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snek , 7 days ago to technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

Is this article some kind of apple propaganda?

P. S: I fucking hate Windows.

snek , 9 days ago to technology in Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

I found them to be useful because I usee to be in an erratic team where people either get a lot done or drag projects on for years. At least the project draggers had no place to hide when needing to report their project daily.

In my current job we only have these stand-up type meetings once weekly which made a big difference because many people had more interesting things to report and it wasn’t some kind of lip service, instead people were genuinely haring progress.

snek , 9 days ago to technology in Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

No to all cults in general, as a rule of thumb

snek , 17 days ago to technology in Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean”

Emphasis added. Storing files is not the problem. Nobody cared when they were just scanning and storing them. The problem arose when they started giving out copies. And worse, giving out copies without restriction - libaries “lend” ebooks by using DRM systems to try to ensure that only a specific number of copies are out “in circulation” at any given time, and so the big publishers have turned a blind eye to that.

But libraries do not do that to limit access… (I think, unless there is some kind of copyright law making it necessary to restrict access). Don’t they do do that because they have a limited number of book copies that they need to maintain to meet the book lending demands in their area? Seems to me like they are just trying ro maximise people’s access to books given the constraints. Any digital library can obviously do this much faster.

snek , 18 days ago to technology in UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech

It’s not only that it discriminated against certain groups, but also that it in itself has a high enough error rate to make it unusable for any decision making. MAYBE to select people for screening, but we would be falling further down into a dystopian future.

At the current performance, none if these AIs should be involved in anything this critical.

snek , 28 days ago to technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

This is not at all what I said. If a machine was complex enough to reason, all power to it. But these LLMs cannot.

snek , 29 days ago to technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

I fucking hate how OpenAi and other such companies claim their models “understand” language or are “fluent” in French. These are human attributes. Unless they made a synthetic brain, they can take these claims and shove them up their square tight corporate behinds.

snek , 1 month ago to news in South Carolina will soon ban gender-affirming & out trans kids to their parents

Yep!

They have to have some Satan figure, a bunch of people who they can blame societal woes on. Even better if they are a minority so they have little power to resist as they deny them healthcare, councling, or emergency housing. Instead, they want these kids tamed and “forced straight”, shifting freedom away from these kids to empower traditional family values of control.

On top of that, winning the culture wars sounds cringe but is integral to maintaining their system.

snek , 1 month ago to news in South Carolina will soon ban gender-affirming & out trans kids to their parents

The sad part is that they arent… this is just how their brains are.

snek , 1 month ago to news in South Carolina will soon ban gender-affirming & out trans kids to their parents

These people cannot fix any issues that plague their communities, so instead they want to control and micromanage a bunch of teens.

Classic shitty adult.

snek , 1 month ago to nottheonion in Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation

Yep. That’s exactly like every AI system employed by the IDF.

snek , 1 month ago to til in TIL Most Explosives used by Hamas Are Unexploded Israeli Bombs Dropped on Palestine

Calling people human shields because they are in their own home as a pretense to bomb them is a war crime.

If a terrorist holds a baby, do you shoot the baby? Well, Israel would be ready to shoot a handful just to kill one person slightly affiliated with Hamas*.

snek , 1 month ago to news in Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester

She was a very brave teen. Fuck the Iranian regime.

snek , 1 month ago to technology in Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics

I think you misread Swedish law and are (on purpose?) misreading what happened at Google. I have nothing more to say other than the above in my previous comments. Have a nice day.

snek , 1 month ago to technology in Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees

Exactly

I can heae beyond his buzzwords that what he means is that thibgs are awful and morale is low, and that he hopes it is now over but we all know it isn’t.