OctopusNemeses

@OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China tells grumps, trolls, and AIs to behave online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish we’d moderate trolls again on our internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The level of discourse in the US right now ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bart Simpson is making Gen-X and Millennials lazy. They will never amount to anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He got lucky once by being born at the right time in the right place of the right demographic to become a social media billionaire by simply creating what was going to be created regardless. Have any of these guys repeated that success?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the same person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come back to this post in 2030's⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As late as the 2000s. The internet didn’t always have the content it does now. News agencies took a long time to adopt it. Publications scientific or otherwise weren’t all published online. Content aggregators hadn’t scraped and indexed it all. Random pseuds hadn’t social media profiles to digest and spit out their takes on it. None of that existed which has led us to this point where internet arguments are two doofuses frantically dumping the results of that on each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit has a whole metagame on trolling users in these ways. I don’t think corporate cares at all. If anything spez probably welomes it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The following doesn’t apply to everybody in technology, but it applies to enough of them: At some point STEM education was the only thing the Olds cared about because of something something Asia, and now we have a couple of generations that are highly educated on paper and comically unaware of the complexity of the world outside of WordPress plugins.

  I was going to say it’s not just technology executives. I’m glad the author addressed this too. It’s the whole industry.

  People do this to ourselves too. How often do people see a tech nerd and think they’re some sort of all knowing demigod.

  “You’re a tech guy. Here fix my thing.”

  “Tell me about such and such complex topic complete outside of your niche professional expertise but you’re of the All Knowing so opine me your All Knowing wisdom.”

  Everybody just fucking stop already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it was a useless metric anyways. What I’ve found is that people use that number to as evidence to some rhetoric. Pretty much every time I point out it’s a useless metric they become very angry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m almost certain you guys write replies like this with the frame of mind that it’s a clever way of wishing violence. It’s a peak reddit tier response designed to dodge moderators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SSDs are fast enough as swap to be imperceptible to the untrained eye. A good test is to disable swap for a while. You can bet they will see their system grind its gears at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wiith how often either someone I know or some random user is like, here watch this. And it’s anywhere from 15-60 minute video. How many hours day do you think I have. Just sum up what you’re trying to show me in a few sentences.

  It’s like the 21st century version of useless work meetings.

  This didn’t need to be a meeting.
  This didn’t need to be a Youtube video.
  This didn’t need to be a podcast.
  It’s oversaturation.

  Same goes with podcasts. I’m sure we’re past peak podcasting too. Everyone and their dog has a podcast. 99% of them are private conversations that have no reason for existing as podcasts. People are recording a random conversation about nothing and calling it a podcast episode. Just stop.

  I don’t even watch so many hours of TV shows. I have maybe two or three shows I’ll be watching at any given time. That’s like a few hours a week. The algorithmic content pushing has lost the plot. They expect us to be robotic content consuming machines 24 hours a day, seven days week. I have to eat and shit and earn a living so I can continue to sustain my physical existence so I can consume content. I suppose this is the natural end goal of adtech companies like Google. A tireless soulless machine that devours humanity.

  Much of the content has become useless fluff. A good chunk of Youtube videos and podcasts are just friends bantering or cackling over inside jokes. Like why am I listening to this noise being blasted from my headphone to my ears. I’m over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Google has always been a thinly veiled Microsoft. A wolf in sheeps clothing. They embrace, extend, extinguish. It’s the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this just the tech industry. Run at a loss. Eat VC money. Wait. Wait.

  Some how you become normalized and suddenly important Next thing you know you’re raking profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried having it identify an unknown integrated circuit. It hallucinated a chip. It kept giving me non-existent datasheets and 404 links to digikey/mouser/etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The original comment is perpetuating the lie. Intentional or not. They rely on fundamentally flawed soundbites that are precisely crafted for propaganda not to be informative or truthful at all.

  Right off the bat they’re saying “in principle” which presumes the baseline lie that “full self driving” is achieved. Then they strengthen their argument by reinforcing the idea that it’s functionally equivalent to humans (i.e. generalized intelligence). Then the cap it off with “no known flaw”. Pure lies.

  Of course they’ve hedged by implying it’s opinion but strongly suggest it’s the most correct one anyways.

  I’m unsure of and how much has changed

  This demonstrates exactly how effective the propaganda is. They set up scenarios where nobody honest will refute their bullshit with certainty. Even though we know there is no existing system is on par with human drivers. Sure they can massage data to say under certain conditions an automated driving system performed similarly by some metric or whatever. But that’s fundamentally not what they are telling laymen audience. They’re lying in order to lead the average person to believe they can trust their car to drive them as if they are a passenger and another human is behind the wheel. This not true. Period. There is no existing system that does this. There will not be in the foreseeable future.

  The fact of the meta is that technological discussion is more about this kind of propaganda than technology itself. If it weren’t the case then more people would be hearing about the actual technology and it’s real limitations. Not all the spin-doctoring. That leads to uncertainty and confusion. Which leads to preventable deaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw that kind of thing too. I figured those girls were probably dating the popular guys our age. A while later I found out that not even those guys were dating them. It was the 20 to 30 somethings.