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now do ls -la

the real woke is always in the comments

LOL

“over”?

ironic since they’re heartless

yet

LOL, that’s the value of them—not the price of them.

ai has lots of problems, but lack of accountability is one of the big ones

A 1¢ toothpick works 99% of the time.

…Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information…

Oh, so this is why everyone is a fucking idiot.

When I bench tested components at a PC shop, I’d use my smallest screwdriver to short the pins on the motherboard to start up the caseless computer.

Well, I’m the family IT person, and I’ll never recommend Belkin ever again. I’m asked throughout the year on tech buying decisions. There are plenty of other options out there.

The push:excitement ratio was different for the early internet than for ai.

Using those sources would verify the Google summary. For me, it is an unnecessary step. I can just go read the sources directly and skip the summary since I’ll need to read them anyway to verify the summary.

I did, too. It was actively developed until those shitheads bought Nest. Then the only “upgrade” was to add clicking noises when changing the temperature that don’t respect the OS keyboard clicks setting.

Just think how much bandwidth and computing and human resources they’re saving money on. Oh, wait, it’s hardly anything to change the temperature and they’re a billion dollar company. But how will they sell more if they don’t fuck over the early adopters?

Belkin is pulling the same stunt with their Wemo switches and plugs.

We understand this is a letdown, especially if you’ve relied on Wemo in your daily routine. Reliability and trust have always been central to Belkin, and we recognize that this transition may not reflect the experience you’ve come to expect from us. We are genuinely sorry for the disruption.

Bullshit! If you cared you’d support your enthusiast customers. Again, we’re talking about very little resources and a very large company. Just leave these lies out of your announcement email.

If they were genuinely sorry but still committed to pulling the plugs on the backend, they would ad least do this:

When these companies want to cease updates and shutdown their servers, they should be required to:

1. Provide a path to install open source or third party firmware
2. Fully document the communication with the the device requires to function
3. Allow pointing the device at an open source or third party server

it wouldn’t be pushed on us

The Internet was pushed on everyone.

Sure companies were excited to promote it, but it was primarily adopted because of a very large amount of people being excited about it.

how can it be trusted without human verification

You use Google despite no human verification. Yahoo used to function based on human curated lists.

I use DuckDuckGo to find sources, not answers. I won’t use them again if they’re trash. They’re accountable for their content.

Human curated lists are still very helpful. In a sense, that was the value of Reddit.

environmental impact

I did the math and posted it on Lemmy.

I’ll take your word for it.

My top reasons I have no interest in ai:

• if it was great, it wouldn’t be pushed on us (like 3D TVs were)
• there is no accountability, so how can it be trusted without human verification which then means ai wasn’t needed
• environmental impact
• privacy/security degradation

https://alternativeto.net/software/google-veo/