Nerd about the fediverse, based in Portland, Oregon. 🌲 Nice to meet you! 👋
Agreed. While plenty of people have been covering energy use by technology for many years as well as the many dangers of social media and other online services…the fact is Gen AI simply takes everything that was already questionable and doubles it…quadruples it… Yes, not everything in tech is bad! And the stuff that was bad before does not excuse what’s frighteningly worse now.
“So what” …the defining ethos of the slop bros who don’t mind when technology is built on the back of stolen content and ecosystem collapse.
Maybe this is too technical still, but Eleventy is a pretty cool project that can publish markdown.
Same here, all of the most interesting stuff somehow never makes it onto film. I think The Silver Chair did get produced in the BBC (?) miniseries ages ago…
Aww, those poor multi-ton metal leviathans are frightened by the scary human-sized two-wheelers. 😢
Nope was a fantastic movie. Us was the weakest of the not-a-trilogy but still a very thoughtful and well-made film.
Wow, this looks really good. I’m trying it out on PieFed.social and so far, so good!
OpenAi isn’t open source. 🤔
Ah yes, NeoNaziOS. We definitely want that to go mainstream.
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(seriously, if you don’t know who DHH is please do some research…his HEY World blog + X account is rife with stuff that’ll make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. 😬)
Very cool idea! Just starred on Codeberg.
Would you pay for the extra plus features if the source code were also made available?
I found The Minimalist one amusing and a bit relevant, but otherwise I didn’t resonate with any of them. I feel like I’d fall under The Artisan : I’m a hippie type you’d expect to see in a Portlandia episode (and lol, I actually live in Portland), and my goal is to hand-craft every line of code and offer it up as an organic, farm-to-table morsel of supernutritional bliss with excellent mouthfeel.
I saw it and found it incredibly moving. It’s more of a “romdramedy”—it definitely has comedic moments and of course romantic beats driving the overall plot forward but at its core it’s a commentary on societal expectations and class divisions. Would definitely recommend. (Unless you’re truly just looking for a fun romcom in which case prob should go watch Nobody Wants This on Netflix or whatever…which I also love, don’t get me wrong!)
Old and busted: accidentally install malware on Windows.
New hotness: now Windows itself is malware!
Blink Twice (2024) was in this vein as well. It also had a tech bro/misogynist angle, but wealth (and the power which comes from it) was definitely front and center.
Technically, LLMs as used in Generative AI fall under the umbrella term “machine learning”…except that until recently machine learning was mostly known for “the good stuff” you’re referring to (finding patterns in massive datasets, classifying data entries like images, machine vision, etc.). So I feel like continuing to use the term ML for the good stuff helps steer the conversation away from what is clearly awful about genAI.
I don’t at all agree with this graph, and I think you’re sort of missing the point of the original post.
This was literally the only reason I had any potential interest in GitLab. What a joke. 😠
These thoughts are way too deep for a silly meme thread, but I’m here for it! 🫡