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- Comment on Political discourse 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
Fahrenheit 451
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 2 weeks ago:
As if LinkedIn hasn’t been enough of a toxic wasteland.
- Comment on Please bro 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Obviously the truth duh
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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 2 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!? 2 months ago:
Got a DM from a chill young woman named Nicole right here on Lemmy!
- Comment on (Not so)Smartphone 2 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 2 months ago:
Human music, I like it!
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 2 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 2 months ago:
Might as well give him a fetish over time.
- Comment on RIP Thomas 3 months ago:
Not OP, but I actually downloaded all of my saved posts when I left Reddit with the apicalypse. Maybe I should dig that up and start cooking 🍝
- Comment on HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam 3 months ago:
“The ultimate goal of Google Beam — and it’s manifested on HP Dimension — is to feel like you’re there,” Andrew Nartker, general manager of Google Beam, said during the briefing. “You feel just like you’re there at the table working together … It’s all meant to bring us together and ultimately feel like we’re completely physically present.”
OK but why? There are not a lot scenarios where I would need or even want to spawn a hologram of a single coworker. Looks a little gimmicky to me.
- Comment on If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA? 3 months ago:
I think you are mixing this up with the function of the executive goverment in a state with alleged separation of powers (one of the fundamentals of democracy).
A president himself sending out forces is in fact not normal.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 months ago:
AI is the “most aggressive” example of “technologies that are not done ‘for us’ but ‘to us.’”
Well said.
- Comment on Juan 4 months ago:
Isn’t that the horse from Horsin’ Around?
- Comment on What's the next stop on the authoritarianism express? 5 months ago:
It’s terrifying to see it visualized like that.
- Comment on Latent Space Super-Resolution for Higher-Resolution Image Generation with Diffusion Models 5 months ago:
So this is what they use in crime shows when they zoom in 100x on some potato cam footage from a bodega 🤔
- Comment on Day 246 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 6 months ago:
Favourite Far Cry 2 and 3 are the best of the bunch imho
- Comment on Localthunk quells AI art civil war started by Balatro erotica subreddit mod 6 months ago:
“news that will get you banished from society if you try to explain it to anyone who doesn’t live on the internet”
