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I suspect your wife thinks of Gen AI as some form of intelligence. You can call them clanker, shitstain, n-word, anything. They are inanimate.

That said, while I dont believe Gen AI is a step on the path to AGI, i acknowledge the possibility that such a thing may one day exist.

At that time, how we address them might say more about us than it does about them. For example, pets might not have rights or feelings, but we treat them with basic respect because you know - its nice to be nice.

How we treat things we dont need to be nice to says a lot about our character.

I’ve been using libredns.

It’s fine.

Smaller social platforms are a real mixed bag.

It seems like subsets of some communities occasionally migrate en-masse. In the same way that lemmy had a huge influx of users from reddit at the time 3rd party apps were discontinued - it’s a fairly confined subset of reddit users that ended up here.

Another example is nostr. Seems to be exclusively crypto-twits.

Super common in accounting in australia.

Degrees by themselves aren’t very useful, you need the experience as well.

Just tick off 1 unit each semester.

I’ve always defended mozilla after every dumb mistake, but I’m over it.

They’re pretty much just cooked at this point.

Study part time, alongside employment.

Basically, im getting old and weird and less willing to abide corporate fuckery.

Im self employed so I can use what I want.

I have a few assisstants who use win 11.

I use an unofficial teams appimage all day every day.

I think its probably an electron thing.

I hate having to use it but it works fine.

He is half German and thinks he can hate Jewish people and act like a Nazi but because he speaks German at home

All the German’s I’ve known are the opposite of this. They’re very quick to stamp out nazism and anti-semitism. I think that generally they would respond more harshly than most non-germans. That said, my experience might not be representative and it seems like the far right is gaining popularity in Germany.

I think it’s more likely that he acts that way because someone at home acts that way.

actually speak German and say rude things without people knowing.

Pretty pathetic really.

You’ve correctly identified that this kid is a douche. Sure he might know a foreign language, but that doesn’t make up for wanting to exterminate you if you were born to the wrong family.

Not really, although you might try the 512kb club.

https://512kb.club/

Im talking more about technologies and platforms. IRC, XMPP, RSS…

I dont think the main stream will ever meaningfully turn against advertising. We’ve collectively demonstrated that we’re willing to accept advertising and trade our privacy in exchange for free content and services.

That said, the worse the main stream web gets the better the “side web” gets. The good parts of the web will always exist, even if they’re not as popular as they once were.

Define love.

My “company” is tiny, and only employs myself 1 colleague, and an assistant. We’re accountants.

We self host some models from huggingface.

We don’t really use these as part of any established workflow. Thinking of some examples …

This week my colleague used a model to prep a simple contract between herself and her daughter where by her daughter would perform whatever chores and she would pay for cello lessons.

My assistant used an AI thing to parse some scanned bank statements, so this one is work related. The alternative is bashing out the dates, descriptions, and amounts manually. Using traditional OCR for this purpose doesn’t really save any time because hunting down all the mistakes and missed decimal places takes a lot of effort. Parsing this way takes about a third of the time, and it’s less mentally taxing. However, this isn’t a task we regularly perform because obviously in the vast majority of cases we can get the data instead of printed statements.

I was trying to think the proper term for an english word which has evolved from some phrase or whatever, like “stearing board” became “starboard”. The Gen AI suggested portmanteau, but I actually think there’s a better word I just haven’t remembered yet.

I had it create a bash one liner to extract a specific section from a README.md.

I asked it to explain the method of action of diazepam.

My feelings about AI are that it’s pretty great for specific niche tasks like this. Like the bash one liner. It took 30 seconds to ask and I got an immediate, working solution. Without Gen AI I just wouldn’t be able to grep whatever section from a README - not exactly a life changing super power, but a small improvement to whatever project I was working on.

In terms of our ability to do our work and deliver results for clients, it’s a 10% bump to efficiency and productivity when used correctly. Gen AI is not going to put us out of a job.

My point is, bots on reddit are farming karma. They’re not doing that here.

Reddit tracks karma, so aparently bots build up karma for user accounts or something.

Lemmy doesn’t do that.

This is the US import origins, according to OEC World, the source of the data in your map.

China may not be the US biggest trading partner, but it’s not far off.

For profit companies already run reactors on dry land, which don’t move, and are heavily regulated and constantly observed.

Obviously, the risk profile is vastly different when you put the reactor on a boat.

Putting them on a boat is not well understood. Australia just doesn’t have personnel experienced with any kind of reactor. We don’t have a nuclear industry. It’s not as simple as plonking a box named “reactor” on the boat and calling it a day.

China is everyone’s biggest trading partner.

Call us a “puppet state” if you will, but we’re not as far up Trump’s ass as a lot of other allies.

blatant bots posting really crappy AI images

I don’t think I’ve noticed this ?

What would be the motive of someone creating a bot to post bad AI images?