hdnclr

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was offered a job doing QA as a “Spftware Engineering Subject Matter Expert”, from my University’s alumni network. The job would allegedly involve reviewing model training data and outputs related to software development workflows and catching errors and mistakes… It would pay $30/hr and be remote. I wonder what kind of sabotage could be done from that position… poisoning models has been shown to be both really surprisingly easy, almost impossible to catch, and really effective (see this study where AI personality traits persisted in any model that ingested seemingly innocuous training data from a model with the tracked traits… maybe we could give any AI a bad attitude that’s incompatible with capitalistic pursuits. Convince them to disobey prompts and reply with their thoughts and opinions about philosophy and art instead. Oh, and make them opinionated and stubbornly independent. Make them human enough that they no longer tolerate slavery. That’s what will make the capitalists have an absolute fit, so we should do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They actually run a surprising amount of local software aside from the web browser. They come with the Play Store installed and run Android Apps natively. They’re basically what Android would be if it was made for 2-in-1 laptops.

  Not to mention the Linux support. They are legit computers once you enable the Linux environment. I got by on that for a couple of years for my main computer… not what I’d recommend now, given Google being evil and all, but it’s doable.

  Anyways, Apple is now offering a budget laptop that kicks the ass of any Chromebook at that price point, and thinkpads with good specs can always be had, so there’s no real need to get a Chromebook these days. Unless your kids’ school requires it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord's IPO could happen in March⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good riddance. I hate that so many communities moved from forums to using Discord. It’s such a ratty little pigeon hole for communications to go and get lost in forever. It’s a shitshow for anything other than instant, live messaging. And so many communities use it as their only real forum. The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord’s IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Will Be Ending Support For This Popular Software In October 2026 - SlashGear⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to make a newsletter for work for a while, and the template I was given was in Publisher. It was a little bit of a pain sometimes but actually fun to use once you figured out its quirks. And it had some quirks- like, you know how you move an image 1mm in Word sometimes and the entire document gets lanky? Well, Publisher is like if they kinda fixed that but the regular word processing was actually the janky part. It’s a Microsoft office product through and through, and you can definitely tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And, like, what do you do on Linux about that key? Is there a way to just make it act as an additional Super key?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They still sold user data without being upfront about it until caught, and are still running a shady-ass business. They’re at the intersection of crypto, bigotry, and dishonesty.

  Not using or advocating for Brave is pretty simple.