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  • if you can, dont support the companies that are causing the problem youre trying to support a fix for”

    “nEvEr GoOd EnOuGH!!!”

    Doing more to make a bad situation better SHOULD never be enough until the bad situation is over. Do what you’re capable of, not ‘do the bare minimum because its good enough’.

    Cant donate? Go work to deliver/serve food.

    If the places giving food have all the food, but have a line. They need more people handing it out. That’s “free” to do.





  • Yep. Its one of those “um actually” things that at surface can make you seem annoying, but unfortunately the nuance is really important.

    In order to hallucinate it’d need to be capable of proper thought first.

    In the same way people ask of their software “why doesn’t it just work?!” Well… It actually DOES work. Its doing exactly as it’s been programmed to do.

    Whether the issue is because the dev didnt think of an angle you use it on, the QA didnt test it enough, or you yourself have a weird expectation, etc, it is doing exactly what it is only capable of doing in the situation that you see as “it isnt working right”.

    Its then on you, the human, to recognize that and proceed.

    This dissonance even happens from human to human conversation. “Oh i thought you meant this.”

    If you go to an agriculturist and start asking them about the culture of another country, they’d probably stop you to point out the issue. They could also just start giving you agriculture info and leave you confused. The nuance is important and what lets our biological brain computer figure it out where the metal brain needs to be specifically told to make sure they meant land agriculture.




  • Verymuchso indeed. Theres cameras on the BACK of our traffic lights at every corner in town too that arent on this list.

    But it helps navigating backroads/country and im not in a huge city so that’s good enough.

    I do wave at the residential houses as i dodge a camera at a corner street.

    So if theres 40k on this list for the US and apl this is missing, it’s at least double that number for sure.




  • Ill do you one extra even. One of our customers, a lawfirm, has asked we remove AI from their environment over privacy concerns. We, as their IT, are still trying to push and sell licenses to our other customers and even use it ourselves.

    All against the wishes of the actual workers themselves in my company. The execs and sales team is pushing it so hard and ignoring that a literal law firm is super against it.

    Surely this will turn out well. I let that customer know that we’re still pushing AI, and management is very pro AI still. It might be a good idea to look for a different IT provider if that goes against your values.


  • The fun trick with this is when the HoA defends themselves there’s usually a clause that allows them to charge folks within the HoA to pay for legal bills, aka you.

    So you have to pay for the HoA to defend itself against you filing a lawsuit about how it is violating your laws. While also paying for your side of the lawsuit too.

    (This is of course all depending on the nature of what youre filing for and specifically who it is against, but it’s just another example of why HoA’s are useless profit generation for those that run the HoA. Specially if its a mega-corp owned HoA like Sentry)


  • Zulu@lemmy.worldtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldCorpo ai rage post
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    6 months ago

    All current “working and marketable” linux phones are built on top of android currently for compatibility with that existing market, so it depends how detached from android you want to be. (To my knowledge. Id love to be proven wrong)

    If completely, then no.

    Better bet is an android OS that has everything ripped out of it and privacy hardened. Its the same thing the linux phone is doing but without the linux portion sitting on top.

    Otherwise you can attempt to use a pure linux setup but it’s going to be rough unless youre already set on dropping creature comforts.




  • Zulu@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldNotepad
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    Nope!

    Amusingly there is a very large overlap in the companies that want to try to force ai tech crap onto their workers, but dont limit admin controls for users.

    But to be more specific, what i meant by work-controlled is that you cant just install linux on a work machine or uninstall office products for alternatives due to company licensing.

    Nothing preventing you from just not using that crap though of course but at that point you know your own company limits than i would so god speed!

    Last thing you’d probably want to do is be forced into sitting in a class with Mr.MiddleManager / Mr.NepotismHire to go over why these AI products are actually good for you and they arent happy you circumvented that.


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    7 months ago

    Ah you are indeed correct. I’m probably thinking of classic paint, not notepad.

    Either way, i have the downloader for ye old notepad and paint tucked away on and off my machine for future sake when my company middle management decides they want to try to push the new AI tools down our throats for productivity again.



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    7 months ago

    For folks who cannot do this due to it being a work-controlled machine or otherwise, you can use notepad++. (Obviously id rather this be a tipping point to ditch all the junk at once, but sometimes that isnt feasible)

    That said, i find i still need a throwaway notepad for fast trashy notes. In that case ive just uninstalled the new notepad and re-downloaded the legacy notepad then re-aimed “notepad.exe” to the legacy one.

    There are a few guides out there, just search your standard “how to get legacy notepad”