etherphon

@etherphon@piefed.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I'm not sure if I need a light to indicate that I need to avoid people wearing these glasses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't know what to tell you, possibly the jobs we had before that shaped our opinion of it, it also matters who your manager is because they give them a lot of carte blanche as far as how they do things, you can get a shit manager who enforces all the rules or one who doesn't give a shit as long as the work gets done. When I left I was making $24 an hour which is good here. In the summer when it was super hot out they would come around with frozen electrolyte pops to hand them out and cool people off, my new job had warm bottles of water for us. They were always handing out snacks and Amazon swag which whatever, but something to wear to work, still use one of the coffee mugs. I was using my PTO and UPT to leave early on a daily basis, my last year I left early every day for several months without incident. It's 4 days a week so you have 3 off, granted those 4 days are pretty much all work if you have a commute. If you're a good worker I found them to be extremely lenient but YMMV.

  I really don't know what to tell the other guy,but his comment reeks of privilege, not everyone can be an accountant or lawyer or start their own business or have some other grand job, some people just want a shitty low key job with no responsibility. We can't re-train everyone and it doesn't look like UBI is coming here any time soon, so yes, people need these jobs.

  We shouldn't stifle technological process and keep jobs people don't want to do around so the people currently doing them don't have to adapt.

  You sound like a fucking robot dude. Or someone who reads a lot of articles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess there must be other facilities that are much worse, or it depends who your managers are, but when I worked at a FC I thought it was one of the easier jobs I've held.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked there for there years, there's lots of people who wants those jobs since they pay decently, it certainly better than no job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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  Destroying millions of jobs to shave 30 cents off an item, or rather pocket it, what could possibly go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am waiting for them to announce a convenient 1-800 number I can call to talk to the AI sex bot. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard her speak a few times on the Daily Show and had such high hopes for the things she was talking about which are of course deader than dead now that tech bros have literally moved in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud platform and other websites experiencing outages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I've never actually worked in tech, but I was a super early adopter spending a lot of times on BBSs and then usenet, IRC, telnet chats, designing web pages and doing graphics, flyers, icons, emojis and stuff for people I met online, and I've met a lot of super cool people for sure but it's all been virtual for the most part. It was so much fun in those earlier days when everyone was doing their own thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is simply not enough data for me, I'm holding out for the device that analyzes the content of my poo with mass spectrometry so I can really tell what's going on. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud platform and other websites experiencing outages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ...and stay down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly, especially when it comes to things like MERGING which is an arcane art to some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since it seems to be unsafe at any speed, why not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEOs of Wells Fargo and Pfizer caution the U.S. could lose its edge to China without innovation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So cool how every expert asked has completely dire predictions about the way we're headed but I guess we're just going to let this asshole do whatever he wants anyways, yolo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit yes, do yourself a favor and buy a copy of The New Best Recipe cookbook by Cooks Illustrated or How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman, or even the old Betty Crocker cookbook is good, they're packed with every basic recipe you need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Were you blessed to experience this masterpiece? 😼⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I too missed out, I played Phantasy Star Universe on the PC some years after it came out, the single player campaigns were still a lot of fun though but it was such a cool universe I'm sure online play was pretty rad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks haha, I was never really rah rah into reddit itself but it had a lot of cool niche subs for hobbies and such and that's where I spent most of my time not even in the default or political subs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For wishing an old man would have a heart attack and leave the world peacefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasted 15 years on that site to be banned for one fucking comment, burn baby burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah somehow I thought we had passed that time, granted its been probably 40 years since I've seen the cartoon. I don't think I'll make it another 37 years lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First no flying cars now this, the Jetsons really set me up for disappointment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great I will continue not using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube failed as a dating site. This one change altered its fortunes forever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cultural force? There is no culture today, it's all just recycled garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed that's why they all started to get into drugs and burning man and all of that, to try to be interesting and cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course there's always lots of cool stuff going on in the fringes but as far as mainstream society goes with this consolidation of power and wealth and so many mergers eating up any decent competition it does seem pretty bleak. I've pretty much eschewed any new stuff from big tech for a while now, it's was very sad to watch the web turn into a place of such open and creative expression into what it is today full of rigid standards, bloated frameworks, bots, AI, endless advertising, bland design, spam, spam, spam, bacon, eggs and spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those of you of a certain age like myself have to feel like you are eating crazy pills at the current state of things, it's almost like they are building some kind of... new.. world.. order. Something they fucking were talking about being some evil government/Democrat plot for decades now. What a ride. Did not see Trump at the head of it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The movies at Cannes don't even have to make sense really, it's a celebration of art, film, the spirit of human creativity, of humanity. It's a bit of a slap in the face imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would hardly rate the Cannes film audience as the general public, these are people who have made movies their lives, I'm sure they will all welcome AI made movies lovingly. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There's no shortage of other ways to get it for an enterprising person, maybe a few extra clicks once you know where to go. That's likely one of the goals though, whitewashing the internet. It's such a massive business though, but maybe very fractured and independent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I have to verify myself I simply won't use it, I really don't care, there's nothing so important online that I need to prove my identity to see it. (Banking and shit like that aside of course). Social media? Give me a break I'm already over it before all this ID shit. I hope it all burns to the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when companies hung on to old technology for dear life as long as they possibly could. I'm pretty sure they were still making money then. Everyone hopping on these bandwagons and throwing tons of money at it for FOMO are bonkers, this stuff has barely been tested yet as far as productivity, effect on workers, mental health issues, the list goes on.. but I guess that's all fine.