tomate 🍅
Samy@jascha @tante
And software that I can install locally and use even without an Internet connection. Something that I actually own and can use until it doesn’t work anymore. Software that doesn’t look completely different or a feature has been removed overnight without me being able to do anything about it. Something where the terms and conditions are not unilaterally changed every month, and never to my advantage...
The Long Tail
Bebef has moved@jascha Sounds like extortion that works.
ViktorShahter@jascha oh, yes, I recently had to deal with PayPal support where every conversation starts with AI. It was stuck for a good 10 minutes after the initial question so I had to start another chat and everything went more or less OK.
(After the first question AI said that it can't help and I got human.)
Corps were already cutting short customer support by hiring a lot of inexperienced individuals, now it's inexperienced individuals and AI.
Vivaldi BrowserHi @jascha!
It's nice to meet you 😉
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/vivaldi-wont-allow-a-machine-to-lie-to-you/
Christopher Paun 
@jascha
Even before AI, I paid extra to get real software as software instead of software as a service.
Even before AI, I paid extra to get real software as software instead of software as a service.
Angus McIntyre@jascha Between “software that doesn't have so-called ‘AI' built in" and “household appliances that don't have 'smart' networked features", the market for ‘dumb technology' will probably be worth hundreds of billions by 2026.
ploum@jascha @pluralistic : wrote a short story about exactly that (in French) : the story of a man wanting to buy a fridge without anything else than the fridge part.
Chris Hodges@jascha I'm not sure if it's better or worse, but Strava seems to push AI (activity analysis/training programs) onto its paying users, while cheapskates like me manage to avoid it
Nicklas Johnson 🏳️🌈@jascha
Who actually WANTED this "AI" crap shoehorned into everything, anyway?
Niedliche Nacktschnecke ☑️
A⍼ex@niedlichenacktschnecke @spatula @jascha @pluralistic
as #DataVampires #podcast series by @parismarx from #TechWontSaveUs points out, the data centres need to sell more compute to get line to go up. No better way than to get eejits to shoehorn AI into everything and anything.
https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1
Ozzelot 
Justin ⏚It's almost like the dumbest religious cult yet in that regard: people believing in something that actually isn't especially good, out of a fear of punishment.
Dietmar@spatula @jascha @pluralistic I've got a program for taxes. Needs about one GB of RAM and lots of CPU cycles. And it does absolutely nothing that could not be implemented on an 80s 68K computer like Atari ST or early Macintosh. Who wanted all that bloating?
It could be done so it gets done 🥺
It could be done so it gets done 🥺
@DO1HMN Surely you needed tons of animations and 60fps videos to go along with your tax forms.
tante@spatula @jascha @pluralistic people who want to attach a "dongle" to your software to extract rent with
Alfonso Urdaneta@tante @spatula @jascha @pluralistic
re: "people who want to attach a "dongle" to your software to extract rent with"
I'll take a dongle / ubikey / whatever as proof of purchase any day over an eternal subscription. So asinine...
Steve Popovich@sspopovich It's a nothing but a way to sell you something while simultaneously keeping it / not letting you keep what you paid for.
Allan Engelhardt@spatula The investors. They want AI in everything. And, to be fair, it is the job of management to keep the owners happy...
@wiknin Yeah, so like Blockchain, it's a bit of a solution looking for a problem.
Fonant
samiamsam
requiem 🦫
David Blume@jascha Agreed. As a sort of half-joke and seed for the practice, my latest GitHub release has an “AI: none” badge in the README. https://github.com/dblume/tiny-vault
Shaun Dyer@jascha same with ‘smart’ stuff. I don’t want a smart washing machine or dryer.