So, then you are in favor of the disclosures?

Sounds absolutely fucking awful.

A few beers at a brewery.

However, I can’t tell you whether a suitable driver is already on board.

It likely isn’t. PC enthusiast Windows users all know that installing any device that isn’t very typical (monitors, keyboards, mice) usually involves hunting for drivers online if you didn’t keep the disk. When I buy different hardware (for example I bought a USB toslink adapter, and a USB to USB serial emulator) it most times comes with a tiny, useless little disk for Windows users.

This is generally not the case for Linux, but since you’re inexperienced with the OS you’d have no way of knowing that.

Shit works (or not, but often does) without the need to install additional drivers for every stupid little thing.

I mostly agree with this, but in corporate software the stuff mostly either doesn’t exist or is outdated to the point of basic inaccuracy.

I’m talking readmes that still have the template information in them or have stayed the same since the first commit.

IMO the best way to use this crap in software development for projects that already exist is to have the fucking things write up or amend docs.

Developers mostly hate writing docs, and in corporate software I’ve found that the docs are usually added once and then never verified again.

Writing up profuse gibberish that contains some amount of useful information is what these bullshit machines were made to do. Have it write up some docs, read them and make sure they aren’t completely insane and get a pat on the back from your boss for working with “agentic AI”.

Ick

Ick

Nobody wants to wear dork goggles to watch TV.

Bought a lifetime Plex pass a few years ago so this doesn’t affect me. It’s honestly worth the cost especially over time.

Dude containers are often easier than running the underlying programs.

But it’s NOT intellectually honest to be okay with having one pound of shit in the canoe and not being okay with the other two. You can’t point at the two pounds of shit and say: this abominable! While ignoring the other pound of shit. Because it’s all shit.

Sure, because that’s a terrible analogy.

Gen AI data centers don’t just require more power and space, they require so much more power and space that they are driving up energy costs in the surrounding area and the data centers are becoming near impossible to build.

People didn’t randomly become “anti-data center”. Many of them are watching their energy bills go up. I’m watching as they talk about building new coal plants to power “gigawatt” data centers.

And it’s all so you can have more fucking chat bots.

Yeah the wording on this is wrong. The closest adjacent (honest) question would be “how can I appear to be arguing in good faith when I have a predetermined position on this technology?”.

EDIT:

I don’t even like GenAI myself and that’s how this comes off.

If you’re looking for reasons: (1) sustainability / ecology, (2) market concentration, (3) intellectual theft, (4) mediocre output, (5) lack of guardrails, (6) vendor lock-in, (7) appears to drive some people insane, (8) drives down the quality of the Internet overall, (9) de-skills the people that use it, (10) produces probabilistic outputs and yet is used in applications that require deterministic outputs…I could go on for a while.

For the ecological side of things, sure, ai uses a lot of power. Lots of data enters. So does the internet. Do you use that? So does the stock market. Do you use that? So do cars. Do you drive?

There are many, many differences between AI data centers and ones that don’t have to run $500k GPU clusters. They require a lot less power, a lot less space, and a lot less cooling.

Also you’re implying here that your debate opponents are being intellectually dishonest while using the same weasely arguments that people that argue in bad faith constantly employ.

Doubt

I think Comey is basically free and clear after this, as his charges were close to the statute of limitations upon filing iirc, for Letitia James’ charges I’m not sure on the details.

Federal jobs guarantee

If you can’t tell the difference and it fits how you listen to music, I guess who cares?

AI software writing up musak doesn’t matter to me because I don’t listen to music that way.

I’ll know the bands I’m listening to are real because I will have manually downloaded their music after reading reviews, magazine articles, or things like albumoftheyear.org just like I’ve been doing for the last half decade.

Music streaming services suck and not only because they will promote low cost bands to you. If you actually give a shit about music then stop being so lazy as to have an algorithm fill your trough with slop and then being surprised that it’s AI slop.

Or just continue eating the slop if it pleases you. 🤷

It’s a bit of a contrarian take, but I think people need to start adding more intentionality to how they live their lives. If music is unimportant to you, that’s fine. But nowadays everyone just watches the shows they’re recommended, listens to the music that is picked out by the algorithm, and reads what is fed to them in their feeds…figure out what’s important to you and curate it for yourself.

It’s a fine idea, but it’d be best implemented as an escrow account used to leverage the federal government into following the law.

It’s great at bullshitting that it did what you wanted, even if it obviously didn’t, which I guess is what counts for results at Microsoft.

It would be much better if they treated it as the slightly better (yeah, I said it) auto complete that it is instead of the beginning of fucking sky net – which was supposed to be a bad thing anyway, remember?

But that wouldn’t move the needle on all of the share prices, so instead we have to pretend it can do people’s jobs when it fucking obviously cannot.

So, instead they keep pushing this AI (auto-complete insanity), and keep burning more and more cash. Imagine if we just put a portion of these billions (approaching trillions) into anything that could actually help anyone. Or don’t, because it’s pretty fucking depressing to think about.