reluctant_squidd
@reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing? 2 days ago:
The only problem back then was discovery. Finding the site that could give you what you were looking for wasn’t always easy, then Google came around and not only was it lightning fast, but it actually found things so much easier than Ask Jeeves, msn, AOL or Yahoo.
Then it slowly morphed into the mess we get now from there. AI seems to be making it much worse, not better.
I searched verbatim for something niche and uniquely named the other day. The smaller sites I use to avoid the big tech couldn’t find it, and Google was 3 pages of ads, AI crap and competitors. The site was on page 4.
Ugh.
- Comment on How does code that's meant to fix one bug break other features? 3 days ago:
Your example is for graphics drivers, which are unbelievably complex, not to mention have to be designed to:
A) work in tandem with a crazy amount of different architectures, kernels, hardware setups and dependencies.
B) must reliably manage the demands of millions of complex calculations, monitor throughput and heat dissipation, handle complex and varying game configurations and technologies, all while simultaneously working as seamlessly as possible for us users.
The breaking could be from any one of the above systems and more having any number is issues or changes.
Simplified example: Function #185 requires specific feedback from system hardware output #768, but that output was updated by the another development team for another system driver to give the word “true” or “false” instead of a number indicating the same. Now, if that function is not designed to handle the change gracefully beforehand, then there is a problem. Hour severe the problem is depends on what subsystem of the driver software is affected.
Monitoring system? Maybe not a biggie, the graphing app gets killed or freezes. The actual driver gets the issue? Could be catastrophic failure, where the system freezes or restarts, or corrupts the driver install itself and you need to reinstall previous version. Worse case scenario, it really fails and fries hardware, but that’s rare. Failsafes usually kick in on the hardware side to mitigate that kind of damage.
Now times this by a probable factor of thousands of functions and hundreds of dependencies and you get the idea.
I’m not great at explaining things sometimes, so forgive me if the above doesn’t answer your question.
- Comment on Angry American A.I. Companies Say Chinese competitors are unfairly copying their A.I. systems 3 days ago:
I feel like the world smallest violin somehow isn’t small enough…
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 4 days ago:
It’s like they are trying to fix a train heading for a derailment, by speeding up.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
If capitalism is allowed to continue unchecked and technology advanced to the points you mention, then life will become subscription based.
That’s assuming we, as a species, l even make it that far.
Capitalism = infinite growth, which can only end in disaster at some point, yet here we are.
- Comment on Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it 5 days ago:
Too bad nobody saw this coming…
- Comment on All cells are bastards 1 week ago:
Imagine going through all the trouble of pulling this stunt off, just to find out that the only thing it really did for society is to give it a new meme template.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 1 week ago:
My thoughts/understanding, without Google searching/copy pasting, is that communism is supposed to focus more on the structure of a community and specific ways to allocate duties and rewards to generally better the lives of a subset group of people (Community). Personal wealth and standing coincide with your communal position, while ensuring that the least standing members still have a good minimal quality of life.
Socialism is similar, but focuses more on everyone as a whole. Everything is meant to be setup and geared towards the betterment and equality of all, but in a less structured way. All things are done for the betterment of self and society. Rewards and standing depend on merit and deeds equally. Tangible reward is shared as equally as possible.
I’m not sure if I am conveying my thoughts right here. Is way harder to write out than I expected when I started.
In my mind, communism would be more hierarchical in tangible reward, socialism would be hierarchical in subjective reward. (Think Star Trek).
I am probably way off, so if you want the text book definitions and differences, I’d suggest an online search for such.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Released a... Linux Distro? 1 week ago:
See. The problem with your reply is that it makes sense.
Forgetting my point on why I’m surprised they haven’t tried it.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Released a... Linux Distro? 1 week ago:
That’s because they haven’t acted in good faith yet.
I’m genuinely surprised they haven’t locked out and tried to paywall GitHub already. Maybe the OS market share loss is distracting them?
- Comment on Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds 1 week ago:
You must be looking at a different article. The title even says it, very boldly. Left = decline. Can’t get much more click bait polarized than that.
Look at the quoted wording used:
- likely
- Indications
- May contribute
This is an over dramatization of a coincidental blip found in looking at statistical data. A very far cry from anything remotely factual or definitive.
Just fairy talk that someone decided to try and use as a political tool.
Critical thinking isn’t involved past the study itself.
- Comment on Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds 1 week ago:
More correlation, not causation.
Irish monks who are afraid of spiders have been known also believe in fairies. So spiders are causing them to believe in fairies!!!
None of this has anything to do with beliefs, race, sexual orientation, alien lizard people, moon cycles, ocean currents or tarot card readings.
Smart people have the foresight to see that the world isn’t getting to be a better place. In fact, it is scientifically proven to be getting worse. Scientists have been warning us about it since as early as the 1920s.
Couple that with people educated enough to read actual peer reviewed studies and you have a massive influx of factually educated young people that don’t want to bring new life into a society that seems hell bent on self elimination.
Which is precisely the plot of the movie Idiocracy. But much funnier.
- Comment on Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds 1 week ago:
Just because they correlate political beliefs with the desire not to have kids means nothing. Correlation != Causation.
Have you ever watched the movie Idiocracy? That is more credible than this particular article in my opinion.
- Comment on Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds 1 week ago:
Why does everything have to be left or right? Other than making for snappier headlines and fanning the flames of divisive politics, it’s not helpful.
The headline should read something like: “ Stressed out and future depressed newer generations opting out of building families in world with worsening cost of living crisis “.
I’d wager heavily that it has nothing to do with political views and everything to do with the actual current state of things.
- Comment on Rockstar Games could strike before GTA 6 launches over unionization 1 week ago:
They spelled “Should” wrong.
If they wait, they risk losing any chance of actually negotiating fairly. Assuming they are successful of course.
- Comment on As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’ 1 week ago:
Amen.
- Comment on Panic sweeps across California over proposed billionaire tax - Tech moguls and moderate Democrats are mobilizing their wealth and networks to try to block it 1 week ago:
If they are all against it, it has to be the right move
- Comment on VP Vance Says Watergate Would Now Be 12-Hour News Story and Crazy It Took Down Nixon's Presidency 2 weeks ago:
12 hour? That’s optimistic.
It would be blocked in all major news networks. Might see it on CBC international news in Canada.
There were protests across the US not long ago and you wouldn’t even know by watching the news.
- Comment on Assume You Will Be Hacked: AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. 3 weeks ago:
You should start a service to house peoples gold and keep it secure for a small recurring fee.
- Comment on $130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year 3 weeks ago:
Finally some good news.
- Comment on Is the gripe against AI the same as CGI when first being used? 4 weeks ago:
Not even close.
- Comment on Microsoft admits Game Pass price hike drove away "millions" of subscribers 4 weeks ago:
Capitalism doesn’t understand limits. Whether or not they are there is irrelevant. Only profit gains exist, even when they cause losses.
It applies to all aspects of existence to them. Everything is something to be “leveraged” for growth.
They will use fancy trendy terms like “sustainability”, “net-zero”, “responsible” in an attempt to placate the masses, but deep inside the high level meetings for pretty much all of the fortune-500 corporations and beyond , non of these terms mean squat.
It is a curated maelstrom of ambiguity designed to obfuscate, deflect and thwart any perceived threat to profit.
Until that system is fundamentally dismantled, outlawed and abandoned completely. Things can only get worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Because AI is actually useful in many situations to the individual, but inherently terrible for society as a whole.
- Comment on AI Billionaires Are Starting to Panic 4 weeks ago:
Good.
- Comment on Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 5 weeks ago:
I’m not surprised. Now imagine that level of ai stupid in everything that runs the globe for humanity.
Because that’s what’s coming.
- Comment on Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports 'record quarterly revenue' 1 month ago:
Dummies
- Comment on RIP social media. What comes next is messy. 2 months ago:
It should be renamed to “ad media”. At least everything that isn’t in the fediverse. It’s getting harder and harder to find anything you are looking for in any web based service nowadays.
I’m not even that opposed to ad revenue as a supplement for costs. But these companies are so far into the ad revenue game that they seem to have forgotten why people used their service in the first place.
- Comment on Xbox No Longer Developing Copilot For Consoles 2 months ago:
Translation: We are making it look like we are giving up on this, but really we are just baiting to get you to relax, while we roll out our brand new gaming exclusive AI offering called “Microsoft Gamerbro ^TM^”!!
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 2 months ago:
Because they are one of the few mega companies that hasn’t shrinkflated, enshittified, or otherwise crumbled the quality of their offering. Haven’t sold out the privacy of their customer base to advertising companies, and are generally good to deal with for customers and developers.
It’s not a secret formula that no other company can learn from. It’s as simple as not being dicks IMO.
For some reason, most companies seem to grow too a certain threshold at which they sell their souls to profit and will self destruct to get more of it. Steam thankfully isn’t one of them…… yet.
- Comment on Trump says US Navy will begin Strait of Hormuz blockade after failed talks 2 months ago:
The ultimate bully snowflake grifter madman.
Remember when this guy was just a shit tabloid piece once in a while? The ones that used to be where all the candy is now by the checkout, with shocking news about some b list actors nonsense drama?
Those were the days…