BrianTheeBiscuiteer
@BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
- Comment on The people who clean up your TikTok feed are starting to fight back 2 hours ago:
Maybe we should start posting violence-sandwich videos. Decapitation followed by Union advocacy followed by disembowelment?
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 4 days ago:
Most of this money was also “allocated” but not really spent. So at least to Bidens credit money wasn’t thrown away, it just sat there not doing what it was supposed to do.
- Comment on The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More 1 week ago:
What’s the point of that? Don’t soldiers work alongside civilian contractors all the time?
- Comment on The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More 1 week ago:
The tech reservists will serve for around 120 hours a year. Because of their private-sector status, each will carry the rank of lieutenant colonel.
There will be other dispensations for the technology officers. They will have more flexibility than the average reservist to work remotely and asynchronously, and will be spared basic training.
This pisses me off so much and I hope it makes the military livid too. Most people put their heart and soul into the work they do in basic training and officer training and even break into tears when they receive their new rank. These assholes are gonna take a fitness test and become officers?!?
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 2 weeks ago:
Too many people forget that specialized, purpose-driven software is often if more effective and efficient. LLMs and other AI are nice when you don’t have a properly defined spec or a flexible algorithm but you pay, literally, for the convenience.
- Comment on Trump signs orders to bolster US drone defenses, boost supersonic flight 2 weeks ago:
I guarantee he heard “supersonic” and thought, “Wow! That sounds really cool. We gotta get more of that.”
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 2 weeks ago:
They think he’s a tech god because he has money to burn, knows how to make himself look smart, knows how to slave drive, and knows how to cut corners without pissing off the wrong people.
- Comment on iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original 2 weeks ago:
Hope the drift issue is fixed. Ran into the issue with two of mine. The paper under the joystick hack didn’t work and one of the brand new replacement joysticks I installed isn’t responsive. 🙄
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
Glance says it will retain the biometric data used to create your digital avatar for 12 months from your last interaction with the service or until you manually delete your account. The company claims that your images won’t be used for any other purpose or shared with third parties without your consent.
Thousands of pictures of regular people’s faces, not just professional models, is valuable data. They’re definitely selling that shit or using it for their own AI training.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
I do have concerns about this but it’s really all about the usage, not the AI itself. Would the AI version be the only version allowed? Would the summaries get created on the fly for every visitor? Would edits to an AI summary be allowed? Would this get applied to and alter existing summaries?
I’m totally fine with LLMs and AI as a stop-gap for missing info or a way to coach or critique a human-written summary, but generally I haven’t seen good results when AI is allowed to do its thing without a human reviewing or guiding the outputs.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s a result of Wikipedia trying to be more of an “online encyclopedia” vs a digital information hub or learning resource. I don’t think it’s a problem on its own but I do think there should be a simplified version of every article.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 3 weeks ago:
That’s part of the reason Teslas are not well-suited for this. One camera, each direction, with no other sensors to help make decisions, is a really bad way to ensure safety.
Humans normally have two “front facing cameras” (i.e. two eyes) so we have depth perception. We also process light differently than cameras do so infrared light (for one) doesn’t affect our decisions. We also have ears so the sound of a loud motorcycle engine tips us off if we just see a spec in the distance. We also use context clues to help our decisions, like if other drivers change lanes quickly we are extra observant of road obstacles.
Not that technology can never be as good as a human at driving, but we use a lot more than a single “moving picture” to decide what we should do.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
And because we’re all represented by corpses they can’t be bothered to use AI tools to cross check the bullshit being thrown their way.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 4 weeks ago:
I think at most of the disdain comes from the business side. Sure I can opt out of AI at home but at work I’m constantly getting asked how AI has helped my productivity and potentially “graded” on how much or how effectively I use it. Business doesn’t care about your personal fulfillment, just your productivity, and if they grind you into dust to w acchere you no longer find any joy or motivation in your work they’ll get the next college graduate that’s already used AI for 80% of their assignments and wonder why quality has tanked, integrations are failing, security breaches are up, and energy costs have doubled.
A coworker that regularly uses AI code assistants asked me to review 78 brand new files he made. That really puts my back against the wall. Do I spend a day going through everything “the old way”? Do I ask AI to summarize each function to bridge the gap in knowledge? Do I ask it, file by file, if it sees any issues? Or do I just rubber stamp it because I should the million-dollar product my boss thinks I should use more than Google or official docs?
- Comment on Putin’s dream of a state-controlled internet is becoming a reality 4 weeks ago:
Controlling the Internet this way is brilliant from an authoritarian standpoint. To have a revolution you need motivation and communication. Can’t be motivated to change your government if you’re not informed and you can’t organize in great enough numbers if you can’t communicate. Take note America.
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 5 weeks ago:
These are a good alternative to RPis. Just be aware some of these are sort of haphazardly assembled so they might have cooling issues or bad power supplies.
- Comment on Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers 5 weeks ago:
This should be cause for contempt. This isn’t much worse, IMO, than a legal briefing mentioning, “as affirmed in the case of Pee-pee v.s Poo-poo.” They’re basically taking a shit on the process by not verifying their arguments.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 weeks ago:
My kids have missed it more than me (which I don’t) but they’re easy to distract with one of the other streaming services I still have. The last price hike did it for me.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 month ago:
I want to drive one into a brick wall. Not with me in it or anything. I figure I could do it just by setting it to auto-drive into a painting of a tunnel Looney Tunes style.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 1 month ago:
Online pregnancy test
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 1 month ago:
Sentencing is still part of the carriage of justice. Fake statements like this should not be allowed until after all verdicts and punishments are decided.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 1 month ago:
“I loved that AI, and thank you for that…” Lang said immediately before sentencing Horcasitas.
I hope they win that appeal an get a new sentencing or a new trial even. That sounds like a horrible misuse of someone’s likeness. Even if my family used a direct quote from me I’d be PISSED if they recreated my face and voice without my permission.
- Comment on ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks 1 month ago:
Great features poorly implemented. It’s incredibly easy to make poorly optimized forms that basically end up DDoSing itself.
- Comment on ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks 1 month ago:
ServiceNow, for one, is a platform as a service that handles trouble tickets, CMDB, and some general automation. Most people at my company that use it really hate it but management busts a nut over things like this.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month ago:
I tutored my wife in Trigonometry, which I fucking hate and have never gotten more than a C in, and she got an A. She also hates trig and math in general. It’s basically a measure of whose memory and work ethic is best.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 month ago:
My 11" netbook is my favorite portable PC I own. A bit slow but rock solid and about as heavy as a tablet.
- Comment on U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly 1 month ago:
Obscenely large donation incoming in 5… 4…
- Comment on Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Just speaking for the windows team at my own company, they’re arguably less modernized that are mainframe team.
- Comment on Google is shaking up its compensation to incentivize higher performance 1 month ago:
My employer did basically this and it’s really only used for nickel and diming employees. At best you get 100% of what you would’ve been due, but you probably end up getting 95% of it. So while you might miss out on a couple hundred dollars the company saved millions by doing this across the board.
- Comment on Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Linux: You’re using passwords? As your only authentication method? Eww! Whyyyyy???