Successful in mass media, sure.

I wish someone would go through the effort of learning how to pilot a helicopter just so I can be free...

The NRA has entered the chat.

This is very true.

I mean, the same can be said for "new" teams.

Though.... "Teams classic" was an electron app, and I'm not sure that's better.

Outlook "classic", as far as I'm concerned, is the last actual email client program that Microsoft will make. From here on out, it's all webapps.

Honestly, so much of their stuff runs in a web browser that you might as well just just google apps..... It also negates any requirement to run their bloated shitware OS.

I would say that fixing the taxes that the rich are (not) paying, would be more.... Prevention for the future.

Heads in baskets is more, paying for the sins of the past.

Time will tell, if nothing else.

I think the tech has merit, but not nearly to the extent that companies are investing into it right now.

It's moving so fast that it's going to be hard to curb it when things start going wrong.

Here comes sky net? I guess?

I don't mind people using it for boiler plate stuff, and/or rough drafts to get a lot of the words typed out, so you can editorialize what's there.

When doing a lot of similar things, it can save a ton of time just having someone or something draw up a draft/starting point.

Any uses beyond this, are a non-starter for me when it comes to actual business use cases. The information that AI spits out in response to a query, is not, and should not be considered to be, complete in any way, shape, or form. It absolutely will need to be reviewed, edited, checked for accuracy and finalized by a human, before it is ready to be submitted for others to ingest. Zero AI content should be sent to anyone else until it has been reviewed and fully vetted by the person using AI to generate the content.

This has not been the goal to date. A lot of AI is trying to essentially eliminate entire segments of job markets, and bluntly, it's an insane mistake to think that, especially in its current form, that it could possibly do that, or even come close in any capacity.

It's at best a first-draft machine, but more likely it's a novelty that isn't worth the risk of using in production.

That's fair.

I apologize to the parrot community. Clearly parrots are better than what we currently call AI.

From the wording, it looks like they're just going to georestrict their content to places that are not Turkey.

Far from a problem, unless of course, your primary following is from Turkey; or that's where you live.

I don't blame bluesky here, they operate internationally, and they have to obey the laws of the locations they operate in. Personally I'm wondering what kind of Internet posts are restricted in Turkey? Who has laws to say you can, or cannot say things on the Internet? Besides... I guess, China, and obviously illegal things like CP....

Were they posting CP?

IDK, I've never used bluesky. I barely used xitter, back when it was relevant, if I were to use anything as a replacement it would be Mastodon.

Anyways.

It will eventually, when people realize it's just a giant and complex statistical response machine. It's really just giving you the words and/or set of pixels back that are the usual response to the words you provided. If there was no training data, there would be no AI.

It's like a parrot, but more complex and requires nuclear power plants to generate enough power to keep it going.

AI generated stuff is fine as long as it's not the same type of content I make.

Yup, I can confirm that fog machines use basically the same components, technology and ingredients as vapes, aside from the obvious (, nicotine/flavoring).

They're just... Industrial sized.

Honestly, I was at an indoor event with live music just this past weekend. They had a fog machine (a real one, that's not a metaphor), and I saw at least one person get up on stage during one of the performances, and in the middle of the performances, they whipped out their vape and took a big rip literally in front of hundreds of people, including staff at the facility and everything. Nobody gave a shit.

If you're just sitting in a corridor and chugging on a vape, I'm pretty sure someone will care, but if you take the odd puff, and you're not in people's faces about it then it's unlikely anyone will give enough of a shit to say anything.

Aside from that, I want to amplify that there is a residue from vaping, it is very little compared to cigarettes or any other combustible tobacco/nicotine product. I usually notice it the most in my car. It makes the windows look almost oily....

I wouldn't say it's particularly difficult to get off of the surfaces, after all, e-juice is water soluble. I'm not saying it's easy, just not hard, especially if you compare to the tar from combustible tobacco products...

A person who hasn't debugged any code thinks programmers are done for because of "AI".

Oh no. Anyways.

I don't think you're wrong about the level this needs to get to in order to change, which is kind of sad tbh.

This is why I can appreciate someone like Luigi Mangione. As far as I'm concerned, the man is a martyr. He demonstrated that, we, the people, have the power. Not some short list of corporate elites. He fits into the mould of the whole "anonymous" movement; where anyone and everyone could be a part of it, they're coming, expect them to come, but you will never know who, where, or when, they will come for you.

Anonymous has no formal structure, it's just people that collectively decided to get something done; and enabled eachother to do it. Random citizens that have just fucking had enough of the bullshit and acted to make a difference.

As far as I'm concerned, that movement is growing in number, eventually it will be less of an individual effort by like-minded persons, and more of a social movement towards real, and hopefully lasting change.

IMO, this is helped along by what's happening in the USA right now, since a nontrivial number of Trump supporters are getting royally screwed from what he said he would do, and eventually did. It's a shame that many are unlikely to transfer those feelings onto others that are just like Trump in the future. They'll think he's a one-off bad Apple type thing and keep voting for the "fuck the little guy" politicians, thinking they're not the "little guy" and get fucked by the very people they voted for. By the time they learn any different, they're one foot in the grave.

I support social programs. Whether childcare (I don't have children), disability (I am not disabled), education (I am neither a teacher nor student), healthcare (I rarely need medical help beyond a family doctor), welfare (I've been gainfully employed or on employment insurance benefits for over 10 years and I don't expect that to change), or any of a plethora of other programs that benefit people who are not me.

I also support unions, though my line of work (IT support) is usually excluded from collective agreements specifically....

To me, these are worthwhile social and governmental goals. Things that help everyone. Even if everyone doesn't include me in that specific case. It's simply the best thing for everyone. There's far too many people that are only looking out for themselves and being highly selfish, aggressively individual, and aggressively capitalistic. That kind of thinking should be bred out of society.

That's a really good idea. I wish I could.

I'll look into it, but the wand is kind of square. The illustration I posted was far more round than what I have.

Thanks. I'll need it.

The threading is all over the place. We tried to find fittings for it. Heck.

Also, I don't really want to show the Internet how dirty my bathroom currently is. Heh.

Yeah, I barely understand it. I've replaced shower heads before, but we don't even have a pipe coming out of the wall for a shower head to attach to... I explained in more detail in another reply. In case you're interested in hearing more. Either way, have a good day.