megopie

@megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person have no critical thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “Of course the Americans introduced the Colorado potato beetle! After all, where is Colorado? America! Check mate liberal”

  For real though I hate those little fuckers. Every time I try and grow potatoes in a garden I get an infestation and it’s a pain to deal with in a small plot, can’t imagine how much of a nightmare they are on a proper field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person have no critical thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Propaganda, is a craft, it’s a whole world of tricks and manipulations. Not just censorship and positive stories about the leaders. It can get shockingly sophisticated. We usually only take note of the obvious and obtuse propaganda.

  People aren’t dumb for believing it, it’s a whole field of figuring out how to convince people about things. Often if the propaganda doesn’t work on you, that’s because it’s not designed for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, no? He lived in England throughout the controversy, he didn’t move to Japan till 2022, years after his controversy died down. He probably moved because he’s a fucking dork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re lying about using AI to write software, they probably have required all their programmers to have an AI plugin installed, and are thus counting any code they make as “written by AI”, and then are counting any minor edit to existing code as the entire thing being “written by AI”.

  The software is bad because it’s written to serve the infinite growth imperative. The reason they claim they’re writing code with AI is because that being true is the only hope that they have for achieving the infinite growth imperative. It’s a con, it’s a cult, they are extracting as much value as they can before everything falls apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI is not the reason their software is bad, but their software is bad for the same reason they’re claiming to use AI to write it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, he never really went anywhere, still gets like 2 to 6 million views a video, he just stoped doing news worthy edgelord shit for attention.

  The stuff that was getting him in trouble was stuff like paying some kids on fiver to hold up an antisemitic sign, used some Nazi imagery in videos, shouted the N word on stream, and a bunch of other things. This was all between 2017 and 2019 and while he hasn’t made amends, he also hasn’t kept doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I could see stuff getting small changes and them claiming that the entirety of the new version is “written by AI”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d guess a lot of the people writing the code don’t even have it turned on, it’s just installed because management said it had to be, because management wants to be able to tell investors they’re “innovating work flows”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet they’re counting code written while someone had an AI plugin installed as “written by AI” and I bet that accounts for almost all of that 30%. On top of that, I’m betting that they made it mandatory to have such a plug in, and the other 70% is just code written before they mandated this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But, we already have quake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn't really explain how it'll help [game] developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not for game developers, it’s to convince capital that they should keep funding Microsoft’s data center expansions. Keep funding the methane companies that provide the power for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so bizarre to see this discussion play out on the basis of “health”

  Because there is a legitimate discussion to be had about the economics of how milk pasteurization requirements have affected local dairy farms. How the unsanitary conditions of industrial scale milk production have made it a necessity. How marketing and corporate interests have shifted consumption patterns.

  And yet these fucking dipshits have turned this in to “pasteurized milk personally harms you!” In grifter circles.

  How screwed are we that we can’t talk about the complexities of how corporate farming practices have effected our food supplies with out couching it in terms of “health food”.

  I cannot express how much I hate the term “health food”. There is no such fucking thing as a “health food”.

  It makes me want to rip my hair out when these topics come up.