kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 3 days ago:
You must have done something bad to deserve this. Trying thinking about everything bad you’ve ever done. That’ll help.
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 3 days ago:
See, this is why you shouldn’t encourage bikes. That street looks totally unusable! 😤😤😤🚗🚗🦅🇱🇷
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 4 days ago:
The seal looks like this:
Code completion is probably a gray area.
Those models generally have much smaller context windows, so the energy concern isn’t quite as extreme.
You could also reasonably make a claim that the model is legally in the clear as far as licensing, if the training data was entirely open source (non-attribution, non-share-alike, and commercial-allowed) licensed code.
That said, I think the general sentiment is less “what the technology does” and more “who it does it to”. Code completion, for the most part, isn’t deskilling labor, or turning experts into accountability sinks.
Like, I don’t think the Luddites would’ve had a problem with an artisan using a knitting frame in their own home. They were too busy fighting against factories locking children inside for 18-hour shifts, getting maimed by the machines or dying trapped in a fire.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 6 days ago:
Technically, BazaarVoice is the one preventing you from leaving a review.
This is actually an example of technology working correctly. Web sites are able to delegate parts of their functionality to other services that are able to act independently. Your browser refuses to interact with BazaarVoice, but Petsmart continues to function.
It’s also an example of markets working poorly. It’s great that companies can use a third party service to handle reviews, so we don’t have to constantly reinvent the wheel. It’s not great that companies like Petsmart are so big that they don’t have to care about who they delegate that job to. They can use a cheap-as-hell sketchy AI service that will grind their users into an algorithmic paste, and pocket the savings, with no worry that you might go elsewhere (what are you gonna do? shop at kind-hearted Bezos’ store instead?)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
For a majority of men, probably, but not an overwhelming majority. Which still leaves a ton of people you could be compatible with.
Don’t overthink it and try to be something you’re not. Just take your time, get to know people, be curious and honest. Stay true to yourself. Don’t apologize and adapt just because you assume you have to.
You’re not trying to date everyone, just the right one. So why bother with what the rest think?
You’ll find someone that “just works” with who you already are. When you do, your dynamic with come naturally as a result of your unique relationship, and it won’t be precisely the same as any timeshare sex model you might have tried to plan ahead on Lemmy.
- Comment on You don't even need the other 4 points. You're fine. 2 weeks ago:
“Is the stress of late-stage capitalism making you unproductive? Here are some ways to improve your efficiency without questioning the underlying logic of the system.”
- Comment on forbidden dots 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Youtube Using AI to terminate channels 3 weeks ago:
Was this supposed to be an example, or is this just cruel irony?
- Comment on Review season 4 weeks ago:
But why the Random Capitalization?
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 4 weeks ago:
Probably a flea, based on this: brightside.me/…/10-bug-bites-anyone-should-be-abl…
- Comment on monumentale 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, just comments… with chapters…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, the developer experience was shit.
They tried to leverage their decades of prior investment and use it as an advantage, but what it actually felt like was a wobbly Jenga tower where every little thing had a caveat and no clear happy path.
Contrast that with iOS, where it felt like they basically started from scratch.
I think Microsoft thought they were lowering the barrier to entry by allowing existing WinForms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight (lol) devs to reuse their stuff, but in practice it made it harder to get started. Every app felt like a legacy codebase from the jump.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Hard to say, actually.
- .NET took an unexpected turn towards cross-platform FOSS
- A third major player in the smartphone market may have abated the enshittificatory forces for a bit longer
- Having a platform that’s consumer-oriented, in contrast to their mostly business-oriented offerings today, might have clued them in to consumer sentiment a little better
- Having a viable path towards profitability might have made the all-in gamble on OpenAI less appealing
- Butterfly effect etc.
- Comment on Adulting summed up 4 weeks ago:
My thing is: How do people handle stuff that has to be done between 9-5, Mon-Fri?
I tried to switch ISPs on Friday (which was an hour-long ordeal), got to the part where she said “Okay, I think that’s everything I have for you. I’ve got the disconnect screen pulled up, when would you like to —“ and the call dropped.
It’s now Tuesday, and I haven’t found a spare hour during the work day to call again.
I’ve also got a home warranty company telling me to update my claim or they’ll close it, but I need to talk to the receptionist at the plumbers during business hours to get them to resend the invoice.
And then I get stuck in this loop of:
- I have to make these calls today
- I’ll kick butt at work so I have enough time
- I spent the whole time worrying about those calls and didn’t get enough work done
- Now I have one less day to make those calls
Why can’t people handle things over email or a web portal? This is so much unnecessary stress and contortion.
- Comment on Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too 4 weeks ago:
This is basically what the Luddites were fighting against:
A world where labor has no opportunity to develop skills or use them, no authority over the machinery which dictates the nature of what is made and how, chasing fewer and fewer jobs for less and less pay.
Their solution was to take sledgehammers to the factories. The owners, of course, hired thugs to shoot them. And the politicians ruled that the machines were sort of the property of the crown, and therefore destruction of these machines should be punishable by public execution.
Funny enough, data centers today are considered strategic assets under the protection of DHS. Which is a fancy way of saying: still owned by the crown, still gonna shoot you if you try to negotiate via sledgehammer.
- Comment on Force of habit 5 weeks ago:
come’s
Why have people started putting an apostrophe before every s that happen’s to be the last letter in a word?
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
They attract mosquitoes
- Comment on Metal bands 5 weeks ago:
Kingslayer85 is an okay name I guess
- Comment on English moment 1 month ago:
My stream of consciousness: “What? Reed isn’t pronounced like led. Oh there’s more here… Ohhh, red is pronounced like leed. Er, reed is pronounced like… uhhh… anyway, I get it.”
- Comment on Luddites 1 month ago:
Okay but like… the Luddites were right though.
They weren’t opposed to technology. In many cases, they were the ones who built the machines they would later destroy.
They were opposed to letting capital owners dictate how the technology was used. They worried that they would end up working longer hours, in worse conditions, for less pay.
They died (and killed) to prevent this — to the point where destroying a knitting frame was declared a capital offense.
While they did get disbanded eventually, they also laid the groundwork for modern labor rights.
Which is why it’s super disappointing that their name has become a derogatory term for being stuck in the past, when they were ultimately calling for a progressive technological revolution that we have still failed to achieve today.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
So here’s the thing… In between the land of “shitty service jobs” and the land of “fully automated luxury” lies the vast desert of “reverse-centaurs”.
Right now, when “AI” takes over 60% of a job, that remaining 40% becomes a brutal dehumanizing gauntlet: the “human-in-the-loop” becomes a peripheral for the computer, manipulated into working at the speed that the computer prefers, like Lucy in the chocolate factory, until they’re used up and replaced. Think Amazon warehouse pickers or drivers.
Part of the problem is that this exploitation is hidden from consumers. When we see a fellow laborer suffering horrible conditions in a public-facing service job, we’re much more likely to throw a fit than when they’re hidden behind a sleek UI.
With no guarantee that we’ll ever make it through to the other side of the desert, I’d be perfectly content to stay on this side of it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
When self checkout started, it was too dumb. It would panic if you breathed on the scale wrong, frequently double-scan items or just have weird bugs.
Then for a minute, it was perfect. They smoothed out the UX, and everything Just Worked™.
Now self checkout is too smart. The camera sees me grab multiple items to scan back-to-back, or sees my kid playing with the bag carousel, and it sets off a shoplifting alarm that the employee has to come over and clear 2-3 times per trip.
So I’ve caught myself adjusting my behavior, like the Amazon drivers that get penalized for singing while they drive because the face-tracking throws an alarm.
If it were just me, I probably wouldn’t think much of it. But then I wonder: Is my daughter going to have to adjust her hands, her posture, her facial expressions… to be acceptable to an ever-present AI observer, for the rest of her life?
That seems to be where we’re headed.
What happens to the misbehavers?
- Comment on JSON Statham 1 month ago:
Hypertext Transporter Protocol
- Comment on Punch Time 1 month ago:
assault
Actually, I think it’s made with a sugar
- Comment on I Quit 1 month ago:
Reminds me of the marshmallow test:
But the marshmallow test is a tricky one. Replication studies reveal important details that are missing from Mischel’s triumphant analysis. On average, the kids who “fail” and eat the marshmallow rather than waiting and doubling their haul were poorer, while the “patient” kids were from wealthier backgrounds. When the “impatient” kids were asked about the thought process that led to their decision to eat the marshmallow rather than holding out for two, they revealed a great deal of future-looking thought.
The adults in these kids’ lives had broken their promises many times: Their parents would promise material comforts, from toys to treats, that they were ultimately unable to provide due to economic hardship. Teachers and other authority figures would routinely lie to these kids, out of some mix of overly optimistic projection about the resources they’d be given to help the kids in their care, or the knowledge that the kids’ poor, time-strapped, frantic parents wouldn’t be able to retaliate against them for lying.
So the kids had carefully observed the world they operated in and concluded, on balance of probability, that eating the marshmallow was the safe bet. At the very least, it foreclosed on the possibility that the adults running the experiment would come back in 15 minutes and declare that, due to circumstances beyond their control, they were taking back the original marshmallow, rather than providing two of them. They were thinking about the future, in other words.
These kids didn’t grow up to do worse in school and life because they lacked self-control: Those outcomes were dictated by America’s two-tier education system, which funds schools based on local property taxes, topped up by parental donations, which means that poor neighborhoods get poor schools. If these kids’ brains show up differently on a scan 20 years later, Occam’s Razor dictates that this is caused by a life of desperation and precarity, whose stresses are compounded by inadequate health-care.
- Comment on Sleep Guide 1 month ago:
sleep just like you stand
Well, my standing posture isn’t far off from fetal position either
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 1 month ago:
Is the IP still trapped in legal limbo?
- Comment on Ohio never sleeps 1 month ago:
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 1 month ago:
Makes sense they bought Star Wars, so they can legally say “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
