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We have lost our way

Wow nuance much?

Yes, China has problems with authoritarianism, and curtailing free speech and such.

But, there’s a lot of good happening there too.

It’s not black and white.

USA v. China is not Gondor v. Mordor.

Have you been to China?

If not, you should 100% go and check it out for yourself!

Lol the real ones have long been on 小红书

Libertarianism for me, dystopian serfdom for thee.

Thanks, Peter Thiel.

The party that wanted to “destroy the deep state” became the deep state overnight. Imagine that.

Privacy advocacy is necessary to protect people from tyranny, regardless which end of the political spectrum it happens to come from; and regardless whether the oppressor is a state actor, a private corporate actor, or some blend.

I’m not a privacy expert.

And I know that, sadly, they probably have a lot more data on me than I’d like. Even though I don’t have traditional social media anymore, and I use VPNs to access Lemmy, that’s just normie precaution stuff. Anyway I do have a Google, Apple, accounts and the like.

My question is this: what do you / y’all think about the prospect of “poisoning the well”?

Meaning: you set up multiple traditional social media accounts, generate fake profile photos for them, give them the same real name as you and part of the country as you live in, and have AI chatbots fill ‘em up with generated posts matching a particular “personality profile”?

Would that be an effective countermeasure against this sort of data collection? Increase the noise-to-signal ratio?

Just thinking out loud here.

The company I work for is using software sold by palantir.

The software itself is benign, and quite clever and useful, but regardless it feels like we’ve made a deal with the devil to me.

Fair. I am old though.

I had an Intellivision as a kid, and my neighbors all had Atari 2600s, if that tells you anything.

COD WWII is my favorite multiplayer ever.

It’s easy to hop on to. The scoreboard is legible and relatively simple. The players in the lobbies have always been a little bit on the older side compared to other Call of Duty games, and they’re just there to have fun. When they use their mics, they’re riffing and teasing without taking it too seriously, or getting too nasty.

The lobbies are far less crowded nowadays, but they’re still active.

I don’t want to play any other multiplayer game anymore. This is the one. I’m locked in.

Yes I’m old.

There are also external AI tools that do this just fine.

But imagine these tools generating summaries of summaries.

No, which is why many of us opposed the Patriot Act during the Bush era.

The question “what about a future administration that could abuse this level of access” wasn’t just a rhetorical one, it was prescient and timely.

The party of small government at it again.

Well, you certainly can complain about it and still use it, when your livelihood requires you to either use the tech, or get left behind by those who do. Speed and turnaround time wins over skill and quality.

Healthcare is, sadly, tied to employment here in the US. That’s why the distinction between “full-time” and “part-time.”

I cannot go part time for that reason (even if it were an option in our industry to begin with).

I’d much rather be able to scale up and down my work hours, as needed (given life circumstances, current money needs, energy levels, etc.). But that’s a pipe dream.

I want to do this, too, but computers is how I earn money.

I’ve tried this on personal projects, but not work projects.

My verdict:

1. To be a good vibe coder, one must first be a good coder.

2. Vibe coding is faster to draft up and POC, longer to debug and polish. Not as much time savings as one might think.

This guy is fun at parties.

What’s the best Spotify alternative?

Exactly!