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Well, if we’re being honest, they can code for shit.

But nothing further than shit.

The president is supposed to report to a 300M-member board of directors

Afaik boosts either count as an upvote or are ignored, and you can remove the @ and it should still display correctly in Lemmy, although I’m not sure if that would influence how other mbin users see it

Welcome to the fediverse, that’s a mbin user. It’s just the default behaviour of their client.

Dark energy “explains” why the universe expands more than we expect, and dark matter “explains” why some parts of the universe stick together more than we expect. Eventually we’ll get a better understanding of how gravity/space/time works and won’t need these bolt-ons anymore

Do you consider AI good enough to substitute human interaction?

I don’t think it’s a matter of capability. Even as a neurodivergent introvert, I recognize in human connection one of the most fundamental aspects of our life on this earth. You may get answers that a person also would’ve given you, but think of all the people you won’t get to know, groups you’ll never be a part of.

it surprised me how complete and articulate answers are.

That’s their greatest trap. They always need to sound confident to have the best chance of providing a good answer, so that when they don’t know or you get an unlucky seed they just lie/pretend very convincingly. Never rely on LLM output as the sole source, even, especially, when it sounds plausible.

It is very important to remember that even if they “talk” like people, they are not people. Using them as a search engine on steroids is alright, but if you ever find yourself asking “what do you think about…” you’re using them wrong. Never treat them as a friend, ask for advice, talk about your emotions, etc. This is easier said than done as a language-machine activates out brain in all kinds of funny ways; forgetting you’re talking with an algorithm is very very easy.

Also, don’t listen to people who say you’ll be “left behind” if you don’t jump on the train. That train is not headed to a nice place.

All that said, they are sometimes marginally useful. I would say that cloud AI usage is never ok and self-hosted models can be acceptable, depending on their usage. Look into Ollama and Unsloth. You don’t need that much RAM/VRAM to get something workable, what are your hardware specs? I can suggest some models

Those you recharge with your body’s electrical flow by touching both legs with one finger

Here’s a tip Big Battery doesn’t want you to know: A cell can recharge itself by recovering the charges from the opposite terminal. Simply connect the two terminals together and wait 10-30 minutes

“Animals are better than people who say that animals are better than people”

Disposables, yes, but at least where I’m from there was a big independent industry of “flavor” industries that quickly popped up around 2015, and in those years hardware had a ton of manufacturers and “DIY” aspects. You’d make your own liquids and coils using cheap specialized metal wire and cotton and you could go on for months with 20€. Then a bunch of absolute horseshit laws from both the national and EU level seemed to try and make that experience as inconvenient as possible, for example requiring you to buy half-filled bottles that you must fill yourself using nicotine bases that can be no bigger than 10ml, resulting in 3-4 small disposable plastic bottles per liquid that you buy. Several countries limited what flavors you can buy, and/or regulated the market such that there is only one or two brands of approved hardware manufacturers.

Now if you think that reducing accessibility of vapes is good, this would all be fine and dandy, but at the same time all the kids are vaping disposables, which are not subject to some of the same restrictions and you can buy online or in corner stores for the price of a pack of cigs. Of course almost all the brands are owned by old tobacco money, but I still can’t really understand how we took a perfectly good and simple system like an electronic cigarette with a decent industry behind it, made it borderline illegal, and then normalized the same thing but imported from a cartel, that works the exact same except that they refuse to put two holes for refilling and charging it. Fucking disposable lithium batteries in 2026.

Thanks for adding your own 6 paragraphs to contribute to the discussion

Sometimes solutions aren’t easy. Doesn’t change the fact that they might be necessary.

(Obligatory disclaimer that this comment is not meant to discourage voting. Please do.)

I’m sorry for you

It’s wild that this is a political matter at all. The judicial system should not depend on what party is in charge. Still can’t fully comprehend the level of institutionalized corruption

I have also been thinking about this, because as far as I know you’re correct - at least under US copyright law, AI output is not copyrightable, and since you don’t own it you can’t license it. All AI code is public domain (again, at least in the US). It’s surprising to me that there has been little discussion about this, and Linus himself has not addressed it

90€/mo to self-host something? Lol

That is indeed work, yeah

I am not sure it was initially created for evil, I do believe that its discovery was mostly academic and in that it was, and still is, a pretty significant/interesting one. It was very quickly and very strongly made into the perfect weapon for the information age for sure, but i doubt that the original researchers wanted that, or just really thought of the implications outside of information theory. But it was indeed Google, surveillance capitalism incarnate, that initially gifted transformers to the world and kickstarted the whole thing…

Edit: I realised that I inadvertently made this comment about “AI” by way of pronouns when I’m really talking about LLMs. Google of course did not invent AI, and I more strongly disagree that AI in its actual sense was invented for or is inherently evil.

Pre-AI: Companies spending months of work to be PCI DSS compliant

Post-AI: send your credit card details as a picture in a chat