Bob_Robertson_IX
@Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
Reblog?
- Comment on We have one at home 2 weeks ago:
I went all in on it… I fully drank that Koolaid and was an early backer, got an extra controller and really thought it was going to be amazing. But their whole launch was so bungled that by the time I actually got it I was so disillusioned with the whole company that I couldn’t enjoy it. It sucked to have bought into the kickstarter and financed the project, and then see the product on the shelves at Target while I was still waiting on mine to be delivered. I had mine for a couple of months before reselling it at a loss.
Several years later when Stadia was announced I felt that little familiar glimmer of hope pop up, but I didn’t let myself get too excited for it. I did eventually get a couple of Stadia controllers and really enjoyed that service (and I still use those controllers today).
- Comment on Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I agree and that’s one reason why I think putting it into Windows is a huge mistake!
I am having fun with it because I find the tech interesting and I love seeing what I can get it to do… but it is so dumb and frustrating. But so was 3D printing 12 years ago, you’d have to fiddle with the settings, do some test prints to make sure everything was setup right, deal with a warped bed, and every print was an experiment. It was shitty, but when you got a good print, that was the best feeling. That’s how I feel about LLMs, it mostly sucks but when it works, it’s great.
I also support several open source LLM projects because that is where I think the real innovation will come from, and the technology is only going to get better like 3D printers now.
- Comment on Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar 2 weeks ago:
I added Opencode to my Linux terminal and have it powered by Ollama and it has made my Linux computer even more amazing. I just tell it what I want it to do and it does it. It knows all of my servers, services, applications and scripts, has access to all of my config and data files. So when I tell it that I have some files stuck in the ‘download’ directory inside my ‘movies’ directory, I don’t have to tell it which computer that directory is located on or how to access it. I also don’t have to tell it that the files get into that directory using Radarr. So when I was having issues of my files not properly being moved from ‘download’ to ‘organized’ it could have just moved the files, which is what I was expecting… instead it looked at the config file for Radarr and suggested how I can fix it. That was pretty incredible.
Now, if Windows had done that using Copilot I wouldn’t be thrilled because that means that Microsoft has way too much knowledge about my personal network structure.
Adding agentic AI to the OS can be amazingly powerful, but it really should only be done with an LLM that you control.
Also, agentic AI is going to cause a LOT of problems because as great as my above example is, I later had an instance where I added several .docx files to my Opencode directory and asked it to convert the files to a format it can read (plain text) and then ingest the information from them. It did that, and then it wanted to delete the .docx files. I told it to leave the files alone and I’d delete them later. A couple of minutes later it again tried to delete those .docx files (it was literally trying to run the command ‘rm **/*.docx’, which I really don’t like it using wildcards with the rm command). So again, I told it not to, then I told it that I do not want it to ever remove any .docx files without my explicit permission. It apologized profusely… and then immediately tried to run the rm command again.
It’s a handy tool, but if you get lazy and let your guard down it’s going to bite you.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I know … and that’s what makes it sad is because he could help to make the world a better place.
- Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approvedwww.businessinsider.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 239 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk awarded nearly $1 trillion pay package by Tesla shareholders 3 weeks ago:
So he’s going to have SpaceX buy a million robotaxies and robots to drive them.
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 4 weeks ago:
So that’s the thing… in the US even our poor are rich compared to the global poor.
But you’re right, people in the US making $50k a year aren’t really the problem. The problem is the people who have the average income of the 1%. That’s people making almost $500k a year. Which is crazy to think that the income needed to join the global 1% is so much lower than the average income of the 1%.
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 4 weeks ago:
70 million people.
That’s what it will take to rid us of the top 1%.
Of course, if we’re going after the global 1% then that will be anyone making over approximately $55k USD per year.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 1 month ago:
This study is from 2015.
Right?
- Comment on 'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech 1 month ago:
“And don’t you dare celebrate!”
- Comment on pick your side 1 month ago:
My brother-in-law has a POW / MIA license plate. He lets people know that he was a POW in the War on Drugs.
- Comment on They're coming. 2 months ago:
Southern Florida shows us that the only way to defeat them is with alligators.
“We know how to take them out, General. Spread the word.”
- Comment on I felt you needed to see this 2 months ago:
I used to have a couple of hedgehogs as pets when I was younger and when I got my own place I decided to just let them run free in my apartment. It was so amazing to be chilling on the couch, watching TV and then a hedgehog scurries past.
I’m not generally for invasive species, but when I see huge murmurations of starlings this time of year I have a hard time being mad at them… I think I’d feel the same way if hedgehogs were introduced in the US.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 2 months ago:
Jizz was first mentioned in canon in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization, authored by Ryder Windham and released in 2017.
I can assure you, jizz was mentioned long before 2017!
And how the hell did someone get permission to make anything called ‘jizz’ Star Wars canon? Let’s just make ‘queef’ a popular brand of deathsticks next.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 months ago:
A couple of nights ago I was in the car with my 8 year old daughter and Killing In The Name Of by Rage Against the Machine came on… my instinct was to skip to the next song, but then I thought “No, this is a song she needs to hear” because if she has questions she knows that she can ask.
A couple of songs later, it was Closer by NIN… I immediately skipped to the next song.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 months ago:
I was cleaning out my garage a few weeks ago and came across my old Commodore 64 Paperboy floppy.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 3 months ago:
The trick is to tap into that power, while keeping things looking nice and neat. Most vehicles now have the license plate lights tucked away in housings. It would be nice to be able to have something that only uses the 2-4 screw holes that are used to hold the plates on since those are universal on vehicles sold in the US.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 3 months ago:
The issue I see with that is you’d need to supply power to the lights, which wouldn’t be impossible, but isn’t exactly trivial.
I wonder if having a license plate frame that changes it to not be a rectangle would work? Maybe even cover the frame in reflective tape to help blind the camera?
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 3 months ago:
I’ve not watched any of this, however there were investigations and "investigators interviewed Pormanove and one of his co-streamers who both appeared to be victims of violence and humiliation. They “strongly denied being victims of violence, stating that the events were staged in order to `generate a buzz’ and make money.” ". That seems to me that this was simulated torture, or at the very least consensual torture. I’ve watched and enjoyed many episodes of Jackass and I’d consider some of the things they did to be a form of torture… this just seems to be the natural progression of that genre of ‘shock entertainment’, which unfortunately went too far in this case.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 3 months ago:
Yet another great video from Benn… however, I’m a bit disappointed that he isn’t more explicit about how to protect your plates from these readers. I understand that he’s likely doing it to protect himself (and his viewers) from legal recourse, and it’s nice that he provides the code used to create and test the patterns, but I wish he had provided his research results to show which patterns were most effective at keeping the system from even detecting the presence of a plate.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 months ago:
I agree, however you’re never going to be able to fully control things that you’ve sent out for other people. Even this post can, and likely will, end up as training data for AI. ‘The only winning move is not to play’ applies to a lot of things in life, and if you truly want to protect your data then the best move is to not create any data. The second best move is to not share any data that you’ve created.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 months ago:
I actually appreciate this. The only place I use Word is at work, and nothing I create in Word at work is ‘mine’. I do not care at all about the security of things I do at work (that’s for our IT Security team to care about), and all this means is that if I accidentally screw up, or if my computer just up and dies on me… all of my work files should be ‘safe’.
My employer has been going very hard towards ensuring that our work computers can ONLY be used for work purposes. Once I accepted this and embraced it I found that I’m now 100% free of Microsoft for anything personal, and it is amazing.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 3 months ago:
lol, so now I can go into pointing out your logical fallacies… but, honestly I’ve already spent more than enough time on this conversation with someone who is clearly very toxic. Thanks for the quick response and for validating my initial impression that you’re someone whose opinion I can happily live without, and welcome to my blocked list.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 3 months ago:
That’s a good summary of my point, though I’m not sure why you think it’s a “strawman” and it certainly wasn’t satirical.
A strawman fallacy involves misrepresenting someone’s argument to make it easier to attack. I, however, accurately represented your argument and then used an **analogy ** to highlight its flaws. An analogy is a rhetorical tool used to explain a concept by comparing it to something similar. In this case, I was responding directly to your question about why it matters if torture is simulated, and if it’s ok to be streamed.
My point, which you seem to have somehow missed, is that we have a clear precedent for broadcasting simulated torture. And, as you so helpfully pointed out, simulated torture not only is ok to be streamed, but it can also receive acclaim and awards.
I’m glad we agree that simulated torture can be broadcast.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 3 months ago:
Should we not be able to watch Reservoir Dogs because there’s simulated torture in it?
- Comment on BECOME THE INTELLECTUAL BLADE 3 months ago:
I worked with a guy who had a doctorate in mathematics… He wrote documentation for the software the company produced.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You know, I think I’m going to get out of bed, go eat some breakfast and then go to poundtown on my dick!
then, after a bland breakfast…
ugh, that sucked… I don’t even feel like beating it any more, might as well go read the bible or something.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 3 months ago:
He helped to further submarine technology to get the shots of the Titanic for the movie, and he developed cameras that could withstand the pressures down there. He also helped design a small rover camera called Snoopy that actually went inside the Titanic to get shots of the staircase.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 4 months ago:
I’ve always looked at the Avatar movies as being more about advancing movie making technology than about creating a good movie. I think James Cameron will be more remembered for his technical advances than for this storytelling.