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Wasn’t that already a thing. I’m positive that’s been a thing for ages.

So I’ll use AI to apply for the job, they’ll use AI to decide if I get the job, and then 6 months down the line I’ll lose the job to an AI.

Can we just skip to the AI apocalypse and save everyone’s time?

If any company was going to make two parts that are technically the same part incompatible because they have slightly different manufacturing dates, it would be Lenovo.

They lose nothing if you do return it and for the odd person who doesn’t return it they stand to earn hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

The problem is the marketplaces shut the accounts down only for them to pop back up again to following day. The businesses need to be more proactive about this but they’re not massively incentivized to do so because it isn’t hurting their bottom line.

No one is doing anything about this because the only people who lose out are the customers and who cares about them?

There seems to be this possessive myth that Mastodon would have been more popular if only it hadn’t been for Bluesky. Nah. It would have been exactly as popular as it currently is. The techies like us would have found it, just like we did, but everyone else would haven’t have used it. Everyone would just still be on Twitter.

I get everyone’s beef with Bluesky, but let’s not pretend that Mastodon isn’t responsible for its own problems.

No I mean the Google books thing. You can search through anything even old catalogs (God knows why they felt the need to scan old catalogs)

One of my first jobs in IT I worked in a local newspaper - I thought I wanted to be a journalist turns out it’s boring. Anyway we had all the old archived papers on a dvd and someone used it as a coaster and erased about 10 years worth of files. Naturally there were zero backups, so that data was just gone. Fantastic.

Fortunately the local library has backups but they’re on microfiche, so not particularly convenient. I think Google might have scanned them now though so they’re probably archived again.

At one point my dad got into the habit of sending me “interesting little facts” every morning via text. I think he had installed some interesting facts app and he was just forwarding them onto me.

The Apple summaries those were interesting. One of them got summarized as “there is a dead body in your house” and the interesting fact was " in England there are many lost graveyards, oftentimes during construction bodies will be uncovered and the police get called, only to find that it’s a medieval grave site".

It’s basically only like six people who are actually to blame. I don’t see why the rest of us need to be tared by the same brush.

I’ve never trained an AI on anything. I don’t know how to, or care to.

I always think this is funny because it reminds me of my grandfather’s diary. It mostly consists of various girl’s names and their address, then every now and then “get haircut”.

That’s not much of a whistleblower. Everyone already assumed that was the case I suppose it’s nice to have confirmation.

I imagine they went to the news trying to get this published and everyone was like, “well yeah”. That’s why the story is being broken by this absolute juggernaut of a media outlet

People keep saying that and although he’s abhorrent and probably a threat to democracy in the US I don’t think he’s going to start a war. He lacks a convenient victim that he can use to justify a war, and honestly I don’t think he’s smart enough to come up with one.

Anyway a war wouldn’t achieve anything for him other than getting a target on his back.

Right up until an EMP wipes out all our data. I still maintain that we should be storing all our data on vinyl, doing it physically is the only guarantee.

I don’t know that sounds like a reasonable size for the new GTA.

At least part of the problem for me is that the app I am using to access Lemmy isn’t really very good. I can block based on keywords in the title but not keywords in the post.

If I really wanted to I could probably find an app with better blocking abilities and try then to see if it’s possible to completely block out the US politics, but I’m not massively incentivized to do so. Not being American I don’t really get massively riled up about it, I get more upset about my own country’s politicians, which most Americans probably have never even heard of.

The greater problem is simply the fact that US content in general seems to get over emphasized in lieu of everything else. There’s a whole world of stuff going on out there and all we ever hear about is America. Even when the US has moderately sane leaders that is the case.

I really shouldn’t know who the congressman for Texas is, there’s no reason I should know that, yet I do. California catches fire, world news, massive flooding in Australia, barely mentioned.

It was such a weird argument to block it as well. The justification given was that they were concerned that they would be held legally responsible if users saw piracy content on their website.

It was such a bizarre argument. It seemed more like they had decided on personal grounds that they wanted to block it, and then tried to come up with some kind of external justification. It was the lack of intellectual honesty that pissed me off more than the fact that they’d done it.

I have blocked any mention of trump and musk, and yet I still know every single stupid thing they do. It’s impossible to avoid it.

They’re already are multiple alternatives to GPS. GPS is the American navigation system, but there’s also GNSS which is mostly used in Europe and Scandinavia. There are other systems for other parts of the world, even the North and South pole now.

Everyone just uses GPS universally though.

I seriously question the mental stability of Tesla shareholders. Why on Earth does that man still have a job?

I’m not even talking about this recent stuff, I’m talking about all the things he’s been doing for the last few years. It would get any normal person fired.

People always say things like that as if that some kind of argument in its favor.

Being stabbed is better than being shot, but I wouldn’t consider either them to be particularly good for your health.