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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago

I kind of love that Kanye had that breakdown where he released the Heil Hitler track and went to twitter posting all caps shit saying he was a nazi, and the internet's collective reaction seems to have just kind of rolled their eyes and move on. Just pure apathy. It's not shocking or contreversial, more "Yeah, we all figured that out ages ago. Fuck off."

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 9 hours ago

If it helps it make any more sense, from other posts of this comic on lemmy, the original posts seem to be on pixiv, which is on paper a site for hosting art, but in reality seems to exist primarily to host a lot of hentai. Mostly hentai.

I've also noticed a small trend lately where adult artists fish for comissions by making strangely horny webcomics.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's hidden in the middle of the description, but this is DoomRL after being told they had to stop using the Doom IP as a fangame. Same person behind it, and my understanding is that it's even built off the same codebase (just updated a hell of a lot over the years). So less a "spiritual successor" and more a rebranding.

Which is awesome if you like DoomRL.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is shockingly "public" considering there's legal proceedings now.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

In another article or trailer it was explicitly stated that they worked with the community mod makers to package in all the "must have" texture and model mods. So it should look like what you previously could mod it into, lol.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

I hope it does better than the last try.

In most public places in the US it is technically illegal to be publicly intoxicated. It's incredibly rare that anyone would do anything about it unless you're being a public nuisance or something though.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Bunch of disparate thoughts about this. Apologies.


You can't just purity test an entire profession. Or at least it isn't reasonable to do so.

You have to dig, but there are artists and authors out there who have positive opinions about AI. I'm sure the folks more active on !techtakes@awful.systems could get a list together of their favorite sneer targets.


All the anti-ai tools are coming from programmers. anubis, iocaine, nepenthes, nightshade, and more.


I'd suggest that it's worth remembering that a large portion of any online discourse is going to be made up of teenagers, college students, and people new to whatever it is they're discussing. But almost all of them will talk with an implied authority on whatever subject it is anyway. Many subs on reddit have done demorgraphics polls (or polls that included a question about age) and the results makes the sillier places like relationship advice make a hell of a lot more sense.

I have almost a decade of work experience in IT, more if you count some intro to programming teaching gigs I did. AI coding assistance tools are positioned perfectly to be like crack for early learners, but don't actually add too much value for more experienced folks (especially not anything can't be done faster with existing non-ai tools, like an IDE's code snippets features for repeated boilerplate code, which is the most frequent excuse I see online).

That said, I have literally never met any dev in real life that thinks favorably of AI coding assistance.

What I see more and more is corporate management types being afraid that all the hype for AI coming out of Gartner etc means that if they don't force their employees to use it they will get left behind as their competitors magically produce more somehow. At that point as an employee your choices are to work to meet whatever shit metric they've constructed or give up making a paycheck.

It's very easy to tell other people they need to be more principled when it's not your food/shelter/insurance/livelyhood on the line.

And it's also worth noting that what the current wave of popular AI (LLMs) does best is generate text. So of course you're going to see text posts online trying to shift the window. That's the company using their horrific tool as designed. There was evidence of AI bots hyping AI in the programming subs on reddit that got overshadowed by them shutting off third party API access.


AI is only as inevitable for as long as the megacorps can keep funneling money into the pit. The world leader in AI conpanies, OpenAI, is doing so great with money that they are trying to threaten their business partner Microsoft out of roughly $40B. This could all blow up fairly soon. I hope it does.


There absolutely are devs out there who are getting ground down, where there principles are becoming eroded over time.

But like with many things in life, the rabble at the bottom aren't the ones effecting real long term change, media coverage, corporate adoption, etc. Don't turn this into some crab pot situation.

Go after the tech reporters continually giving AI the benefit of the doubt. Go after industry steering publications like Gartner. Go after politicians giving AI projects sweetheart deals that allow them to coast by without having to compete fairly based off their actual costs (OpenAI loses money on every request it serves). That allow AI datacenters to continuously violate local laws. That allow the datacenters to pollute their local water table. Go after the management enacting requirements that their subordinates demonstrate how AI is improving their work efficiency on pain of firing. You get the picture.

And sure, call out individuals. But please don't label us all as a group on this.


EDIT: old man intensifies. And another thing! (to support my point that the corps need to be the target in these discussions):

Companies like Microsoft are resorting to forcing AI features into their products and defaulting those AI features to ON in order to get the user numbers they need to keep justifying the absurd expenditure on AI, and to be able to keep pushing the false narrative into the media of everyone using AI.

These effectively fabricated increases in user numbers from these features being default on means that the impact of individual programmers and devs deciding to use or not use AI are not going to move the needle significantly enough to make a difference.

I'm proud to say that currently my workplace has all this shit disabled on an enterprise level, and firewall blocks preventing using any of it. Unfortunately that will only last as long as it takes for the suits to come up with a sufficiently paranoid acceptable use policy. We're doing what we can to keep stoking the idea that putting any info into these things is effectively selling it to potential competitors, but that can only go so far against Gartner and the like whispering in the C-suite's ear.

Anyway. Everyone has a duty to say no to this shit, but all the companies are already using every dirty trick they can to boost the user numbers. If you're running around under the impression that the absurd user numbers represent true users, and that those users must be comprised entirely of tech workers because artists never would use AI, then you're looking at a false narrative being pushed by the people who stand to make the most money off this shit. The user numbers are not accurate to begin with.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FYI: You can't combine a URL post and an image post. It's one or the other and the Lemmy UI doesn't make that limitation clear. The standard workaround is what you've done, put the URL in the body text.

More on topic: I can't imagine using an AI for anything even remotely resembling childcare advice.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

votes were reasonably more private back then.

Not commenting on anything else in your comment except to say: Votes have never been private on Lemmy. The have been made more visible, but they were always just an API call away.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

No, you're expected to block communities you aren't interested in. Curate your feed/all.

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Cropped from [EastCoastitNotes], shared by @stamets@lemmy.world in this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31818124

 

My daughter is a little over two, and through well meaning family and friends we have more toys than we know what to do with.

My wife keeps buying what are essentially (fancy looking) big boxes and just dumping everything in them. Love my wife, but that's not working, it's just hiding some of the mess in a box.

We end up with these hardly ever opened boxes full of unorganized piles of toys that we end up having to dig through to find anything specific, and the toys that my daughter is actively using just end up scattered around the floor so they don't disappear into the box dimension.

Every once in a while my daughter opens and digs through the boxes and dumps half the contents on the floor anyway (not like she can see specific things to grab what she wants) and then we just kind of arbitrarily choose some of it to put back in the box and a new combination of mess to leave out.

Unfortunately we have another baby on the way, so I'm probably not getting my wife to let us toss any of it right now.

I'm leaning towards cubby shelves with individual bins for different "types" of toys like her daycare does, but I wanted to hear what strategies other parents tried, and what has and hasn't worked.

 

This blog post has been reported on and distorted by a lot of tech news sites using it to wax delusional about AI's future role in vulnerability detection.

But they all gloss over the critical bit: in fairly ideal circumstances where the AI was being directed to the vuln, it had only an 8% success rate, and a whopping 28% false positive rate!

 
 

Machine autotranslation of a french comic from https://lemm.ee/post/64691257

 

Cross post of https://thelemmy.club/post/27042027

AAAARRRRROOOOOOOOOOO

 

Came like this, they absolutely knew:

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