I remember a time when webpages had banner ads that didn’t flicker and make it impossible to read the page, and that also weren’t based on corporations spying on you. If it had stopped there, we probably wouldn’t be having this conversation right now. Even a few second pre-roll ad before a video starts based on the video content and not the user’s history would be annoying, but something a lot of people would tolerate. But no, number must go up!
I work in tech and a lot of my interests are geared around computers. I have other interests as well, and also enjoy being outdoors, but can’t imagine never wanting to see a computer again.
This article / talk is quite illuminating. I’ve seen studies indicating that AI coding agents improve productivity by 15-20% in the aggregate, which tracks with my own experience. It’s a solid productivity boost when used correctly, clearly falling in the “centaur”category in my own experience at least. However, all the hate around it, my own included, stems from the “reverse-centaur” aspirations around it. The companies developing these tools aren’t in it to make a reasonable profit while delivering modest productivity gains. They are in it to spin a false narrative that these tools can replace 9/10 engineers in order to drive their own overly inflated valuations, knowing damn well this is not the case, but not caring because they don’t plan to be the ones holding the bag in the end (taxpayers will be the bag-holders when they get bailed out).
You’re absolutely right! Who sets a variable these days without running it though a LLM?
Exactly. Billionaires own the media and the politicians, so they can control societies from the top-down and the bottom-up. A lot of people genuinely did vote for the orange gameshow host they made famous on their networks and then promoted non-stop on their news shows, so I guess that’s “democracy”.
My next TV, I’m going to look into whether the PCB can be swapped with a computer monitor PCB made by the same company.
I think at least part of the reason why English has become an agreed upon international language is because these variations are permissible. If everyone had to speak RP, then the language wouldn’t be as accessible.
In any case, average citizens are not enemies. As always, the international billionaire cabal has decided it’s more profitable this way, so the orange gameshow host and other “leaders” go along so they can get paid instead of sniped.
I have a full plan that expires this year and not sure if I’ll renew. Mail and VPN are good, but the other services I could live without or self-host.
Drive is especially disappointing with the dismal Linux support and I’ve run into issues even on better supported platforms. I technically have 3 TB of storage I’m supposed to be able to use and I wanted to use it for server backups, but they don’t have an object storage API. The rclone support for their private API didn’t work worth a damn, so I ended up also paying for iDrive e2. Not really sure what the value is of their encrypted drive when I can just use Restic with any cloud storage provider.
I was imagining KCD2 would win GOTY. Been playing it throughout the year and it really is a masterpiece, IMO.
Cosmic isn’t my cup of tea, but I’m still really happy to see this release!
Gambling is an age-restricted activity because it exploits the brain’s reward mechanisms to drive profits, and can lead to addiction. Big tech social media platforms have a lot in common with slot machines, designed deliberately to drive profits, so this law makes sense. Now make free to play games with loot boxes an age-restricted activity.
I’d guess there’s less traffic to “landlubber” sites from Linux users.
DuckDuckGo has been a “good enough” option for me the last 5 years. A couple times a year when I’m not getting good results, I try the same search on Google and don’t get anything better.
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I wholeheartedly agree with most of this, but have to call out a couple of points:
Some experts believe that AI may soon surpass human intelligence
Experts like Sam Altman and other members of the circle jerk spouting what they know damn well is bullshit for their own financial gain? Those experts?
millions of job losses as a result of AI
You mean as a result of rich assholes using AI as an excuse to lay people off while pretending AI is picking up the slack, but it’s really the remaining employees being overworked?
And *you* would be morally bankrupt were you rich
Which is why capitalism begins with the word “cap”. There needs to be a cap on the maximum wealth any one individual can accrue, because absolute power corrupts absolutely.
lemmy.lol has been having a lot of issues the last couple of weeks where it’s unusable slow and requests keep timing out. I tried posting this multiple times and kept getting errors, but it seems it actually was succeeding, so apologies for the duplicate posts. I might end up moving to a different instance.
I prefer open source, but if I’m buying proprietary software, let’s do it fairly and sustainably. Don’t charge me a 1-time fee and then enshittify what I bought because your business model isn’t working. On the other hand, don’t charge me multiple times for the same software with a subscription. The most fair arrangement to both of us is to sell perpetual licenses for a specific version and then charge me for major updates. If your newer versions introduce massive improvements, then I might give you more money. It’s also fair to do free upgrades for a period of time and then charge for major upgrades. Finally, don’t force me to use your software always online and if you must have an activation process, provide a way to activate from a different machine by uploading an activation file or whatever.
I see we have Canonical employees among us.