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- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 1 day ago:
AI is a really good demo for a lot of people, but once you start using it, the gains you can get from it end up being somewhat minimal without doing some serious work.
I’m so sick of “AI demos” at work. Every demo goes like this.
- Generate text with an LLM.
- Don’t fact check it.
- Don’t verify it works.
- Oooh and aahhh at random numbers and charts.
- Higher ups all clap and say we could be 10x more productive if more people would just use AI more.
Meanwhile they ignore that zero AI projects have actually stuck around or get used in a meaningful way.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 week ago:
I’m not really worried about competing with the vibe coders. At least on my team, those guys tend to ship more bugs, which causes the fire alarm to go off later.
I’d rather build a reputation of being a little slower, but more stable and higher quality. I want people to think, “Ah, nice. Paequ2 just merged his code. We’re saved.” instead of, “Shit. Paequ2 just merged. Please nothing break…”
Also, those guys don’t really seem to be closing tickets faster than me. Typing words is just one small part of being a programmer.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 1 week ago:
indexesis valid: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/index - Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 1 week ago:
One employee posted that the AI assistant started telling people that the restaurant was out of everything but drinks and sauce packets. A person attempting to order a Chalupa Supreme with onions from the AI assistant ended up with three chalupas, and when they tried to replace meat with beans, the AI simply refused.
So things are not going great, but that is not stopping Taco Bell from pushing forward with its AI embrace in one way or another.
Taco Bell: ¡No, más! 😂
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 2 weeks ago:
😭 Daaaammnnn… this is gonna be the answer… 😭
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
The question wasn’t how to switch OSs without losing current capabilities
This is exactly the question. The article is about Google taking away software freedom, forcing developers to dox themselves, and forcing users to only install software from Google’s approved list.
Apple is already there. How would that help anyone?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
one detail that’s often glossed over is that Kagi primarily functions as a middleman between you and other search engines, like Google. In other words, it’s what we call a metasearch engine.
Yeah, I’ve known this. I’m… ajdlfjk about it.
What it can do, however, is make content less visible or harder to find, based on the criteria it uses to filter and rank results from its sources.
Aaaand this is kinda the secret sauce. While the starting material is what you get in other places, Kagi allows you to improve it with your own rankings and filters on top. For example, every time I find an AI slop review website, I immediately downrank it in my results. I also uprank trusted sites. This at least tilts the scales in my favor when searching, instead of accepting what Google wants me to see.
But, yeah, I agree Kagi is not discovering new material not known to Google, but it does have a higher chance of surfacing it.
I encourage you to try SearXNG
OK.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
So, you monolingual? 🙂
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Oh, thank god Apple lets users install whatever software they want—hey, wait a minute…
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Seafile is an alternative: www.seafile.com/en/product/seafile_on_premise/
I haven’t tried it. Seems to be more efficient than Nextcloud. It also has way less features. So. 🤷
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Nextcloud definitely seems solid… but let’s be honest, it is definitely a resource hog. I tried deploying NextCloud on a VPS with 2GB of RAM, with most features turned off. The instance was empty. After a few minutes, I started getting alerts that I was using 100% of my memory.
Nextcloud isn’t gonna work the way you expect it to with 2GB of RAM. It doesn’t seem like you’d be able to run this on some cheap, low powered device.
Someone rewrite it in Rust! 😅
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Uhh… how do we stop using Android? I mean, these recent attacks by Google seem like they’re going to break GrapheneOS and friends, no?
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 2 weeks ago:
Cursed units: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkfIXUjkYqE
- Comment on Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI? 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 weeks ago:
Come to LibreWolf, the waters fine!
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 month ago:
I didn’t say exactly 400k. I said “make around that amount of money”
My main point is that you shouldn’t kill yourself for only 400k per year. Ask for much, much more.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 month ago:
For the absolute bottom rung, not exactly 400k, but around there. Also depends on the city and team.
The main point is that if you’re gonna work a 996, you better be making at least $1M/year or more (honestly probably more, I tend to undershoot salaries) for it to be worth it. Otherwise, just get a normal FANG job if you only want to make $400k (lower end for FANG).
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 month ago:
Uh… Just saying… you (or others reading) need to think in much bigger numbers for that extreme of a schedule… Entry level devs at FANG make around that amount of money… and we didn’t work nearly that many hours at the office…
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
You get 2 or maybe 3 years of updates and then the device is trash.
Yeah, I’ve noticed this as well…
… which is why I was surprised when I read that Nothing Phone 3 will get 5 years of updates + 2 years of security updates.
androidauthority.com/nothing-phone-3-software-upd…
Nothing’s Co-Founder and Head of Marketing, Akis Evangelidis, has confirmed that the upcoming Nothing Phone 3 will ship with a “5+7” software update promise. …likely means the phone will get five years of Android version updates and seven years of security patches…
Although, you can’t install GrapheneOS on Nothing phones… so, 🤷
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
When other countries start invading?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Is there a federated Discourse? www.discourse.org
I’d like to see that.
- Comment on Google Drive alternative? 2 months ago:
cockpit
A what now? 🔎 cockpit-project.org
- Comment on Google Drive alternative? 2 months ago:
Are you also scared of databases and prefer storing things in raw txt files?
Yes, actually. 😅 I can’t manage a database for more than a few weeks before I screw it up or want to easily edit something and stop using it.
I don’t think databases are bad. I think I’m too much of a fuckup to manage one.
- Comment on Google Drive alternative? 2 months ago:
There are several projects named zipline. I think you’re talking about this one though: github.com/diced/zipline
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oh, shit. Do Indians also have esquites??
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- Comment on Meta is Adding AI-Powered Summaries to WhatsApp 2 months ago:
Yes!!! Keep enshittifying! Yes! nods menacingly
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I know some now legal immigrants, who were granted amnesty in the 80s, who support or feel indifferent about the mass deportations…
Sadly, something I’ve realized that is part of our United Statian culture is that we believe: “If I suffered, then others must suffer as well.”
