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- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 17 minutes ago:
Every technology shift creates winners and losers.
There’s already documented harm from algorithms making callous biased decisions that ruin people’s lives - an example is automated insurance claim rejections.
We know that AI is going to bring algorithmic decisions into many new places where it can do harm. AI adoption is currently on track to get to those places well before the most important harm reduction solutions are mature.
We should take care that we do not gaslight people who will be harmed by this trend, by telling them they are better off.
- Comment on Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms? 14 hours ago:
Thanks for that mental image… Dancing Bear.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 17 hours ago:
People spend more on Apple/Nintendo because of quality.
Perhaps we had very different experiences with the JoyCon…
Joking aside, I agree. I used to buy Nintendo for that reason. Then came JoyCon drift and out of control Nintendo lawyers.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 17 hours ago:
Oh…That would explain the endorsements by barbeque chefs on the book sleeve.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 22 hours ago:
Amazon - the logistics company - is just a front end for (and leech on) various drop shippers, lately, anyway.
Amazon used to carry quality guarantees, and have meaningful reviews, but lately the wild West crapshoot of the rest of the web is just as good.
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 day ago:
That’s wise. No one is completely sure what happened in Disco Season one, anyway, due to the lack of lighting budget…
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 day ago:
that’s because Discovery is just bad fan fiction.
It makes Enterprise worth watching.
How dare you!
I understand not liking Discovery, but I draw the line at encouraging a rewatch of Enterprise!
(I’m kidding. Enterprise wasn’t all that bad… Mostly.)
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 1 day ago:
Crazy how ethics work. Like a pig might be more physically and mentally capable than an individual in a vegetative state, but we place more value on the person.
I looked this up in my ethics textbook and it just went on and on about pigs being delicious.
I think I might try to get a refund.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 1 day ago:
I’m sure they will grow out of it, by the time they turn 21.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 1 day ago:
“$450 is an insanely high price for a new console, so I’m going to buy a $400 2 year old console instead.”
Sure. But it’s also a choice between a library that will forever cost $70 00-$90.00 per game, and a game library infamous for game sales so good that an average player cannot finish their library because the seasonal sales are too good to pass up.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 2 days ago:
I would welcome a utility that makes it easy to find donate links for my software packages, based on my Apt, Flatpak, and F-Droid package lists.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The picture was slow to load for me, and I expected Beanie Babies or some kind of precious metal or BitCoin.
Have you considered turning it into a paint ball arena?
It probably wouldn’t be a good investment, but it would make a great story.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 3 days ago:
I’m a developer, so my chances are pretty good. But I take your point.
Even if I weren’t, there’s enough software options out there that I don’t have to pick between paying for proprietary software and living with abandonware.
So I think the need for this security is exaggerated.
Of course. I used proprietary software for a long time. Having things I relied on get abandoned got old, but it worked.
I just expect more from most of my software, now.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 3 days ago:
I’m happy to pay for software, but I want more than just permission, I want long term security that my investment in the tool will last.
If IntelliJ would open source their oldest versions, I would make my boss buy me a copy of the nearest every year.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 3 days ago:
And to every other bidder, too, of course.
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 4 days ago:
The comics kind of address this:
Killing the holder of the Infinity Gauntlet usually results in someone equally bad picking it up.
So just killing Thanos often isn’t a complete solution, after the stones have been gathered.
- Comment on Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year. 5 days ago:
I can explain this chart: SO and AI both give me questionably useful example code, but AI isn’t as much of an asshole about it as the average SO user.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 5 days ago:
The issues should be central, but it would be nice for my reputation as a contributor to migrate between instances.
- Comment on The basics of the Fediverse. Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, Reddit, ... vs the Fediverse. What do you think? 5 days ago:
Needs more chains and walls between groups in the top picture. And maybe some ransom notes.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 6 days ago:
What now?
Some options:
- Gadget Bridge allows connecting most devices fully locally +PineTime simple, but cheap and free of corporate nonsense
- RePebble (coming later this year) - I just learned and it in this thread, but it looks promising.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 6 days ago:
Ooh. Thanks. Today I learned about RePebble. If it doesn’t deliver, there’s still also Gadget Bridge (connect most devices fully locally) and PineTime (another spiritual successor to the Pebble).
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
I’m just learning this is an option, but [Matrix Signal Bridge] (matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/signal/).
Best I can tell from the documentation, we add the Matrix server bot to a signal account, and it relates messages between the two platforms.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Welcome!
Let’s see, what useful welcomes advice can I share…?
- You’ll find lots of Linux users here, but we’re harmless.
- I’m not sure our interpretation of Star Trek’s
Gowronhas any remaining relationship with the original character, but I guess he’s one of our mascots, now. - If one of us starts to go on about how federation works, it’s okay to nod and back away slowly. Federation works just fine without understanding it.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Is there a way on lemmy to have small communities new post always come up on the top of your feed?
Choosing “all/new” gets the job done. Other clients have more options with additional cleverness to get a feed with a mix of fresh and familiar.
It’s worth pointing out (to communities thinking about moving) that there’s nothing algorithmically suppressing new content here.
Getting (and staying) noticed is way easier, here.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Would you settle for a meme about a character from Star Trek installing Linux on something?
I kid. We’re growing. But I agree, we could spend less every on then.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
They mostly ban our accounts when we do, but I don’t mind. I like to tell people when the party has moved, if they seem cool.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Don’t worry, I’ll fix it all with my unchecked political influence once I earn my first billion.
(This is sarcasm.)
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Ah…ah…ah…ach-<no one should be allowed to bomb hospitals>-choo!
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Welcome!
In case you’re very new, I should mention something about this place…
We have the best Star Trek memes, here…
Well, the most anyway…
Okay not the most…
But our devotion to Star Trek memes is both adorable and worrying.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Flippers because we’re penguins because we love Linux?
We’re not going to live down that time we held a guy at gunpoint in Grand Theft Auto to help him consider switching to Linux, are we?