Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Funny you would say that. In Dutch but real.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah I should have mentioned that, I do get those complaints. But most people I see complaining about self-checkout dont take that angle. Sorry I should have used my brain, realized where I was typing and not forgotten that people here tend to be more class aware.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

For those who are wondering, real tweet. I checked. Guy is defending himself by going 'physical mail is outdated and shouldn't exist'. This guy is going to get cybercrimed by somebody so hard.

E: also interesting, and relevant to our interests, you can just buy prestamped envelopes, so thanks chatgpt.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

I never really got the (E: thanks froztbyte, I meant user complaints here, there certainly are job complaints re self-checkout see reply below) complaints of self checkout, works great in most places in .nl I tried it.

And then the local Lidl got a self checkout. I now get why people hate those things, somebody really designed it with the idea of 'people in our stores are criminals we must catch' in mind. Turns out those styles of self checkouts are more common in EE as well. A small example of a problem with it. The part where you in other self checkouts would put your bag to put your stuff into was a scale, and because of that I couldn't put my bag there as I thought I was trying to sneak products through, and every item had to be placed there on the scale after weighing. (And then it didn't always work correctly). You could almost smell the security person who designed it going 'im gonna catch all those baddies!' (that could have also been me, I need to remember to wash my clothes). The machine also felt cheap, and the way the employees had to interact with it (they had to physically touch the machine with some key, and not use a tablet like all the other self checkouts (I had gotten something with alcohol in it)) didn't help this feeling.

Moral of the story, there are ways to do self checkout better than others.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

Depends on who you mean with 'those people' I think the people of themotte woudl have a lot of trouble writing a pro trans argument for example. Esp as the people in there who are leftwingers (or pretend to be) tend to be anti trans, and there is also a big tendency for them to not understand basic leftwing ideas. That one leftwinger (forgot their name for now they had some number in their name) who kept engaging there, got a few complaints they kept reexplaining the same stuff.

Yeah, if you keep ignoring the explanations and misrepresenting people, they will have to do that. (or quit).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah I know, I was just making a Futurama joke, all I can do before the American doggun bots swarm into Europe and herd my poor ass into the MoldyAI powering oven.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Saw the Boston Dynamics robot dogs with a gun, and I don't think we have to worry, due to it using a regular magazine and not having opposable thumbs it is has a preset kill maximum of 30 people.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, the amount of “ChatGPT is basically AGI already” people in the comments is alarming.

They prob should do a video on this effect as shown by the early ELIZA experiments. That even the smartest people could get fooled by a dumb program. Doubt they will though if they are into EA stuff.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

more a sort of 'I love science' youtuber I think.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Shen always seemed like a pretty decent person who posts pretty well. The whole situation where people attacked him for accepting the theft of his bike was pretty strange. (The comic just went 'well, guess they need it more than I do, whatever' which seems like a healthy way to get over your bike getting stolen. And people lost their minds, how dare Shen not be angry!).

And seems somebody made a docu about that note the person reacting to this still mad about Shens acceptance.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

And it still cannot edit webps?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Congrats on your stoic non-reaction and ejection. You are now provably better than the whole alpha-maleosphere.

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