adam_y

adam_y , 4 months ago to world in UK’s Sunak promises mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if elected [26 May 2024 | Al Jazeera]

Massive spud of a human.

I mean, good luck trying to get this working in Northern Ireland too.

This is a classic Tory death rattle. Punish those lazy, entitled young people who, whilst not responsible for the 2008 crash (that was us and our banker mates) or the following years of austerity that ripped the heart out of public services whilst private services prospered (that was also us, but with our banker mates) or Brexit, an enterprise that spit the nation and has left us all worse off (again, us, but this time with our business and banker mates), it is those no good, molly-coddled young people with their funny hair colour and inability to buy houses, or food in some cases, that are the problem with the UK and we need to whip them into shape whilst we (who haven’t been whipped into any sort of shape at all) continue to be in charge.

adam_y , 4 months ago to technology in Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

Absolutely. I wrote about this a while back in an essay:

Prime and Mash / Kuru

Basically likening it to a prion disease like Kuru, which h7mans get from eating the infected brains of other humans.

adam_y , 4 months ago to technology in Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

Can we swap out the word “hallucinations” for the word “bullshit”?

I think all AI/LLM stuf should be prefaced as “someone down the pub said…”

So, “someone down the pub said you can eat rocks” or, “someone down the pub said you should put glue on your pizza”.

Hallucinations are cool, shit like this is worthless.

adam_y , 4 months ago to technology in Samsung’s smart fridges mistakenly warned users its free TV service was ending

How you choose to fight hell spawn is OK with me.

adam_y , 4 months ago to technology in Samsung’s smart fridges mistakenly warned users its free TV service was ending

Right?! When they could be playing Doom on it.

adam_y , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to technology in Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price

Well, once again a tech company gives a service I don’t care for an overhaul I don’t want and tries to charge a fee I won’t pay.

I suspect when this doesn’t do the numbers they want they’ll try adding a user fee to oxygen as a retaliation.

adam_y , 4 months ago to technology in Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.

If only she was ever in a situation where her voice was professionally recorded.

adam_y , 4 months ago to funny in Norway has some surprising stats

Best Norway fact I have is that their wine (and spirits) is nationalised. Anything over 4.75%.

You can only buy it from the government in places called Vinmonopolet (English: The Wine Monopoly), and it is directly taxed.

adam_y , 4 months ago to funny in Norway has some surprising stats

Spent some time there this year. A lot of ant-renewable sentiment.

But then every kid gets access to a musical instrument and lessons.

adam_y , 4 months ago to aboringdystopia in Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores

Here’s a thing. Yes. What you say is true… But when you have legitimate paying jobs that demand recent experience in retail, then this sort of thing becomes attractive to people that just want a fucking job.

Don’t blame people for doing this, blame the system for making them feel like they have to.

adam_y , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in "LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :

(Idiots)… Way to roast normal people. Don’t know if they will ever recover. The best bit was putting it in brackets.

You are normal people.

adam_y , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in "LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :

Web in the search, AI in the search, personal assistant in your files, things in your things that you don’t want, didn’t ask for and are struggling to extract.

adam_y , 4 months ago to news in Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says

That’s a bit harsh. No aggression intended, or apparent.

Are you OK?

adam_y , 4 months ago to news in Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says

You are framing this as an access issue rather than one of predation.

Fast food chains don’t make a cheap menu to help poor people experience their food, they do it to milk every bit of money from a populace.

Don’t expect social justice from corporate entities.

adam_y , 4 months ago to worldnews in UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter

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