boston_clone

há 24 horasdiscuss

My favorite part of the article is a sentence of almost soft encouragement to other privacy-minded vigilantes:

> These units sit on open roadside poles — reachable, visible, and currently without any publicly announced tamper-resistance plan.

Direct action rocks!

boston_clone

há 3 diasdiscuss

Too many random folks coming out of the woodwork to denounce unions by way of vague personal experience without anything concrete to back it up. Be evidence based, people! Anecdotes are meaningless! Like, I know there's astroturfing here, but damn.

Collective bargaining vis-a-vis unionization allows workers to more effectively push back against bullshit like RTO mandates and mass layoffs. They help reign in the massive pay packages to executives who directly benefit from laying folks off. And there's a reason why companies monitor internal communications and engage in retaliatory actions against employees for even discussing organizing. Yes, that's technically illegal under US labor law. But corporations do not care and will accept the risk of a non-guaranteed fine to make an example and enforce a chilling effect for other workers.

The fact that unions aren't a perfect solution to the overwhelming might of capitalist interests at each and every workplace does not mean that unions are bad, worthless, or not on the side of the individual worker. They are designed to make the tilt of power more equitable.

boston_clone

há 3 diasdiscuss

Could you share why you feel that way to help add more to the conversation and give context to your own opinion?

boston_clone

há 8 diasdiscuss

prime “can’t see the forest for the trees” sort of thinking, here

boston_clone

há 14 diasdiscuss

Oh wow, creating a boogeyman by thinking how motivated people could do something bad but having no evidence for that sounds both terrifying and exhausting. Glad you made it out alive. Wish the animals did, too.

boston_clone

há 14 diasdiscuss

What “scare”? You mean the novel coronavirus pandemic which killed millions?

The Texas state government overrode city ordinances and attempts by private businesses to enforce masking for in-store shopping. Simply saying it was wide open like the rest of Texas is extremely inaccurate. Here’s the EO which refutes, like, every single weird point you’re trying to make:

https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/EO-GA-38_continued...

boston_clone

há 14 diasdiscuss

I’m a scary vegan that’s probably healthier than you. What is this “humane harvesting” - could you describe it and how it relates to university pharmacology departments?

Consuming animal proteins that cause cancer and promote zoonotic diseases are not “one of the healthiest things you can do”. Got anything peer reviewed? Share away.

boston_clone

há 15 diasdiscuss

oh no, did the scary vegans tell your group of folks to stop abusing and killing animals?

boston_clone

há 16 diasdiscuss

or “slavery”

boston_clone

há 21 diasdiscuss

I think the evidence is strong, here. Quite difficult to form new memories without a brain!

boston_clone

há 21 diasdiscuss

A massive chasm exists between good, creative ideas and ideas that aren’t nonsense.

boston_clone

há 24 diasdiscuss

I wasn’t aware Apple announced an offering.

Regardless, the general sentiment about this hardware is obviously not great, anecdotally I know zero people who own these (or they at least refuse to wear them), and they are exceptionally rare in both US major metros I frequent.

Perhaps their popularity exists moreso in print than reality?

boston_clone

há 28 diasdiscuss

January Sixth was not a protest, it was an attempt to interfere with government processes to prevent Biden from being elected - so a really shitty attempt at a coup.

boston_clone

mês passadodiscuss

no, not shocked; just willing to check that perspective more publicly than most.

the vonnegut quote is hitting hard today -

“why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.”

boston_clone

mês passadodiscuss

No, not lonely, I simply choose to not dehumanize those who work in that role.

> it's universally something that should have been possible online without talking to anyone

why do you think it is the case that quite literally zero medium+ sized companies have no customer support? do you think it’s possible that not every single iota of knowledge or edge case is immediately digitized and ready for consumption by an LLM?

is it also possible that customers that pay serious money for a service don’t want to click about on a website to solve a problem they didn’t cause? wasting someone’s time like that when you already fucked up is a very quick way to lose a customer; one throat to choke, as they say.

but since you’ve drawn the rest of the owl with those stages, I can only assume you’re raking in mad consultant fees for companies like Meta - they certainly haven’t had any issues replacing their humans with AI recently!

boston_clone

mês passadodiscuss

>There's nothing a low-level CS representative does that couldn't be handled by an LLM.

This kind of reductionist take is an immediate tell that one has no experience in that kind of role. More worryingly, it hints of something antisocial and misanthropic. Do you not enjoy talking with other people during your day? Have you never experienced the resolution of complexity or ambiguity from a person that is intimately familiar with a product, its documentation, or internal processes?

boston_clone

mês passadodiscuss

I think it's because the extremes are simply not equivalent.

On one hand, you have smart people are doing cool and interesting things like dang referenced: breathing life into old projects and cleaning out old bugs in EOL hardware.

And then you have people who use it to do things like "chatGPT can this trailer pull this car?", "gosh, my electric bill is high I should use an LLM to figure this out" or "please write this email to my subordinates".

So yeah, it's cool that LLMs can work on software(. And now, the profession that intersects between highest earning potential and least amount of schooling is able to be done significantly faster, so wages will be diluted faster than the workers will ask for raises commensurate to their output).

But it's more obviously terrible because a large chunk of people are losing their critical and creative thinking abilities rapidly, obviously, and with seemingly no end in sight.

boston_clone

mês passadodiscuss

Fascinating; you used a non-deterministic tool - one that disclaims its own accuracy - to calculate critical information that could result in serious damages or physical injury? Did you like, double-check the results?

One must imagine how many claims have been denied by insurance companies for doing something like this...

boston_clone

mês passadodiscuss

Let's not speak so airily of forced pregnancies.

boston_clone

mês passadodiscuss

I stopped using google as my primary email service a few years ago in favor of the custom domain integration that comes with iCloud+.

If you already have a domain and know what an MX or CNAME record is, it takes less than thirty minutes to set up.

Migrating critical correspondence / autopay / etc. may take some time, but observing how much spam continues to flow to your old inbox will certainly be surprising. Now, it is exceptionally easy for me to keep all messages read, and only use my google account for junk signup forms.

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/add-a-domain-you-own-...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102540

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