Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced early on Monday morning that Microsoft would be starting its own AI unit — with Sam at the helm. Microsoft would also hire Greg Brockman, the former OpenAI president who was also booted from the board and quit his job in solidarity with Sam.
yall remember all those fucking weirdos who appeared around when windows 10 released and couldn’t stop talking about how Microsoft isn’t evil anymore, it’s a different company now that they contribute code to linux and own GitHub? I wonder if any of those fuckers are even aware that this is Microsoft trying to own the entire open source theft and consent violation machine outright.
At OpenAI’s 2022 holiday party, held at the California Academy of Sciences, Sutskever led employees in a chant: “Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!” The phrase itself was popular enough that OpenAI employees created a special “Feel the AGI” reaction emoji in Slack.
fucking cringe. my disappointment is only magnified by the fact that Sutskever seems to have gone back to bootlicking for Sam in record time. I want to see the worst people I know viciously fight until everything they’ve built is gone, for fuck’s sake
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nah, there’s nothing selfish about that. it’s fucking embarrassing how bad Linux is with accessibility, especially when the distro model gives it the ability to specialize an entire OS around those kinds of concerns from the ground up. I’ve also stopped hearing good things about macOS for accessibility, which doesn’t feel like a good sign.
how has GitHub been for accessibility since the recent changes they’ve made? I’ve had a lot of trouble with them aggressively fucking with my browser’s keyboard navigation bindings, but if there are accessibility benefits to what they’re doing then I can’t be too critical of the effort
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it’s fucking embarrassing how bad Linux is with accessibility
It’s not. It’s entirely to be expected, because the focus of the vast majority of kernel development was not desktop usage. Gnome honestly has become quite good at implementing accessibility concerns and they take advantage of the desktop environment philosophy to do that, which seems to be what you expect distro developers to do.
Of course, if by “accessible” you mean “like Windows” since that is the most popular desktop by far, then everything that’s not Windows is going to suck for your usecase.
Explaining why it’s bad doesn’t really excuse it.
Here’s a semi-related rant where one of the developers of Darktable finally lost it and launched his own damn app: https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralenti/
UX/a11y is a specialized skill, which might look easy to pick up from the outside, or is dismissed as “soft” by hardcore C hackers, but if you don’t think deeply about it or listen to those that know their shit, you get situations where the color of the clock in the dock is almost indistinguishable from the background (yes this has happened to me, and no, I don’t want to learn how to fix it), or how you can literally lose image information because “user choice” (==being able to reorder modules just they way you like them) is seen as more important than enforcing correct usage.
Explaining why it’s bad doesn’t really excuse it.
No, but it does explain it. There’s nothing to excuse in the complete abscence of any promises.
I also explained why it’s not all bad, so unless you have semi-recently used a desktop environment that tries to be accessible instead of catering to power users, then maybe you wouldn’t dismiss my comment with an unrelated rant about Darktable’s UI and C-nile Unix greybeards reordering their modules every couple minutes. Believe me, I understand the frustration of nearly every app UI being a thoughtless mess, but you’re acting like big-FOSS sold you Linux™ - the Desktop OS under the pretense of it being an accessible interface for even the most casual computer user.
I can rant all day too about Windows UI design inconsistencies if you want, like the most basic settings being split across 2-3 different generations of UI design in 2-3 separate levels of “basic” to “advanced” which you navigate to by clicking really inconspicuous blue lines of text, which are randomly placed on the bottom of a dialog page or in a sidebar to the right.
My experience is with whatever Gnome-centered desktop ships with Ubuntu. It’s on a headless box that I shut off today for ¤reasons, so I have no clue what it’s called.
And thank god I am hale and hearty and sighted and a nerd, and it’s not my daily driver, so I have not yet been cut to ribbons on the sharp edges. I do however have a blind partner, whom I know better than to try to impose Linux on. Her daily experience with the shit webdev/mobdev pumps out daily is not good, so yeah, there’s plenty of blame to go around.
My experience is with whatever Gnome-centered desktop ships with Ubuntu. It’s on a headless box that I shut off today for ¤reasons, so I have no clue what it’s called.
I have no idea what Canonical calls it either. It’s basically just a skin that makes Gnome look a bit more shit as far as I can tell.
Her daily experience with the shit webdev/mobdev pumps out daily is not good
I thought this was about C-niles, but apparently all mobile and web devs are shit as well. I’m sure that random mobile and web apps are somehow very relevant to Linux DEs being accessible or not, but since you already “know better”, there’s no need to discuss this further really.
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Yes, your Windows user experience is super relevant to the point about Linux desktop environments being accessible or not.
And this whole thread started when I was expressing fear that AI-mania was overwhelming all of Microsoft’s prior first order concerns.
This discussion was started by me after someone called the Linux desktop accessibility a “fucking embrassment” and I responded very clearly to that specific point. I’m not interested in scoring imaginary points in some misguided attempt to treat comment sections like a team fight for/against the linked article or whatever.
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That’s why I’m asking, because if we’re being honest, all desktop OSes kind of suck at accessibility, leaving the heavy lifting to third parties, so I’m confused why the billion dollar product with the largest market share is praised for being the most accessible and “Linux” is apparently a fucking embarassment for not emphasizing accessibility.
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I’m not sure what that statistic is supposed to be telling me, except that with the amount of participants, the amount of Linux users is within margin of error of the general desktop market share.
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One of the more disturbing things that happened at work when using MS Word, was the automatic addition of alt-text images. I didn’t ask for that, I didn’t click any “Please send my images to the cloud, possibly leaking sensitve material, so inference can be run there, to add potentially unhelpful descriptions”
Is document editing really a task that benefits from AI?
An example of unhelpfulness:
I’m torn between at almost praising meek half-assed attempt at accessibility, and shrieking to the heavens about this unweclome shoe-horned addition.
Microsoft’s goal is to have the monopoly on something they sell to enterprise. Windows and Office are still going strong, but there’s always more monopolies out there.
This website perpetually relevant
If Bill Gates really wants to reduce the dangers of climate change, he should call up his old company and ask them to pull back from the massively energy-intensive, socially useless AI boondoggle…
Whelp, looks like the wild-eyed non-profit AGI doomers were overruled by the Lords of Capital, as foretold. If this is the key to the robot god being created and enslaving us all, it is no more than fitting. Marx was wrong: the end stage of capitalism is a paperclip maximizer.
