BurningRiver

@BurningRiver@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if this is relevant, but I deal a lot with MS support in my role at work. There is some built in AI that you need to go through in order to open a support case, and it’s about 85% useless, and also has a caveat at the end that says “AI provided information may be incorrect”. However, there are cases where it’s useful, and I don’t have to deal with a human who copies and pastes a novel in their email to tell me they’re working on it.

  Ive had cancellations processed after product upgrades and it went through in less than a day, and I didn’t have to read 5 paragraphs of bullshit canned script from a human. So it’s not all bad, I guess.

  That’s the extent to which I use AI for work. I can’t imagine another use case where I wouldn’t have to double check everything, and if I have to do that, I may as well just do it myeself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find this funny because this

  My main concern is that this tech is not 100% accurate. I feel like it shouldn’t be used on its own.

  Is generally the least of their concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda lands a rocket as it pursues re-usable launchers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  $ASTS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Trump Administration Ignored Advice When Installing Starlink at the White House⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowing the absolute cabbages walking around that place, it’s probably a WiFi pineapple that will accept any password and is just intercepting all of the traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP FaceID, Hello Palm Recognition: How Veins In Your Palm Are The Next Biometric Boom - Yanko Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The young lady with the uzi…Is she single?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Without spoiling the show, get up to date with the show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s about a zero percent chance that 5 year old console components cost more today than they did 5 years ago.

  Things like that don’t get more expensive, they get cheaper as new tech develops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many will consider this a cost-cutting step too far, but the interior was designed for ease of upgrading, with easy mounting space for anything from a simple soundbar to a full sound system.

  This isn’t for everyone, but if it’s easily accessible, I’d have no problem installing a basic CarPlay head unit and speakers in an afternoon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ain't your buddy, pal!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most glaring thing I saw too. I lived a large chunk of my life in So Cal and everyone was bro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Walking Dead. There was a season premiere where Negan became more prominent and just kills off a main character and there was no point to it. That’s when I shut it off mid episode and never watched it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV series have the best intros? What TV series have the worst intros?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Peacemaker. It’s so corny, but it makes me laugh and I couldn’t ever skip it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crysis 4 is on hold as developer Crytek announces layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is pretty damn good imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donuts are good for you⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna say that my mutt rescue puppy disproves this theory 100%, since he can flip his head straight up and chomp on my arm in like half a second flat. Fuckface murdermouth has a three axis neck.

  But god damn he’s a good looking dog and I really like him most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's December, what are your favorite Christmas movies?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • Scrooged
  • Bad Santa
  • A Christmas Story
  • Elf
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  will eventually

  You’re looking for “may eventually”. We’re not anywhere near this so using it as a current argument is rather silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Shit⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  your bowel is wider than your asshole

  imagining a nurse using the word “asshole” to explain it to a regular person is just hilarious to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mobin' Time⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You kind of have to accept it, the teachers write the tests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s got about 3-4 billion years left in the tank, if I remember reading correctly. It won’t be humanity’s problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a transaction cost to processing the sale, hosting the giant download and then issuing the refund. If people organized and manipulated the system and this became a financial burden, then the policy would almost certainly change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  About it being completely arbitrary and anti-consumer? It 100% is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony has a horrific track record of data breaches. They’re collecting and selling data about you for profit. I place that bar higher than this.

  For my own personal amusement, what else would they have to do to meet the level your personal anti-consumer bar is set at?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually a fantastic idea. How long will it take Valve to threaten account bans for doing it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I scrolled down specifically looking for a KSP comment, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the secret recipe⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m usually that person as well. BG3 was the first game in probably 8 years that hooked me on the story. If I sprinted through it, I would have probably saved like 80% of the time I spent playing it, but I enjoyed it. Maybe I’m simple, but to me it felt like the decisions mattered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously the way to combat this is to organize dozens or more people who just walk around, load up shopping carts, then leave the store without buying anything. They can pay people to put everything back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immigrants Are Becoming U.S. Citizens at Fastest Clip in Years: The government has reduced a backlog of applications that built up during the Trump administration. New citizens look forward to voting⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great to destroy societies to win an election, is there enough housing, jobs, etc?

  You start with a bad faith argument, and anyone is supposed to take you seriously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The government made 25% of my district unemployed, why didn’t I get reelected?”

  Ask it from that side and you have your answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That whole mindset is weird to me. I’m in my mid 40s and just got hired on as a team lead for a bunch of kids who are fresh out of college. They’re exactly where I am when I started and I’m excited to share my 20 years of experience and mentor them.

  They wanted to hire me on as their supervisor but I made it clear that the extra couple grand a year for that headache didn’t interest me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll bring the magnet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you trust whatever AI you use, implicitly? I already know the answer, but I really want to hear people say it. These AI hype men are seriously promising us capabilities that may appear down the road, without actually demonstrating use cases that are relevant today. “Some day it will do this, or that”. Enough already, it’s bullshit.