SnoopSqueak

Let’s quote the article, shall we?

The goal is to “minimize the visual impact on communities near our data centers.” Not to actually be sustainable, but to look less offensive to the casual observer.

“I cannot really see any level of biomimicry investment that makes a gas plant a desirable neighbor.” Me neither.

“Emissions have risen by Microsoft’s own accounting, too.” It is pollution.

“Microsoft had no clear answer when questioned if it would ever change its mind on a site.” They are raping the planet we live on. Please think.

Have a look. https://petapixel.com/2026/09/19/before-and-after-photos-show-data-centers-furiously-popping-up-across-america/

It specifically mentions gas power. The air will be polluted and living things breathing that air will suffer. “AI” data centers are waste generators and planet heaters. The goal is to further wreck the environment and kill most of us. The rich think they can survive it somehow. It is unacceptable.

“autonomously” doing what they are programmed and prompted to do, as always.

a tiny misstep

Multiple colossal missteps.

you shouldn’t have used the company card to pay 20＄ for your kid

Correct. He should have spent $0 on a company credit card for his kid. He could have spent $20 from his own personal card, which presumably would have more reasonable limits. He should have ensured the card required a pin to use so that unauthorized charges couldn’t accrue.

I feel bad for him, too, but he’s incredibly stupid and I don’t see why anyone else should have to cover his ass for his own fuckup.

Discord is not secure, period.

Use trusted software with end-to-end encryption with only trusted people and hope to hell they don’t get hacked or raided.

It’s just… “I’M OKAY!” suggests the opposite.

You act like I’m supposed to be off guarded or somehow surprised by this comment lolol

This is the defensiveness I was referring to. I guess my overall point is that a calmer tone might connect with more people.

I’m no expert, but it almost seems like you’re in fight-or-flight mode. Some of your comments come across as agitated or even hostile. A conversation might be more productive than a fight.

Would you say you have many different thoughts very rapidly? Is it noisy in your head?

You’re never gonna silence folks. The Internet is forever.

Who is trying to silence you?

Your complaint was about a lack of prompt news posts, and the obvious solution is to post the news yourself instead of complaining that no one else is doing it for you.

You seem very defensive in these comments. I hope you’re okay.

The scam is killing us. Stop being complicit.

I don’t think anyone should be using Windows. It’s fascist spyware. Windows users don’t own their systems, Microsoft does.

Their training data has nothing to do with it unless you’re using a local one without web access.

Did you know that the ones you access online are also trained?

Did you know that any chatbot that can connect to the web was given that capability?

We have robots outpacing human performance in specific tasks using neural networks.

Because they were created BY HUMANS to do exactly that.

Also, LLMs can perform on tasks they weren’t explicitly trained for.

Such as?

Again, we are stuck in a semantics debate. What I call reasoning you don’t, it seems.

It is a pattern matcher. It does not reason.

But all I know, as someone that has worked in software engineering for 25+ years, is that the output of whatever it does, and whatever you call it, is incredibly useful.

I have a degree in computer science. Irrelevant. Anyone can see that the “AI” is not intelligence.

Saying “it just generates text” is a reflexive reaction that attempts to flatten the nuance.

It’s a large language model. It generates text.

All Columbus did was sail west.

And killed indigenous people. Datacenters and shitty chatbots are killing people today, good point.

All America did was throw some fuel into a tube and put Neil Armstrong on the top.

Scientists did that, not America.

All Picasso did was to throw some paint onto a cloth.

At least he did it himself instead of prompting an image generator.

All this PhD student did was generate text.

Correct. And you seem to have learned nothing useful.

Surely we’ve got to have some more nuance in there.

LLMs can sometimes be useful. AI does not yet exist. It’s a scam.

If there’s a difference between 10000 monkeys hacking on a typewriter and a human writing their doctoral thesis, the quality of their act isn’t in whether text was generated but WHAT text was generated.

You don’t understand the metaphor. It’s about the nature of infinity, not the competency of monkeys as authors.

If you run an AI prompt infinite times, it will inevitably generate a correct answer somewhere in there. The rest of the time, it will be wrong, potentially with lethal consequences.

It can’t reason. It doesn’t think. It makes shit up as it was trained to do. It can sort of detect patterns and make a guess about what response would get it the highest score, but it’s so error-prone that a human has to verify the output anyway. It’s difficult to tell whether the perceived benefits outweigh the costs. There are many different types of LLMs and use cases.

As a person who values life and our environment, I’d rather not participate in the sloppification of our world. As a Linux user, I am wary of vibe coded flaws slipping under the radar and screwing up my system.

Do the original devs get any credit? Or just the ones who stole their work to train on? Seems unfair.