> I understand people have their reasons to be negative about tech but they could go somewhere else to post their comments.
Are they complaining about the tech or are they complaining that bad people are doing bad things with it?
The current hot topic with me is LLMs. Someone could be doing nice things with it, but the only ones I see are making "educational" videos with hallucinated information. By the time I figure out that the channel is slop, I now have to purge several videos worth of fake facts from my knowledge base. And all this so someone can make a quick buck off of youtube ads.
Wow, it's weird to think that people can be so proud of their terrible ideas. To go so far as to post it on their own website. Project 2025 was published this same way.
I thought the "seppuku" line was hyperbole, but there it is in black and white. You can jump directly to it with a Ctrl+F.
Everyone thinks their ideas are brilliant and that the ideas that run contrary to theirs are terrible. Your comment is tantamount to saying "I disagree with these ideas".
I agree with your sentiment, but something this big should have been run through a committee of not-yes-men before publishing. I feel like honest feedback would have stopped this.
I know there are people who believe there is no such thing as bad publicity and that it is better to be remembered as a monster than forgotten, but not me.
That is not true. Other people can have good ideas, bad ideas, kind of bad ideas, very bad ideas, terrible ideas and off the chart stupid ideas.
So, no the comment is not tantamount to saying "I disagree with these ideas". It is possible to disagree with an idea that is not horribly bad. It is possible to disagree with an idea that is quite smart, just with a trade off I dont prefer.
If you equate terrible with bad. Since most ideas at the far end of the scale are both emotional and the means to an outcome you feel very strongly about, yes,
Not bit-torrent, TOR (The Onion Router). If you have to download a special web browser just for this one download, it isn't about easier distribution. TOR is a privacy enhancing browser and is usually associated with accessing the Dark Web without being traced. I have never seen it is as a requirement imposed by a website.
I had a car with a pure metal key, and even with 30 years in the city, it never got stolen. I knew a single person who had their car stolen, and it was at gunpoint. I really don't think lock-picking or hot-wiring really existed outside of movies. It always felt like a scare tactic to sell more insurance.
In the stamp area, there is a note for either "first class", "non-profit", or "presorted standard" aka "PRE-STD". Normal mail is first class. Standard is spam.
Once you figure that out, it makes sorting the mail real quick. Never has standard ever been important, even if it comes from a company that I do business with.
Yup, I basically never get anything sent first class. Greeting/holiday cards are about the only thing, and my parents these days just throw them into a priority mail care package anyway (and I'm past the age for the rush of wedding invitations).
Presorted Standard is cheaper than First Class. First class is sent with some expectations on whether it will be delivered and how quickly. Standard is "best effort". If a company wants you to pay a bill, then they want to make sure you get it, they pay extra for that stamp. If a company wants to send an advert that they know you are going to throw in the trash anyway, they cheap out.
But for the life of me, I have not been able to figure out the price of a Standard stamp. USPS sells stamps online, but you'd think it would be easier to find the price, but still I can't find it. I would love to know how much is spent on mail that no one really cares about.
Or the 5+ oversized "vote for me" flyers that have been coming everyday for weeks (even after doing the early in-person voting). If one didn't change my mind, 10 from the same candidate isn't going to change my mind either. Election season is terrible for USPS and my phone's text messages.
Luckily my apartment has a recycling bin next to the mailboxes so all of the oversized stuff like that ends up there immediately, the rest I keep in a box until it's shredding time.
... It's a joke about Grok which had a weird moment where it referred to itself as Mechahitler[1]. Also it's relevant because Grok also had/has some strong biases about the treatment of white South Africans[2]: so case in point of LLMs being used to alter facts about the past and the world.
Are they complaining about the tech or are they complaining that bad people are doing bad things with it?
The current hot topic with me is LLMs. Someone could be doing nice things with it, but the only ones I see are making "educational" videos with hallucinated information. By the time I figure out that the channel is slop, I now have to purge several videos worth of fake facts from my knowledge base. And all this so someone can make a quick buck off of youtube ads.
reply