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Submission + - Popular Tech Site Caves to AI $, Starts Serving AI Popups (slashdot.org) 2

An anonymous reader writes: Popular but greying tech site Slashdot succumbs to commercial pressure, allowing AI-serving popups "Create AI Apps with Mongo DB!"

Long held to be a bastion of 'old tech' linux advocates and crusty DOS command-line devotees, they were widely representative of the cutting edge of the golden age of desktops and still regarded highly for their knowledge of kernel lore and deep protocols fundamental to modern computing. Fading in relevance since its heyday of the 1990s and 2000s, conventional wisdom would still have suggested this should have been the last bastion to fall to the idea of letting LLMs "do the coding for you", but Slashdot admins, alert for commercial opportunities (on a site that remains relatively ad free), clearly have a different opinion. "Our users need to understand what an opportunity this was for us" they are imagined to have said, "there's a TON of cash sloshing around the gigantic shamconomy of OpenAI, NVidia, and ChatGPT — why can't some of it splash our way? As they say: 'carpe pecuniam'!."

Comment Feminization is the issue (Score 1, Informative) 70

Most HR personnel are women, and some might assert this is the problem, they are the vanguard of the overwhelming feminization of workplaces.

https://www.compactmag.com/art...

"...Everything you think of as âoewokenessâ is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.

The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. ..."

She presented it a little more compactly (not a great public speaker, ngl) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:It didn't fail music (Score 1) 83

Spotify is a broadcaster. You think broadcaster = radio, but the medium doesn't matter.

And broadcasting is distribution today. And that's control. No different than AM radio, them FM radio. Today you have millions of potential channels, not the two dozen or so the radio gave you.

You want to listen to more than one artist? You have to find them. Broadcasting shows them to you. And if decides what to deliver. If does so by choosing from the perpetual flood of content presented to it.

And artists never got paid well by broadcasting. And, truly, none but the very very popular artists ever do very well. The market dilutes revenue so thoroughly it's pennies for the masses.

Fair? Ha. Life isn't fair.

Comment Re: It's in the effort. (Score 1) 88

Even if it worked, you're thinking the pilot could, in 5 seconds at best, decide between attempting to climb out, finding a less lethal course to suffer the crash with minimized ground casualties, or immediately dive into the nearest obstacle to contain the damage in some way.

Nope. The flight crew may have even trusted the #3 engine failure was not real, but instrumentation failure. The roll would prove them wrong, but too late to change anything. They were already in uncontrolled flight. No recovery.

This isn't like US1549 , where they had double-digit seconds to evaluate the failures. And even then they 27 seconds to decide they could not return to any airport. This accident did not seem to last 27 seconds in total.

If this is caused by engine disassembly, we can expect inspections and both corrective and preventative actions to be mandated. What else could they do?

Comment Re: All I can say is duh! (Score 0) 82

My, we are an aggressively stupid dipshit today.

The only thing that meaningfully matters to a cargo ship is size.
Vessels are already slow sailing to artificially constrain bandwidth and prop up rates, and have been since COVID.

Nobody on earth is trying to build FASTER cargo ships, and haven't for 50 years. Jesus Christ. If only slashdot had a "doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about" filter.

Comment Re:!free, good riddance (Score 2, Informative) 92

Sorry but from an outside perspective that just sounds nuts. So let's take your 'worst case' - $129M overall cost making it $434 per entry - you're saying there are only 297,235 (129M / 434) tax payers in the US? A quick search from me shows the number of filings to be at 145M+. If everyone could file for free, that $129M would be 88c per person.

And I'm speaking from experience. I'm in the UK. I've recently filed my annual self-assessment tax. I used the free service on the UK government web site and the thing that took the longest was working out how much to put as charity donation. Whole thing done in less than an hour and a half.

I seriously cannot comprehend the approach where you have to pay to be able to pay someone. It's...well...it's nuts.

Comment Re:Corporations have no social responsibility. (Score 1) 92

I genuinely don't understand why slashdots downvote mafia attacked my former post as troll. Unless I miss my guess I have a fair couple of stalkers that just downvote every post I make, and then pepper my comments with bottish AC replies about Trump and No Kings. :|

Anyway, to your point, if you haven't seen it, I offer for your amusement something relative to your comment from the great Trevor Moore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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