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@thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space And ethics, I work as an IT support for an important school who does, among other things, famous digital arts courses. I've seen how interested teachers are to jump the AI wagon in order to not be left behind, I haven't seen any who even thinks about the ethical issues of it all. It's depressing to be honest.

@Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk The world is burning and stupid people keeps wasting good water to have AI do stupid things. As a species, we do deserve what's coming. I can't facepalm hard enough

@CuratedHackerNews Years ago I was starting to hate the IT world. Turns out it was just burnout, decided to switch to just first line support, with zero responsibilities, and I couldn't be happier. Of course I won't earn as a sys admin or as a programmer, but the peaceful life cannot be paid. I love IT, and I rather change jobs than do something that makes me hate it. P.S. LLMs and Gen AI are the asbestos of the IT world, and I can't wait for the day everyone sees it and moves to despise it

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I've started shaming people who uses any AI products with a "you know you had part on this, right? If people didn't used it, they wouldn't feel the need to construct more data centers and thus making the problem worse" Doesn't work much, but makes some of them think a bit.

@Sempf In order to get a electronic (digital) certificate, the catalan government decided that it would send a WhatsApp message, nit an SMS, a WhatsApp message. Governments giving their systems to private companies; absolutely mind-blowing and stupid.

@vmachiel@mastodon.nl And to the surprise of absolutely no one, there's already a guy 'sea-lioning' all over. Which is nice of them, so I can mute and block them, I'm not interested in anyone defending the hateful writer whose name will not be mentioned, or arguing in bad faith using false equivalence fallacies.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I have to admit that I liked Pascal more than C. It came more naturally to me. And I had to learn them all (C, C++, COBOL, Clipper, Java, Visual Basic) but, as off today, Pascal/Delphi is still the one I am more comfortable with, although Python is fun!

@rebeccawatson To me, the main problem is the gullible people for whom they're doing all this. The "see, they arrested him, they wouldn't do that without reason" people. In the current world, being ignorant is a choice, so yes... I blame them cause their vote affected not only the US, but the whole world.

@eschaton Them: 'Nooo! You are gatekeeping that hobby!' Hobby user: 'No. We only ask that you do the due diligence and research things. A hobby is nice because it lets you use the brain on something you enjoy ' Them: 'SEE! GATEKEEPING!!'

@plyspomitox And that's why Nikola Tesla died poor while thief and scammer Thomas Edison got rich. We (and I know I'm generalising here) haven't learned shit in centuries, just got better at being horrible human beings to eachother.

@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social "If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy." David Frum

@MissConstrue WTAF! I'll never understand how some people can look at this and think "yeah, that's my guy, I'll vote for him", instead of, you know, being incensed by the feeling of wanting to throw them to the sun.

@broadwaybabyto And these people are supposed to have taken the Hippocratic Oath. They all deserve time in prison to think about their actions.

@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social At least, in Idiocracy, they knew they were stupid and looked for the smartest person. Your government would rather imprison or kill those smarter.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social That is absolutely dystopian. Why!? What do they expect to do with ALL that processing power? Just so people can also imagine. A full rack is more or less as big as a fridge, with one of those you can manage EVERYTHING of a 1200 people company. Mail, file servers, and all the necessary services. How many full racks do you think you can fit there? I cannot even imagine why would you need all of that.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io That's going to be a lot of closing websites, even more than the 'disable adblocker to see this page'

@moss@kind.social I've been ready for years, as I used to say "I cannot make a revolution with my cat and my dog, I'm going to need you all to get up and do something" But alas, as history has shown, humans are lazy creatures, and sadly we can overcome so much, it gets really bad before we've had enough. So I just wait for everyone who called me a radical to start radicalising.

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Now you should fight people owning multiple houses, so they won't get richer with this. I mean, you need to kill the virus, not only treat the symptoms.

@patrislav @CuratedHackerNews Thanks, sadly is not mine but I don't remember where I read it first to give credit. Still, it fits, it promises the heavens but fucks up everyone who uses it and the environment as well.

@Michigander@toad.social Aaaah! So jealous!!

@davidgerard FYI, @arstechnica loves this kind of shit!!

@davidrevoy THAT'S why we keep all the trash in RPGs! Cause you never know!!

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social Let's see how long until they start crying rivers. "You hate us cause we're Jews!" "No, I don't give a fuck about that. I hate you because you are a bunch of genocidal racist fucks"

@ShaulaEvans@zirk.us After 30 years in IT, I thought I was used to doing all this uphill battles to try to teach and inform people. Those reach and speed of the AI tech bros is demoralising to be honest

@JoYo @davidaugust Yeah, that or the Epstein class, cause the last one works in every country.

@madeindex Well, how else are they supposed to find more minors to exploit and rape?

@stux I recently did a python script that took me three times what I thought it would, but since it's been a couple years since I did any programming at all, I know that happens. Still, I enjoyed the struggle and relearned stuff, as a bonus I had that satisfaction of seeing it do precisely what I wanted with as few lines as possible. As I read somewhere here in the fedi, knowledge requires friction in order to be absorbed.

@Orb2069 @worik @vex @valerie @zkat 100% Laziness is going to be our downfall. We're destroying the world because some people just want to use shortcuts to knowledge or have something do their tasks for them. Absolutely infuriating.

@xChaos@f.cz @thejuicemedia@mastodon.social You know, you can type the word 'shit', right No one is going to have an aneurysm for reading it. Sorry but I find this trend to mask some 'offensive' is words completely childish.

@worik @vex @valerie @zkat I'm sorry, what? Please enlighten me, tell me one thing that did that from LLMs that you couldn't do in the internet before them. I'm honestly asking cause I don't see it.

@gerrymcgovern *looks at the history of China, south America, and other places* Nah, that's a problem inherent on the human species as a whole. There are a few who don't behave like that, but the agent Smith in the Matrix was right. We are a virus.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Or, as one of my teachers used to say: "you'll know you're doing a good job when you have nothing to do"

@ChrisMayLA6 The problem with all of these systems is that they prioritize punishment before seriously traumatizing a fucking kid. Instead of, you know, investing resources in respecting both the procedyand the wellbeing of everyone involved. You could have someone accompanying them to verify the status, but no!! Let's fuck over a parent and their kid.

@fabio I just wish all these failures of human beings get everything they deserve, either on this live or the next.

@dAlgorithm@mastodon.social It's amazing the stuff you learn watching some shows with a toddler (and kudos to all people creating incredible media for kids and adults to learn stuff)

@libertyoftheforest0 @tinker And that's precisely what they want, for people to mistrust governments and all politicians, when in reality there are some who are truly interested in everyone's wellbeing. Yeah most of them suck big time, that's why all elections matter, so we can help raise the good ones and sink the bastards.

@ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net But who will think about the pedophile shitholders?

@libertyoftheforest0 @tinker I'm guessing you are from the US. I am not, but I will tell you that from across the pond, it doesn't look like Bernie Sanders, AOC, Mamdani or Ilhan Omar are being controlled for shit. You have options, never surrender in advance.

@c_9@mstdn.ca It had to be a substack post? :( https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

@NosirrahSec@infosec.exchange @QasimRashid@mastodon.social I'm a firm believer in chemical castrations for children rapists.

@bruces I don't agree between choosing between valuing terrestrial life and space exploration. Imhi, both are interlinked As in, instead of mining and destroying our planet, we should find asteroids with the necessary materials and get those If we worked towards doing stuff in space, instead of inside our planet, we could surely have both P.S. Before the "is expensive" crowd comes in, that's because we currently don't calculate the ecological impact in the expenses.We throw that to the future

@JonBaker@mastodon.social https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1v3Dk41C_10 XDDDDD

@NIGHTEN Wish! Absolutely stunning!! I love pixel art!

@adactio@mastodon.social As someone from Spain - where in theory is illegal to not carry your national ID, courtesy of the dictatorship years - it's enlightening to read all this. But then again, the id is quite easy to get and not expensive at all. And yes, we need to show it when voting, but we also get a mail beforehand telling us which building and table to go. You cannot vote in person in other places.

@GeriAQuin@mstdn.social #altText4You Photo of an old man in a supermarket, he wears a black shirt with the following text "Big Scary Radical Left Agend" in curved letters and underneath "Equality Education Healthcare Voting Rights Clean Air & Water Reproductive Freedom Love Wins ... Terrifying, huh?

@petergleick@fediscience.org And even when there is no progress, when people start to complain about natural disasters, I will get on their faces and say "oh how could THIS HAPPEN! Maybe if SOMEONE had warned us with enough time to do SOMETHING! Except they did, AND YOU DID FUCK ALL!!"

@jschauma@mstdn.social That's the best part of being local support, I just deal with people.

@JEmphatically@mstdn.ca And... How is that not illegal/punishable? I mean, democracy is the system by which we give some power to others so they can make decisions for the good of everyone in our society. If they are not, we should be able to remove them. Yeah, I know, I'm an idealistic person.and I also know most people get into politics to get rich. Still, I think we should have a way of kicking them out. (Also applies to law professionals: judges, lawyers and law enforcement officers )

@ChristineMalec Maybe @sundogplanets can help?