You’re not wrong but there’s something very funny about a gaggle of Linux evangelists complaining about it not being obvious what aliases to type to open something
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AFAIK there was a memory leak in PowerToys. But it’s definitely ballooned in scope since it was first released. I suppose turning off the parts you don’t need would help but it really should still be more efficient. Doesn’t help that the Microsoft Department of AI Department seems to have started sinking its teeth into it as of the last few updates.
I think their complaint is more that it’s an umbrella term applied a bit loosely (like plain old “AI”). Most people, even non-technical people, seem to instinctively understand that there’s some sort of machine learning (or a novel type of less rigid processing) behind their chatbots and image generators, but most of them also seem to think it’s one artificial entity that does the whole thing. So non-technical ChatGPT users are likely to think all of the different features (like asking it in text to generate an image) are one “consciousness” instead of a text environment and an image environment that sort of interface with each other. And then each of these is made of different parts. It’s all one product (I think we both agree it shouldn’t be one)
I think the person you’re replying to doesn’t like the term for the same reasons I do, it’s quite blatantly just a marketing term, a buzzword to swat away like an angry wasp. But it is the most descriptive and succinct term that most people know. I’m quite conflicted on this. “Taking a few pulls at the slop machines” is a fun way to shit on someone else abdicating their responsibility by using machine generated content en lieu of their brains, mostly in a context where their brains are needed, but “slop machine” is too accusatory. In the same way, I find “GenAI” just a little too permissive or possibly enthusiastic about what is claimed these algorithms even do.
If it was totally down to me I would probably add multiple tags: “Machine generated text”, “Machine generated images”, “Machine generated audio”. It keeps the distinctions I think are necessary (text ≠ thought/analysis, image ≠ artistic expression, etc) and gives us a few more toggles and a bit more statistical information that would be nice.
This comment dragged on a bit longer than I’d set out to write.
“An Actual Labor Party” was right there
I only ever saw it as controlling the spread of the horrific and anti-human terrorist philosophy of “believing the mass internment and murder of Palestinians is not a good thing actually”
That'd be like me calling my kid Suddam Hussein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_Vinladen
Vinladen is named after Osama bin Laden, the founder of Al-Qaeda […] His brother is named Sadam Huseín after the dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and his father planned to name the third sibling George Bush after U.S. president George W. Bush if it had been a boy.
I roll my eyes at a lot of the complaints about him here, because my expectations for anyone chewed up and spit out of the American political machine are very very low. I’ve only seen improvements from the American default honestly. I’m from Lebanon, I can only see his rise to fame (and people’s positive reactions) as an indicator that the US isn’t as hopeless as it can look.
Do you understand how depressing it is to hear every single person with power in the US, the world’s biggest military, talk about you like you’re a gardening pest that needs to be Agent Oranged to make way for more kibbutzes. That any opposition to that idea is a perversion of human decency. Harm reduction isn’t the cure but more harm isn’t good either. Lighten up people. Electoralism can’t be revolutionary but neither is handing more and more power to the worst people on earth. I live in a horrific feudal society, over which is stretched a pungent, decaying skinsuit of democracy and liberalism, I’ll take a Mamdani figure (or the popular support around his campaign and subsequent cautious optimism) any day. I swear to god some of you guys would have taken one look at the Bolsheviks in 1916 and called them a bunch of feds. The guy doesn’t matter in the long run, but people getting over their internalized McCarthyism in the McAmazon Grumman kingdom absolutely does say something.
Anyway, my biggest gripe with him is that he’s an Arsenal fan. Irredeemable club literally born out of the British Empire’s arms manufacturing industry, got elected to the League instead of earning their way in, and fucking moving to North London on our turf (I have never stepped foot in England or Europe in my entire life). Fuck off back to Woolwich North London is ours COYS
(Sports tribalism is fun! Football is very entertaining!)
I never heard of this phenomenon. What on earth? Do you just shit next to your bed like a prisoner (I don’t even want this for prisoners?)? I don’t see any photos on the site. Surely this isn’t that common?
Few years ago, people literally had to rob the bank for their own money here. Thing was, when you went to the bank and you asked for your money and they didn’t give it to you, they were technically breaking the law, and you brandishing a weapon to while asking for something that is legally yours is not a particular crime. The thought of threatening a bank employee whose job was to be a verbal punching bag for an evil financial system wasn’t appealing to many people, and most people didn’t have enough in there for it to be worth it, so it wasn’t as common as the media made it out to be.
A lot of “robbers” used obviously fake “weapons” and that did work - while also giving plausible deniability towards the law (“I didn’t really make a threat”) and for the employee (“I was being threatened and complied” without actually being in danger).
You’d think our sordid history with capitalism would instill a lesson or two in our society but vapid “entrepreneur” culture and socio-economic pick-me-ism are at an all time high here and every day I am drawn more to the mountain hermit life and this is not a joke.
I also keep an eye out for good places to live, since the usual emigration destinations (US, UK, France, Canada) aren’t looking so hot. I don’t speak Spanish (or Basque either if you can believe it) so this one is a bit on the far fetched end. It’s hard enough to get a job without moving, let alone in places where tens of thousands more people are looking for work. I’d still like to visit San Sebastián and Bilbao someday though.
Not that I wouldn’t want to start something up in that model where I live. I crunch the numbers every few months for a pipe dream: a quietly anarchisty repair cafe/makerspace/workshop — and unless everyone in my town suddenly wants to pay 10 USD for a pay-what-you-want cappuccino it’s not happening. Average salary where I live is still like 600 USD since the economy popped in 2019.
Apparently the Basque Country is one of the most egalitarian areas in Europe. I remember seeing somewhere that there’s more worker co-ops there than in the entire US.
Yeah yeah co-ops aren’t the cure for capitalism insert caveats here.
Also, funny they included the zoom in for Liechtenstein just to show that there’s no data, but it’s probably just a standardized layout.
Is this another zoomer horror trope that is utterly banal to anyone under 13 but has me up at night questioning the mechanics of what makes a drawing unsettling?
Gotta be Shrek worker. Shrek is heavily censored in some part of the world because the movie is too woke.
I’m one hypnotic frenzied writing session away from a giant winding post about how magazines gave us curated, focused cross-sections of the world around us, and how we interacted with them before the dopamine reptile brain event horizon era. I really have a lot of thoughts on this.
I don’t know if this is real and I almost don’t want to
So, I’m not diagnosed with ADHD, so while I identify with a lot of things people post on this community, I don’t know how helpful my contributions would be. I still live in a part of the world where neurodivergence is still thought of as a condition of suffering so not getting diagnosed (or checked) seems like the better option.
Anyway, I’m baffled by people with aphantasia. A few of my family members claim to be like this. Personally if you tell me you don’t have six internal TV channels for your brain to constantly flip through over and over some part of me still thinks you’re pulling my leg. On top of a few radio stations full of familiar musical bits and pieces that I don’t know the name of and must find I must absolutely find where they come from wow I sure hope I don’t spend three hours on a Thursday night scrubbing through local playlists and listening/watching history and game soundtracks to find a six second earworm.
I have grown to infrequently depend on a disgusting and Anti-American™ Arabic psychoactive drug as a social lubricant.
Al Kohol can now be found in many cities around the world, there’s even different flavors now. When will this debauchery end?!
I’m seeding a handful. I think maybe one or two has a non zero share ratio, and none above 1. But it’s not clogging up any bandwidth for me, so I’ll keep it going for now.
He’d have a guy with a bunker full of 1952 Tylenol, which “still had mercury and opium so you know it worked”.
It’s like you people don’t grapple with conspiracy culture and its tireless army of very well adjusted people.
This might have been the last AAA game I was hyped for, bought at full price, and enjoyed within its buzz cycle.
I should play it again.
Oh there’s absolutely no excuse for it not to open Terminal when you type
terminal. I can’t replicate it on my side but I’ve probably turned that “feature” off ages ago. I’m a little surprised at the downvotes, as I’m making fun of Windows. Linux used to have a reputation for its learning curve, especially knowing CLI commands. Daunting stuff for the average user. It’s better now, and beautifully enough it’s Microsoft’s fuckery with putting unwanted shit in their OS that’s teaching people more about the inner workings of the system they’re using, both pushing them towards gutting the OS, and towards other OSes. In the Lemmy demographic that’s usually Linux, around me it’s actually been Macs, and those are even more egregiously expensive where I live.Another way the esotericness tables have turned: the Windows configuration UIs have similar names, do adjacent functions, and aren’t listed anywhere in one place. You have to know what setting you want and where it’s found. There used to be one Control Panel, and a few advanced tools you could find in the Start menu. Microsoft wants to “modernize” some of these, so they’ve pulled parts of their settings piecemeal into their new Settings UI (which they call an app, I don’t like that). But you still have some settings that are still in the legacy Control Panel UI. You have a ton of settings that are still in standalone legacy settings UIs. Some of them look like Windows 10, some like Vista/7, and there’s a handful that look like Windows 95. You need to know that the display color calibration options in the Settings UI can be overridden by the vendor’s control software (that’s a whole rant), and that what you actually want is a standalone settings window called Color Management. You need to know what operations can be done in Disk Management, Disk Cleanup, Optimize Drives, you need to know that they exist, and you then need to know if the command you want is actually only achievable in
diskpart. I have nothing againstdiskpartbut I can’t tell you which among Terminal, PowerShell, or Windows PowerShell (or any of the x86 variations plural of each of them) is the right place to use it. I can intuitively tell it’s not Windows PowerShell ISE or Azure Cloud Shell though. Yay for computer literacy. I type cmd into the Start menu and it works from there, so I’m content with that. I can’t say Raspberry Pi OS has this many configuration locations but once you know the two or three places to look you’re done.I know that I will have to move to Linux eventually. I’ve only complained about things in Windows that aren’t designed to abuse the users directly, which is a drop in the bucket, ethically at least, when you look at the responsibilities of the world’s most (or second most) influential company regarding personal computing. But I look at all this and feel like it’s accelerating the scary trend of younger people getting worse with computers. I was able to follow instructions correctly in a novel computer environment to set up a mini homelab with a bunch of Linux servers talking to each other. People my own age and slightly younger at work seem to know fuck all about the computers we use and that terrifies me. We were supposed to get better over time, not worse! There’s a new, younger IT guy, he’s not much younger than me, and half of what I’m procedurally required to ask his help on is something he doesn’t understand at all.
Home server mountain hermit life is no longer over the horizon for me, that’s all I can say really.