BrianTheeBiscuiteer

@BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. And they basically jizz their pants when they see a practical use for AI, but 9 out of 10 times there’s already a cheaper and more reliable solution they won’t even entertain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I try to get it to do more than predict the next two lines of code it’s gonna fuck something up. A nervously laughable thing I saw at work was someone using a long spec file to generate a series of other files and getting high praise for it. It was the equivalent of mustache templates but slower and with a 30% chance of spitting out garbage. There was also no way to verify if you were in that 30% zone without looking through the dozens of files it made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethical alternatives to Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I once heard that artists get more money from merch than plays or record sales (per dollar spent). If you want to support them buy a tshirt or something from their official site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Don’t Patronize Us’: Data Center Charm Offensive Irks Opponents in Rural Georgia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s sufficient water and land you can put a data center anywhere. If you’re going to screw over the locals somehow it’s better to do it in a place that’s relatively poor with no real power to fight back against the pollution, utility increases, and noise that follow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they get home and have chosen to do some distro hopping over the weekends

  Gotta get that Microstank off. Respect. ✊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From Fedora 42? Sounds like a downgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I convert my files to avoid transcoding but my Raspberry Pi 4B handles Jellyfin just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you give it 3-4 requirements (e.g. prefer constants, use ternaries when possible) and after a couple replies it forgets a requirement, you set it straight, then it immediately forgets another requirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no desire to see it myself. I was on the fence about reporting a still shot I saw on IG. Don’t suppress but don’t advertise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S Senators call on ICE to halt use of facial recognition as surveillance powers grow⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What stops this tech from being used against US citizens for state-sponsored terror activities? It sure as hell ain’t the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do parents not exist anymore?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨emergency remote access⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if it isn’t an OpenWRT router if you have a hardwired server it can probably do a soft reset of the router or even modem (most modems I’ve used have had a web interface). If your router is in such a bad state it only responds to a hard reset it’s probably reaching EoL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a bad idea but the biggest challenge will probably be determining who needs to be sued for non-compliance. Google might not be hiding the origin of its bots now but that could easily change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How much research has their been done on these age verification companies and state officials income? I’d be amazed if there weren’t kick backs happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And if/when it eliminates all crime it will just lobby to make more things illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex got hacked.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Easiest decision to delete an account I’ve ever made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So weird. I don’t even remember viewing that article. Maybe it was a link just above my address bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Found an article that says this software is usually in-memory only and restarting regularly will purge it (obviously you could get reinfected): zdnet.com/…/is-meta-secretly-scanning-your-phones…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your sick child is weakening our nation.

  - Nazis, all of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, boy, you must be new here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously though. We’ll legislate anything to keep them from seeing stuff they might reasonably expect to see and do one day and glorify things nobody should ever see or experience in person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 50 news websites in the US in July: BBC drops five places as paywall introduced; Most report traffic declines.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll say it again. Stop tracking me and I’ll look at your ads. I look at physical mailers, like I literally look through them, more than I look at Internet ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reply was a much more biased take than the article itself. I asked chatgpt myself and it gave a much more analytical review of the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like such a double head fake. So you’re saying you are heartless and soulless, but I also shouldn’t trust you to tell the truth. 😵‍💫

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are real productivity gains to be had but the vast majority are probably leaning into the idea of replacing people too much. It helps me do my job but I’m still the decision maker and I need to review the outputs. I’m still accountable for what AI gives me so I’m not willing to blindly pass that stuff forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not the hottest of markets right now (not just because of Trump and company) and I was in a similar boat when I graduated. My first job was Best Buy (not Geek Squad unfortunately) then tech support then a reporting analyst. Took probably 4 years for me to get into a job where coding was the main aspect.

  That being said, I feel bad for any new graduate except for maybe lawyers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The Internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Making TLDs for restricted content (.adu or .xxx) would be a super easy way to filter sites as well. To me it’s like putting Playboys or whatever at the top of the rack with an opaque plastic – nothing is physically stopping kids from getting to it except gross negligence from every adult in the vicinity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel collapsing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the overall risk of investing in a single company is still too much right now, but I’ll be damned if I’m not regretting the timing of selling my shares. I made a big profit either way but dang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t have many but I’m pulling all my repos from GitHub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But taxes don’t come out of the blue, there’s a tax code. This sounds like someone in the Trump admin just negotiated a quid pro quo agreement.