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- Comment on Lawks 8 hours ago:
What is the wind speed of an unladen swallow?
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 19 hours ago:
Barring that, we at least need to find someone who can pass a captcha test…
Then I think we’re doomed. I don’t think there’s anyone left who can pass captcha better than a computer can.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 22 hours ago:
We could all give each-other Turing tests, or Vought Kompf tests, but I think both have to be administered by a known confirmed human. Maybe there’s some set theory math we can do on the results to find at least one human…
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 6 days ago:
Reminds me of all those times that Steve Jobs had to lash out at people unwilling to stand in line for an iPhone.
Oh, right. That didn’t happen because the iPhone was useful.
- Comment on 'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare 1 week ago:
Hell, this service might still have zero “AI” in it but count as an “agent” for marketing purposes.
True. I do think that’s where we might find something useful after the bubble pops.
But it’s some shit marketing though.
“Microservices, but sometimes it hallucinates.” is a sales pitch targeted for gullible suckers.
- Comment on 'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare 1 week ago:
I’ve wiped better ideas off of the used shoes of an old bash profile than the average agentic AI solution.
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 1 week ago:
Yes. One could imagine the privacy invasion will be completely coincidentally, and fairly complete, for many users.
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 1 week ago:
Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
Yes! Our recent Linux Mint software update drama was some nice new quality of life improvements coming to the next version of KDE Plasma.
Watching Windows 11 unfold from this side has been like a sipping a cup of hot tea in a good jacket, during a rain storm, while holding the storm door open for folks coming in out of the bad weather.
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 1 week ago:
Please hold. The invisible hand of the market is on its way. Please hold. Nothing is wrong with your economy. The invisible hand of the market or is on its way. Please hold. Do not attempt to adjust your economy. Trust the invisible hand. Please hold…
- Comment on Looking for PDF collaboration 1 week ago:
My team does this, but we collaborate in Markdown, and then one of us converts it into a PDF when we finish.
- Comment on Are Crows just the reincarnation of cranky goths? 1 week ago:
Crows reincarnate as goths, and goths reincarnate as ravens. After that, it gets complicated.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 1 week ago:
…what?
I forgot that other competitive games exist. I only play Pac-Man.
- Comment on xkcd #3191: Superstition 1 week ago:
Somebody set a reminder to make sure this person says “rabbit rabbit” next January 1. We don’t need another year like this one.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 1 week ago:
Why would you single out MMO veterans in this scenario?
Not op, but I took it as being because MMOs are the only modern games where anyone really cares if the player cheats.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 week ago:
If I were in your shoes (and I am), I would start trying to blindly use AI to do various aspects of my job (and I have).
The results are laughable.
There are things that I do that AI can do. Stupid, boring, uninteresting things. In particular, AI excels at doing things I already wrote a simple Bash script to do for me a decade ago.
Seriously, I encourage everyone to give it a try.
Let’s all build that passion project we’ve been dreaming of and host it for the world to enjoy.
In the best case, the world has a happy little passion project chugging away being useful.
In the worst case, we learn what AI cannot do yet, and realize we can still keep charging people for our labor for a few more years (and decades and centuries).
- Comment on Ubisoft Shuts Down Assassin's Creed: Rebellion Developer Halifax Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized 1 week ago:
Obligatory: Fuck Ubisoft.
I will stop saving my pennies for Prince of Persia or Assassin’s Creed.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 2 weeks ago:
At least 2000 is both the largest number, and the best OS, in that group. :)
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 2 weeks ago:
was dotcom this annoying too?
Surprisingly, it was not this annoying.
It was very annoying, but at least there was an end in sight, and some of it was useful.
We all knew that www.only-socks-and-only-for-cats.com was going away, but eBay was still pretty great.
In contrast, we’re all standing around today looking at many times the world’s GDP being bet on a pretty good autocomplete algorithm waking up and becoming fully sentient.
It feels like a different level of irrational.
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 2 weeks ago:
I dont want consoles to “get better” i want them to do more.
Exactly. They could give us a built-in light gun and a steering wheel, and see what indie game developers do with them!
- Comment on Evidence 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 weeks ago:
I had a one liquid cooled computer once, and swore never to have one again.
Even when they work, they’re crazy heavy, and sometimes they leak.
And all the pumps and tubes add that many more points of failure that could interrupt my precious gaming time.
- Comment on Questions about how to present radio shows on Jellyfin 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
I never thought to consider a different top level library type. Thank you!
My Jellyfin has been very challenged by out-of-copyright cartoons that originally aired in theaters.
- Comment on Questions about how to present radio shows on Jellyfin 3 weeks ago:
I normally love opinionated software, but Jellyfin’s options often just kind of suck.
It would be nice to have an option to mark a folder as “Just list these in alphanumeric order, and play them when I click on them”.
But I’m not aware of such an option.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 3 weeks ago:
I swear I have found shorts guy in every game.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 3 weeks ago:
The rent seekers push web services because they don’t think they can sell you a client app.
There are many nice completely free privacy respecting client apps for RSS on F-Droid.
- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 3 weeks ago:
Hear hear!
- Comment on Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, teah. I’ve used Amazon recently enough to see the “fewer boxes” option.
Last time I checked “fewer boxes” I got emailed a half assed excuse blaming their “partners” and then slowly received a shit-ton of boxes.
I don’t give them many chances, now, anyway. I try pretty hard to shop non-megacorp, now.
I’m not mad if it’s working for others.
Really I’m just curious if there’s a set of customers that Amazon still excels for, or if Amazon is just coasting along on reputation from past quality.
- Comment on Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops? 3 weeks ago:
A major benefit of Amazon is just being able to add 20 things to your cart and get them all in like 1-2 boxes.
If this has worked for you in the last 5 years, your Amazon experience has been very different than mine.
It was wonderful, when they did that.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I hate it.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Alternately, perhaps we can look forward to
You’ll be happy to rent the megacorporation owned and configured computers whether you like it or not.