNK's CEO Will Transition to an Advisory Role 4 weeks ago:
I was excited until they put real people in it. So they lost at least one sale trying to mainstream it (and probably paid out the nose to do so)
- Comment on Did they already take the porn? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it will pass this time… but people were telling me roe v Wade was safe when I was raising alarms a decade ago and now look where we are. The theocrats and facists mean what they say and they’re way more persistent and capable than Peel people give them credit for.
- Comment on Did they already take the porn? 4 weeks ago:
Just like all the other horrible shit that’s happened that “will never happen” amirite
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 4 weeks ago:
Unless he actively works towards making billionaires contributing to society non voluntary he is still part of the problem. Billionaires shouldn’t exist in the first place.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s obvious that students have a higher potential of learning with a teacher that actually has time to have a conversation with them now and then.
Personally, the fact that stand and deliver lectures is the norm for college classes has never ceased to amaze me. Why even have a professor rather than just read a book at that point? University has become a trusted simulacrum of it’s original form and it saddens me to watch it decay even more with time.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. Studying with people who understood less but could remember the magic words to ace tests was an exercise in frustration
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 weeks ago:
Or maybe a freshman class with hundreds of students should be split into more classes with more emphasis on actually learning
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 weeks ago:
College courses have long been structured to incentivize rote memorization and regurgitation over actual critical thinking and understanding. When i was in college the “honors” students literally had filling cabinets with a decade of old tests for every class in their dormatory. I’ll admit llms have probably made it even worse, but the slide of colleges into worthless degree mills has been inexorably progressing for like 40 years at this point.
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 1 month ago:
I think acknowledging that there may be things we don’t know and if you’re trying not to be tracked not carrying a phone is probably smart makes sense. The people making these sweeping assertions about how phones work in general with no evidence not so much.
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 1 month ago:
Would you mind sharing why you think that?
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 1 month ago:
Couldn’t you just, like, turn it off?
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 2 months ago:
Direct input existed before xinput and works just fine
- Comment on Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better 2 months ago:
How is this relevant
- Comment on Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better 2 months ago:
What anticompetitive practices? This normally refers to things like selling at a loss long enough to destroy fledgling competition and the like. As far as I’m aware, steam just… provides good services that other stores don’t?
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 2 months ago:
Lol that’s not a false equivalency. You don’t get to just decide words mean things they don’t because it sounds nice in your head.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 2 months ago:
Yeah probably lol