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- Comment on Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash 1 day ago:
lol no… they’re just saying that
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 days ago:
Which cameras do you use?
- Comment on BASED? 4 days ago:
Not sure I fully understand, that’s like saying “It’s true, but funny, because… reasons.”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
By the time they fix it, it’ll be Windows 12. We see the pattern over and over again, but this time they tried strong arming people onto 11. Those people aren’t going back.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not that, they’re still around.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
Next step is to make sure only the workers are shareholders.
- Comment on If only 3 weeks ago:
The chain was so someone didn’t steal his wallet… because everyone could use an extra $2
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
It’s getting more and more absurd.
“We can’t think of a good use for this parasite outside of our industry.”
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, that’s their only job, to make the number go up.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 3 weeks ago:
It’s being shoved down everyone’s throats for the same reasons it was shoved down everyone’s throats 6 years ago… they need to train this shit so they can replace everyone.
It has the economics of a bubble, is making or computing extremely expensive and in most cases degrades my experience. Obviously they are running into a wall.
This screams fraud more than anything to me. It feels more like Enron than pets.com but maybe it’s a bubble. I won’t argue with you there. The rest of this statement, I agree with.
They will however not lead to AGI.
I’m not confident about that. How are you confident about that? I’m also not saying you’re wrong… but I don’t think you know this.
And we’re not even talking about how there are people in jail for a fraction of the piracy these companies committed out that they used peoples private data to train these models. Based on how IP law is wielded against people we should get a payout for every single time an LLM is queried.
Fully agree with you.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to express a perspective that goes against a lot of the Lemmy hive-mind, so I’m sure I’ll be downvoted, but here goes anyway cause I don’t give no fucks about downvotes…
When I first heard about LLMs (around 2021 I think), I was pretty neutral on it. “Meh, sounds like some annoying bullshit to piss off customers and attempt to take call-center jobs away. Probably going to flop…” was the perspective I had around the time of my first introduction.
Around 2022 or 2023, the place I was working at the time started heavily pushing people to use it. I was a Cloud Engineer at the time. There wasn’t a lot of justification as to “why” we should be using it, other than, “it’ll make things easier.” Because of my org pushing large numbers of engineers and developers into using something without demonstrating an actual benefit, or reason why it will help immediately caused my brain to signal red flags and become suspicious of it. My neutrality shifted into an ANTI-AI sentiment.
By the end of 2023 (or so), I was pretty vehemently against AI. I don’t need to articulate on that too much, we all know the reasons why. Towards the end of last year, I found myself in a weird spot of starting a business and didn’t know wtf I was doing, at all. That was the first time that I had a good experience with using Claude. It guided me through the process of creating an LLC, and a bunch of other bullshit that’s associated with that. I’ve had a few good experiences with it for the past few months… it’s a lot better than it was.
At this point, I’ve come to the conclusion that a large problem with AI was what happened in (what I’m calling) the early days (2020-2021), of pushing people to adopt some bullshit that was wholly unsubstantiated, and quite frankly sucked. The expectation for a “boom” was greatly miscalculated.
If companies were starting to push people to use it for the first time in 2025, I think we’d be having a much different conversation about AI / LLMs in 2026. I think it has some viable uses, and it does some of the technical aspects of my role substantially faster than I can do them. However, my concerns around the economic, environmental, and political implications of AI still have me maintaining a perspective that it’s more trouble than it’s worth. In short, “AI isn’t all bad on it’s own… the system we’re trying to add AI to is already fucked and AI is making it worse.”
- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 3 weeks ago:
You’ve already been absorbed and you’re in a black hole.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 4 weeks ago:
I’m generally supportive of removing AI from artistic endeavors, but also wildly unfamiliar with bandcamp. I’m looking at it for the first time right now. Does it work like Deezer / Tidal or one of the streaming services where I can listen to things from my phone, or is it more of a website that you use to discover unsigned / smaller acts by clicking through a bunch of things and listening?
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 4 weeks ago:
You’re proving my comment made yesterday about a large chunk of Lemmy users being barely literate.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 4 weeks ago:
Grow organically or die
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Bezos isn’t a visionary, he’s a recationary. His opinions are worth less than the toilet paper I use to wipe my asshole with. Ya’ll need to get off Lex Luthor’s nutbag.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 4 weeks ago:
Eh close enough.
2 range days a week and 3 days of cardio a week will make anyone a better shooter and in better shape than a typical ICE agent. The average person is already smarter. Shit… 2 range days per week will make someone more proficient than most REAL cops.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 4 weeks ago:
ICE agents get 8 weeks of training. Don’t undervalue someone with a year of real training.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 4 weeks ago:
What time zone?
- Comment on There are only like 3,000 billionaires and they're not physically imposing people. 4 weeks ago:
Does their security have security? Those guys can’t be in multiple places at once.
- Comment on There are only like 3,000 billionaires and they're not physically imposing people. 4 weeks ago:
So we pass laws regarding inheritance.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
BS
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
I was doing that with a wood board about 7 or 8 years ago, eventually a chunk fell off the side. I kept using it. Then, it warped. That’s when it was tossed and I got a plastic one.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
Plastic goes in the dishwasher. Wood doesn’t. Plastic is cleaner.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
Throw it out and go back to plastic.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 month ago:
Fair perspective. I don’t think you’re wrong, but I don’t think of the car guys and the arch people as similar.
As a non-car guy, I’ve never had a car guy try to be smug with me about an engine he built.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 month ago:
I first heard of Arch in 2013, it was something talked about at work as being a bit of a pain in the ass to get going, but once it was running, “kinda nice.” That didn’t interest me at the time. It still doesn’t. I didn’t want to do extra work to make my work computer functional.
I only “heard” one person bragging that they used Arch, but that was in 2017 or 2018 on a Discord thing for a game I was playing at the time. I haven’t “heard” anyone brag about it since then, but I’ve read maybe 4-5 comments since 2018 where the writer was coming off like they were proud of themselves.
It’s weird as fuck.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 month ago:
Are you talking about a Chromebook?
Aside from that… I remember when I had my very first help desk job in 2008, Dell was shipping Latitude laptops with Linux for $90 less than the laptops that shipped with Windows… which is what a lot of places did that already paid for their own licensing direct from MS.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 1 month ago:
I swap out my bath towel once every 3-4 days. When there’s 3 or more in the hamper, I wash them.
I’ll use these towels until they wear out.
