I stopped reading after too many references to tasks solvable by a 1-line invocation of a CLI tool like ffmpeg or pandoc.
Readit Newssyngrog66 commented on AI agents are starting to eat SaaS martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/jnord
Thank gawd. Flash, gawd bless it, was a low point in internet history. People simply couldn’t resist misusing it and abusing it. I’m not blaming the tool per se. But Flash’s addictiveness caused reasonable people to make gawd-awful UI and UX decisions. Crushing Flash is probably Jobs’ most underrated accomplishment.
Flash directly led to South Park, however. one of the funniest animated series ever. Worth it!
strawman dystopia. simply choose to continue applying wise practices of old. be the effect you wish to see in the world. just because others are jumping off a cliff like lemmings does not mean you must as well
This is obvious. No need for fancy academic-ish paper.
LLMs & GenAI in general have already started to be used to automate the mass production of dishonest, adversarial propaganda and disinfo (eg. lies and fake text, images, video.)
It has and will be used by evil political influencers around the world.
syngrog66 commented on MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-s... · Posted by u/tiahura
syngrog66 commented on MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-s... · Posted by u/tiahura
bonus points for the ".7%"
only thing better than pulling numbers out of the air is being very very precise
(not)
AI has told me that Biden was preparing for his upcoming debate with Trump. It told me that in May 2025.
AI has told me its not raining in my city and that in fact there was 0% chance of it that day. As I was looking out my open front door watching a heavy downpour.
syngrog66 commented on Perkeep – Personal storage system for life perkeep.org/... · Posted by u/nikolay
a plain old filesystem, esp on a small removeable device, is hard to beat
syngrog66 commented on Valve is about to win the console generation xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valv... · Posted by u/moonleay
The author fundamentally fails to understand the attractions and benefits of console gaming systems in the first place.
All of IoT is a security anti-pattern now.