IMO this was fine. They used AI to enhance their pronunciation and accents, they didn’t replace anyone. Same as the other commenter, it’s just like CGI

At some point I learned to set boundaries with my mom and IT help. I know I’m good at it, hell I worked geek squad for years, but she got demanding. Started calling me out of the blue demanding help even if I was in the middle of something.

“My printer doesn’t work”. “Okay, well I’m out right now… I’m not even home”. “BUT I NEED TO PRINT SOMETHING FOR TOMORROW” “Okay, well if it’s that urgent the library has printers, or the FedEx office can do it. I can help you in a couple of days on my day off”

Me helping is a gift, it’s something I give to you, it’s not something I am required to do or an obligation. Since a couple of confrontations like that it’s gotten much more manageable

Great job trying to learn! Ignore the naysayers here, as a fellow programmer like it or not, you’re going to need to learn how to interact with it. That’s the real way we’d lose our jobs, if you don’t keep up with this stuff you’re doomed to fall behind.

I recommend trying to first build a simple CLI API that you can work with and ask questions similar to chat gpt. This will give you a good foundation on the APIs and how it works. Then you can move up into function calling for things like HomeAssistant, and then maybe even later training loras. Start small, just getting basic stuff working first, and build from there.

Okay I’ll admit the fan thing is clever…

When I walk through my house I have sweet motion activated lights and doodads that I have spent hours tweaking and I enjoy thoroughly.

In the bathroom I use a switch.

Not everything needs to be “smart”

Thanks for keeping the “if not sold”. They’ve had many opportunities to make it legal, and they’ve fought it all the way. It’s not a “ban” as much as it is a forced sale.

I’m guessing next week we’re going to hear they spun it off to a totally american company, or meta taking it over or something. Then everyone will celebrate that it’s back.

“wow, what director level ass pushed them so hard that they had to leave that bug in?”

I think of the T-pose all the time in cyberpunk, that was a bug that was horrible but obviously it was tracked somewhere, and some director was like “it’s fine, ship it”

I go into gaming communities and see people hate on developers and I’m all like, dear God the fact that this works at all? Modern games are amazingly complex!

Blame the company for shortening timelines sure, but I never blame the devs.

Email is kind of hard. There’s usually only one API key to the email client, and there’s no real safe way to call it. Personally over the years my approach is to have an internal library that reads what environment it is in, and then if it doesn’t explicitly tell that it’s in prod, it reroutes everything to safe email addresses.

Oh man, I did that at a midsize company as a jr. That’s a right of passage. Informing millions of people that you’re shit at testing. That was a fun conversation with my boss

I mean, there’s a 99% chance this is running in a container, and so worst case you kill that specific container, which is immediately spun up again

Exactly. Comedies don’t need to involve will Farrell and have low ball humor. It can be subtle. The book was very funny, it’s how he stayed alive, making light of his situation. I don’t know why people would argue against that. In fact I’d say it does a great job at being an action, drama, and comedy

I’m personally looking into setting up a friendica instance for my family

Oh I know, it’s just that they said they’re removing moderation for “free speech” and then remove one of the ways you can express themselves. Just hypocritical.

Just making it clear that it wasn’t about freedom of expression or speech. True freedom of speech would mean keeping these even if it made other people uncomfortable.

He knows the only people who still use that platform are celebrating less facts and more AI slop. It’s time to seriously start getting our parents off of facebook

Yes, yes you really should

Phew, and here I thought they let AI out of pandora’s box too early. Good thing we’re ready for it as a society!

We’re in the mirror verse. Satire writers wrote this entire universe. Next thing he’s going to be auto driven into a shipping container and sent to a private island of a billionaire because the car was called home

If I’m reading your link right, they are using user agents. Granted there’s a lot. Maybe you could whitelist user agents you approve of? Or one of the commenters had a list that you could block. Nginx would be able to handle that.