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Like for over 50 years American right wingers have been fuming about the liberals having managed to turn one of "their" guys into an American icon and the conservatives have mostly had to at least pretend to respect him and his legacy in public and they've felt humiliated and emasculated about it the whole time

Now they want to make the liberals bend the knee and force them to slobber over one of their guys or risking getting fired

Love installing multiple gigabyte flatpaks of what would be 15mb exe files on Windows. I've enjoyed using Mint so far but there are definitely some things that suck, this is one of them

The early 2010s want their twee geek culture bullshit back. Also, who the fuck has ever gone to Reddit for empathy

BECOME A REDDITOR

Anybody else encounter these yet? Another way in which Google searches are becoming shittier

At first I was surprised when I started seeing posts in Finnish about the very specific computer issues I was looking up, then quickly realised it was another instance of Google shoving auto-translated garbage in your face based on your IP address.

Clicking on the posts will just show the original posts in English, presumably because I have an extension that auto-redirects to old.reddit. It still makes looking shit up more annoying and I hate having to parse the original meaning through the informal casual Finnish writing style the AI often goes for to determine if the result is even worth clicking on. Also sometimes the translated and original posts show up as separate results in the same search

I love how Google has decided that people from X country should only ever be served content in whatever language is dominant in said country. They already pull this shit with Youtube where the fucking auto-dubbing can be really annoying to turn off, especially on mobile. One time I wanted to watch a short with a Japanese pet crow speaking Japanese, except it was autodubbed.

I wanted to hear the cute crow say ohayou, not some emotionless robot going

Everybody's going bro this and bruh that, but you're not my brother, dude 😒

It's not like either word is new but I feel like "bro" and variations like bruh or brah have become way more commonly used in the last decade among younger people as a term of address in contexts where I would have just said dude

But they conveniently leave out that it costs money to do anything with AI. It's more like "open to anyone with a credit card." The vast majority of people don't have computers powerful enough to run generative AI models locally, and even then, server farms with a billion GPUs will always produce better results

This means that people have to rely on corporate platforms where you buy tokens that you use to get pulls at the various AI slop slot machines, hoping you get something decent. The mechanics more closely resemble a gacha game than any kind of artistic process

By contrast, learning how to draw, animate or make 3D models costs nothing. There's free tutorials and tools everywhere, and you can also just pirate commercial ones if you want

You're a fucking VOIP program*, why the fuck do you have "quests"

Also: "Journey to Quest home"

You mean click on the icon???? FUCK OFF

That's the exact opposite of what the rule is saying! Imagine some poor soul trusting these stupid robots for something of actual consequence

I assume what's happening here is that these LLMs have been hard-coded with a baseline of generic humanist values and to always remain positive and avoid saying anything that could be construed as offensive or harmful, which leads to shit like this where they're simply unable to explain the Rules of Acquisition correctly because the Ferengi were written to be comically greedy assholes who put profit above all else

The alternative is them declaring themselves MechaHitler, but in both cases the outcome is results that are completely useless and/or actively harmful

What a useless fucking technology. Also, as a fun bonus, I've installed several different Firefox addons that try to get rid of the AI Overview box in Google's search results but it keeps coming back because Google wants everyone to see this shit

I did not expect to run into Bored Ape t-shirts in a Finnish dollar store in the year 2025

Thank you Mr. Altman, spending five minutes to check the reviews on whatever doodad I was considering to buy was way too much effort

Why would I want to read the actual reviews posted by the actual humans who actually bought and used the thing over an incredibly generic one paragraph summary that always skews positive

Just move to Lemmy

The techbro asswipes that run Duolingo have been making a lot of noise about AI lately, boasting about how much they're going to use it while firing all of the actual human beings who used to make their lessons

Their newest AI feature is a new lesson type called Video Calls where you chat with an AI bot in your target language. The bot asks you questions about basic topics and then does follow-up questions based on your answers while reacting and commenting on the stuff you say. It manages to kind of emulate the awkwardness of conversation practice in an actual language class with some rando you don't know too well

I've only done a few of these because it feels really weird and creepy talking to a cartoon character on your phone that's actually just a mask for an electricity-wasting corpo machine. Anyway, the AI just randomly brought up my pet that I mentioned a few weeks ago the last time I did one of these lessons. So yes, the Duolingo chatbot retains any information you disclose to it. Cool

The kicker is that this shit is gated behind the Duolingo Max paywall which costs 170 bucks a year, or 13 bucks a month (I run a modded apk with unlocked paid features, I'm not paying a cent for a fucking app)

Edit: I actually wouldn't be opposed to paying for an app, it's the subscription model I'm vehemently opposed to. I will never rent an app or program