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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Greetings.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

at this point I'm afraid to physically touch grass because I am pretty sure the grass is going to try to sell me a Copilot subscription

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

oh hi I have ADHD if I hadn't mentioned that

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like managing external stimuli about random vendor sports was already hard enough, this is truly intolerable. surely there must be a way to bring an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against, like… the zeitgeist, for creating a hostile work environment. I would like one billion dollars in damages please

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

everybody out here posting about how LLMs are making them worse at writing and coding because it's atrophying their skills and not really getting much work done anyway, but not me, LLMs are making *me* worse at writing and coding because every time I look at anything on my computer or go outside and drive down any road with a billboard on it or talk to my friends or my kid's friends' parents, I am slapped in the face with some fresh indignity that I can't stop talking about

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Went to a tech store for the first time in A While and it struck me just how disillusioned I felt. I have known since I was a teenager that the tech industry was incredibly shady but once upon a time I believed that computers could bring about some kind of utopia even if the companies were going about it badly. Now I.... just don't. Not that I plan on running off into the woods anytime soon, but I think deep down I've finally stopped believing this tech is the solution to... anything, really.

Now when I see these new devices I think "oh cool, they'll have all new ways to spy on me", plus they're advertising AI too, because of course they are. Is anybody actually going "hooray, my new AI PC!"?. I'm pretty sure even people who habitually use AI aren't queueing up for this crap. So who is it even for? Who are they trying to sell this BS idea of a future to? Or do they just think consumers are their captive audience now? I get the impression that it really is a captive audience effect.

It feels empty; I feel empty; I devoted my entire working life to computers and now I need to find a new path.

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

DC-the-city is so much better than DC-the-government

#USPol

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mcc wrote:

So if I'm reading this news story right, Effective Altruism has been acquired by the Saudi Investment Fund

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i think this would make a sick side gag format on a sketch show. probably being served at a different restaurant each time by zoomers who have no idea who he is.

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djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

RIP William Orbit

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AFZdikapiaE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("pun gent") wrote:

I know it's #BandcampFriday, and I'm going to buy some stuff from there today, but I also joined Subvert, a collectively owned music platform.

I have no idea whether they'll end up the next Bandcamp or the next Cohost, but I like what they're doing.

https://subvert.fm

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

lionel richie gets invited to a bbq: hello, is it me you're cooking for?

jwz wrote:

Today in Mr. Choppy news.

In what-is-now-traditional journalistic malpractice, none of the articles about this have a photo or video of the guillotine. But I found one. Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New AI Data Center. Company Reps Left,...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-W

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aud@fire.asta.lgbt (":: Asta ::") wrote:

@glyph@mastodon.social "we spent a trillion dollars to sample what must be a gaussian distribution a hundred million times but it oddly never plots as gaussian? we must be sampling it wrong"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but absence of evidence *after nearly 4 years of hundreds of millions of people gathering evidence* is still probably indicative of something

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am, once again, not even saying that this is *necessarily false*, either. Just that the nature and quality of the evidence is so varied and muddled that we really just do not know. The fact that so many people *cannot even allow for the possibility* that the net utility might be negative, that the correct answer for a lot of people might just be "don't use them at all", is just so frustrating.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117037614521306051

It strikes me as deeply ironic that david gerard absolutely clocked this entire genre of writing with his tagline, "it can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong".

So many esteemed elders of the tech world have absolutely latched on to the idea that because it *seems* like it does useful stuff in their subjective impression, the only possible conclusion one might draw about the chatbots is that they absolutely *must* have an economically viable generalized use-case.

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coolsquid@438punk.house ("really??????") wrote:

good morning this guillotine bike trailer is really doing it for me

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Microsoft says its AI-powered bug-hunting software will find more flaws in Windows going forward

PROBLEM SOLVED 😂

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hagen wrote:

unpopular opinion: software developers were too comfortable for too long. they didn't unionize when everybody told them to. they didn't use the time they had when they were on top to implement meaningful safeguards for their jobs. and now llms are hitting their industry like a sledgehammer and they don’t know how to fight because they never did.

i don’t say that to blame them, it’s still their bosses who are the problem. but take it as a wake up call and unionize. better late than never.

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bitprophet@social.coop ("Jeff Forcier") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/117053850151600277

Please note that this is actual news and not a scathing satirical shitpost! Good luck to Andrew & co with this. 🫶👏🙌🤞🙏

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ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Drew gets roasted for his abysmal #Fallout takes #Fallout3 #FalloutNewVegas

Attachments:

• video: Chris and Drew talk about Fallout New Vegas

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

oops, i accidentally the cheesy puffs

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Not to mention writing a local AI that supports my family.

if only there were some other way to support your family

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daveycraney@social.lol ("Davey Craney") wrote:

https://craney.uk/posts/breaking-parallel-lives

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admiralwonderboat ("Admiral Wonderboat") wrote:

happy friday!

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ancoghlan ("Alyssa Coghlan") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@stewardshiplab/117053438317483406

I recognise a lot of the names in this launch announcement, so it will be interesting to see what comes out of this effort.

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janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/117054359708324755

Well, shit.

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masek@infosec.exchange ("Martin Seeger") wrote:

For anyone who was under the mistaken impression that the RAM situation would get better in 2027, I’m afraid I have some bad news:

https://www.digitimes.com.tw/tech/dt/n/shwnws.asp?CnlID=1&id=0000763847%5FDVY7YHX65GMLYZ6UQEEMP

The article says the memory market is currently undergoing a structural shift. If you’ve been following my posts, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.

The headline roughly translates to:

Memory production for all of 2027 is already sold out. Buyers are keeping quiet because they’re afraid they might not get enough themselves.

According to DigiTimes, the 2027 production capacity of the three major DRAM manufacturers, Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, has essentially already been allocated.

And China isn’t going to save us either. Even Apple just hit a wall there:

https://www.techpowerup.com/351401/tsmc-sits-on-usd-1-billion-of-apple-chips-as-it-waits-for-dram

This affects both regular DRAM and HBM. The situation with NAND is a little less extreme, but even there, large chunks of 2027 production are already being reserved.

So we’re moving from

“RAM is getting scarce.”

to

“The big customers aren’t buying memory chips anymore. They’re reserving factory capacity years in advance.”

DigiTimes paints a pretty vivid picture: some buyers are deliberately keeping quiet about just how aggressively they’re reserving capacity, because they’re worried that too much attention will bring even more companies into the bidding and leave them with a smaller share.

Memory manufacturers are increasingly signing three- to five-year LTAs, Long-Term Agreements, with their major customers. Large cloud and AI companies use these deals to secure fixed volumes or production capacity. On top of that, manufacturers are sometimes demanding advance payments or deposits to reserve that capacity.

Interesting times ....

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

Apologies for being literate and applying critical-thinking skills. It will happen again.