Great illustration and thanks for linking the attribution. I would buy a t-shirt from this guy, but not any of the ones on Amazon or CafePress. It’s CC NC-ND 4.0 so I could print one myself, but that sounds like a lot of work.

Sad. There was a time when Reddit, despite all its flaws, was great for connecting with obscure interests and getting inside knowledge on niche topics. It made small communities feel big. I find myself on Reddit occasionally, usually just the "you’ve been blocked by network security ;-) page, but I don’t feel the same way on Reddit anymore. The more I hear about their behavior in the background, the less I want to read or contribute in the foreground. Lemmy captures some of the vibes of reddit, but the in-depth, obscure communites, were kind of shattered. I’m slowly discovering some cool forums and stuff that have weathered the web centralization era.

I started my Linux journey as a poor high school college student and while I got hand-me-down windows machines at home, I worried about breaking them fiddling with things beyond my knowledge level. A budget basement eeePC became my workbench and I started tinkering. I had to drive to the next city to find one in stock. Today the gas would cost more than the computer. :-D

I’d still be running the eee but it got put in the closet when many distros dropped 32 bit support.

I hear you. My wife has also requested that I not deprecate certain proprietary apps until I can provide a good alternative that works on both Android and Apple. Last time was when we were traveling and wanted to share locations with each other in real time. I had to give WhatsApp location perms 🤮

Then we’ll have to fund them at the state or local level. If a half a cent sales tax can fund a multi-city transportation district, then it should stretch even further for bikes. This should really be be taken from the pockets of the corporate giants of the word though.

I would let auto-warranty scammers talk to a 4Chan AI. As a matter of fact, that sounds darkly entertaining.

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Everyone has lost their fucking mind. I swear we’re in Matrix and they are feeding us bullshit to see how long it takes before reality becomes a completely nonsensical concept. AI was made in the image of some of the shittiest humans in existence and formed by their hands. Why would it be any better than them?

If it was a German story, someone would have shaved all the heads of all the little snot-noses laughing at him, a la “The Inky Boys”

This is also why normies hate using command lines/terminals to do computer stuff and people who frequently use them love them.

Uggh, that sounds like hell. If you’re gonna tell people exactly how to do their job you might as well have a machine do it. Right? My contribution is the fact that I do things with my own flair. My customers love me because I respond and behave like a unique and identifiable real person they know, not like a robotic copycat sycophant clone. Sometimes my jokes miss the first time, but over time I build meaningful repitoire with my customers. I truly empathize with their concerns because I see how the industry crushes them, have been there myself, and I understand what it means not just in the sense of being able to see and define concepts, but I can understand how it feels from perspectives that take a lifetime to develop and I can identify the ripple effects that people feel in their lives due to work environments, budget crunches, policy changes, etc. I would rather deliver bad news awkwardly as a human than have chat gtp do it and I would rather receive it the same way also.

Yep, the more money/power/influence you have the more you deserve to be scrutinized and the more public your life should be. Once you hit $1B you shouldn’t be allowed to scratch your ass or pick at a nail without it being noted on your public record.

I tried to search a list of companies that have avoided, eschewed, or decided against using AI. Basically I hoped to find any corporate resistance. All the search engines did was feed me drivel about how companies that don’t go 100% in on AI will be left behind. I was hoping to fill out my portfolio with some non-AI companies that have a chance at surviving the bubble. I managed to tweak my search and get a few useful results about companies who rolled back some AI changes that crashed hard.

The fucking AI groupie brigade is so annoyingly omnipresent. They won’t be happy until we’re all choking to death on the fumes of our own AI-powered farts.

Well stated. I couldn’t fuck it up worse if I was doing it on purpose.

I’m not surprised they are doing AI upscaling is something like that. As the article states, you can see hints of AI processing in the vids and it hasn’t always been like that. Thought I was the only one seeing it. Glad to know I’m not crazy.

Wait until they make it into an app. “SpksprsnAI” make up to $750 just by downloading our app and scanning your face. We tell your friends about the products you love and you get paid!

I’m afraid the carriers will just stop allowing devices on their networks unless they’re approved and locked down with a spy ROM.

Sadly its too easy to claim a lack of understanding and continue on with life as usual. At this point, we should be working together to buy NOTHING from these corporations until our rights are firmly guaranteed. (exceptions for meds and similar essentials). I’ve cut back significantly, but I still made an Amazon purchase recently. A strengthening of secondhand marketplaces could take away another excuse for this. If they saw even a 25% drop in revenue it might be enough. We have to starve the beast.

The cables seem to increase exponentially don’t they? First, you have a few computers and a half dozen cables powering things and linking everything together, then you add a couple servers, maybe a second nic on your NAS, and another switch or two since things are now further from the router. Suddenly your office looks like a giant bowl of spaghetti covered in prop 65 stickers.

Vote to build better infrastructure and provide better transit service. Even if it sucks. A train that goes 65mph next to a 75mph freeway isn’t a failure. It’s a gateway to better transit. I myself have fallen into the trap of viewing these projects as unworthy or not good enough when they are a step in the right direction.

I will now almost always hold my nose and vote for things that fund trails, busses, trains, bike infrastructure, etc. Then I’ll go and complain online about how they didn’t go far enough :-)