“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
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Who cares anymore though? Microsoft burned all their bridges to places where the kinds of people who get excited about this kind of thing hang out. There is no button they can press to unburn those bridges and no gurantee, indeed little likelihood they can rebuild them when better bridges have been built to better places in the meantime.
Windows phone was great, what killed it was Microsoft’s clueless management.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Start with the sensors, then design the rest: How Zoox built its robotaxi
2·16 days agoThey could have at least have done a compromise where the company is Zoox and the vehicle is the anthellae, The Zoox Anthellae sounds kinda cool to me.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Start with the sensors, then design the rest: How Zoox built its robotaxi
5·16 days agoAesthetically maybe, but that is a hollow fleeting sensation that is immediately suffocated by the fact that cars ruin cities no matter how “smart” they are.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Start with the sensors, then design the rest: How Zoox built its robotaxi
91·16 days agoyawn self driving cars are so boring, all they do is allow taxi companies to fire their drivers and treat their employees worse, how is this exciting? How is it futuristic? How does it improve and evolve cities?
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Android@lemdro.id•Manufacturers want you to say goodbye to small phones once and for allEnglish
12·22 days agoOk, I won’t buy a new phone then :)
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Technology@beehaw.org•Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Tighten Rate Limits
62·23 days agoAI is so dumb but at least we have Ed Zitron.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours
61·26 days agoI propose a solution. Invest in unmanned surface vehicles to carry duplicates of mail and require every piece of mail sent to sailors to have a duplicate of which randomly is selected the actual copy of mail to send to the real navy ship. Collect duplicates of the mail and send it on unmanned surface vehicles to sail around and pretend to be navy ships while gathering surveillance data.
Then even if someone thinks they have planted a tracker on a ship successfully they will still be second guessing themselves over whether they are tracking the real ship or not.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash
11·1 month agoIt makes me feel like when people insist it would take an astronomical amount of effort to move their community off of discord.
I know it will but you are worse than wasting your time putting that decision off because it will limit your community in ways you cannot even perceive yet.
Stop wasting everyone’s time, don’t build houses on top of destabilized sinking mud and expect people to move in, and if they do now you have a MUCH bigger problem on your hands than the challenge of building a new building since you have to convince people the old building which looks fine is not safe.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash
432·1 month agoI would say that poor foundational choices are also the enemy of progress too.
A sleepy look from a kitty is a loving look.
Eyes wide open? Be aware the automated security system has activated on the leaping quadslasher.
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Technology@beehaw.org•We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI
26·2 months agoHEY HEY that is different ok!
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Technology@beehaw.org•We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI
81·2 months agoThis is why I love hearing large businesses complain about all the fake low effort job applications they get with AI as if this wasn’t the inevitable end state of fakeness and inauthentic corporate language they have been pushing for decades.
That is one cat-that-will-lick-itself [food] converter you probably don’t want to grab out of nowhere and try to steal.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Mattermost is no longer Open-SourceEnglish
773·3 months agoIt isn’t really Open Source if it can become not Open Source.






Can we stop repeating Anthropic’s fear mongering about AI? They are just trying to prop up their stock price and keep the bubble from popping a little longer.