It happened to me and I refused in an internal email with a lot of people in CC (the CEO was included). I politely explained why it was very illegal and why I wouldn’t do it. They stopped asking me because “they knew that I knew that they knew.”

If it’s the same kind of company, you would say yes, the client would discover the lie, and your company would fire you in less than a few minutes. You usually don’t last long in that kind of environment.

AI will replace human beings by generating shitty JS games and solving leetcode problems. But still no concrete example on a real codebase that is not written in JS.

Why are they spending billions on this?

As a new convert to GrapheneOS, I can testify that it has everything you need: Aurora for privacy (Google store proxy), the real Play store if you want, Android Auto, and a lot of privacy features enabled by default. It’s restricted to the Pixels though which is the only issue.

Every month. It’s hallucinating APIs and language features.

If you’re a coder, you’ll absolutely love it

Please show me some example of C++ refactoring on a real application, not yet another ReactJS template.

They have done that for years, and every time there is an army of geeks and gamers who look for registry hacks or PowerShell scripts to install Windows anyway. If even those geeks do not want to spend 5 minutes looking for doc on how to install Ubuntu (which is a billion times easier to use than Windows), you can be sure Windows will never die.

That and AI companies not giving a fuck about copyright. I don’t understand those articles.

Browsers with a GUI was a mistake. We should have stayed with CLI tools: telnet, ftp, and Lynx if you really want to read a web site.

Ironic since the decrease of human made work (art or software) will decrease the quality or diversity of generative AI itself

Art is about expressing one emotion from one person to another.

We have a word for fake pictures: advertising.

Moderators are outraged but will forget that in a few days and won’t leave reddit anyway.

As a new user of GrapheneOS, I have yet to see the difference with regular Android except that it’s way more secure.

Apple is free to sell phones where walled gardens are allowed. You’re also free to stay in the walled garden, Apple lied to you.

Protect Israel? Never heard of that anywhere, it seems ridiculous. Also no one is encouraged to do business with anyone. It’s a personal spiritual thing, not a club (at least in liberal lodges).

Spam is not real. Welcome to the internet.

Teslas did this in the past. There was also the issue of thinking that the moon was a red light or something.

Unlike the Rabbit R1 or the Humane AI Pin

And they describe the exact same crap.

Asking the machine to think for you makes you stupid. Incredible.

And no, you can’t compare that to a calculator or any other program. A calculator will not do the whole reasoning for you.

They activated Gemini at work to auto-complete stuff in emails. I work in IT, and I was not aware of that. I was typing the sentence “we will need some help” and was about to add “in the project blah blah” but Gemini came with its amazing auto-completion and added something like “in the street where they sell sausages”.

AI was a mistake, and I didn’t use it since that day. Waste of time, waste of everything.

I only have used privacy-invasive solutions, and I don’t know if there exists an easy way to do that securely.

Discord, Signal, Telegram: forget it, it’s good to send a grocery list to my wife, but that’s it.

Teams: I hate it, it’s resource hungry and I always had issues with it.

I use Google Meet nowadays at my new job and it’s fine. Everything is on the web, no need to install anything. Of course it’s Google and it’s bad, but so far I don’t mind.

I’ve heard about https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ once but I have never tried that.