cybersandwich

@cybersandwich@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you host on your backup servers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohhh, look at Mr. Fancy Pants over here with his backup servers! What, ya scared the internet’s gonna go poof and you won’t be able to access your little spreadsheets? ‘Oh no, my cat memes are in danger!’

  Listen, buddy, some of us are just out here raw-doggin’ the web like real men. What’s next, you gonna put a generator in your bathroom in case the toilet paper dispenser fails? Fuggedaboutit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi! It’s me, the guy you discussed this with the other day! The guy that said Lemmy is full of AI wet blankets.

  I am 100% with Linus AND would say the 10% good use cases can be transformative.

  Since there isn’t any room for nuance on the Internet, my comment seemed to ruffle feathers. There are definitely some folks out there that act like ALL AI is worthless and LLMs specifically have no value. I provided a list of use cases that I use pretty frequently where it can add value. (Then folks started picking it apart with strawmen).

  I gotta say though this wave of AI tech feels different. It reminds me of the early days of the web/computing in the late 90s early 2000s. Where it’s fun, exciting, and people are doing all sorts of weird,quirky shit with it, and it’s not even close to perfect. It breaks a lot and has limitations but their is something there. There is a lot of promise.

  Like I said else where, it ain’t replacing humans any time soon, we won’t have AGI for decades, and it’s not solving world hunger. That’s all hype bro bullshit. But there is actual value here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck is bitnet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is hilariously reactionary and fickle. Never found a windmill that couldnt be tilted at.

  I’m not sure why that still surprises me considering it’s made up of a ton of people who self selected to leave a site in protest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows will mostly just be a kiosk for Edge.

  I think for the vast majority of average users this has been true for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, that’s too much bloat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way to encourage interoperability is to use the government to hold out a carrot in addition to the stick. Through government procurement laws, governments could require any company providing a product or service to the government to not interfere with interoperability. President Lincoln required standard tooling for bullets and rifles during the Civil War, so there’s a long history of requiring this already. If companies don’t want to play nice, they’ll lose out on some lucrative contracts, “but no one forces a tech company to do business with the federal government.”

  That’s actually a very interesting idea. This benefits the govt as much as anyone else too. It reduces switching costs for govt tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard someone call it billionaire brain rot. I think at some point you end up with so much money and not enough people telling you no, that it literally changes your brain.

  Seems likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally couldn’t pass one for something I needed to access.

  I had to switch to the audio thing eventually and it took me multiple tries with that. I should just write a script that uses a fucking bot next time.