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[–] 110 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Every guy named Al in shambles right now.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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    Al generated a massive income to support actions to help homeless people and stop new AI datacenters from being built in nature perserves.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    It’s not even pure Al, but a ‘Weird’ combination alloy.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    I'll be That Guy and say that essentially every structural piece of aluminum in the world is an aluminum alloy. Pure aluminum is very soft and more difficult to manufacture into usable parts.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    But pureer = gooder and less pureer = badder!?!!?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Would you care for some pure stainless steel?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Gross, you mean that MIGHTY PURE IRON that some dweeb infected with carbon

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    You are thinking of regular steel. Stainless steel may not even have any iron or carbon, so don't worry.
    My product is 99.999% pure stainless steel by weight.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The lowercase l is a major failure of the alphabet. Sans serif font makes it worse but having l and I matching was a mistake.

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  • [+] [S] -8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    oh my god frigging children detectives :) you got me. edit: its not forbidden

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    TBF, Al might actually be a reason not to buy it in the unlikely case a similar one made of Cu was also available, as this one would have a higher thermal conductivity (and also more style!).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I had to laugh. Some ad executive has a genius for hopping on bandwagons. when public opinion finally swings away from AI, any product without aluminum can claim “No Al”

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Yesterday a guy did the spongebob sarcasm capitalization on “wall of text” and wrote “Fine, I’ll summarize the scary ‘wAlL oF tExT’ for everyone.”

    And just, damn. “wail of text” really summarizes nicely how I feel about long, padded articles with tons of popup and banner ads, along with “disable your adblocker” and robot verification tests.

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  • [+] -18 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Just shows how fucking stupid the blind zealotry is. AI has been around for a while and had some very good uses. All or nothing is a bad paradigm.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It would surely help if companies stopped slapping the AI label onto everything. I've seen washing machines and ovens claiming using AI these days. Being wary of this idiocy is perfectly reasonable.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    It doesn't show anything of the sort. They would somehow slab an LLM AI interface even on HDD enclosures if they could and call it a "smart enclosure" and it would be nothing but a surveillance entshittification central.

    There is a very clear reason why there is a backlash against everything called AI, it is because almost all of it is predatory surveillance entshittification projects forced upon consumers who never asked for it.

    The "hur dur AI has always been around" is a fallacy which does not adress the actual problem.

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