#techbros

[confused-robot-cat]

waiting for a high tech bro to come out of penera bread and get the idea for combining bread and lemonade into breadenade and basically its literally just beer with a retarded name

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#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Humanity

Shutdown Looms After Trump ‘Blindsided’ by ‘President Musk’

Trump Dragged for Letting “President Musk” Run the Government

[azspot]

What do TechBros and TheoBros have in common with Trump and his inner circle? All think their respective causes will be better served by ending American democracy. They want a strongman at top—their strongman. To hell with democracy, and with the rest of us.

TheoBros, TechBros, & Trump

[ankewehner]

Moving fast and breaking things is vandalism.

[inkbotkowalski]

cool we're back at ppl unquestioningly reblogging AI shit

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Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava America Must Not Abandon Its Kurdish Partners In Syria

Stabilizing the SDF-Turkish relationship would free Washington’s hands to shape Syria’s future for the better…

[deadsprout]

start calling ai art bros what they really are: class traitors.

[davekat-sucks]

I think Sollux should just leave behind his warm colors hoes and settle down for a more polite Eridan

Aka, Sollux and Equius scratch a funny itch in me. Maybe cuz that error pic Paradox Space gives you when you type /413 at the url

Pros: They both wear glasses, their lives kinda go around animals, they're incredibly powerful, they're good with machinery, Sollux has a bit of blue goin on, I think they both dislike Eridan, at one point they had the only two trolls with shiny eyes with them... It's interesting.

Cons: All what I said are pickpoints, they would be hard to work out on camera with their personalities, for a genderless species with no idea of what sexual orientations are, they're surprisingly hetero

But I say almost unironically "I can fix them!" as I write the worst, nonsensical fanfic you've ever read about them trying to bond

Sollux x Equius aka Techbros is better than Davekat. I would be happy to read it if you do get the chance to write it down. Send me it once you're finished!

[suthecoder]

Is it really a convo about tech culture if a techbro doesn't jump in to say that this doesn't concern them?

[chaoskirin]

"But I WANT Chat GPT To Finish this Fanfic! :( :( :("

The most frustrating thing about the rise of the techbro is that they don't understand copyright because they've never had to. It's never been a concern for them, so why would they have ever thought about it?

This leads to a plague of asshats with chronic Dunning-Kruger-itis just deciding they know more about copyright than people who have been well-versed in it for their whole lives.

That's why you get these clueless AI users saying things like "you don't own fanfic, haha got youuuu" because they only have a vague, transparent understanding of IP and how content works.

Here's some actual truth: The reason writers, showrunners, producers, and actors don't read fanfic is because if they do, and they get an idea from your work, and then that idea APPEARS in the media, they have to prove they didn't steal it. (actually, because of the mega-billion dollar entertainment industry, the accuser has to prove the company DID steal it. Harder, but not impossible.)

If it turns out to be stolen, the company MIGHT HAVE TO PAY THE FANFIC AUTHOR FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION AS A WRITER. This depends on how the court case goes and how similar your work is to the "official" work. Generally, even though it's a fanfic, there's a LOT of original content in that writing, which does NOT automatically belong to the IP.

The original content belongs to the writer, unless the company buys it.

SO! If you, as Techbro McDunning-Kruger, loads that shit into a chatbot or AI text generator, the ONLY shit that doesn't have a natural copyright is anything that VERY SPECIFICALLY pertains to the media itself. Generally, this includes names and extremely unique concepts. Everything else is stolen.

You want to know how I know?

Fucking 50 Shades of Gray.

It's a fanfic, where only the names and hard concepts from Twilight have been changed. It's still being sold, and no money is being paid to Stephanie Meyer.

There's other examples, too. 50 Shades is just the most well-known.

Fanfic is protected. The original material in that fic is copyrighted to the original author. If they tell you you can't use it, you can't use it.

In conclusion: I don't care how much you scream and pound your fists on your chest and piss on trees to assert your dominance. Spewing this nonsense about how fanfic is public domain and you get to use it because you want to is theft. Stop doing it.

[rabidfirefoxfan]

Sony Releases Stupid Piece of Shit that Doesn't fucking Work

(this was released 13 years ago, the more things change)

[titleknown]

Do you know, or have any idea about a way, or anything that can be used against AI bros/techbros? (I have seen people refer to them by both AI bros, and techbros, just to be clear.) I think they bad for both artists, and people who are into AI. It's bad for artists because they steel from us, and harrass us, and it's bad for people like you, because they give you a bad name, and probably harrass you guys too (I don't know, but if one harrassed you then,I'm sorry). Sorry if I sound stupid, or rude. And English is not my first launvige.

...Long story short, be informed about the bad and sketchy shit they're doing, and be up front about why it's actually bad, and more actively tell bad actors in that space to fuck off and/or fuck themselves.

Because, a lot of people are wildly misinformed about how AI works and its position under fair use, that they don't understand the actual worrying stuff, and those of us in the AI community who do care about ethics often forget to talk about that bad stuff when so much of our time is spent swatting off misinfo. And we need to.

As an example, I've mentioned the issues with Midjourney and OpenAI, but also, watch out for UnstableDiffusion, who're scummy as hell.

They're trying to crowdfund their way into being A Thing and have directly stated their desire to directly target their training on sites like Deviantart in the way other AI models aren't. Don't support them.

Also, another thing I may as well bring up: If you're training those smaller finetuning-models directly off of specific living artists' work, that is significantly morally different than, like, the models with their big dumb (like you have no idea how dumb, but that's its own post) search engine-type internet mapping, and you're being an unethical dick attracting attention to AI art in the worst possible way.

Hell, even the AI bros simply saying that they think the idea of AI art replacing traditional artists is Good and Cool actually, those people are complete assholes (Especially given how many AI artists I know who're also traditional artists) and we should probably be telling those people to shut the fuck up more.

Granted, those people apparently hang out mostly on Twitter and I try to keep myself off the hellish bird site as much as possible, but pro-AI people reading this who do enter the musky hole of the worst mainstream site on the internet should feel free!

Stuff like that, I think, would help a fair bit...

[wehaveeverythinggreat]

On The Biggest Highlight of 2022

We all have goals that we say are important to us — getting a better job, studying abroad, writing a book, and so on — but for most of us, the inertia of life holds us back. This is especially true when we’re living a relatively comfortable life. 

Dua tahunan ini saya memang casually looking for better opportunity. Untung tak dapat diraih, malang tak dapat ditolak. Dalam perjalanan apply kerjaan baru ini saya lebih sering gagal, bahkan dalam tahap pertama teknikal test. All those failed tests started taking a toll on me. Walaupun tidak expect begitu tinggi, kegagalan tetaplah kegagalan. Apalagi kalau gagalnya di tahap-tahap awal perkara teknikal tes.

Berpuluh artikel, tips dan tutorial sudah saya baca dan praktekan to fight this impostor syndrome, but none of them are working. Ok, some of them maybe help me, but not much. 

To be a better programmer is just to build something, anything that you passionate about. Or solve a real problem with your solution.

Kira-kira begitulah nasehat yang saya dapatkan dari berpuluh-puluh artikel tersebut, but still... what if I’m not that passionate about programming? What if I’m only coding just because it is... my job and it pays bill? Is there any chance for a programmer like me to develop the skills with this kind of mindset? Jawabannya, ternyata ada. Dari artikel ini https://dev.to/pungiish/programmers-who-only-code-at-work-bhp saya jadi tahu bahwa ada banyak programmer di luar sana yang menjadikan coding ya hanya sekedar skill dalam bekerja saja. Problem pertama sudah lumayan terjawab, lanjut ke problem kedua; bagaimana cara tetap relevan ketika menjadikan coding hanya sabagai alat?

Jujur, saya juga gak tahu jawaban dari pertanyaan tersebut sampai ketika bulan Maret 2022, saya dapat tawaran untuk mengajar basic programming di sebuah portal e-learning. 

Diingat-ingat, salah satu hal yang saya sukai selain chronically online di internet adalah mansplaining teaching. Ya betul, sejak jaman sekolah hingga mahasiswa paling suka kalau ada assignment presentasi. Bahkan dulu pernah juga jadi asdos dan guru les bahasa Inggris. Walaupun kayaknya sepele, tapi ini beneran jadi awal trajectory yang mengubah hidup saya setahun kedepan.

Hari-hari selanjutnya disibukkan dengan saya yang belajar, bikin materi, revisi materi, bikin video tutorial, tapping, belajar, bikin materi lagi, revisi lagi on repeat. Ini semua saya lakukan karena saya bener-bener suka sok tahu ngasih penjelasan sebaik-baiknya, semacam ada tanggung jawab moral yang melekat untuk tugas yang ini. Ternyata hari-hari saya dalam menyusun materi berpengaruh lumayan besar juga ke diri saya. Hal-hal basic dalam programming yang tadinya saya cuma asal pake jadi saya mengerti sampe ke dalam-dalamnya. 

Di fase ini juga saya masih casually looking for opportunity, tapi bedanya sekarang success rate nya udah lebih gede dibanding kemarin-kemarin. But still, belum menemukan job yang cocok entah dari segi salary atau work-life balancenya. Emang gak tau juga sebetulnya, maunya apa.

https://tenor.com/view/taylor-swift-t-swift-hi-its-gif-27009848

Kepercayaan diri memuncak ketika akhirnya saya bisa menembus salah satu dream job dari jaman kuliah. Sayangnya, timing tidak tepat. Saya harus menolaknya karena ada tawaran yang lebih baik.

At this point, kepercayaan diri saya mulai kembali. Kerjaan baru, pengetahuan programming yang lebih mature dan tantangan baru. Maka nikmat mana yang kamu dustakan? I got greedy at this point, having worked from singaporean startup makes me think that I can conquer startup on any given sunday.

Saya lagi-lagi mendapatkan tawaran dari sebuah perusahaan payment system di Jepang. Dua tahap sudah saya lewati, kurang tahap teknikal interview yang ada waiting list sampai dua minggu. Selama dua minggu ini kebetulan salah satu panutan frontend engineer saya di ADPList sedang idle, singkat cerita saya booked session dengan Mazipan. Saya bercerita soal keresahan karier saya. Mazipan pun memberikan beberapa wejangan yang menurut saya cukup oke untuk diterapkan. Begini kira-kira nasehatnya:

1. Mau se-stuck apapun dalam bidang pekerjaan, pasti ada hal yang sudah banyak improve dari kita. Mungkin kita-nya aja yang gak sadar. 

2. Cari kerjaan yang bisa dapat salah satu dari dua hal berikut: skill atau uang, kalau dirasa gak dapet dua-duanya, saatnya cabut.

3. Mazipan juga cerita bagaimana dia kalau di teknikal tes gak selalu berhasil karena dia sendiri coding cuma yang dirasa dibutuhkan saja. Bayangkan Mazipan, dedengkot frontend aja masih bisa gagal dalam coding test maybe there’s really a hope for me.

Sekarang saya udah pindah lagi dari startup singapura ke salah startup singapura lagi, bedanya I feel so right to be here. So if there is any moral of the story for this post, probably this:

Reinventing yourself and developing a new skill is hard work. Going from out of shape to the best shape of your life is hard work. Moving from your comfort zone to best version of you is hard work. And so is pretty much every other goal worth fighting for. 

And to further complicate things, reinventing yourself is particularly hard because nobody is going to praise you for it.

The good news is that the path to doing work you love might not look the way you expected, but it can still get you to where you want to go — if you make the choice to try something new.

It’s never too late to reinvent yourself.

[sucka99]

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Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Sado-populism, Pluto-populism, the Angertainment Apprentice and other disinformation diseases of democratic decay

Since Trump came down his escalator cheered by a gaggle of paid shills posing as supporters, we’ve heard the normie refrain, “this isn’t who we are.” Actually, it’s exactly who nearly half of us are…

[magentacat]

Every time I think AI development couldn't get more sketchy, they go and do something like this.