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@tourist@lemmy.world
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 6 days ago:
Kick me in the brain stem if I’m on the wrong track, but I feel like it’s by design
In general,
Everyone hates public officials taking bribes
Everyone hates streaming services raising their subscription fees
Everyone hates advertisements
Everyone hates big pharma charging $1000 for a cancer treatment pill that costs 0.1c to manufacture
The throughline is obvious, but I feel most people just take a neutral or dismissive (and sometimes aggressive) stance if you bring it up.
It’s that cognitive dissonance that feels engineered.
I don’t know how to fix that. Admittedly, I still need to do more reading.
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 1 week ago:
X for Xorg
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
there is more than one photo
I meant to imply this using the word “story”. I’m shit at communication, sorry :(
This is part of what I specifically found amusing:
spoiler
I wasn’t even thinking about the pre-folding aspect. I like logistics stuff, so that’s cool to learn. Thanks!
- Comment on Know Thy Enemy! 1 week ago:
not really trolling, more shitposting
I truly apologise if I made your mood worse
- Comment on Know Thy Enemy! 1 week ago:
Was he not both of those things?
Ardent Nazi: Literally a Nazi general
Bad General: Literally lost the war
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
(NSFW at times)
I don’t know what I expected, but it certainly wasn’t that many people with their bare ass cheeks out.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not gratuitous, but enough to feel like some kind of pattern. Just people with their butts hanging out.
Anyways, this little story was my favourite: Image
- Comment on Hobbies 2 weeks ago:
gym
taking grey market steroids and lecturing visibly more athletic gym members on form and technique
Knowledge
believing hallucinations from chatgpt and buying meme cryptocurrency
investing in mentors
buying a $1000 online course that teaches basic repackaged self-help
business
stealing the surplus labour value of workers
- Comment on cleansing 2 weeks ago:
This, but with piss, basically
- Comment on High fashion 2 weeks ago:
how big is the flag
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 1 month ago:
“the pre-owned volvo of tourist@lemmy.word” is not as catchy as “The Ship of Theseus”
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 1 month ago:
I burned a few CDs and put one of them in my car’s CD player
It worked but I got hit with “tray error” when I tried ejecting it.
It’s been stuck in there since april
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
getting into a car with a stranger who said he was 15 minutes away two hours ago
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.
It’s ironic that the middlemen showed up anyway and busted all the security of those transfers
You want some bipcoin to buy weed drugs on the slip road? Don’t bother figuring out how to set up that wallet shit, come to our nifty token exchange where you can buy and sell all kinds of bipcoins
oh btw every government on the planet showed up and dug through our insecure records. hope you weren’t actually buying shroom drugs on the slip rod
also we got hacked, you lost all your bipcoins sorry
At least, that’s my recollection of events. I was getting my illegal narcotics the old fashioned way.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 1 month ago:
More likely that the director would get radicalised into installing Arch Linux
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 month ago:
Does anti-cheat even work?
kernel or no
- Comment on The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says 1 month ago:
sorry you’re illegally trespassing on corporate property
- Comment on Iron 2 months ago:
But isn’t too much birth control bad for your health?
- Comment on Very normal very reasonable 2 months ago:
waiting for the first birds-as-a-DB startup to get a billion dollars in VC funding
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 2 months ago:
The prosecutor is gonna bust the fattest nut of his life during discovery if he reads the defendant’s credit card statements
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 2 months ago:
My networking knowledge may be out of date, but can’t you get around region locked sites with VPNs or Tor?
I was in Turkey in July 2019. Wikipedia was blocked. I had to use Tor to access it. On installation I think I had to tick a special box that said something like “use flux capacitor bridge for blablabla countries like China and Turkey”
Though In that case, Wikipedia didn’t give a fuck if you were accessing it from Tor. The government did.
I know some sites block tor/VPN access for various reasons
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 2 months ago:
there’s gotta be at least one fun game like that
- Comment on Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower 2 months ago:
A “junior” project manager at my company vibe coded an entire full stack web app with one of those LLM IDEs. His background is industrial engineering and claims to have basically no programming experience.
It “works”, as in, it does what it’s meant to, but as you can guess, it relies on calls to LLM APIs where it really doesn’t have to, and has several critical security flaws, inconsistencies in project structure and convention, and uses deprecated library features.
He already pitched it to one of our largest clients, and they’re on board. They want to start testing at the end of the month.
He’s had one junior dev who’s been managing to keep things somewhat stable, but the poor dude really had his work cut out for him. I only recently joined the project because “it sounded cool”, so I’ve been trying to fix some flaws while adding new requested features.
I’ve never worked with the frameworks and libraries before, so it’s a good opportunity to upskill, but god damn I don’t know if I want my name on this project.
A similar thing is happening with my brother at a different company. An executive vibe coded a web application, but this thing absolutely did not work.
My brother basically had one night to get it into a working state. He somehow (ritalin) managed to do it. The next day they presented it to one of their major clients. They really want it.
These AI dev tools absolutely have a direct negative impact on developer productivity, but they also have an indirect impact where non-devs use them and pass their Eldritch abominations to the actual devs to fix, extend and maintain.
Two years ago, I was worried about AI taking dev jobs, but now it feels like, to me, we’ll need more human devs than ever in the long run.
Like, weren’t these things supposed to exponentially get better? Like, cool, gh copilot can fuck up my project files now.
- Comment on Day 364 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Place your bets for the final game
I’m going with Roblox
(no money/crypto will be exchanged, because gambling is haram and I placed a really bad meme bet)
- Comment on Enough 2 months ago:
fuck that
my fat claustrophobic ass will just shit in the doorway
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 2 months ago:
I’d rather spend that kind of money on an escort
That way I’ll only be fucked once instead of being routinely fucked by the subscription fees
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 months ago:
I don’t doubt the claim, but I would imagine others do because there’s a relatively minor technical skill hurdle on replacing a phone’s operating system which would turn most people away.
I never used a Pixel or Graphene OS, but when I installed Lineage OS on a Redmi, Xiaomi made me wait a week to unlock the bootloader. Huge pain in the ass.
Or there might be a better “drug-dealer-friendly” OS. I only know of Lineage and Graphene as open source alternatives, so I could just be speculating.
Also, all my former drug dealers used WhatsApp on the stock vendor OS. But then again… I live in South Africa, so the police are more focused on violent crimes (both enforcement and perpetration)
- Comment on choice 2 months ago:
now that’s a homie I’d share some cheese with
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 2 months ago:
Real life: yes
Game: harsh
Like, they could have put him in the naughty corner or something. I don’t like the idea of banning as a game mechanic.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 2 months ago:
wtf
If traffic rules were that strictly punished in real life there’d be like max 7 cars on road globally
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 2 months ago:
I assume you’ve been mass reported in whatever game you made this for
