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Comment on She graduated from high school with honors but can’t read or write. Now she’s suing. in ~society
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Comment on The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun (gifted link) in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI think what Cory Doctorow predicts in his essay will happen: at some point somewhere, a human will be in the loop, tasked with overseeing an operation they cannot realistically oversee. That's...If you try to do that, you are going to have huge issues that cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars in downtime. What are you going to do when your VPN goes down at 7 am on Monday if you don't have someone who supports it? Or when your sales portal designed by Claude crashes, or refunds all of your customers but keeps shipping orders? What do you do when a bug lists a $1,000 item for $0.10?
I think what Cory Doctorow predicts in his essay will happen: at some point somewhere, a human will be in the loop, tasked with overseeing an operation they cannot realistically oversee. That's not really their job, their true purpose is to be the person to blame when things go wrong.
I anticipate this process will happen over time as teams shrink down to one person that can handle the exceptions while the normal things are automated more and more, until they too will be fired so that we'll get an AI overwatching the other AIs and then no one will understand anything anymore, the engineers that did will be retired or dead and the new generation will have to figure it out all over again when shit explodes.
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Comment on She graduated from high school with honors but can’t read or write. Now she’s suing. in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentTwo of my friends are post-doc/doctoral uni students in computer science and they both attested that the students that graduated high school during covid were a desaster when they came into...Two of my friends are post-doc/doctoral uni students in computer science and they both attested that the students that graduated high school during covid were a desaster when they came into college. It got a little better afterwards, so it seems to have been the isolation and long-distance learning that really fucked those kids over.
But then AI got really big and now university is a hellscape of weekly short pen & paper tests with all homework being optional, which is terrifying to me as a programmer because you never learn with the tests, you learn with the homework, because that is what mimicks the work of a programmer the best: sitting at home, in a relaxed state, focused on solving a problem with the internet at hand.
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Comment on She graduated from high school with honors but can’t read or write. Now she’s suing. in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentThe Bypass Paywalls Clean extension got DMCA'd off github and gitlab, but it still exists if you're willing to deal with a downloading it off a Russian git host:...The Bypass Paywalls Clean extension got DMCA'd off github and gitlab, but it still exists if you're willing to deal with a downloading it off a Russian git host: https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads/blob/?file=bypass_paywalls_clean-latest.xpi&branch=main
This one's for firefox, a Chrome variant exists. It just circumvents paywalls entirely. Mind you, the extension is in English. It's just the host that is Russian.
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Comment on The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun (gifted link) in ~tech
Grzmot Link Parent25k for a personal website is just an insane price-tag in general. If you're hiring a freelancer to do this, you're getting massively overcharged unless you are asking for some wild bespoke stuff.25k for a personal website is just an insane price-tag in general. If you're hiring a freelancer to do this, you're getting massively overcharged unless you are asking for some wild bespoke stuff.
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Comment on How a WhatsApp group for DC parents broke apart over politics in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentYou're not wrong, but the groups split down the middle, so it's not a situation of the non-profit board trying to hold on to their imaginary power by screaming no politics while everyone else in...You're not wrong, but the groups split down the middle, so it's not a situation of the non-profit board trying to hold on to their imaginary power by screaming no politics while everyone else in the group is getting mad at them.
As an interviewee in the article said, there's value in him and his husband being to talk about changing diapers with other parents without having to address everything else for once.
Comparing it to WW2 France really seems a false equivalancy to me. I can't pass judgement on anyone here, nor really form an opinion.
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Comment on How a WhatsApp group for DC parents broke apart over politics in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentI don't live there, and on principle I don't disagree. But it's not like the OG group is trying to silence anyone, they just very crudely said "stay on topic please". Humans have a limited amount...I don't live there, and on principle I don't disagree. But it's not like the OG group is trying to silence anyone, they just very crudely said "stay on topic please".
Humans have a limited amount of energy to care about stuff outside of the things that immediately affect them. The amount differs from person to person. And I do think that there's value in staying on topic if you're a group organized around a certain subject.
The good ending to this story is that the groups stay somewhat affliated on the core themes, and the parents that want to politically organize are sent to the Free Range group.
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Comment on How a WhatsApp group for DC parents broke apart over politics in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentThis is one of those issues that is going to differ from person to person. The question is, when does the average normal non-political Joe put down everything he's doing, working on et cetera and...This is one of those issues that is going to differ from person to person. The question is, when does the average normal non-political Joe put down everything he's doing, working on et cetera and go dismantle the facists?
Has the US reached the point where every single resource needs to be re-directed to fighting the government?
The answer to this is personal, and considering that the split in the groups went about 50/50, it's not gotten to the point yet, at the very least in this affluent D.C. neighbourhood, where a rich non-profit board was out of touch with the regular due paying members, even though the president did say some out of touch things, like the nanny comment or saying that the group is "neutral".
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Comment on AI fails at 96% of jobs (new study) in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentThe industry is banking on LLMs having advanced enough to replace seniors by the time the current generation retires. That's the bet the stock market is making right now. I doubt it'll pay off,...I view this as a problem. If we aren't training new entry-level developers today, where will the next generation of senior developers come from? It's not actually saving money in the long run, it's just mortgaging our future.
The industry is banking on LLMs having advanced enough to replace seniors by the time the current generation retires. That's the bet the stock market is making right now. I doubt it'll pay off, and I agree that it's bad, because once you interrupt the knowledge flow from the older generation to the younger just once, it becomes a big hurdle that didn't need to be there.
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Comment on The hidden cost of AI art: Brandon Sanderson's keynote in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI'd like to take a step back from this discussion to appreciate you changing your response before we both just ended up shouting at an internet stranger in the most unhelpful way. I do agree that...I'd like to take a step back from this discussion to appreciate you changing your response before we both just ended up shouting at an internet stranger in the most unhelpful way.
I do agree that I come across as snobbish, because I didn't mention that your enjoyment of something without intent, like say a beautiful vista in nature, isn't any less meaningful. I'm sorry.
We just have different opinions on the matter and that's fine.
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Comment on The hidden cost of AI art: Brandon Sanderson's keynote in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI don't think that anything without an author is pornography, I was much more equating anything that is meant to be purely consumed as a product with pornography. AI is only so far useful that it...I don't think that anything without an author is pornography, I was much more equating anything that is meant to be purely consumed as a product with pornography. AI is only so far useful that it skips the painful process of writing a story and revising and editing it until it is good. The people who are salivating most about the use of AI when it comes to creation are the ones who produce purely "content" to get rich with.
It's true that the meaning you derive from a story of mine can be different than the meaning I derive from it. But it's also true that most art gets something put inside by the artist, and it is with that meaning you connect with, or that meaning you interpret through a different lens. Art is about empathizing with other humans. When you read a story about someone going through something and then go "Hey, someone else went through something similar, in a different city, of a different race, and the circumstances were different but the emotions remained the same!"
When you read something of me and say "this reminds me of X!" there's a solid chance you're telling me something new. When I published my first short story here someone told me the vibe reminded them of Studio Ghibli. This was news to me, but immediately clicked and made sense in my head. I never intended it, but it ended up in there all the same. We create not just out of a need to create, but also out of a sense of discovery within ourselves. AI skips that part completely. Over time, it destroys it.
The productification of art isn't something new that happened with AI, but everyone profitting off it is trying very hard to make it happen because profit, and because we can make the digital heroin that are recommendation algorithms even more tailored, even better, keep everyone glued to scrolling reels/shorts/tiktoks even more. Flood the internet with pointless content.
A sapient author does have the monopoly on meaning in art, because it is that meaning that people pull from said art and work with, even if that meaning didn't end up there intentionally. Death of the author is not about literally having no author, it's about respecting the art above the word of the author even against their wishes. It requires meaning to be there. Death of the author is when people call Harry Potter an anti-feminist work because of its depiction of women, despite the author understanding herself as a feminist and arguing strongly against that point. But you have to disregard that argument and look at what's in the work itself. That's death of the author.
That you derive enjoyment, even meaning from a beautiful vista in nature is irrelevant to the point, because said vista isn't art, no matter how beautiful it is. No one put it there. Just like with AI content, no one put it there either.
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Comment on The hidden cost of AI art: Brandon Sanderson's keynote in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentThis works as long as your enjoyment of said art remains surface level. Art is different things to different people, obviously, and art as a product has existed for a long time. Think Call of Duty...This works as long as your enjoyment of said art remains surface level. Art is different things to different people, obviously, and art as a product has existed for a long time. Think Call of Duty or your run-of-the-mill thriller that some author produces every year like clockwork. I think these are endangered the most, because as a product their value is defined by the profit they generate. They are created to be consumed and not thought about much.
Ultimately, large corporations will want to use AI to cut out the author entirely and out-produce humans completely. As a human, that is bad, because it adds even more power to already large and powerful corporations.
As a reader, I want to engage with a book deeply, and it was reading such books that led me to write myself. But AI cannot do that, because AI writing cannot have a meaning, a point, barely a subtext. It's pornography. It exists to satisfy an urge. As a reader, I also want more of such books coming out, not less. AI writing will cut that pipeline off.
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Comment on The hidden cost of AI art: Brandon Sanderson's keynote in ~tech
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Comment on I tried making homemade Whoppers | Claire Recreates in ~food
Grzmot Link ParentI know that immediately after the desaster that sent the old crew all over to other places, they replaced the chief editors of the magazine with a very diverse trio in an effort to combat the...I know that immediately after the desaster that sent the old crew all over to other places, they replaced the chief editors of the magazine with a very diverse trio in an effort to combat the allegations. I saw their introduction video, and that was the last that I saw of Bon Appetit.
I think they exist for sure, and occasionally I saw the Yt algorithm float me a video with one of the hosts that stayed, but I think the brand just tanked. The crowd that they were popular with doesn't take kindly to the exploitation that the magazine was committing against its employees.
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Comment on Everything added to Star Wars Outlaws since launch – your complete guide to the game's post-launch evolution in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentThat's true for all open-world Ubisoft games. You need to really like the environment and existing in it for the games to have any draw. AFAIK, the Star Wars game has a pretty good atmosphere and...The biggest complaint was that while that's all true, there wasn't much compelling me to continue playing.
That's true for all open-world Ubisoft games. You need to really like the environment and existing in it for the games to have any draw. AFAIK, the Star Wars game has a pretty good atmosphere and people like that about it, but don't ever expect Ubisoft to do anything revolutionary.
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Comment on Everything added to Star Wars Outlaws since launch – your complete guide to the game's post-launch evolution in ~games
Grzmot LinkI've seen this article and video posted around to such a degree I genuinely thought the reddit thread full of positive comments was some AI astroturf operation to get sales up. Then again, ubi...I've seen this article and video posted around to such a degree I genuinely thought the reddit thread full of positive comments was some AI astroturf operation to get sales up.
Then again, ubi games always have a long tail.
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Comment on Listing for GOG Galaxy developer cites Linux as “next major frontier” in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentGetting people into Linux is wishful thinking. The overwhelming majority of people want their shit to just work. But if the base is broader, if money is to be made there, then all Linux users...They have the option to change that stuff, but most won't. So you'll have this awkward sect of "Steam Deck Linux users" inbetween that don't really engage with "Linux".
Getting people into Linux is wishful thinking. The overwhelming majority of people want their shit to just work. But if the base is broader, if money is to be made there, then all Linux users profit.
I understand the fear of exchanging on whip-cracking corporation for another, but you simply need to boost adoption if you want game devs to give a shit about Linux at all.
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Comment on I let my wife have an affair. Do I have to console her now that it’s over? in ~life
Grzmot Link ParentThe person who asked this question was obviously hurt in this whole ordeal, but doesn't seem to realize it. I think that's where their feeling of it not being their problem comes from. They agreed...The person who asked this question was obviously hurt in this whole ordeal, but doesn't seem to realize it. I think that's where their feeling of it not being their problem comes from. They agreed not because they were ok with it, but because they thought it was better than sharing who they actually felt about the ordeal.
Call it sunk cost fallacy or whatever, but it seems like a communication mistake was made at the start, and then the questioner did what a lot of humans do: stuck to their guns while everything got worse.
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Comment on Listing for GOG Galaxy developer cites Linux as “next major frontier” in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentBut that's the catch-22 I was alluding to. You need to get people onto Linux first. And people are not gonna get on Linux if "all their games only run on Windows". We're getting as close as we can...But that's my issue. People aren't spending money on Linux, they are spending money on WINE.
But that's the catch-22 I was alluding to. You need to get people onto Linux first. And people are not gonna get on Linux if "all their games only run on Windows". We're getting as close as we can now in the consumer space with the most important app being the browser and that running flawlessly on all operating systems.
Right now, developers are not giving a shit about running well on Proton, unless they're targeting the hand-held market and thus Steam Deck with a significant margin, and soon that Lenovo device that's meant to run Steam OS. Outside of Valve investing manpower, no one's doing much; adoption is still too low.
Everyone having Proton on mind when they develop games for Windows is the prerequisite to some developers offering a Linux native version, but for that consumer adoption has to be in the double digits at least. Until then, Proton is the best thing we got, and I'm damn happy we do, especially with the shitshow that is Windows 11.
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Comment on Listing for GOG Galaxy developer cites Linux as “next major frontier” in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentThat, plus there being some ideological drawbacks on some of the distros. For example, I would easily recommend Fedora with Gnome to a normal user today. But crucially, it doesn't come with nvidia...That, plus there being some ideological drawbacks on some of the distros. For example, I would easily recommend Fedora with Gnome to a normal user today. But crucially, it doesn't come with nvidia gpu drivers nor the HEVC video codec because both are propriatary. Both require pasting commands into the command line.
The HEVC codec is especially tricky because video plays, but you get audio only. There is no error message no nothing that tells you that you're missing a codec. At least Windows tells you and then also tries to sell you the codec for 99 cents, at which point you just download VLC lol.
There are distros that are better at this, in particular Mint and Bazzite get thrown around a lot now, but recently a friend of mine was running Mint until from one day to the other it uninstalled the GPU drivers and borked the system all by itself, making her switch to Fedora. These are rare issues, and similar horror stories exist, but the crux of the problem is that Linux is just not a normal user friendly OS. However, Windows nowadays sports so many different UX/UI styles that it's basically on the same level.
That makes sense to me. I think Comp Sci was held up for a very long time as the thing to take if you want a good job, so the share of people in it for the money and as an extension of their school rather than looking at it as its own thing is gonna be higher.