SuspciousCarrot78
@SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 week ago:
Hope it helped.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 week ago:
I don’t think people hate AI per se - they hate big tech, and what big tech is doing with it. That’s a legitimate gripe, but it’s not the same thing as the technology being bad.
AI used well can be genuinely useful. I’ve dropped a couple of examples in other threads I won’t rehash here, but the short version is: there are real world uses for this tech (world modelling, medicine, robotics).
Hell I built clinical notes pipeline that takes the tedium of charting from 15-20 mins down to about 3, with a policy gate that rejects LLM output before it ever reaches me if it fails criteria I defined. None that looks anything like the slop-firehose corporate rollout most people are reacting to.
lemmy.world/post/42920187/22058968
lemmy.world/post/44188294/22635793
Worth noting too: taking a black-and-white position on anything is just less cognitively expensive than arriving at a nuanced one. That’s not a character flaw, that’s called “being human”. But that doesn’t mean the nuanced position is wrong.
PS: The electricity/water data centre stuff is maybe more complicated than the headline takes suggest. This might be worth actually reading before treating it as settled.
blog.andymasley.com/…/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversat…
YMMV and ICBW
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
I don’t know. You (as an American) are in a better place to judge that than I.
What I do know is this: people are people. And for every rotten son of a bitch, there’s someone else, quietly, moving heaven and earth to do good - both in big ways and small. If we’re going to tilt at windmills, we may as well tilt at windmills together.
- Comment on Anon has anxiety 2 weeks ago:
^that.
…Also worth pointing out: caffeine gets added to a lot of analgesic meds. So it’s very possible to have a background caffeine load and not even realize it, whether that’s from taking a couple of caffeine-containing painkillers or eating dark chocolate.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
^ this
Reddit has converged on that as the recipe for success. There’s even a book on it
jacobdesforges.com/you-should-quit-reddit-publish…
Karma, like buttons, up-arrows etc are all the same slot machine. I stand by my “yeet into garbage pile of history” comment, and so do (some) of the people responsible for it.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
Aww. Can we be luxury gay space communists then?
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I had my run in with anti-ai folks already. Probably we’re talking about the same “lobster”, non?
Wrt insane troll logic: I have on old friend who made a good distinction. “The difference between a glutton for punishment and a gourmand for punishment is that the latter can eat garbage and transmute it into energy.”
I dunno if he was right, but it does remind me to go outside, touch grass and wrestle with my kids from time to time.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
I mean…that’s just Tuesday on the internet in 2026. Sadly.
“Wrong noises” is a good framing. But it can be good too, in enforcing careful posting discipline (ala “belt and suspenders” - cross your t’s and dot you i’s).
It’s sad that we have to assume defensive posture as s.o.p…but yeah, here we are.
To say it in the language of my people: shit’s fucked.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
Theory:
People on Lemmy self select to be here, usually as a direct backlash to prevailing Reddit culture, management or behaviour.
Reddit is mainstream, discoverable, friction free for the masses.
OTOH, there is small (albeit deliberate friction) in engagement here, that hearkens back to USENET days. It’s analog, messy and human. There are some bots here (to be sure) so I don’t know how long the Golden Age of Lemmy will exist, but clearly this space was designed by someone who knows the old magics. It shows.
Therefore, if you posit an inverse correlation between “is an utter cunt” and “wants to interact on niche social media forum called Lemmy”, I think you’d have a safe bet.
It’s not a a hard gate by any means, but it gambles (correctly) on friction keeping the biggest trolls away. The ROI for being a cunt is demonstrably higher on Reddit, Tiktok etc
Result: Lemmy is a nicer place to visit. For now.
Also, yes: I am Australian. Does it show? Cunt cunt cunty cunt cuntington III.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
If he’d just forgone that last paragraph…
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
Still can :)
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
I remember trillian. You might like this -
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
Telnet. An elegant tool for a more civilized time.
I see you, graybeard. And I pay respect.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
No, not that I know of. We use to have local / oz only IRC channels, because overseas calls were expensive. So, you would dial into your ISP and then have access to city/state wide IRCs like AusNet.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
ICQ? Listen here, young blood.
I grew up in outback Australia, in the before times. My first time online was a 1200-baud modem on a BBC Electron, piggybacking on the HF radio network used for School of the Air.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
head nod
16/F/Cali
- Comment on Aussie Insults 1 month ago:
Counter point