I strongly believe we're within 5 years of the generative AI boom collapsing almost completely, and it will have a profound economic impact, as the use cases for the products being sold almost entirely suck arse.
@GossiTheDog 5 years? So you're an optimist, huh? 🤣
(For the record, I think there are legitimate, long-term beneficial uses, but they're VERY limited, given the nature of the tech. So much of what we're seeing now is "solution in search of a problem, any problem, even a problem it doesn't really solve" thinking and it shows.)
Microsoft Recall is horrifying for many reasons but it's also really funny to me that the operating system, processes, window manager and desktop environment all cooperate to render text to the screen, so the computer knows what it says (that's how screen readers work after all) but then we're going to use AI to OCR it back out of screenshots because, just like, fuck it why not. It feels nihilistic in a way.
@aburka@joby I'm willing to bet it's because there's always gonna be edge cases where OS functions aren't being used to display text (for example, in an image file) and they didn't want any way for any little morsel of delicious information to escape their grasp.
@tess But aren't you worried that your child is going to grow up feeling like their parents listen to them and value their opinions and will have a real sense of self-confidence and respect to fall back on when times get tough???
(Sarcasm filter turned off: Yer doing some admirable parenting there. 👍)
The mere suggestion that Hilary Clinton might be under investigation sank her campaign. It might be early to discount the impact a headline like this can have on the election.
@xgranade Except that's not how this works anymore. Hell, this will likely just energize his strongest supporters. "Sure he was convicted! That's because they know they can't beat him in an election, so they're trying to to use their corrupt courts to bring him down instead!"
Loyalty is what matters to them. It's a matter of identity. The "worse" he is, the more loyal they are to stick by him. They see it as MORE moral for them if he's awful and they stay loyal.
@xgranade I dunno, I have a hard time believing there are any undecideds left. His criminal conviction REALLY isn't the worst thing about him, not from nearly any angle. Anyone who believes they have been giving him the "legitimate benefit of the doubt" is not going to look at this and see clear, unequivocal proof - they're going to prevaricate still more. (1/2)
@thomasfuchs At this point, I don't think anything matters to them anymore. Being loyal matters more than who you're being loyal TO.
ESPECIALLY given that the right-wing media has been preparing heavily for this by downplaying his actions, downplaying the charges, questioning the integrity of the judge, etc.
It's like a version of the narcissist's prayer: "He didn't do it, but if he did, it wasn't so bad, and if it was, who he did it to wasn't important, and if they were, it had to be done."
@GossiTheDog Everyone: "They're gonna hit Rafah."
Netanyahu: "No no no, couldn't happen."
Everyone: "They're gonna hit Rafah!"
Netanyahu: Hits Rafah.
Netanyahu: "Oops."
Everyone: "..."
they should let me join the php language team so i can add a complex type system that allows for beautiful shenanigans (i have never designed or implemented a type system)
You can shorten the iTerm guy's response to this critique as "I disagree" and not lose any of the nuance. If you care why he disagrees, by all means read into it, but if you primarily care about not having network-based ML tooling in your terminal, his disagreement is a sufficient response on its own to your concerns. Decide accordingly.