Gregory's Server
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I just deleted my Twitter account. I saw a viral pro-H*tler tweet on my timeline with 66,000 likes and 9.5 million views. That was enough for me to ensure my posts don’t contribute any value to that garbage dump.
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 @carnage4life @mastodonmigration I wish I could be surprised by something like that anymore. 😮💨 I know the Fediverse isn’t exactly immune to hate groups, but at least we have ways to do something about it before it grows and festers and poisons everything around it.  @carnage4life the direction of travel was clear from the get go… not sure how to feel about the people that remain there.  23andMe is struggling: its stock faces delisting, it shut down its drug unit, and most of its board resigned last week. CEO Anne Wojcicki is considering selling the company, meaning the DNA of 15 million users could be up for sale. Unlike passwords, you can’t change your DNA so think twice about giving your data to commercial companies for entertainment purposes. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/if-23andme-is-up-for-sale-so-is-all-that-dna/ar-AA1rl1V1
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 @carnage4life Please rotate your DNA sequence upon compromise. 🧬🧫 @carnage4life Fortunately European customers' data is covered by GDPR, so we don't have to worry about that, only hacking attacks on the data. Which already happened, IIRC CrowdStrike is being sued by shareholders who claim its inadequate testing and rollout processes defrauded them as the stock price has now since tanked 32% since their disastrous update. Someone is channeling @matt_levine “inadequate testing is securities fraud”  @carnage4life @matt_levine I wish them all the best in trying to tame the tech industry's shoddy work practices. Google continues its epic run of reminding people why you should never depend on their services. They just announced that links that used https://goo.gl/* shortener will break after August 25th 2025. You’d think Google of all companies would respect not breaking links. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
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@carnage4life tbh im surprised they kept the links going this long, knowing them, considering they turned off making new ones in 2018 @carnage4life I was curious about those "Firebase dynamic links" they mention as the alternative to their old url shortener, and... what a trainwreck. This is a great article from Sequoia which argues the tech industry needs $600B in AI revenue to justify the money spent on GPUs and data centers. OpenAI is the biggest AI pure play and is at $3.4B ARR. This feels like a bubble unless products worth buying show up. There is no doubt that there will be a lot of money made from AI. The question is whether it will be enough to support a $3T valuation for Nvidia? This is why replacing knowledge workers is the play. Anything else isn’t big enough. I continue to be fascinated by the fact that when Jack Dorsey looks back at his time at Twitter, his only regret is that it was technically possible for him to ban the Nazis so people nagged him to do so. So now his ideal social network is one where the moderators can’t ban Nazis. @carnage4life I'm wondering if this is why Twitter was always bad at coming with useful features themselves. Their overall concept of reality was off. @carnage4life Must be great to be totally insulated from the tiniest consequences of all of your decisions. Utterly incapable of reflection and learning. Completely surrounded by people who give you endless respect, praise, and never criticism. Absolutely not a recipe for uncaring idealogues, convinced they're right in all respects. Laying off an entire team because their manager wouldn't lay of a large chunk of the team to cut costs is the sort of penny wise, pound foolish portrayal of tech you'd expect from HBO's Silicon Valley not a company that the market calls one of the "Magnificent Seven".
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@carnage4life so workers prefer quality time with his family / children / friends instead of free juice at the office... No shit Sherlock.
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@carnage4life This is what I’ve been trying to explain to many friends. I think it's just the job market downturn and the anxiety fueling sentiments like these. @carnage4life If Programmers are replaced by AI I will simply rebrand as a Debugger and quadruple my rate. @carnage4life There's a difference between a coder and a developer. I agree with you that developers aren't threatened, but I do worry about people who are just coders. Folks that don't bring business insights and other non-technical skills to bear. Study of codebases over a 4 year period show Github Copilot lowers the quality of code over time by increasing the likelihood of bugs being introduced and copy & pasted code. This is a healthy counterpoint to studies that show improved productivity. Fast. Cheap. Good. Pick Two. https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx
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@carnage4life Yea, the fact that LLMs just inherently produce "plausible" results rather than "correct" results means producing bugs that are just that much harder to spot. @carnage4life I would not be surprised if these conclusions are true, but this "study" is very flimsy. They compare total metrics across all measured codebases between 2023 and the prior years, assume that all differences are due to Copilot use, and then extrapolate conclusions. I am definitely an AI skeptic, but this is a marketing piece, not a research paper. I wonder how long it will take companies to figure out that if you just put a thin front end on ChatGPT as your customer service bot then you’ll have a bad time as frustrated customers jailbreak into being a regular ChatGPT prompt? 🤦🏾♂️ https://time.com/6564726/ai-chatbot-dpd-curses-criticizes-company/ @carnage4life this is not that different from exposing DB interfaces on the Internet. Folks need to start thinking about security frameworks like NVIDIA’s NeMo Guardrails from the get go. Both the EU and UK antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft owning 49% of OpenAI is effectively a way to get around antitrust rules while still controlling the company. The answer is obviously "yes" but the question is if anyone can point to a broken rule.
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 @carnage4life as it should be. @carnage4life I can only begin to imagine how many wars and deaths have been funded through shitcoin markets. Iran, Russia, …  @carnage4life I warned ppl that would be like this. and it's generally a financial pyramid, that's why I never used it. but people are attracted by glowy sticker "decentralized" and are ready to exhange real earned values for some monopoly money that finance terrorists and dirty trafficing.
 You've been an outspoken critic of Crypto as well. Are you still against #cryptocurrency as an investment? One of the signs we give rich tech bros too much airtime is that we don’t spend a bunch of time worrying about if scientists in a lab are going to create a disease that destroys humanity even though there’s a credible narrative this is what happened with COVID. Yet we have the media and government spending urgent time worrying about big tech or startups creating Skynet in their quest to automate white collar jobs. We’ve fallen for a tech bro grift even dumber than NFTs.
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 @carnage4life@mas.to we do have real action to manage the risk of biological weapons and pandemics. Maybe we should have more, but we have a lot of public health infrastructure for that. Looking back and forth between these two screenshots will have you deliriously screaming “tech is a meritocracy” if you do it for a few minutes.  @carnage4life @carnage4life It all depends on what said meritocracy is based on. Neumann is clearly gifted at fraud and lying @carnage4life I (being totally unqualified to comment on such things) think he’s right for this iteration. REAL AGI though? Idk. @carnage4life I think it’s a both/and situation. It’s true that big tech wants regulatory capture AND it’s true that AI poses existential threats. It’s so strange to live in a country where protecting kids means preventing them from reading books that talk about racism or going on Instagram and seeing LGBTQ content but it’s not banning assault rifles or providing free school lunches.
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@carnage4life it only makes sense if you are willing to realize that all existing human systems are designed to generate maximum misery. @carnage4life If by strange you mean....that just means the vast majority of americans who let that happen deep down WANT their own kids dead. Then sure. Also to add. America is majority white.  You are framing. What kids and what LGBTQ content? I've for example seen what is diplayed at pride marches and there is no need to put this kind of sexually explicit material in front of small kids, even if it was between men and women. Be precise and I suspect your argument falls apart
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@carnage4life still going to be happy when my employer supplies height adjustable desks so I can switch between sitting and standing for the comfort that provides o.o
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I went for an ultrasound because of concerns about Deep Vein Thrombosis - which contributed to my mother's death - and got some of the best advice I've heard, to wit:
Don't do *anything* for more than maybe two hours straight. Not sitting not standing. After an hour or so, take 10 minutes and move around. Walk, exercise, whatever. Get the blood flowing.
Seems legit.
@carnage4life once again, the Onion was prescient with the correct take https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/