@GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 2mo ago

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@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org I routinely have farcical conversations with AI support bots for commercial applications. Last week was Airwallex: Bot: let me do for you Me: sure Bot: so sorry, I can’t do you need to do it Me: why did you offer to do it then? Bot: sorry, I didn’t realise I couldn’t How the hell would this bullshit play out in an emergency call? “let me call an ambulance to your location. Oh wait sorry I can’t actually do that” And why? It won’t even be cheaper

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 5mo ago

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@amydiehl every time I hear “women (or men) are naturally….” I question whether that’s cultural not natural.

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 7mo ago

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@Daojoan drives me nuts. I can skim text and pick out the necessary info in seconds, but video takes *forever* even at 3x speed where they sound like rabid chipmunks

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 2mo ago

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@meltedcheese@c.im @benroyce@mastodon.social @knutson_brain@sfba.social though it does demonstrate that the last resort of just blowing shit up actually works.

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 2mo ago

@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al vote for “socialist” politicians who aren’t in the pay of the institutions and will let them go broke.

I put quotes around “socialist” because everyone involved here really just believes in a social safety net, the difference is that some of them think that corporations should have a safety net, while others think it should be people who have the safety net.

I’m with the people folks on this one.

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 3mo ago

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@Alice@beige.party we don’t tip here in Australia. Thankfully. In Berlin tipping was “just leave the change from the bill for the waiter, unless you had to break a €20”. I doubt I’ll be travelling to the USA at any point soon, but if I do I think I’ll need a guide like this, so thanks :) I’m also confused about when to tip. Is it for every time anyone is employed to provide a service to you? How do you handle the situation when there’s no bill (e.g. hotel porters)?

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 5mo ago

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@janneke @nuintari @jesterchen @actuallyautistic I have heard this justification for it before: that talking on speakerphone is exactly the same as talking to someone physically present, so therefore is not rude. But it’s not the same. Precisely *because* you have the option to *not* have it on speakerphone. You chose to intrude on other people deliberately. That’s rude.

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 5mo ago

https://ground.news/article/coffee-can-protect-against-aging-and-more-health-headlines_73bd11?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

Coffee intake will be increased further :)

ground.news

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 6mo ago

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@darnell@one.darnell.one @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social starship troopers, at least if you read the the book and get the references in the movie, is basically one huge criticism of authoritarian regimes managing the population through jingoism, propaganda, and endless wars. Again, not ideal if you’re at all able to get past the surface. +1 for Babylon 5 too. I loved that. Overdue for a reboot

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 6mo ago

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@oisin I am working at the intersection of chair and keyboard

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 6mo ago

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@evan@cosocial.ca I am Banksy

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 4mo ago

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@zack@mamot.fr @tante@tldr.nettime.org there are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of engineers trapped in soulless Jira treadmills, endlessly churning out pointless tickets that enshittify the software they’re building. We can free these poor souls from their sysiphean nightmare.

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 5mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop in Australia they’re they’re trying to price it out. A packet now costs $50+ The only problem is that you can grow it here so import control doesn’t really work. You can buy loose tobacco from any corner shop at 10% of official prices. Profits going mostly to bikie gangs who are handling the distribution effeciently. Government is paralysed and has no idea how to handle it. They never fucking learn 🙄

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 8mo ago

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@mmorschel@mastodon.social switch now while you have access to everything, or switch later when they deny access to your own documents and you have to build your entire organisation from scratch. It’s extremely feasible that America’s Mad King will use control over Microsoft and AWS to blackmail Europe into doing what he wants. He has already done this for individuals who annoyed him.

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 5mo ago

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@coolandnormal is it the “tech world”? I call myself a techie and this kind of behaviour is a million miles from what I see from actual tech folk. This is more hustle/grind culture. They have also appropriated tech, but only as a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. I.e they’re only interested in what tech can do for them, they’re not interested in tech itself. Same for mastodon - they’re only interested in what it can do for them, nothing else

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 26mo ago

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@Binder love this take. What if we taxed inheritances above a certain value if we thought the beneficiary was likely to do immoral things with it?

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 26mo ago

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@BranwenOShea @Binder you mean the same judgements that people freely voice about UBI?

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 21mo ago

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@futurebird@sauropods.win is this one of those things we can make an instance rule? Like your instance won't federate an image without alt text? Then we get to choose our own rules. As nature intended

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 5mo ago

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@scy once again Object Oriented Programming fails ;)

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 1w ago

RE: @aljazeera@flipboard.com

I’m no longer convinced that raising interest rates reduces inflation.

A large chunk of Australians have mortgages. Those mortgages are the single largest household expense for most of those people.

Raising interest rates does not induce savings (as the theory goes), because no-one has money to save. It raises living expenses. That, in turn, applies pressure on working folks to get a raise. In other words, it’s inflationary.

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 2mo ago

For at least a year after I moved to Berlin I thought this indicated some kind of WiFi service. Pronounced “JeffNet” and obviously founded by Geöff, provided by all kinds of shops and cafes as a public service.

I was very disappointed to finally discover it means “we are open”.

I still prefer my version.

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 2mo ago

Wait, so it’s fine for the US AI labs to train their models on everyone else’s IP, and keep that proprietary, but not OK for anyone else to use their IP to train an open weights model?

No. Sit down. Shut the fuck up. Stop trying to create another tech monopoly.

https://ground.news/article/tech-giants-push-back-against-open-weight-ai-restrictions_0b44f7?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 5mo ago

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@aby@aus.social the lip-service hypocritical bullshit that the mining corps do here in Perth is definitely overused. Saying that they respect elders past, present, and future, and then doing exactly nothing to actually respect the First Nations elders. Or anything else that gets in the way of offshoring the profits of stripping irreplaceable resources from their land. Yes, that’s definitely “overused”. Let’s put a stop to it. Tax the fuckers Norway style.

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Gentleman Technologist @GentlemanTech@cyberplace.social

· 5mo ago

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@aby@aus.social oh gods no lol

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