smiletolerantly @ smiletolerantly @awful.systems

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Yeah... (Un)fortunately, everything not AI-related is pretty great in regards to the company, so I've decided to stick with it and hopefully still be there after the bubble bursts, unless they try to reassign me to the AI-project, then I'm gone.

I mean... yeah, you would hope that, wouldn't you? And to be fair, they were selling the product beforehand as well. It's just apparently a lot easier to sell the AI angle right now.

Understandable. Carry on.

This scream into the void has been on my mind for a while: Apparently I work for an AI company now.

Kinda.

When I had the interviews with my now-employer at the beginning of the year, they were an open-source cybersecurity startup. Everything sounded great, we got along, signed the contract. I took a long vacation before starting the position, and when I got back, I was... amused? bewildered? to find that a), we are no longer open source; and b), we have pivoted, hard, towards AI.

Luckily, I still get to work 100% of the time on the core (cybersecurity) product (which is actually a really good and useful thing, sorry, not going to be more specific), it's just that part of the dev team, as well as all of marketing and sales, now work on building and selling an AI product built on top of that.

At least it's not a wrapper around ChatGPT, and does offer something kinda new and actually beneficial, but still, it's an LLM product.

Now, for the actual scream-into-the-void: Once a month, in a company-wide meeting, I have to observe how people praise LLMs to the the moon, attribute nonsense or downright bugs to something akin to proto-sentience, and give absurd estimates of profitability based on the idea that AI will totally be used everywhere and by everyone, very soon now, you'll see. What finally prompted (pun intended) me to post this is the CEO yesterday unironically referencing AI 2027's "predictions".

Can't wait for the bubble to burst. I'm really curious to see if I'll keep my job through that. At the end of the day, the stuff I work on luckily has nothing to do with AI, and basically every other application of the product makes more sense; but now the entire company has shifted gears towards AI...

Thanks for sharing! Sounds about as good/bad as I was expecting. How's the browser experience? Also, are there any features/tweaks you are aware of that you could not get through Nix, that the more "commercial" Linux device manufacturers have developed for their devices?

Holy crap! A NixOS-on-phone user in the wild! You are rocking my dream setup. How's your experience been with it? Is it remotely daily drivable for phone things?

+1 for Kagi though. Kagi is awesome.

Ja, worauf ich raus will: bei mir ist das Glas gleichbedeutend mit "lokaler Kleinimker'

Kann ja sein

Ist aber nicht der einzige lokale Imker, bei dem mit dieses Label untergekommen ist.

The fuck? Das ist das Glas, was ich bei unserem 86 Jahre alten Imker alle paar Wochen hole. Die Bienen sind seit 3 Generationen in der Familie.

Weird way to say

All Söder does is spew bullshit and post bad tiktoks.

Hold on, we might just have found the first job LLMs actually can replace.

What does this have to do with Privacy?

Re: Spain: the headline was bullshit. If you are arrested and then investigated and it turns out you use Graphene, they'll go "huh, I wonder why. We've seen a lot of drug dealers use Graphene. Let's investigate in that direction as well".

Noone is being arrested or targeted FOR having GOS.

If this had been "people should have the right to kill thieves / cyclists / trespassers / basically anything else", I'd have said "right", but OP's statement requires the acknowledgement that women are people and rape is wrong, so... left, but maybe my bar has just become far too low.

If this had been "people should have the right to kill thieves / cyclists / trespassers / basically anything else", I'd have said "right", but OP's statement requires the acknowledgement that women are people and rape is wrong, so... left, but maybe my bar has just become far too low.

Left

InfCloud. Works well with Radicale, and does contacts, too.

It's not pretty, but works very well for the 5/100 times I want to check through a browser instead of Calendar app / Thunderbird.

Yes. Using simple-nixos-mailserver as the foundation.

Really great experience, and have had no deliverability issues.

I honestly don't get the hostility, wtf.

If you prefer something other than Jellyfin, good for you.