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• Post #4351276

  They grew up in a nation which per its own constitutions is unabashedly supremacist and been indoctrinated their whole lives into thinking they’re “defending their Race” and that Palestinians (and Arabs in general) are “violent” and even “vermin” whilst they themselves are superior and have “Western Values” (which they don’t, unless we’re talking about 19th centure white colonialist “values”). They’re like Germans in the late 1920s, only unlike them, these people have been fed stories about th...

• Post #2843870

  The entire “AI” wave (and I use quote to distinguish it from what was previously called AI and from ML in general) was almost entirelly hype driven by greed, not just from run-of-the-mill grifters and speculative investors, but also ultra-rich types and gigantic companies. As I see it, Microsoft went at pushing it in Windows in exactly that spirit - ultra-greedilly, insanelly and almost desperatelly pushing in any way they could think of no matter how maladapted for as fast as possible public...

• Post #2433430

  The UK is about a decade ahead of the rest of Europe, and not at all in a good way.

• Post #2433358

  About a decade ago, when I still lived in Britain, the project to keep central copies of GP patient data came and it was possible to Opt-Out. I expresselly filled the paperwork to opt out of it with my GP, because by then I did not at all trust British Governments (all this was after the Snowden Revelations) and expected that all that healtcare data would be misused including, sooner or later, being sold out (or even given, as politicians there are seriously corrupt) to the Private sector. H...

• Post #827349

  Yet.

• Post #544668

  Agreed. One single potentially good thing in the middle of bad things still adds to something bad. My point is that this shit is happening either way no matter how shit it all is, so if we can recognize and extract one good thing out of it at least on the other side we’ll have one good thing, whilst if we don’t, we’ll have nothing good at all.

• Post #543816

  The silver lining in all this is that when this bubble explodes we’ll probably have a glut in the supply of HDDs and SSDs, driving prices down. Just hold any plans to upgrade your hardware for a year or two and you’ll end up better of (for many it will even be a good exercise to wean oneself out of the Consumer Society’s mindless “instant gratification” impulses).

• Post #543566

  I, for one, applaud anything that helps destroy the current Intellectual Property system, Not the other things, though.

• Post #543352

  Access to entry level positions is pretty fucked up in this because whilst experts will recognized expertise, for anything but smaller companies candidates get filtered out by HR and those people have no fucking clue what expertise outside their domain looks like, so they use proxies for it such as “stamp of approval from higher education institution” so in big companies the candidates without such stamps of approval (or a pre-existing insider contact) never actually get to be evaluated by the d...

• Post #492243

  “Computer says” is a pretty standard excuse for doing fucked up shit as it adds a complex form of indirection and obfuscation between the will of a human and the actual actions that result from that will. Doesn’t work as an excuse with people who actually make the software that makes the computer “say” something (because the complexity of what us used is far less for them and thus they know what’s behind it and that the software is just an agent of somebody’s will), but it seems to work with e...