AI is always great at things I don’t know how to do, and right about things I don’t know about, but bad at the things I know how to do (often in ways that are subtle but ultimately catastrophic), and wrong about the things I know about (often in ways that are sneaky or nuanced, but which lead to gross misunderstandings).

Not sure how they managed to tune it to me, *n particular, so precisely, but those geniuses working on it sure do know their stuff!

/s

Oh, I hope this kills them. I’m desperate to never use Confluence or Jira ever again.

That’s because prices don’t reflect costs, but what sellers believe we will pay. If people stopped paying them…

It’s really not that weird. Most people aren’t going to self-host… anything. A news magazine isn’t going to bother covering it, even if it is focused on tech news.

This is the WHOLE point of why these generative models have been pushed so hard the past couple of years. They tested the waters to see if people would accept “it’s the computer’s fault” as an acceptable excuse, and then slammed on the gas.

Accountability sinks, as Dan Davies has named them, are the whole point. It’s everything a slimy corporate CEO or government official has ever wanted.

Being subscribed to those communities (n a single website.

If people would get the fuck off Reddit and decide it was ok to have multiple websites to log into, it would be harder. Internet centralization is a personal security risk.

I like the taste of sugar. Why do you hate other people’s choice when they don’t involve you? Seems like a weird thing to put that kind of investment in, and kind of a toxic thing to say.

It’s a lot harder to demand your government ID on a federated platform.

I have a lower-mid-end OnePlus. It is decidedly meh. It’s fine. It cost more than I wanted, has poor finger print reader placement, lacks induction charging, and never got the promised unlocked boot loaders, but it has the 3.5 mm headphone jack and microSD slot that I demanded from a phone.

It sure is a phone.

Oh, that’s actually the opposite of what the headline and article are talking about. It’s discussing how companies who have started using AI - that is, become the “habitualized user” - aren’t seeing any business benefits. Adding the real cost of use on top of that is going to make the decision a significant loss for these groups.

Could just go back to marking the new year in March, like Caesar intended.

This is good enough for me. This means the Firefox code base will not get so integrated with AI features that forkers cannot remove them, and that was my primary concern.

Librewolf and Waterfox devs have both publicly said they wouldn’t be inclluding the AI stuff. Waiting on Floorp and Zen devs to weigh in still.

Well, with RAM prices already through the roof, and now SSD and GPU prices set to spike, I guess my plans for building a new desktop are out the window for the foreseeable future.

And now it’s not. The original developer bought it back a couple of years ago.

The bigger issue is that, like with all of the Firefox forks, it’s still using the Firefox code base and security updates, which is what’s about to go absolutely sideways. Removing the AI translator is one thing, but it sounds like they’re planning on totally fucking it all up at its core.

With no usable Firefox to use as a base, all of the forks are set to die on the vine.

My parente had a 92 GTP. It was half the car of the later models, and I still miss it. There was just something about those Grand Prixes.

The thing is, they haven’t chosen not to decide, they’ve chosen to hide behind the rhetoric of not choosing. Substack chose the Nazis, fairly explicitly. And I’m sure Sequoia wouldn’t be neutral if the female COO had been making anti-Israel posts.

Weirdly enough, most companies collecting your data are actually really bad at doing so. Business people don’t prioritize data at all, and data collection is a total afterthought, often treated as a major inconvenience. It costs money, and they can’t charge for it.

The reason why there was no fallback is because that would have cost money to implement, and they can’t imagine someone wanting to use their product that way.

'Tis a bit of a thorn in one’s side, aye.

The only real work is my work. The only person who deserves a living wage is meeeeee!