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@gerikson@awful.systems
Love the second example of immigration because not only does it completely miss the crux of the issue (free movement is a human right and must not be conditional) but also boils down to “actually this IS measurable and provable but Charlie doesn’t like the outcome so lalala whatabout Germany”
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@BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
Doodle, the site where you make polls to schedule stuff with friends, that Doodle, wants me to PAY THEM to have a poll with more than 10 dates xDDDDD
I’m wheezing, I’m sorry, what xD
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems
which in polymarket apparently amounts to token holders in an external DAO called UMA voting in proportion to their holdings to resolve disputes,
Wait that’s even fucking dumber than I thought it was, good grief
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@cstross@wandering.shop
the original GMO crops
The original GMO crops would be like, broccoli existing and bananas not sucking ass. Monsanto are villains but they didn’t invent genetics or selection.
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems
Huh, interesting, when the price was close to 100K I saw roughly eighty-six hundred headlines about it everywhere. But it lost almost half of that and it didn’t make the news? Huh. I wonder how that works.
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems
So, do you consider active destructive actions to be a proper resistance strategy, @jlink?
Very last comment in this issue - because I’m too stupid to resist the urge.
It’s as much “active destruction” as telling someone to eff themselves.
I can’t actually believe someone would be so cool and put this into their repo, kudos
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@fiat_lux@lemmy.zip
All that it tells me is that if you spent the same amount of resources on just fuzzing randomly picked OSS codebases you’d probably get better value for your buck.
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@foudinfo@jlai.lu
If you spend $1.22 for every $1.00 gained, then your operating income is $-0.22. So your income is -22% of your revenue.
Calculating like you do would mean that a -100% operating income margin means you break even, and that’s kinda silly. What would a positive margin mean?
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@dgerard@awful.systems
Adjusted operating income margin was -122% in the first quarter … That means that for every dollar of revenue the company generated, it lost $1.22
This is so confusing. So is it -122% or is it -22%? Cause -122% should mean that for each dollar gained they lose 2.22 because that’s how percentages work, no?
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@mawhrin@awful.systems
My assumption based on nothing except life experience is that all of that data gets pushed through differently coloured pipes into the same giant bucket with privacy concerns being “too hard” and “approved by legal”.
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@lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems
When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on.
I’d first check if it’s Musk’s ship for the fear of my life
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@o7___o7@awful.systems
people are forbidden from using personal plans. Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org
How does using personal plans impact the company’s bill? If someone is so profoundly stupid as to spend their own money on a “tool” for their job then why stop them?
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@gerikson@awful.systems
can pay an upfront cost to get in good shape, dress well, etc. You do it basically once
Wait what, how can I lock in a good shape with an upfront payment without having to go through this “exercise” bullshit all the time? What does he know that I don’t?! What’s the One Simple Trick, dammit??!!
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@lurker@awful.systems
There’s a whole good commencement speech hidden there where the “AI ReVoLuTiOn” is likened to the industrial revolution. How it is all about turbocharging the exploitation of workers and the planet, how its promise is to make a few immensely rich and give them the power to oppress everyone; and how we need educated, empathetic young people – and especially the liberal arts – to express themselves creatively and push against the system and mainstream narratives, because the only way workers win this “revolution” is the same as always: by song and poem and book and painting.
But what the fuck do I know, I’m not the Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Tavistock Development Company, a real estate firm. I would never be invited to do a commencement speech.
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@blakestacey@awful.systems
But if you consider me to be more than usually intellectually productive for an average Ashkenazic genius in the modern generation
I don’t consider you more than usually intellectually productive for an average person, with no qualifiers, and I refuse to engage with whatever the fuck lies beneath that racist qualifier
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@dgerard@awful.systems
Two things:
One, it’s a remarkable accomplishment to not manage to cook an IPO even now when SEC is functionally gutted by the Trump admin. They made crime legal! What are you doing?! Just lie in the statements and run to Barbados or something
Two, I am baffled by this
Harrison Rolfes from Pitchbook (…) thinks a good time for OpenAI to do an IPO is “mid-to-late 2027”. He wants a few quarters of “clean execution” and not floundering.
Like what? What are you talking about. The whole point of the IPO is to cash out ASAP before the music stops. Why are you talking about OpenAI like it’s a real business? Am I in Wonderland? The best time for OpenAI to make an IPO was yesterday, the second best is right fucking now, how would waiting a year be possibly good for them
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@gerikson@awful.systems
Amazing bit, you read through the first section and it’s like, okay, I mean, maybe not really insightful but at least not dumb, and then they hit you with da
Around the same time, I was using an LLM to think through a social situation.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
Elsewhere in the newly revealed Codex system prompt, OpenAI instructs the system to act as if “you have a vivid inner life as Codex: intelligent, playful, curious, and deeply present.” The model is instructed to “not shy away from casual moments that make serious work easier to do” and to show its “temperament is warm, curious, and collaborative.”
Literally this meme:
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@rook@awful.systems
I think a chatbot getting a glimpse of Dawkins’ whatever-the-fuck-he-might-be-writing-in-year-of-our-selfish-gene-2026 and not immediately conducting a nuclear strike on the location is the ultimate proof that those things are not intelligent.
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@sansruse@awful.systems
The company, valued around $4 billion at its peak, sold its intellectual property and other assets two weeks ago for $39 million.
What the fuck happened here. How did a shoe company get so high and how on earth did it lose 98% of its value? Were shoes really big during covid and then the demand disappeared, wtf
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems
Also, it’s apparently enough for an LLM endpoint to be paired with an email inbox to be considered an “embodied agent”, words mean nothing.
This is a very interesting glimpse into the managerial class’ psyche. A person is their email address. Very simple. Why would you need more than that.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
I think that's 100% correct and also it's year 3 of this nonsense and I cannot be fucked. My response to genAI in any context now is to scream and start doing jumping jacks.
Imagine the drug policy context but then also half of your colleagues are doing meth every day every time you see them, people say shit like "everyone does meth, those that say they don't are lying", and meth is a trillion-dollar industry that has been telling you "meth is the future" for years. You'd be much less inclined to argue calmly against meth and much more inclined to start screaming and jumping.
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@sansruse@awful.systems
The only thing I can personally confirm is the JIT permissions thing. I didn't work in the Core Azure stuff so I can't verify the rest, but none of it is unbelievable...
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From that substack:
Even though we knew we’d technically be lying about our security to anyone we sent these policies to for review (clients, auditors, investors), we decided to adopt these policies because we simply didn’t have the bandwidth to rewrite them all manually.
Ye man, then you're complicit. If I were one of the clients, auditors, investors, I'd be printing that out on an A1 sheet and rushing to file as evidence, this is just plain fraud
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@V0ldek@awful.systems
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest that all the companies listed in that substack as having used Delve are also AI slop companies (vibecoding, AI "customer service", AI "video meeting assistant" (whatever that would be))
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