Meep :3
She/They, also transer than a box of transistors! wiggles transly
Very cute, but also weird and sometimes kinda sharp
Boss doesn’t believe in supporting people who can’t work. Everyone will eventually be unable to work, whether due to age, illness, some kind of trauma, whatever.
Is it really a good idea to work for someone who wants to ensure you can’t even live once you stop making them money?
Bragging <.< Trying to make us all jelly.
Or jam, or marmite, or whatever bread-spread-stuff.
still fundamentally need to sell
[Sarcasm] Unlike companies, which are apparently altruistic organizations that exist for the betterment of humanity! It’s all those fools who keep yelling “companies exist to make money” who are wrong. Yeah, that must be it. Tech companies charge because they’re good, whilst various writers give away some, much, most, or all of their work because they’re evil! Sharing is DEATH, kids!
Sorry, I went off a bit there because I’m frustrated at how committed you are to your bad ideas. Also textbooks also have to be sold, at least here in the US where many are (were?) tailored to the anti-education pro-horsecrap preferences of Texas.
Side thing: I’m becoming increasingly convinced that FaceDeer as an account/persona/whatever exists specifically to be mildly irritating. Is that true? Would you admit it if it were?
Anything of value that she mentioned is already covered by other sources
Sorry, did you say “their pace is too fast” or “their pace is too grab ass?” I’m having a bit of a hard time coping with excessive amounts of “chill” around this situation so maybe I misread.
I get that abuse of employees and sexism and sexual harassment and assault toward women in particular are normal but can we not accept this shit as normal? … I write, slowly coming to the realization that clearly most people don’t want to care, don’t see a difference between something that’s dramatic and something that’s “just drama,” can’t bear to let some poor rich boy take any kind of heat, he’s such a nice guy, c’mon bro, just chill, he said he’ll do better, look, he does charity don’t you like charity and 🤮Fuck it, I’m out of here.
What a bunch of pricks.
I hesitate to blame them all. In GN’s video, some of the clips show LMG people seeming (to me? Somehow I don’t see anyone else pointing this out???) anxious to terrified of Linus. In one of the WAN Show clips there’s this meek, near-mumbled kind of “Uhm… Linus sir maybe if you’d, um… just tested it properly that could’ve been maybe better I guess? <.< v.v;” sort of thing, and the person who grabbed the wrong card barely squeaked out a response at all, but Linus just never seems to give a damn about anything except making the quickest possible bucks.
I don’t know what’s keeping everyone else there but I think at least some of those people are just trying to get by without incurring some kind of wrath as Linus himself repeatedly makes (or causes) a mess then arrogantly doubles, triples, quadruples down on it (or has someone else do so, or maybe other arrogant pricks are involved?) up to a point of “Okay, I messed up and I’ll own that now everyone forget about it” after which business-as-usual resumes until the next mess. It seems like no one else has time to learn from any mistakes (or “mistakes”) and those who do (presumably a hierarchy-related privilege) are unwilling or incapable.
Now, they may in fact be a bunch of pricks. I just feel like some of those people (such as the one suggesting that testing the water block correctly might made sense (before potentially killing a startup unfairly)) try to help but have no power to inhibit Linus’s pompous profit-driven pissheadery.
(Referring to other replies, sarcastically) I friggin’ love having people explain how it’s totally cool to do to people all’ the things they (or people like them, in relevant contexts) say not to! Like when five freaking people people show up, none citing so much as a blog post or having met a trans person once, explaining that it’s totally cool to deadname someone as long as it doesn’t bother the person doing the deadnaming.
I’m just a little tired of this “it’s fine and you’re the real problem for whining about it” (not quoting anyone currently present… I think) kind of attitude. Maybe I’d be singing a different tune if my convenience got to override everyone else’s comfort and even wellbeing.
Edit: At least I don’t feel so compelled to join Beehaw any more. Certainly not the uniformly careful bunch I’d, unreasonably I suppose, imagined. Silver linings!
Took me a while to see it 😅Well spotted.
Well, actually it’s a shower and not a well, but you get the idea.
Okay, see, that smells smarter than “we’re gonna cram the entire Internet into a box full of neurons and shove a shitload of compute through it.” It is, therefore, more interesting. Maybe I’ll have a deeper peek into it… In a few years when it’s not associated with any hype 😅 Here, have some of my pizza 🫴🍕
I generally agree but struggle to see where there’s any proper “general-purpose AI” involved. The current “AI” seems to be a crop of, simply put, overgrown chat bots. They make things that kinda-sorta look like other things that humans have already made and are getting a lot of attention for getting things very wrong. Hands, mouths, maths, laws, wrong wrong wrong.
From my perspective (as someone who loves novel tech, was thrilled to take a uni course on evolutionary computation, had PopSci, SciAm, Discover (tech magazines), etc.) people are blowing the hell up praising glorified chat bots as our lord and saviour and it baffles me endlessly. Like… I was evolving solutions to notoriously hard problems as an undergrad roughly a decade ago. The power of evolution itself! Wow, right? No, no one cares any more. Interesting is interesting but the hype train’s decided these I’m not going to stop calling them chat bots because that’s what they are represent a miracle of advanced, movie-style AGI. Unless my understanding of how it works is way off, it’s not really even a good starting point for AGI. I’d even go so far as to say it’s less technically interesting to me than Sierra’s AGI, but then I do have a deep, burning hatred of memes and excessive, blind popularity/hype and a bit of a taste for old tech so part of that’s just me. As for “utopia vs. Skynet” stuff… sigh. No technology is gonna do more to heal or harm humanity than this batch of buttholes is already doing to itself and ELIZA here isn’t going to change that.
tl;dr: The current cultural idea of “AI” is (as always) a damn meme based on chat bots and exploitation, and not a miracle. Wake me when AI is capable of some interesting new kind of NLP or can create something entirely new or something beyond impressing fools (because I actually do like neat tech). Also yes, any big, moneyful/profitable tech-thing is 100% gonna serve money over all else because everything in this capitalist hell-world does. rant rant rant! … dozes off
Interesting that the “AI” posts alternate between “Oh, AI will lead us into the shining, glorious future!” and “Wow, the new thing that people call ‘AI’ can’t reliably add 2+2, makes up lies that even supposed professionals fall for when asked for real info, and just generally mimics only the form of human communication with no idea whatsoever about the content, often resulting in hilarious claims, images, et cetera that a dog could recognize as wrong!”
With bosses in charge… ugh. I assume soon if not already someone will be scheduled for heart surgery because WebMDGPT decided their cough was due to irritable bowel syndrome, which it will claim is a form of cancer because that’s the sort of crap these things do.
“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent” somehow applies to Jar-Jar but everybody’s impressed with the chatbot that knows literally nothing.
Wow this thing is a huge mess of text @.@ That’s in there, though. (10) under the “whereas” at the top of the proposal bit. Not mentioned in the “scope” part, where I’d expected. Maybe others expected it there too, and not mixed in with seventy other things up top? I’m just guessing here; presumably someone familiar with these sorts of documents would know to look there or would just bust out the Ctrl+F magicks and find this :-\
“The person that spread that?” Are you being serious? That’s happened to a lot of people. It’s happened to me repeatedly. In fact I’m right now yet again deleting a bunch of posts that stayed deleted for days and are mysteriously back again.
Do it! Doooo iiiitttt! Burn clean the foul corporate filth contaminating your computer! Take ownership! Be freeeee!! 🦋
Sure, it’s just another product they’re not going to push on anybody. Like Windows 10! They’re such a nice huge-corporation and always have been; why do people assume they’ll do anything… distasteful?
Oh, I read that headline and growled out loud. Yet another reason not to trust those places nor expect anything good out of them. Maybe they’ll call the cops, maybe they’ll just call Facebook. Maybe they didn’t mean to, maybe it doesn’t matter. sigh
Some day there will be a standard link style… for now it seems like a huge mess :'D The ! doesn’t work on kbin (for me, at least), nor do links with c/ where we use m/, but the @-link does, which is neat considering I’d not found any short link style that did until seeing that one :'D Seems like others think the !-link is the thing to do, some give absolute links, some try other things besides. Growing pains, teething issues… might as well say “wheee” while the ride’s still bumpy .
They have lists of blocked and linked instances: https://beehaw.org/instances
Taking an opportunity to post a lil off-topic because somecritter’s finally supporting a touch of calm around here: yesss, give it some time, people. Give yourselves some time. Let things (and people) settle some before judging and pushing in every direction at once.
[General comment, not directed at anycritter in particular] It’s getting kinda tiring that so many people are in a big huge rush around here expecting everything to be some form of “just right” right now. People don’t seem to be giving themselves or others time to figure out what’s going on, how things work, how things should work, and there’s a ton of excitement and pushing for things to go this way or that way or whatever but most of them don’t even seem to know what this place is, what federation means, how things work here, or even what instance they’re on or posting to at any given moment. There’s a lot going on that needs time to play out and it’s not all going to be obvious to everycritter immediately.
This place (what should it even be called? This one is looking forward to having a useful name for federated-not-Reddit-thing :'D ) doesn’t need to replace Reddit right now. There is time to work out what it is, what it can be, and what it should be. A bit of patience will enable sensible progress.
“It won’t go lower than $5!”
“Uuugghhh, fine, give them five.”
“Alright, we’re on the supporters list”
“Great, issue a press release telling everyone how great we are for giving back.”