Yup, it's incredibly worrying what I'm seeing.

A lot of people can use AI responsibly. I see it in my work, as a software engineer - other engineers use various models, including Claude, as an intern, essentially. Nobody trusts a single model, we have tons of checks in place, both AI and manual tooling, mistakes are spotted early on, and I'd argue that our code quality has improved (or at the very least we have reduced the code style variations and have managed to quickly tackle a lot of legacy code conversion to newer standards, e.g. whole ass flows converted from RxKotlin to Coroutines within a few days).

On the other hand... I see even more people rely COMPLETELY on AI. I've seen people my age, 90s kids now grown up, who've come to a level of executive dysfunction that rivals my own ADHD-aided version... Some of them literally can't decide what to have for dinner without burning tokens. Some are jamming their entire medical history into services that explicitly state they will sell any and all personal data going in. I've seen people get fucking fired because they've kept asking their personal, unpaid ChatGPT/Gemini work-related questions and when the AI asked for it, they uploaded confidential documents without a single fucking afterthought.

All because they were sold by the fancy autocomplete salesmen that AI will solve all their issues, including pleasuring their wives and fixing their erectile dysfunction. And no matter how many times I tell them to not just trust whatever the model spits out, to think at least a little bit critically, to start understanding that these models are not a fucking search engine... "okay sure", then ten minutes later I get a lecture about how Claude/Gemini/Cluster McFuckstick or whatever shite they use that offers "free AI", is completely sure that I am wrong and thus they will keep using it as-is...

That's been happening for well over a decade now, and while "respectable security researchers" call it bullshit... there's simply too much anecdotal evidence for it to happen organically.

Shitty, old processors? In which way?

Zen 4 is literally just a single generation behind current latest gen architecture. And you're way off on the pricing too - Zen5 APUs are essentially the AI 300/400 lineup, of which the higher end models still cost well over what Valve would find affordable. Meanwhile the GPU Valve chose to be integrated into the SM is 30-40% more performant than the 890M bundled with the Ryzen AI 370 (the only affordable kinda-high-end Zen5 APU).

So no, it's neither old nor shitty.

Shoulda shorted it instead

How long do y'all think it will take yanks to start talking about how in X part of the US it's much hotter and us "pansy Europeans" should just "learn to deal with it"?

A spenny one!

I've got an idea!

I will start a holiday fund. Whenever y'all want a new PM, just donate enough so I can head off for a week or two. With a country of 60 million people... If just half of you want a new PM, a single one penny donation will make it happen.

Fookin hell mate, I leave for a few days and all hell gets loose?

Let's hope the next PM is less of an undercooked potato than Starmer was.

Eh, Starmer did get some stuff done.

The Renter's Rights bill as well as the leasehold system reform in itself is a major achievement.

Workers rights also saw some improvements (SSP from day one, no zero-hour contracts, no fire-and-rehire). Not as much as I'd like to see but it's much more than what the Tories achieved in 14 years...

Then there's the whole plan of bringing railways back into public ownership, and plans to do so for utility services too. Sure, this won't have a visible effect for a few more years but once properly in effect, and Starmer could've gone for a handful of low hanging fruit - things that need immediate change that do have immediate visibility.

Not to mention that the economy IS improving, wages are getting better, inflation is down, so overall the UK is doing better than it was doing two years ago. The main issue is, that there is no media visibility of this at all. You too are saying there's not much Starmer has gotten done yet even a cursory overview of what actually happened in the past two years shows that there is, actually, a lot going on. And then I haven't even touched down on the improving NHS wait times, crime dropping considerably (homicides alone are the lowest since 1970), or how illegal immigration dropped nearly half in just the past year.

But don't get me wrong, I'm not praising him - he could have and should have done more. No argument there. But let's not minimise what he's actually gotten done when compared to any PM of the past 16 years, he's light-years ahead of any other for actually improving Britain for the average citizen.

UV resin, basically, just super high resolution that makes it incredibly expensive (even the cheaper models used for quick check measurements by dentists cost $20k+ - that is, latest tech, brand new from manufacturer, before someone drops a link for a used unit from 2018 for 10 grand). But the sheer volume makes up for it, a single printer like that can be generating pure profit within a year.

Unless that radical change is generally opposed by the population. Like their inane age verification crap.

It does seem like even the less offensive ones tend to have a major cock-up that results in them being denied entry into the "least bad PM" club, doesn't it?

Isn't he just like, super badly baldING, and specifically keeps the beanie on because he refuses to go all the way with it?

Who said anything about a good one?

I just want someone who's less unflavoured cold porridge and a bit more present.

BoJo the clown might've been a terrible PM but at least he had some presence. Sure it was mostly because the majority media was backing him, but at least you heard about what he was doing.

Meanwhile, Starmer actually got shit going in some aspects: and the media was playing crickets noises throughout. Because our Prime Milquetoast was afraid of actually hammering home the achievements, while letting the media get away with their usual bullshittery crap.

Pretty much all I want is a PM who gets shit done and makes sure people know about the positive changes coming.

but if you're reading this on the Fediverse.. you probably have the time

ah yes because spending 5 minutes of my crapper time on here totally equals a whole life dedicated to moving to a fucking warzone and helping turtles...

I'd argue that this shall only apply to games that are being made by big, established studios, under big, established labels.

self-published indie games, you should preorder if you can.

if that was a hard law, many of the various execution prediction exploit prevention fixes couldn't have happened, as those fixes technically cripple performance...

Some dead, inconsequential dude with really bad takes about pretty much everything.

I was on Reddit since 2009, registered in 2011... Had the occasional 3-7 days bans, usually when I called out power tripping subreddit mods over modmail, who've tended to respond with the "help this user is harassing me" button (and even a decade ago Reddit was leaning towards trusting subreddit moderators over average users).

Recently got banned for "ban evasion" - got banned from a tankie subreddit, someone else replied a "😂" to the power tripping mod, who must've reported it as ban evasion because a few hours later permanent banhammer struck my main account, my tech account, my porn account, my politics account.. the list goes on.

So yeah, fuck Reddit. They had so many chances to be better, and chose to be greedy at every single one of them.

Luckily drumpf can't pardon British criminal court cases and verdicts.