[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago

Love how the Sun Times completely fails to explain why residential customers are bearing any of the cost.

[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The orange site is an easy target, but the lack of solidarity in the comments about the NYT Tech Guild strike fills me with dread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040795

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[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Did ABC get AI credits to air this? Are they going to use said AI to justify laying off staff? Then use that money to pay Oprah?

[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.

These are the same people who want to remove the humanities from education.

[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 23 points 5 months ago

And if you're not paying to chat with an LLM, you're paying some guy with utter contempt for you https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/

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Historian sneers at billionaire while HN trip over each other to lick boot.

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[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 15 points 8 months ago

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706

Critiquing an AI startup?

distasteful, almost unethical

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[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Because I feel like picking on him again: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/02/google-podcasts

The only Google services I use are YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, and Google Keep. Oh, and the Nest app.

It’s rather glorious living a nearly Google-free digital life.

[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 28 points 8 months ago

Ars' example gave me some hope User asking: "Can I evict a tenant for refusing to pay rent?" Chatbot responding: "No, you cannot evict a tenant for refusing to pay rent. Evicting a tenant for this reason is not allowed."

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After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?

Without having read the actual lawsuit yet

Says it all

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