You’re more than welcome to not come back if you find it that bad.

It sounds like you’d feel better not having to deal with all these people with… (let’s see the thread…) different opinions about the usefulness of an AI summary. Edit: to be fair, whoever this person is, I already have them blocked. Maybe they were being belligerant.

100% sincerely, life is too short to spend on social websites you hate.

Or maybe different people find different things useful than you do. No need to be an asshole just because people disagree with you.

I have a problem with it. None of the information in that summary is useful except for maybe the list of Steam features at the end. So… about four words out of the whole thing.

The rest is context that I can already assume based off the page title and the URL, without some AI limply regurgitating it to me.

GPT will list fake sources. Just in case you aren’t aware. Most of these things will.

Original Full Res:

Source: https://analognowhere.com/_/ogmxha

What is Analog Nowhere? (Analog Nowhere “wiki”) What is Unix Surrealism?

Lemmy Community ran by the creator: !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

Creator on Lemmy: @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org

That out of the way, holy shit! It’s kind of neat that part of Analog Nowhere made its way out into the content regurgitators of the open internet to make it back to Lemmy through a different instance in a terribly cropped and compressed form.

Lol, been there. But my former CTO had one that I think takes the cake:

My (now former) CTO showed up to a C-suite/executive meeting shortly after he joined the company and they asked him to sort out the fucking A/V setup (read: projector, computer to put the slideshow on, clicker to advance the slides, hooking it all up, etc). In a hotel conference room that was “bring your own hardware”. With no warning.

And these chucklefucks expect perfection. We must have burned over a million on the executive conference room at our HQ. “The camera that automatically zooms into who is speaking isn’t fast enough at changing targets” type shit.

We’re a company of over 4000 employees. Every single C-suite/executive meeting before then they would book one of the senior members of our in-person internal tech support team for support for that shit, so they should have known better.

It wasn’t some joking hazing thing either. They legitimately just hadn’t fucking planned for how they were going to present their slideshow at this off site location and expected the CTO to just magic it together. Why they needed to do it offsite when they had a fancy ass overly expensive room built for conferences at the HQ? No fucking clue.

The things that come out at tech division happy hours are wild once the higher ups get a few drinks in them.

I’ve had to be very direct with my family that I don’t fix computers (anymore, I used to do remote and hands on helldesk), I fix the deeper kind of stuff that keeps email working for an entire company, or makes sure new hires can log in to work stuff.

They crawl wikipedia too, and are adding significant extra load on their servers, even though Wikipedia has a regularly updated torrent to download all its content.

I think he must attract a certain amount of viewers from the “train wreck” effect. He literally was using the stench from the sun hitting a decomposing rat corpse in his room as an “alarm clock” for a while. He has had roaches crawl across him live and not reacted.

So I can kind of understand getting some sort of twisted satisfaction that you’re doing better, or having the same sort of fascination people have with train wrecks and disasters.

What I don’t get is why anyone cares about his takes on anything. The man willingly lives in decomposing filth. He’s clearly not a source of knowledge or good opinions on fucking anything.

I kind of miss the ol slugdogs. At least back then no one was trying to tell us it was coming for our jobs.

Most of these trimmed down portable Wiis boot into a homebrew menu as they don’t have the IR lights attached by default (the Wii “sensor” bar which is just two IR lightbulbs), needed to navigate the menu using a Wiimote.

It’s a novelty. Hardware hackers have been making smaller and more portable Wiis for years, finding more parts of the motherboard they can cut off, ways to rearrange mobo parts and reconnect them without impacting functionality, discrete parts they can replace with more modern smaller equivalents, etc.

This represents the smallest they’ve been able to cut down Wii hardware, still have it be functional, and still have the core be the original hardware, not a general use CPU with an emulation solution running over top. It’s not a commercial product meant to compete with emulators on existing portable devices like phones and SBCs.

Sidestepped that completely. Got 64GB when I built my desktop because RAM prices were low.

20GB used up by whatever other shit I have open? No problem, still enough left for whatever I’m actively working on.

Suffice to say this has not actually helped with the issue.

There’s a lot more to this article than the summary blurb would indicate.

It’s mainly talking about how regardless of actual quality of output, market forces around AI are now allowing manager types to require more output from “mid-upper” class workers, and it’s all shifting those positions downward to being treated more like assembly line jobs than they have been for decades.

Concerning trends, driven largely by market forces instead of any true quality or capability of AI.

I’ve been through the hellscape where managers used missed metrics as evidence for why we didn’t need increased headcount on an internal IT helpdesk.

That sort of fuckery is common when management gets the idea in their head that they can save money on people somehow without sacrificing output/quality.

I’m pretty certain they were trying to find an excuse to outsource us, as this was long before the LLM bubble we’re in now.

I have this printed out at work and at home specifically to try and help counter that. Can’t really say that it’s working though, lol.

https://xkcd.com/1205

I usually have to argue in terms of time savings from eliminating surface for human error.

Spite/Fury has been a good one for me in the past, in addition to those.

“How in the fuck was this ever allowed to get to this point? There’s no way we can keep up with this unless we change the approach. I’m automating this shit whether they like it or not.”

Write an entire chunk of code to handle some edge case that shouldn’t exist, but does because people are stupid and make typos on critical shit, in one single frustration fuelled fugue state.

A company that makes learning material to help people learn to code made a test of programming basics for devs to find out if their basic skills have atrophied after use of AI. They posted it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44507369

Not a lot of engagement yet, but so far there is one comment about the actual test content, one shitposty joke, and six comments whining about how the concept of the test itself is totally invalid how dare you.

I’m not following how blocking this handful of users involves “getting really good with personal filters”. In jerboa it’s like three taps to block someone, and the last time I used voyager or lemmy through a desktop browser it was similarly easy. And how does blocking people uncritically posting that content risk blocking people bashing AI?

This just seems like a repeat of the witch hunt post about the db0 instance a few days ago. I can only speak for myself, but the last thing I want is for this to become some sort of community where we organize against specific users or communities. Fighting amongst ourselves in this little slice of internet social media will have no effect on the actual companies and market forces pushing this slop.

A big part of what makes lemmy what it is is that people aren’t doing that sort of witch hunt shit here. If you want to curate other communities, then make your own copy and enforce your rules on it, or work your way into their mod team.

Most of all, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink. And holding their head under just gets you a drowned horse. Speak out as you can and curate your own experience.

So even this instance of personal responsibility is significantly offset by the actions of a few. I’m all for doing what each of us can, but that’s fucking hilarious.