Datacenter popping up everywhere, sucking energy and water like entire cities, economy crashing…

We are literally watching dystopia being built around us. Its an interesting experience to watch.

Im happy I got to experience the 80s. That was peak humanity. Lots of cool movies and music and before big tech ruined humanity. People could date and create a family, buy a house.

Yeah true.

Yes but I bet the young developers at Microslop have never used notepad or wordpad or even windows 95, so they think the best apps are made in electron with JavaScript, or in dotnet.

Have they made notepad a webapp yet? Lol.

Im on Linux and it requires just as much memory as it did in 2018. No problem here.

I think its too late. An entire generation had their brains fried. But yeah, better late than never.

Also the brain can actually recover. But it takes a lot of work.

For me, just reading a book is difficult now. The mind is not used to that kind of focus. My eyes go down the page, and then I realize ive been thinking of something else, and have to start over. This happens over and over again. But with practice, it gets easier.

They would be banned in a world where human happiness was the priority, but we live in a world where profits is the priority. I think in 50 years, there are two scenarios. Either humanity has learned to value happiness over profits, or we live in actual dystopia, with robots patrolling against “rebels”, implants, surveillance, Ai… Entire package from sci-fi.

Loved that guy! Need to rewatch xfiles…

I actually did rewatch it all a few years ago. Its quite good, but I see now as a older guy that David Duchovny actually wasnt very good playing Moulder. Didnt notice it as a kid but yeah, he is just reading lines with the same facial expression all the time. If you havent noticed, try rewatching with that in mind… :)

Gillian Anderson is amazing though, really good actress and she was paid much less than Moulder, despite being able to actually act properly.

Ive used it for 30 years… :)

Ubisoft, they are still alive. Wow. Well not much longer we can hope.

What ive read, and what is accurate according to my experience, is that its very fast for creating smaller pieces of code, like scripts, foundations, docs etc. So with a small context, its great.

As soon as you start to ask it to add features to a larger code base, it will mess things up and add code that is not necessary, and add extra complexity. And it will now be slower to use Ai than before, because now you are spending time iterating and correcting, and you may not even get a working solution at all.

Thats my experience with Ai.

I think it does speed things up, since it can generate syntax quickly, but its not very good code and leads to a big mess. Eventually you want to rewrite from scratch yourself.

But I think it helps for sure. The alternative to find all syntax yourself and write it correctly is very time cons unik, although you also gain a much better understanding by doing that.

No, gpt is much better. I dont know how it works behind the scenes but I think Copilot is what Microsoft built and gpt is what open ai built.

I still think it will, if a good president is selected. But can the US select a good president? That is more doubtful to me actually. I havent seen anyone good since Obama. And even him was disliked by some.

That sounds hopeful. :) Even if its just like any browser on Linux, fun to try it for a while.

Are you talking about Microsoft?

You say “we violated”, but its literally one person called Trump.

I think once he is out of office, the western world can work together again. Its just so much to gain from that. The mentality of Trump is from Russia or North Korea.

All his decisions can be reversed by the next president.

When chrome came out, it was pretty much that. Super fast, very bare bones. But people loved it because of the speed and the simplicity.

Im curious how Orion will turn out. There is supposed to be an alpha for Linux coming out now this February.

My girlfriend is forced to use only Copilot at her work, and its just completely useless. She frequently posts me failed tasks it couldnt do. :).

Seems to be the worst Ai by far.

I didnt get a paywall myself actually. Mobile Firefox with ublock origin.

The plasma one? You can change it, I guess you know maybe. Its in settings. :)