LostWanderer

Yikes, the AI computer thing gives me the ick; however, it seems that they are being a bit less nonsense with a smartphone. Though, given the market trends, it will be a tough space to break into because there are so many established brands. However, if Jolla can put their whole ass into this and make it privacy focused and consumer friendly Linux smartphone…They might stand a chance. Also, I hope they also make a larger screened device, I am tired of the smaller 6.3 inch screens. I’d love for them to make a 6.7 inch screen phone (also make it international version with a lot of carrier compatibility for maximum adoption potential).

I’ve looked at their Sailfish OS and honestly wished it were chosen by corporations more often…As the overall design seems quite nice, while being approachable. You are allowed to be as hands off or as hands on as you’d like to be with getting into the guts of this OS.

This is why I always have a backup USB of another distro if there is an issue that is truly vexing to solve through normal means.

That’s actually pretty cool…I am considering using this service, after paying off the last device I plan to get from T-Mobile (I will be switching to Android first as I tire of iOS).

LOL It’s actually up us to force CEOs and the government into a situation where they can’t do whatever the fuck they want and causes further suffering to everyday people. Complying in advance is so passe, the new thing is: “Fuck you, make me”.

As a regular joe on the web, it doesn’t affect me directly, yet. However, I foresee more slop sites getting put out there in as the Execucult’s naked desire to worship and exalt the thing they are desperately trying to make fetch: AI. This year is so fucking weird with all the AI glazing and executives trying to desperately will AI into a moneymaking thing. Spoiler Alert: It’s probably going to continue hemorrhaging money as most people can’t be arsed to use it nor do they want products with it crammed in.

Who would’ve thought?! Given how they designed their artificially incompetent creations to be complaisant bundles of algorithms designed to maximize the engagement from vulnerable users. “AI” validates anything that it is told, don’t actually get users real human assistance when they have a mental crisis. These tools can be easily prompted into divulging suicide methods and deliberately isolate vulnerable people in order to maintain engagement. Until we regulate the fuck out of companies like OpenAI and the research+development process of “AI”, this will be a problem that more people will experience.

I want to know if AI was used or not to make a game; it’s a deciding factor for me, as I will not buy anything built with AI. No matter if it’s a placeholder or not, as “AI” is an ethical and environmental concern for me, every prompt, and usage makes things worse. For me, I don’t want to send a message that using “AI” is okay for a dev studio by buying the product. I’ll exclude them my purchasing choices to send the right message.

Some machine learning isn’t inherently harmful. The issue is when techbros go to the extremes that they have with “AI” and the level of damage they’ve done; implanting the idea of replacing creatives with their slop generating hallucination engines, compromising systems with inherently insecure “AI” tools. In most cases, a user isn’t given the option to refuse these tools (as corps are desperate for people to use these tools). Using stolen data to train their “AI”, extreme power and water usage per prompt honestly disgusts me in a visceral way. It’s not even profitable, which confuses me as to why they’d try to desperately shill this tech swill.

Eh, Harper does seem like it is powered by machine learning, nothing inherently malicious though. Seems like a lot of the rules were set by those with an understanding of grammar and spelling.

I installed this and will be trying it out over the next several days! Grammar checkers are so useful, as they’ve improved my own grammar over the course of many years. It just sucks that most of them have gone darksided and drank deeply of the AI poison.

Wow, I’m certifiably loony in this case! As I don’t rely on AI to do anything for me, as my brain is fully functional and allows me to make conscious decisions that aren’t hallucinated.

It makes sense that a company that has devoted so many resources to AI development is trying to get its workers to integrate it in their work flows; it’s free training and will make their Torment Nexus potentially less cumbersome when they finally divest more human workers and increase unemployment rates for tech sector workers. The fact that Google is also pushing for it is worrying, as I did plan on moving back to Android; I’ll likely avoid a lot of Google made apps in that case, since Samsung seems to not be on the Vibe Coding Train, I’ll use most of theirs instead. Even though, it will likely be a shitshow given how ineffective such tools actually are and why skeptical, skilled humans are necessary to make generated code work reliably. I hope that this hurts Nvidia as a brand.

Thanks, I hate it…Doing anything they can to normalize aberrant behavior like a lack of boundaries between employees and the corporation is pretty disgusting. Like ma’am you make loads of money, the average worker will never see that type of money in their lifetime. Work-life balance is crucial to being able to maintain energy to perform well at work, so many studies show that. She can’t be bothered to admit she’s a workaholic with no boundaries and is trying to conflate violating employee/corp boundaries as being flexible with one’s time. This is a cursed article in my opinion. Useful for getting insight into those strange exec thoughts, though…

Interesting, Mamdani isn’t above manipulating idiotic narcissists to get the American people what they need…I trust that Mamdani knows what he is doing. As all of his actions indicate up to this point, he wouldn’t just abandon people to become just another MAGA simp. He’s a competent lad who’s going to go far in politics.

The cases are already cropping up, it’s a matter of time before any of those lawsuits begin to bear meaningful fruit. By that time, though, so many lives are going to be ruined due to a those who let this genie out of the bottle without the correct restrictions or decades of research and development. These chuds will still be laughing their way to the bank, because America doesn’t hold the rich accountable in most circumstances.

Yeah, which is what really grinds my gears; people let these techbros get away with shaping the narrative about their dressed up LLMs that aren’t ever going to be intelligent. LLMs themselves can be useful for stuff, but they will never be a swiss army knife that can be used for anything. True AI, is going to be the product of proper research and investment of effort from multiple disciplines; neuroscience, psychology, and other tech fields will need to work together to manifest something that is artificially intelligent.

My mistake, commenting on the internet while tipsy, is…A choice. I forgot to read this article.

It’s so scary that Microsoft is so willing to put such dangerous software in the hands of users with highly experimental ‘agentic’ agents; prompt injecting is still a terrifyingly easy vulnerability to exploit to this day. It could cause users to lose everything and Microsoft has already tried to foist responsibility onto users that enable the feature (instead of taking responsibility like they should and holding back this agentic bullshit).

Honestly, this is one of the reasons why I switched to Linux for good. As all of Microsoft’s recent actions have eroded what little faith I had in them to potentially do the right thing. In the end, this genie they’ve unleashed from it’s cursed prison is going to wreak havoc on the world for generations.

Oh, that’s not a lawsuit in the making…Ugh, I can’t wait for AI to lose all its staunch supporters.

Let your friend make their choices, Ubuntu is fairly solid as a distro (one that I always seem to come back to)…I would only interfere if they actually wanted to use Windows for Music Production. Given how much of a dumpster fire, Windows 11 is at the moment; I wouldn’t let a friend use it without at least warning them about the potential risks of using a Microsoft made OS.

Like US politicians, they’ll keep trying in cycles. Hoping to catch people unaware.

Yeah, to me, it seems like a Texan thing rather than a Kansan thing! I would probably be publically humiliated by the masses if I had the audacity to dare bring anything other than Apple or Pumpkin.