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• Nah, fuck AI. I will pivot careers. Anyone that claims to be a developer but generates all of their code is just a modern day script kiddie. Idgaf about efficiencies because the ethical implications of AI are far worse than the extra money I can make for a company.

  I will never be an AI code reviewer, because that’s all prompting is. Like I said, I’ll pivot careers out of dev work before I do that. Pick up a trade and work until I’m 80 if I have to, but that’s still better than being one of Claude’s bitches.

  Outside of the ethics of AI, the idea of sitting in front of a screen and being a “prompt engineer” takes everything I enjoy out of coding. If it was that or death, I’d choose death.

  on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20h ago

• If I’m forced into Claude Code or something similar, I will be looking for a new job. Ideally a different role in my company to keep my benefits and not have to completely start over, but if I have to jump ship, I will. Fortunately, our security and GRC teams have explicitly blocked Claude Code for the time being. I still have the tools built into Visual Studio, but I seldomly use them, and when I do it’s basically as stack overflow, and that only when I can’t find what I’m looking for through web searches first.

  We had someone from our Networking team come over the other day and say that he could tell our summer interns were gone because our AI usage dropped by over $1000 / month.

  on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• Here’s an example of a time where a single letter spelling error affected the outcome even though Google knew it was a typo. Yea, LLMs will give an answer but anecdotally it’s correct less than half the time on any question of substance and at least 10%+ miss rate on simple questions.

  

  

  on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• He knew enough to know that his 9 year old was posting videos on YouTube and gave him a credit card to buy ads. It’s poor parenting and ignorance is a bullshit argument. You don’t have to master the digital world to know that letting your prepubescent child post content online without strict oversight is bad. Again, he clearly knew this was happening because again, he funded it. Shit parenting.

  I know single working parents with multiple kids that are surely worse off than this guy that aren’t this stupid and are better parents just by being attentive to their children’s actions and hobbies.

  on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• The first failure was allowing his kid to have a YT channel at all, or at least not one that is heavily monitored and restricted by him or the other parent. The financial fuck up is the consequences of poor parenting.

  on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• That was an unfortunate read.

  on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Except Costco. They did stand up against the DEI bullshit and recently have expressly said they won’t buy and distributed the imported beef. I assume there’s more between those two points in time, I’m just not aware. One of the few out there doing good stuff.

  on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Touche.

  on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• I’ve seen a handful of videos about it recently that have been pushed into my algorithm. There’s definitely a campaign to get it out to influencers. Never heard of it prior to this week.

  It’s just a fork of Arch, with tiling, that’s been slop coded with AI. Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they’re familiar with Arch.

  on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I usually push 4 hours or about 400 miles when I can on longer trips. I rarely drive late nights anymore, so most of that travel takes place during the light if day. It’s about 4 hours for me to visit my friends in an adjacent state, and I can do that comfortably now under a single tank of gas. That could result a couple of stops on a lower range EV if I didn’t want to push the limits. That’s just something I’m not willing to do right now.

  Again, I hope that I can get by without purchasing a new vehicle for many years to come. EVs are getting better and battery tech is improving as well. I think the market will probably meet my needs by the time I’m ready to transition.

  on US to announce sharply lower vehicle fuel economy requirements in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I think they’re overpriced compared to most laptops. Being ARM doesn’t inherently make it more valuable. The newest cheap model is the first that I feel has been relatively fairly priced, but it still comes with less RAM than it should. “Grossly” may not be the best word, but I think they are overpriced based entirely on name recognition.

  Like I said, I think their fine computers, just more expensive than they should be.

  on John Ternus Era at Apple Kicks Off With the Changing of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I am in no way an Apple fan. I think their computers are fine but grossly over priced and their phones are ass. I would say compared to many other big tech companies, the enshittifying isn’t as bad. Those like Google and Microsoft for example. If I had a gun to my head and had to buy a new Windows laptop or Mac and not install Linux, I’m taking the Mac. That’s not a positive review for them, it’s an insult to Microsoft.

  So take what I said and just assume it means that they are just getting worse faster, not that they good and going to get bad. That ship sailed long ago as you pointed out.

  on John Ternus Era at Apple Kicks Off With the Changing of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I don’t have to. Yea, it shares some backend Google services, but the rest of the browser, like the other 90% isn’t Chrome. It’s like comparing Windows and Mac OS and saying that they’re the same because they both connect to the same Internet and that their operating systems. Just like Chrome v Firefox, they are two distinctly different products.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I hope for my next vehicle to be an EV, but I won’t take anything less that 300 miles range. I know that 90% of my driving can be comfortably done in under 200 range, but I do go on longer trips. I know that recharging has come a long way, and I have no problem hanging out for 15+ min at a station, but I won’t do it every 2-3 hours because that’s all I’ve got.

  I’m hoping to get many more years out of my current ride before it dies or becomes too costly to repair vs replace. That gives ample time for battery tech to further improve, and hopefully more and cheaper EVs to the market.

  I’m not a car snob by any means, but currently the only EV that really piques my interest is the ionic 5 n, but it’s range is just way too low. I’ve been driving a WRX for a little over 6 years now, and love pretty much everything about it. I hope to someday have an EV equivalent of it.

  on US to announce sharply lower vehicle fuel economy requirements in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Other than just this, reading through the comments, this John fellow like he’s trying to speed run enshittifying Apple.

  MS and Apple looking to push that Linux migration with AI and other bad decisions.

  on John Ternus Era at Apple Kicks Off With the Changing of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Hardly makes it “Chrome with extra steps”.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• It’s really seldom, but a few years back there was a government website that only worked with chrome or edge that I had to use. I had one the other night and found a work around. It’s a rare occurrence, and usually I can avoid it, but sometimes I have to just suck it up, do the deed, and bail.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• I used to work in manufacturing and we made a sort of tube socket that was cadmium plated on the outside and chrome plated on the inside.

  I wonder how many people got cancer plating those things. Ironically, all of the platers were in California because it was banned for new plating centers in most other states.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Chromium is the browser that I open a few times a year for websites that don’t support Firefox. A few may be a gross over estimate.

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Care to elaborate? It’s actually not like chrome at all. The engine is different, it’s not Google, they haven’t blocked manifest v2 plugins… Other than being a web browser, how would you classify it as Chrome?

  on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Then it’s on the store to stop carrying bad products.

  on Stopping the smart TV from being used against you. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• I have one for music, dropout.tv, and a service that I use to fill the gap.

  If I didn’t watch stuff on dropout, I’d probably donate or keep the sub because it’s truly a great company ran by Sam Reich, and I like supporting them.

  on Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• There will be a new generation that learns about VPNs and torrents. Life is cyclical.

  on Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Damn hydration. Always growing too many heads.

  on Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Maybe, but CPUs are coming out with LLM tuned chips, and I can run a basic model on an i5, 8gb ram, and no dedicated card. It’s not super powerful, but for most users, it’s more than enough for what they use the big models for. Also, if it does take a discrete card to get that needed boost in performance, then at least consumers would be able to get GPUs again.

  I think as hardware improve and is further designed around LLM efficiency, and local models are tuned for specific uses and being able to run on lesser hardware, it will make Nvidia obsolete for large swaths of the population. A good GPU will still be necessary for high performance, graphic/physics intense gaming, but that’s a really small subset of all users.

  Hopefully Nvidia just shits and has to grovel back to the consumer to get there marketshare back when all of the DCs go tits up.

  on Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• It feels like one of those technologies that can’t truly be contained. It’s like how the government keeps trying to end piracy. It’s like a hydration hydra. Cut off one head and two more show up. Local models will be the dagger to premiere models.

  on Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Sounds like there’s a market for a hugging face comeptitor.

  Nvidia is seeing the writing on the wall that local models are the only viable future for AI. They have to try and squash that now before it’s too late. I mean, it is already is too late, as they’ve hooked there wagons to these AI companies, and that shit’s going to end and nividia is going to be a bag holder. I can’t wait.

  on Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Mostly inherited wealth, but also those things.

  on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• For sure. I’ve already contemplated switching to a different streaming service for music, but while I have YT premium I’ll keep using YT music, although they keep making that interface worse and worse. My YT consumption will just plummet to only a couple of channels, and I’ll just work through my backlog of the terabytes of media I have on my Plex server. Hell, might even go outside and see what that’s all about, but I don’t want to rush into anything.

  on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• I have my sub shared across a couple different families in 4 different houses, in 2 different states. If they crack down, I’m dropping my subscription.

  on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• While true, I don’t have to do any work at all right now to listen to as much music as I want and new music is available immediately. I also don’t have to setup something to be able to stream music remotely so that I don’t have to store all of it on my space limited device.

  on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• This is my setup, and we are spread across 4 houses in 2 states. Never been an issue.

  on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• Fair enough. I strictly use it for comms in games I play with friends. I’m not active in any other communities and I’m certainly not paying for nitro. I’d like to migrate but getting everyone to do so probably won’t happen. I could maybe convince my closest game friends, but I have a clan in a game with people I don’t know that we use discord to chat. Definitely not getting all 40+ to move.

  on GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• What solution did you end up on post Discord? If you had a group of people you communicated on Discord with, did you have luck migrating them out? I’d like to move, but my use is already really minimal and I feel like getting my friend group out is going to be difficult to non-existent in some cases.

  on GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Also Bethesda. Skyrim has been released so many times since 2011.

  on Rockstar reportedly furious by GTA 6 leaks and has no idea how it happened, but won’t change Netflix premiere date in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• I was chatting with our CEO the other day and the topic of recording glasses came up. He said they are band in the company, and they’ve had conversations with their lawyers, that also say not to allow them. I was happy to hear that.

  on Meta glasses are a workplace menace in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• I agree. It would be nice to know why, but I’d imagine we’ll never know. We can just speculate.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• I think it had the opposite effect. I believe the recently didn’t renew their contract with Google because they were upset people weren’t coming to the site, just getting answers from Gemini. I could be wrong, but I thought I read that

  on Reddit Almost Disappears from ChatGPT Answers as Search Citations Drop 86% in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• Btrfs and snapper. Only time I ever had to reload a snapshot was because of my own actions. I’ve been fortunate to never have any update related breaks. Maybe a couple services had hiccups, but never breaks.

  on YOLO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• Off-site resources aren’t by default a cloud solution. The differentiation is mainly in a cloud, it’s a cluster of shared resources that host virtual machines and are connected through virtual networks. Having a dedicated server to host your stuff on is just remote hosting. A company can setup and host their only cloud infrastructure if they want.

  To non IT people, the difference between interfacing with something in the cloud or a dedicated hosted setup doesn’t exist. If they post a comment on Lemmy, that’s may be hosted in a cloud or hosted locally on a server somewhere. If they are storing pictures in Away, then that is cloud storage.

  So their is a distinction on the back end mostly, but it’s just the way resources are hosted and shared, so the front end would be the same regardless.

  on I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• That’s never going to change. It’s cloud infrastructure. It’s not a company specific term, it’s industry wide, and convincing an entire industry to arbitrarily change what we call something won’t happen. Even changing from master to main isn’t the case everywhere, and main is the default now.

  Also, ‘the cloud’ is both easier to say and remember than ‘upstream processors’, which in itself isn’t an accurate name for cloud resources, really just one resource.

  on I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• It could be that the software isn’t accurate enough to be evidence on its own. Similar to how identifying someone in a lineup is notoriously inaccurate. They may be able to use it for probably cause in a search warrant, but without other supporting evidence, they may not have a case.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Facial recognition has an inherent bias as well, or at least it did not too long ago. It was mostly trained on white people, so it’s accuracy with non whites was really bad. I’m sure the training data is far more robust now, but that doesn’t necessarily mean better.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Which EA game is that again?

  on EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants" in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Yep, which is why I don’t think that 6 hours away is necessarily too far for an amber alert. I think that’s extra true in a place like texas that’s so large that it may take a driver about 6 hours to get to a larger metro area from their starting spot. Maybe not 6 hours, but not a 30 min jaunt.

  on Do Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Actually Work? | The Walrus in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Ok? Does that mean we should stop searching after 3 hours?

  on Do Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Actually Work? | The Walrus in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Amber alerts may not come out immediately when a child disappears. It could be hours later. It’s better that people are aware of a beat up red Toyota Camry that is expected to be transporting and abducted child than not.

  on Do Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Actually Work? | The Walrus in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• I worked in GS for a couple years about 12 years ago. I worked with a couple really smart dudes, at least 5 of which have gone on to have successful profession IT careers. One of them is the smartest computer guy I’ve met and was a prodigy in his teens.

  However, I also worked with some of the dumbest people I ever met. I had one coworker that was sending in a new laptop a customer brought back because the touch pad was bubbling up. As I was packing it up to ship and saw the paper work, I opened to look and it was the plastic sheet that wasn’t removed. That may have been the worst case, but there were plenty of other bad ones.

  I do think the the OG version of GS before best buy acquired the was legit, but as businesses do, it enshitified, which when you’re paying youths less than $10/hr, you can expect shit service.

  In my case, I didn’t suck and it was a good entry for me to really get to understand computers and I learned more about actually working on and fixing computer there than I ever did in college. I did put in the effort though where a lot of people are just passing through.

  on Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• There’s always Azure DevOps. Wait…

  on GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• That feeling might schadenfreude, and it’s heavenly.

  on GitHub has been down for most of the morning - Engadget in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026