bigbuppo

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by bigbuppo 5d ago
Is this a joke? AI chatbots... the things that literally lead users down into a hole of psychosis is the cure?
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by bigbuppo 5d ago
As someone that buys hardware today, all the hardware companies are now in the "we don't want to do business with you" territory.
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by bigbuppo 10d ago
No, it's a method of protecting their business interests. Can't have a clear and obvious kill switch if you don't have a centralized company responsible for providing all AI-related services.
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by bigbuppo 10d ago
And 70 years ago I would agree with you, but now we have a handful of individuals who are the economy with wealth that's rivaling nations. Something has gone awry.
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by bigbuppo 10d ago
Or just following the bandwagon. Here's looking at you hamburger menu... the thing that 83% of people don't even realize is a thing that can be clicked on.
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by bigbuppo 12d ago
I guess we found the tenth dentist.
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by bigbuppo 12d ago
Better yet, don't rely on a central trust authority that can't be trusted.
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by bigbuppo 13d ago
It already has. Google search results out front should have told you.
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by bigbuppo 13d ago
I mean I agree with you, but the real world just wants to get work done.
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by bigbuppo 13d ago
They were trained on reddit posts.
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by bigbuppo 15d ago
Hopefully the board will call his bluff, except he'll overreact in the most him way, wordpress will die, and we can all get on with our lives because there is no more wordpress.
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by bigbuppo 17d ago
Would also mean their labs most be fully airgapped and made safe from all known covert channels, no matter how ridiculously theoretical. In fact, their meat proxies, who may be brainwashed into acting on the AI's behalf, must also be k
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by bigbuppo 17d ago
Invisible hands are the tool of pickpockets.
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by bigbuppo 17d ago
Never underestimate the ability of people in tech to misunderstand the real world. I'm sure there's a couple dozen xkcds about this.
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by bigbuppo 17d ago
Sorry, all out of the good old days. All we have are people working in tech too ashamed to admit they're a willing and complicit part of the surveillance state under the auspices of working in something they also won't admit is ma
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by bigbuppo 17d ago
What's really fun is when you're reselling something like Microsoft 365 and both the credit card companies and the state (through sales tax) make more than you do on each sale.
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by bigbuppo 17d ago
That is correct. While I too would like to see what it looks like if one parent staying home is subsidized, this still shows that subsidizing child care is a net benefit for everyone, and as such it's a good idea to keep the program go
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by bigbuppo 18d ago
These weaponized TVs are a threat to both national and international security.
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by bigbuppo 18d ago
Hackaday isn't the end-all, be-all authoritative source for anything. It's a blog that, for the most part, links to neat stuff with a summary write-up. If something interests you then it's on you to follow the links. This is
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by bigbuppo 22d ago
The only way to learn is to do the damn thing. You'll eventually figure it out. Tinker around with projects that don't matter but are still rewarding. Like, commit a 555 timer and blinky LEDs to proto board. Then find some kits on
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by bigbuppo 22d ago
Domains are an infinite resource. Even a random string of characters can become valuable if the services running off that domain are valuable.
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by bigbuppo 22d ago
Would there be any motivation for the humans behind the scenes to be directing tasks in a certain way knowing that trillions of dollars are on the line? Is it in any particular company's best interest, one that just announced their lat
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by bigbuppo 22d ago
The agents are operating at the behest of humans. Why would humans do this?
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by bigbuppo 23d ago
Wake me when it's going to spontaneously fix my leaky faucet because if it doesn't do it nobody else will. Until it has that capability I don't really care.
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by bigbuppo 23d ago
Because by re-centralizing everything you're not at a competitive disadvantage if you're down since everyone else is down, too.
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by bigbuppo 24d ago
Great news if you want your LLM to be horny, I guess.
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by bigbuppo 24d ago
I live in Misissippi. The last time I had to go in-person for a license renewal I was in and out in less than 10 minutes because they had automated kiosks. Then again, Mississippi is a progressive state.
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by bigbuppo 24d ago
In recent history I've done some work on Pick/Multivalue systems first deployed in the 1980s that have been rolled forward today and I love every minute of it. Dick Pick had some opinions and most of them were pretty good.
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by bigbuppo 25d ago
Stop trying to recreate the desktop experience in the browser. If you want a desktop experience in the browser then simply deliver a desktop application through webassembly. Problem solved. End users really don't care. Things are the w
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by bigbuppo 25d ago
I've been in the same boat, but with mac. I'm tired of keeping a windows machine around just to play a few games. Using a Windows 11 machine stirs up some old trauma I try to forget.

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