gravitas_deficiency
@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies 3 days ago:
Honestly, it’s a fairly obvious strategy to play at this point, in geopolitical terms
- Comment on AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll 4 days ago:
Yeah, the beauty of the diverse in that context is that you can just make a blocklist, and most significant communities have a general distaste for ML-generated slop, often to the point of making rules against it. And there’s not really any real profit motive, because it’s intentionally not set up to easily monetize shit that way.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 1 week ago:
That’s like asking to be hacked again with extra steps
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 2 weeks ago:
Right there with you. And it’s always pushed by people who don’t actual understand the implications and constraints of specific problems.
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 2 weeks ago:
Oh my god that’s hilarious and insane. What a comically stupid application to plug LLMs into. You absolutely want your accounting software to be entirely deterministic. You do NOT want your accounting software to be stochastic.
- Comment on Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’ve been warning colleagues and leadership about this for a couple years now. It baffles me that people don’t understand they’re hollowing out the whole discipline of computer science and engineering, at large. The knock-on effects are going to be - and i know this sounds hyperbolic, but I stand by it - incalculable.
I guess I’ll just retire in a decade as an Elder Techpriest…? Who even knows at this point.
- Comment on Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds 1 month ago:
AFAIK my instance never has and never will federate with Threads, so…
Neat 📸
- Comment on PSA: Widespread internet outage affects Spotify, Google, Discord, AWS, Cloudflare, more 1 month ago:
Cyber attack vibes, if I’m being honest
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 2 months ago:
Hahaha this is fine, I am fine with this, wcgw
- Comment on Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry 2 months ago:
- Comment on Survey shows Gmail users would gladly sacrifice features for more privacy 2 months ago:
I was about to pivot to the proton-sphere, and then their leadership and the company in general got all… fascist-appeasing. It put me off.
- Comment on The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here 2 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft announces new features for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, including an AI agent in Settings and updates to Start menu, Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool 2 months ago:
chortles in Fedora 42
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 3 months ago:
Send more blue shells?
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 3 months ago:
Send more blue shells
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 3 months ago:
I want to say a thing that I want to happen to this ceo but it would get me banned.
- Comment on SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 3 months ago:
Jesus, dude… ACME is not hard to set up.
- Comment on Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust. 3 months ago:
I’ve snagged a couple deals on mini-computers with CPUs that have NN-optimized tiles; I’m planning on playing around and building out some self-hosted voice assistant stuff, amongst other things.
- Comment on Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust. 3 months ago:
lol no it doesn’t, because the only one I’ll ever trust is the one I fully host and control myself.
- Comment on Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it 3 months ago:
Same, tbh.
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 3 months ago:
Wheeeeeeeeee
- Comment on A 32-bit RISC-V processor made using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon 3 months ago:
You clearly haven’t read the article. If you do, it’s quite obvious that this is a prototype implementation - essentially a proof-of-concept.
- Comment on FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies 4 months ago:
Normal things happening in a normal democratic country. So normal. The normalest
- Comment on TSMC US investment: Fear and resignation after ‘world’s most powerful company’ pays Trump $100 billion. 4 months ago:
If you think any security guarantee made between orangeboi and anybody but Putin himself, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I wanna sell you.
- Comment on Amazon's retail grocery business struggles, despite advanced tech. 4 months ago:
Watch them kill it instead of letting it spin off and allowing people who know what the fuck they’re doing take over
- Comment on AI Search Engines Are Confidently Wrong Too Often. 4 months ago:
- Comment on TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center: A closer look 4 months ago:
I’m frankly mystified by the fact that Taiwan appears to be letting the core of their strategic defense policy vis a vis the CCP get pretty fundamentally undermined
- Comment on Trump is giving Russian cyber ops a free pass – and putting western democracy on the line. 4 months ago:
Keep this is mind as you see more and more pro-Russian and -CCP comments in the coming months and years.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 4 months ago:
Meta and Google throw money at people as compensation for making them build unethical, immoral stuff.
SpaceX has traditionally paid far less, relying on “we’re building fucking reusable rockets”, which in normal circumstances, to a lot of engineers, is pretty rad, and kind of its own selling point.
