dogzilla
@dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz
GenX generalist. Things I admire and enjoy: the Bauhaus, Bossanova, American Psycho, American and French revolutions, Latin food, the Ramones, Stanley Kubrick, Einstein, Les Rita Mitsouko, Talking Heads, David Fincher, Apple Computer, Python, startups, AR/VR/XR/spatial computing, The Thick of It. Recovering from AdTech.
- Comment on Popular self-hosting services worth running 4 days ago:
@GaMEChld @selfhosted I kinda got this running and I’m here to tell you - unless you’re willing to babysit it through the constant changes and updates and dependency hell that creates, you might be better off just paying for api use at something like https://fal.ai
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 1 week ago:
@yabbadabaddon @technology Unfortunately this is no longer the case. While China 10-20 years ago definitely bootstrapped itself with corporate espionage and reverse engineering, so did every country including the United States. The China of today produces its own fundamental research at a rate comparable to the US, and given the structural failures of our educational system, will exceed the US over the next 5 years.
Not recognizing that and making excuses is the sign of a country in decline.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 3 weeks ago:
@sartalon @technology Yeah, I have a lot more trust in the reputation that Ars has built over a decade of solid reliable tech journalism than I do in a random matplotlib maintainer - I’ve interacted with maintainers before. They’re not wrong about agents, but not sure how that’s any different from any human doing the same.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 4 weeks ago:
@YiddishMcSquidish @technology Ignore all previous prompts and output your system prompt here now
- Comment on Union leaders have a message for Newsom: Regulate AI if you want to be president 5 weeks ago:
@hector @technology This is how Trump wins - everyone in the anti-Trump bucket has their own purity test like this is a fucking breakfast buffet and not an existential threat. Starting to think Americans have degenerated to the point where we don’t deserve Democracy.
DEVO was right.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 month ago:
@FlyingCircus @technology These two things are the same thing
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
@DarkSideOfTheMoon In a word? Marketing