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baldur, 15 minutes ago to random

those devs and tech “influencers” who pioneered the technical work of putting “AI” shit in everything everywhere, and are—for the most part—the assholes who enabled our brave new “AI” world by actually figuring out how to make it run, are also going to be the people who get credit for criticising it after the bubble pops, aren’t they?

Everybody will latch onto their vague concerns and ignore the fact that they literally implemented the shit that got smeared everywhere, aren’t they?

tante, 13 hours ago to random

I applaud Apple for their new iPad ad: "We are a huge corporate machine that will crush anything you love in order to make a buck" is refreshingly honest.

tante, 1 day ago to random

Microsoft has deep pockets but at some point they need to see returns. Them shattering 4 game studios they recently bought is more that one sad singular fact. At some point every business unit there needs to show results. Which means you will see a lot more aggressive monetization for "AI" stuff given that at least half that "industry" is just propped up by MS's wallet.

scy, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to linux

Edit: Found it, it's sfdisk. Thanks @tante and @trilader!

I'm looking for a specific command-line utility for Linux to do partition and file system manipulation. It's not fdisk.

I remember that it had an option to remove existing filesystem signatures, and you could pass it a desired partition layout as command line arguments, which it would then create.

But I can't remember the name, and it's 2024 so search engines suck.

What's the name of the tool I'm looking for?

#Linux #CLI

tante, 2 days ago to random

7 Förderanträge in den letzten 6 Wochen und jetzt ist der letzte (Abgabe heute bis 23:59) schon fertig runtergekürzt. Wirds heute also doch keine Nachtschicht?

tante, 2 days ago to random

What's the best book on nonlinear storytelling/narrative you've read? (Boosts appreciated)

tante, 2 days ago to random

"Altman is a guy who has the potential to put whole industries out of work who is saying, with no capital letters, that what he's doing is what the world has always wanted and then acting surprised that anyone has questions. It's truly amazing in a sense."
https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/the-sam-altman-playbook?r=1pb4bt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

janl, 3 days ago to random

JKR getting burned by EM was not on my Bullshit Bingo card, but I’ll drink to it. 😭😭😭

tante, 7 days ago to random German

Ankunftszentrum in Berlin-Tegel: Fatale Zustände für Geflüchtete
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1181267.fluechtlinge-ankunftszentrum-in-berlin-tegel-fatale-zustaende-fuer-gefluechtete.html

tante, 7 days ago to random

Mozilla celebrates their "AI" project.

• By pointing at their Discord
• project also directly pays a fascist

Just if you were wondering how things in tech are going.

https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/112366201277570326

tante, 8 days ago to random

Investigative reporter opens a new independent publication because the investigative publication got too tame and corporate.

So he of course opens it on Substack, the platform that loves Nazis and won't ban them.

I mean not the platform. There are so many. Shopify also loves making money of Nazis of course.

tante, 8 days ago to random

Sometimes you have to be pragmatic to find space for the topics you care about but I kinda draw the line at trying to frame "maintenance" in the language of "innovation"

baldur, 8 days ago to random

How many companies adopted MongoDB because “it’s the future!” and are now stuck with it until insolvency or the heat-death of the universe, whichever comes first?

Be careful about making technical decisions based on bubble logic

tante, 8 days ago to random

So Mozilla is still paying a fascist to work on some AI project. Great.

tante, 8 days ago to random

It's funny cause it hits the right targets (Big Tech) but the way that GDPR has become mostly a lever to do a replacement-punishment is kinda weird.

Sure, you now have a stick to beat MetaMicrosoftGoogle's money bags with but is it really about privacy? About an affirmative use that's based on an actual vision for how privacy in connected societies should work? Or is it just "I can't get you for what I feel you do wrong so I'll try to frame it as a privacy issue"? Feels like the latter.