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oldmanalex sh.itjust.works oldmanalex@sh.itjust.works
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echo lemmy.today echo@lemmy.today
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Just shows how fucking stupid the blind zealotry is. AI has been around for a while and had some very good uses. All or nothing is a bad paradigm.

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TheEntity lemmy.world TheEntity@lemmy.world
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Just shows how fucking stupid the blind zealotry is. AI has been around for a while and had some very good uses. All or nothing is a bad paradigm.

It would surely help if companies stopped slapping the AI label onto everything. I've seen washing machines and ovens claiming using AI these days. Being wary of this idiocy is perfectly reasonable.

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Varesti lemmy.zip Varesti@lemmy.zip
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#4 · Quote Reply

Every guy named Al in shambles right now.

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squirrel cake.kobel.fyi squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi
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#5 · Quote Reply

Every guy named Al in shambles right now.

What did Al generate now!?

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whaleross lemmy.world whaleross@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
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Just shows how fucking stupid the blind zealotry is. AI has been around for a while and had some very good uses. All or nothing is a bad paradigm.

Agree, but that said, if there was AI branding on any hardware I was about to purchase, I'd check and double check that it doesn't send all my data to some cloud service.

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Seppo sopuli.xyz Seppo@sopuli.xyz
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#7 · Quote Reply

Just shows how fucking stupid the blind zealotry is. AI has been around for a while and had some very good uses. All or nothing is a bad paradigm.
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nonentity sh.itjust.works nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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It’s not even pure Al, but a ‘Weird’ combination alloy.

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Multiplexer discuss.tchncs.de Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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TBF, Al might actually be a reason not to buy it in the unlikely case a similar one made of Cu was also available, as this one would have a higher thermal conductivity (and also more style!).

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Sundray lemmus.org sundray@lemmus.org
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It’s not even pure Al, but a ‘Weird’ combination alloy.

aka 'slop metal'

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stoy lemmy.zip stoy@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-10-17
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What did Al generate now!?

Al generated a massive income to support actions to help homeless people and stop new AI datacenters from being built in nature perserves.

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𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 sopuli.xyz maniel@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2024-03-26
#12 · Quote Reply

my >70yo father says A1

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lemmyman lemmy.world lemmyman@lemmy.world
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It’s not even pure Al, but a ‘Weird’ combination alloy.

I'll be That Guy and say that essentially every structural piece of aluminum in the world is an aluminum alloy. Pure aluminum is very soft and more difficult to manufacture into usable parts.

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TheJesusaurus piefed.ca TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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Al generated a massive income to support actions to help homeless people and stop new AI datacenters from being built in nature perserves.

Unfortunate though he chose to target a rival Al's data centres instead of focusing on the important fight against Artificial intelligence

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TheJesusaurus piefed.ca TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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I'll be That Guy and say that essentially every structural piece of aluminum in the world is an aluminum alloy. Pure aluminum is very soft and more difficult to manufacture into usable parts.

But pureer = gooder and less pureer = badder!?!!?

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TheJesusaurus piefed.ca TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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TBF, Al might actually be a reason not to buy it in the unlikely case a similar one made of Cu was also available, as this one would have a higher thermal conductivity (and also more style!).

And also more price

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TheJesusaurus piefed.ca TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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Just shows how fucking stupid the blind zealotry is. AI has been around for a while and had some very good uses. All or nothing is a bad paradigm.

I think some people are missing your sarcasm

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Multiplexer discuss.tchncs.de Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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#18 · (edited) Quote Reply

And also more price

See it as an investment in a non-volatile, hard-backed asset.
Will get you through another day when you sell the raw metal after you lost all your other life savings during the AI stock market crash!

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Rothe piefed.social Rothe@piefed.social
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#19 · (edited) Quote Reply

Just shows how fucking stupid the blind zealotry is. AI has been around for a while and had some very good uses. All or nothing is a bad paradigm.

It doesn't show anything of the sort. They would somehow slab an LLM AI interface even on HDD enclosures if they could and call it a "smart enclosure" and it would be nothing but a surveillance entshittification central.

There is a very clear reason why there is a backlash against everything called AI, it is because almost all of it is predatory surveillance entshittification projects forced upon consumers who never asked for it.

The "hur dur AI has always been around" is a fallacy which does not adress the actual problem.

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tetris11 feddit.uk tetris11@feddit.uk
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#20 · (edited) Quote Reply

Every guy named Al in shambles right now.

I know a guy who changed his name to Allan because of how prevalent the topic of AI was getting in his messages

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Leviathan lemmy.world Leviathan@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
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It’s not even pure Al, but a ‘Weird’ combination alloy.

A 'Weird Al', if you will.

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djdarren piefed.social djdarren@piefed.social
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Every guy named Al in shambles right now.

Weird.

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TheEntity lemmy.world TheEntity@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-04
#23 · Quote Reply

It doesn't show anything of the sort. They would somehow slab an LLM AI interface even on HDD enclosures if they could and call it a "smart enclosure" and it would be nothing but a surveillance entshittification central. There is a very clear reason why there is a backlash against everything called AI, it is because almost all of it is predatory surveillance entshittification projects forced up...

They would somehow slab an LLM AI interface even on HDD enclosures if they could

And yet here we are: https://www.spigen.com/products/pixel-11-series-case-tough-armor-mag-fit

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Jesusaurus lemmy.world Jesusaurus@lemmy.world
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#24 · Quote Reply

Every guy named Al in shambles right now.

We literally kicked someone from a call yesterday because his name just showed up as "Al" instead of his full name

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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.social SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social
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#25 · Quote Reply

Oh, you didn’t?

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jxk sh.itjust.works jxk@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-12
#26 · Quote Reply

It would surely help if companies stopped slapping the AI label onto everything. I've seen washing machines and ovens claiming using AI these days. Being wary of this idiocy is perfectly reasonable.

I used to have a clothes dryer with a "fuzzy logic" label

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redjard reddthat.com Redjard@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-08-06
#27 · Quote Reply

But pureer = gooder and less pureer = badder!?!!?

Would you care for some pure stainless steel?

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LastYearsIrritant sopuli.xyz LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-02-20
#28 · Quote Reply

Would you care for some pure stainless steel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithril

Yeah, I would!

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TheJesusaurus piefed.ca TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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Would you care for some pure stainless steel?

Gross, you mean that MIGHTY PURE IRON that some dweeb infected with carbon

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redjard reddthat.com Redjard@reddthat.com
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#30 · Quote Reply

Gross, you mean that MIGHTY PURE IRON that some dweeb infected with carbon

You are thinking of regular steel. Stainless steel may not even have any iron or carbon, so don't worry.
My product is 99.999% pure stainless steel by weight.

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lemmy_outta_here lemmy.world lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#31 · Quote Reply

I had to laugh. Some ad executive has a genius for hopping on bandwagons. when public opinion finally swings away from AI, any product without aluminum can claim “No Al”

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TheJesusaurus piefed.ca TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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#32 · Quote Reply

You are thinking of regular steel. Stainless steel may not even have any iron or carbon, so don't worry. My product is 99.999% pure stainless steel by weight.

:0

Is it also toasted?

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redjard reddthat.com Redjard@reddthat.com
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#33 · Quote Reply

:0 Is it also toasted?

You can but it doesn't suit itself for heat treatment, so don't expect results.

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-05-16
#34 · (edited) Quote Reply

Al generated a massive income to support actions to help homeless people and stop new AI datacenters from being built in nature perserves.

He sounds like a bona fide hero, TBH. There's gotta be more like him out there, fighting bravely against other AIs for the rest of humanity, surely.

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#35 · Quote Reply

But pureer = gooder and less pureer = badder!?!!?

purer* 😜

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#36 · Quote Reply

You can but it doesn't suit itself for heat treatment, so don't expect results.

Oh, there'll be results, for sure. 😅

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#37 · Quote Reply

my >70yo father says A1

What, like he's greeting his Hispanic neighbor?

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#38 · Quote Reply

See it as an investment in a non-volatile, hard-backed asset. Will get you through another day when you sell the raw metal after you lost all your other life savings during the AI stock market crash!

And to think, the stonks were defeated by just one guy. 🤯

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#39 · (edited) Quote Reply

I used to have a clothes dryer with a "fuzzy logic" label

At least they're upfront about the likelihood of any buyers getting effective support in the future.

That appliance has a portentous 8-ball as a CPU, but most faces reading "Outlook: hazy", instead. ☝🏼

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#40 · Quote Reply

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So, like a sorting hat but a tiny, misleading fish?

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Smaile lemmy.ca Smaile@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-01-28
#41 · Quote Reply

Oh, you didn’t?

Lamo caught.

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Einskjaldi lemmy.world Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-26
#42 · Quote Reply

The lowercase l is a major failure of the alphabet. Sans serif font makes it worse but having l and I matching was a mistake.

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thomas lemmy.ca thomas@lemmy.ca
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#43 · Quote Reply

The lowercase l is a major failure of the alphabet. Sans serif font makes it worse but having l and I matching was a mistake.

That was not a problem when people wrote in cursive. I think this flaw is to be blamed on the printing press.

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Goodlucksil lemmy.dbzer0.com Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#44 · Quote Reply

Every guy named Al in shambles right now.

Especially Weird Al Yankovic

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Cavemanfreak programming.dev Cavemanfreak@programming.dev
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#45 · Quote Reply

What did Al generate now!?

Haha. I just saw a clip of a younger teenage girl telling her father of this new trend of Weird A.I. that was making parodies of songs, and showed him the song Fat.

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ominous ocelot leminal.space probable_possum@leminal.space
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#46 · Quote Reply

The lowercase l is a major failure of the alphabet. Sans serif font makes it worse but having l and I matching was a mistake.

Ɩ

:)

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binarytobis lemmy.world binarytobis@lemmy.world
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#47 · Quote Reply

The lowercase l is a major failure of the alphabet. Sans serif font makes it worse but having l and I matching was a mistake.

And don’t forget about |!

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binarytobis lemmy.world binarytobis@lemmy.world
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#48 · Quote Reply

Yesterday a guy did the spongebob sarcasm capitalization on “wall of text” and wrote “Fine, I’ll summarize the scary ‘wAlL oF tExT’ for everyone.”

And just, damn. “wail of text” really summarizes nicely how I feel about long, padded articles with tons of popup and banner ads, along with “disable your adblocker” and robot verification tests.

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oldmanalex sh.itjust.works oldmanalex@sh.itjust.works
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#49 · (edited) Quote Reply

Oh, you didn’t?

oh my god frigging children detectives :) you got me.
edit: its not forbidden

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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.social SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social
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#50 · Quote Reply

oh my god frigging children detectives :) you got me. edit: its not forbidden

You're exclusively reposting exact reddit content hours after it's posted and you're monopolizing the feed with it.

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oldmanalex sh.itjust.works oldmanalex@sh.itjust.works
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#51 · Quote Reply

You're exclusively reposting exact reddit content hours after it's posted and you're monopolizing the feed with it.

Whatever u smoking I want some

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