Should metal detecting functionality be added to my electric toothbrush?

Should pizza savers also be functional Magic 8 Balls?

Maybe Cessna planes should add Roomba functionality.

Voice chat is a fine and good usecase, and I might even be persuaded that some amount of ActivityPub integration might be a good thing (mostly just for account management, though), but no, it shouldn’t be added to Lemmy any more so than my nose hair trimmer should also be a functional tazer. If a particular instance admin also wants to provide voice chat to users, great.

One of Lemmy’s greatest strengths is that it doesn’t try to do too much. It does one thing and one thing well.

• Your parents’ divorce wasn’t your fault.
• If you still feel like it was, it’s because your parents put that shit on you selfishly. (Possibly one more than the other.)
• Therapy is recommended.

Hear me out. For the aye aye specifically:

• Pixar movie
• About a family of aye ayes
• The main protagonist is voiced by Matthew Mercer

The aye ayes will be drowning in conservation funding.

If it’s weird, we can be weird together.

True, but it’s gone in spikes largely driven by new strains since the original.

Obligatory

This is a regular thing in Missouri. The people pass something and the GOP overturns it. Missouri’s first forays into changing the legal status of cannabis were one of the better examples.

It’s a little bit like Satan telling someone he’s a big fan of their work.

Challenge accepted.

Like someone else in this thread mentioned, Elon. I hated him well before he started doing really assholeish stuff publicly. I had plenty of liberal friends who thought he was cool and edgy and bought not-a-flamethrowers and Tesla cars. When the soccer team got trapped in a cave in Thailand and Elon called the rescue team pedophiles, I was like “I knew that guy had to be a total asshole”. Of course, now I know that was not even the tip of the iceberg.

I think I was ahead of the curve hating on “generative AI”.

Bill Gates. I hated him for being a big part of the rise of proprietary software as an institution long before the right wing conspiracy theorists started making up bullshit about him. Which is annoying because now I have to tell people I hate Gates but not because I think he’s putting 5G microchips in vaccines or whatever bullshit.

Facebook is probably a pretty good example. I quit Facebook in like 2008. Not that nobody was talking about how evil Facebook was at the time, but their evil wasn’t really as well known at the time, I don’t think.

I’m realizing a lot of these are technology-related.

Would it be a proper shitpost if nobody shat on it?

stifled distressed noises

Yeah, it’s pretty weird. My employer is a traditionally brick-and-mortor sort of business that’s only recently starting to learn that the internet isn’t a “fad”. My employer’s policy has always been that we don’t use “the cloud” specifically so we can keep our trade secrets secret. They’re only now starting to approach the idea of running our code on off-premisis hardware our company doesn’t own. They’re using Google Cloud rather than AWS, though, because “Amazon is a competitor” and they’re paranoid that Amazon is going to steal our trade secrets. Which… doesn’t make sense because so is Google. (Of course, that doesn’t really give away what industry my employer is in because both Google and Amazon do basically everything.) Google pinky swears they’ll never steal/use/share our data. And of course that might be true right up until the moment they decide to change that and meanwhile we’re screwed because we’re all vendor-lockin’d with them.

Anyway, yeah. My employer is nincompoops. Lol.

The new CTO at my workplace just the other day announced they’d partnered with Google to get Gemini Code Complete and they’d be piloting its use on a particular project. They had someone from Google present all the “benefits” of using AI for writing code and everything.

Most of my team is facepalming so hard. Except the one guy who’s an AI enthusiast. (That guy is also a massive conspiracy theorist.) I’m not sure about everyone’s sentiment, though. I’m kindof sortof “in charge” on my team, and apparently the company’s stance is now that AI use is acceptable. If I told folks not to use AI, I don’t think the business would back me, so I’m having to be “diplomatic” about it.

So, I’ve told the team “just… don’t push any code to the central repo without understanding it at least as well as if you’d written it yourself.”

But yeah. I’m pretty pissed. Hopefully the CTO isn’t high enough on the smell of his own farts to decide that “pilot” project is an unmitigated success despite all evidence to the contrary.

If you want to watch it

Pass, thanks.

They don’t make a Clozapine big enough.

Whew. My 586 is safe.

The internet has reached its peak with this meme.

With some of the reports of cultish behavior at OpenAI, a piece of me wonders whether this may be – if not directly intentional – at least somewhat influenced by gentle nudges in a weird spiritual direction from execs, maybe by subtle influences on the choice of training materials or some such.