beejjorgensen
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- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t trust the people making the national citizenship list to be honest about it.
- Comment on The End of Publishing as We Know It 3 weeks ago:
Lol… I wanted “DRM”. But it’s been a long day.
- Comment on A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI 3 weeks ago:
No way rich people are using this shit on their own kids.
- Comment on The End of Publishing as We Know It 3 weeks ago:
I often wonder about the stuff I write, what becomes of it. It’s a little disheartening since I love crafting it for best effect… But especially with computer books for beginners, people prefer to ask AI for the answers instead of studying.
I also just bought 6 sci-fi books from an author I’d never heard of for cheap. I love supporting indy authors, the price was right, and they sold their books directly from the website, no middlemen and no DEI. Perfect.
But was the author real? I actually did a bunch of research to find out their history and all that before pulling the trigger. I really don’t want to read AI stories. But I can see a future where the vast majority don’t care. Imagine an endless episode of Survivor or a soap opera, completely generated 24x7 forever. You know that shit would be massive.
And there might only be a fringe that seeks human-generated content for the humanity of it.
- Comment on Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t play that one, but I did play the c64 game… www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecHVCk_jKdM
Not quite as spectacular. 😅
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 4 weeks ago:
I’m not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I’ll finally be able to do something else with my time.
- Comment on What editor or IDE do you use and why? 5 weeks ago:
Vim because it’s ubiquitous, starts up instantly, works when ssh’d into a server, and doesn’t get in my way with lots of busy interface. Also modal editors are the only way to go, IMHO. 🙂
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
I used to pay Google for things back when they were pretty awesome. Haven’t paid them a dime for years now.
- Comment on Sundar Pichai is vibe coding. 'It feels so delightful to be a coder.' 1 month ago:
I’ve been messing around with vibe-painting, myself. Damn it feels good to be an artist.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 month ago:
I’m trying to think of something more fucked up, but I’m struggling, here.
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 1 month ago:
This guy’s argument is that he’s a 10xer because he’s using AI effectively, i.e. just proofreading its output and deleting the comments. (Also, why hire juniors when you can get the same work for $20/mo?)
I think this is a losing strategy unless all senior devs never retire and are immortal. (Or unless GAI happens in which case the world economy will collapse and who cares about strategy.)
It looks like what’s happening is that way fewer companies are willing to invest in juniors now, leading to falling enrollment in university, leading to a shortage of seniors, leading to very high dev pay, leading to increased enrollment. Eventually.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 1 month ago:
Or a process to challenge them?
😂😂😂😔
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 1 month ago:
“I see you have extensive database experience. Can you elaborate on the white genocide?”
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 1 month ago:
I think you’re right that this leads to increased efficiency. But in the case of the United States, we’re relying on a bit of inefficiency here to maintain freedom. I would suggest that there’s no difference between a dictatorship and an all-seeing government. Restricting the government is important in a free country, and making data on citizens difficult access is one of those restrictions we’ve been using.
- Comment on Business Insider will lay off 21% of staff amid AI disruption and “extreme traffic drops” 1 month ago:
A grand says that layoff letter was written by AI.
- Comment on AI model collapse is not what we paid for 1 month ago:
But could I pay for model collapse? I’d be down for that.
- Comment on US House Passes 10-Year Moratorium on State AI Laws 1 month ago:
This is how you know “pro-states rights” conservatives are lying to you.
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 1 month ago:
As a motorcyclist… Yeah.
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 1 month ago:
I used to dream of watching a movie then falling asleep in bed while my car drove the 8 hours to my folks’ house.
But I’d want that beast to be bristling with sensors of every kind. None of this “cameras only” idiocy.
Someday. Maybe.
- Comment on Trump Declares Biden’s Digital Equity Act ‘Racist’ and ‘Unconstitutional’ 2 months ago:
Do it. They’re your constituents. But I reckon the guy who plays 4D chess in his sleep knows this.
- Comment on Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration 2 months ago:
Early Palantirians were naive of they thought this wasn’t the outcome.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Any old slashdotters remember tcwww, The Cursed www? Just me?
- Comment on Free open source video editor Kdenlive announces a major release 2 months ago:
It’s been great watching it turn into a real powerhouse over the years.
- Comment on Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation 2 months ago:
Are jackasses really a safe job? I know ChatGPT has been really happy and friendly recently, but it can still be a really effective jackass.
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 2 months ago:
I hope they’re not lying with the denial. If he stays, it’ll drive left wingers to other options, increasing competition. And it might even drive right wingers to start buying EVs in quantity. 😁
- Comment on Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Sorry to disappoint, but it was not. It was Double-Decker Pizza. Except this was a small local chain of two restaurants, not the one that you find on the internet today.
- Comment on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care 2 months ago:
The number of bugs we encountered the last overseas flight we took were astounding. Anytime from printing errors to baggage checkin not working to the inflight entertainment system needing rebooting.
There are so many layers of dependencies on everything it’s amazing it works at all.
- Comment on Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension 2 months ago:
The pizza place I worked at as a teen had this game and we had the key. So we’d pop it open and add tons of credits and play forever. This phrase is indelibly marked upon my brain.
- Comment on Prompt engineer : The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete 2 months ago:
- Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages 2 months ago:
Unless they’ve received notification to that effect. “Hey, y’all, we’re considering anti-trust so save that shit.”