gravitas_deficiency
@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Literally the first time in my life I’ve found myself actually rooting for an HOA
- Comment on The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes 4 days ago:
Regular competent software engineers
- Comment on Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered. 2 weeks ago:
My therapist is actually extremely against LLMs being used in a clinical sense, and also opts out of them when her own healthcare providers use them. She’s a good one, and I respect her a lot for that stance
- Comment on Salesforce CEO Says AI Enabled Him To Cut 4,000 Jobs 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 weeks ago:
Where dat repo at
- Comment on US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal 3 weeks ago:
“Unorthodox deal”
Come the fuck on, it’s nakedly obvious that it’s just mafia-esque bullshit. Call it what it is.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Stopped clock moment, but I’ll take it
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 3 weeks ago:
Mmmm yeah so I expect the Canadian govern to have a Strong Fucking opinion on precisely how that’s categorical bullshit
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 4 weeks ago:
Altman is such a fucking tool lmao
- Comment on Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
“Everyone”? Nope. Just the people who live in countries that are allergic to investing in public infrastructure.
I’m no fanboi of the CCP, but this is one of the domains in which they absolutely, inarguably have their heads on straight. Meanwhile, we’re occupied with political posturing about how “woke” solar and wind power is.
- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 4 weeks ago:
Heh, sometimes I forget that this isn’t slack too
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 5 weeks ago:
Always has been
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 5 weeks ago:
Lmao whoever wrote this directive should not be allowed within a country mile of any computer, anywhere
- Comment on Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Cyber attack vibes, if I’m being honest
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 3 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 3 months ago:
- Comment on Survey shows Gmail users would gladly sacrifice features for more privacy 3 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 3 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 4 months ago:
chortles in Fedora 42
