IMHO the people pushing AI right now can have their ethos summed up with the following quote: "Life is pain. I hate-" -- Jerma I think there is no coherent end goal beyond promises that can't be kept in an industry that has been built on making promises you never have to follow through. - ThreadSky

izzys.casa • 5 days ago

IMHO the people pushing AI right now can have their ethos summed up with the following quote:

"Life is pain. I hate-" -- Jerma

I think there is no coherent end goal beyond promises that can't be kept in an industry that has been built on making promises you never have to follow through.

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felix91gr.bsky.social•5 days ago

:'(

I really hope that at some point, the law becomes a bit more savvy about software engineering such that when the more important promises aren't followed through, there are consequences.

Just like there is for any kind of engineering that affects lives in non-trivial ways.

izzys.casa•5 days ago

I got into software because I was told that software could improve people's lives and I saw that happening for me in my lifetime and upbringing.

Then google killed reader and it's been downhill ever since because the lead poisoning started to leech out of the VC's bones and into their bloodstream.

sarah-quinones.bsky.social•5 days ago

google reader shutdown radicalized me tbh 😭
i never found an alternative that scratched the itch as well and ended up giving up on rss

izzys.casa•5 days ago

That truly was The Death of the old wild west free internet. There's never been a better (cross platform) RSS reader, because all the digital ones out there have react js/tailwind css brained interfaces

sarah-quinones.bsky.social•5 days ago

yeah, my desktop as a kid could barely handle 360p youtube without lag at the time so the other rss alternatives i tried all ran like shit

izzys.casa•5 days ago

I was told to use Feedly and instead I moved to twitter it was That Bad™

izzys.casa•5 days ago

At this point, my only options are to keep my head down and not make noise, NOT do that, or find a space where I can write things where human expression is the primary focus and the profit motive simply cannot be the primary focus beyond it being necessary to pay the bills.

izzys.casa•5 days ago

Also we need an anti-AI software license because the (A)GPL and the open source movement don't solve anything. There need to be clear fines against non-human beings using my code, versus the main motive where John Nightreign is using a little .wav to .aif converter written in Scheme.

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