Tehhund
@Tehhund@lemmy.world
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 3 days ago:
I’m pretty sure you can donate to Mozilla, are you saying that donations to Mozilla don’t accomplish what we might want? I only know a little about how much Mozilla sucks so I’m ready to learn more.
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 1 week ago:
tl;dr: the mistress’s vagina was deformed.
(I also have not read it)
- Comment on Home renovations 2 weeks ago:
Make friends with the legends who live downstairs.
- Comment on AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is true but I once read that people expected the cotton gin to improve slaves’ conditions because that part of the process was incredibly labor-intensive, so it would be saving them work. Instead it made cotton farming more profitable and boosted slave ownership. ☹️
- Comment on Is there a Paula Deen of the Midwest? 4 weeks ago:
In the Midwest, obviously.
- Comment on Anybody have anything nice they'd like to share? 1 month ago:
I just had sex
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 months ago:
Misaligned incentives. The people making bloated software are not the people buying the Ram. In theory the people buying the ram are the same people buying the software and so might put pressure on the people making the software to make it more efficient, but that is a very loose feedback loop and I wouldn’t hold my breath.
- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 2 months ago:
Jiu-Jitsu! Make friends, and smash them!
- Comment on Jinkies... 2 months ago:
Not real
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
Could I, liked recolor webpages? Automate ublock filters? Detect SEO/AI slop?
This is an excellent point: there are potential features I wouldn’t mind trying out. But of course those features aren’t available, because aren’t the features that Mozilla leadership’s buddies in tech are pushing, and often work against what big tech wants.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
Hell yeah
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 3 months ago:
I assure you some of this is being astroturfed by corporations that own housing and want to get rid of property taxes. I’m sure some of it is homegrown, but just like the Tea Party was financed by wealthy right wingers I’m sure the money and infrastructure for these pushes isn’t coming from ordinary people.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 3 months ago:
Actually they’re using it to generate documents required by regulations. Which is its own problem: since LLMs hallucinate, that means the documentation may not reflect what’s actually going on in the plant, potentially bypassing the regulations.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 3 months ago:
This website is going to be very busy when the LLM-designed nuke plants come online. www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-b…
- Comment on What is the catalyst that actually causes (financial) bubbles to burst? 3 months ago:
I agree, I’m sure those kind of manipulations happen all the time. Some are intentionally inflating the price and sometimes investors/fund managers have just drank the Kool-aid and are investing in ways that don’t make sense given the fundamentals. So yeah, stock prices can become completely unmoored from fundamentals because these days the money is in buying and selling, not dividends. In fact, I’d guess that stock prices are unmoored from fundamentals more often than not — when they’re high they’re too high and when they’re low they’re too low due to investor sentiment. But I remain somewhat confident that over the very long term (meaning decades) stock prices have some correlation to fundamentals, so they can’t remain artificially inflated forever. Sooner or later someone will make a killing popping the bubble.
- Comment on What is the catalyst that actually causes (financial) bubbles to burst? 3 months ago:
Stock prices are set by what people think stocks are worth. Buying a stock is a bet that it will become more valuable in the future (and/or pay dividends). Even with the rise of algorithmic trading, those algorithms are betting the stocks are will rise in value. In theory the cost should be related to the fundamentals of the stock like the company’s revenue, but in practice they are also set by investor’s opinions about the stock’s future price.
So what causes stocks to go down is people thinking that stocks will go down, and selling before they lose any more money.
In the case of the AI stock bubble, it’s hard to know what will cause investors to say “this stock is likely to drop on value, or at least not grow as quickly as other investments I could make.” The fact that most AI companies are burning cash and not getting much revenue out of it hasn’t dampened the excitement yet, so I guess investors still believe there’s a way forward that will result in more revenue. Or at least they believe the hype cycle isn’t coming to an end so they’re holding on while the prices go up and hope to sell before their holdings lose too much value. It won’t pop until something deflates the expectations of enough investors to start a sell-off. What’s that going to be? Who knows. It might just be a herd mentality thing where a few people begin to sell and more people follow suit.
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 4 months ago:
Seconding Miniflux! It’s my main RSS reader. I pay for the hosted version, it’s super cheap and works great. And since it’s simple HTML I can write Greasemonkey scripts to customize it a bit.
- Comment on Spokesperson 4 months ago:
In fairness, he’s always looked like a national spokesperson for gas station boner pills. He just looks like it even more now.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 5 months ago:
Okay, what’s the truth then? Cite your evidence.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 6 months ago:
I was wondering recently if the idea of opportunity cost is the same for governments that can print their own money versus all other entities. I’m not entirely clear on how the that automaker bailouts were financed but would that money even have existed if they hadn’t used it for the bailout? It’s not like the government was going to create that amount of money and put it in a savings account.
A more appropriate way to look at it might be whether the money earned more than it cost the government to service the debt. IIRC servicing government debt is not inflation-adjusted, so it’s probably more informative to compare it to the cost of the debt not inflation adjusted-growth.
But this gets pretty weird since it’s not how finance works for entities that cannot print their own money.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 6 months ago:
Over 1 billion people use Microsoft products, but let’s all listen to @lefaucet@slrpnk.net 's anecdote about his IT dept. I genuinely believe your anecdote, but it’s irrelevant. And until OSS evangelists (of which I am one!) realize that other people exist and have different preferences and experiences, MS will keep winning.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 6 months ago:
Oh no, some crank who can’t understand that other people have preferences won’t take me seriously. This is a major loss. I am so owned. This definitely isn’t emblematic of the problem with the OSS community.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 6 months ago:
I started the name calling by saying “tech brained” so I apologize and I’ll ease off on that.
With that said, I have to strongly disagree with you. I use MS Office, LibreOffice, and Google Docs regularly, and IMO the ribbon was a huge improvement for word processors and spreadsheets over traditional drop-down menus. Drop-Down menus have their place but for document editing they are not ideal.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 6 months ago:
This an incredibly tech-brained answer. “Sure, lots of OSS is difficult to install, breaks frequently, and lacks key features, but did you know Microsoft sometimes moves a menu item?”
I love OSS and I want it to succeed but “an item moved” isn’t in the same ballpark as the barriers to OSS adoption.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 6 months ago:
The problem: our desire for convenience
Bring on the downvotes, but: When it comes to tools like computers, convenience is synonymous with productivity. People aren’t unreasonably demanding to have their hands held, they want to get stuff done. We need to stop acting like
convenienceproductivity is just one of many concerns. It is the primary concern. - Comment on Americans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, owned by a foreigner. 7 months ago:
Billionaires and reactionaries have no state.
- Comment on Everything you know is wrong. 7 months ago:
Black is white, up is down and short is long And everything you thought was just so Important doesn’t matter
- Comment on Curiosity has not killed any Martian cats 7 months ago:
That you know of.
- Comment on How can I start getting familiar with the plants, trees and animals around where I live? 7 months ago:
I like the iNaturalist app: www.inaturalist.org. When I see something I’m interested in whether plant or animal, I upload a picture and it tells me what it thinks it is. And they’re trying to collect good data about flora and fauna so there are volunteers who review submissions and agree or correct it, so it’s not just an algorithm doing the work. Obviously when you upload it it’s a computer making a guess but people usually review the uploads later, and you can get emails with the results of those reviews.
Someone else mentioned Merlin for birds, which is cool because it can do image ID or bird call ID.
- Comment on There’s Good Posture, Bad Posture, and Golden Posture 8 months ago:
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.