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  • Lord Buffalo Cancels European Tour After Their Drummer Is Detained By U.S. Customs And Border Protection

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  • This is the first time I've heard of someone being taken while trying to leave the USA. How fucked up is that.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • Eh. It's useful for finding what I want to know. The result to a query which goes like "Based on this paragraph from some documentation written in 2005 (link) the answer is

    <bunch of generated text rehashing the information I wanted to find in the first place>

    " is a whole lot more useful than "Here is a list of thousands and thousands of irrelevant and incoherently sorted results, of which one is probably what you were looking for. Good luck." which was, unfortunately, the state of the art up to this point.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • I lived through the dotcom hype cycle, the 5G cycle, the crypto cycle, etc. The useful (boring!) bits of technology remain and something new and shiny becomes the target of hype and speculation a few years later. Nothing new really.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • Yeah the AI hype levels are insane, but at the same time I think there is some interesting and actually useful technology there. That's my 2c anyway.

    The search thing is specific to internal data sets btw. Anyone who has used intranet search engines at large companies would probably relate just how terrible they are. Much worse than Google is at searching the internet.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • Sure, you can't trust LLMs and just copy-paste whatever comes out of it. But it's very effective as a way to find something in very large mixed datasets when you may not know which exact keywords to use for a traditional search engine.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • Perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology. But being able to ask in natural language "why is something the way it is" and it returns references to code, bugs, and documentation along with a small summary is pretty cool. It works better than any of the half-baked corporate search engines I've used before. Is this not "knowledge retrieval"? In any case I can see the utility.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Germany’s Merz vows to build Europe’s strongest army

    www.politico.eu /article/friedrich-merz-germany-bundestag-europe-conventional-army/
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Germany’s Merz vows to build Europe’s strongest army

    www.politico.eu /article/friedrich-merz-germany-bundestag-europe-conventional-army/

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • AI can be a useful tool and I think it will slowly become more common in the workplace, for example it can be very convenient for knowledge retrieval, but it's laughable to think that it can replace humans. I'd wager any time "AI" can replace a human the job could've already been automated through other means.

  • Is This the Year We Doom Civilization? We may be losing our last, best chance to limit climate change

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  • Aw man I glanced at that chart thinking "oh that's pretty good!" before reading.

  • What home-cooked meal do you frequently make and still enjoy?

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  • That sounds delicious, and pretty healthy too. Thanks for sharing.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What home-cooked meal do you frequently make and still enjoy?

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    A live feed of the world's conversations happening on digital ham radio

    hose.brandmeister.network

  • Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud

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  • I've been looking at possible phone options too. There are several degoogled Android options but it's still Android of course. And switching to a Linux phone seems like it would be really limiting without access to Android/iOS apps. Do Linux phone users just use the browser to replace all those apps? I guess it could work, though it seems less ergonomic.

  • Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud

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  • I don't have an Android phone currently but I thought I'd check on iOS and, yep, Google Drive has access to all files. Well that's a bit hypocritical.

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    Chat app

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  • I think Signal can do most of this, although for example exporting requires third party tools like signal-export or signal-backup-decode. Edit: Oh Signal also doesn’t have a web version though…

  • Locked

    I can no longer see lemmynsfw communities on my lemmy world account

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  • Perhaps unrelated but Lemmy.world seems to be having some major performance issues right now. Historically this kind of thing could really screw up federation. See https://status.lemmy.world/

  • What's your hot sauce of choice?

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  • Good ol' Sriracha because of its versatility. It goes well with so many foods.

  • Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet

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  • Fascism will surely be defeated by "slowing the nomination process". Well, I guess it's something. Sigh.

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    What drug do you wish you were rich in?

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  • Some kind of insanely expensive medicine which saves lives so I can give it away. It'd be very rewarding and I don't need anything else anyway.

  • Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE detention for 3 months. She is one of a growing number of non-criminal immigrants detained by ICE since Donald Trump took office

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  • Just a few years ago I watched the movie Bridge of Spies which, based on real events, dramatically portrayed the arbitrary Kafkaesque detention of American student Frederic Pryor by the evil Stasi and the unjust East German state. Well I guess we're the baddies now.

  • U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids

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  • The children yearn for the minesfactories.

  • Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update

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  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    At 100, he's the last original owner of a Frank Lloyd Wright house

  • Metal @lemmy.world
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    Symphony X - The Odyssey (Prog Metal)

    song.link /t/82043647
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Posy - Lamps

  • Economics @lemmy.world
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    Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic

    edition.cnn.com /2025/05/10/business/zero-ships-china-trade-ports-pandemic
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    It took 250 years to build what Trump is trying to undo

    edition.cnn.com /2025/05/09/politics/federal-agencies-trump-irs-usps-photo-essay-what-matters
  • Economics @lemmy.world
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    Money & Macro: Who will win the trade war?

  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

    arstechnica.com /science/2025/05/europe-launches-program-to-lure-scientists-away-from-the-us/
  • Nix / NixOS @programming.dev
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    NixOS 25.05 “Warbler” is planned for release on 2025-05-23

    discourse.nixos.org /t/zero-hydra-failures-25-05-edition/63731
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Steve Mould: This microscope spins - and the shots are insane

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Dredd: The Musical

  • Economics @lemmy.world
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    The first boats carrying Chinese goods with 145% tariffs are arriving in LA. Shipments are cut in half. Expect shortages soon.

    www.cnn.com /2025/05/06/business/tariffs-price-increases-shortages-ports
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him.

    newrepublic.com /post/194705/trump-scarcity-tariffs-recession-economy
  • California @lemmy.world
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    California health officials issue warning over ‘recreationally harvested’ shellfish

    ktla.com /news/california/california-health-officials-warn-against-eating-recreationally-harvested-shellfish/
  • Metal @lemmy.world
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    Judas Priest - The Sentinel (1984)

    song.link /i/207178308