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- Comment on FTC Warns Companies(Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Discord, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, X and more) Against Censoring or Weakening the Data Security of Americans at the Behest of Foreign Powers 5 hours ago:
Because Signal is Pete ‘The Village Drunkard’ Hegseth’s favourite tool to text aggression plans to random journalists.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 8 hours ago:
You’re absolutely right about that, motherfucker.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 14 hours ago:
Surprise, surprise, motherfxxxers. Now you’ll have to re-hire most of the people you ditched. AND become humble. What a nightmare!
- Comment on Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit 2 days ago:
This is the reason I’ve always been skeptical of all those Video Download Non Plus Ultra Pro 9000 extensions, also in Firefox. I’m like yea right. Next thing I know I’ll be getting copyright infringement and piracy notices plus cease-and-desist letters.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 3 days ago:
…which is why I categorically refuse to use the term Artificial intelligence .
- Comment on The regrets of life 1 week ago:
Amen.
- Comment on The regrets of life 1 week ago:
In that case, maybe he should cumtribute indeed.
- Comment on The regrets of life 1 week ago:
I still can’t forgive myself for not having asked a chick for her number after I had a good dance with her at a party…25 years ago. She was very pretty, exactly my kind of woman, at least physically, which is presumably why I was afraid to ask. It made me realise that I absolutely prefer to deal with the pain of rejection than to deal with the resentment and self-loathing of not having asked a woman out, asked for her number or even just talked to her.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 week ago:
People not realising (or not caring enough about) the irony that more than 80% of open source projects are hosted in a platform which is a) not open source and b) owned by M$ has always been a mistery to me.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 1 week ago:
FFS will people ever use “it’s” and “its” correctly ?
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Because of this, I’ve always had ‘mixed feelings’ (to put it mildly) towards Mozilla, and sometimes I really struggle not to hate them. They’re (yet) not Google or Microsoft and that’s cool, but besides that, I also cannot think of more than a handful of good decisions against a ton of pretty awful ones, so right now I’ve settled for ‘a necessary evil’, which is pretty sad considering their potential.
- Comment on Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage 1 week ago:
What they are doing is not much different than leaving a bunch of 6th-graders to supervise themselves…
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 2 weeks ago:
Legitimate question: what may be the actual reason for this concentration? Is it weather? Natural resources? Is it political? On a related note: what is the reason that Canada as a whole bas so few people? It is still mindblowing for me that the entire country has less people than each of the world’s top 3 metropolitan areas
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 weeks ago:
‘AI vegan’…
Where I come from, saying something that stupid will get you killed.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
“Managing agents to achieve outcomes may sound unfulfilling to many”
No shit, man.
- Comment on In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties 2 weeks ago:
My father and his first wife married at 17, had their first child at 18. She (i.e. that first child) had her first child at 17, who in turn had her first child at 18. My father thus became grandfather at 35, great-grandfather at 53; and I became uncle at about 7, great-uncle at about 25. Kinda cool tbh.
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- Comment on hygiene 2 weeks ago:
Still baffles me how many people are convinced that you can ‘wipe properly/thoroughly/enough’. It’s exactly for that reason that I avoid sitting down in public transportation. Anyone who either possesses the instinct of not wanting to smell like shit and/or has had the ‘privilege’ of cleaning someone else’s butt (say, a small child or an adult in need of special care) knows that the words ‘wiping’ and ‘hygiene’ can only be used in the same phrase if there’s also the words ‘wet’ and/or ‘wash’ and/or ‘soap’ in it. Otherwise…of course your f****g chair stinks.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I still find it hard to believe just how few people even ask themselves the obvious : Provides services ‘for free’, but is one of the world’s biggest companies. Where is the money coming from ?
- Comment on bird based storage 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of IP over avian carriers ☺
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 3 weeks ago:
Came into the thread just to say this. Very happy and thankful you mentioned it already. I think fossil is THE underrated vcs.
- Comment on its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬) 4 weeks ago:
Actually, the only way I’ve been able to make sense of what happened is thinking that he might have been interested in me, correctly sensed I’d never be, and didn’t want to be hurt.
- Comment on its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬) 4 weeks ago:
Once I was in the train, minding my own business, reading an unusual, interesting book. The guy seating in front of me noticed it and we started talking. It turned out, we live in the same city. We both were relatively new there.
FF a week. We went out to get some burgers. Talked about basically everything. We had what could only qualify as a wonderful time together. Chatted for hours, even talked about travelling together to a country I know relatively well and he’d like to visit.
Where I live, split checks are custom. I always hated them, so thinking (wrongly, as it’d turn out) we’d see each other again very soon, I paid for the whole bill.
Before going home, I even cited Casablanca’s well known ‘beginning of a long friendship’ line.
Never heard from him after that. When I tried to reach out, only a half-hearted bs ‘oh sorry, I’m so bad at replying texts’ came.
Never saw him again.
Really shattered my confidence in people, and myself.
Angus, if you’re out there. WTF man. Why.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 4 weeks ago:
I have a similar issue with people panicking about AS ‘taking their jobs’, or even the world. I’m like, dude, that might happen, but idiots delegating important decisions (i.e., decisions that should DEFINITELY be taken by humans), to the AS is something that’s a) at least as ominous b) at least as relevant and c) already happening
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 4 weeks ago:
Put even another way, correlation is not causality. Even IF everything were true, the most interesting/relevant information is missing: does AS cause these behaviours? Or does it simply act as a catalyzer?
- Comment on Everything you know is wrong. 5 weeks ago:
‘Las verdades incuestionables de hoy, son las pendejadas del mañana’
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 5 weeks ago:
Sex as well.
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 1 month ago:
I first thought this article was about their self driving cars and I was like who tf gets in a self driving car with their baby. It’s not. It’s about Tesla cars in general. Scary stuff.
- Comment on Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations 1 month ago:
I think they meant ‘because’
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 month ago:
I had an interesting conversation today with an acquaintance. He has sent his resumé to dozens of companies now. Most of them, but not all, corporate blobs.
He wondered for a while just why the hell no one is even reaching out (he’s definitely qualified for most of the positions). He then came to the idea to ask a particular commercial Artificial Stupidity software to parse it. Most of those companies use that software, or at least that’s what the vendor says on its website. Turns out, that PoS software gets it all wrong. As in: everything. Positions and companies get mixed up, dates aren’t correctly registered, the job descriptions it claims to have understood only remotely match what he wrote.
And it is getting used pretty much by every big firm out there.
Oh and BTW: There is ONE correct answer to the phrase ‘using AI is no longer optional’ : Fuck you.