froztbyte

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

constant right-wing conspiracies in general really

I did not expect to check and see some shit straight out of the Deus Ex storyline

aaaaaand now I'm going to put on the soundtrack again. would love to also make the morning disappear by playing it, but apple silicon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ikwym, that’s part of the set of crimes I was pointing to

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

chatgpt: for people who don’t want to be gaslit only by bad cli tools

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

metacognition, n.: thinking as formulated by zuck

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I know someone who was hired (around turn of the century) because they knew how to xml with a certain kind of then-important big systems api

the stories I’ve heard from there are hilarious

but is also incredibly ease to create proprietary semantics with

christ the shit I’ve seen with network vendors…. shibboleth NETCONF/YANG. advance warning; abyss grade 6+

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

as a professional abyss-starer, I'm going to talk to my union about this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Read on to find out!

do i have to

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

yeah partly this

and also the other kinds of issues: touchscreens are (even now still) a vastly more complicated engineering item to add than simple toggle switches, and in many places they don't make sense or are a bad solution to pick

but in the hype of then, touchscreens everywhere! turning your lights on? touchscreen. starting your shower water running? touchscreen. opening your window? touchscreen. calling a flight attendant? touchscreen. running your microwave? touchscreen. configuring your fridge temperature? touchscreen.

so, y'know, the usual "this new technology will save us, on everything" bullshit that industries seem so prone to. same reason as why we're seeing so much llm-everywhere bullshit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

but what if the lying box smiled at me and made me feel good about myself, surely that means it's trustworthy right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

that one-liner is just ...... mental

imagine the fucking brain it takes to go "okay yeah I'll put this through opencv" instead of literally clipboard-paste | qrencode | clipboard-capture

just whole brain genius levels of bad

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I guess the supposed appeal is in the implicit dehumanization and racism.

yeah, that's actually how I've always read it. looking at people in lives stretched to the limit of tolerance by the pure drive for survival, and instead of having a fucking lick of empathy and going "wow yeah, all this is kinda shitty, maybe we should change it" they go "oh yeah very clearly this person is incapable of self-directed behaviour and action"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

remember to pick up your coat when you leave

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