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- Comment on US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI 16 hours ago:
Oh no!
I hope all the details are shared so that we can all carefully avoid doing the same to those music industry bas…s-fishing executives.
- Comment on Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC 4 days ago:
I’m looking forward to something like “Undersea Survival” made by the same creatives they’re taking a shit on now.
If that’s already happening, someone please link me to it.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 4 days ago:
Yesm Every one in awhile someone marvels at a particularly good AI answer.
Even back in the days when the scam was the first chess robot, those moments were a sign that the “secret backdoor to let a real human take control” was in effect.
But nobody reads history, so they’reb just amazed.
That output is from this guy named Sandeep. His work situation is stupid now. But yes, he’s a great programmer.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 4 days ago:
Holy shit. Stop building the Torment Nexus.
The best scene in one of the cube movies is when one of the characters admits he thoughtlessly helped build the thing.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 4 days ago:
That’s true, but they can still charge double by taking longer to fix the problem.
There’s going to be a lot of “# decrement this wait counter every time the boss demands a performance improvement” code in the near future.
Open class warfare isn’t a sustainable way to build infrastructure.
We’re on track to reach a point where nothing produced by the FANG companies works at all.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 4 days ago:
Yes. Epstein taught us it’s also about running a large scale kidnapping and rape organization.
I sound like a broken record, but today, we need to be wary that very few of the Epstein class are proven to be innocent of being complicit in child abduction and rape.
Maybe that’s always been the case? I know the history of the ultra rich has never been nice.
Anyway I find it an important perspective when deciding how much to trust the rest of the messages out of the Epstein class.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 4 days ago:
Yes. That’s why “Epstein class” is such a fair description.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 4 days ago:
I just want to highlight this,
“The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer.”
Grear point! This is a critical insight.
Like during the dotcom boom, new tools mean new people can program the computer who could not, before.
And just like during tht dotcom boom, they’ll soon find out that programming a computer - while very slightly easier than it was last year - still has challenges.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 4 days ago:
That’s a risk I’m willing to take.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 5 days ago:
Either they are even stupider than I thought, or the tech bros have some kind of massive blackmail machine they’re using to take over everything and puppet all the CEOs.
I think it’s a little of each.
The ones not being blackmailed are desperately trying to look like they’re impactful enough to blackmail.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 5 days ago:
Good point!
For others doing the same, there’s a little gear icon on the punisher page, with an option " Ignore this creator."
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 5 days ago:
I’m actually quite successful, but it was pure luck. My professional rivals keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances. (This is obvious satire.)
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 6 days ago:
I think I deserve more, but I accept less anyway, due to the ever present threat of unrecoverable retribution against myself and my family if I negotiate too hard
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Surprise is overrated.
Spoil the best bits early. If it gains traction, you can fill in all the earlier and later details.
Silly example: Star Wars owes it’s success today at least in part to Lucas being willing to drop into “Episode IV” first to let folks know what it’s really about.
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Sony will no longer release their biggest PlayStation games on PC, claims report, starting with Ghost of Yōtei 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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] 2 weeks 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] 2 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Oh yes. No ads is nice!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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” 2 weeks 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.