The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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We were all assigned mandatory company-wide training on AI at work this week. It was about 45 minutes long and half of the content was about not using unapproved AI tools because of the risk of leaking company data. Fair enough. The other 50% was some weird, skin crawling evangelism for AI itself and the company-approved tools (mostly Copilot for regular users). Every other section in the training was “AI is awesome. Here, let’s hear AI tell you itself how awesome it is”. Cue AI-written and voiced script telling you how awesome AI is.
Given how hard they were pushing it, I figured some new company Commandant of AI was sure to be running reports on Copilot usage and, when they saw I never used Copilot, they’d know I was using something else (mostly Gemini which I use irregularly and never put company data into). So I figured I’d better install Edge and and start using Copilot so I didn’t have to face an inquisition down the road.
Today I switched to Edge and reinstalled just the PWAs I use for work under Edge. Then tonight I noticed this:
That whole folder used to be called “Chrome Apps” and half the apps in it are actually Chrome apps, not Edge apps. That’s just so typical Microsoft. Install their shit on your computer and they’re like, “these apps are mine now, bitch”.
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The CXXs love AI and want to say they are using it. The sales people have picked up on this and started calling all the shit they sell AI or AI enabled because everything we buy has to be AI. Went to a presentation by AWS about using “AI” methods in the satellite industry and the whole thing was about time series forecasts that have been around for 20 years and easily done in python.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
are actually Chrome apps, not Edge apps
edge is chrome … or rather, both are based on the same Blink platform. ‘IE’ is dead, gone, good riddance.
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I used to steal chrome caps
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@madrebel Yeah I was aware. The old edge was shaping up to be another IE in terms of incompatibility problems but without IE’s market share. MS headed all of that off by switching to using Chromium. So now they get near 100% compatibility with Chrome and, with the corporate pressure to use Edge / Copilot that I’m experiencing, they might even get some decent market share.
To be fair to MS, Edge isn’t just a reskin of Chromium. Even beyond a stack of functionality they’ve added to it, they’ve made and are making performance improvements and the like to it too. How much of that is shared upstream and how much they keep proprietary for commercial advantage isn’t clear.
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I use Netscape
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I use AOL browser.
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I’m stayin’ with Firefox for now.
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I’m staying with Firefox, Firefox Focus, Librewolf, Edge, Chrome, Chromium and the DuckDuckGo browser…
for now.
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Adobe are forcing users to agree to an updated terms of service that lets Adobe access their content with machine learning. But you have to agree before it will let you uninstall the software.
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Whoa, we have clinical and billing docs in pdf. If they are talking reading those to help their lil AI monsters it’s war. We can’t eat HIPAA violations fees at that rate.
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I expect to see bunch of AI-textured medieval legs to be running around soon enough.
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Maybe you should use the AI to finally fucking finish your game? Like it’s been in early access for nearly as long as Star Citizen!
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Maybe you should use the AI to finally fucking finish your game? Like it’s been in early access for nearly as long as Star Citizen!
I just finished lazily slapping some placeholder textures on my crappy gun with Adobe Substance 3D Painter. Those AI legs might come after you with big irons on their hip if you don’t watch your mouth, gator boi.
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@Jerraye said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Maybe you should use the AI to finally fucking finish your game? Like it’s been in early access for nearly as long as Star Citizen!
I just finished lazily slapping some placeholder textures on my crappy gun with Adobe Substance 3D Painter. Those AI legs might come after you with big irons on their hip if you don’t watch your mouth, gator boi.
Call it the GatorBuster!
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Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped return to office would make employees quit
More than a third (37 percent) of respondents in leadership roles believed their employers had undertaken layoffs in the past 12 months as a result of too few people quitting in protest of RTO mandates, the study found.
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I wonder how they’re gonna get their next round of cheap layoffs? “Hey listen everyone, we’re gonna need you to start working three days a week at the local landfill. Our research indicates that people working in offices aren’t productive enough.”
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Ooh wee, I had a lycos email account until about 2006. I still technically have one, just can’t log in
I wonder if my inbox is full?
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@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I wonder if my inbox is full?
I’ve got an old yahoo email account that they delete after I don’t log in for a few years. Then I log in and they reactivate the address but the email history is all gone. Rinse and repeat.
Did Adobe Just %#@$ Up?
Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped RTO would make staff quit
