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- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 1 hour ago:
How should I prove this to you then? You are wrong, it is not just age content.
- Comment on Banana 4 hours ago:
There are a lot of types though. Walmart may not have them, but my little 4 meter by 3 meter patch has several varieties and produces enough bananas for about 4 families.
So someone will still have bananas.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 11 hours ago:
No, not age restricted.
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 21 hours ago:
Just get a used PC and make a NAS. No need to buy a dedicated one.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 1 day ago:
Fuck you google. I can’t see youtube videos with my browser because google wants me to sign in. Tells me it is protecting the community.
BULLSHIT.
Because google doesnt make me sign in to view or edit someone elses google docs they are sharing. Which one is more important google? Assholes.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 1 day ago:
Yeah but they were microsoft. So they sucked. That’s how it works. Maybe in the hands of someone else it wouldn’t have been Microsoft crap.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 1 day ago:
Windows needed to die a long time ago… so whatever. Same with XBOX and their phone, just a waste of time. Microsoft never made a product worth owning.
But the days of Gates saying to every department “how does this sell more windows” are long gone.
Many years ago a Microsoft team told me that the only thing important was data. The more the better. Windows wasn’t important, products were not important. Harvesting data and creating services was the future and nothing else mattered.
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 2 days ago:
Wow. 1994 is the date of this.
Our local library had the cheat books by then.
Also, the text guides were online either BBS or Usenet. I remember printing out guides by 1994. I guess that wasn’t as common as I thought if people were spending on 1-900 numbers. I wonder how much they made doing this?
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 3 days ago:
I see no coffee here.
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 1 week ago:
Reddit has an AI? That’s news to me.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Ones that work well take your natural language input, spend time searching and offer results. Not summarize anything. How well does perplexity work in that regard I wonder?
- Comment on Miami-Dade PD just rolled out PUG, a fully autonomous AI-powered police cruiser. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. 1 week ago:
Did she really say “a way to touch our community in a way we have never done before”?
I hate the fact that I had to raise my kids to never talk to cops and stay away from them. The safest community leader is probably the librarians at this point.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 3 weeks ago:
If it all goes away, I won’t care. Youtube is all about creators and they are the worst. Whatever.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 3 weeks ago:
Eh, tiktok was already brain rot.
Not sure it really makes any difference.
And I mean this seriously. People staring at their phones to watch little snippets of shit and endlessly scrolling for more is not healthy.
I am not sure there really is a distinction between "real’ or not real to the end viewers brain.
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 4 weeks ago:
It is secure. It is your wallet, your keys.
It is built from litecoin, which is a fork of bitcoin.
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 4 weeks ago:
I miss when the satire became a possibility of a real currency. Of all the crypto, Dogecoin proved that there is no point in trying.
Low cost, fairly stable, cheap to send a receive, a ton of clients and places to spend it. I never bought any, but I traded for plenty, and bought many things with it. I never worried about it becoming valuable, so I did not hoard it. I never worried about it becoming worthless either because the inflation rate was constantly shrinking.
But the complaint was always the same: how will I get rich with this?
Which proved that crypto is garbage and a ponzi or pyramid scheme.
- Comment on LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users 4 weeks ago:
Such a garbage site and always has been. Prior to microsoft owning them they were a shit show. They should never have recovered from this, but people are stupid.
After microsoft bought them, they became nothing more than a data mining operation. Which also should have made people avoid them. But again, people are so damn stupid.
So train AI on these dumbfucks, why not? They are too dumb to walk away.
- Comment on Washington city officials are using ChatGPT for government work 4 weeks ago:
Does this surprise anyone? Of course they are. Every business is pushing AI as hard as they can.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 4 weeks ago:
They changed the save to auto store. Super annoying now. If I wanted to keep it I would save it. Now I have extra clicks.
Oh well. Kate works on windows and edit is coming back so notepad just gets removed.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 4 weeks ago:
Being basically a scratch pad. For anything more I have software to do that.
They ruined it by changing the way it saves.
Then bloated it with crap nobody (except apparently you) want. They also introduced a LOT of new bugs.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 5 weeks ago:
Well yeah, because notepad did one thing well. Now it doesn’t.
I just spent a good portion of my day today fixing stupid crap an AI had put into documents that a person was trying to use. It was wrong, so damn wrong. Like usual.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 5 weeks ago:
It can. But doesn’t have to. And you could do vs codium if you wanted to.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 5 weeks ago:
OK, so you haven’t actually looked into any of the studies (there are plenty). It absolutely makes you dumber and lazy while wasting your time.
The amount of garbage that AI puts out is astounding. I am very familiar with it, my department is in charge of facilitating users to use it. I run local LLM’s so I fully understand how offline works.
In the case of copilot+ pc’s "an internet connection is required every so many days. They are explicit that the local processing will be combined with internet processing, and although you can turn it off for periods of time, the model will not be as robust or useful. In addition of course they are still sending all that data back with refresh by simply using windows so there is that too.
Calling VS Code an IDE is a stretch. Are you sure you are not confusing it with VS Studio?
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 5 weeks ago:
Because everything Microsoft has said, even when using Copilot + AI local still sends data to microsoft. Sound like privacy, is more like pushing the actual resource compute local while still sending data home.
You don’t understand how using AI to help with writing is awesome?
No, I don’t. It is lazy and not awesome at all. Every single research paper that has come out says it does one of two things (often both): wastes your time, making you think you are being more efficient when you are not, AND makes you stupid. Your crutch disengages your brain, and makes it harder and harder for you to do it your self.
And if you are taking notes, what the hell is AI doing?
You said notepad++ which has a lot of features via plug ins. So I would assume you would want more functionality than simply a text editor, hence why I said it. If I am stuck on a windows computer, I use to for code AND notes. It works well for either case. There is even an extension for that.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 5 weeks ago:
Your username doesn’t check out… Everything you type in notepad goes to Microsoft now… I can’t understand what is awesome about having an ai try and figure out my text in notes pad.
Would you be better served switching from notepad++ to vs code?
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 weeks ago:
Arrg! I didnt mean to delete what I wrote I was just trying to update it.
You confused energy use with pollution.
And what I wrote before was:
I basically said that I was serious, people if they cared would stop using computers. But I am not, you are not, so data centers are going to grow no matter what we do, and computing use is going to increase energy consumption. We need to (even says in the article you posted in the links) improve efficiency, get better hardware, use lower cost training models, use energy recovery and not use lossy evaporator cooling.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 weeks ago:
They said that AI is polluting worse than global air travel. They are mixing up pollution vs energy used. If it was pollution global air travel creates 80 Million Tons of CO a month. All AI in use is 15 million tons a month. Global air travel is far more polluting.
As an aside, and this is crazy: there is a mention, in the article OP posted, that suggests that humans, are far worse than AI for CO creation depending on the task. Which I found surprising.
The data comes a paper in the journal Nature:
Our findings reveal that AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text generated compared to human writer, while AI illustration systems emit between 310 and 2900 times less CO2e per image than their human counterparts. Emissions analyses do not account for social impacts such as professional displacement, legality, and rebound effects. In addition, AI is not a substitute for all human tasks. Nevertheless, at present, the use of AI holds the potential to carry out several major activities at much lower emission levels than can humans.
Ok I honestly did not see that coming.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for clarifying. You made up statistics, your post is nonsense.
And you responded without any consideration that the consistent reliance on computers, in general, is using a HUGE amount of energy, AI or not, indicate that you simply want to chase windmills and not have a conversation. Well played.
HurrDeeeDurrrr indeed. Next time let the grown ups talk.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 weeks ago:
Well what you said is not true, but since you are so interested in this, why limit it to AI? Just quit using computers all together.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 weeks ago:
Why did you start using straws at all?