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• The interesting thing about this post is that it’s exactly equally as wrong whether you take it as sarcasm or at face value.

  on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 1d ago

• The biggest problem I’ve seen with the “use AI help but you’re ultimately responsible for what you submit” approach is that it’s damn near impossible to usefully define or enforce what “responsible” actually entails.

  on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 1d ago

• It’s a constantly evolving work in progress, but if you take a stripped-down version of the Delta Synergizing Septagon and combine it with a recontextualized boosted Growth Pentagon and add the sharp bits of the Meatatomy Penticle then you can figure out the rest from there. Just don’t forget the 9 Elements on the outside and Degloving Dave in the centre

  on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4d ago

• I visit other people’s offices from time to time as part of my job. I take every opportunity I can get to sneak into unused meeting rooms to draw a comprehensively labelled Actualising Hexagon Methodology on the whiteboard for others to find

  on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5d ago

• I’m going to need to see either your Fun Police badge, or a warrant from a federal Fun Judge

  on Queer discourse rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026

• I wish. Sadly it was from the boss.

  on Time for a new course in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• For real.

  I recently lost half a morning having to go through a slop requirements document and making a list of questions like “are you sure you want this? why do you want this? what does this even mean?”, to which the answers were all “I don’t know, ChatGPT wrote it”.

  Like why did you even bother sending me this, you could’ve just sent me the prompt instead and saved me 2 hours of my life

  on Time for a new course in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• It’s a vulnerability precisely because people always swarm to defend Signal in stories like this, as though using Signal means the authorities (or other bad actors) can’t read your messages. Seems like every six months there’s some story involving Signal users getting hacked, and every time there’s a rush of wellacshuallys explaining why it wasn’t really Signal’s fault. (that last one is particularly egregious because I remember people defending it as “it wasn’t Signal, it was their partner who they subcontracted and gave your personal data to”, which is crazy levels of mental gymnastics.)

  Security is more than just encryption. If you flag something up as “hey use this if you want to hide from the Government” and have a personal phone number attached to it, that’s like a red rag to a bull.

  (edit: LOL, it’s hilarious how many people think they’re making great rebuttals in the replies when all they’re doing is proving my point. One child even flew directly into screaming at me. Signal fanbois are even worse than Apple supporters)

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• We’ve had a very recent uptick in engineers submitting PRs of hundreds of lines across multiple files, for Jira tickets that only asked for a one-line change. The engineers involved have been using AI assistants for nearly two years now, but there seems to have been a change in the last month or so in how aggressive the new models are at changing code.

  on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• I’m confused as to how “MAGA”, a party political slogan, is allowed on a .gov domain. Seems like it should be illegal?

  on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin in c/games@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• Nah, that’s irrelevant. OP didn’t get to Naziism via some broad category like that, they got there directly through JKR

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026

• I see this one all the time on LinkedIn, the management rubes love it

  on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026

• yeah I don’t understand it at all, I thought shit like that was exactly what people expect of a manic pixie dream girl?

  on mpdg_irl in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026

• One of the many reasons is likely to make sure models stay specifically optimized for NVidia hardware, by floating them to the top of the search results and making sure that they’re the only ones that get special prices on the tools and hosting. It’s such a fast-moving industry that they know they won’t always have the fastest chips indefinitely.

  on NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• seconded, they charge $21/month/seat if you’re using the pro features; that’s $50k a year even for a smallish team of 20, just to use their website. Once you get to a bigger company with 800 seats, that’s $1M over 5 years, for something that was mostly built on free OSS software to begin with.

  Not to mention the biggest bait-and-switch in history that they pulled off on Github Copilot subscriptions, that I’m guessing a lot of big orgs won’t have cancelled yet. They really are laughing all the way to the bank.

  on NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• Yeah I don’t understand these valuations at all. I wish I did so that I could get a billion dollars for a website that doesn’t particularly own anything.

  on NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• I’m morbidly curious about the engineers Musk hires, because overwhelmingly the most intelligent engineers and scientists I know wouldn’t dream of applying to work at one of his companies. Even the ones that don’t care about the Nazi shit have still read the many reports about how badly he treats his staff.

  on Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• Yay I finally get to make a “both sides are awful” argument and be right

  on AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable” in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• You can tell what someone’s politics are but what they consider to be “political”. To some people, others just existing as a woman or some type of minority is a political act.

  on Queen of the Hill in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• surgeons or architects

  Those are reasonable use cases, but they’re not the ones companies like Apple were ever doing research into. Pretty much every major advancement in professional applications for VR was done in academia.

  on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• By the same token, AR is no longer new technology. Every AR app I’ve ever had on my phone got used a couple of times at the start, and have since been auto-offloaded from disuse. There might be some edge case stuff relating to accessibility tools, but companies like Apple weren’t the ones leading research into those in the first place.

  In fact now I come to think of it, the most successful AR app I’m aware of is Pokemon Go…

  on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• You’d think, and yet all the gamers I know who own a headset has it gathering dust on the shelf.

  on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• See that’s the thing, it sounds like it should be good for that, but really it doesn’t facilitate any kind of social interaction you weren’t able to get from your PC, and at the same time makes a bunch of other stuff more awkward.

  on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Every few years for over half a century, someone decides that VR is finally going to be a big thing, spends a bucketload of cash on it, only to learn the exact same lesson: VR doesn’t actually solve any kind of practical problem anyone ever had, but it does create a whole bunch of new ones.

  on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• yeah, one of the responses lower down made me realize why PeerTube is unlikely to be a success any time soon - it’s not something the typical YouTube user has to deal with.

  on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• I wanted it to not be dog slow, because every one I tried spent all its time buffering. I’m not really sure how the architecture of it works but it seemed to suggest some kind of p2p thing so thought that leaving the window open might seed it? But either it didn’t or just nobody was interested.

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

• I wish PeerTube worked. For a while I tried just leaving in running on the theory that it might help out, but it didn’t seem to do anything. Not sure if I’m doing it wrong?

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

• Sure but it’s the opportunism and greed that grates. They pay literally zero for the overwhelming majority of their content, and very little for the rest.

  If you Writer-Produce-Star in a TV show that gets 2 million viewers on NBC or ABC, you’re well into the five figures per episode in individual take-home pay, maybe even six. YouTube on the other hand you might just about hit $10,000 for 2M views depending on niche, but they cover zero of your expenses and take none of the up-front risk. If you’ve got more than one person working on making that show, or you had any expenses attached to it, you’re pretty much screwed.

  Google could VERY easily keep turning a profit on the old price, but shareholders demand infinite unending growth.

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

• dude it reads like you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing and completely lost sight of (or deliberately misunderstood) what my original point was. And then you’re capping it off with an unnecessary personal attack. Maybe you’re the one that needs to reassess your values?

  on Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Thanks for that textbook example of the exception proving the rule: a QA tester is as far from “internet rando” as you can get; the fact that you had to cite someone whose actual job is to make sure accessibility law is followed, proves how few actually good examples there are.

  on Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• I’m not unsympathetic to accessibility issues, but at the same time it’s REALLY suspicious how much internet randos (especially on Bluesky) suddenly started being really militant about alt-tagging at EXACTLY the same time as the tech billionaires started needing tagged images to train their clankers.

  on Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• Yeah I’d forgotten about what a dud GTA 4 was. Not just the driving, the faux-HDR or whatever you call it really did not work on my TV so it kept alternating between too dark to see anything and everything washed out white. Basically made it unplayable. I’m sure it looked amazing on the developers’ high spec LCD monitors, but it was ass on my CRT.

  on Flrulep in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 Aug 2026

• see now you’re just being argumentative and indulging in petty pedantic point-scoring mental gymnastics for its own sake.

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• It looks exactly the same as Amazon in every other country. That’s a not a good counterpoint.

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• It gives more details, but it doesn’t particularly make the US not look like a bunch of dickholes whose definition of “free market” changes to shape whatever suits them from one moment to the next.

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Japanese customers genuinely do like it like that. Rakuten do A/B testing up the wazoo just like every other big ecommerce company.

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Even right wingers like this dude don’t want authoritarian surveillance bs

  There’s long been a hypocrisy with the right where they’re all about civil liberties and privacy for themselves and authoritarian surveillance for everyone else.

  on East Tennessee commissioner says Flock CEO should be hanged in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 20 Aug 2026

• Especially if you’re Google. Matching “anonymous” travel activity to their Google Maps, login, Chrome, and Gmail history should be pretty trivial with a high success rate.

  on Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Everyone loses here. It’s no longer possible to trust any organisation with your data, because no matter what they say or do, they have no control over what will happen to it if they ever become insolvent.

  on Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• also potentially unpopular opinion: I’ve encountered about as many engineers over the years that were under-skilled for their positions, than ones who were competent. Whenever I see posters whine about how unreasonable the requirements for a job posting is, I always instinctively read it in one of the former’s voices…

  on Db admin, cloud admin, printers, more for $110k. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 20 Aug 2026

• “Manager” in this context generally doesn’t mean someone who has people reporting to them, it means someone who manages the IT. It can absolutely be an early-career role. See also: equipment manager, facilities manager etc.

  on Db admin, cloud admin, printers, more for $110k. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 20 Aug 2026

• Yeah, it doesn’t sound like 3 jobs at all. It’s as close to a textbook definition of what you’d expect an IT Manager to do as I can think of.

  on Db admin, cloud admin, printers, more for $110k. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 19 Aug 2026

• You’re not crazy, it’s just that posts like this are generally tribal. Nobody here actually knows what the day-to-day of that job is, they just want a pretext to vent about their own experiences of being asked to do work that they didn’t want to do.

  on Db admin, cloud admin, printers, more for $110k. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 19 Aug 2026

• We’re almost certainly talking about literally everything a bot scraping catalogues decides it doesn’t have. I highly doubt it’ll be discriminating.

  on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• • Doesn’t solve a problem

  • Recording everything around you is fucking creepy

  I mean at some stage you have to start wondering about the sort of person with a less-than-one-week-old account that’s up in here defending them so vociferously. I notice you’re also in other AI threads on Lemmy being equally shilly.

  on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• I read your list and stand by my statement. Half the things on that list are novelties that you’d get quickly bored of, and the other half have solutions that don’t require pervert glasses. I see zero problems being solved anywhere in the list you just made.

  on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• also I suspect the shill bots have started to find their way over here too.

  on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• The actual usefulness and potential of smart glasses, especially ones with cameras, is almost unfathomable.

  I thought the first paragraph was leading to a decent point, but “unfathomable usefulness” is an almost rabid level of overstatement. There’s some fathomable applications as an aid for blind people, but every other use case that’s ever come up has ranged from “novelty” to “really fucking creepy” with the occasional “looks like a useful thing but didn’t really solve an actual problem we had with the previous way of doing it”.

  on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026