homesweethomeMrL
@homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
- Comment on 9 arrests for violent fascists attacking police - 900 for grannies and disabled people holding placards 5 hours ago:
It can be two things
- Comment on Boris Johnson secretly lobbied UAE for billion-dollar private venture, leak suggests 12 hours ago:
And why not? Trump did it and no one batted an eye. Hell, Jared the monkeyboy got two billion-with-a-b from them for “consulting”.
Get with the times! Corruption is out loud and proud! Ignorance is strength! Night is day!
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 13 hours ago:
Persecution complex is a helluva drug
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 day ago:
Yeah Proton continuing to pooch it
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 days ago:
Wild. That’s not cool at all.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 days ago:
What in the shit?
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 2 days ago:
So far as I can tell there are a few groups that make up its “popularity”
Ironically the “anti-AI” crowd, for lack of a more at-hand description mention AI a lot because it’s a form of hype many experienced technology-versed people have seen many times before and at such a scale as to be astounding. Also because it doesn’t seem to work very well at all. And because everyone is being forced to use it and “forced” to like it.
Then there’s the gung-ho “newbies” (who may in fact have more than a decade of experience) who just think it’s neat. They love the intricacy of it and the wide-open futuristic vistas and they like talking about what it can or might be able to do some day. This group will become the former group in another decade or so.
Then there’s the propaganda - any news article, tweet, comment or what have you that in some way shape or form is being put in front of many people for the purposes of keeping AI discussion happening. Much of this is “free press” because next to lawyers, journalists are least likely to understand technology, and their directives from on high are to promote this thing - whatever it is.
Then there’s data science researchers who are ostensibly pulling new insights out of a sea of hallucinations and making interesting new connections because of it. It happens.
I think that’s more or less it. There’s also the general non-technology group of people who are told things about it and have not used it, nor will they probably ever.
- Comment on The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware 2 days ago:
🌎🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 2 days ago:
Yep. It’s not even very good at the barest minimum function anyone can find for it after years of blasting everyone with propaganda to use it. And could be replaced with a couple of lines.
Truly a bizarre chapter in technology.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 2 days ago:
Yeah. “How Every Business Is Screwing Itself By Requiring What It Doesn’t Understand”
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 2 days ago:
Given the unprecedented amount of sheer capital rolling into this like an ocean falling down from space, over what, three years now? A subroutine to “make pptx” not existing doesn’t give me a ton of hope that anyone either knows what they’re doing or is able and willing to chop enough of it off to do that.
I hear it in concept, I’m just saying - it seems like such low hanging fruit it’s almost damning that it doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 2 days ago:
Depending on the ask, yes. Summarize this document - usually pretty correct, if verbose and disgustingly bland like eating paste. But then it’ll say “Do you want me to make this into a powerpoint?” and you go - sure, why not - and (true story) it goes “here it is” and there’s nothing there.
And you say “uh, there’s nothing there” and it goes “oh! Sorry. Here it is” and it links to a pdf. And you say “that’s not a powerpoint” and it goes “oh! sorry you’re right. Here.” and it links to a powerpoint that’s so sparse it seems like it assembled itself from the random background radiation of the universe - and it doesn’t even say what the summary said. It’s something sort of like it but worse somehow.
And that experience never changes. That’s essentially all any AI interaction will ever be.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 2 days ago:
I use them for cursory web searches it would take me slightly longer to do directly.
spellings of words, name of the character from that movie, whatever ephemera I want at the moment that no one ever should really give two shits about.
Actual questions or actual functions? lol no. And the second they ask me to pay for it - it’s gone.
- Comment on Check yourself before you rex yourself 3 days ago:
I deduce you are a visitor to qwantz.com!
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 5 days ago:
This is a joke, right?
- Comment on New report blames Phison's pre-release firmware for SSD failures — not Microsoft’s August patch for Windows 5 days ago:
That’s why you shouldn’t use it.
- Comment on New report blames Phison's pre-release firmware for SSD failures — not Microsoft’s August patch for Windows 5 days ago:
According to the Chinese Facebook group PCDIY! . . .
In a Facebook post, group admin Rose Lee said that the issue has been identified and additionally verified by Phison engineers, thereby giving credibility to the claims.
Ah yes the notably stringent testing and analysis of . . . a Chinese Facebook group
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
His son, my father, is a rabid anti-immigrant racist Fox News fan boy.
Ding!
Ask not for whom the right-wing propaganda tolls, rest-of-the-world, it tolls for thee
- Comment on Thousands of Australians call for neo-Nazi leader to be deported to New Zealand 1 week ago:
- Comment on Do you recognize this PC case? 1 week ago:
Hp Pavilion?
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 1 week ago:
The UK has been doing some seriously batshit things lately. Obviously we’re not ones to talk but - yeah. It’s sad.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: I’d go further than Farage and deport women and children 2 weeks ago:
Yikes
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
Silence! The great Microsoft has decreed that from this day forward your documents belong to them! No dissension!
Proceed to the payment portal to pay your offerings immediately. Only those worthy enough to play for the Extra^TM^ and Premium^TM^ tiers will be allowed to use the File menu.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
Where do you think Google learned it?
- Comment on KATHLEEN 2 weeks ago:
Katy Lied
- Comment on Melania Trump launches AI contest for schoolchidren in grades K-12 2 weeks ago:
Ah looking for the kid who can be best huh.
- Comment on Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat 2 weeks ago:
I thought he loved Three Percenters
- Comment on Trump risks economic calamity by tampering with Fed independence 2 weeks ago:
Trump is a demented, doddering old fool who has zero business being anywhere near anyplace that makes decisions much less the goddamned oval office.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 2 weeks ago:
. . . What?
- Comment on Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold 2 weeks ago:
Whilst these initial results are promising, further large-scale field trials are needed to assess long-term impacts on colony health and pollination efficacy. Potentially, the supplement could be available to farmers within two years.
This new technology could also be used to develop dietary supplements for other pollinators or farmed insects, opening new avenues for sustainable agriculture.
