OOP boilerplater except for the Windows bit; trying to slowly move off proprietary software and choose open source when I can
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Hey, I missed that caveat, thank you for pointing it out!
Oh yeah, you are absolutely right, that is another thing that bothers me. (Obviously I still believe listening to minority voices is important.) Me bringing that up is specifically directed at the type of person who might dismiss opinions from people because they are white males, especially if the opinion is about not liking the way majority demographics sometimes get spoken about. It is me saying to that type of person that they cannot dismiss my position of disliking punching up at demographics by going "of course you'd say that, you are the demographic being punched up at!" I am from the non-male, non-white demographics that they are trying to empower with this "lol white man bad" stuff.
And yes, fully aware speaking ≠ the many harms that went way past speaking done to minorities in the past. But also this kind of stuff is what I think contributes to some more people being funneled towards alt right perspectives. "Yes, white men bad is a hypocritical stance" video -> more "silly stupid liberals" videos (whether they do actually point out legit problems with social justice or not) down into "The world is actually completely stacked against white men, who are just better than the other demographics which is why women are only good for breeding and men of color are too stupid for anything besides manual labor. Structural/systemic oppression, biases, and other genders don't exist, that's woke DEI nonsense. Also, the stupid liberals telling you otherwise are also telling you lies that vaccines work and climate change is happening."
I never even thought of using Stack Overflow to cheat when doing my homework. Still heard of its reputation during college and decided I should never ask a question there (even now after I've graduated so it absolutely would not be homework help), lest someone, yes, be mean to me.
I'd rather focus more on the people pushing AI or consuming it uncritically (which does include Baby Boomers, yes, but also people all over the age spectrum), and less on age groups we are unable to get out of.
a bit disheartening that people are doing the generation wars, most of the Baby Boomers I talk to give a shit about the looming climate apocalypse and are concerned about AI; god I hope that if people in my generation do bad things people aren't inclined to dismiss me on sight as "stupid [andioop's generational cohort]" especially since there is nothing I can do to change when I was born and thus what generational group I'm placed in. Wasn't there a whole thing about not making assumptions of people based on demographics we cannot choose? Blame people for choosing the Nazi party, but not for their skin color or gender or sexuality. Why doesn't that extend to age? Why are all elderly people lumped in with the bad ones at the top? Or is it just "a demographic you choose is okay to bash if positions of power are primarily composed of its members, no matter how many decent people who do not have that level of power share that demographic"? I think a lot of people are doing that and it rubs me super wrong, as a person whose demographics are not traditionally empowered so my perspective cannot just be dismissed as "fragile white male tears" because I am not a white male
!programming_horror@programming.dev and !software_gore@programming.dev if you were not being facetious
I have been specifically thinking about how big tech keeps manufacturing consent for AI, having it on by default and counting accidental undesired uses for "95% of people adopted our AI features!" and all this… glad to see an article that has a title reflecting my thoughts. Looking up manufactured consent for AI usually brings things on how people can use AI to manufacture consent or change narratives, not on "consent to AI" being manufactured itself.
Social proof is a hell of a drug. Getting off Instagram was always a "yeah they suck, I barely use the app, but I do not really want to spend the energy" for me; then I saw a real life friend do a post about how they were getting off Instagram. I promptly did the same.
That's always the problem when deciding whether to post something you did you think is good and that you want others to do more. How much would I possibly influence others to do the same (because my nobody ass followed my nobody friend in getting off Insta, we clearly do not have to be mega celebrities to put our small drop of influence in the proverbial bucket), vs how much backlash will I get in the vein of "why do you have to announce it and have a public privacy tantrum, you're not that special boo" and "humblebrag much? nobody cares". (I'm special to the group of people that cares about me, as I am sure everyone is to the group of people that care about them! And social media makes it easier to announce it to them instead of texting everyone individually, and if you don't have a giant group chat… I do wonder what standards you have to meet before you can post online without being told "nobody cares".)
I think as long as there are 2 people on earth who do not have perfect trust in each other, there will be politics.
Except, how do you convince all the other engineers the tech stack is both shitty and that switching off is worth the switching costs? That your data is empirical and also not the "lies, damned lies and statistics" thing where you cherry pick data in your favor so you can look empirical when you are actually just going off your own vibes and ego? Even if your intentions are pure, others might not think so (whether because they have ulterior motives of their own or not).
Unfortunately, that is politics.
A bit off-topic, but:
Knowing about these cognitive distortions always makes it so hard to self-evaluate too! Am I actually better than I think and I am just aware of how much I do not know, causing me to evaluate myself too lowly? Or am I an arrogant asshole, "knowing about the Dunning-Kruger effect does not make you special, especially with how often it's cited everywhere online now," and I should keep evaluating myself lowly? Imposter syndrome exists, but some people really are faking it and do not know anything, so am I underevaluating myself and feeling like an impostor when I should not be?
However, I also know if I state things with confidence or say I'm good at something, I'm more likely (at least online) to receive challenges and arguments about why I'm a puffed-up blowhard who actually knows nothing about anything, so I always trend towards "actually I'm just stupid" to avoid being whacked with the "ARROGANT FUCKHEAD" stick. (This is in general, not just about the tech topics this forum is for.)
I've read another article on his site that I have to be able to just at least appear to confidently make a decision and live with the consequences that maybe my guess is wrong instead of presenting the whole pro-and-con list, instead of hemming and hawing about how my judgment is imperfect and I'm afraid of thinking I'm competent but actually being someone the internet would tear apart for gross incompetence and the audacity to assume I'm not. (I went through a lot of his articles on a rabbit hole from another of his articles posted on programming.dev.) But luckily I'm not in the decision-making-advise-non-tech-folks-on-big-decisions-most-qualified-person-in-the-room position that this advice is geared towards and do not bear that responsibility.
one heartbroken anti-AI human who loves em dashes replying ☹️ we're split into two classes: the type who abandons our typing habits to avoid being told our human efforts are definitely AI, and the type who stubbornly carries on using em dashes
As far as I know, don't all modern cars have the telemetry and computer crap, and you can't opt out unless you buy something old and hope to god it never breaks in some unrepairable, must-scrap-and-buy-new way? The old cars we can use now to escape all the telemetry will eventually break beyond a repairable state and no new cars like that are being produced (again as far as I know), so all that is left is the existing selection with it. And once it gets to that point, not all of us are rich enough or without connections tying us to a local place such that we can say "then just fuck cars, time to move somewhere with really good public transit" to escape car surveillance hell. At some point the consumer is out of choices unless they want to build a car themselves. I get your sentiment while non-surveillance-capitalism alternatives exist and can be bought, but as these alternatives dwindle I'd rather move away from the "stupid fucking consumer lol, just buy smart" mindset.
Besides, I've never been of the opinion that people being victimized should be blamed for it. Yes, I probably should remember to lock my door as a matter of practicality because thieves exist, but if I forget and get robbed one day I hope people would blame the robber for doing that instead of me for failing to do due diligence. Besides, with so many threats in the world and the fact that humanity is fallible, with smart scambaiter types also getting scammed from time to time, I really don't want to turn to a "blame the stupid person who fell for it/bought the surveillance capitalism thing" mindset. Just because I am smart enough in the tech realm to know of the problem and a bit of how to defend myself does not mean everyone else is knowledgeable here, and I'm probably vulnerable in other areas I know less of. You should not have to become knowledgeable of every possible threat in every possible realm and take every possible countermeasure to be deserving of safety or nonviolation.
Hurray for my stupid fridge, may you continue to function and for more fridges like you be created.
was the comma a typo of a period, or did you have more to say here? if you have more to say i'm eager to listen
Hey thanks! I was wondering what my alternatives were. Bought RPis, having remembered that name from a decade ago, and then read the posts here about how those are getting worse. Glad to see something that could take their place for my next project :) This is the kind of stuff I come to programming.dev for.
also a JetBrains enjoyer :( one day I'll teach myself to like VSCode as much as I like JetBrains