GnuLinuxDude
@GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 3 hours ago:
I have long contended that the computer industry is course-correcting with Android/iOS/mobile. They realized their prior “mistake” of letting people actually own, control, and modify their devices. Apple and iPhone is the worst in this regard.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 3 days ago:
It’s like he selectively forgot about the Snowden leaks
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 4 days ago:
Love to expand my business infrastructure in a country that’s actively perpetrating a genocide. Very cool.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 week ago:
More necessary than that, really.
- Comment on OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers 2 weeks ago:
don’t run untrusted scripts from the internet on your computer.
- Comment on OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses' 2 weeks ago:
CEO Sam Altman warns that the rollout presents unpredictable risks.
But that doesn’t prevent his profit motive from consuming untold amounts of electricity to shove this into your face. They know what they’re doing. They know their product is used primarily to generate spam, and secondarily is designed to form addictive faux-relationships with their users.
Burn in hell. Actually, given the direction this is all going, we will all be burning in hell within generations.
- Comment on Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence 4 weeks ago:
Your last paragraph implies that I’m naive for believing that complaining about it will make it go away, but I’ve done no such thing.
the market will sort that out
This is the naive statement.
- Comment on Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence 4 weeks ago:
I’m overtly anti-llm. I don’t think it’s dramatic at all to be so.
Enough has come out about how much power and water datacenters used to train and run it consume, people being driven insane by it, investors hoping to displace jobs with it, how over reliance on it diminishes your mental faculties, people from minors to adults using it to create deepfake porn of minors (literally it’s on lemmy rn lemmy.ml/post/32581009), its use in overt misinformation (particularly from our modern warzones and disaster areas), overt theft of writing and artistry to train these things, and last but not least: limitless spam.
I’m affected by most of those things indirectly, but the spam affects me daily. Can’t search for something on the net anymore without being served f-tier LLM-produced garbage.
So what are the good parts? Doesn’t seem like they outweigh these bad parts, whatever they are.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 5 weeks ago:
No kidding on the ads. I shared this experience not long ago.
lemmy.ml/post/31496834/19167708
And the tragic thing is there was another news site that I did the same thing with afterwards, and it was literally 2.5x worse than what I documented with The Nation.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 5 weeks ago:
I remember the wonderful feeling when Discord had a redesign in like 2017 or 2018 where they undid that awful gray-on-white design trend and made the text actually have contrast. These days the annoying trendy design thing is articles/blogs with extremely narrow width.
no i do not want to read paragraphs that are this wide. this is making it way more annoying to read. please stop doing this.
at least Firefox has Reader Mode.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying 1 month ago:
It’s so annoying when you try to discuss this because often a gaggle of idiots come out and point, superficially, that water gets recycled into nature. They always ignore the cost of making that water fit for human usage.
- Comment on Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations 1 month ago:
It’s gonna be funny when stuff like mid-level tech companies are fully integrated into Github Copilot and then whoopsie doopsie time for a 50% price hike.
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 1 month ago:
On the one hand he’s supposed to be a very serious business genius at the forefront of the next wave of technological advancement. On the other, he’s just advertising to people how stupid he is.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 1 month ago:
What am I dogwhistling? A dogshit, decrepit capitalist society designed to exploit poor people?
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 1 month ago:
Online sports betting through apps on your phone is just yet another example of everything sliding toward degeneracy
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 month ago:
extremely non-zero chance the entire site and payment system was coded by morons with chatgpt
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 1 month ago:
Looking forward to alarming articles about how Greenland Internet users are rapidly losing freedom because they have to provide a home address to get service or something stupid like that.
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 1 month ago:
Looking forward to a map produced next year by some thinly veiled US-supported NGO that shows corruption in the world and America will still be not corrupt but America’s enemies will be very corrupt.
- Comment on Hong Kong workers strike against the algorithmic exploitation of Keeta, a food delivery platform 1 month ago:
I have never used a food delivery service because they all feel so fucking scummy and exploitative. Seems like they are in equal need as we are for regulatory overhaul of this business practice.
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 1 month ago:
but the flooding of the art fields with low quality products
It’s even worse than that, because the #1 use case is spam, regardless of what others think they personally gain out of it. It is exhausting filtering through the endless garbage spam results. And it isn’t just text sites. Searching generic terms into sites like YouTube (e.g. “cats”) will quickly lead you to a deluge of AI shit. Where did the real cats go?
It’s incredible that DrNik is coming out with a bland, fake movie trailer as an example of how AI is good. It’s “super creative” to repeatedly prompt Veo3 to give you synthetic Hobbit-style images that have the vague appearance of looking like VistaVision. Actually, super creative is kinda already done, watch me go hyper creative:
“Whoa, now you can make it look like an 80s rock music video. Whoa, now you can make it look like a 20s silent film. Whoa, now you can make look like a 90s sci-fi flick. Whoa, now you can make it look like a super hero film.”
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 1 month ago:
Notably, Youtube does not consider exploiting children for profit harmful.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 month ago:
In addition to your point, literally just two days ago I saw an article about a Texas sheriff running a search through a nation-wide network of license plate readers to track down a woman suspected of having an abortion.
Oh OK they didn’t stop her on the street, they just queried the panopticon system that tracked her movement as much as possible. Want to protest a genocide your state and university are sponsoring? Sorry, MIT will muzzle you and now you are now forbidden from giving the commencement address. Wouldn’t want to offend the dear leader in the white house.
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 1 month ago:
Honest and good work to figure out jailbreaks for ai interviewers. Even more honest and good to never accept these interviews because fuck that 100%
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 1 month ago:
damn the 2020s felt like decades ago 😥
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 2 months ago:
never
That tweet must be some kind of joke, because I don’t know what to make of the many people who use Linux outside of embedded and server applications. And it doesn’t even have to be my hearsay because the Steam Deck is exactly such a device.
In fact, I have a USB audio interface which I use near daily on Linux that has no driver support in modern Windows, because the vendor only provided beta support for Windows 7 as that OS was releasing. By Windows 8 it was unsupported. So the journey of that device is XP->Stable, Vista->Stable, 7->Unstable, 8±> Non-functioning. If the driver ABI were so stable, why does my device not work on Windows anymore?
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 2 months ago:
I’d not heard of your site before, but it sounds like it was a cool thing while it lasted. That seems to be the trend of the day. The cool things are giving way to very dumb things.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 2 months ago:
There is no .srt in this case. This is also not about bitmap dvd vobsubs.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 2 months ago:
I’d be willing to bet if you put a calendar reminder in one year to check back on this you’d find that this car did not actually reach the mass-produced stage of industry.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 months ago:
Sounds like your school needed better funding and more teachers. 50 students per class? I’m sorry you had to suffer that. This is the future that people like the CEO of DuoLingo want. They want to gut traditional education. Don’t see how this makes him right about anything.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 months ago:
Stressing out in what way? For the viability of your job being lost to this ai bullshit? For the outcomes of students who will just try to chatGPcheaT their way through everything?