Indeed. I have been hearing a lot of bad things are in the pipeline with Android being laced with “AI” plus as you mentioned Google is trying to close the doors. FDroid has been screaming bloody murder but I bet you the majority of people who read this sentence probably don’t even know what that is, never mind Google is trying to shut it down.
I love how blissfully ignorant Microsoft is being about how much they have doomed themselves to IBM status. Still a meaningful entity but no longer a leader in anything.
Really interested to see what emerges from the chaos. Lisuan seems like a very viable upstart to fill the void Nvidia and AMD are currently leaving open if they can scale up their fabs and do the standard Chinese business tactic of flooding the market. Apple has only spent a fraction of what Microsoft and Google has while still maintaining their ocean of cash so its possible the ghost of Steve will have the last laugh? Linux is getting a lot of praise from notable tech influencers aimed at the general market, for example LinusTechTips, which may nudge Linux into stratospheric heights like 8% market share. Or perhaps it will become like metric vs imperial where the planet uses some flavor of Linux while the USA grudgingly holds onto Windows?
The really big one to watch is if the EU can digitize its monetary system enough to replace the VISA/Mastercard GDP vampires.
I vaguely remember that 1970’s USA proved this was a viable technology alongside the nuclear powered jet engine but decided to not pursue it because this would be a terrible direction for the arms race to go.
AI has already and is actively making a substantial chunk of things worse.
OpenAI has made war crimes legal
Youtube is a sea of slop
Book industry is drowning
FOSS is being openly robbed while also drowning under slop
Anti-AI paranoia is really ratcheting up and its also being exploited by AI. USAA the military savings bank has a flood of AI bots accusing humans of being bots to stifle criticism of the bank enshitifying itself. Meanwhile pre-AI video reposts have people screaming “That’s AI slop!” In other places, too thorough of a text post is probably AI but it also might just be some poor neurodivergent person who is an actual expert on the subject and is excited to share.
Then there is all the layoffs and firings.
Health insurance scams are using AI to target those who are less lightly to appeal.
Stuff like the people shut out of part of the job market because an AI decided they had been rejected from too many prior applications.
Oh and the computer electronics parts market is fucked. I have a few spare DDR5 memory sticks that would now pay for a third of what my current computer cost me! Never mind the NVME spares I have on the shelf.
Actually most of the consumer electronics market is fucked. Didn’t they postpone the next play station while Valve is trying to figure out if people will be cool donating a kidney or part of their liver for the VR goggles and the steam console box.
Only saving grace for me is my spelling and grammar skills seriously atrophied after using grammarly for a few years so most people look at my writing and never think “This sounds like AI!”
Yes there are a lot of dark sides to this but I am still somewhat hopeful for people whose body have betrayed them.
Unfortunately the unmentioned horror of this technology as it currently stands is similar to “Flowers for algernon”. The brain is extremely territorial and doesn’t like weird metallic stuff stuck in it. In response, I believe the astrocytes build encapsulating scar tissue around the probes that eventually deafen them. I have been following this tech since the early stages in the late 90’s and no one seems to have solved that. Truly bitter experience for epilepsy and near terminally depressed patients who have been given some semblance of normallacy only to have it slip away.
A currently insanely expensive probe design has something like a magnet on a mems platform so a less reactive and normally insulating material can be used to “sense” electrical impulses. Sadly it has something brutal like a sub 5% production yield and can be damaged almost anywhere along the journey from a fabrication laboratory to a operating room.
Curious what it was. The silence is loud enough to fill with speculation a cheery AI said “Hey, lets drop all tables on this stupid little DB labeled ‘Master’ to regain storage space.”
A drug dealer with a heavily armed escort delivers a package of white powder. New problem: is it cocaine, cleaning detergent, anthrax, or some mixture of the former?
Definitely a few unfortunate victims to stuff like libyami if using some sort of shell autocomplete. Few others would likely catch younger people, eg the implied apk side channel deployment packages.
I have no artistic skills so freebie: Arch is like Russian roulette where the odds are good but there is still a non-zero chance some update is going to shit the bed. I don’t even know how to convey that in meme form either.
Among my millennial friends the majority do not own their own home, gave up family ideas, and are basically just fucked. Major reason I have a house is because when I was younger I killed a bunch of strangers for the government. Now even that isn’t enough for an increasing part of the country. Fuck, replacing my roof is going to be thousands of dollars which I only have part of right now.
How many people have survived having only gone missing for 24 hours, never mind a week!
It’s a good to keep mentioning when the US does stuff like this as a warning of how quickly a corrupt country can implode.
no need to burn them down, just focus on the chillers. if they use evaporative coolers a water balloon partially filled with oil and soap will fuck that entire system.
also better to cripple then destroy as they get a full insurance payout where just drastically degrading facility performance is harder to prove the monetary value.
This is fascinating. Most of those are indeed elder millennial double spaces after the punctuation but the inconsistency is odd. Also I don’t see them on my computer.
I am not seeing a problem so I suspect its an elder millenial/xennial thing?
Other possibility is I am on piefed, you are lemmy, and the formatting has gotten bjorked between them?
edit: I am curious now, can you send me a screenshot?
They just can’t help themselves. All of these techbro fuckers jumped the gun on this being “THE” AI wave but instead have bet everything on the equivalent of the self checkout kiosk at the grocery store. That was touted as the way to save money, lower the chances of unionism, and make the checkout process more efficient. Instead it has been a money pit that introverts and morally flexible people love! AI slop is flooding Youtube, drowning the tech industry in biblical sized code commits and hallucinated security threats, while continuing to be the greatest theft in the history of our species (after that mother fucker Thog stole my ancestors shiny rock).
Trying to recover my old account but supposedly “TrustMeBroThisIsSuperSecure” is not sufficient. Fucks sake, even I would have trouble just typing that in.
It’s tough find good numbers but this thing (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/natural-gas-consumption-by-country) claims Germany consumes ~78 BCM. 1 BCM is roughly 1 kilometer cubed of natural gas at a set temperature. Last I knew China was supposedly projected to consume ~380 BCM while that website has a much higher figure, but again tough to get good numbers.
I really wish Merkel didn’t go along with shuttering their nuclear energy sector, but what is done is done.
indeed! The open source community should adopt LLM powered mailing list filters. Basically new age version of “protection money” as you pay AI firms to stop other AI firms from drowning your organization.
Joking aside, the dead Internet theory is unfortunately looking pretty accurate.
That’s what this article was about actually. Explaining hibernate, the consequences, giving a realistic impact of using it, explaining sleep and the benefits.