SculptusPoe
@SculptusPoe@lemmy.world
I’m just this guy. You know?
- Comment on Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics 1 day ago:
More random anti-ai fear mongering. I stopped looking at r/technology posts in reddit because that sub is getting flooded with anti-ai propoganda posts with rediculous headlines like this…
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 1 day ago:
Back in the 90s and early 00s when I was in HS and college, going to the video store and finding gems like this and watching them at midnight so I could return the tape the next day made movie watching much more of an adventure. I enjoy my streaming services, but might suffer a bit from too much choice. The closest I get now is when I watch some movie I never heard of because it is on Netflix’s removal list.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 3 days ago:
Time was when you would be in a forum and think “This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams.”
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 3 days ago:
We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Thank you, I’ll give it a look.
Unfortunately change is difficult. If it was just me and my controls team we would probably do something like that, but my boss is a little older and I had hard enough time getting him to work on the cloud as it is, and he works in 2 cities, so he isn’t always in reach to help him. If it doesn’t behave exactly like windows folders, it might be a lost case.
The other people in the office I could train easier. It’s a small office with less than a dozen people on the system at any one time. I am “head of IT” but that isn’t my main job. Having something that installs and sets up quickly is a boon. Not that the sharepoint folders update all that quickly, it takes almost a full day for all the files to show up properly, especially if it is a new user. And if onedrive chokes on any one file it completely stops updating file changes until you fix that. Not a problem for anybody with some savvy, but half the people don’t even notice until their files have diverged and somebody calls them and asks why they don’t see some change or another.
All that being said, if I can save a few hundred dollars a month I could probably eventually talk them into moving over to something cheaper like I did with the Wondershare PDF editor. That was an easy move because it works exactly like Adobe but doesn’t crash on large files nearly as often. It is sort of a shame that Adobe is worse at handling their own file format than nearly any other PDF editor.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 1 week ago:
It seems like they are doing this to push back on mono-culture. Probably just to save money really. Using 365 saved our small office a lot of time, but it is pretty expensive since it is a constant subscription. I already switched away from Adobe at to Wondershare for PDF editing since we can get a single purchase from Wondershare and have to pay a subscription to Adobe. I would be tempted to do the same thing with 365 but we do a lot of traveling and the integrated sharepoint files is pretty useful.
- Comment on 'Spitting in the face of your international audience': The Alters cops to using generative AI for background text and translations, despite not disclosing such on Steam 2 weeks ago:
you’re unhinged
- Comment on 'Spitting in the face of your international audience': The Alters cops to using generative AI for background text and translations, despite not disclosing such on Steam 2 weeks ago:
When a company makes a product completely by hand, but uses AI for a few translations it gets the same label as a game pumped out of Grok and uploaded untouched. That label is misleading and punitive, not informative.
- Comment on 'Spitting in the face of your international audience': The Alters cops to using generative AI for background text and translations, despite not disclosing such on Steam 2 weeks ago:
It’s just reality. Selecting a bunch of textures nobody has seen before through AI but hand crafting the rest of the game would force them to wear the scarlet letters on their front, and open them up to brigading. That move by steam to appease the pitchfork masses is pretty heavy handed.
- Comment on 'Spitting in the face of your international audience': The Alters cops to using generative AI for background text and translations, despite not disclosing such on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Why should they “admit” to it when NeoLuddites with pitchforks and no internal logic lurk around every corner?
- Comment on 'Spitting in the face of your international audience': The Alters cops to using generative AI for background text and translations, despite not disclosing such on Steam 2 weeks ago:
What an insanely non-issue to clutch one’s pearls at…
- Comment on Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books 3 weeks ago:
It means what it means, “freely” pulls its own weight. I didn’t say “readily” accessible. Torrents could be viewed as “readily” accessible but it couldn’t be viewed as “freely” accessible because at the very least you bear the guilt of theft. Library books are “freely” accessible, and if somehow the training involved checking out books and returning them digitally, it should be fine. If it is free to read into neurons it is free to read into neurons. If payment for reading is expected then it isn’t free.
- Comment on Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books 3 weeks ago:
If you try to sell “the new adventures of Doctor Strange, Steven Strange and Magic Man.” existing copyright laws are sufficient and will stop it. Really, training should be regulated by the same laws as reading. If they can get the material through legitimate means it should be fine.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 5 weeks ago:
Well, I do wish they would promote the actual use and limitations of AI and stop making up crap and overselling the use cases. I use ChatGPT at work all the time as a start for research, but if I took any of it as being reliable info to run with I would be in grave trouble. It is a great tool that has saved me much time because I know how far to trust it and how to use it. The progress is very impressive as I’ve been using AI art services for years, and the difference between the random blobs from back then and the great stuff it can generate now is pretty stark. Same thing with the LLMs. I’ve been using ChatGPT since it showed up and it has improved greatly since then. Before all this I talked to people who were using AI training on various picture recognition projects where getting data from other sensors was not practical. … Overall AI is pretty exciting, but the non-stop hype and hate headlines is doing nobody any favors.
- Comment on YouTube’s Deliberate Indifference Exposes Kids to disgusting Content 5 weeks ago:
Hmm. I never watch Youtube Kids, but regular Youtube is one of my primary entertainment sources. All I get if I keep scrolling are people making food, game play throughs, science channels, animation, AMVs. The worst thing I see are music videos no worse than MTV had… Maybe you should just ban them from YouTube Kids… My biggest complaint is that I have to manually click on subscriptions to see the things I subscribed to. I pay for premium, so maybe that makes a difference?
- Comment on YouTube’s Deliberate Indifference Exposes Kids to disgusting Content 5 weeks ago:
Stop begging for censorship. That never ends up good. Accurate tagging of media is what we need and a way to filter that ourselves.
- Comment on YouTube’s Deliberate Indifference Exposes Kids to disgusting Content 5 weeks ago:
When they are older I guess you can beg big brother and nanny state to hold their hand.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 5 weeks ago:
I wish they would tone down the crusade. This is some of the most interesting technology to come out in decades.
- Comment on Common diabetes drug helps chickens lay more eggs 1 month ago:
Well, that is probably good. I always feel a little pessimistic when I see something like this. Any time they can increase production, they tend to think about the dollars first and the impact second. It took way too long for regulation to catch up with them putting antibiotics in feed to increase production. I think they wouldn’t stop by themselves if they had to put a few diabetics in comas if they could increase egg production by some percentage.
- Comment on Common diabetes drug helps chickens lay more eggs 1 month ago:
I wonder what the price is currently and how this will affect it. I would hope that finding a non-human medical use will drive the price of the medicine down as production goes up. Likely they will just manufacture a lower grade, deplete supplies of whatever it takes to make it and raise the price for human medicine for good measure.
- Comment on NO STEAM DATA - Valve confirms alleged data breach was "not a breach of Steam systems" [Debunk] 1 month ago:
yeah
- Comment on NO STEAM DATA - Valve confirms alleged data breach was "not a breach of Steam systems" [Debunk] 1 month ago:
Well, I already changed it anyway. Not a bad thing to do I guess.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 months ago:
Well, you are trying embarrassingly hard to silence me at least. That is fine. I was definitely positing an unlikely but possible case, I do suffer from extreme anxiety and what sets it off has nothing to do with logic, but you are also overstating the ethics violation by suggesting that any harm they could cause is real or significant in a way that wouldn’t happen with regular interaction on random forums.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 months ago:
In that case, any interaction would be unethical. How do you know that I don’t have an intense fear of the words “justify the means”? You could have just doomed me to a downward spiral ending in my demise. As if I didn’t have enough trouble. Yo not only made me see it, you tricked me into typing it.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 2 months ago:
Well, I carry a keyboard with my 17" laptop. Carrying a keyboard with a 8" laptop is that much easier.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 months ago:
Not when disclosure ruins the experiment. Nobody was harmed or even could be harmed unless they are dead stupid, in which case the harm is already inevitable.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 months ago:
What a bunch of fear mongering, anti science idiots.
- Comment on Here Are The Specs For The Retroid Pocket Flip 2 | Time Extension 3 months ago:
Yeah, people keep asking for a second screen. I don’t think it could be for anything but DS emulation. For anything else it would be pointless. I like having more space for the controls so my hand isn’t as cramped. I’m almost off the fence on getting this one. The only one that comes close is that clamshell SP style emulator, and the only reason that doesn’t win is I want to be able to play android games…
- Comment on Here Are The Specs For The Retroid Pocket Flip 2 | Time Extension 3 months ago:
Nah, I just want a regular single android screen with the controls on the flip like it is. I don’t want the controls pushed to the outside. I also need the buttons and screen to be safe if I toss it in my pocket. It is a great form factor really.
- Comment on ‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams 3 months ago:
This is sort of like the advice i was given when traveling. Don’t give money to begging children. They have handlers in the background who get the money and giving it incentivizes them to force more children into begging.