Jhex
@Jhex@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 days ago:
the fact Farage is still around after Brexit is proof the voters of the UK are just a dumb as Muricans… we are all doomed
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 4 days ago:
well, if it won’t happen in our life time, I assume it to be “never”
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 4 days ago:
Let me introduce you to a little scam called " price stickiness"
Basically prices are quick to go up but VERY SLOW to go back down… on the opposite side, wages are quick to go down but VERY SLOW to get back up
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
I did for my phone but can’t get Teams to share screen on my desktop (Linux desktop) while Chromium can… once I have that one figured out, I will switch to Waterfox on the desktop as well
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
not quite like this… the original form was not a total kill switch, it was a vague “you are in control” (of this thing you didn’t ask for but we are activating for you by default)
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
not quite like this… the original form was not a total kill switch, it was a vague “you are in control” (of this thing you didn’t ask for but we are activating for you by default)
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
pointing something out is not shitting on them
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
clearly some damage control strategy here… but good news if true
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
You think people aren’t going to want to use AI unless it does literally everything for them? That’s exactly the “if something’s not perfect then it must be awful” mindset I was criticizing in the comment you’re responding to.
NOT AT ALL… I am simply claiming AI is NOT living nearly close to the expectations the peddlers have raised. I’m not saying if it’s not perfect it must be bad, I am saying it is disappointing
I don’t see a link to that research, but that means 38% don’t believe AI is significantly overhyped.
Not even close again… if I can prove I did not kill the Sheriff, this is not prove I did not kill the deputy. Maybe ALL of that 38% think AI is just over hyped (not significantly)
You are now arguing that the source that you yourself brought into this discussion is no good.
Again no, my source was there simply to state AI projects are failing left, right and center and I have made very clear that I am speculating from that (and my own experience) that tech savvy people do not like AI
See, I cannot hide a project that failed spectacularly… but I can smile nervously in my boss’ office telling the reporter I, in no way, blame the shit tech that he forced us to use.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
So we’ve moved from “no tech-savvy people use AI!” to “lots of tech-savvy people use AI, but many of them fail to make it profitable!”
No, we are trying to tease out if “tech savvy people” use AI at gun point or not because if it is at gun point, it disarms your argument
The Commerce Institute puts that 95% figure in perspective, about 65.3% of all businesses fail by their tenth year. That’s not focusing just on a particular industry that’s the most unknown and volatile one, that’s everything, including fields that have been well known and understood for decades. And I should also note, your source said 95% had yet to grow their revenue, not that 95% had failed - it’s only been a year or two for most.
These are not new business (not all at least, these are already viable businesses trying to reap the promises of AI and failing miserably. You can interpret however you want but I interpret that as “most of these business bought the snake oil and it did not cure their hiccups”
Wow, only 30% of office tasks can be handled by AI? Clearly a useless technology, throw it away.
Again, what is the expectation being sold out there? 30 % increase in preformance? or “we WOn’T nEEd progRAmMers iN 3 yEars”?
So, half of them haven’t abandoned those plans.
Meaning what? sunk cost fallacy? deeper pockets to hold on and see if they can fix it? deeper pockets and being able to hide the huge mistake this was? I can speculate in the opposite direction you are, just as easily
I don’t see a link to that research, but that means 38% don’t believe AI is significantly overhyped.
If my job depends on saying you are correct… Mr. FaceDeer you are always correct, the most correct ever.
This ties to my previous comment that we need to find unbiased sources and that would include people that use AI because they want to, not because their livelihood depends on it
Basically, you’re falling into the trap of assuming if something’s not perfect and not universally loved then it must be awful
Not even close… what I am seeing is that AI peddlers promised elephants but they are delivering something that looks like a large dog with no cool trunk
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
the keyword word you missed was “unbiased”
of course the AI peddlers will peddle it and their employees would probably be fired if they did not toe the company line
on the otheer hand, that mit studyshowed 95v of them failed… I find it hard to believe people enjoy failing
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with using unbiased data, but where is yours?
- Comment on Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy 2 weeks ago:
time for one final, multi million dollar bonus for the CEO that brought it there
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
I assumed we are all fellow waterdogs
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
if you get one of those you end up in the same place with more steps… you need to hook up a pc (any format), preferably running Linux, so you have full control
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 3 weeks ago:
I hate headlines like this. I’d love to hear the REASONS WHY Plex are doing all of this.
- Greed… do you really need 3 more?
Before someone says “the reason is money” we need to ask: do the developers of Jellyfin not use money? Why won’t the same thing just happen to them too?
Plex is a private company wanting money… Jellyfin is a voluteer-drive effort
Before someone says “enshittification,” we need to ask: does this mean Jellyfin will soon have the same problems?
Enshitification happens to privately develop products due to <checks notes> greed… Jellyfin is not a private company pushing a product for profit
We all seem to love Jellyfin so I think we need to understand the actual reason why, or this will just continue happening.
Back to “greed”
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been waiting for this!.. I have a couple of personal spreadsheets with Google but that’s it.
Now I can completely move to Proton (not the best but at least better) and spend my day filling and removing my Google Drive with garbage tehehehe
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
hahahaha good additional details on the analogy
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
It’s more like offering a plumber a room in your house to stay in 24/7 so they can be on-call when you need them.
Again I get your point… but no reasonable plumber would make that mistake.
If I invite the dumbest plumber alive into my home, show him the leaky tub and say “I have to work but do whatever you need”… they would understand the context to mean “do whatever you need to fix the tub”… I doubt they would go make themselves a sandwich, grab a beer from the fridge and invite their buddies for a BBQ at my place and then say “but you said I could do whatever I needed”
I absolutely understand what happened here. The point is there is no benefit to these Agentic AIs because they need to be as supervised as a monkey with a knife… why would I ever want that? let alone need that
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
Loving my Linux wife… 15 years of computer bliss and counting! hehehehe
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
This is EXACTLY the YouTube woodworkers dilemma…
TONs of YT channels to show people how to do woodwork would normally showcase $50K worth of equipment to show how to make a cutting board.
The thing is, people with access to such equipment, already know how to make a cutting board and are learning nothing from you… on the other hand, newbies who what to know what is this “sanding” thing they have heard, will not benefit from the vid since they do not have those tools, they’d have crappy manual tools at most.
Therefore, those videos are completely useless for learning… at best, they made for good background noise while people eat their lunches in their cubicles
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely… this just illustrates that these AI tools are, at best, some assistance that need to be kept on a very short leash… which can only be properly done by people who already know how to do the work the AI is supposed to assist with.
But that is NOT what the AI bubblers are peddling
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
No, not at all
I get what you are saying but any reasonable entity would understand that telling someone at the door “come in”, does not mean “come in my wife’s ass”
Specifically the “without permission” in the title, relates to the fact the AI did not ask about it… it simply took a previously granted right to run commands and ran any/all commands without warning.
If you and I were working on a project together and nothing is working right, I could say “hmm let’s start over” and you would know it means “let’s start the project from scratch”, not “let’s wipe the data centre”
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
AI bullshit
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
ask Microsoft, they want to give their access to your entire computer… and you’ll love it or else…
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
That implies the user understands every single code with every single parameters. That’s impossible even for experience programmers
I wouldn’t say impossible but I would say it completely defeats the purpose of these agentic AIs
Either I know and understand these commands so well I can safely evaluate them, therefore I really do not need the AI… or, I don’t really know them well and therefore I shouldn’t use the AI
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
hmmm when I let a plumber into my house to fix my leaky tub, I didn’t imply he had permission to sleep with my wife who also lives in the house I let the plumber into
The difference you try to make is precisely what these agentic AIs should know to respect… which they won’t because they are not actually aware of what they are doing… they are like a dog that “does math” simply by barking until the master signals them to stop
- Comment on Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act. There is another bill in the works. 4 weeks ago:
just openly bribe the idiot king
- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 4 weeks ago:
THAT’s a feature I recognize from Microsoft
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 4 weeks ago:
… and nothing of value was lost