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floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.English
9·13 hours agoEven more efficient: humans do the specs and the implementation. AI has nothing to contribute to specs, and is worse at implementation than an experienced human. The process you describe, with current AIs, offers no advantages.
AI can write boilerplate code and implement simple small-scale features when given very clear and specific requests, sometimes. It’s basically an assistant to type out stuff you know exactly how to do and review. It can also make suggestions, which are sometimes informative and often wrong.
If the AI were a member of my team it would be that dodgy developer whose work you never trust without everyone else spending a lot of time holding their hand, to the point where you wish you had just done it yourself.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.English
5·14 hours agoThe hard thing about debugging other people’s code is understanding what they’re trying to do. Once you’ve figured that out it’s just like debugging your own code. But not all developers stick to good patterns, good conventions or good documentation, and that’s when you can spend a long time figuring out their intention. Until you’ve got that, you don’t know what’s a bug.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.world•Watch out Europe, Trump is coming for your elections nextEnglish
12·17 hours agoIt also means introducing censorship of all messages and movements that don’t support fascism.
How about falling to fascism and alignment with Russia or the USA, one country at a time? The process of undermining European democracy internally is already well underway.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•National parks ordered to check gift shops for DEI-type items
66·1 day agoto ensure that all public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times), and instead focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.
It all sounds so goddamned Nazi. Because it is.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•National parks ordered to check gift shops for DEI-type items
33·24 hours agoIt means you must not say that anyone except straight Christian white men has ever done anything good for the country.
floofloof@lemmy.caOPto
World News@lemmy.world•[Canada's] Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.English
4·1 day agoMaybe if we send Trump enough poutine we can get this thing over with quicker. Send him 12 servings per day!
floofloof@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•Hillary Clinton Joins in Blaming TikTok for Young Americans' View That Israel Is Committing Genocide
4·1 day agoCanada’s being sneaky and allowing weapons sales to Israel via the USA. It gets to look virtuous while still receiving that sweet blood money, and the Liberals like it this way.
https://www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fear-closing-arms-export-loophole-would-anger-u-s/
Archive: https://archive.is/GldMU
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Europe@feddit.org•Elon Musk said the EU "should be abolished" after his social network X was finedEnglish
42·1 day agoMan notorious for saying stupid provocative shit every day says stupid provocative shit. Also, man is Nazi.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Europe@feddit.org•Elon Musk said the EU "should be abolished" after his social network X was finedEnglish
46·1 day agoWell, they did annoy one self-important asshole.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.
2·3 days agoIf ID verification is required but not practical for small independent websites, these laws effectively make it impossible to run an independent website. So only big corporations can serve content on the internet.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.ml•High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study
51·3 days agoFortified with vitamins and cancer.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•[OPINION] Canada’s age-verification bill for porn is a slippery slope to a restrictive internet
2·4 days agoUnless ISPs decide to block all inbound traffic to subscribers
I think some ISPs already do this, if they suspect you’re running any kind of server, to force you to subscribe to a more expensive “business” plan.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.
25·4 days agoThere’s evidently a concerted international effort to end anonymity and privacy on the internet, disguised as protecting children. It would be worrying at any time, but it’s particularly alarming when authoritarian fascism is also on the rise pretty much everywhere. ID verification (sold as age verification) is a major step towards making it impossible for political dissidents and victimized groups to organize resistance or read uncensored information without being put on a list, to find, support and defend each other, or to travel freely.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•[OPINION] Canada’s age-verification bill for porn is a slippery slope to a restrictive internet
3·4 days agoThey will try to ban websites run by anonymous weirdos.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies insteadEnglish
394·4 days agoCapitalism is destroying the world. We need to rise up against that. The AI bullshit is just one manifestation of the whole world being geared to serve capital and the handful of people that control it.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•‘America, uh...First!’: ICE to buy $7.2m worth of Canadian armored personnel carriers
2·5 days agoThis reasoning, “I’ll do the bad thing because if I didn’t someone else would,” could justify anything. If that’s your moral standard, it’s effectively no moral standard. Whether it’s an individual or a country, someone has to step up and act better than the worst.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•[OPINION] Canada’s age-verification bill for porn is a slippery slope to a restrictive internet
55·5 days agoIt’s always referred to as age verification, but it’s ID verification. It’s the introduction of a regime where you can’t use the internet without everyone knowing exactly who you are, and without the government being able to track your activity via your ID. Governments around the world are making what must surely be a coordinated effort to end anonymity, and thus privacy, online. In other countries this has gone along with a push to end encryption for phone calls and chat, and a push to outlaw VPNs. Canada’s government is embarking on a program that’s very hostile to its own population.
floofloof@lemmy.catoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet CameraEnglish
11·5 days agoBut emails exchanged with Kohler’s privacy contact clarified that the other “end” that can decrypt the data is Kohler themselves
This is so stupid it’s almost genius.























I don’t think it’s AI. It looks like bad human writing. An AI wouldn’t use clunky non-idiomatic phrases like this:
Also, A LLM would be unlikely to say a flood led to a burst pipe when it has lots of examples of writing where the causation is the other way round. A human having a brain fart might make that mistake though.
I suspect this article was written in a hurry by someone whose English isn’t great.