Yes. During the rise of Hitler, Jewish newspapers stubbornly insisted not to worry, that he couldn’t do all the horrible things he said he was going to do because of “the constitution”. It turns out a piece of paper with words written on it doesn’t protect you from someone who doesn’t value it, no matter how much you might value it.
It’ll be more like a civil war we’ll get dragged into, I think. But either way, it’s going to be absolutely brutal.
They’re never going to attract the kind of talent or loyalty or qualifications they had previously, these people they’re hiring now are going to be festering their corruption and incompetence around for decades. It really is remarkable how much damage Trump has done to the entire US civil service in such a short time. He has drained the swamp alright, by displacing it with toxic waste instead.
I can see the appeal of eschewing society as a whole in favor of a bot that I know won’t ask me my political or religious leanings and then tailor their behavior around my answer.
… tailoring their behavior around your answer is literally how LLMs work. That’s why they’re so sycophantic. Also unless you’re running it locally on a machine you control, it doesn’t need to ask you about your political or religious leanings anyway because it already knows. That’s exactly the sort of context that data brokers have already long-since developed around your identity, and a commercial AI model is absolutely going to be looking at that kind of context to know exactly how to talk to you.
You are going the wrong direction if you think AI is the solution to any of these things at least in the way it is currently being used.
Casual smalltalk with randos is probably the cure. “Much less appealing” is the environment that’s been intentionally created to prevent you from doing that. We’re all in the same boat.
Fire them all until they run out of worse people to replace them with.
That’s not athleticism, that’s a different sport. I can beat marathon runners too when I use a bicycle.
Even if you were somehow able to overcome the “can” question, the far more meaningful question is “will it do so fairly”, and it’s absolutely certain it will not. If you agree the problem of the justice system is that rich people own it, this is not the solution to that problem. This literally is that problem.
Stories like this always feel like misdirection efforts to deflect blame from the actually responsible devices and organizations. The amount of normalization of openly-broadcasting-at-all-times cellphones in our society can’t really be explained with anything less than an overwhelming multi-level propaganda campaign.
Who needs spies anymore when you can just convince everyone, even military personnel, to carry around an always-on camera and microphone with onboard power and various long-range wireless options (and get them to willingly keep it continuously charged for you!)
WTF are we doing to ourselves and why anybody tolerates this nonsense I have no idea.
Probably, but I think the lifted black Dodge Ram roaring out pillars of black smoke while tailgating me is going to find out.
He’s still right that it’s weird people like you are going to bat to defend them. Microsoft sucks. It must get tiring if you have to call out every inaccurate thing everyone says to try to tear them down. The important take-home message is that we need to tear them down, they suck.
You don’t see people bothering to defend Epstein, for example. Even though there’s lots of inaccurate stuff going around, there’s enough accurate stuff to be absolutely confident he was an absolute loathsome piece of shit not worth defending. Not worth the effort to defend. Why bother?
What do you see in Microsoft that you think is worth defending? Github is shit, and it’s evil. Let it go.
He mad. And I am here for it. It’s about time we started getting mad at what these assholes are doing to democracy. It’s arguably long overdue. We’ve given up far too much ground.
Private trackers are like the Matrix’s “zion”. When civilization collapses into a dystopian surveillance capitalism hellscape and the AIs and fascist governments take over the net, the last free humans will be hiding in private tracker communities, sharing freely and building a resistance. Will we have mechs with gatling guns? I don’t know, all I can say is I hope so because it looks like we’re going to need it.
Like nuclear fusion, IPv6 is one of those things that feels like it’s constantly about 20 years away, no matter how long we work on it.
homelab is a form of self-hosting and vice versa as far as I’m concerned. Ask away, I’ve never seen that rule being strictly enforced and I don’t think the lemmy community is honestly large enough to support such a rule. It was probably migrated over from Reddit where there were viable communities for all those things.
From Wikipedia: “The Time Cube website did not have a navigation structure such as a menu or a central home page; instead, it was one long continuous page.”
What in the name of Timecube is that webpage.
And to put the pets dot com thing in context a bit, you have to remember that pets dot com was basically offering to ship pet food and pet furniture (notoriously voluminous and heavy objects) to people at a time when courier and direct-to-consumer freight services were still slow, insanely expensive and unreliable, the contemporary joke was that Fedex parcels would arrive looking like they had been run over (or even worse if they were marked fragile). This was before Amazon was doing free 2-day shipping and all the consequences that had in transforming the logistics market.
So you have to realize that the world was a different place back then, and expectations were different, and the realities of doing business online were different, so when pets dot com said they were going to make a business out of selling notoriously voluminous and heavy objects online with no brick-and-mortar locations to customers who would then have to wait for it and be prepared for disruption in the shipping process while their animals starved, reasonable people thought they were completely fucking unhinged. But business people thought it was fucking genius.
And it turns out they were in fact completely unhinged, and it was not genius, their failure ended up being emblematic for the complete insanity and detachment from reality that was going on while the “dot com” bubble was inflating, and represented the failure of the false idea that if you slapped a “dot com” on any particular industry you would capture and revolutionize that industry automatically, which is what pets dot com thought they were going to do. At the time everyone thought brick and mortar was so expensive and online was so cheap they were all going to be Netflix and completely kill their respective industry’s Blockbuster overnight. They were very wrong. Turns out you can’t just go ahead and start selling pet food online and replace all pet food stores and nobody had really thought that through, they were so overconfident that success was assured because they were doing it online and online is obviously better than brick-and-mortar in every way, right? Right?
It is a very similar kind of insanity and a very similar breathless fascination with AI’s imagined potential to replace every job and be used in every business that is propelling the AI bubble. They will inevitably find out they are wrong too but they can stay irrational about it for a very long time before reality catches up with them and we don’t know exactly how harmful it is going to be when it finally does, other than “probably a lot”.
In that case I’d definitely recommend taking a look at pi, it’s a fairly minimal and controllable starting point where you’re in the driver’s seat at all times and most “features” are opt-in and handled responsibly. And since it’s extensible you can even use plugins like the ones here to do things like add more protections against undesired actions if you want and if that is too minimal and you eventually realize you want something a little bit more like OpenClaw you might want to look into Hermes-Agent, which has similar comprehensiveness to OpenClaw but seems to be a lot more responsibly designed. I don’t have any personal experience with it but that seems to be what most of the “security-thoughtful AI keeners” (which I feel is a bit of a contradiction but people seem to be having some success with it) are using these days.
Part of what big tech has done is to divide us from one another and “curate” our information spaces to make it feel like we’re the only ones experiencing these feelings, like we are the only ones who are actually as desperate for change as we are, when the reality is that I think everyone is actually on pretty close to the same page for a lot of the same reasons. Believe it or not, we do all inhabit the same reality, we have just been made to feel that that reality is itself fictional. It does not serve big tech or big media or big government’s interests for us to know exactly how much we have in common, because they don’t want us to find a common purpose.
Oh god no, the reason I use TUI is to get away from all this graphical rendering shit. What’s wrong with ASCII art? If your TUI is too much for even bloated Unicode to handle, you’ve probably already wandered into the lands of the GUI and you should probably just be honest with yourself and stay there.