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- Comment on Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default 17 hours ago:
"Your" files? No no no, rookie mistake. You see, you might think that just because you created them they are YOUR files, but since you were them using Microsoft's software, on Microsoft's OS, they are actually Microsoft's files that they graciously license to you for limited use! Should have read all those EULAS, eh?
... I don't even friggin' know if I should put an /s at the end - the current tech dystopia it can actually be true.
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 2 days ago:
I'm a simultaneous interpreter, and it's a bloodbath out there. Partially because anyone who needs a translator or an interpreter by default is unable to verify the accuracy of the translation/interpretation - they can only tell if it's smooth, believable, and such. And, AIs are great at being believable even when they make shit up...
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 1 week ago:
Just a few trillion dollars more bro, I swear bro, I'll make it SO good and profitable bro! Just need a few more trillions, honest! And maybe, like, no more than 70% of all water and electricity in the world diverted to the data centers bro, no more than that! Imagine how awesome it'll be bro, come on, this time it'll work for sure!
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 1 week ago:
It's completely insane to me that businesses deal with it without suing their butts off. I can understand individual customers, they tend to be docile, but how did all this not cost massive losses to a litigious company yet?
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 1 week ago:
...and it shows. God damn it shows, almost every week it seems, with yet another fuckup.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 1 week ago:
Amen to that.
I settled on Manjaro for now because it's super nice and easy to use - I heard it had some issues with updates on the past, but for the last year or so it's been really nice for me, so I'll wait until the first screwup before distro-hopping somewhere else :)
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 1 week ago:
Jesus fucking Christ, is Windows just 100% vibe coded now? How do those fuckups keep happening? It's honestly unbelievable...
I'm so glad I decided to move away from it - I still have no idea what I'm doing in Linux, but then again I never had a lot of idea about what I'm doing in Windows either, so it's all good :)
- 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:
Haha, that's neat! Morbid, but neat - I'll have to remember it, thanks! :)
- 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:
True and completely right, but I lack the vocabulary to replace it with something more accurate and still evocative enough :)
- 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:
You have to use AI! For what? I dunno, figure it out or you're fired! <- a genius businessman, apparently...
This blind lemming-like rush towards AI that so many CEOs seem to suffer from seriously resembles cult behavior or severe drug addiction, my god...
- 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 3 weeks ago:
That's because the author seems to be a journalism vegan, writing vegan and self-awareness vegan.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 3 weeks ago:
I would genuinely have more trust in a politician consulting I Ching than ChatGPT - at least the book of changes requires some thinking and interpretation, fucking hell...
Sigh, all the tech-bros that convinced the general public that AI are in any way intelligent or that they can think, reason or understand concepts like truth/lies or right/wrong should go on trial for crimes against humanity...
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 4 weeks ago:
Come on UK, just skip all the boring parts and make unremovable collars for everyone fitted with GPS, cameras and miniature bombs that can be remotely detonated. After all, that's the only way to make sure nobody is doing bad, very bad illegal stuff and to PROTECT THE CHILDREN, isn't it? Fucking hell, these fucks really are trying to create a bloody dystopia...
- Comment on Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' 1 month ago:
Goddamned shameless ghoul, holy fucking shit. We're really in full-on Idiocracy mode, only these morons feel like they have to mention AI in every single sentence instead of Carl's Jr...
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 1 month ago:
Amen to that: I want to play games made by people who like games, by people who play games, and by people who want to make games. Not by MBA suits who like money and just want to make more money...
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 month ago:
How very corporate of them: people don't want to do something? Screw finding out why, let's make it mandatory and poof, problem solved!
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 months ago:
I hope so, I genuinely do.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 months ago:
It's absolutely not okay, but since there will be no negative consequences for it whatsoever, it's the new normal. This is sadly what happens when laws are not enforced, and I'm not sure if anything even can be done anymore...