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- Comment on Haha yes society is great 11 hours ago:
This is one of the greatest myths out there. Renting usually comes out ahead by the numbers. Ramit Setgi has a lot to say on the topic, with a US focus. Ben Felix has the same perspective for the Canadian side. Home owners by and large aren’t honest with themselves about the total cost of ownership.
- Comment on Mother of wounded Maya Gebala sues OpenAI over mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. 2 days ago:
The tool isn’t sentient, it operates on logical weights, and provides output that mimics its training set. LLMs are pretty impressive at what they can output, but it would be dishonest to attribute human qualities to it. There are decades of implementations of various AI techniques to varying degrees in attempts to achieve the same. It is on the technical basis, and the technical basis alone, that we should be carefully considering legal constraints.
How much a CEO is worth, how trustworthy they are, what cirlces they run in, shouldn’t be part of that consideration.
That doesn’t mean I think Altman isn’t a turd who can suck a fat one.
- Comment on Mother of wounded Maya Gebala sues OpenAI over mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. 2 days ago:
False equivalence. Tools are not people. We going after magic 8 balls too?
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
He knows his market. As others have mentioned, most casual users don’t need or care about that. Personal computing has become much more niche.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
This is the computing equivalent to hoarding.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 5 days ago:
Yep. They absolutely have such clauses.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 week ago:
“Think of the shareholder value of firing all these people!”
This is of course problematic, but not directly the fault of the technology itself. The entire system is problematic, but that’s a digression from the effectiveness of the tech doing the job.
And the instances I’m talking about were running the ai stack and employee teams in parallel for nearly a year. The replacement wasn’t a “yeah let’s try this… whoops that didn’t work”. It was a tried and tested approach, and the employees made redundant (in the capability sense, not the firing sense, which followed afterwards).
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 week ago:
A lot of fields don’t require doctorate levels of expertise to render effective business services. I’ve seen first hand companies replace thousands of employees and shutter divisions because their AI counterpart has been doing the job quantitatively equally, and faster. Perfect is the enemy of good enough, in most cases, as they say.
Lemmy is filled to the brim with llm haters but you’re not only a minority, you’re probably also closing doors on the future trajectory of tech in business.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 1 week ago:
Walk me through how a company based and operating not in new york would be subject to any actions from this lawsuit.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 1 week ago:
I don’t see how you police/enforce this. The technology is out of the bag, people will find ways to access. Do we need age/location verification for this now too? What if I’m running a local agent? I don’t agree with this.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 week ago:
ml user has shitty opinions
Par for the course.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 1 week ago:
Is she though? The cruel part is our own brain sabotaging our efforts
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 1 week ago:
Those are rookie numbers.
- Comment on Linux rules! How do you like my desktop? 1 week ago:
You can tell it’s KDE because of how ugly it is.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
It’s not the car manufacturer’s responsibility to guarantee a drunk driver doesn’t plow into others.
Vulnerable people don’t get to outsource responsibility.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 1 week ago:
Exhausted.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 2 weeks ago:
The US is an embarrassment.
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- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
Aside from Sega I was going to toss Atari on that list but TIL they are very much still making new hardware, except it’s all targeted for retro gaming. Different focus and not a true competitor to Sony but technically still kicking.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
For sure it did. Dumb decisions, compounded.
- Comment on You NEED To Selfhost 3 weeks ago:
Maybe. Depends on the use case.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 3 weeks ago:
They make good points until this bullshit:
But if video games are ever going to be taken seriously as an artistic medium, they have to grow up, and that means learning how to love authentically.
No. That take is horseshit. They don’t have to do anything to be taken seriously as art. They already are. If you can’t see it because it doesn’t tick some of your boxes that’s a you issue.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really play fighting games anymore but previous titles like SF Ex+Alpha had a killer training mode which scratched my completionist itch. There were scores and gates and orogressions, though I can’t recall if you got anything like XP (in truth that bares no relevance to a fighting game anyway).
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 4 weeks ago:
They become cheap if you’re patient enough.
- Comment on Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr 4 weeks ago:
Honestly the UI is so slick even a one-user setup will benefit in my opinion. Even when not requesting media I use it extensively to look up actors and directors.
Possibly the best foss UX I’ve ever used.
- Comment on Wendy's closes US restaurants and focuses on value to turn around falling sales 4 weeks ago:
I know! They dumped the grilled chicken, at least in Canada, which had the best macronutrient allocation of all fast food sandwiches. That probably doesn’t mean much to most but for me it was a perfect cheap post workout meal for years. RIP.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 4 weeks ago:
That reminds me I need to login and transfer some funds to my fleet carrier, if it hasn’t already defaulted. Love the game but shallow depth for sure :(
- Comment on FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like? 4 weeks ago:
Snuck in an edit that touches some or your points. I’m not on Lemmy because of federation, that’s incidental. I’m here because it’s another option to explore. But I still use reddit, too, because the community is there.
- Comment on FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like? 4 weeks ago:
Barring the single account, I want them entirely disconnected though. Discord had not suffered in growth because of a lack of interaction.
Centralization is irrelevant for what users want outside of a niche. The average user doesn’t care.
- Comment on FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like? 4 weeks ago:
It looks like discord. There is no replacement. No other project comes close.