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smileson2on Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion

Might as well be, it’s not the doing of a single party but it’s pretty much just become the lever of a few at this point, people simply don’t matter unless they are able and willing to pay for representation

I’m whatever about it though, will be interesting to watch crumble

smileson2on Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US

data labeling

smileson2on Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S

Is a better graph

smileson2on Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming

If tech means generic webshit sure

smileson2on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

Yeah probably makes sense to just offshore r&d more to countries that don’t get in the way so much

smileson2on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

Personally I don’t care if ML is used for weapons development assuming there are standards

It’s the companies that horde everyone’s personal information, who eroded the concept of privacy while mediating lives with false promises for trust turning into state intelligence agencies that bothers me

The incentives and results become fucked up, safe guards less likely to work I get not a lot of people care but it’s dangerous

smileson2on Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation

Are the ai worlds the dirt or the water here?

smileson2on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

I dunno I get a giggle out of the non intentionally satirical news summaries

Personally I think it’s bad to use llms where people need to have trust or don’t expect non exactness, they are handy for some things though

smileson2on More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, weeks before Christmas

People love GTA and COD they execute really well

There’s really no shortage of games atm

smileson2on Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby

Game changing for my advent of code solutions which look surprisingly similar

smileson2on America Stopped Cooking with Tallow for a Reason

I may be misremembering because I was so young back then but wasn't making French fries suitable to vegetarians and hindus a big factor?

I could swear there was a lawsuit or something related to fries being cooked with cow when people thought they were not

smileson2on CDC Confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in California Child: First Child Case in US

Yeah the government has been heavily ramping up production of influenza antigen that should be effective against this strain the past year of so and funding more targeted mrna type vaccine research for h5n1

we won't be as blindsided or unprepared as we were by covid for this one

smileson2on Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff

scumbag move tbh

smileson2on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction

For real, at some point running development and product teams cracking on features for no reason is a real negative

software can generally be 'done' in the same way building a skyscraper can be

smileson2on NASA's Europa Clipper Launch

It's easy to imagine 3-4 years of projects failing and someone grandstanding about it, space exploration is a pointless endeavor to a lot of people

smileson2on AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world

for sure so let's ignore any suffering or complaints and celebrate every tragedy because it's worth it in the end for someone else?

just hand wave anyones pain away because it works for you? I guess people are used to it

smileson2on AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world

You don't understand people being worried their lives and families are going to be destroyed?

smileson2on If AI seems smarter, it's thanks to smarter human trainers

I hate this analogy, even things from the rad days like vb were better than electron

smileson2on Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses

It’s a cool concept, I do like the idea of something like this as a sort of hud for some tasks

I also wanted that from HoloLens and hololens2 which I worked with for a bit but both of those were just painful for me to use and I wasn’t a fan of the display

smileson2on Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects

That’s not for telegram to decide and dictate to everyone else I’m not sure I’d call that sad

smileson2on Is Tor still safe to use?

Yes fair point

smileson2on OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

Well they put a sv social media dude at the helm not really unexpected, just a get rich scheme now

smileson2on Is Tor still safe to use?

Depends on your risk, if are are trying to avoid censorship and political repression in say Iran or china you are probably fine

If you are an enemy of the United States you probably aren’t but that’s a high bar

smileson2on TouchArcade Is Shutting Down

Feels like the race to the bottom is nearing the finish line

smileson2on Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream

Well at least it isn't another Hans Reiser situation

smileson2on Linux 6.11 Released

it's more beneficial than whatever your parents were able to pull off

smileson2on Terence Tao on O1

we're a post illiteracy society now

smileson2on The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)

now we call them devops

smileson2on Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users

that's false, why do you think that?

smileson2on Starliner Is Such a Disaster That Boeing May Cancel the Entire Project

Isn’t that sort of distributed setup what caused this in the first place?

Boeing got addicted to cutting and outsourcing to improve the stock same shit that kills every bigco