alecsargent

@alecsargent@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is injecting more AI into File Explorer in Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait to see windows users click on the file explorer icon and ram usage blow up to the sky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fall into the anti-AI hype⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One can be right wing and hate AI as well. AI has nothing inherently political.

  • They run at a profit deficit.
  • They require huge amounts electric power.
  • Companies collect data and not respect licenses.
  • Aggresive scrapers are a problem to many sites and they do not respect robots.txt directive.
  • Some LLM’s have criminal and pornographic content in their data collected.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't be a lurker, they said. (introduction post)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Demo is the best, they always answer my questions and help sort out stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can machines suffer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What in the flying fuck is this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that when one is practicing something one knows that “the result” can be achieved or improved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t you just set inv.nadeko.net as the default instance? I thought Freetube was an invidious client, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its Lawnchair or nothing for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I second this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Allie, an AI chess bot, learns to play like humans from 91 million Lichess games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve contributed thousands of games to a bot to play like shit. That is genuinely cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember Microsoft revoking my license keys for a 2011 Office Suite disk which were supposed to be a one-time purchase. Since then I gave them the middle finger and installed pirated copies on every single family member’s device.

  They could have had a loyal lifetime customer but broke my trust and now they have a full family of non-customers.