ZILtoid1991

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ZILtoid1991 , to memes in AI bell curve

Basically it is going the following way:

  • Company gets AI to do stuff.
  • Company fires its workforce.
  • AI isn't up to the task, and often disliked by people, see its unpopularity in the arts.
  • Company has to rehire staff, first to try to salvage the AI's output, then to just go back to the good old days of human creativity.

AI isn't magic, no matter how much techbros try to humanize the technology because NeuRAl nEtWOrKs.

ZILtoid1991 , to memes in AI bell curve

There's a pretty good argument for that in a lot of other cases too, however those on the top doesn't want it, or at least not in a sensible way, see the whole "UBI through stock exchange" and "Universal Basic Compute" fiasco.

ZILtoid1991 , to World News in Coup attempt in Bolivia reportedly under way as army and police storm palace

While I agree, the issue is the very moment we become militant we get labeled as "terrorists". The far-right just gets ignored.

ZILtoid1991 , to Technology in A Russian Propaganda Network Is Promoting an AI-Manipulated Biden Video
ZILtoid1991 , to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

I personally don't care if someone "steals" my code (Here's my profile if you want to do so: https://github.com/ZILtoid1991 ), however it can mean some mixture of two things:

  1. China is getting ready for war, which will mean the US will try its best to block technology, including open source projects.
  2. China is planning to block GitHub due to it being able to host information the Chinese government might not like.

Of course it could mean totally unrelated stuff too (e.g. just your typical anti-China and/or anti-communist paranoia sells political points).

ZILtoid1991 , to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

Put content that is illegal in China into your code, problem solved!

ZILtoid1991 , to memes in "Soundblaster" was such an 80s/90s name for a computer part.

And then three things happened at once

  1. Creative de-facto monopolized the industry often by unethical means (suing Aureal into bankruptcy, etc.), not letting much room for competitors, which in turn lead to diminishing quality on the part of Creative.
  2. Microsoft didn't put hardware acceleration support into XAudio, which superseeded DirectSound.
  3. Game publishers realized the vast majority of gamers didn't care about sound quality, so they could spent those resources on making the games look a little bit more realistic.
ZILtoid1991 , to Technology in Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough

The only people more cultish than Apple fans are Tesla/Elongated Muskrat fans.

ZILtoid1991 , to Technology in Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

No thanks, I don't want to spend days troubleshooting issues with cross compilation, differences between Wine and actual Windows, struggling with the tty-only debugger (I want my debugger to do things on button presses, not by complicated scripts), etc.

Skill issue.

Oh, here comes the gatekeeper protecting their operating system from the "normies"!🤣

ZILtoid1991 , to Programmer Humor in I'll have you know, my fork of a github repo has 3 stars 😎

I have 10 followers on Github.

https://github.com/ZILtoid1991

Here's my account if you want to also follow me. I might follow you back. Maybe we can even cooperate on some projects.

ZILtoid1991 , to Technology in Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly

They actually plan to use some local stuff in addition to the rest, otherwise I don't trust anything OpenAI/Google.

ZILtoid1991 , to Technology in US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

GPL code is the least concern, you can always just say the AI-generated code is GPL. What about training on leaked proprietary code? The training data already known to include medical records, CSAM, etc., wouldn't be surprised if it also contained proprietary code.

ZILtoid1991 , to Technology in Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

One problem: not compatible with Windows. Of course you can use Wine and similar stuff, but isn't 100%, especially not when you're developing for Windows. Also there's the issue of NVidia drivers (I won't sell/throw into the trash my GTX1050 just because NVidia doesn't want to make their drivers open source), and also a lot of pro audio stuff isn't available on Linux.

ZILtoid1991 , to Not The Onion in Louisiana's new "Ten Commandments" law actually contains eleven commandments

It's illegal, but good luck with the current supreme court!

ZILtoid1991 , to Technology in Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs
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