phutatorius
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- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 hour ago:
12-bore might be a better choice.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 hour ago:
Or to destroy a data center.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 hour ago:
With enough kinetic energy, anything’s mobile.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 hour ago:
Martial law?
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 1 day ago:
Marx’s view was that socialism would develop as an emergent phenomenon (a modern term, not one he used) to correct the contradictions of capitalism. But in both Russia and China, they tried to impose socialism on what were essentially feudal societies. The result was state capitalism, the industrial revolution imposed at gunpoint with no control of the means of production by the workers. And, as capitalist societies, both countries continued the imperialism and nationalism of their predecessor regimes.
And this isn’t an after-the-fact critique: contemporary socialists such as Rosa Luxembourg made these observations at the time.
Skipping a developmental stage doesn’t work.
- Comment on Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds 1 day ago:
Uncontrolled capitalism is the wealth inequality machine. AI is just one of many enablers of that much more pervasive system.
- Comment on Facing the music: Detecting dangerous driving through AI facial analysis— New technology could change how drunk and dangerous drivers are identified 2 days ago:
I find it useful to conceal my true emotions in these troubled times.
- Comment on Facing the music: Detecting dangerous driving through AI facial analysis— New technology could change how drunk and dangerous drivers are identified 2 days ago:
Locked out of driving your car because of a false positive from an unreliable algorithm. Sounds typical. There’s no shortage of idiot legislators who will accept a bullshit sales pitch, especially when it’s accompanied by a campaign donation.
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 2 days ago:
Unless capitalists are forced to share their gains, they won’t.
- Comment on Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real 2 days ago:
The worst part about Danny Bones is that there’s no way to punch a virtual face.
- Comment on Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real 2 days ago:
Half the political spectrum are not far-right. At this stage, it’s probably not even a third, depending on where you draw the line. And of those third. what percentage are not (explicitly or implicitly) white supremacists?
Anyway, they’re still fascists, even if they’re inconsistent ones, so fuck 'em.
- Comment on Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real 2 days ago:
They can only steal from others.
And then degrade it and dumb it down.
- Comment on Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used 3 days ago:
Yeah, I’m sure that’s the real reason. And all the convenience for spying on users to collect data for targeted advertising is just a side effect.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 4 days ago:
Self-certified Secure By Design isn’t worth squat.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 4 days ago:
Source code of what?
The AI agent. Also, a way to see all of its training data.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 5 days ago:
Security audit by independent third parties, including access to the full source code, or GTFO.
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 6 days ago:
What kind of fucking court would accept AI output as evidence, even for probable cause? Where has it ever been validated? What are the documented Type 1 and Type 2 error rates in independent peer-reviewed tests? Where is the output that gives the rationale for why it said there was a match? Because without that, there’s no more reason to believe it than a Magic 8-Ball.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 6 days ago:
They renamed “ticket” to “work item” to “issue”. (We all still call it a ticket)
Those three terms all mean different things.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 6 days ago:
Our HR critters use a case-management system, badly. They have an internal process, but never adapted the default workflows to match it. So the pendejitos are always trying to clean up self-inflicted gunshot wounds to their feet.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 6 days ago:
It’s even worse than that: it’ll be a ServiceNow ticket.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 6 days ago:
Ticketing systems are useful. It’s not really all that practical to carry all that workflow and prioritization info as metadata on a version-control system. And some devs might think it’s unnecessary, but that’s because they’re sheltered from all the higher-level planning, resourcing and portfolio management that they never need to think about.
- Comment on Cambridge University Researchers: AI-powered toys that “talk” with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new safety kitemarks 6 days ago:
Better to ban them entirely.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 1 week ago:
It’s possible to have complex, poorly-architected stuff going on behind the curtains, even if the UI is simple. And vice-versa. And even worse, like JIRA, both can be a dog’s breakfast.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
It’s an epeen thing!
Does that require proof of wank?
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
Is a thing with null value fungible?
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
every new technology of this caliber finally gets a more positive use in our lifes
Yeah, sure, that’s why we’re all riding Segways.
The reality is that quite a lot of new technologies have no significant real-life use case and vanish without a trace.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
What’s the point of an arbirator when there’s no means to enforce compliance with their decision? And what could that system actually be? Functionally, it’d be identical to a government.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
Blcokchains aren’t even worth a shit as implementations of a distributed ledger.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
There is no provable way to show that any claim of ownership on Ethereum is legitimate, unless that person has some real-world proof of ownership, in which case the Ethereum link adds no value.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 week ago:
The fact that there is corruption in the financial system doesn’t automatically mean that every other system is honest.