rayquetzalcoatl
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Fortune] Nvidia CEO says the company is in a no-win situation amid AI-bubble chatter, leaked meeting reveals 1 week ago:
I’m stupid, for sure, and don’t understand how the economy works.
It just seems very unfair to me that because a bunch of other people reckoned that AI was going to make them very rich, the next five to ten years will be a deep deep recession and my life will become much harder.
I never bought into the chatbot hype. Why should I suffer?
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 1 week ago:
Very true, you’re right.
It’s just that the sort of “depth” and “breadth” of the tracking has evolved, as well as the ways marketers use that information.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 1 week ago:
That’s sort of what I’m saying, though; I would have thought this would have been a violation of the consent rules in the gdpr
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 1 week ago:
I actually do think I’ve seen variations in this wording over the course of a few months. I’m going to go digging around sites I think are probably less scrupulous to see if I can find examples.
Boom, gotcha. First absolute rag that came to mind. Check it!
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 1 week ago:
A lot of news sites! Let me see if I can find one.
I’m pretty sure I saw it on Autosport earlier today. Just opened it in Chrome (ew) – see screenshot!
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 1 week ago:
I love the way companies simply refuse to not track us. You guys seen those cookie popups that are like “accept and continue” or “reject and pay” where you have to actually pay to reject cookies? I cannot believe that’s legal at all. Total scumbags.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 week ago:
You’re right that’s exactly the same as replacing one grouping of two letters mate
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 week ago:
What’s the exhibit? Telling someone else to stop whining? 😂
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 week ago:
If you really don’t give non-native speakers of English enough credit to use context and their current understanding of the language to learn one more letter, I think that’s pretty exclusionary. People who don’t speak English as a first language aren’t stupid, mate.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 week ago:
I’ve never used it. Jesus man stop whining, you already don’t read the comments like you’ve said. I swear sometimes it seems like people online just desperately need something to moan about.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve got used to it. It’s not a hard substitution to make, and even if it does take you a little longer to read the comments I guess I don’t see the problem. I’m not in a rush to read online comments, and if I was in a rush I wouldn’t be reading online comments 🤷♂️
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 week ago:
Personally I find it a bit weird how much hate this person gets. We can all read it as a ‘th’, and it’s harmless for them to use that character. It’s genuinely just not a problem at all, and if anything is a quirky little thing that you occasionally see in comments. Who cares?
- Comment on EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead 1 week ago:
I wonder if they’ve figured out that because they just release essentially the same game every year (for this franchise and other sports franchises like FIFA) with different content, it’ll be cheaper for them to just basically sell a patch?
Just read the article to confirm - yup, it’s a paid “expansion”. God, that’s so funny.
- Comment on What's the name of this 80s song sang by a solo female singer? I only remember her saying "nothing really maaaa-tters" or "nothing truly maaaatt-ers". Has a vibe like I Feel For You by Chaka Kahn 2 weeks ago:
Why even bother spamming this comment section with a lazy copy/paste like this? You don’t got no brain to think for yourself or something man?
- Comment on Anon gets a pay raise 2 weeks ago:
It’s not for “no reason” buddy. How else is my landlord and their family gonna eat if I don’t put food on their table?
And they deserve the very best, and they know I definitely can’t afford to buy that for them (as much as I would love to), which is why they kindly and cleverly have put together a grassroots community effort and in a way “crowdfunded” their own lavish lifestyle by purchasing literally dozens of properties and jacking up the rent every year by hundreds of dollars a month. It’s all a community thing!
They live in a mansion. I’ve seen their house. They have a fucking pool.
- Comment on Anon gets a pay raise 2 weeks ago:
Lol, as well as all the groceries going up in price, my rat fuck landlord upped the rent by $130USD per month.
I had to push back on my employer at my annual review and ask for a bigger raise. I got the bigger raise. It still leaves me about $8 worse off just in terms of the rent per month.
What a stupid, stupid fucking system.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 weeks ago:
I usually choose to have a podcast or music on, but sometimes it’s really nice to just appreciate my surroundings. I like to hear birdsong, or the wind, the rain. Even cars passing. It’s nice to be grounded in the world.
Even when I have music, I spend most of my time when I walk (which is a lot) not looking down at the ground. I look around, and I try to appreciate the little things. The other day, I noticed a really, really polished front door on a house I was walking past. The wood was so bright red and all of the metal was this gleaming silver, it was really striking! There are wild parakeets in the city I live in, so getting the chance to see these beautiful green birds swoop overhead is a treat, too. Where I live is quite hilly, so getting to see what I think are beautiful views of the urban sprawl interspersed with big tree plumages in the green spaces is pleasant, too. Sometimes it’s quite imposing, it’s not always a pretty and cheery sight, but it’s always beautiful.
When I don’t have music or podcasts playing, I feel like I can appreciate those sights a bit more. Picking up on snippets of other people’s lives is interesting, and I find my mood is easier regulated when I just ground myself in the world around me rather than disappearing up into my head with the podcast or music playing. If I have sound on that I focus on, I’ll often not really remember my walking to and from work, but if I’m just experiencing the world, I’ll usually find something memorable. I find that slowing down and taking the time away from tech has been nice for me, sometimes.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 3 weeks ago:
Oh. Gross.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, notorious bastard company obviously fires a bunch of employees for wanting to unionise to protect themselves from notorious bastard management, gets backlash, and then says “no, they were actually a bunch of very naughty employees! if you’re not a naughty employee, you’ve got nothing to fear” yeah fuckin right
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, we definitely have bots. Robofuckers can’t keep their grubby little fingers off the rest of us humans. There’s also a lot of people who generate AI imagery and spam it everywhere. It’s pretty disgusting, but that’s just the modern internet. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 1 month ago:
The Witch is SO good. I’ve actually never seen First Blood. Great shout.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 1 month ago:
I actually got out to see Aliens at the cinema lately and it was fuckin awesome. I have a few films I want to watch! Any recommendations tho?
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 1 month ago:
It’s not a proof of concept, or an MVP - I’m saying it’s what is given to the client as a full, finished solution.
What I’m saying is that the “this was built by AI!” effect is so strong that copy/pasting ChatGPT results together with no forethought or understanding is miserable and brings only technical debt - but that that’s irrelevant to management, because they’re impressed by the robot and don’t want to “fall behind” other agencies.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 1 month ago:
That is not what I’m saying - the situation I’m describing is the situation I’m currently in: I work for a small web agency, we have the agency owner, the project manager, and the development lead as our “management”.
A client asks for something, the agency owner says yes, and then the development lead cobbles something together over the course of a few hours with results from ChatGPT or Claude.
The thing works, but only for that specific request and cannot handle edge cases, and he doesn’t know how it works nor how to extend it, so he cobbles on more ChatGPT or Claude results.
The management team love it, but it’s just mountains of technical debt piling up.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 1 month ago:
I see what you’re saying, but I’m not talking about proof of concepts. I’m talking about “fully fledged” Frankenstein apps that get cobbled together by cowboys. Documentation written by ChatGPT that is full of hallucinations. Managers love that stuff because the thing they’ve asked for works but nothing outside of that one thing works, which doesn’t matter because they’re not testing it.
I’m not talking about small proof of concepts. I was referring to myself in a professional capacity as a developer; I’ve been a web developer full time since 2015.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 1 month ago:
I’m so sick of hearing about AI. I’ve been struggling with the concept that “authenticity” seems to be completely irrelevant to a lot of people lately. I’m a developer and have been for 10+ years at this point, and am struggling to understand why I would stay in this field.
When I get down, I start to question if there’s any point in learning anything. I started up a side project with somebody I respected in a niche hobby space and have been using that to learn a new framework, but I’m rapidly feeling like it’s pointless to bother learning when you can badly cobble something together with a chatbot and the managers of the world will ejaculate themselves dry about how good robots are, even when the bloody thing barely functions.
It seems that a lot of people don’t give a shit if something is actually made by humans. Those same people don’t seem to value the hard work it takes to make something. I feel like I’m having a hard time fitting in at the moment.
- Comment on those of you with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace, what advice can you give me? 1 month ago:
I would suggest breathing and taking time to respond if you need to respond at all. I’d also, genuinely (and I’m not trying to say anything about you here) try to check in with your internal monologue.
If you want to effectively resolve conflicts, you have to make people feel like you’re listening to them even if you disagree, and even if you think they’re inane or annoying or stupid. In my experience, to make people feel like you’re hearing what they’re saying and not just being dismissive (being dismissive absolutely will antagonise people), I have to make an effort to try to empathise, try to understand where they’re coming from, and try to be charitable.
To me, just picking up on terms in your post like “Karen”, and “snippy”, it feels like you’re dismissing this person - which I totally get. You’re not going to resolve conflicts that way, if you’re trying to resolve this particular conflict. It’s not possible to resolve every conflict, and some people simply will not engage with your attempts to work things out and will shout you down and try to trample you, but if you want a resolution you have to be willing to try.
Aside from that, yeah, walking away from your colleague I can see them feeling a bit abandoned by that. You’re totally allowed to just stand there quietly in support - in fact, some people may even feel threatened if you try to interject as it’ll then be two against one, and that might escalate things.
Anyway, good that you’re asking, and good luck! Remember, you’re allowed to take time to respond. It’s better for you to breathe and calm yourself if you feel nervous during conflict, rather than leaping to reply and listening to any kind of nervous, defensive reaction. Take time, slow down, and breathe. It’s normal to feel nervous and uncomfortable and upset when facing conflict. ✌️
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 1 month ago:
Ubisoft? The notorious video game publisher that had several high-up members of staff accused of sexual and psychological harassment?
Ubisoft? The company described in a lawsuit filed by employees in 2021 as ‘a legal entity for institutional sexual harassment for setting up, maintaining and reinforcing a system where sexual harassment is tolerated because it is more profitable for the company to keep harassers in place than to protect its employees’?
That Ubisoft? They cancelled a game? Oh no :(
- Comment on I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then? 2 months ago:
I walk a lot. Even in that much lower speed, much lower stakes situation, I can tell you that eating/drinking is completely fine but give somebody a phone and they turn into a blind moron with no concept of other people. Even I’m guilty of it, if I’m trying to skip ads on a podcast or something and I absent-mindedly look down at my phone without getting out of the way and stopping first, by the time I look up I’ll have travelled much further than I thought and have been surprised by people popping out of alleyways or crossing roads etc who are now in front of me.
The number of times I’ve seen people physically walk into lampposts, other people, or just slowly sway side to side on the pavement, taking the whole thing up, while they dick around on their phones… People get out of elevators or up stairs and immediately stop and pull out their phones, blocking the exit for everyone else.
You can’t use a phone and do anything else at the same time unfortunately.
- Comment on Anon knows suffering 2 months ago:
Yeah I guess we all have I was just saying… He likes them young innit
