I think there’s a perfect middleground between banning reposting existing topics and no moderation. You don’t want to create a StackOverflow situation where people can’t ask a question because someone asked a similar one 15 years ago

Also I’m curious how many folks on this instance are even under 35

Just about 29 here! Overall I’d say I hate AI as does everyone around me my age that I know. I do think current iterations of LLMs, specifically for programming cases, are useful but only when restricted to an advisor role rather than writing any code itself.

If you ask an LLM about how to use a certain library or module and you go and fact check its’ answer then its not really any different than général internet research IMO.

Ignoring programming though:

Fuck any type of AI creative media or work. It’s so god damn dystopian to offshore human creativity to fucking computers

It’s by no means Linux but I actually do find MacOS quite customisable, especially if you spend a lot of time in the command line. It’s going in the opposite direction in the last couple years of course but you could straight up run the i3 TWM in XQuartz on MacOS if you wanted to

What customisations do you find MacOS lacks?

This is kind of the most useful part of secondary education too. I’m very introverted but by chance I ended hanging out with a group of very extroverted talented guys who got me in at 3/4 of the companies I’ve worked for in my professional career

My experience is very late 2010s and early pandemic era tech industry focused though. I’m unemployed right now but not even my connections are able to get me on anywhere since nobody’s hiring it seems :(

The Wikipedia page for it is a great read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic

A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that accomplished environmental goals set by the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million, providing ecological benefits including improved water quality, enhanced biodiversity, and better water retention

I remember our hydro company in my small Ontario, Canada town sending out free LED bulbs to people if they made under a certain amount. We were able to replace nearly all the lights in our house

Canada too 🙋‍♂️

Way too many American games in there :(

I remember when people would argue and get mad at the generic use of the word meme for funny internet picture.

I miss a lot of things but I don’t miss the image macro pedantry

Did… Did he actually say that?

IIRC the US heavily pressured other countries with tariffs to also ban it

It’s the stupidest thing since they’re fighting against UBI at the same time. Robots taking everyone’s jobs should be a utopian future to look forward to, but instead they’re creating a situation that’s universally bad for everyone including themselves. When nobody is employed and nobody has any source income, who’s going to give the oligarchs more money via consumerism?

I know a lot of billionaires want to bring back a tech-flavoured version of feudalism where they live like as actual kings but even medieval peasants were given some form of bread and circus to keep them from rising up.

Billionaires right now are on track to create a duel between millions to billions of poor and hungry people against the tiny number of them. Without bread and circuses, the people have nothing to live for except overthrowing their oppressors

lol, yeah I figured

What country are you talking about when you say your home grown dictator?

You’re assuming everyone here is American to the point of using an acronym like FDR. I know who you’re talking about but still

edit: the person who you’re responding to is Australian based on their instance and I’m Canadian

If it broke out in WW3 then I think most of the world’s public support would be behind China. The US has always been a hostile bully but Americans generally kept it contained to poorer countries that didn’t have as much of a voice. Now though…

The insistence on pushing thorns to be a thing again (which I’m generally pretty whatever about) while talking about a heavier topic just seems kind of insensitive to me personally

The lyrics are so good I’m leaning towards them being written by a real human and then just fed into AI

I kind of assume the same with the imagery too. It’s slop but I gotta admit that it’s quality slop

Maybe Trump was playing 1000D chess by making the US even more of a failed country and this was his plan to get Mexico to pay for the wall