WanderingThoughts
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- Comment on Windows 11's free video editor Clipchamp now requires OneDrive 1 day ago:
Foie gras version of enshittification
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 days ago:
So we have to make a new programming language that uses keywords that are slurs and curses so not allowed to be used by LLM. PI+. Politically Incorrect programming language.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 days ago:
Is goatse.cx still around? Have that in QR for the meta glasses.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 days ago:
Pax Americana is coming to an end. The de facto empire that USA formed is declining. And usually the decline is because the nobility got greedy, what makes the owner class go in a looting frenzy and the hollowing out from the inside go faster.
The whole AI thing is one last hail mary of the elite to still pull ahead and score, to maintain control of basically the world. If it fails then somebody else like China probably takes the lead. China’s been riding USA’s bumper for some time now.
What makes it even more bizar is how the British found out they were no longer the big power at the Suez canal and USA seems to be doing a repeat at Hormuz.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 3 days ago:
Answer from tech bros: is going to be an exponential loop of AI self improvement right into Super Intelligence
Reality: model collapse, bad performance, weird bugs, if it runs at all
- Comment on Trump’s counterrorism chief, whose own wife was killed by ISIS, quits over Iran War saying Tehran posed ‘no imminent threat’ to US 3 days ago:
And as we noticed, Israel equating anti zionist with antisemitic made a number of people shrug and go “guess I’m antisemitic now.”
- Comment on Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI 4 days ago:
similar to the majority of reddit users
The famous “a sense of pride and accomplishment” incident comes to mind.
- Comment on Europe’s ‘tech sovereignty’ ambitions carry security risks, military warns 4 days ago:
Then do a military stimulation and assume all American tech had a kill switch triggered. See how far you get.
- Comment on the no state solution 5 days ago:
Telling the world Iran will have nukes in a few weeks since 1992
- Comment on relatable 5 days ago:
Only when consuming caffeine too much or too late, or eating peanuts or potato chips. Getting old sucks.
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 5 days ago:
Great question, Mr. Koyun.
First, you start with hiring great people to do the task you want. Do you need more information about hiring practices and selection criteria?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
My Honor, I submit this post as exhibit F95 why the rich will be eaten
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
ChatGPT told him it was possible. Then he spent a few grant on DNA sequencing and other machine learning to make it work. So step 1 here is being rich.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 6 days ago:
It’s more like the old adage but extended: “To err is human, to really foul things up you need a computer, but to make an unbelievable mess you need an AI.”
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 6 days ago:
Every society values status and wealth. This time we’ve taken that to the extreme, to the exclusion of everything else. It’s going to be one of the failed experiments in history.
Ancient Greece even had those episodes where the rich managed to get farmers deep in debt. A bunch of them just left. Another bunch became serfs. The end result was productivity tanking and food security becoming problematic. Cue debt relief, changing laws, … The rich will always fuck it up for everybody and themselves given enough time, sometimes they learn, and they do it all again a century later.
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 6 days ago:
The rich have bought out trailer parks. And the factories where they make trailers. So even going that route is being exploited.
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 6 days ago:
Children are not economically viable.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 6 days ago:
First you play really loud music. Then when the neighbor comes over to complain you say they were yelling aggressively (to be heard over the loud music) and you had to defend yourself.
- Comment on Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work 1 week ago:
They’re not going to admit billions were spent for nothing. That’s a good way to get fired. Better to double down until some other excuse appears, like a war causing an economic crash, blame all problems with AI on that and get a promotion.
- Comment on AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money 1 week ago:
Because AI companies are running out of money?
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 1 week ago:
They were called broadcasts back then. And the equipment you needed was a bit more expensive and bulkier.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 1 week ago:
You can try Bazzite with Steam Gaming Mode. That is basically steam OS.
- Comment on Maximum Shareholder Value® 1 week ago:
The more essential your job, the less you earn.
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 1 week ago:
Those NFT apes come to mind
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 1 week ago:
So the forerunners in innovation just do whatever everybody else is doing.
- Comment on Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox: Not what the machine does, but who it does it to. 1 week ago:
It means you get to become the AI’s fact checker and you get fired if the AI fucks up and you missed it, just because the company needs a human to blame. If you don’t burn out first.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
Next in the consumer will need to pay a licensing fee.
They do try. These are the same people that sued someone for singing while working, claiming it was a public performance.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
I’ve looked at a few other articles. It seems that PRS says the game publisher has to buy a license for the music in the games, and Valve needs to buy a separate license and pay PRS again for distributing the music in the game. And this would be retro-active, so Valve would have to pay a license fee for every piece of music in every game it ever sold with PRS music. They claim Microsoft and Sony do pay this.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
Valve does seem to have a clause in their partner contracts to say all music must have proper licensing so they got that covered. They’ll just ask PRS to point out which one and those games are gone within the hour. They can also give PRS a temporary license to the entire library to help them. Things are different if a judge says Valve needs to proactively check licensed materials in the game files, but that requires a library and methods to check against, so that’s another discussion.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 1 week ago:
Go back to do everything on paper. No more invoice through email and payment. Demand everything comes on paper. Pay cash. It drives corpos and administration crazy to go back to old school systems. It’ll probably do more than complain.