limer
@limer@lemmy.ml
Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech. Earlier
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 1 day ago:
It’s exactly like the “guns kill people” arguments. I would like all this AI stuff to go away, the tech is not ready to be used.
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 1 day ago:
People made AI to lie. When companies make something that does not work and promote it as reliable, that’s on the people doing that.
When faulty products are used by people, that’s on them.
I can no more blame AI than I could a car used during a robbery . Both are tools
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 1 day ago:
AI does not lie. People using untrustworthy AI lie when they promote it as their own work.
- Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models 1 week ago:
I can code my stuff ok on an older model. I’m sure there are some stacks that need more resources, but I’m having a hard time thinking of which.
Admittedly, on a laptop that is 20+ years old, I cannot surf the web AND run docker at the same time
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 1 week ago:
I feel like there are not any good and effective leaders or movements. At least not nationally
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 1 week ago:
Many states have elections that do not allow recounts, using hidden methods to count, and flunk the same fraud checks used pretty in other counties reliably.
Given that, I’m not too worried
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 1 week ago:
So…. I am going to express my opinion that Trumpism is merely the latest, not so different, expression of American capitalism that has always been this nasty and poisonous. And this includes the raids and round ups currently in the news.
There are some things that changed: the targets and oppressed have changed for some. The messaging has changed.
It’s a fad. This will fade soon enough, and things will still be bad. The good guys will be elected and clean up some of the stuff, but most of what they do will be ineffective. And then the next bad guy will come to power
- Comment on Ugh... I forgot to pack a towel 2 weeks ago:
Just because:
A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1))
- Comment on Onion forgets the satire (again) 4 weeks ago:
The onion is usually trusted to deliver accurate news, just not in the year they publish it
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 4 weeks ago:
I’m not doubting they are out there now, but I think based on my own observations it’s a new trend that is only 20 or 30 years old. Or, at least, it was not seen by me in earlier years .
I’m going to get on my soap box and guess such clocks became more popular because of digital devices showing 24 hour time
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 4 weeks ago:
The first time I saw a 24 analog clock in the 1970s was on a tv show (Mash). Did not see another in real life for 30 years
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 4 weeks ago:
Wow, am I the only person on lemmy to grow up before any digital clocks, where all the clocks were 12 hours ? Yes, yes I am
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 2 months ago:
I described pinball arcades once. Never again
- Comment on Nobel Price 2 months ago:
The joke to me, is that these Nobel peace prizes go to better people than before
- Comment on Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog 2 months ago:
It’s almost like Mozilla had dementia and forgot who it was, while doing things earlier Mozilla would find hard to watch
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 2 months ago:
Very cheap, but the cost is not only money but influence: billionaire politicians can be swayed by a measly million dollar bribe. The money is more a social norms thing in those circles. A token
Crowd funding cannot exert influence. It is not corrupt, does not own slave factories or stifle tens of thousands with unethical behavior.
- Comment on The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable 2 months ago:
Software patents… under some circumstances this would cripple many small USA companies, or legalize protection rackets where they must pay money
- Comment on One of America’s most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes 2 months ago:
“…The radical left is trying to wake volcanos, it’s high time we outlawed seismology, which is like demonology, but for nerds”
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 2 months ago:
“By clicking the ok button to activate this (critically important) site, you agree to allow us to make suggestions to the auto AI sales on your behalf”
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 2 months ago:
I was imagining this not as an isolated event but a statistical small failure doing normal business practices of the future.
And chargeback against Google or Microsoft causes account cancellation.
What you said makes sense for this year.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 2 months ago:
My imagination thinks that in an AI shopping future, anyone who reads an article similar to this automatically buys a Micky Mouse plushie.
Did not want to ? That easy to fix: please go to your settings to turn off auto-shopping. Refunds work too, just ship it back
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 3 months ago:
I just want to also say thank you for using the þorn. It’s a lovely letter that had unjust fate, and it’s nice to see it in the wild
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 3 months ago:
This was me, is me. I had to start a no grain diet to get my blood sugar down. Between that and exercise I have avoided, so far, having to take meds for diabetes.
I am diabetic, but my average blood sugar is in the normal range without medication. If I eat wrong or get laz, I have problems
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 4 months ago:
Older people need warmth and avoiding ants crawling into ears?
- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes! 4 months ago:
Boomers in tights or bust!
As a geezer, I too have noticed a startling amount of baby faced caped crusaders.
One can simply assume being a super hero is dangerous. Few live longer than their 20s. What we see now are clones, who think they are the same people.
- Comment on Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely 4 months ago:
I can see how bacteria may have developed our ancestors to be their hosts.
It’s like cats. People think they are the masters. People also think the gut biome is there to serve them. Silly people
- Comment on 4 months ago:
The anti Trump forces saw their power, revelled in it, and called it a day. It will not be applied to other companies.
It’s like the nationwide protests
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 4 months ago:
If you look at the Chinese press and social media no sale is expected.
Trump has a history of announcing sales without agreement. He did it before he was president.
Also at this point he had lied and broken promises so much the Chinese cannot rely on agreements, they can only try to not engage in non constructive ways.
People should not listen to Trump
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 4 months ago:
I think China and ByteDance are silent to not aggravate the situation, and I see no incentive to sell. Most likely TicToc will quietly cooperate with the American government more, or the service will be banned
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 4 months ago:
Why does anyone think this is true or will happen? Did ByteDance or the Chinese government say anything?