Like many neoliberal administrative-margin fiddlers, the author assumes average citizens sympathetic to populist tendencies to be mouth breathing hogs incapable of critical thought. “They know not what is good for them!”
The level of contempt is palpable, and the feeling is mutual.
Because then there would be an imperative upon them to actually govern in accordance to the wishes of their constituencies instead of being able to be the “we’re not Hitler” party
Democrats are controlled opposition, they would much rather lose to Republicans (with whom their donors all share a class interest) than win under any pretense of populism, let alone socialism. It’s completely unacceptable to them. They will do anything to keep the left in line, because it’s the only thing they’re truly afraid of.
He must be cutting his salary too, right?
Liberal and Conservative media outlets alike have been portraying Arabs and Muslims as bloodthirsty savages for generations. The Fox News stuff is obvious and abhorrent but it’s so outlandish its almost comical to anyone with half a working brain cell. But the reason it’s so mainstream and pervasive in the west is largely thanks to the legitimization efforts of liberal mouthpieces like the New York times and the Atlantic, etc. They make it palatable for high society to be able to watch the annihilation of a people and not even flinch.
Never forget, this is software that is being designed with the express purpose to put you out of a job. First and foremost this technology exists to replace and immiserate you.
Push yourself to be better than them. Do not accept mediocrity. Win.
Being a racist loser has no relation whatsoever to being good at a skill, you can be just as good if not better than them. It’s really common to feel like you’ll never be as good as your senior coworkers but that’s just your brain playing tricks on you. I felt the same way when I was just starting out as a cook. I went on to be a sous chef in several Michelin starred/James Beard awarded restaurants before changing careers, so I understand toxic, abusive, high pressure environments, which I understand programming to be.
Those guys are better programmers than you? Ok, tough shit. If you want to get better the only person who can do that for you is you. Prove to them that being a racist piece of shit has nothing to do with being skilled. Or don’t, either way it’s not a reflection on you as a person. But if you want it, you absolutely have the ability to do it, and there is no better vindication than winning.
edit: I fully expected to take downvotes for this, but I do want to add, someday we will have to actually FIGHT fascists and not by posting on the internet, or asking them to think of you as a person (which they do not), or what have you. The day will come that those people who see you as an insignificant worm will be unleashed upon you and they will have the full backing of the state and when that day comes, you will need to be better than them. Accepting mediocrity or losing is fine if you have no stake and winning doesn’t matter. But I do not think that pushing ourselves to be better and ACTUALLY win is something that should be shunned or shied away from, and this is a real life situation where OP can take a personal W for themselves. Best of luck to you, OP, and I hope you take my message to heart!
True, but anything running Bazzite could just as easily run Fedora atomic instead and basically no one could tell the difference. Fedora is sponsored by one of the largest tech companies on the planet.
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The aggregator wasn’t hacked, they essentially hacked the hackers and put together this list. This ain’t a data breach per se, it’s just putting together a bunch of past breaches and patching it up to HIBP.
Hey thanks, lol
Yeah. “AI” is marketing jargon. It’s just a new, novel translation tool.
A big problem our society faces now is that the people who have the ability to shove a thing like AI into every corner of our digital lives are the same dingdongs that stand to gain from its widespread adoption. We essentially have no say in whether or not we want to use it, because we are locked into all their closed source platforms and if they want to make your phone into an AI slop bucket, they can and they absolutely will.
These freaks got too trigger happy though. They’ve been salivating for years for the next big thing after the cloud paradigm shift of the mid 2010’s. That was the last time tech got a major marketing lift and they’re pissed because they’re stagnating. Hardware is slowing down, everyone’s got a supercomputer in their pocket, everyone’s on the cloud, and they can only enshittify so much before people swap products (something capitalists fucking HATE is when they’re actually forced to compete on making a good product). This was the answer to their prayers. A shining star. A machine that steals what already exists and spits it back at you. Limitless ability to plunder with zero responsibility to actually build a product anyone whats to buy. It’s perfect!
But they fucked up. A healthy society could have taken the time to let this thing breathe and realized this is not the next big paradigm shift that will revolutionize the world. Well, it will, but only because they’re forcing it to. Cloud was genuinely a powerful tool. This is barely more useful than Google translate. Its widespread, forced adoption will mark the beginning of a series of deliberate self-owns that the tech industry inflicts upon itself in order to try and squeeze every last drop out of the internet and the people of the world until they enshittify their products so much that they will be literally unusable for their originally intended purpose.
As usual, I take solace in the fact that despite them being hailed as genius visionaries, these are truly some of the dumbest fucking people to ever live. Jobs was an abusive terrorist, but at least the guy had a cult of personality. These fucking dweebs are so comically repulsive, they are one hundred thousand percent guaranteed to fuck this up. If it didn’t stand to literally ruin the lives of many people I know and care about, I would be giddy at the thought of pointing and laughing at their sniveling piss baby faces when they cry and moan to the US government after they blow up the economy.
Ultra Google search, textbook/tutor machine, boilerplate code generator, context explainer, etc. it’s being wildly oversold, overvalued, and in classic capitalist style American companies are happy to trash the environment in order to make a buck, but those are issues baked into the system, not the technology of LLMs in general. It sucks for pretty much 90% of what it’s being sold as so people are rightly recoiling from it, but it does have a use.
Naturally, China has figured out how to do it for 1/100th of the economic and environmental cost.
Also in my personal experience, most IT folks I work with are skeptical at best towards it and almost none of them are comfortable letting it anywhere near production. Pretty much as a rule the people extolling it’s virtues are categorically the dumbest fucking slobbering morons you’ve ever met in your life.
Say what you want, but Johnny Sack is looking great for his age
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Yet when these pedantic pests walk around with their rifles annoying everyone around them they fucking love it like pigs in slop.
Retroactively? It was anti-communist week last week and I DIDNT EVEN KNOW???
American capitalists: People don’t want to buy our products because they suck. We cannot make better products because then we will make less money.
American politicians: People don’t want to vote for us because our positions suck. We cannot have better positions because then we will make less money.
I’m supposed to feel sympathy for these people?
Classic DemonRat logic: “It’s a messaging problem that everyone can see how fucking awful we are acting and we can’t commit a genocide in complete opacity”