Under capitalism the capitalists own the company, they already don’t need to run the company or even contribute. There’s no reason for this to change when the labor is done by machines instead of humans.

Yeah he hasn’t really posted anything that would appeal to teens/preteens for years at this point.

Obviously uhhhh uhhhhhhh put your ID in a GitHub secret and uhhhhhh social security number and uhhhhhh

it’s always “a billionaire did a thing”, not “a billionaire paid some people to do a thing”.

Funny how that works.

Hahahahaha no. damage the robotaxis? straight to jail.

What if you can’t do the hand gestures because you have a disability of some kind?

2 drinks a day is a lot of alcohol imo. I’d love a study that looks at more normal amounts of alcohol (imo being less than 0.5 drinks a day on average)

Worth noting that this is machine learning AI, not LLM AI.

Machine learning has some of the same pitfalls as LLMs (extrapolating beyond training data being the main one, as mentioned in the article), but it’s not as stupid as asking chatGPT what the weather will be, which I suspect many are imagining based on the title.

Unfortunately “AI” has become so entangled with LLMs it’s easy to assume they’re the same.

Hey I work in cyber security. Just because an app has a backdoor doesn’t mean that the backdoor can be accessed by anyone. Accessing this backdoor would likely mean compromising meta themselves, not just the app or its communications.

If they can achieve similar results without the subscription I think they might consider moving over. That being said I’ve seen what companies pay to use Microsoft shit lmao.

Linux is not that hard. These days it’s easier than Windows in some ways.

Touching on the burnout section of the article, it’s not quite as cool as the PSP but I’ve been playing a lot on my Switch 2 as a form of digital detox as well. I put limits on all the addictive apps on my phone, and downright uninstalled most of them, so when I’m itching for dopamine my phone can’t give me it’s nice to turn to a game console. The switch 2 also doesn’t have notifications or egregious game updates. Currently playing through factorio and having a blast just kinda … ignoring the state of the world.

Same! Them using markdown means I’ve been able to make an Obsidian-like app for Wear OS, with a phone app to sync your vault to the watch. Wouldn’t have been possible if they weren’t using markdown. Hoping to launch it on the Google Play store in a month or so :)

I’ve been using Linux and MacOS my entire life, with brief stints on windows when my job has required it. Every time I have to use Windows I’m gobsmacked at some of the design choices, bugs, lag, and anti-patterns.

You’re absolutely right that it’s mostly the same, you mostly use the same apps, you still use a mouse to interact with them, there’s still a file system, etc. But when the experience is mostly the same it just makes the parts where they differ so much more frustrating in my experience.

Unfortunately my experiences trying to use Windows as a daily driver have been much like yours with Linux, I find myself messing around with stupid bullshit in a never ending cascade of settings menus, each more janky than the last, just trying to do simple things. It’s unfortunate Windows has become so janky as I remember it working quite well back in the xp days.

All this is to say, I think at this point Linux is often as good as Windows (it does depend on the distro, tons of bad ones out there), but familiarity is king. I’ve spent decades using all three operating systems, and have mainlined Linux since 2023, so that’s just what I’m most familiar with now.

I’ve lost track of what we were originally talking about, but yeah. They’re all good enough just use whatever you’re comfortable with and don’t overthink it I guess 🤷

You’ve used modern Linux and modern Windows and think the experience is almost identical? That’s an uncommon opinion.

Nobody thinks you can’t do software engineering on windows. It’s just worse.

But that’s a slur that does hurt people. Clanker doesn’t, whether said in public or privately. I also agree that it’s not really a slur since it’s targeted at unfeeling robots. I think people mostly just call it a slur because it’s funny (to them, though morally classifying it as such is murky).

Is that inherently a bad motivation? What makes slurs a bad thing? The fact that they hurt people? This doesn’t hurt people.

Agreed 👍

I assume it’s people making (hopefully consensual) POV videos.