Notices by Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social), page 2

@nixCraft 10 MB, supposedly but there was some weird shit with that generation of Seagate where it self-destructed if it got more than half full.

@arstechnica We need to stop pretending the calendar matters.

Hurricane season is any time the surface of the ocean is hot enough to spawn a storm.

That's the functional definition and if we never drop under that threshold temperature anymore then hurricane season never ends.

@arstechnica Why do music labels get more protection than any other rights holder from AI piracy?

OpenAI, among others, openly told us it couldn't have existed at all if it had been required to get rights to the things from which it derived ChatGPT.

I feel like this is pretty blatantly a case of some animals being more equal than others.

@nixCraft Theoretically yes but my company also closed nearly all their remote offices so I'm in my own basement scrupulously avoiding turning on video for conference calls.

@arstechnica Was there not enough market for a $3000 toy?

@arstechnica Does that mean he goes to jail when the AI gets somebody killed or does it just mean he's personally obligated to be the one apologizing when it happens?

@arstechnica Their latest model has a full recall against it, they have nothing in the pipeline and explicitly swore off any cheaper models.

Tesla, the entire company, is dying thanks to Musk personally. People need to stop giving him money.

@nixCraft Didn't Kaspersky have some concerning warnings about government ties or something? I haven't kept close track but I'm not sure they get installed on anything of mine.

@foone I can only support this if it's also going to give you very clear errors on failure.

I've spent too much time already pounding my head against cryptic messages that some vendor never thought a human would read to be willing to accept punishment when they screw me again.

@arstechnica You can always make more truck drivers. All you have to do is pay humans enough to make it worth their while and they spontaneously transform into truck drivers.

@arstechnica If it's anything like my dubious usage of ChatGPT, I'll have it doing terrible nonsensical chores and forcing it to make me laugh.

@arstechnica It still doesn't reliably set timers, control lights in my house or control my music on my devices as well as the previous non-AI Assistant did.

They can maybe finish it before they expand it.

@arstechnica Oh good, another easy way for a bored 18 year old to kill people with the blessings of the US government.

We're setting ourselves up to "meh" our way into war crimes.

@benroyce Turns out that "capitalism" is the Great Filter.

Once we invented a system to justify and reinforce greed, destruction was guaranteed.

@arstechnica So they got rid of everybody working on or for the company's future and presumably they still want us all to pretend to be optimistic about their prospects?

@nixCraft I fight a losing battle against somebody who used to work here mediated by documentation and Git histories.

@nixCraft Hollywood and the music industry are likely the strongest unions in play against this creeping threat.

There's a reason all the recent AI crap is based on images and text from non-union sources.

@nixCraft We tech folk don't generally like doing the "work around the work", that's a thing either organically necessary to the work or imposed by managers who never want to hear the details and just want us to pump out code 24/7.

You can't just arbitrarily reduce headcount and think that represents any improvement.

@arstechnica Isn't botulism the most likely cause of botulism-like conditions after having been injected with botulism?

@itsfoss Start with a sacrificial VM or other install where you can do *anything* without harming your bread and butter. Do the stupid things, learn how they work and why they're stupid.