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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers unveil LegoGPT, an AI model that designs physically stable Lego structures from text prompts and currently supports eight standard brick types⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tool use/mcp can do an awful lot already, not everything but it’s hard to come up with stuff it just plain can’t do.

  Agi is poorly defined, without a clear definition of exactly what it is there will never be a time we actually achieve it because the goalposts will move.

  We all probably remember the time that the turing test was the ultimate test of an ai, but that’s pretty well cooked and it no longer matters at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skype was shut down for good today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Teams is their replacement, viable or not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft teases pay-to-patch plan for Windows Server 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really misleading tbh, just because you don’t have to reboot the server to get your update doesn’t change the fact that it’s an update?

  Also per core? Jfc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you run a society?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm not going to lie I don’t trust humans to be qualified self-governing at scale, brains are too small and empathy is too weak.

  Big brother surveillance sucks, but is probably one of the most effective ways to mitigate crime. Power begets corruption so it’s essential to limit any one person’s power, to that effect a monthly empathy and compassion test should be mandatory for any person in a position of power. Obviously the test itself is the weak point so you need some sort of balanced system of administration and auditing, one group has only the power to judge, the other has only the power to judge the judges etc. Perhaps some sort of distributed dao style voting system, in which voting is mandatory, you cannot purchase anything without performing your duty of voting.

  Ai is imperfect but it’s fairly safe to assume that 1000 years of progress fine tuning the current technology would lead to a reasonable system that could be relied upon as a final arbiter for decisions that humans fail to form a consensus on. A “supreme court” of sorts. Important with such a broad timeline that the ai system can only be used after the death of the last person to work on it. So you literally cannot personally benefit from corruption, and income of officials would be strictly monitored, anything unreported would be assumed to be corruption and the position would be lost.

  Prison is ineffective, punishment in general is ineffective, so some alternative needs to be established. Since we’re all meaty human flesh machines, there’s not an awful lot of options, perhaps an option to move off-planet if a crime is committed, with a system of working their way back to a main colony.

  Work as established is dystopian, I think the focus should be on creating automations, mandatory work should be limited to something like 1 week a month.

  There’s a lot more I think, in general hedging against common human corruptions would be the gameplan. Humans will self destruct given enough time and there’s just not much you can do about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thought provoking tee shirt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The image is boobs, that happen to look like spiderman, and the bad news is that you’re a nerd or something idk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neovim is basically just vim with easier extension creation. It’s pretty good for a terminal editor. If you don’t already like vim you may not really enjoy nvim, it’s more of a lifestyle than a text editor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo continues to demonstrate why my personal boycott continues. What a shitty company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare you think Google would listen to its users and not the advertisers. Fr though I’m not sure, manifest v3 does use a sandboxing feature but it’s unclear at first glance if they are directly related

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For large groups I suppose airbnbs are more reasonable, though it’s honestly not that big of a difference in pricing for vacation rentals.

  Housekeeping is easy, just put the little do not disturb sign up, they won’t bug you.

  I don’t have an opinion on the other stuff though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  5 years too late, hotels have been cheaper and better for a while now. All of these companies that touted revolutionizing industries have just become worse versions.

  Netflix, airbnb, uber, etc all of them are worse for people than the things they replaced

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What other things, specifically?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its duty?!

  The US has no mandate to meddle in international affairs, any more than a bully in grade school has a duty to stop smaller bullies from picking on their own victims.

  The US has never been an international savior, it’s the only country in the world to have dropped nuclear bombs on civilians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Contrary to their name, rare earth metals are not rare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Things do happen in your life, nobody lives in a vacuum. You are alive and are experiencing things every day including the stuff that’s happening to all of us. Recent economic news, political drama, geopolitical events, etc are all fair game

  I used to think nothing happened in my life then I started to keep a diary/journal and realized that a ton happens all the time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Wife of Russian Billionaire Rotenberg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who, specifically, made this choice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

  Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interest in studying in US dropped 42% in January⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  K

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have had a lot of good years with gandi.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unit tests and good architecture are still foundational requirements, so far no bug reports with any of these updates. In fact a huge chunk of these ai updates were addressing bugs. Not sure why you’re so mad at what you imagine is happening and making so many broad assumptions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re all pretty fired up at the update velocity tbh 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, generative ai is pretty remarkably useful for software development. I’ve written dozens of product updates with tools like claudecode and cursorai, dismissing it as a novelty is reductive and straight up incorrect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Logic and love don’t really mix well, life is a bit fuller when you embrace love and let yourself feel vulnerable even if you know it will end in tragedy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, that’s fine. This may be a wild take, but they grew and their usage of excel obviously didn’t hold them back, what’s the issue?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we know this is actually Earth, and not just some torture chamber in Hell and we are just being punished?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t, but it also doesn’t matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably one of the most common use cases for the Steam deck, I’ve played a ton of emulated games and had a great time. Its far from perfect, especially for newer consoles, but pretty much anything GameCube and below is at least runnable

  Archive.org is the best source of safe roms, who knows how long that will last though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelensky slams US-Russia talks, urges 'fair' negotiations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He “slammed” it, did he?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you express romantic interest in someone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always assumed this is something that comes naturally, when I’m into someone I take a deep interest in then, ask then questions about their passion, follow up and remember when they tell me things, try to spend time together either in a group or solo, look at them, talk to them eventually about my interest.

  There’s no formula and it isn’t some mystical ritual or anything, just treat them well, smile at them, look at them, touch them appropriately and with consent, be engaged and interested in who they are. Don’t fall into the trap of feeling like all members of the opposite sex are a unified being, every person is different and the opposite sex is made up of people just like you, maybe with different bits if you subscribe to that type of gender identity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Life has no point, you’re just energy given form (literally, not metaphorically or superstitiously or some shit, mass and energy are the same thing)

  Hedonism is easy to fall into, and arguably fine, if you don’t find life worth living but can’t muster the enthusiasm to end it, you should try to change your environment.

  For me, life is worth living for stories, I love books and the experience of being something different for a time. I have built my life around lazy evenings on the sofa with my cat on my lap reading a book, or playing a comfortable game, nothing else matters to me at all. It’s easy to be content if your requirements are minimal.

  Life is an odd phenomenon, we’re blessed or cursed with consciousness, may as well do something you enjoy. If you don’t know what you enjoy then try more stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘By humans, for humans’: French dubbing industry speaks out against AI threat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if we’ll start seeing labels like that on a lot of media, books, voice overs, movies, tv shows, youtubers, etc

  It could be worth making some sort of certification, certified AI free like free range eggs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming you already own a home, and the stock market stonks upward forever, yeah. Otherwise you’re renting and in 30 years when rent is 15k/month you’re outta luck.