Notices by :blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 (whynotzoidberg@topspicy.social)

@cstross

Honestly I don't think it would have worked; the web only took off because people could read their newspapers for free online and maybe find a chatroom you liked. Paywalls for newspapers were still years away.

This was way before web-shops or social media existed after all, everything moving in a 56.6k full duplex speed...

If you use AI generated crap to illustrate something: STOP.

If you care about the environment AT ALL, stop using AI.
If you care about artists of any kind, stop using AI.

Let's fucking go, America!

@siege Wait, people throw around the AI insult for this? Seriously?

@siege I still vastly prefer Brit pop over grunge.

UK Mastodon for the last 24 hours

@siege I must say that the British monarchy seems to hold juuuust enough power to make things a tad uncomfortable.

@siege Mother in law probably has it on. Parents not so much. Tho their TV is about 10 years old at this point so maybe it wasn't enabled by default then...

@siege Boomer TVs NOW or Boomers TVs when we grew up watching them?

Because 24fps seems pretty low to me 😉

@lauren @feld @reay or care

@inquiline Centrists and Liberals always consider protesters The Enemy, at least in a more "have they no respect??" kind of way and less "Shoot the commie kids" kind of way. The desperate need for "decorum" is a very Centrist value and permeates everything from trying to get people of color to not talk about racism on social media, to scolding their children for not wanting to talk with their racist or transphobic uncle, to siccing riot police on students for daring to not wanting genocide.

Art credit: Roberta Pusceddu (https://www.instagram.com/inquisirob/)

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@siege This is when if you are doing the interview should just smile and nod.

@br00t4c Tesla is, among other things, one of the worst cars at being a car. It is a statement for assholes and hipsters and "weird nerds" (tech bros), but it is not a good car.

On PC it seems only #Chrome and #Firefox offer no frills non bloated #browsers anymore.

Maybe the Duck duck Go browser, but it lacks the things I actually do count as essential (syncing across platforms).

Anyway, all other browsers seem chock full of bloat, cramming the browser full of features I will never use.

@clacke @root42 @tob @nikatjef @Tattooed_Mummy exactly. Especially since the marketing and a lot of the tech press leans into the "smart" bit so hard.

@tob @nikatjef @root42 @Tattooed_Mummy The over here AI that was used (as a test, double checked at every point by human pharmacists) for pharmacies to identify and recommend correct use of medication was very quickly taken off line since it turned out to be severely wrong on many occasions, often deadly so.

The test was obviously a failure.

@root42 @nikatjef @tob @Tattooed_Mummy

But it is not intelligent. It can randomly put together responses based on training and input, nothing it says is anything but random words put together to SOUND like a human. There is no medical or psychological knowledge in there, just random responses based on the data that it has been fed with while being trained to sound as if it knows anything.

People who mistake an RNG what-if code with "it is almost sentient" has no clue.

@nikatjef @root42 @tob @Tattooed_Mummy They are unable to tell the truth. All they can do is mimic the truth with no actual control that they DO tell the truth. Relying on AI for facts is not a good idea, since they cannot determin what fact is.

As someone else put it on here, we have burned billions of dollars, and are destroying the environment with enormous data centers burning drinking water and electricity, to produce tech that makes computers pretend they can't do math.

@MyQueerHeart okay H.C. Andersen was weird.