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aesthelete

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  • Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey reveals

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  • Not sold is putting it very mildly. I found a fix for all of the bullshit though: you go into the default apps area and you choose none for assistant. Before I did that they had sideloaded fucking Gemini onto my phone via Android Auto and when I was trying to navigate somewhere I had to speak to some useless middle manager Gemini guy that didn't like cursing before he passed it off to the virtual woman to do the actual navigation. Google: bringing the patriarchy to your digital assistants.

  • America's tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devices

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  • But it's the way of the future! How else are you going to learn a trade that trillions will be spent trying to make irrelevant?

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    LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’

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  • Seems like that's most of the point. Quality software wasn't really the point of the SaaS wave, the point was to control the target sector and put a choke point in everyone's real business for software CEOs. LLMs are the same thing, but with software development itself being the thing controlled.

    Of course it causes deskilling, that's exactly the point. They're trying to make everyone dependent upon their corporations to do any software development at all, and then they can control everything about how it gets done.

    In a way, as a software developer myself, I feel like I was played for a fool for the last two decades. Software development was never about improving anyone's life and always about controlling other people and companies, and extracting all of the profits for themselves. They paid us pretty well to do this because they had no choice. Now they do.

  • Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative

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  • Yeah because the Polish government cannot possibly create a secure messaging app of their own.

    You know before cryptography was a software feature it was a crucial part of statecraft. IMO there is nothing wrong with states building their own secure communication software. It has more precedent than "download a US app" --- that may or may not have an NSA backdoor --- does.

  • When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

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  • It would help if the media stopped assisting them with their campaigns every cycle.

  • The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns / The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.

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  • I'm starting to think this Trump guy might not have the best interests of Americans at heart you guys. Spread the word!

  • TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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  • The US is working its way toward illiteracy. Republicans need this to install a permanent set of oligarchs in the government.

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    The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, And CTOs Are Going To Pay It Twice

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  • Maybe? If corporate structures made sense then sure, but they haven't made sense my entire time in the industry and I doubt they'll start making sense because of this.

  • Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he did

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  • Keep ass what though? /s

  • Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he did

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  • I'm going to have to just write my own one of these fucking things aren't I?

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    The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, And CTOs Are Going To Pay It Twice

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  • We’ll see more initiatives organized end-to-end by small groups of smart people, with virtual teams/coalitions forming to bypass “archaic” processes and deliver meaningful results.

    What you're describing here has always been the case. The pattern in software is always that a small, actually empowered group does the initial development and r&d, then if the product is a success the maintenance people come in and drain it of any progress via overbearing process and middle management. There's rare exceptions, but I've seen this over and over again.

    Small teams build good things, then they get acquired and those things are slowly or quickly destroyed.

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    'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers

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  • Eh I'm sure they kinda know beforehand, but everyone chooses themselves. There might be one or two free radicals in there, but most people are going to be afraid of career implications, legal problems, or both.

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  • Just what everyone needs, the Internet of things wired into their brain. No problems with that ever. No sir. /s

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    'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers

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  • How much mega corporations and the government give a fuck about people is becoming visceral these days.

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    Kamala Harris Slams The Supreme Court For 'Backdooring Racism'

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  • SLAM DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH LET THE BOYS BE BOYS

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    Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

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  • Wow what a circlejerk this turned into.

    Oh well, I guess that's what everything really is the whole time.

  • No offense to society

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  • Same

  • AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

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  • AI chatbots could dissect your children and we'd still keep them. We're finished caring about anything but money and power.

    I'd like to imagine a different world from this. One where anyone gives a shit about what happens to someone else. Maybe in the next life.

  • Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?

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  • No but I barely used it in the first place.