We shut down companies for it though, and what AI vendors are doing is basically selling the ability to turn job roles into “accountability sinks”, where your true value is in taking the fall for AI when it gets it wrong (…enough that someone successfully sues).

If you want to put it in gun terms: The AI vendors are selling a gun that automatically shoots at some targets but not others. The targets it recommends are almost always profitable in the short term, but not always legal. You must hire a person to sit next to the gun and stop it from shooting illegal targets. It can shoot 1000 targets per minute.

To get a stable internet, we need redundancy.

To get redundancy, it needs to be cost-effective to implement.

To be cost-effective, there needs to be a high degree of interoperability between cloud providers.

To get a high degree of interoperability, providers need to believe that they can actually turn a profit by adopting an existing API and offering it to devs with better pricing, or performance, or tooling, etc. than the incumbent players.

Pretty much impossible with the current state of AWS. The only viable route is antitrust law. Break it up into ten smaller companies. You can still use all ten, but in order to do that they’ll need to have a pluggable interface that any cloud provider could implement and compete through.

The worst is schroedinger’s auditory buffer. (Heisenbuffer?)

If you give me a second to parse what you said, I can reply just fine. If you ask “are you listening?” in an aggravated tone, the buffer gets discarded instantly.

And this is completely orthogonal to whether I was trying to pay attention to your words, cuz I basically can’t process your words directly as you speak anyway.

So I might have an easier time continuing the conversation if I’m mildly distracted instead of constantly overwriting the perfectly understandable stuff from 5 seconds ago with the white noise that I’m hearing in the immediate present.

Its supposedly open source??

NPM users: “…and?”

At the time, retailers were the customers. Before online storefronts took off, there was no way to sell one copy to Alice, one copy to Bob… you had to sell 50,000 copies to Best Buy with a promise to buy them back in a year if they don’t sell out. If they tell you up front, “we won’t buy that”, what are you gonna do?

To the extent that a retro handheld community exists on Lemmy, this is it.

I’ve bought a lot of these things. RG35XXSP, Miyoo Mini Plus, Retroid Pocket 3+, Retroid Pocket 5, DataFrog SF2000. Some random $5 bullshits off AliExpress for a toddler to destroy.

I’ve given out a few Miyoo Mini Plusses as gifts. They’re really the perfect balance of comfort and portability. They’re performant enough to do everything you’d want to do in that form factor, but cheap enough that I don’t mind keeping it in my backpack 24/7. The stock firmware is fine, and Onion is excellent.

Vibecoding introduced a bunch of vibexploits, so now we’re vibepatching I guess.

Yall ever notice that when business idiots poison the world with their snake oil, their proposed solution is to use more of it?

Linux god’s

Linux god’s what?

Dijon ketchup

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Is the IP still trapped in legal limbo?

AI bubble will pop by 2030. (I fucking hope.)

Without a decent education about religion (which is completely free), true freedom can never be achieved (because of harmful memes like this one)

We could easily spend days trying to nail down what you mean by “bad”, and how one ought to assign blame for people’s actions, so I’ll just ask if you think that having a particular mental model of the world influences how you act?

Makes sense they bought Star Wars, so they can legally say “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

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Idk.

It was hard to find things even with a search engine, and it was full of scams and spyware, and obnoxious designs that got in the way of the real content, and the most popular chat rooms were run by power-tripping nerds with too much free time and an endless interest in CSAM and Nazi ideology.

Not like today, where… uh… well…

Sometimes “micro yesses” work for me. That’s where you turn “getting started” into something absurdly simple. Like, way simpler than you think. If your goal is to do the laundry, your “micro yes” is not grabbing the laundry basket, or going into the bedroom, or even standing up. It’s to wiggle your toes.

Looks like a reboot of Axum

MF was about to step down anyway but still didn’t take a swing at ICE?

A lil dystopian for my taste.