CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Unlike syntax highlighting or a better chair, this "generative AI" BS is literally theft on every single level. Theft of other people's creativity, theft of resources like electricity and water, and theft of a future from people yet to be born. Those "people who don't take advantage of it" are not too dumb to do it, they're consciously deciding against it: They are not going to drive an SUV with chainsaws attached through a crowd of toddlers saying "What was that? I hope the car is okay..." #noai

(Proudly self-plagiarized from an October 2024 post on one of my old accounts. I added the hashtag. )

@Sanktionsfrei Nehmen wir mal die 421 (oder so) Fälle von Betrug die es 2024 angeblich wirklich gegeben haben soll. Runden wir auf 500 auf. Sagen wir jeder hätte eine Million ergaunert. Das wären also 500 Millionen. Hoert sich viel an! Bis man schaut wie viel das prozentual von der 1997 ausgesetzten Vermögensteuer ist:

0.4%

Und das ist gegen eine konservative Schätzung von 120 Milliarden die dem Bund entgehen. Wahrscheinlich sind es eher 140 Milliarden. Beim ZDF kann also entweder keiner rechnen oder es ist denen halt egal und hetzen ist wichtiger.

@christianrickert Just calling you on your ageist bullshit, that's all.

@nixCraft Perfect example of what being a CEO is all about: Keep on smiling against all odds, lie your pants off as much as you can, be arrogant and preachy BUT also wrap that in a layer of fake kindness because you want to HELP your dumb workers/audience after all, it's not their fault, they just have not had enough coaching from you yet. What a fucking dumbass.

@Athena As if I needed another reason to not use Rust, but now I sure have one more.

@DM_Ronin I am torn between (a) feeling sorry for the engineers who worked on this or (b) offering them a giant bag of dicks each of which is also in desperate need of a firmware upgrade.

@MaSven We need a better Linux too.

@llorenzin What's funny is that f'ing Cloudflare can't keep up with the traffic to this site. So I guess they're already running 100% vibe-coded shit. (Sadly I took no screen shot.)

@davefischer Wait, are you the guy from Office Space? (Sorry, I could NOT resist.)

@maxplanckgesellschaft Interessant das der Bund der selbst dauernd Gesetze bricht und Urteile ignoriert etwas tun will gegen Länder die genau das gleiche tun. Elefant, Porzellanladen, etc. #Witzfiguren

@cstross @kevinteljeur It's depressing to see this all over and from presumably moderately intelligent people. We're in trouble already, but we'll be in REAL trouble once a majority decides that this "AI" shit is something they believe in.

@Kurt Ah yes, the ever-present myth of humans making nature more natural by (carefully?) editing it. Because nature alone is "too dumb" to do it properly. Remind you of other colonial thinking patterns? Yikes.

@atlovato Only problem being that taking their money will not save the jungle.

@Jeroen89 If you want a jungle, you need to let it be a jungle. There's no "carefully extracting some resources" or any such thing, it will destroy the jungle. (I use jungle in a generic way to mean "nature, undisturbed" if I may.) And that's why with capitalism, you cannot have jungles. All jungles will be "extracted for profit" because growing the jungle is an externalized (to the past) cost, not having the jungle is an externalized (to the future) cost, but profit is being made NOW. Want change? Gotta go chop down some rich people instead of trees, no way around it. (Figuratively, of course. But chop you must.)

@odiseo79 Only on Mastodon.

@unlofl An oldie but a goodie! @researchfairy

@Blender Well I guess you walked right into that huge pile of with open eyes and with every intention to actually flop down on your belly and roll around in it while it's still warm and steamy. Enjoy!

@mirabilos I think I get it. It's a bash-ism to redirect stdout and stderr and in (da)sh that doesn't work? @mgorny

@mirabilos It does not? Sure deleted a lot of files when I tried it in a container... Please to "edumacate" me? Or do you refer to the redirection? @mgorny

@mgorny The "Butlerian Jihad" against scrapers is on.

Best I can tell is you look up IP addresses as to who they belong to and if you get enough hits from the same ASN over and over again you cut them off at the firewall, consequences be damned. https://alexschroeder.ch/search/?q=%23Butlerian_Jihad

An alternative might be some convoluted port-knocking that actual people know about but scrapers do not?

It's real messy out there, that's for sure. Good luck!