I won’t be sideloading anything onto my device that I can’t build myself from opensource and understand what it’s doing.

The risk is too damn high otherwise.

You know, he’s something of a songbird himself

She’s very very safe here in Seattle, I can tell you that.

I’m convinced that it’s been trained on top of the essays of middle and high school students that have gone their whole lives without proper education on vocabulary, grammar, and the like. So when asked to evaluate something written properly, it’s flagged as AI.

Garbage in, garbage out. Same as is ever was.

Most contracts are through contract companies, who then employs (ala W2) the workers.

I could see all tech workers that work for these companies forming a union—that could make a real, honest change in the tech workforce overall.

@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world … I think

Well, yeah, it’s Amazon

There was an art to folding the paper in half again lengthways to read it without bothering the person next to you on the subway or bus—yet another skill I’ll never need again.

Proper surround sound with subwoofer required, to be sure

Bring back big Usenet!

The US east coast period—gets just as humid up there, just not quite as blast furnace hot all the damn time. Just sometimes.