GreenBeard

@GreenBeard@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Translation: “We’ve had our fill of screwing you around for today and invite you to cordially go screw yourself.”

  When it comes to HP, just say no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do you think is the future of the internet and tech in general?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For general consumers? Probably complete industry collapse and regression. Specialized industries and national security use will continue to develop, but broad market access is going to likely stagnate for a decade at least if not more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowing what you’re talking about is considered elitist by most Americans. Under-funding education is effectively a DEI program for idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to organize a proper rebellion before we get to guillotines and starting with unions is a place to work from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, at its heart, Mac OS is a heavily re-tooled fork of the BSD platform, so it’s not inconceivable that it’s light enough to run on 8G. I doubt it would run well on 8G, but it could do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He pointed to the laptop’s 8GB of “unified memory,” or what amounts to its RAM, and how customers can’t upgrade it.

  Given the price of RAM, you’d need to sell a kidney to upgrade it in a Windows laptop these days, so that’s not much of a difference, although 8MB is a little skimpy, I’ll give him that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been a few studies. Most estimates put it at around 20% of men engage in actively degrading behaviour, sexual harassment, or have had a history of sexual assault, with between 5-8% actually engaging in violence. It isn’t everyone, but it is around 1 in 5 which is not a small group that could be classified as “Creeps.” It’s a lot higher percentage of the population than, for example, the percentage of violent extremists among Muslims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What does slash dotted mean?

  Old term from the dawn of time. Slashdot is quite possibly the largest tech forum in history. It was fairly common for small sites to get mentioned or promoted on slashdot, only for the overwhelming traffic to crash whatever it was that was being discussed. A mass surge in traffic that causes a website to fail became known as being Slashdotted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Political influence accretes where treasure is. Same as always. Right now a bunch of old rich men are trying to buy their way into heaven with a sacrifice of human blood, that’s all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say there’s been no coverage of the consequences of market consolidation, it’s just not breaking into mainstream consciousness. Given our historical patter of recognizing a problem -> ignoring it for 30-40 years until it becomes a crisis -> then panicking when the damage has already become a death spiral, now would be the expected time for the first alarm bells to start going off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the previous poster was attempting a joke in clanker-speak. It wasn’t a particularly funny joke, but an attempt was made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that hallucinate doesn’t go nearly far enough, given that it will double down and defend them. I would call it delusions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I’m of Scottish descent, but I’m not Scottish. It’s been generations since anyone in my family has seen scotch heather in anything but a photograph. I never went to a Scottish school, sat in a Scottish pew, and while I can understand the Scots dialect I couldn’t speak it to save my life. I have a few fragments of old traditions, some of which no one in Scotland even practices anymore. Sure, I like a nice dram of whisky or black pudding as much as the next guy, but I also enjoy sushi, that doesn’t make me Japanese either. So why would it make any sense to refer to myself as a Scottish-American? If I were a recent import or maybe 2nd generation, sure it makes some sense, but I don’t have the foggiest clue what life in Scotland is like. If you dropped me in Glasgow or Aberdeen without GPS in my pocket and asked me to find my way around I wouldn’t know where to start. So what gives me the right to call myself Scottish anything? Because my family held on to a few comforting traditions from a Scotland that’s been gone for more than a century?

  There’s a very old trope that the land seeps into your blood over time and no matter how far you roam from it, it calls you back, and shapes your character. It’s from the same school of thought that coined the phrase “Blood and Soil” and murdered people in gas chambers. It’s not a philosophy I have much attachment to, in spite of the fact I have one of those in my bloodline too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually most other places have far more indigenous culture, because the dominant socio-economic group is the indigenous people of that place. The existence of an indigenous minority is pretty unique.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Citizens United. That ruling should have started a riot that didn’t end until the constitution was amended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the big secret. Efficient at what is never discussed. It’s very efficient [… at lowering legal costs, and avoiding consequences and accountability]. As long as no one says the quiet part out loud, everything is “fine” [… for them].

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you can kill a man with a knife but you can do it a lot faster and easier with a nuclear warhead. People aren’t scared of an aggressive chihuahua, but they’ll have an aggressive pitbull put down. The scale and scope of damage matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite frankly we don’t have the organizational infrastructure for that. An army, including a rebellion marches on its stomach. Small protest organization feeds into larger scale organization down the road. We’ve got to start somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely rude. If you’re using AI to make a point for you, you’ve already admitted you don’t know enough about what you’re talking about to be having a opinion in the first place, let alone be worth discussing an issue with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is creatine safe?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a few people who kind of went crazy with the creatine and definitely took it too far and hurt themselves with it, which is crazy because I’m not even into fitness stuff so you wouldn’t expect a filthy casual like me to see that. From what I understand figuring out the right dose is tricky because there’s a lot of different body types and metabolisms, and the label always overestimates how much you really can process. It’s a supplement meaning it’s basically unregulated so they can put whatever they want on there. I’d say it’s common enough that people overdoing it is common enough to be concerning.

  Can it mess with your kidneys? Absolutely. Will it? Bruh, this is the internet, we have no way to know that, but if you’re going easy on it, then probably not. Just make sure you’re using your head and it should be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Elites will always be troublesome, but of no importance when they cannot corrupt anyone to do their bidding.

  Given enough time and enough resources, anyone is corruptible. The most corrupt are usually those who believe they can’t be corrupted. You just have to get them to honestly believe something that isn’t true. Once you figure out what cognitive fallacies they’re vulnerable to, you’ll have just turned a bulwark against you into your most loyal zealot. That’s why the wealthy usually win. With enough money, one person can command more time, and resources than 50% of the country combined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course the rulers enable this behaviour. Who do you think made them the “rulers” to begin with? You think our broke asses pay to get these people elected?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember kids, the term “Business Ethics” is an oxymoron. Corporations don’t have ethics, they have financial interests and PR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, again, most if not all of them. Almost every language there’s slight variations in pronunciation, intonation, vocabulary and pacing between men and women that would otherwise qualify as a “different accent.” It’s more pronounced in some regions and dialects, but most of them have “male” and “female” variations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨20 Years of Banning Phones. We Don’t Have That Long for AI.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard pass. There absolutely should be no AI in any classroom under any circumstances. The whole point of a classroom is to build a foundation on which to understand the fundamentals before they slap a set of training wheels on and vibe-code their way into disaster. Most of these LLMs ignore whatever guardrails you slap on them far too frequently.

  The most important lesson these kids need to learn is if you can’t do it yourself, you shouldn’t be letting an LLM do it for you. If the best you can say about the effects is “This version doesn’t seem to be actively harming them” then the bar is in hell, and we shouldn’t be playing with these tools at all at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just the natural progression of a disease that spreads outwards from Management. The bosses want yes-men, not people capable of independent thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Canadian, here. I think they’re great. Most seem like really nice people. Except the ones that astroturf for the CCP. Those can go back to China if they prefer it so much. Spare me the incessant propaganda. I’ve spent my whole life putting up with American lies, I don’t feel the need to replace them with Chinese ones.

  But most of the ones I know are honest, good people, interesting perspectives, competent, if not particularly exceptional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A little bit of a tempest in a teapot. It doesn’t sound like they’re actually going to stop distributing existing drivers, they’re just not accepting any new drivers or updates (unless they’re critical security updates) for those packages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, we’re not all the ones that decide if we’re on board or not. Our employers are. We live in a world where profits are privatized and losses are socialized, so when this goes, it’s going to hurt the general public a lot more than it will every hurt the Epstein Class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “You know who doesn’t buy my drugs? Maidenless losers.” Said every drug dealer in history. It’s not even good marketing hype, it’s just sad at this point.