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DashboTreeFrog

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DashboTreeFrog ,

After trying a search, opened Lemmy to see if it was my connection, immediately see this meme. Thanks for the troubleshooting confirmation Lemmy

DashboTreeFrog ,

I hate this but I also get it.

A little while ago on the TWIT podcast one of the guests, or maybe Leo himself, was talking about how this is exactly what they want out of AI, for it to be able to know how they use their computer and just streamline everything. Some people are really excited about the possibilities, and yeah, the AI needs to track whatever you're doing to know how to help you with your work flow.

That said, I don't want Microsoft keeping track of everything I'm doing. They've already shown that they're willing to sell our data and shove ads down our throats, so as much as they say we can filter out what we don't want tracked, I'm not inclined to trust or believe them.

DashboTreeFrog ,

Yeah, maybe some kind of situation where you turn it on for "training time" with access to only specified files and systems on the computer, no internet access, etc. At the same time though, I wonder how much an AI could really streamline things. Would it just pre-load my frequent files and programs? Make suggestions or reminders on tasks? I don't think we're anywhere near the level where it could actually be doing work for me yet.

Interesting possibilities, but I'm not sure how useful yet.

DashboTreeFrog ,

Crypto - Meh, I have digital banking and payment processing already, with easy enough international transfers. I'm good.

AI - I see the possibilities, I think we should continue to develop it even if just for the medical applications of machine learning. Right now people just like playing with it, but, privacy issues aside, I don't think it's a waste.

DashboTreeFrog ,

That's exactly how I think of it, so strange someone downvoted you

DashboTreeFrog ,

Somehow suddenly remembering that feeling of discovering the head of Team Rocket, that I'd been fighting all this time, was the final gym leader and having my little mind blown.

DashboTreeFrog ,

Just did this, growing seeds in light and dark, with some first graders. Blew their little minds.

Opening the box with the seeds that were in the dark for a week and seeing the sprouts all yellow, tall and grown towards a tiny little hole that no one noticed, the excitement was crazy.

DashboTreeFrog ,

Older siblings always gotta help out with the homework, the tradition lives on.

I was always on the big brother side of this. My favorite was when my younger brother suddenly remembered they had to build a model of an imaginary animal and write a report on it the night before the due date. We stayed up while I built a model out of paper with a K'Nex skeleton and we talked about the stuff that he could write about it.

I thought it was all really scuffed and rushed but somehow he got an A

DashboTreeFrog ,

IIRC, that was actually the plan. I remember Microsoft saying way back that 10 would be the last version of Windows and everything would be just upgrades to 10 moving forward.

DashboTreeFrog ,

You're having trouble managing all your usernames and passwords? Have you tried another app to manage all of them? /s (but also I do like my password manager)

DashboTreeFrog ,

Wanted to look up the account and see for myself and apparently he's parodying NFT bros. A bit disappointed...

On March 29th, 2024, following the post's virality, Twitter user @AdamBumas[6] was among many who reported that @vydamos' post was not sincere and that he was poking fun at other NFT holders who were expressing anger at the plummeting value of their apes at the time.

Who knew I'd find breaking news on Know Your Meme

DashboTreeFrog ,

After the case where courts ruled in favor of a person who got false information from a chat bot about bereavement fare for flight tickets, you now have a case for setting up a cannibalism business and suing when they try to stop you

DashboTreeFrog ,

This is an official government chat bot apparently.

From the article:

The announcement touted the ChatBot as a way for business owners to "save ... time and money by instantly providing them with actionable and trusted information from more than 2,000 NYC Business webpages and articles on topics such as compliance with codes and regulations, available business incentives, and best practices to avoid violations and fines."

DashboTreeFrog ,

Aunt went to a Catholic school, they made her switch. It's not just a middle ages thing

DashboTreeFrog ,

Porco Rosso

DashboTreeFrog ,

It literally became one of my favorite Ghibli movies for this very reason, I hadn't even heard about it before I watched it, but it's absolutely amazing

DashboTreeFrog ,

At this point it's an internet inside joke, and like any niche inside joke, there's a bit of a rush when you recognize it, that you're in on something special. In the beginning it was mostly just mocking the absurd sudden tone shift in the original Ctrl+Alt+Del comic but like a lot of memes it seems to have evolved and now the fun is creating and finding the loss pattern in unique and different ways.

I like it, it's fun

DashboTreeFrog ,

Honest question, not trying to start an argument or anything, but what is extreme left when we're talking about the current political landscape actually? Cause when I look at US politics I don't see anything close to what I'd consider extreme going on on the left side. Maybe individual people with no significant political power talking about overthrowing the whole capitalist system but yeah, they don't seem to have any actual political power.

DashboTreeFrog ,

So communism so hard it swings back around into fascism, yeah, I suppose that would be "far-left". This may be my own limited experience talking though but I don't think that's a popular world view? Especially not in the US from what I can tell. I know there's a lot of talk of "tankies" on Lemmy (still not 100% sure I understand what a tanky is), but I have yet to actually have a conversation with a legitimate one IRL or online. Far-right extremists on the other hand you can run into multiple times a day, so I know which side I have more concerns about.

DashboTreeFrog ,

This makes a lot of sense to me, the US has a good long history of being anti-communist so anything moving close to that has been villanized to the point that any kind of socialist idea faces push back and true leftist views go under-represented. It does feel like the overall movement in the US has been to the right though, but that could be my own recency bias.

DashboTreeFrog ,

The original anti-vax movement was always weird to me, the issue screams "muh freedums" so I always found it strange that it came from the left. I guess it goes into the same box as all the hippy dippy wellness stuff, which does have some things like meditation that turn out to have real benefits, but there are just some people who take to all that really strongly without evidence.

Anti-intellectualism I always considered a right leaning thing, like, you always hear republicans saying universities are tools of left-wing indoctrination and not the other way around? But I suppose hippies had that "don't trust the man" thing going on.

Are hippies how people's idea of the far left formed? My understanding is the whole hippy movement, while memorable, was quite short lived?

DashboTreeFrog ,

I might be wrong but I always associated hippies with left-leaning, liberal politics. And I'm not sure where the association between the left and the anti-vax movement came from but I know it was a thing that was frequently made fun of. I even remember catching a Simpson's episode where they went somewhere and commented on how progressive/liberal it was (forget the specific word), then Marge asked a random woman if she vaccinated her kids and she responded "of course" then Marge said "and not TOO liberal".

Now that I think about it, maybe the political association of the original anti-vax movement was manufactured?

DashboTreeFrog ,

I feel like we're all already moved on from this discussion, but I JUST came across mention of the original anti-vax movement and hippies on "Some More News" (aka Cody's Showdy), felt it was interesting to run into a day after this discussion: https://youtu.be/nrsysN_LBoo?si=rqEEZCGLQ8wH2GNV&t=2781 (comes up at 46:21 in case the time stamp doesn't work).

DashboTreeFrog ,

Oh wow! and they're still having annual meetings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Family

DashboTreeFrog ,

Having lived in two of those three countries, a lot of the internet is randomly censored. Browsing in Malaysia I'd sometimes get some kind of government page popping up with no idea why the site I was trying to visit was blocked (blocked porn sites are a given in both Malaysia and Indonesia but honestly, just random sites kept showing up blocked). Indonesia blocked tumblr for a good long while, and I'm pretty sure Reddit still is. Plus in Indonesia, I really don't trust ISPs to keep my data safe, intrusive ads are everywhere to the point I've blocked SMSs from any number I don't know because the moment I got an Indonesian SIM my phone started blowing up with ads.

DashboTreeFrog ,

I randomly start singing swear words, but I've learned to do it quietly

DashboTreeFrog ,

Somehow I think Podcasts will survive enshittification. The basis is just RSS and file hosting, so at its core, it's possible to create and distribute podcasts without huge capital investment. There's always gonna be some people trying to get their voices out and Podcasts still seems to be the easiest way to do that so until some better method comes out, podcasts will live on.

If you're talking about Podcast networks, streaming services, ad networks, then yeah, those might face some kind of enshittification and destruction, but no matter what, I'm pretty confident some good podcasts, and some good ways to listen to them, will stick around.

DashboTreeFrog ,

Truth. I was genuinely angry seeing how Spotify kept trying to buy up everything podcast related. Felt like I was screaming into the void about how platform exclusive podcasts are antithetical to the free and open nature of podcasts. I hope their billions of dollars invested into podcasts continue to bite them in the butts.

DashboTreeFrog ,

Makes me think of how every MTG headline the past few years had me wondering what Wizards of the Coast messed up this time.

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