No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools

[avi2022@masto.ai]

@Tock @adafruit https://masto.ai/@jpaskaruk@growers.social https://masto.ai/@kwayk42@sechtor.social
I'm an ally; tryin 2 undrstnd

Copyright/land consolidation/colonial charter companies (colonialism)/slave-based wealth - part of a broad shift to formal, state-backed property regimes & capital accumulation - were for owners/investors, not the public. See 1700s Statute of Ann & US Copyright

Why lean on ugly? Convenience?

I get existential threat from ai - see my pin

Can we get post-scarcity startrek future without #AI?

How?

[magic_smoke@blahaj.zone]

@feld@friedcheese.us @adafruit@fosstodon.org fair. I have some absolutely ancient 4tb sas drives that where eBay refurb and still work well.

Even if I gotta swap one out of the array every coupla years.

Might honestly be worth it, always figured they'd be a bit unreliable.

Also doesn't do much for the people already reliant on second hand drives, now unable to obtain what they could've had not too long ago for much cheaper.

[feld@friedcheese.us]

@magic_smoke @adafruit I am sitting next to 12x 22TB drives that have been running for 3 years now, all official refurbs from Amazon, not a single bad sector

Out of probably the ~30 drives I've purchased refurbished over the last 10 years I can only remember one that arrived in poor condition (click of death) and it was immediately replaced

Just don't buy them from shady sellers on eBay would be my recommendation.

[sefr@beige.party]

@avi2022@masto.ai @Tock@corteximplant.com @adafruit @jpaskaruk @kwayk42

1) Star Trek is a goddamn TV show. Gene Roddenberry had a giant blank space for post-capitalism through the "energy economy" of TOS-DS9 because he had no answers on how to get from there to the other side (at least. Seems Discovery, Starfleet Acad. are on shaky ground with even that.) Visionaries cannot predict bumps in the road, even if it seems they know the way.

2) LLMs are not Artificial Intelligence. As much as a Video Game isn't a parallel universe. Yet people still imbue LLMs with sci-fi tropes like sentience, machine rights, and even Godhood when no proof of any of the sort is evident.

3) Posing "homework" to people who are being oppressed by AI is kind of a dick move; "help me to understand" is just "answer my questions if you want to continue arguing with me" under a different lampshade. My ass is still being asked to get up and turn the damn light on when you're right there.

So, dunk with "you're wrong" if you must. It's the last you'll hear from me.

[golemwire@fosstodon.org]

@adafruit Fedi is just AI-phobic and sometimes hateful a la Twitter... I really doubt this is sexism.

[b@mrrp.place]

@adafruit oh my fucking god,,,,, i've lost any respect for you all that i somehow still had. i've probably given you several hundreds of dollars of my own money over the course of a decade or so, so it's really unfortunate to see you go down this path

[sefr@beige.party]

@adafruit @jpaskaruk @kwayk42 ...and he did.

People who "love AI" usually hate people. Never forget that.

[catgoat@meemu.org]

@burnoutqueen @renedudfield @adafruit but I need the slop machine to make things for my estrogen addled brain /s

[kuniti_shino@pounced-on.me]

@sefr @adafruit @jpaskaruk @kwayk42 oh theres actually those who think games and fiction are parallel universes

-someone who ran into such beings

[vikxin@beach.city]

@discatte @mcc whenever I see someone taking adafruit's side on this I point them to your *incredibly damning* posts. Weird how the adafruit guy never comes with actual receipts backing up his claims though. Also the way he talks like an abuser. Also a bunch of other things

[azuaron@cyberpunk.lol]

@tom_verbeure Oh boy, I thought Adafruit was the parent corporation to the Raspberry Pi company. I don't know how that got in my head. 😅

[zbrown@floss.social]

@golemwire @adafruit ‘AI-phobic’ is a *wild* way to describe it, but yeah like, I can pretty much guarantee everyone complaining about Adafruit doing this are also complaining about every other company engaging in slop, not calling guys ‘savvy early adopters’.

Also: The ‘write up’ was a paragraph attributed to Phillip Torrone, and then tooted on the generic adafruit accounted, so yeah, can't say I follow that one at all.

[zbrown@floss.social]

@hatzka @adafruit (she used Gemini Deep Think, as mentioned in both posts, both attributed to Phillip)

[jaseg@chaos.social]

@whitequark lol from the tone and the level of unhingedness of these posts that’s exactly the vibe I got, too. I thought surely they can’t both be like this.

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@jaseg @whitequark the blog post makes it pretty clear it's ptorrone...

"When Limor Fried uses one to..."

Yeah, it's ptorrone.

Unhinged as usual.

[earthshaking@mastodon.eternalaugust.com]

@adafruit lmao I knew you fools weren't worth it when you had projects like that "digital frame to display NFTs" and you've never once given me a reason to reconsider

[avi_2022@techhub.social]

@sefr@beige.party @adafruit

> Looks like its time to close our Mastodon account and go someplace safer (whiter)

Wow, racist much?

[kholerik@social.tchncs.de]

@glassresistor He called out Adafruit for using AI and for selling out to an investment company. The first one is true, they just posted about this again a few hours ago. The second one was the mistake, because that was Arduino and not Adafruit.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@adafruit hi I'm a queer woman and I think AI and this post both suck

[h5e@tech.lgbt]

@eniko Hm. Yeah I feel like the hate is more about that the tool is a bad tool in and of itself and not that the tool is making the user lazy? I don’t like that they switched the frame.