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- on your entire personality now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026
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on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 Sep 2026
Wouldn’t doubt it, “commie news network” CNN was absolutely blasting democratic candidates while letting conservatives on to spout 30 minutes of lies with no pushback, so they’d seem “fair.” Made 0 difference conservatives still say they are unbelievably biased. Luckily all these news orgs are owned by the same billionaire so it’s unlikely to change 😴😴😴
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on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026
Cut their funding massively and that’s what you get I guess. PBS also got massive cuts under Trump, information is the enemy of the state.
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on Counter-Therapism Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
Sadly this is all medicine, I lost so much faith in it as soon as it wasn’t “extremely obvious problem with extremely obvious solution.” For the brain, it’s a much worse situation because we understand it so little. It turns into “throw random ideas at it and hope one works” and a lot of people are just lonely or needed lifestyle changes so it “works” for them :/
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Yes which is why I’m not against ai as a whole, just in its current form it needs massive regulations. I would still not be happy about how it’s ruined huge portions of the internet, but I would probably put up with that for the value it provides.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Sure not all the critique is accurate, but in its current form, it causes huge issues with water and noise pollution in places the data centers are built, and are sucking unbelievable amounts of power, while essentially DDOSing tons of sites to scrape data, and often using copyrighted material that they have no license for. It is also reducing people’s ability to think critically because people turn to it immediately.
I’m not an idiot who will say it’s not useful, but we need to slow down by about 20x with what we’re doing with it now, and save it mainly for medical usage until we have a solution to those massive problems.
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on We ignored the signs. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 27 Aug 2026
I’m a millennial and baaaarely avoided dial-up, it was phasing out in the late 90s but I still have the sound burned into my head so I assume my parents used dial up when I was super young.
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on We ignored the signs. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 25 Aug 2026
People take it for granted but it’s actually such a cool bit of engineering, we had a world-changing technology, but it would take decades to get lines set up and wouldn’t really be too useful until then. But engineers realized by literally playing and listening to beeps over an existing widespread utility in phone lines, you’ve just given almost everyone access to the internet overnight, with almost 0 infrastructure cost.
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on its the end of the rule as we know it in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026
The difference for the cold war was it was an imminent, visible threat, that short term decisions could change, where it is beneficial to all parties to prevent it. Climate change is just about the opposite in every possible way.
There was uncertainty of what might happen in the cold war, but this time we have near certainty that there will be extreme consequences due to climate change, the uncertainty is what other negatives might come with it.
It’s a little annoying that staying the reality is “doomerism” when I’m still actively fighting against it, and I think it’s a bit harmful to compare it to other situations where we weren’t so absolutely certain of the extreme consequences we will face. If the building is on fire you don’t say it’s not to prevent panic, you want people to know how serious it is.
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on its the end of the rule as we know it in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026
You say this is hyperbole but my parents have said quote “well if it is true we’ll be gone by then but…”
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on Young people increasingly don't trust AI - or the billionaires that keep telling us we should all love AI, survey finds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
You have to live in reality idk what to say, if black people commit more crime in an area I want to have that information so I can figure out why so I can prevent it (outreach programs specifically targeted at black kids for instance), if you say it as a dogwhistle to other racists that’s a different story.
I think genZ is absolutely cooked for different reasons (AI, social media, tiktok, covid lockdowns during a critical part of development) and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also an at-risk group to scams.
If your goal is to dogwhisle or denigrate based on identity then yes that’s wrong, but old people are the majority of the voting block and they majority voted for Trump. Saying “old people are racist and closed-minded” is false. Saying “old people are NOT racist and closed-minded” is even more false.
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on Young people increasingly don't trust AI - or the billionaires that keep telling us we should all love AI, survey finds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
All groupings are arbitrary, it just (sometimes) provides utility to group on some shared attributes. It would be more accurate to say boomers trust ai more, not because they’re necessarily stupider (though lead poisoning was extremely common through leaded gasoline), but being older does mean you had less access to multiculturalism, less inundation with scams and technology growing up, and more propaganda that is harder to find counterpoints to.
It’s fully accurate to say “older people generally are more close-minded and trust AI more” without that being an attack on any particular old person. That’s a reality old people and young people need to be aware of, whether it’s for an older person to reflect if that’s happening to them, or a younger person to help an older person with.
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on Young people increasingly don't trust AI - or the billionaires that keep telling us we should all love AI, survey finds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
Older people aren’t stupid and awful, they are just generally more set in their ways, and factually ARE more vulnerable to misinformation and lies, which is why they’re the most vulnerable to scams.
The previous generation, at least in America, was far more repressed and had far less access to information than we do today, which results in more narrow-minded beliefs. Not all old people are like this, but the comment you’re talking about said “old people don’t trust ai” which is not true. Old people as a group do, this person as an individual in that group does not.
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on In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Sometimes it feels more like in front of the bus, and running pacman just puts you a little further up the road
My personality is telling people to use rust, but linux is mainly in C, what do??