nickwitha_k (he/him)

I do use AI for simple questions, and it works fairly well for that, but this claim by MS is just marketing bullshit.

This is my experience. It can be useful for simple things that used to be found with a web search before AI slop broke things. For example, I was having trouble getting a simple CGO program for a POC to communicate with the main Go process. This should have been solvable easily with documentation but the CGO docs are pretty bad and sample code was near impossible to find due to AI slop in the search results. GPT was able to provide the needed sample code to unblock me.

why are you arguing that at me?

Rationally and in vacuum, anthropomorphizing tools and animals is kinda silly and sometimes dangerous. But human brains don’t work do well at context separation and rationality. They are very noisy and prone to conceptual cross-talk.

The reason that this is important is that, as useless as LLMs are at nearly everything they are billed as, they are really good at fooling our brains into thinking that they possess consciousness (there’s plenty even on Lemmy that ascribe levels of intelligence to them that are impossible with the technology). Just like knowledge and awareness don’t grant immunity to propaganda, our unconscious processes will do their own thing. Humans are social animals and our brains are adapted to act as such, resulting in behaviors that run the gamut from wonderfully bizzare (keeping pets that don’t “work”) to dangerous (attempting to pet bears or keep chimps as “family”).

Things that are perceived by our brains, consciously or unconsciously, are stored with associations to other similar things. So the danger here that I was trying to highlight is that being abusive to a tool, like an LLM, that can trick our brains into associating it with conscious beings, is that that acceptability of abusive behavior towards other people can be indirectly reinforced.

Basically, like I said before, one can unintentionally train themselves into practicing antisocial behaviors.

You do have a good point though that people believing that ChatGPT is a being that they can confide in, etc is very harmful and, itself, likely to lead to antisocial behaviors.

that is fucking stupid behavior

It is human behavior. Humans are irrational as fuck, even the most rational of us. It’s best to plan accordingly.

Yup. Need something like EV certs to really verify… And that would only make sense if it’s a “no (non-real) screennames” kind of thing.

I’d argue that showing disdain, aggression, and disrespect in communication with AI/LLM things is more likely to be dangerous as one is conditioning themselves to be disdainful, aggressive, and disrespectful when communicating with the same methods used to communicate with other people. Our brains do a great job at association, so, it’s basically just training oneself to be an asshole.

No.

It’s immutable too, which is great for a console experience, but probably not ideal for a desktop user.

I’ve been enjoying Fedora Atomic, personally.

Unfortunately, the US administrative state is still being murdered. So, don’t expect act regs or enforcement to be seen out of the US and expect flagrant violation of EU and other regs due to mobster-style protectionism.

I have to agree with pretty much everything that you’ve said there. Since I don’t use CAD professionally, and I’m not about to suffer through the windows experience voluntarily, I’m pretty much such with FreeCAD and (when I get around to it) CADquery. Hopefully more companies will start supporting Linux and free CAD devs from all the MS fuckery - might even get FreeCAD (or a fork) to be more productive and prioritize things necessary to be competitive for SMB/hobbyists.

I hate the syntax in OpenSCAD. It LOOKS like something object-oriented but it is procedural, causing oh so many footguns, if one expects it to act like OOP.

Oh definitely do. The recent improvements (in the last 1-2 years) have made it much more useable, and sometimes even intuitive.

Depends on your needs. I probably wouldn’t consider it good enough yet for commercial but the improvements on 1.0 take care of pretty much all of my needs. The “free” licenses for Fusion360 and OnShape are garbage and feel like nothing more than attempts to get hobbyists and small businesses locked in before changing terms. Plus, last I checked, they pull the same kinda data vacuum bullshit that social media companies did in their terms - “free” license holders should expect any and all of their work to be resold by the companies for profit.

FreeCAD (for less-organic modeling)

I think you accidentally blockquoted the whole thing. Probably can fix by adding a new line after each quote block.

Completely wrong.

I’d say, maybe, oversimplified. Until the later stages, no country was as extremely embedded in global economies as has occurred between the late 20th century and now. The soviets did embed themselves in places where they saw possible advantage over the West, saw opportunity for vassal states, and engaged in some of the aul’ imperialism. Even in Eastern Europe, it wasn’t as embedded as the US economy has become at this point. Greater levels of industrialization and not being dependent on high tech sectors that are largely US-controlled, as well as proximity to the EU made the economic stagnation easier to weather.

Also we’re talking about Russia, not the USSR. And they certainly did make radical changes almost overnight when forced.

Sorry. I had it framed in my head as a comparison between the breaking up of the USSR and potential dissolution of the US.

My point is we need to untangle. We are not ‘unscathed’ as it is now, on the contrary, we are suffering bcs of them. The sooner we dump them the better.

As someone living in the US, with a hard lean into anarchism, I absolutely agree with all of that. Allowing the US, with its push for unfettered, neoliberal capitalism to dig itself in and influence policy has caused extraordinary harm. Since the fall of the USSR, economic decision-makers in the US have seen no reason to improve the lives of the average citizen nor reasons not to intentionally bleed them dry for profit.

If you don’t root out neoliberalism in Europe, the same will happen there (look at the UK).

The USSR was not thoroughly embedded in the world economies. Nor did it have as staunch of allies in major positions in EU government as the US does today. Don’t get me wrong, despite being in the US, I do think that countries divesting and becoming less dependent upon a slave state, like the US, is a good thing. However, as the “Great Recession” demonstrated, EU economies are very much entangled with the US economy, with few lessons seeming to have been learned in the last decade and a half.

Sure, the US might be more impacted, but the EU will not be unscathed, if there isn’t more effort to decouple and ditch neoliberal policies. That kind of stuff can’t happen overnight.

Displayport is an open standard in name only. The specs require membership in VESA, something that requires a hefty sum of money. Even open-source projects have to restrict code that implements Displayport because of the licensing restrictions imposed on the “open” standard.

I like your take as well. My “disagreement” is mainly contrarian silliness as I felt it was rather implicit in your post :)

I disagree with your premise.

It should be “The best thing that you can do for humanity is to be kind”.

Seriously. We’re living in a time when fascism is in an upswing and at least one religious leader has publicly called empathy a sin. Kindness and empathy are rebellious acts.

It’s rare and I’m looking for it

Unfortunately not that rare of a POV to find. They just generally don’t do the young account thing. Some are true believers. Others likely state actors. Don’t see as many bots but the greater levels of transparency and lower active population probably makes it less worthwhile of an investment.

I’ve found it primarily useless to harmful in my software development, making the work debugging poorly-structured code the major place that time is spent. What sort of software and language do you use it for?

Mark then posted the ‘raw footage’ on twitter. This also shows autopilot disengage before impact, but shows it was engaged at 42mph. This was a seprate take.

No. That’s by design. The “autopilot” is made to disengage when any likely collision is about to occur to try to reduce the likelihood of someone finding them liable for their system being unsafe.