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by zombot 5mo ago
There's one important difference: Automation worked and was affordable. Whether slop generation by LLMs is a useful instance of automation and how any productivity achieved stacks up against real , non-subsidized costs is currently a
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by zombot 5mo ago
You're ignoring historical experience. The owners of the means of production have perfected their ability to nab all the upsides of productivity gains, while the workers' best hope is wage stagnation. Combined with the promise of
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by zombot 6mo ago
I would say: Great, let them crash and burn. But when (not if) their cars do the same, it will cost a toll of human victims.
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by zombot 6mo ago
But it's kind of a logical, if misguided, consequence of regulators being completely corrupt and letting those feudal lords do whatever the hell they want.
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by zombot 6mo ago
Light regulation won't cut it any more for companies that are too big to jail.
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by zombot 6mo ago
Looks like the effect was temporary, it's gone now.
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by zombot 6mo ago
Harrius Potter et philosophi lapis OTOH I found a blast to read. The translator is quite resourceful finding Latin names for all kinds of modern stuff. Visne ranam socolatam?
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by zombot 6mo ago
Ironically, if you throw up road blocks for human visitors, the only ones who take the abuse will be bots.
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by zombot 6mo ago
So I got an Incident ID and some captcha mumbo jumbo for attempting to browse that site. Apparently they don't like visitors. Feeling generous today, I decided to not inconvenience them further.
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by zombot 6mo ago
Acquired is such a euphemism for died which is usually mourned by users.
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by zombot 6mo ago
And then Windoze decides it knows better and optimizes your settings right back.
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by zombot 6mo ago
Have you tried using a program that regularly simulates keypresses or mouse movements so the computer thinks the user is still active? The `SCROLL` key for instance can be pressed without causing unwanted side effects, but it stops my Windo
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by zombot 6mo ago
It's vibe coding all the way down.
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by zombot 6mo ago
It kind of messes up the fake statistics if users post unwanted stuff.
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by zombot 6mo ago
> all that matters is "pls use our AI". If you look at the staggering amounts of money that have been put into the tech, this attitude becomes practically mandatory, in an inhuman sense. They have to get ROI, at literally any c
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by zombot 6mo ago
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." – Søren Kierkegaard
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by zombot 6mo ago
I'm looking forward to hallucinated bible videos with heretical content.
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by zombot 6mo ago
Just as NSA employees use their toys to spy on their romantic interests. Surveillance tools without strict oversight and effective disciplinary measures will create abuse as sure as one plus one equals two.
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by zombot 6mo ago
It's not ruined, it's corrupted.
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by zombot 6mo ago
It's even worse. The same USB-A-to-USB-C cable will either charge or not charge my iPhone, depending on where I plug in the USB-A part. But the port that won't charge my phone will happily charge my headset, using the very same c
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by zombot 6mo ago
For all practical purposes, internet search is dead or dying. It has been enshittified to perfection by multiple parties. Those who could have been called users in a previous life are the ones getting the least use out of it. For a brief pe
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by zombot 6mo ago
Now there is no excuse anymore to be working less than 24 hours a day.
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by zombot 6mo ago
After the AI blitz it's amateur hour everywhere.
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by zombot 6mo ago
If that's the backdoor that gets Apple to accidentally write documentation again, I'm all for it.
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by zombot 6mo ago
> What remains is documentation and automation. In my experience, documentation is unwanted because it creates work and no revenue. Which makes the tacit knowledge all the more valuable.
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by zombot 6mo ago
Trump is known to appoint bootlickers over brainiacs.
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by zombot 6mo ago
And this is only the beginning. Wait until they send you to the insane asylum for talking about coding by hand.
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by zombot 6mo ago
A handy tool. Bookmarked. And good to know that Teddy Roosevelt was not an LLM: https://www.trcp.org/2011/01/18/it-is-not-the-critic-who-cou...
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by zombot 6mo ago
If the believers get what they want, soon there will be no more human users and all traffic will be driven by bots.
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by zombot 6mo ago
GitHub, that crappy POS, is down again. > Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time. Or is it GitHub Security, stopping us from cloning this dangerous repo?

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