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- Comment on 2 days ago:
Haven’t watched it either, but it’s a great list. I’d add the embracing of AI slop to it.
- Comment on Got invited to THIS party. Seems to be a new trend of celebrating first times in your life 5 days ago:
I love that the people here take AI slop seriously. It might be a long way from this to shrimp Jesus or whatever else the fuck is going on e.g. at facebook for now, but I’m afraid the ignorance / acceptance as well as the inability to tell the difference will rise gradually.
- Comment on tiktok users are making videos on... class conciousness?!! 1 week ago:
inb4 being shadowbanned
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 weeks ago:
The next thing will be: I can’t toggle my AC because AWS is down.
- Comment on Sad but true 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the hate for that guy in particular. Not judging the content, but the stuff he writes is clearly readable. There are definitely worse lunatics around here.
- Comment on Hide modal for 2 weeks 3 weeks ago:
It’s a tale as old as software development itself: Fuck around with your license, find out by getting replaced by a fork.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t know that. I would have guessed the reason is to save battery or stop annoying people when it isn’t in reach / you can’t turn it off.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
If OP were interested in learning about tech at the same time, they could research an easy way to call the controller API with a simple button / toggle in a project, possibly writing their own controller-to-vibrator App, e.g. in Godot.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There is obviously a lot to unpack here, most of it is just plain gibberish. The best option here, as always, is to ask him directly.
Pro: Fresh white bread can be very delicious. It is soft and fluffy, and depending on the freshness even still warm, which are all really nice things to be associated with imho. It is also versatile, as it can be crafted to e.g. a list of delicious sandwiches. The focus on the whiteness of the bread may be in remembrance to a time when paleness was a female beauty standard.
Contra: It is not the healthiest choice of breads, but not a lot of wheat products are. If I’m not mistaken, it could also be a slur for people with a light skin tone.
- Comment on Political discourse 1 month ago:
Regardless of online / offline, this can be attributed to a method of gaining and maintaining political power called divide and conquer.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 month ago:
Now that I think about it, that has been one of my two blanket explanations for rich people being assholes.
The other one being the mix-up of correlation and causation (or even just the direction of causation). Money arguably does make you a worse person, but also being a bad person usually can make you a lot of money in the first place.
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 1 month ago:
Sure, why not
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 month ago:
Could as well be the case. Would fit to the general theme of the series lol.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 month ago:
Can someone find an excuse for how this behaviour is not just extremely short sighted and just plain stupid? Never heard of the guy before, but he seems to behave like a petty little child throwing a tantrum for something that is obviously his or some of his near colleagues fault. Comparable level of stupidity to “Do you guys not have phones?” lol.
I think they would be better of by just ignoring or at least appeasing the crowd with something.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 1 month ago:
Fahrenheit 451
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 1 month ago:
As if LinkedIn hasn’t been enough of a toxic wasteland.
- Comment on Please bro 2 months ago:
Doesn’t matter if the tool is good enough to analyze and influence peoples behaviour the way it does. Any autocrats wet dream.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 2 months ago:
Great, another one to stress about!
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 2 months ago:
We will probably do at least experimental forms of geoengineering the next years as well. Also those super volcanoes that should have blown up couple hundred years ago will hide the sun for some years once they pop. Also also, fucking with the climate (or trying to save it) could become some kind of climate warfare in the near future as well I guess. Good times ahead!
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 2 months ago:
Remember when they told you a google query uses the power of a light bulb burning for an hour? We’ve come to a full circle guys.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 2 months ago:
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 months ago:
A lot of younger folks in IT, like myself, have been on the brink of exhaustion since 2022.
Sure, there was the “obsoletion” of PHP, Java, plain JS, etc. before, in favor of one of the JS frameworks that get released every other day, etc.
But this one feels different. They are trying to sell you the idea of everything related to sw development and programming will get “outsourced” to a computer. The problem is, LLMs can’t do the necessary thinking to build resilient systems as they can’t “think”, neither effective nor efficient. They can be great tools when used the right way, but that’s about it.
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 2 months ago:
Obviously the truth duh
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Nothing a good ol’ plowing and seeding won’t fix… No wait
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 3 months ago:
You absolutely want your accounting software to be entirely deterministic.
This always bugs me with all the use cases LLMs get shoehorned into. Letting these do anything unsupervised is literally begging for chaos to happen.
- Comment on Where to find a girlfriend like her!? 3 months ago:
Got a DM from a chill young woman named Nicole right here on Lemmy!
- Comment on (Not so)Smartphone 4 months ago:
Didn’t know they removed the toggle. This supports the hypothesis that they plan to remove every physical button and connector / port (which they can’t, at least for the EU version).
Maybe they recognized that most people just leave their phone on silent forever.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 4 months ago:
Human music, I like it!
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 4 months ago:
I recently watched a (german) video about the exact development of McDonalds depicted in the meme and it made me realize how much of the experience had been catered towards children and how i felt when i was there more often (or at all) when i was younger.
- Comment on Good boy 4 months ago:
Might as well give him a fetish over time.
