wow, these windows 11 for developers improvements seem…rudimentary? like…ending a task from the taskbar? moving the taskbar to the left or right of the screen? just basic things that have been possible on mac and linux for decades. somehow they made it into the keynote as brags
RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116683323647097828
something something microsoft
keeping up with all their fuckups is exhausting
at some point people will learn to stop trusting microsoft
it'll be the same day executives are held accountable for selecting microsoft in the first place
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.
#AIEthics #WeDontNeedNoAIEthics #WeAintGotNoStinkeenAIEthics
alice's second law of keyboards:
many problems in keyboards can be created by designing new keyboards
alice's law of keyboards: every problem in keyboards can be solved by designing a new keyboard
too bad for the people who spent the last few months developing ai workflows that are now completely unworkable with no alternatives
coulda just listened to the moral and ethical arguments against though
or if that doesn't work the people who looked at the underlying economics and accurately predicted massive price hikes
or the fact that you're willingly deskilling yourself by buying in
or the fact that it just doesn't work very well at all
not too much sympathy here actually
It's got a bunch more flags but I could only fit 4 in the initial post. Here's a few more.
Just a note to everyone - Pride Month is no excuse to use generative AI to make "happy PRIDE" posts, merch, or any image or text related to it.
Generative AI is funded by facists who hate LGBTQAI+ and who fund laws against us. It is the tool of the enemy we all should resist together - not generate useless slop that muddies the message with AI vomit.
Using it shows no care, no love, and no solidarity.
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