Bo7a

@Bo7a@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I would bet we have a lot of the exact same thoughts on why this happens, and probably how to solve it. My only disagreement - and it is not a strong one - is the impossibility of forgiveness.

  If they mature and leave, or even better, commit to being a monkey wrench for a bit before leaving… I think I can find space for them in my community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t either. But I can see how a young person without a lot of knowledge of the world and the impending weight of 50 years of work ahead of them, possibly with a family to feed, or an extended family to take care of due to the inherently predatory healthcare system where they were born, might make that choice. And I understand it, regardless of “forgiveness”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not sure I get what this word soup is saying. No offense intended buy maybe try re-wording this if you want to discuss.

  PS: foundry is not an AI platform, the engineers I am talking about are usually 20-ish year old java and python devs, and it is easier to understand how someone in that group might not even know how evil evilcorp is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Devil’s Advocate (damn near literally this time around)

  Try being a young engineer at the top of your game and saying no to an offer where the yearly salary makes google engineers jealous. Not everyone can say no.

  Palantir offers like 400k/year to run-of-the-mill forward deployed engineers for foundry (Civilian platform) where the job is 99% actually helping customers with interesting engineering problems.

  I can’t even imagine what they are offering folks working on gotham(govt military) side.

  I guess what I’m trying to say is that while a ton of those engineers are soulless sociopaths, some of them just took a job that pays super well and don’t align with the goals of the C-levels. And in fact - a ton won’t even know what those goals are.

  Remember - Our enemy is the c-suite, not the level 1 support agent. Even at evilcorp. Thankfully I am in a position where my kids are grown up and the money treadmill isn’t set on hardmode for me anymore. I can say no. But even for me it is sometimes difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now i get it! "Peanuts" is because they are nuts inside a pod-like thing, just like peas!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Get an uncooked one and eat it. It tastes like peas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front is back.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My front door faces the back by normal standards. The side of our house facing the road has no door. Our one door opens onto the porch, and having that porch face the road instead of the forest would have been ridiculous.

  You would not believe the number of people who walk up the driveway, don’t see a door, and get absolutely flummoxed about where to go… The gravel path CLEARLY goes around to the other side of the house, but that is not hint enough. We have had people knock at our bedroom window instead of following the path to find a door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a hard time tying your shoes while thinking about something else, don’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tariffs on Canadian goods having a 'devastating effect,' U.S. farmers say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t even need to be that different. I showed up in a western farming town at 15 years old. My hair was long for a boy, and my ‘city’ clothes got me harassed from the first day I arrived in that town. Isolated morons. The lot of them. They fear anything that is not exactly like they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Collateral damage to advertisers? Sounds like a feature, not a bug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin: We need you working 60 hours a week so we can replace you as soon as possible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought some land and spent the last 3 years converting it into something usable for an intentional community.

  Community I always thought the hardest part would be getting the land drilling a well sitting up solar etc. in fact, the hardest part is convincing people that you are serious about letting them come live on your land as long as they help work.

  I’ve even taken to offering one dollar 99 year leases so that people could feel like they have some agency over the piece of land they choose to live on.

  No bites yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of feces we throw ink around. Man is the statutory ape.

  -Robert anton wilson(paraphrased)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My body is ready for this!