jaylittle

More than likely none of these AI companies will exist 12 months from now. Their carcasses will be devoured by entities with enough money to buy up the scraps after the bubble pops and the market implodes.

Neither SpaceX, OpenAI or Anthropic have a future. What's a shame is that had Elon not merged SpaceX with xAI it might've actually had a future - but he had to go and ruin it.

What an idiot.

Yep. But in truth the alternative cannaboids are interesting on their own. That having been said I don’t live in a legal state but… it really doesn’t much matter anymore.

At least somebody else here has a clue, thanks for representing!

Who the fuck cares? Exchange is dead. Office 365 is where its at. Move on Thunderbird team.

MariaDB called and said, "I'm still here" ;)

Couldn't agree more.

Thankfully I believe this is largely just overblown hype. Silicon Valley has gotten way too high on it's own supply of bullshit and the AI craze is that being taken to the next level of insanity. Regardless, the tech industry is amoral at best. We are so obsessed with "can we" (or rather "can we convince a VC that we could") that we never take the time to stop to consider "should we".

Ultimately, watching tech find new and innovative ways to fool and to fleece people has, at times, almost made me feel shame that I've been part of this industry for almost 25 years now.

We are addicted to the idea of disruption and the monetary rewards that come with it. Generally we don't care if we sink the rest of the world in the process either.

Damn shame, that.

LOL

You speak as if my internet shit talking will make an iota of difference.

Regardless of what I want, the future is what it is.

Deal with it.

It's really depressing to see that big tech is essentially universally pushing Snake Oil. AI is a lie. LLMs are a legit tech that have some purpose, but LLMs will never evolve into anything remotely resembling the actual definition of AI.

They are flowery language generators and they will never be able to reason, understand, debate and criticize. They know nothing and therefore embody nothing. No matter how much computer power you waste on them the end result will always be bullshit. Nothing more. Nothing less.

To Big Tech I say: Prove me wrong.

This bill does nothing to address the problem of nation state propaganda spreading via social media. It just allows American politicians to claim a fake national security victory over a Chinese owned company while ignoring the fact that American owned social media companies are a steaming cesspool full of such content.

Dont get me wrong, I think TikTok is terrible. I won't use it. Ever. But that still doesn't mean it should be banned. Unless you want to ban all social media apps all at once. Probably still not something I would support, but I could definitely see proponents being able to form much more compelling arguments in favor of such an action.

As it stands right now, this makes zero logical sense.

Just when I think I have a handle on how stupid our politicians are... they find some way to make me realize they are even dumber than I previously thought.

According to HuffPost it was a 352-65 vote, so this stupidity was bipartisan. So much for one party being smarter than the other. Banning an extremely popular app, in an election year no less, while providing absolutely zero evidence to prove what you accuse it of doing is really some kind of next level idiocy.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tiktok-ban-congress_n_65f1b24...

Computer Fun was the first progamming book I ever got. It made me into a coder. I got it when I was six at the same time my father and uncle gave me and my siblings my Uncle's old Apple II for Christmas.

I still got a physical copy of it on my home office shelf. Not the same one I had as a kid mind you, because that one took a serious beating over the years. I looked for that book for years with only the memory of the general illustration style to guide me. One day about a decade ago I stumbled on it.

Love that these are freely available online as PDFs. That's freaking awesome!

I guess this is a thing on Windows now. However at the moment, it seems to be a very insecure thing. But hey it's early days... I predict they'll eventually get it right 125 patch Tuesdays from now.

https://fosstodon.org/@serghei@mastodon.social/1119009868252...

Isn't running commands as admin, in the same terminal window, already possible via the use of runas.exe? Granted I haven't daily driven Windows in years but IIRC that does the job albeit with clunkier syntax.

I mean that's great... but I've been using Brave sync across a wide variety of devices (Linux, iOS, Windows and MacOS) and it has worked without a hitch for quite awhile.

This is one reason I'm over and done with proprietary consoles. So tired of shitty company's like Nintendo being able to call any kind of shot. They may still know how to make fun games and do that on accessible and reasonably priced hardware, but beyond that they are an objectionable and ass-backward company on so many levels.

I vote with my dollar. I vote against Nintendo.

If by "not allowed" you actually mean, "implements safety protocols so easy to circumvent that they may as well not exist", then I agree.

Otherwise... not so much.

LOL

I'll stick with my throwback to what websites used to be like when they were simple, quick to load and asked visitors only for their attention and not much else ;)

Glad to know that I'm not the only one feeling out of place in tech as of late. Thanks for sharing!

I blog just for the hell of it. No client side trackers, no ads, just the spew of thoughts I need to get out of my head by vocalizing them. It costs me money every month and brings in no revenue and I fucking love it.

https://jaylittle.com/

The personal, honest and vulnerable (emotionally, not security-wise) internet is still out there, ya just got to look a bit harder for it nowadays.

One day the pendulum will swing back in the other direction. Until then, those of us who disagree with putting absolutely everything into the cloud will just have to sit back and bide our time.

Love it.

This is exactly what somebody should do. Somebody needs to seriously fork Blink the same way that Google forked Webkit / KHTML way back when.

I see Mozilla has found yet another thing to focus on instead of building a better web browser.

Great.

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A-fucking-men!

Is it good to solve aging?

No. It's not.

I only recently became aware of her, but she was awesome. She'll be missed.

"ChatGPT is actually notoriously good for coding. I don’t even use it for anything else at this point."

I can't take a coder who says this seriously. Come on. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to expose the fact that ChatGPT is actually a pretty shitty coder once you get beyond the most dirt damn simple shit.

With that said, fuck Stack Overflow.

I stopped running a Tor non-exit node from home a few years back, because a lot of websites and platforms blacklist any IP associated with Tor. I couldn't actually watch anything on Hulu for years (though they were still happy to take my money, which I refused to give them) because of this.

Running a tor node is a thankless thing one can choose to do. Nevertheless I did for years. I don't do it anymore.

Yeah this is definitely part of it. At my current job, my manager has basically made it the problem of his manager. Everybody wants to cover their own ass and in doing so, no progress is made.

Downright depressing, lemme tell ya

If you've worked in tech and have any degree of actual talent, you have run into the following scenario: You are on a team and that team has at least one member that isn't pulling their weight. The reasons why generally range from a lack of work ethic to a lack of talent. Regardless that person can't seem to get themselves fired. Why is that?

It will never cease to amaze me how out of touch some technical people are... including the author of this markdown rant.