zarkanian

@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, your comment doesn’t make any sense. You said that the whole thing reads like a fantasy when he backs it up with studies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you read anything past the first paragraph?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  By that same logic, Lemmy is dead, so what are you doing here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFmpeg moves to Forgejo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You speak 4 languages, but not Esperanto?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People actually read cover letters

  I have my doubts. I’ve had more than one recruiter tell me “I don’t read cover letters”, and even if they are “reading” it, it’s going to be a brief skim at best.

  On any case, that still doesn’t mean that you should be writing them. My point is that it’s make-work. It’s there to weed out candidates and demonstrate your ability to jump through their hoops.

  a cryptographically secured entry on a pubic ledger has some conceivable use.

  We’re talking specifically about NFTs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone explain to me why all these empty suits dick ride LLMs so hard?

  $$$$$$$

  AIs are cheaper than humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, so far all of the cooking stuff I got from ChatGPT were things that I could’ve found on my own if I had searched better. It will give you a recipe that is edible. It will have the same 4-6 spices as every other recipe and it will require a can of tomatoes. These are all savory dishes; I assume there are a different set of spices and no tomatoes if it’s sweet, but I haven’t tested that theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are use cases for AI. There are none for NFTs.

  One use case is whenever you need to produce some inane bullshit that nobody is probably going to read anyway, but it’s still required for some reason. Like cover letters.

  Now, you might argue that we should work towards a society where we don’t have to produce this inane bullshit that nobody’s going to read anyway, and I would agree with you. But as long as we’re here, we might as well offload this pointless labor onto a pointless labor-saving machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels. They were the “most resistant,” he said, voicing various concerns about what the AI couldn’t do, rather than focusing on what it could. The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added.

  Imagine that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people just use whatever OS their computer comes with. We need to have more companies producing cheap computers with Linux pre-installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What does he think “compute” means?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doom had multiplayer. It didn’t have chat, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doom had chat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  rational discourse is one of the valuable options possible.

  Yeah, can’t say that I’ve seen a lot of that on social media.

  You don’t need social media to do rational discourse, anyway. All you need is two-way communication, a problem that the Internet solved long before any Facebooks or Twitters popped up. You can have rational discourse on IRC, an email list, or even through instant messaging.

  throwing away the whole internet because Xitter sucks is throwing away the baby with the bathwater.

  I know you’re being hyperbolic here, but unfortunately there are a lot of people now who really do see social media as “the whole Internet”. And they have thrown a lot away as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will block the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what’s the point of this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use a fork. I don’t know why I would use vanilla Firefox when there are so many great forks out there that have cool extra features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is the vegan party?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, you can download and run them locally now, and they don’t even phone home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had them give me the exact same answer a second time. They politely apologized first, of course, and they were just as confident that it was correct as the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you give an example?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this IS an AI tech bro. Or at least an AI tech bro dick-rider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty clear that the author doesn’t intend it as a compliment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was trained on stolen artwork and is being used to put artists out of work. I think that, and the environmental effect, are better arguments against AI than some subjective statement about whether or not it’s good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the response has to be organized and political, not individualistic and consumerist.

  Right. This isn’t an argument against veganism; it’s an argument for vegans getting organized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Veganism is a philosophy, not a boycott.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t using the word. Other people are using it and applying it to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, the less knowledgeable among them might even believe it.

  What’s weird is that the people who run the fucking companies apparently believe this. Or they’re trying to convince us that they believe this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  like saying it deserves rights or that there may be some kind of racism against the tool.

  Wait, who’s saying this?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree with the framing, either, but they’re drawing parallels between people not using something due to a principled moral stance. (As well as some not-so-subtle implication that these people are holier-than-thou, too.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of becoming socially acceptable is being visible so that people understand that atheists aren’t some kind of scary monster. We are your doctors, scientists, fire fighters, etc. You might even be friends with one! There might be one (or more!) in your own family! And the only way that is going to happen is if atheists identify as such.