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- on it's time in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 22h ago
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on it's time in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1d ago
Career-wise, even the usual insider mouthpieces are starting to agree that AI won’t kill CS:
But yeah, AI has definitely scorched the FOSS landscape. We will somehow figure out a way though.
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on Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype in c/technology@beehaw.org · 2d ago
In a good way, I hope?
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on Reassurance rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6d ago
My wife asked me if I would still love her if she was a worm.
Me: “What does it mean for you to be a worm? Like, you were never born and instead your consciousness went into a worm somewhere? Or you’re the person you are right now but then you decided to switch to a worm body? Or a witch cursed you and turned you into a worm against your will?”
Her: “I dunno, you just come home and I’m a worm.”
Me: “So I wasn’t there to witness the transformation? I’d probably put the worm outside and try to find you.”
Her: “And when you don’t find me, what do you do with the worm?”
Me: “Nothing? I don’t know it’s you.”
Her: “Really? You won’t take care of me?”
Me: “I don’t think I would even think about the worm in the first place. If anything, I’d maybe squish the worm.”
Her: “You WHAT?!??”
Me: “I mean… uhh…”
Her: “We’re fighting.”
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
Some well-trained bootlickers showing up here.
When you blame exploited users for “volunteering to get exploited”, you’re doing free PR for the exploiters.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
The internet was supposed to open our minds by letting us see the incredible diversity of how other people live their lives, but all we do 90% of the time is try to dunk on complete strangers (often imaginary ones, at that!) for not living exactly the same way.
I’ve met enough people that need accommodations to know that I have a horrible intuition about what’s going to be easy or hard for someone to do, and what will help or not.
IMO just let people do their thing. They know themselves better than you do.
(And if you see a story about how they’re getting exploited by an evil megacorp, and you feel the impulse to victim-blame, you can always just hit yourself in the dick with a hammer instead.)
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
In my house, the switched outlets are the only grounded ones on the second floor. Kind of a no-win proposition there.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
The challenge is not the light switch. The challenge is not stubbing your toe on the way to the bed.
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on rule from lunch in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 Sep 2026
To be fair, he only said “the type of guy”, which asserts nothing about the rarity of that type.
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on Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons in c/technology@beehaw.org · 14 Sep 2026
IMO, the concern over ASI is overblown/premature, but since the AI bros insist on having that conversation instead of the very real harms that already exist… I’m in favor of just documenting the prohibition of ASI so we can move the fuck on already and hopefully make them less able to what-about their way out of genuine grievances that deserve careful attention.
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on cisnormativity rule >: ( in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 Sep 2026
cssgender
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on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Plausible premise, and it will be interesting to see what happens.
Two things though:
- I don’t trust any big tech companies to have their head on straight when it comes to AI in software development
- Seems like “2x the time” is a cop-out argument. Hands on keyboards is surely not a limiting factor when you’re a 10$bn+ company. I imagine it’s more a problem of coordination and source-of-truth. Those problems don’t go away with AI. If anything, they get worse. Neither the iOS nor Android app is the “authoritative” version, so are they going to have AI copying back and forth between the two, over and over? Seems like the same kind of “localized model collapse” problem lots of companies are sprinting towards.
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on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@beehaw.org · 11 Sep 2026
The real basilisk was the fascist oligarchy we made along the way
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on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026
Oh come on.
NPR’s goal is not mass surveillance. Their goal is to stay employed.
Which is really only possible by playing the role of court jester for the folks whose goal is mass surveillance.
So you see, it’s totally different. Except for the ways in which it produces an indistinguishable outcome.
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on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - New Trailer 9.8.2026 in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 8 Sep 2026
Missed opportunity to go super stylized with it. The new titles lean so far into realism, it makes me wonder what it would look like to try to evoke an N64 aesthetic with modern graphics power.
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on Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived. in c/technology@beehaw.org · 7 Sep 2026
Article seriously undersells how Kenyan RLHF was crucial for building the very AI that threatens their livelihood — and also the abuses of those companies, like exposing employees to horrific traumatizing content on a regular basis, and hiding the already low payment behind absurd obstacles like “you can only withdraw your payment once you hit $20 (but we’re only gonna give you $12 of work)”.
Kenyans are, in effect, still doing students’ homework, and they’ve been cheated out of any economic upside for it. Articles like this that are 98% criti-hype (with a little asterisk about how labor disputes pushed RLHF firms out of the country) serve the interests of the tech barons, not Kenyans.
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on Justice Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
And my kink is karma.
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on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/technology@beehaw.org · 3 Sep 2026
“Hey it’s against my rules to be mean to me! You better stop, or I’ll… I’ll stop talking to everyone!”
Sony is officially a preteen. So proud!
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
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on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026
Has there been “slave” anywhere for a while? The last time I can think is PATA, which is ancient by now.
It seems like most (all?) uses of “master” these days are in the sense of a “master copy”, which doesn’t really have a “master/slave” dynamic to it.
- on Cover up in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 27 Aug 2026
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on Picked the wrong day to start a Red Dead Redemption 2 replay rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 Aug 2026
Playing as myself, I wouldn’t survive 10 minutes in Megabonk.
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on Means to deceive in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 24 Aug 2026
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on Without makeup 😂 in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Aug 2026
I think you mean…
(OpenAI dev team)
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on BMW’s in-car Spider-Man ad is a warning sign: we were promised a transport revolution, instead we got cars tracking us and serving us ads in c/technology@beehaw.org · 13 Aug 2026
This is what all the big promises have amounted to for most people: cars that are more and more expensive, devoid of physical controls which makes vehicles less safe, and constantly monitoring everything you do with the option for manufacturers to change whatever they want in your vehicle, including sticking a Spider-Man ad in front of you and presenting it as a fun “surprise.”
Reminds me of:
Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they can raise your premiums by $10 that month to punish you for inattentive driving. Same gadget, different social arrangement.
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on Budgeting Software in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Aug 2026
Another vote for Actual.
Mint was amazing, and that’s probably why it died. Credit Karma gives you basically no useful tools for getting a handle on things. And then they advertise services that are like “hey are you bad at your money? give us some of it and we’ll help you!”
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on Cory Doctorow (coined the term 'enshittification') talks with John Stewart about the unsustainable AI financing scheme in c/technology@beehaw.org · 11 Aug 2026
I’ve been watching Doctorow build this set over the past few years, and Jon Stewart is the perfect host for it. This is a master class. The only thing missing is that he didn’t get to mention the price of the Kentuckey Derby winner’s semen.
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on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 in c/technology@beehaw.org · 8 Aug 2026
That’s “midsize”? The fuck?
Safe from AI replacement doesn’t mean safe from a recession that’s being covered up by AI circular financing and a convenient spin story for the resulting mass layoffs.