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- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 5 days ago:
Same, it counts my steps and it measures my runs/swims. It’s a Garmin. I don’t really have it configured for notifications or anything else.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Obama called out Fox News before, I remember something like all the other news organizations backed Fox News. They claimed an attack on any one of them was an attack of all of them or something.
- Comment on DeepSeek and chip bans have supercharged AI innovation in China. 1 week ago:
For coding, I treat it as an overly enthusiastic junior-mid.
It’s also great because I’m learning terraform and I just don’t want to look up the syntax. I just tell it to add something and it’ll do the lookup for me.
It gets it wrong sometimes which is where I need to do the lookup but it definitely has its uses.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 1 week ago:
There was article written by their former marketing director or something stating that the CPU, GPU and stuff are still sourced from China, and other places as well. They hide it from you. So like it’s an eye-watering price for old specs and doesn’t really deliver what it says it does.
Found the link: …locals.com/…/why-i-wont-be-buying-purisms-librem…
- Comment on Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube 2 weeks ago:
I loved the video. It’s very obviously taking the piss but I think this has been a sore spot to many Lemmy users that the humour isn’t gonna hit.
- Comment on Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube 2 weeks ago:
It’s got a little something for everyone
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 2 weeks ago:
That is the real crime here …
Embarassing rich people or losing profits. Their lives are what really matter, wouldn’t want them to be inconvenienced in any way.
- Comment on Who needs to retire anyway? 2 weeks ago:
To be pedantic, it was people her husband hired.
- Comment on Obama wasn't a hero; he just wasn't terrible 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what you guys expect out of your politicians. They’re not supposed to be heroes.
Also, the fact that these come up now and are bringing up how unimpressive the Dems are are strange to me when mango Mussolini are causing havoc.
Were people deifying Obama like Trump? It seemed like most people were upset with him most of the time.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 weeks ago:
A complete random story but, I’m on the AI team at my company. However, I do infrastructure/application rather than the AI stuff. First off, I had to convince my company to move our data scientist to this team. They had him doing DevOps work (complete mismanagement of resources). Also, the work I was doing was SO unsatisfying with AI. We weren’t tweaking any models. We were just shoving shit to ChatGPT. Now it was be interesting if you’re doing RAG stuff maybe or other things. However, I was “crafting” my prompt and I could not give a shit less about writing a perfect prompt. I’m typically used to coding what I want but I had to find out how to write it properly: “please don’t format it like X”. Like I wasn’t using AI to write code, it was a service endpoint.
During lunch with the AI team, they keep saying things like “we only have 10 years left at most”. I was like, “but if you have AI spit out this code, if something goes wrong … don’t you need us to look into it?” they were like, “yeah but what if it can tell you exactly what the code is doing”. I’m like, “but who’s going to understand what it’s saying …?” “no, it can explain the type of problem to anyone”.
I said, I feel like I’m talking to a libertarian right now. Every response seems to be some solution that doesn’t exist.
- Comment on PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit. Actually I completely forgot about that. I really didn’t like his takes on that …
I think he was arguing that it was going to be hugely costly to the developer to keep games running after the fact and how difficult it was going to be. I really wanted to give him a fair shake but it really did feel full of straw man stuff because the stopkillinggames stuff wasn’t really about that.
- Comment on PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games 2 weeks ago:
Oh I dunno, I avoid a lot of drama and just watch his takes on YouTube. Didn’t realize Lemmy really hated this guy (deserved or not).
It’s a shame he reacted that way.
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- Comment on Please choose one 2 weeks ago:
I mean this is a shit post but like Nintendo isn’t really the “tip” type of company or microtransactions type of company.
They’re the milking the shit out of their franchises and keeping premium prices on their games type of company.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if Sam Bankman-Fried is a huge piece of shit. He was like rich as anything and then lost it all. Now he’s trying to curry favour with Trump to get out of jail.
- Comment on Sometimes, it’s the little tech annoyances that sting the most 4 weeks ago:
That’s crazy because there’s no way in the modern day that I’d like to demo anything that hasn’t been tested.
- Comment on DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer buy now, pay later for takeout. 4 weeks ago:
I would say that paying for grocery delivery and cooking it yourself is better. Like, I live in the middle of nowhere, I get it.
- Comment on How much will the uncomfortable truth of a former employee cost Meta? 4 weeks ago:
I can’t remember when it wasn’t a POS company actually.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 4 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s our work the result should belong to the people.
- Comment on those who know 5 weeks ago:
I love when Louis CK tried to get his to say he wasn’t a lizard and you can see Rumsfeld’s media training kick in. It was really funny just having Louis try to break it.
- Comment on Young Americans lose trust in the state 5 weeks ago:
Why would young Americans believe in this system? Trump has thwarted any attempt at justice against him through corruption. The Fox News system is a propaganda machine with barriers to their lying.
I was gonna say that at least the government isn’t rounding them up and shooting them like they did at Penn State but it currently isn’t looking a crazy amount better right now honestly…
- Comment on Brother Says It Was Falsely Accused Of Bricking Printers That Use Cheaper Third-Party Ink Cartridges 5 weeks ago:
I absolutely agree and think misinformation is terrible and disinformation is worse. However, I don’t think he should be held to the same standard as a journalist. He just reads news from other people. He should definitely make sure it’s truthful and factual ahead of time. But I do agree, it’s kind of why we’re in a crap state in the world right now.
Although his apology doesn’t make up for it, he does at least make his apology on his main channel. I have seen other YouTubers make their apologies and such on alternate channels. I also don’t think he makes excuses for it either.
- Comment on Brother Says It Was Falsely Accused Of Bricking Printers That Use Cheaper Third-Party Ink Cartridges 5 weeks ago:
He usually apologises when he’s discovered to be wrong. I know he’s quick to accusations and stuff but he does seem level-headed (to me) overall.
- Comment on Why aren't we all getting rich from compound interest? 1 month ago:
Did you see his Piers Morgan interview?
It would have been easy for Gary to be a class traitor and turned his back on us after making his money and telling us to “work harder” or something like that.
- Submitted 1 month ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
Any reason why we can’t just change the tax code to make this thing less viable? We disincentive things all the time. Like we can carve out exemptions for situations and things I’m sure but like, this shouldn’t be how to run a society.
- Comment on Two dead, nearly 230 sickened in US measles outbreak: authorities 1 month ago:
Where’s the pro-life people now?
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 1 month ago:
I don’t think this is true.
Yeah, it’s why I added a question mark.
I’ve had one friend say because it’s electronic that only Tesla can fix certain things? Maybe I misunderstood maybe they meant that because it’s under warranty where the dealership should be fixing it.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 1 month ago:
I’ve heard mixed stuff, like some people saying it’s plastic and stuff and only serviceable via Tesla if things go wrong?
Others I know have driven it for years and have been happy except the whole Musk shit which leads to your point.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 1 month ago:
Or like the death ray!
(Futurama reference)