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If your boss cares more about where you are doing your work, than if your work is getting completed, you need a new boss.

Sure, in principle. Getting a new boss though… do you have any extra lobs laying around?

I work in IT

Aaaand here we go, of course you thought finding a new job was a viable alternative.

To begin with, all of the things you listed are bad and we complain about them just as much. It’s never a good argument when people complain about some bad thing and your reasoning is “but what about this other bad thing?”.

Secondly, this particular update is not about general location tracking, which Microsoft already does quite a lot of, but also being a narc and telling your boss about it, which adds a whole new layer of reasons to complain.

And to finish off… Yes, Windows in the workplace is your enemy. So is Windows at home. Or in an ATM, supermarket cashier, airport totem, or any other computing device.

Before a relatively recent fix, Linux would mount and expose the folders that contain critical firmware data on your motherboard, meaning you could brick several models of motherboard by deleting or messing with those files.

Lemmy becomes completely irrational whenever the words “male loneliness epidemic” appear, once you read that around here (and it shows up in the OP) you can skip the comments as nothing good will come out of the thread.

To get formal education, you need money

Brazil’s top universities, the ones everybody wants to join, publish research and look good on your resume, are the public universities. They’re entirely free, and if you can prove you don’t have sufficient income, most will also provide somewhere to live (shared, but still) and free meals.

In other words, high quality education doesn’t need to depend on your income. Protest against that, vote against that.

I want to understand why the hell CTR is not on Steam already. The trilogy remake is on PC, Crash 4 is on PC, and CTR was even ported to the Switch - so clearly they have no trouble porting the game to weird architectures. GIVE ME CTR ON PC.

Who else will use technology? Trees? Swordfish? A ladybug?

Tech doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If there are human limitations or biases that make a specific technology dangerous, we should most definitely rethink how we use it and how accessible and regulated it should be.

Oh no, now you have multiple issues with your nervous system!

The comment you’re replying to didn’t mention one specific book. You did to try and portray this as some noble cause, but even books such as Fahrenheit 451 and To Kill a Mockingbird have been banned by conservatives, and they most definitely aren’t about “sucking cum out of anuses” as you so dumbly put it.

Nice attempt, but this type of dodging around never worked and will never work.

There is a 4gb version and a 2.3TB version.

That’s quite the range

That’s the thing: 1500 job listings does not mean 1500 jobs exist.

Half are companies that realized posting fake listings works as free marketing on LinkedIn. It’s a real strategy: people start subscribing to their newsletter because LinkedIn offers that by default when you apply, and when somebody looks the company up, it creates the illusion they’re booming and expanding.

Then of the remaining half, a half of that are fake listings that are actually AI companies that get you to record five minutes of audio and take a picture during your “application” and under the fine print you’re allowing them to use your voice and resell it. Not joking.

Then you do have the remainder which are the real jobs. Of that remainder, more than half will be evaluated by an AI which may or may not take your skills into consideration, understand the formatting of your resume or even fully appreciate what the position entails.

Welcome to 2025, don’t you love it? You need to answer that you love it by the way because we are monitoring your social media accounts and we have three cameras in your street and we don’t like answers that bring the spirit down.

Are you actually serious.

Very serious, doctors surgically removed my ability to be silly. But on a different note, if you think every search engine ever gives worse results than ChatGPT, I’m afraid the heavy LLM usage already rotted parts of your brain. I’m sorry for the bad news.

Why the fuck are you defending google so hard lmao.

Ah yes, when I said “use a different search engine” as a solution to Google having issues I’m certainly defending Google! What an endorsement right? “Use a completely different service” is free publicity for Google!

Then the libraries would have to pay for hosting, so they’d have to be the ones selling user data to advertisers and stuff. Hence the extra degree of separation / “plausible deniability”

What? Libraries don’t sell data to advertisers to acquire, maintain and lend books. Why would they do that to provide ebooks? You unitedstatians got used to this bizarre mix of private corporations and public services and ended up accepting the premise that it’s somehow mandatory.

In part, this is what Microsoft Recall is about: scraping end users’ data at will to sort and feed to its LLMs

That’s also what Google has always done. Want a large data set of emails? Look at our new free service, Gmail! Need a lot of images to train machine learning vision models? Check out our newest free backup tool, Google Photos! and so on. When they want one particular data type, they launch a free service that just so happens to collect this exact data type from millions of users.

Weird that third party apps, made by corporate entities, are needed for this. They’re public libraries funded with public money, it should be one unified backend with libre applications.

Books made before 2019. Amazon is absolutely filled with AI generated books nowadays.

In fact, this whole “consume media only from 2010 and earlier” idea is getting more appealing by the day. I’d rather watch an anime from the 80’s where each frame was drawn by a human hand and somebody spent a week encoding it to extract all the details from the original analogue source, and the subtitles were made by a person who considered each nuance carefully as if their life depended on it, rather than watch a 2025 sequel to a prequel to a reboot of an existing IP where half the assets are AI, the subtitles are AI, the script is AI, and it’s just the most generic mass appealing thing ever made.

To get a decent result on Google, you have to wade through 2 pages of ads, 4 pages of sponsored content, and maybe the first good result is on page 10.

Block ads and use a different search engine?

ChatGPT does a good job at filtering most of the bullshit.

You repeated that twice, but it’s demonstrably false. It does not. It feeds you completely wrong information randomly.

I know enough to not just accept any shit from the internet at face value.

If you’re going to fact check ChatGPT anyway, you’re wasting more time than just doing the research yourself with good tools. But this is a false equivalency, because by doing the research yourself you start to learn good sources and exercise information synthesis, by using ChatGPT and fact checking it you’re helping Sam Altman get richer.

It’s also much better at looking up stuff than Google.

Or maybe it’s just as bad but extremely confident, so you accept the wrong results. ChatGPT is just looking at Reddit and Google search results through an additional layer of language processing, it can’t possibly be better than either. Every day AI bros tell us “no seriously now they fixed search!” and I do the exact same benchmark of 10 easy questions that you can first an answer to within the first five results of a traditional search, and they fail on 6 out of 10.

They’re too rotund