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  • You say that, but as an operator->sysadmin->devops I'm increasingly disconcerted by the rise of "devops" who can't actually find their way around a Unix command prompt.

  • why is no-one demanding to know why the robot is so sexay

  • I think the guy's in Russia! It's a pretty common style.

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    If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

  • the message I get is to preemptively ban user ms178 from any project I'm on

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    Lloyd’s offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors! Now try to get a payout

  • FT are centrist market liberals, but gibbering US nazis will be happy to tell you why that's communism.

  • FT Alphaville is the bloggy section of FT, it's where the writers let rip

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    Soundcloud claims the right to train AI on all your songs — but swears it hasn’t yet, honest

  • it's very tired and shagged out after a long squawk. Just today I did [REDACTED] to alleviate the DDOS scraper bots and it's ticking along nicely right now. Keeping an eye on things.

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    Study: Your coworkers hate you for using AI at work

  • sometimes a thread breaks containment, the "all" algorithm feeds it to even more people, and we see that Lemmy really does replace Reddit

  • here's another version of the same sketch

    a machine is constructed in the form of a pretty lady to present you with a magical answer and the answer is a lie too

    and the hand is empty and the style is retro pop art of a comforting past that never existed

    now what could the incredibly obvious symbolism here mean, why all these choices

    hope our poster never goes to an art gallery, could be fatal

  • Nougat wants to fuck the robot and blames the robot for this

  • I remind you that the original folk song is a fucking banger and nerds have only heard the worst version in the world

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    Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job

  • good to see the quality posts from dbzero are back tho

  • apparently came toward him shouting "I'M GONNA BEAT YOUR ASS"

    hence the family stressing what a good Christian he was

  • https://xcancel.com/GuiveAssadi/status/1920232405324955825

    Steven Pinker: I've been part of some not so successful attempts to come up with secular humanist substitutes for religion.

    Interviewer: What is the worst one you've been involved in?

    Steven Pinker: Probably the rationalist solstice in Berkeley, which included hymns to the benefits of global supply chains. I mean, I actually completely endorse the lyrics of the song, but there's something a bit cringe about the performance.

    from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTVJjmabaas which nobody should watch, obviously

  • yeah looks like I'm thankfully wrong!

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    Christopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the grave

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    AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care

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    OpenAI tries a new scheme to go for-profit — but Elon Musk isn’t convinced

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    UK backtracks on AI ‘opt out’ scheme for creative works

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    Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop

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    In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more

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    your U Toronto CS degree has been replaced with a colour-in place mat from McDonalds

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    No, Microsoft did not state ‘strong AI demand’ in Q1 2025 — the FT is wrong

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    Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT

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    Doctors personally liable if mandatory NHS AI transcriber gets it wrong

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    Generative AI: ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’

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    Google’s military AI deals get DeepMind UK staff to start unionising

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    Trump tariffs taking out AI data centres too

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    shocked that anyone could be so uncouth as to accuse our boy Cremieux/Lasker of plagiarism goodness me

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    Google’s AI Overview directly takes readers away from its own source sites