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  • Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

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  • I'm shocked that a person who is touting AI so hard missed a pretty basic context clue. Maybe those basic tasks that they are using AI to skip could have helped them in this situation.

  • Map Clustering is Not My Favorite

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  • Nerd rage is the best rage.

  • How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on

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  • Yes, and the world is better for having locks.

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    After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban / A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within c…

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  • GPS is a broadcast-only system. It is not the source of your privacy concerns. What your cellphone/car/whatever does with that broadcast data is not GPS's fault.

  • ‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

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  • This was a dev who wanted to sync data between their home and work computers so they could do check-ins from home. This is a combination of a lazy person who values their own ease of use over basic security practices, plus a government contractor who values making as much money as possible by paying shitty devs without any real oversight over those shitty devs, plus an oversight government entity that had its funding slashed by people who only understand cutting money as opposed to national security.

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    Gavin Newsom proposes a California digital software tax

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  • I'm not sure, but that sounds likely. We have Silicon Valley, which contains billionaires who think they are more important than other people and have no problem saying stupid stuff like, "taxing digital products will cost jobs and move companies out of CA."

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    Gavin Newsom proposes a California digital software tax

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  • You just described what regressive means. Sales tax is absolutely a regressive tax, since it impacts poor people more than rich people.

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    Gavin Newsom proposes a California digital software tax

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  • That's only partly correct. Steam only charges a state sales tax for states that require sales tax on its purchases. CA does not impose state sales tax on digital products, so Steam does not charge CA residents a sales tax on purchases. This is aiming to level the playing field for brick and mortar stores as well as make more money (from normal people instead of taxing billionaires).

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  • Your first paragraph has way too many questions marks. I'm not asking you to buy a teenager.

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    Gavin Newsom proposes a California digital software tax

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  • Your post is reaching Trump-level stupidity. Do you know what the F in FOSS stands for?

  • The Men Who Spend Hours Talking to Porn Bots— “It’s just nice to feel heard.”

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  • These people have discovered "therapists."

  • The left is missing out on AI

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  • Funny, I know just as many anti-AI people in real life as very pro-AI people. It's almost like there are all kinds of people in the world, and not everyone knows all of them.

  • The left is missing out on AI

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  • You do realize, don't you, that there is more to hurting the environment than just energy use, right?

    Water use is through the roof, and water is kind of useful for making food and keeping humans alive: https://theconversation.com/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-of-water-companies-rarely-tell-the-public-exactly-how-much-262901

    Construction uses concrete and steel and other natural resources, as well as using gas to run the heavy equipment to build.

    Large centers take away natural land that could be used as carbon sinks but instead are concrete heat traps.

    There are more hits to the environment, but I'm not going to lay them out. Just looking at one source of possible energy use, which they aren't actually using since many are in the US and not in France, is stupid.

    Also, to your pseudo-intellectual "gotcha" points about thinking AI was a waste so how can billionaires profit: just because it doesn't make money in the long run doesn't mean billionaires aren't making a TON of money in the short run. Long term losses will be born by the public and not private money-holders. And even if AI is mostly useless, billionaires will still lay off employees only to learn that AI was in fact worthless, but the people who lost their jobs will fall further into debt and will be slaves to that debt.

  • Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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  • I was once the intern who did relatively stupid things with one very big consequence.

    My biggest fuckup was unplugging a 10base2 (edit: I originally wrote 10-base-T) coax wire from the loop so I could plug in a newly built computer. Everyone at the time (including me) knew that an unterminated 10-base-T network would crash Win 3.11, so the accepted process was to tell the entire network you were about to disconnect a cable so they could save their work and be ready to drop to DOS. I spaced that step in my haste to test a newly built computer and ruined a day's worth of work by the sales guy.

    Ultimately, I was the one who fucked up and did know better. That's AI. However, it only had consequences because Win 3.11 networking code was fucking awful and because the sales guy didn't save his work frequently. If the same person in this story had asked Claude whether it was a good idea to have the backup and production databases on the same volume, the AI would have said No. If the person had asked Claude whether it was a good idea to delete a database without any confirmation dialogue, the AI would have said No. AI did it anyway. That's what makes this an AI story.

    Was their database environment stupid? Yes. Did the sysadmin fuck up by not treating AI like an intern? Yes. Did the AI do something it knew it shouldn't do? Also yes. This is both an AI story and stupid sysadmin story.

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • For every credit hour a STEM major spends in a humanities course, a liberal arts major should have to spend in a technical course.

    You mean like how a History major at Purdue is required to take 5 Science courses, while an Engineering student is required to take 5 Gen Ed courses (only 3 of which need to be in Humanities)?

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • I disagree with a lot of what you are saying. I actually think it is very important to be well-rounded individuals and think general electives should be required (even though I absolutely hated them when I was in college). There is a reason why left-leaning people are more likely to have a college education and right-leaning people are less likely to have a college education. It isn't because people on the left are smart enough to go to college or have the money to, it's that more move to the left afterwards because going to college teaches you about life outside your small area and teaches you about people who are different from you. The same thing happens in humanities classes, whether you take them at college or not. They broaden your experience outside of just technical stuff. I think that is very important to building a society of people who care about other people and who want to make the world better for others besides themselves.

    I also think you have it wrong about "That nonsense came about in the mid-20th century when it seemed industry, automation and electrical gadgetry was going to free us of toil." Universities were almost COMPLETELY about creating well-rounded people for a thousand years. It is only in the last hundred or so years that college has been about creating a targeted workforce. The first trade school wasn't "invented" until 1823, and they didn't become a big thing until after WWII in the 1940s. Universities pumping out engineers became a thing with land-grant schools in the late 1880s. Basically, the industrial revolution in the 1800s shifted college from creating well-rounded people to being focused on careers. "Majors" weren't invented until 1885 (at Indiana University, which seems weird to me that it was invented there). Before that, you just took a whole bunch of electives based on what you were interested in or whatever your advisor was interested in. In the 1600s when Harvard and Yale were built, they were built for the reason you specifically say came about in the 20th century.

    "This was an especially English ideal, realized in the colleges that made up the universities at Oxford and Cambridge. There, students studied, lived, and worshiped in communities with their teachers—and they would do the same at Harvard and Yale. In that way, education became not merely a training of mind or a preparation for profession, but a comprehensive experience meant to develop character, to develop the whole human being in all its dimensions- intellectual, moral, personal."

    It is true that requiring a general education as part of a set curriculum came about in the early-20th century, but that's only because so many people were only going to college to get professional skills that schools needed to figure out a way to structure and standardized what was never structured or standardized in the past.

    I do agree with you that we should make available to anyone at any age humanities classes. And I do agree trade/certification schools are an awesome way to create a better life for yourself or simply to get to do thing you want to do with your life. I also agree that requiring going into massive debt at expensive universities just to get basic jobs needs to die... but I want it to die by having universities be free to attend so anyone can have access to those basic jobs while also having access to a life-broadening experience.

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • I'm of two minds about this. So many jobs out there require a college degree when the work itself doesn't really require a college degree to do. People who can't afford to go to college but are able to do the work are locked out of that more comfortable life. This makes it easier to get that foot in the door.

    At the same time, you learn A LOT about life and people in those 3 or 4 years at college. It's a shame for someone to miss out on that experience. Also, this speed run absolutely could not work for a STEM degree.

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • Never once said that to a new hire. I have lamented that not all schools teach some basic things, but I've never thought they were taught the wrong things, just not everything needed.

  • Major Tech company urges universal national service

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  • White nationalism? Check.

    Billionaires should be allowed to do what they want? Check.

    War for war's sake? Check.

    Class warfare? Check.

    Class warfare (again)? Check.

    The only thing I agree with is the bit about politicians sending normal folks to war while not sending themselves or their kids.