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- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 15 hours ago:
Am I missing something?
Just fear of missing out on the bubble rising higher before popping, assuming magical luck to get off the ride at the perfect moment.
In other words, idiocy. Idiocy is what you’re missing.
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 16 hours ago:
And… I sure wish we could stop them.
Most 401k plans have some options that can reduce or eliminate stock owned in the biggest tech companies, at least.
Selling any “Large Cap” or “Full Index” stocks, and buying into a Mid-Cap Index should drastically reduce ones 401k’s risk from and participation in the current tech bubble.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever 4 days ago:
As someone who only makes it to games on Tuesday evenings in mid-September, this was a pretty big deal to me.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 5 days ago:
Most System76 employees installed operating systems and created accounts on their computer when they were under 18. They did this out of curiosity. Many started writing software. Some were already writing operating systems. I’m sure the story is similar at most tech companies. Limiting a child’s ability to explore what they can do with a computer limits their future. Removing user limitations to the computer (proprietary software, locked-down platforms like Android and iOS) is why System76 exists.
Fuck yeah. I was pirating software before I turned 18, and the world is a better place for it.
(And I contribute to open source now, in the hope that the next generation can learn without needing to resort to piracy.)
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 1 week ago:
Allegedly.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 1 week ago:
That was so rude, but also hilarious. It was a big lobby that night, but Luigi was really keeping everyone chill.
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 1 week ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Sony will no longer release their biggest PlayStation games on PC, claims report, starting with Ghost of Yōtei 1 week ago:
I’m going to have so much fun when all the exclusives I’ve been ignoring make it into a single “Games station 5” that I pick up on a whim from a mall kiosk.
In the meantime, I’m still pissed at Sony for other reasons, and won’t be buying a playstation of any kind.
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 1 week ago:
I really want to play this, but I cannot in good conscience give money to Ubisoft.
Sadly, Ubisoft’s godlike digital rights protections are perfected in ways that my meager search engine typing skills could never trivially counter on a boring afternoon, assuming I don’t find a free pack-in copy before then on some kind of random mall kiosk plug and play TV game device.
Woe is me that I’ll have no choice but to ignore this game until a copy literally falls into my lap through random chance because software wants to be free.
Bunch of dumbasses at Ubisoft’s leadership ought to relearn that the paying games industry runs entirely on good will.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
It feels like there’s some burden for “don’t be evil” Google to provide evidence that this wasn’t an intentional test run, frankly.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
I don’t believe for a second that the capitalist company chooses less capital.
But what if it very slightly makes next quarter’s numbers go up? Any future cost might be worth that, after all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh, here’s another. I’ve actually never had “the site” go down, since I moved here. Being federated, most of Lemmy is up, even when a single instance goes down.
My home instance went down once, so I just read along on another instance until it came back up.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh yes. No ads is nice!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There’s like twelve different client apps for Lemmy, right?
I left Reddit when they broke my favorite client app. Seemed destined to go down hill from there.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 1 week ago:
but you must have Authenticator
FYI, Microslop does support Aegis (fully open source, no spyware) authenticator.
It is buried in the options, but the option is there when adding another MFA device.
They don’t want to support it, but if they drop support, they will drop support for various hardware token vendors at the same time, and they should get thoroughly sued by those vendors, if they do.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models 1 week ago:
Yes.
When I leave a cool shadow, the middle finger will be raised to salute the dead ashes of the assholes who thought plugging AI into weapons was a good line to cross.
And someday my ashes will be absorbed into some other living thing. And whatever it is, that living thing will find their ashes and take a steaming dump on them in honor of the lost memory of their stupidity.
- Comment on AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data 1 week ago:
AI is great for plausible deniability.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
There will certainly be statues. That’s probably inevitable.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
I have a sneaking suspicion that these PCs will have some sort of protection so that nothing other than Win365 can run. Maybe a locked bootloader/secureboot?
Yes. Very probably.
Of course, no security mechanism lasts indefinitely in the hands of a persistent hacker with physical access.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness' 1 week ago:
Alternately, nothing interesting at all happens, and the AI just has one of it’s frequent hallucinations, and I’m fired.
There’s a special level of sociopathy happening to put today’s AI in charge of anyone’s livelihood.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 2 weeks ago:
I heard there was an invisible hand that I should trust.
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely nothing!
(Thank you for setting up the line!)
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 2 weeks ago:
The bomber run physics were fine.
I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 2 weeks ago:
I am your nephew’s second cousin’s boyfriend’s roommate’s uncle’s brother!
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 2 weeks ago:
And C4, obviously.
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 2 weeks ago:
And has fewer worthless emails in her inbox.
- Comment on Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns 2 weeks ago:
Might be time to revive “drunk or a child?”
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I would buy that.
- Comment on YSK Article Five of the United States Constitution 2 weeks ago:
Oof, so you think that greater than 70% of the people in congress care more about their take home pay than the success of the country they represent?
Yes. Easily greater than 70%.