When I was in highschool, for the first few months of my freshman year I had a couple of classes that took place inside those old “mobile home” style class rooms (idk what they’re called lol). They were old, kinda smelly, the AC unit was loud, and I loved it.

But then they finished construction of a new multi-storied building and relocated all those classes. Every classroom was an identical, minimalist cement rectangle with perfectly white walls and high tech whiteboards. I hated it, and actually felt like it made it harder to focus. Nobody agreed with me when I said the old classrooms were better :(

I can already see the HN comments

If YoU CaN’T iNnOvAtE, rEgUlAtE!1!1

Tbf, Tesla probably sold more cyber trucks than Horizons got users.

You must be new around these parts. Facebook (and the rest of big tech) are monopolists. For the past ~26 years, the tech industry has been using illegal anticompetitive tactics to suppress competition and destroy potential competitors. The government has done nothing, because they’re stupid and think “big = good”.

An example is Instagram. It was a start up that was growing rapidly, and actually became a threat to Facebook. What did Facebook do? They placed a massive bid to buy the company at like 10x their actual market value. It’s an offer so huge that every investor in Instagram would support the deal even if the founders were against it.

A sane government would see that as an obvious anticompetitive decision, and block the merger. Facebook should instead use that money to improve their own product and compete fairly. Obviously, that didn’t happen, the merger went through, and Facebook is still the owner of Instagram. Users and the tech industry at large are worse off.

Look at TikTok’s huge success. If they weren’t a Chinese company, they probably would have met a similar fate. Unfortunately for Facebook, they weren’t allowed to buy a Chinese company.

How are they so unable to differentiate a shitty edit from AI?

It’s just that most people don’t know what you mean when you say something is “AI generated”. With context clues, they tie back to terms they’re already familiar with, and are associated with fake computer generated imagery (“that’s Photoshopped”).

I think most people have never even seen Adobe Photoshop, the actual software. Like, literally never laid their eyes on the gray window, the layers and tool panels, etc, yet they’ve still thrown the term “photoshopped” around.

I’m not sure what you’re getting at. By definition, an “expert” is someone with a lot of “experience”. Your hypothetical kid has “no experience”. Since we know that 1+1=2, I think we can deduce that the answer to your question is no.

AI is here. Deal. With It. Your authoritarian chains have been shattered, knowledge Nazi. No longer will creation be a luxury for the mentally wealthy. It has now been fully democratized so that even republican voters will be able to code soon.

Regular desktop stuff and gaming usually works fine. Problems start cropping up when you try to use some more advanced GPU-powered apps, or do development yourself. I’ve encountered even older OpenGL apps that fail to start unless you force them to use the Mesa software renderer.

please review this Lemmy thread and come up with a good way to keep moving the goal posts so that I can feel like I’m right

@onlinepersona prompting chatgpt right now

And people are now getting emails saying that their phone will never arrive, with no mention of them getting their deposits back.

Anyone have the text of the actual email?

ITT: a lot of people who neither read the article, nor understand what the term “memory leak” means.

a modern golden age of stupid people who think they’re smart because they have access to an LLM.

FTFY

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Liabiliting

You shouldn’t be using corpo slop languages anyways. That includes Swift, Go, C#, Kotlin, etc. C++ is independent from big tech. Even though it’s so complex, there are TWO open source and independent state of the art compiler implementations (including one that’s free software).

Also Mono (open source .NET runtime for Linux) is shit, and .NET apps sometimes struggle to run on Wine. The compatibility situation will probably get worse when Microsoft adds Copilot integration directly into the .NET runtime.

Edit: if you want a similar alternative, try Haxe!

This is actually impressive. Y’all dunking on it probably don’t realize just how tiny this company is, yet they somehow managed to pull this off without being just another Clevo reseller. It’s a whole custom chassis that actually looks sick, and a sane keyboard layout.

Unfortunately, this is probably the worst possible time to launch a laptop. Those prices are wild, and I say that as someone willing to pay a premium for Linux support. I also already upgraded recently, so it’ll be a pass from me for now… But I wish them the best of luck!

Are there any real life scenarios where an untrusted user is allowed access to a machine with an unprivileged account? I know there are (or were?) some public shared machines where you can ssh in for fun, but those aren’t serious.

I’m thinking maybe a POS system or kiosk running Linux, and there’s shell access? This could possibly also be useful for jailbreaking devices that ship with Linux, but are locked down… Maybe like a car infotainment system?

AI is the most successful media franchise in human history

Just like your stupid ‘þ’

Are you even reading the criticisms people are making, or just asking an LLM to generate responses for you? Or have you developed brain damage as a result of so much LLM usage? Those are the most charitable explanations for your behavior here, because you seem to be incapable of understanding the criticisms. This has nothing to do with “effort”.

When I said you should seek a mental health professional, that wasn’t a joke. Some people might say that as a joke, but I wasn’t. AI psychosis is a serious thing we don’t fully understand yet. From my perspective, you’re just an annoying Lemmy user/possible troll, which is easy to ignore. But if you’re not just trolling, then you’re probably damaging your health and/or relationships for a very stupid reason.