echodot
@echodot@feddit.uk
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 5 hours ago:
They never ask the question they just insist that they’re not.
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 5 hours ago:
Refused to believe that even green texters are that unaware. If it were just writing about the realisation about their sexuality whatever, but to end it with “I’m not homosexual” is just unrealistic.
- Comment on Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist 3 days ago:
11
- Comment on Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet 3 days ago:
They’ll need the audiobook version.
- Comment on Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet 3 days ago:
It’s kind of like how I constantly have to attend bribery is illegal courses at work. I’m not an idiot, I know bribery is illegal, that’s why it’s so lucrative. I remember doing the course last year as well but just in case anyone forgot we have to do another one this year because it turns out it’s still illegal.
Not that this has any effect on the likelihood of me accepting a bribe, as I said I’m not an idiot.
- Comment on business is business 4 days ago:
Well I certainly found it was a good idea to not keep the customer in the dark about my prices. If I’m going to be expensive I might as well tell them outright, it’s not like I’m going to get more customers if I led them on.
- Comment on business is business 4 days ago:
Yeah but for all we know she’s a wedding photographer, photographs wildlife or something uncooperative, unlike a bridge which tends to sit still most of the time.
- Comment on business is business 4 days ago:
I mean she’s got a point. I used to do web design and the number of people who reckoned that it should cost the equivalent of $40 was ridiculous. I’d required at least 10 times that just as compensation from having to work with shopify.
- Comment on Flat earthers 4 days ago:
The moon is a sticker on the sky which is a big glass dome with holes in it. Or something like that, honestly they’re not really very consistent.
- Comment on Flat earthers 4 days ago:
This is because flat earthers don’t understand anything about science or physics or basic common sense and as a result believe the most insane things.
Explain the entire time trying to come up with increasingly convoluted ways that a flat earth could work rather than just accepting that the simplest explanation is the did in fact isn’t. The explanation for why you can’t see mount Everest from the top of any reasonably high hill anywhere else on earth for example involves throwing out all scientific thinking back to Aristotle and starting again, don’t believe in geometry.
- Comment on "feminine" 5 days ago:
Is this idiot put the bed against the cupboard so he can’t get access?
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 5 days ago:
Which government are you talking about there’s more than one you know.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 5 days ago:
How on earth do you get to 38 and not have a job?
- Comment on Wetherspoons pubs ban playing music or taking calls on phone speakers 6 days ago:
Obviously sounds like wetherspoons basic clientele tell to me.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Will they had cameras and no real way to easily fake the photographs. It also didn’t help the Nazis that they took meticulous records of their cruelty, that was probably a bad idea.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 week ago:
Anyone who was a serious threat is by definition not going to do it the stupid way anybody who gets swatted is an idiot and probably wasn’t a threat to begin with, except to themselves.
It’s already illegal to shoot people so why is it more illegal to shoot people with the plastic gun?
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 week ago:
Won’t you just use his father’s gun? That’s what they always seem to do.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 week ago:
The standards will not mandate perfect efficacy – they will allow for “an acceptably low level of evasion” against a bank of identified design files.
So the except this is basically an impossible task. Essentially they’re just going to check that the algorithm can detect the test examples and then anything beyond that is an acceptably low level of evasion apparently.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 week ago:
Show me your not suggesting update the firmware on that already purchased and perfectly functional 3D printer.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 1 week ago:
So it doesn’t burn then right?
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 1 week ago:
Turns out it was still hot.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 1 week ago:
This is the first time since the test that I’ve received one. I think this might be the first use of the nationwide alert.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 1 week ago:
I agree but I also don’t think this was anywhere close to an appropriate use of the alert system. The minimum level of danger that this should be ised for is “police car chase in area”. The only exception should be a test of the system, and they should announce that at least 48 hours before they do the test, preferably weeks before they do the test.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 1 week ago:
You’re not supposed to use your phone while driving but the only way to make it stop beeping what’s to pick up the phone and press OK. So either I’m distracted by the noise or in destructed by the phone.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 1 week ago:
What was extra stupid is that none of the media outlets really reported on the alert already out or anything. So apparently the emergency alert system doesn’t send through an automatic breakthrough into television and radio programming, which surely it should do.
So what they’ve demonstrated is yet again that the system still doesn’t work properly.
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 1 week ago:
AI has been in development for a long time, I remember learning about neural networks when I was at school in the 90s, they weren’t very sophisticated by all accounts but the research was there. What’s happened lately is that scientists have been replaced by tech bros and all the research is now happening out in public, Andy’s on sale, rather than in the labs where it can be regulated by people who are not purely profit motivated.
The internet didn’t vanish when the dot com bubble burst, all that happened was that businesses were more accurately assessed as to their market value. If anything, the internet was improved by the dot com bubble burst, does increase the number of actually practical ideas.
I suspect AI will be better once the AI bubble bursts, and the research goes back into labs and starts being done by ethical scientists again.
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 1 week ago:
I’ve never understood the appeal of the “smartified” appliances. My TV is more annoying than it used to be because it has smart features, it was actually more useful when it was done and simply played broadcast television or whatever was fed to it varian HDMI port, I don’t need smart light switches, I can turn my own lights on it’s not that difficult, I don’t need to smart fridge either, not unless it’s going to stock itself.
I can’t think of a single piece of equipment that I use on a regular basis that would benefit from having internet connectivity added to it. I guess it would be nice if my wall clock updated when the hours changed due to daylight savings, but nothing other than that.
- Comment on Karoline Leavitt. She says she wear a cross because she is a good christian. 1 week ago:
This reads like a fetish fanfiction.
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 1 week ago:
Also, in some sensitive client projects, companies dont even allow the use of AI so it doesn’t really matter
Which is prohibitively expensive because of the RAM prices. So AI is making it financially unviable to run AI models. Great what a wonderful feedback loop, can’t see that ending badly.
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 1 week ago:
This is really what has put me off AI, yes there are the ethical and environmental considerations and they worry me too but ultimately it’s the price, and the knowledge that the price inevitably will increase.
I don’t want to build all my workflows on a system that not only do I not really control I don’t even have a fixed price for. That just seems like a really bad design.
I also dislike using Microsoft 365 for the exact same reason. I do not want to rest my business model on someone else’s business model.