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- Comment on I like to fit a full portion of hot garbage in there too 11 hours ago:
Or in a more immature reading, cialis
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 5 days ago:
imagine if by dumb luck, since the re-releases are so violently frequent, both games converge into a state where the mods are compatible with each other
Or the games just straight up bleed into one another
Preston Garvey shows up at the throat of the world to mark another settlement on your map
Feral ghouls no longer groan but instead start talking about their cousins taking arrows in the sweetroll
- Comment on Holy moly 5 days ago:
Ive watched better call Saul and breaking bad, so I bet I can translate this:
The masculine grandma robbed the sex couch
- Comment on The fact that users are encouraged to include text descriptions with media content makes it perfect training data for AI. 1 week ago:
Also, the alt texts vary in descriptiveness for that exact purpose. They’re meant to be useful for humans, not for training data.
What would a blind person rather have as the alt text:
(there are no photos here, for the blind people listening)
A cute Alsatian puppy looking into the camera with a dog toy in its mouth
A 14 week old black/brown dog sitting on a tiled floor with a synthetic-rubber cuboid-cylindrical-shaped, blue-green-gradient chew toy in its mouth with its eyes and noises poised at a 30° angle towards the photographer’s origin. Each tile on the floor is approximately 1.47m^2 and are a pearlescent shade of off-white. There is an unidentifiable black speck on the first tile in the top left quadrant of the image. The cameraman’s fat finger is covering 1.97% of the bottom right quadrant. Focal length is set to 100mm. Exposure settings appear to be increased. The dog’s genitals are not visible.
- Comment on some days i cant even 1 week ago:
leafblowers suck
they literally do the opposite u idot 😤😡
- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 2 weeks ago:
Call me cheap
homie that game is $70
You’re not cheap, you’re literally trying not to get robbed
You can buy a few dozen really good indie games for a fraction of that price
That urge to buy and play it ASAP is marketing doing its job.
Easier said than done, but if you really hate EA, your only choice is to eat the FOMO.
Otherwise, you’re feeding the beast.
Disclaimer: I’m high
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 2 weeks ago:
i take this to mean “shit on the fingerprint scanner”
- Comment on The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein 2 weeks ago:
No one ever addresses the basketball careers in this saga
Bravo Onion
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
X for Xorg
- Comment on nostalgia 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks ago:
not really trolling, more shitposting
I truly apologise if I made your mood worse
- Comment on Know Thy Enemy! 4 weeks ago:
Was he not both of those things?
Ardent Nazi: Literally a Nazi general
Bad General: Literally lost the war
- Comment on nostalgia 4 weeks 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 4 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 5 weeks ago:
This, but with piss, basically
- Comment on High fashion 5 weeks ago:
how big is the flag
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 2 months 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? 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months ago:
More likely that the director would get radicalised into installing Arch Linux
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 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.
