HexesofVexes

@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world

Why, a hexvex of course!

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HexesofVexes,

Ehh, I have a different vision here - AI is useful, it’s just going down the hypermonetisation path at the moment. It’s not great because your data is being scraped and used to fuel paywalled content - that is largely why most folks object.

It’s, also, badly implemented, and is draining a lot of system resource when plugged into an OS for little more than a showy web search.

Eventually, after a suitable lag, we’ll see Linux AI as the AI we always wanted. A local, reasonable resource intense, option.

The real game changer will be a shift towards custom hardware for AIs (they’re just huge probability models with a lot of repetitive similar calculations). At the moment, we use GPUs as they’re the best option for these calculations. As the specialist hardware is developed, and gets cheaper, we’ll see more local models and thus more Linux AI goodness.

HexesofVexes,

Oh no! Your neighbour will really be upset now…

What they meant us your lawn has less than the regulation number of dandelions. Quick, go gather seeds and start replanting!

HexesofVexes,

The thought process of every middle manager I’ve ever worked under.

HexesofVexes,

Quick, someone pretend to be “the Linux company” and convince him to buy it!

HexesofVexes,

You forgot to tell them that our head office is…

300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118

…and all the play cards should be sent there!

HexesofVexes,

“I didn’t realise the circus was in town!”

“Were your parents siblings, or was it just a lot of head trauma?”

“I’d tell you to read the room, but we both know reading isn’t your strong suite.”

“What other tricks can you do?”

HexesofVexes,

I mean, depending on your surface, it can be <pi (welcome to hyperbolic happy time), =pi (good old euclidean) or even >pi (three rights really does make a triangle on earth if you travel far enough).

HexesofVexes,

Ah Windows 11, Vista 2.0.

HexesofVexes,

That needed a trigger warning

HexesofVexes,

And here was me thinking windows 8 was just a beta release of vista that was leaked by Microsoft!

HexesofVexes,

“How do we stop the world’s smartest people from realising what we’re doing?”

“Let’s make them fight among themselves and call it a meritocracy; we’ll limit their funding and let them keep themselves busy with political infighting!”

HexesofVexes,

Media praising bikes - “Look see they work”

Media criticising bikes - “Huh, would you believe the media spin right?”

HexesofVexes,

Oh the media often goes both ways - in this case it appears that there are some issues that need resolving. Not everyone appreciates dodging bikes mounting the sidewalk, or doing an emergency stop when cyclists dismount the pavements without clear signaling - this is a problem for everyone but the person on the bike. Cars have their own issues, and those are widely covered.

While I very much agree every media story has “spin” (be it unwarranted cynicism or blind optimism), I am fairly certain it is the same on both sides of this issue.

Your point seems to be “all good things on bikes are backed up by studies, all bad things about bikes are big oil”, and that is quite simply the best validation of my post you could ever give. Thank you.

HexesofVexes,

Media praising bikes - “Bike brain goes brrring brrring!”

Media criticising bikes - “Car brain go vroom vroom vroom!”

Come now, let’s be fair and open minded ;)

HexesofVexes,

At this point, I can use Linux for most things except older fangames, reliable printing (seriously, cups is pain), and some mmorpgs.

Once I get a month without the university shitting its pants and changing policy overnight, I’ll eat the learning curve and switch (actually learn to troubleshoot wine rather than relying on searches).

When I move, thinking mint with cinnamon because I love that desktop.

In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?

With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...

HexesofVexes,

What is life but a lottery?

A lot of the drive towards AI is people thinking to save a quick buck, but longer term that places them in a very unsteady position themselves.

All products end up being for “shareholder value”, and AI will be no different. Someone will find an enshittification vector and run with it.

Suddenly, that “quick buck” becomes a monthly subscription that costs more than the people fired. Company data is harvested and sold, customers are advertised out, the shittiness of the system becomes a company problem.

So we’re either going to see a stark change away from the current shareholder value model (about as likely as world peace), or we’re going to see a lot of CEO seppuku. Win win really.

HexesofVexes,

Oh thank god… I thought he’d draw it out even longer.

HexesofVexes,

Here’s a fun thought - push a law through demanding a minimal level of service with forced nationalisation at the cost of the shareholders if it isn’t met (government pays share price, but proceeds go towards settling company debt first rather than being paid out to shareholders).

Give them a way to fail that doesn’t hurt the people who rely on the services, and punish running up unsustainable debt in one joyous law.

HexesofVexes,

Hah, jokes on them, my university is too poor to afford copilot.

HexesofVexes,

Definitely the wrong argument against bikes.

A lot of the best ones just come down to time - 30 mins commuting in traffic vs 70+ cycling. 1-2 grocery trips per week vs 4-6.

Good public transport can balance that out (though less so for shopping).

HexesofVexes,

Huh, neat. Not what I was expecting.

Good short!

HexesofVexes,

And, as a mathematician who has been coding a library to create scaled geometric graphics for his paper, I hate -0.0.

Seriously, I run every number where sign determines action through a function I call “fix_zero” just because tiny tiny rounding errors pile up in floats, even is numpy.

HexesofVexes,

I think we don’t give gradual acclimatisation enough credit here. Most of my students have never heard of Firefox and tools like ublock origin because they’re acclimatised to the mobile ecosystem

“How do I install something? I use the app store.”

“Oh, but I already have the internet on my phone, why would I want a 3rd party app to use the internet” (think old people who mix up AOL with the internet in reverse!)

As soon as I show them, they convert in seconds - they’ve forgotten web pages without adverts can exist.

HexesofVexes,

Why would he hate the word “onthesameside-gender”?

HexesofVexes,

I think the shutting down after such “incidents” is the final expression in this piece of art.

“A connected world is great, as long as that connection includes approved messages only.”

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