Well for one thing, it’s creepy and the people around you don’t want to be passively recorded 24/7.

Remember Google Glass? Its users were called “glassholes” for a reason.

Ideally you would work in a language you didn’t have these inane rules about semicolons

I wish I had the luxury of not working with JavaScript… but sadly it’s still the only game in town on the web.

Hey Dad, remember our car?

Enslopification

The company I work for did this last year.

Unfortunately the tech industry can get away with this shit because the job market is a fucking nightmare and tech bros all think they’re too smart/skilled to need a union (neither of which is true).

The prophecy as foretold by the ORACLE

At this point it’s basically impossible to interpret the Democrats’ overall strategy as anything other than intentional sabotage.

…begin?

Grok’s logo is a black hole.

Emphasis on hole.

He didn’t say that.

This article is based on an essay Altman wrote 9 years ago where he claims that humanity’s only hope of survival is to merge with AI and transcend into a new, transhuman species.

Look, I fucking hate Sam Altman. He represents everything that’s wrong with the Tech industry, and is also a pretty good example of everything that’s wrong with capitalism writ large. Sam sucks. He lies, he cheats, he steals. But lying about Altman does not help the anti-AI cause. It just muddies the message and gives bad actors more shit to stir. And besides… it’s not like we have to make shit up about the guy to make him look bad. There’s SO much crazy shit he actually did say that you can point to instead.

I’m reporting this post to the mods as misinformation, and I hope others do too. AI sucks. Sam sucks. But we have to tell the truth, or we’re no better than they are.

She uses it both for gaming and studio recordings with Ardour.

How is the gaming experience on Debian nowadays? Last time I tried it (several years ago now), it was kind of a nightmare jumping through all of the various hoops required to get it to pay nicely with an Nvidia GPU.

You’re right. I’m usually more careful about that. In fact I’ve even left comments just like yours in the past.

Just goes to show how hard the marketing engine is really working to paint these things in a certain (deceptive) way.

lmao, I bet they trained the stupid thing on recordings from massive call centers. It probably thinks that all the ‘background’ noise is just part of how humans communicate.

“This leash demeans us both”

thicc (derogatory)

Jesus… more like sun scream, amirite?

Wait, are you seriously asking?

Money. The answer is shitloads of money.

financial motivation desperation

I worked in a traditional office environment for the full decade before the pandemic, and I was constantly being distracted by “undisciplined” people. There was always someone having a loud conversation in a quiet workspace or coming to my cubical to interrupt me with pointless bullshit.

Going full remote has finally isolated me from the lack of discipline in office environments.

But also people who can work remotely would always have situations where they’d prefer not to.

[citation needed]