bitofhope

joined 2 years ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

"I can safely bet that by 'all upvotes come from programming dot justworks dot dev dot infosec dot works' you actually mean 'a vast majority of upvotes come from these tech instances' even before reading your comment."

"Or in other words I correctly interpreted what you meant but apparently the way you said it is a problem because I prefer to blame users rather than peddlers."

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 59 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Yea yea guns don't kill people, bullet impacts kill people. Dishonesty and incompetence are nothing new, but you may note that the wedding planner's unfounded confidence in ChatGPT exacerbated the problem in a novel way. Why did the planner trust the bogus information about Vegas wedding officiants? Is someone maybe presenting these LLM bots as an appropriate tool for looking up such information?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

Even assuming the manual is available, a video game HUD overlay will still only be of limited use when the thing I'm trying to fix is put together with biblically accurate tamper resistant screws that strip even if you manage to find the correct driver bit, plastic tabs you can spudge open exactly once before they snap off, unmeltable adhesives known to cause california in the state of Cancer, ribbon cables as thick as spider webs, firmware last updated two olympiads ago and whose latest version is bigger than the device's storage could ever fit anyway, a bootloader more tightly secured than any other software on the whole device, and components from a parallel universe made by companies that have never existed.

Also it will turn out that the AR repair manual is actually for a slightly different revision than you have and somehow everyone else on the internet has the more common variant.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago

Sure, but you might have to sit next to a poor.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

I'm sure a lot of people like WordPress, but for me personally this is a win-win situation.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

AI is primarily, if not exclusively, threatening the jobs people want to do (art, poetry, that sorta shit)

Jobs people want to do, but which also take a lot of effort to learn to do well. I think there exists a certain envy of people who have put in the time and effort to learn something, which motivates the AI hype.

Visual arts, writing, translation, music, video production, programming, sex. The common thread is that these are things most people wish they could be good at, and they're also the most popular uses for generative AI.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

First-ever criminal charges against financial services firms for market manipulation and “wash trading” in the cryptocurrency industry

Cryptocurrency is a 15-year old industry built mostly on market manipulation and wash trading and now we're seeing the first charges for it? Man, back in the day they told me doing crime was illegal.

Deflationary

With every transaction supply shrinks by burning a percentage of reflections to the burn wallet

Turns out libertarians actually love taxes, but only if instead of spending the tax money on anything, it's burned to waste.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

Yes but I like the "ahh", it makes me imagine people doing a random little moan in the middle of the sentence.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

finger curls on the monkey paw

Inspiring! Mom and Pop have started a small business and are now franchisees of Megacorp Robotaxi. After financing and purchasing a fleet of cars, they can enjoy a steady and reliable income while only having to take care of vehicle maintenance, autopilot software license fees, accounting, possible municipal taxi licensing and other legal and clerical duties and liabilities of running a business.

Thanks to Megacorp Robotaxi's excellent reputation and customer loyalty and not at all because Megacorp Robotaxi has a de facto monopoly on taxi business, Mom and Pop are not worried about the competition, save for maybe some friendly and good-natured rivalry with other proud franchisees of the Megacorp Robotaxi family.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some kind of a community fork might happen, but I wouldn't count on it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 31 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Also, I just now realized that Automattic (business model: Uber for not posting female-presenting nipples) is a pun on this guy's name.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 37 points 3 months ago (9 children)

So the guy running WordPress.com (business model: Uber for LAMP stack, not to be confused with WordPress.org, winner of Drupal's Drag Race) is angry that WP Engine (business model: Lyft for LAMP stack, not to be confused with MediaWiki, the engine of WP) offers hosting for the same GPL licensed CMS as they do, am I understanding this correctly?

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