Im more second hand embarrassed that we’re using a masturbation autocomplete bot consuming municipalities worth of water to dunk on a billionaire who’s basically already proven to be a pedophile wannabe.

Nothing about my IT or software career has changed anything about my set up, except maybe some of the OS hardening info, which could be easily googled.

No need to gate keep, we kill google one laptop at a time :)

(Rare preemptive /s) I have no idea what the fuck youre talking about because i know at least 3 people who regularly post on reddit so they cant be bots (/s, again)

Lots of people say my writing looks like AI because i use em dashes (learned about them in 8th grade) and semicolons (6th grade). My only saving grace is my extremely long sentences; AIs tend to have shorter, more poignant sentences with obvious-ish tells once you know what to look for.

Maybe also helps that i changed keyboards recently so i type weird words like “knkw” instead of “know” and dont always double check my spelling

You gotta wonder what the hell facebook execs are thinking, knowing that people who specifically go out of their way to block ads are the ones their engineers are fighting tooth-and-nail to show ads to.

Anyways my solution to this on youtube, anyways, is to click every ad i dislike, training my algorithm to advertise shit i dont want to me and bleeding money from them while promoting the creators i like/YouTube

Or; dont block anything and wait for people to stop using meta products altogether :)

Deleting a torrent is probably the most heartbreaking thing i can imagine. My most prized possession is a ratio 1.00 torrent from 2014 that was 0.00 until 2021.

Rechecking, it is now at 2.00 which makes me unreasonably happy

Edit for more happiness: A copy of Monkey Shines (1988) that took me about 14 months to download is now at a 2913 ratio (since February)

For education, plus some more before real traffic

So, be worried in about 6 months then?

I think donation/investment based freemium is the future of internet content once the bots kill ad viability

Yeah, its not handling “my grandma is dying pls send emt” calls, but more “The concert hall is on fire” call #450.

That being said, I disagree with most applications of AI that prevent human interaction. Just because im the 40th person calling about a situation doesnt mean my call is useless, it means i might have new information on an evolving situation.

Local small businesses are being priced out of self hosted server options since ~October (Source: MSP)

Reddit did that a decade or two ago. Most arguments about a posted news article are just fights over the headline

There are also real people who would have a great time doing this with you. Ai does not need to exist in this scenario.

Either way, its still a bad look. Peer review is even worse than Op Eds, or fiction, or what have you… But its all equally socially degenerate

Only pro is laborious, tedious programming tasks have become significantly faster to do, along with testing edge cases and stuff a programmer should be able to do but maybe doesnt need to.

Just about everything else is negative.

“I dont write anything but i take credit for everything”

Ive been begging us to adopt booru-style tagging for videos for decades at this point.

(For the uninitiated, this would mean i could search something like “Brunette curly_hair -horse_penis score:>500” and get every video known to man with a curly haired brunette who does not interact with a horse penis and at least 500 people liked the video)

The current tell is “weird eye-lines and physics” no one looks anyone in the eyes and everything is very “dream where youre trying to run but gravity turned off for some reason”

He seems fairly prone to ego stroking, which internet goers would typically label as narcissistic.

Kind of the target audience for the sycophant machine