Yo dawg I heard you like fences

Similar to the crypto hype. Adoption is imminent, bro. Just a few more months, bro. Please, bro

Did this Microsoft tactic ever work in their favour? Forcing people to use things they don’t like? Internet Explorer, Edge, Bing Search, AI and so on. I think it’s not a long-term success story. Also, why focus on tool usage instead of actual goals.

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This should be illegal. We had webcams like this 20 years ago. But Nintendo customers seem to enjoy outdated hardware. It’s a tradition at this point

I personally try to reverse smartphone usage. Got myself a dumbphone and try to use a computer for everything else. The reasoning behind this is, I want it to be a conscious decision to do internet things at a defined physical place, instead of mindlessly using the smartphone everywhere. This should encourage me to reconnect to the world around me.

I’m still in a transition phase though.

That’s an excellent idea, particularly because that service would use AI against the type of people who typically shill or welcome AI products. Let’s build more of those.

“Alligator Alcatraz” is a cute nickname for what is in fact a concentration camp. Media should stop sugar coating that with euphemisms

This is a train wreck from beginning to end, with only one winner: Trump.

It was stupid to call for an impeachment vote in the first place, because it had zero chance to succeed. It’s quite lame as a symbolic gesture too, because a failure is a failure in the books no matter what the intentions are. And you put your own party members in a position where they can only lose either way. This is terrible from a political strategy standpoint unless your explicit goal is to divide the party, which in turn weakens the party even more. A sad and unnecessary shit show all the way. The only hope left is that Trump dies laughing.

This might be the wrong place to ask. But anyway, can someone please explain the difference between Lemmy and PieFed to me? I’ve searched a bit and it seems that both are doing roughly the same thing, but with a different fediverse protocol or something?

Why am I even reading that? It’s just more of the same vile shit to distract from the real issues. It’s all the same and it always begins by giving me an “option” to “customise my cookie choices”. Hell, I already feel conditioned to a hopeful longing that, on the next popup page i’ll be allowed to “reject all" to finally be able to consume the meaningless depictions of hate and stupidity.

Sorry for the rant.

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Games worked for me on Kubuntu, but a lot of other things were seriously broken. Compositor/Desktop effects did not work at all, weird screen artifacts, Taskbar crashes, Discord lags terribly and has display problems. I don’t know, if that is going to be the new Desktop experience, we’re gonna have a problem.

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That’s a very long answer to my snarky little comment :) I appreciate it though. Personally, I find LLMs interesting and I’ve spent quite a while playing with them. But after all they are like you described, an interconnected catalogue of random stuff, with some hallucinations to fill the gaps. They are NOT a reliable source of information or general knowledge or even safe to use as an “assistant”. The marketing of LLMs as being fit for such purposes is the problem. Humans tend to turn off their brains and to blindly trust technology, and the tech companies are encouraging them to do so by making false promises.

Well, they are quite bad from a UI/accessibility perspective. While looking nice and fancy, it can be difficult to read the contents and makes it harder to identify information. That’s totally fine as an optional feature for those who like it, but the default should be a clean and easily accessible design.

It’s funny how people always quickly point out that an LLM wasn’t made for this, and then continue to shill it for use cases it wasn’t made for either (The “intelligence” part of AI, for starters)

We had transparent UI elements before and decided they were shit. Am I the only one still alive to remember?

Hier im Ort hat es nach der Ahrtal-Flut zwei Jahre gebraucht um eine wesentlich kleinere aber wichtige Fußgängerbrücke über ein Nebengewässer wieder aufzubauen. Schnelle unbürokratische Hilfe nennt man das wohl. Ich finde es gut, wenn Menschen dann selbst ans Werk gehen um Wege wieder nutzbar zu machen.

I see your point. But this is something else and has a lot to do with lack of democracy to begin with. Elon Musk is/was above the law which is undemocratic in itself. He was never elected by anyone, yet wielded enormous power over the government and damaged the institutions. All this while not even having US citizenship.

To be clear, I’m not rooting for Trump or Bannon, those are traitors and grifters who sell the country for their own profit. Nobody should be above the law and those people should face consequences for their actions in a democracy. So, if you want to strengthen democracy it might be a good idea to start by fighting against the people who are willfully and deliberately destroying it, instead of defending them. That’s my take.

The tragedy about suppressing peoples opinions on Palestine: You can silence people by calling them antisemitic at the slightest critique of what Israel is doing in Gaza, but you won’t sway their opinions. Suppressing an open discussion about the topic is what fuels antisemitism, which is then brewing in silence.