andrew_bidlaw
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on i feel like a fictional character is right there, am i going insane? 1 month ago:
Better safe than fucked up so check in with a psychologist.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 month ago:
IIRC Vivaldi and Brave promised to prolong it for a year.
- Comment on PSA: Some of y'all are overly afraid of scorpions 1 month ago:
Look, washing myself was never an option.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s what this racoon could’ve being doing if it was him.
- Comment on Washington DC to be renamed to St Donaldsburg 1 month ago:
Just Дональд, Московская область. Moscow has seen a lot of changes in what is seemed as their suburbs while it grew with time, so it extending to the whole other continent would not be surprising to russians who already rent flats said to be in this region only to have 2+ hours commutes to almost anything. Taking daily flights to work? Still better than traffic jams in the morning.
- Comment on All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days 2 months ago:
IP hoarding of products that may potentially be produced. Millions of dollars aren’t a pocket change, but if anyone’s going into this wearable AI bullshit, HP’d make a hole in their pockets. It’s a low stakes conservative gamble ‘just in case’.
- Comment on Coming down... 2 months ago:
my evening
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
There’d probably arise a need of a default instance with only guest access for a test drive before they pick their own instance, with some pop ups pointing at the fact that the name nutomic@lemmy.ml means he is a part of some meta-subreddit lemmy.ml, that doesn’t mean shit for he just helped andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works with a link to the source. Their likes are collected but never shown. When they’d want to stop lurking and finally press a login button, it shall instead invite them to see instances of people they liked before first, others next, with tips what lead some rank so high in their list. After the signup is confirmed, their likes may or may not be transported, but their temporal profile is deleted.
I see the natural flow would be something akin to that: we start with a showcase of general content from different nearly-default instances and then get them recs about persons they did enjoy reading.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
You and you being so nice made me switch to ad hominem faster than usual! How the person like you can be so terribly pleasant? Treat yourself, you fellow lemming.
- Comment on Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research. 2 months ago:
I thought this rat made access for researchers difficult, just like on reddit, thus getting bulletproof evidence via data harvesting got complicated.
- Comment on An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers 2 months ago:
The ride just never ends…
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 2 months ago:
I perceive my advanced tools akin to a broom.
I can mop floors alright, but I also don’t want to sit down with a cloth to do it.
If I can’t do that myself, and it does that instead of me, that’s not just my tool, that’s my employee, and the one I now depend on.
‘AI’ companies sell us billions of hours of other people’s labor to replace our own need to interject our experience and ingrain themselves into our routine. Like the coming of ads, it’s already normalized. But this time, critical parts of our life has this black box dependancy and subscription.
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 2 months ago:
Also, LLM doesn’t usually have memory or experience. It’s the first page of Google search every time you put in your tokens. A forever trainee that would never leave that stage in their career.
Human’s abilities like pattern recognition, intuition, acummulation of proven knowledge in combination makes us become more and more effective at finding the right solution to anything.
The LLM bubble can’t replace it and also actively hurts it as people get distanced from actual knowledge by the code door of LLM. They learn how to formulate their requests instead of learning how to do stuff they actually need. This outsourcing makes sense when you need a cookie recipe once a year, it doesn’t when you work in a bakery. What makes the doug behave each way? You don’t need to ask so you wouldn’t know.
And the difference between asking like Lemmy and asking a chatbot is the ultimative convincing manner in which it tells you things, while forums, Q&A boards, blogs handled by people usually have some of these humane qualities behind replies and also an option for someone else to throw a bag of dicks at the suggestion of formating your system partition or turning stuff off and on.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 2 months ago:
Shortly after the news was announced, Altman posted on X: “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
If only their slapfight meant something good for the world. At least, I don’t see everything collected in Musk’s hands.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 2 months ago:
Neuralink ftw lol.
- Comment on Gold hits record high as Trump announces tariffs on steel and aluminium 2 months ago:
Nevertheless I choose to invest in packages of condoms as it seems like the next thing that fucker would hit. People fucked way before they wanted some shiny piss-metal. And their due age usually exceeds the four years we’d hopefully obliged to hear about his misadventures.
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 2 months ago:
I agree. They need to be either pressured or abandoned.
I feel like they would need to rewrite it completely in that case, partially because no one knows how their legacy code works and partially because it’s completely broken.
Google with it’s billions and a promise of more free data did great with how office formats work. They set some little limits of what user can do compared to MS Word so ending up with a broken table or whatever is harder, and they aslo strong-armed their way into adoption with their obvious mechanics of real-time collaboration.
I’m not sure about MS users coming to Linux, but their marketshare was already bled by Google. And if in some scenario Google releases their own internal XML format for these, I guess it’d work too.
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 2 months ago:
MS Office’s lie of WYSIWYG and the idiotic requirements to follow absurdly complicated formatting guidelines and them not rendering the same from system to system or even correctly is the most brutal offender. If we used simplistic markdown without page-breaking in the GUI, there could’ve been no point to buy Office, but we don’t, and itso hsppens I had encountered many times where some arbitrary cosmetic request like ‘you can’t have less than X lines per page’ caused people toy with formatting or rewriting their documents… only for it showing differently on the other side >:ç Thus leading to even worse things like PDF.
It being the most used piece of office software renders the voluntary switch close to impossible.
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 2 months ago:
Some of them just don’t want to take responsibility if they do something wrong under your instructions.
- Comment on is starlink a security issue? 2 months ago:
Thanks for updating me on that. Now I’m stupidly giggling at a thought of a Metal Gear-like walking oil refinery dodging rockets and planes.
- Comment on is starlink a security issue? 2 months ago:
And isn’t starlink receiver a backpack-sized thing? Most drones wouldn’t be able to carry it at all, and if they could, it’s more viable to carry grenades instead. Internet-enabled drones are of a very narrow usage for missions where everything else doesn’t make it, e.g. long-distance attacks you mentioned. I guess Cessna drones were controlled via it too.
- Comment on EggCoin is now officially notarized at a United States bank! 2 months ago:
It’s ‘egglet’. I’m egg-led to insist on it.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
I’d like a GTA singleplayer cheat making every police car a cybertruck that can’t pursue you for long and would rather lose control and do a barrel roll than even get close to you.
- Comment on The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster 2 months ago:
Are they allergic to pineapple pieces on pizza tho 🤔
That’d probably decide this decade-old question.
- Comment on The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster 2 months ago:
Debloated and castrated W10 is not as shitty as older systems if you look at it now, PowerShell is kinda neat and useful, standalone Office apps are slowly getting better and the corruption of their interfaces happened more than a decade ago in Vista times. I like Win+Shift+S screenshot shortcut, Win+arrow movement of windows, middle-mouse scrolling that I can’t correctly emulate on Linux. Their driver storage and search made plug-n-play less of a joke than it was before, like 50% of the time you don’t even need to look for drivers. Your fresh installation media usb stick can also serve for in-place update if you click its’ Setup.exe while booted, and it helped me to unfuck a lot of borked systems. All of these come wirh a lot of shit, but, like, w10 era before co-pilot was a golden age for Win PCs, and it also brought a shared subscription between their xbox consoles and pcs. And if they worked on top of that, improved it, I could’ve stayed there. But they did everything to make me switch to Linux, and with further downgrades, ads and neuro-bullshit I’m happy I got the best MS did and wasn’t there to experience their products at their worst.
- Comment on Tens of thousands protest Germany's far right as Musk backs AfD 2 months ago:
It can be both. Like G. Shroeder didn’t join the board of directors of russian oil and gas companies for nofhing, and I believe AfD had been paid in roubles a lot to stay relevant.
- Comment on Protests delay start of German far-right party's key meet 3 months ago:
The draft version of the manifesto includes an exit from the euro and a tough immigration policy.
So yeah, besides all their nazi shenanigans they are also a tool to damage EU like Brexit did. No wonder Musk and Putin support them. Can countries make such choices untoacheable by local policies to safeguard them?
- Comment on Politics content to be pushed on all Instagram and Threads users 3 months ago:
Seems like Cheetolini’s presidency encouraged him to pull all the levers he was sitting on for years.
- Comment on Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about? 4 months ago:
What’s the average cost in your place?
- Comment on Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about? 4 months ago:
My focus distance is around one meter, I can’t really tell whatever happens above it.