Closest continuer doesn’t really apply if the agent wasn’t sentient in the first place

Who’d have thought not having explosions going off inside the car constantly would cause less wear and tear

Lemmy is going to be exactly the same, super easy to scrape as it’s all standardised and open

What is the thing being shared here?

I think educating people on the dangers of social media is akin to educating crack addicts on why crack is bad for them

The vast majority are already addicted and already know the dangers

I stayed away from social media till around 18 because everyone told me how harmful it was, all that did was socially exclude me, and delay the addiction til later in life

Do people store their money in these things? I use Google pay quite often, but it draws the money from the bank at the time of payment

This sounds like the account of someone that hasn’t actually used the technology recently and/or given it a fair shot

I’ve not had any misunderstandings by Google assistant or Alexa in ages, and LLM produced code works great for me now provided you’re explicit enough in the way you instruct it (meaning you still need to understand what you want it to do)

Image generation is great for if you want a quick illustration, inspiration or a meme, not much practical benefit besides that imo

It’s been a thing but it’s not been a thing it’s been many little bits that nobody’s pulled together and marketed properly yet

No idea if this is the product to do thay but eventually someone’s gonna do it

“when we try to use a tape measure to hammer in nails it doesn’t really work, so tape measures are useless”

Fact of the matter is that it will become the norm m because cheap > quality in our system

What is the actual evidence trump wants to end democracy? I’ve only seen an out of context clip so far

Makes it work universally, even if the gui isn’t made with a standard toolkit

Also it’s ai they don’t care about efficiency

I mean personally if I need a heavy duty calculator I’ll just use python or something

Gnome calculator uses 103m, it’s loading style sheets for themes, UI libraries that make it look nice and modern, scientific calculator features, keyboard shortcuts, nice graphical settings menu, touch screen and screen reader support etc

I don’t think in this day and age for all the niceties people are used to that’s unreasonable.

Also other calculators are available, some are bloated but I’m sure there’s a rust or C one out there somewhere that uses a fraction of that with the bare minimum feature set

I’m not saying it’s phenomenal but it’s generally pretty well featured, running in a browser it’s not that heavy resource wise and the API/developer features are very good

I don’t think old=good is a good mentality though, lot of people seem to have it

All the old software I know and use is exceptionally good, however I’ve heard about and chosen to use it because it’s survived the test of time (also because it’s still actively maintained and has had thousands of bug fixes over the years)

Vscode and obsidian are pretty good and they’re electron, discord’s alright, pretty sure steam uses some kind of web wrapper as well.

Real issue is electron is very accessible to inexperienced developers and easy to do badly, but I imagine people back in the old Unix days got an equal amount of shit bloated software

Just because you can take a hammer to it doesn’t mean that’s the best solution

In the right situation I imagine it could be a useful tool, much more subtle than just smashing the thing, less time consuming than taking it apart

Not that I know of, I meant it could be put in a pressurised spray bottle, for example a deodorant can

If it’s bolted to a wall and unattended neither of those things are an option

You don’t necessarily need to put it into the air supply, could just bathe the specific device you want disabled in helium from a deodorant can or something