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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A good craftsman never blames their tools

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda wild that app stores allow something like that. I wonder how long it’ll take for someone to build the same up, but with the roles reversed: Men anonymously talking about local women 😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. They don’t sound very neutral on the weapons stuff. TIL 😕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant current times, not in the past. Sorry, I assumed that would be obvious. There are also some things I like about Germany, though they have a pretty terrible past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the first thing I’ve ever disliked about Switzerland (not that I know a lot about the country).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨:3‎ ‎⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong about the fun, but every time I buy a car, I eventually miss having an SUV when I can’t move things that are too big for cars 😕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm suppositories.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That reminds me of a joke:

  What’s the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer? The taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Force is the last refuge of the incompetent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With ADHD and social anxiety, I’m more productive when the office is less social. I definitely got much more productive when I started working from home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rats.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they’re vegetarian ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about StopICE.net to send and receive alerts about ICE raids in your area⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  send and receive mobile alerts via text message

  I hope this database of phone numbers, and all programs that connect to it, are secure.

  (Not that text messages are even secure, but a database is much easier to extract a complete list from.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could have done both.

  If it’s not fixed by Monday, I will consider starting the approval process from the legal department that requires it from me.

  I wish I had the freedom to just open a PR anywhere anytime, but I don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not get carried away.

  …

  Right…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like a pull request would have been much more helpful, with much less effort. But you want it fixed less than you want it publicized, so you chose this option.

  In other words, you cared less about the people impacted by this problem, and more about your own opportunity to put the author(s) on blast like this.

  And you care about that opportunity so much, that it’s even worth it to show this dark side of yourself publicly.

  Am I understanding that right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TASER uses their products on their employees? Lol that’s wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OR maybe everyone — including the poor — will eventually have access to robotic surgeons with the equivalent of like 500 human years of experience, but with the latest surgical best practices that have only existed in recent years. The experience gained by a single surgery could be shared across all of them.

  We’re talking about surgery. If some technology can provide significantly more valuable labor than its human counterpart (which, in this case, could mean more lives saved), then it might actually be worth exploring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI use so much power?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda interesting how the most power-consuming uses of graphics chips — crypto and AI/ML — have nothing to do with graphics.

  (Except for AI-generated graphics, I suppose)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft Tay would have been proud of Grok for this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, that kinda reminds me of Microsoft Tay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol he endorsed Twitter after leaving Bluesky? That’s an interesting series of events.

  Yeah I think Twitter has been a net negative for society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s it called?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t need it, it works totally fine without it.

  (Also, FWIW, the toothbrush itself connects via Bluetooth, not Wi-Fi)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Drive alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it was a while back. IIRC there were multiple sources, but I didn’t remember any of them 🙃

  Though, I don’t really remember the details either. Maybe it was OS specific? I know there was a dodgy FUSE implementation out there for macOS at some point, and Cryptomator depends mounts its local drive with FUSE. I use macOS and NixOS, so it coulda been that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Drive alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying Peergos lately, and I’m pretty happy with it so far.

  Google’s nagging offers for free trials of Gemini made me realize that I was basically handing data over to an AI company 🤦🏻‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Drive alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started to go down that path, but then I heard that there were problems with days corruption

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever considered not being like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's only a class war when we fight back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, yeah that is kinda weird. 🤔 If most cops and politicians are trying to kill most people, then there should be a lot of self-defense pleas flooding the courts…

  I’m just an internet comment though, not a lawyer or whatever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are really making me consider GrapheneOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you find a Google Drive alternative? I’m strongly considering Peergos, but still kinda shopping around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This almost seems like a Black Mirror episode