Kichae
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- Comment on Bro 😭😭 2 hours ago:
Do… Do you actually think you’re being downvoted by people cheering on Johnny Fuckinf Depp? Or are you just whining because you’re learning that your bad takes are also bad?
- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 20 hours ago:
But what about the comments? How many are reading those?
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 2 days ago:
Umm, it’s November, and in Canada. Is it ok if I wait until April?
- Comment on GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released' 1 week ago:
Right. So, no software ever, then. Even if you have a license that grants you perpetual usage rights, that doesn’t extend to anyone else shouldering the responsibility of perpetual hosting.
Your right to use software does not give you the right to expect others to store your digital junk for you.
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 1 week ago:
That is not moderation. Moderation involves removing bad actors from the site, not underground black lists that let you pretend the Nazis aren’t living next door.
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 1 week ago:
Mastodon has local and global feeds, and has for years. Did you just sit in your home feed and wonder where all the stuff you haven’t subscribed to was?
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 1 week ago:
There’s no way to fight them on platforms where they are welcomed by the platform itself. Bluesky doesn’t want to moderate its platform, so there is no fighting the Nazis there.
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 1 week ago:
And we can do this all over again in a couple of years thanks to BlueSky’s refusal to moderte its service, all because internet users refuse to thi:k abput how the internet works, and peoples addictions to being told what to read.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
Doesn’t matter who the tax is levied against. All costs will be passed on to the buyer. They should be familiar with this idea. It’s the Republican’s key talking point against business taxes.
- Comment on Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024) 2 weeks ago:
Heaven forbid someone point out the reasons things suck and the ways we could do thibgs different, even if you know no one’s going to change.
Better to just shrug everything off and tell folks “that’s life, get used to it”, right? That does a lot of good!
- Comment on Kamala Harris' 'Fortnite' map bans guns, has less than 400 people playing 3 weeks ago:
It’s just absolutely bonkers that they’re using a gun game to campaign while disallowing gun use. You may as well partner with the NFL and then ban tackling, or host a Monopoly game while banning money.
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 3 weeks ago:
No one is arguing that they don’t have the legal right.
But they believe they have the moral right, and they do not.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Mastodon is also somewhat hostile towards new users. Significant swaths of it treat this shared public network as a small private chatroom, and get cranky when September stretches on too long.
- Comment on A New Law Just Forced Valve To Change Steam. 5 weeks ago:
Same for almost every book you’ve ever read, every CD you’ve ever listened to, and every movie you’ve ever watched. You owned the leaves of paper the book was printed on, or the plastic disc the music or movie was stamped into, but never the words, the songs, or the movie itself.
We’ve only ever had licenses to consume.
- Comment on Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information [Aftermath] 1 month ago:
Usenet’s mostly pirated stuff now.
IRC is a shadow of its former self, but if you’re into FOSS it’s still good.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
And computers have always allowed for you to write your own software. If you don’t know how to do that, though, it may as well not be an option.
This is is making those alternative stores accessible to the average user:
Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play
- Comment on Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! 1 month ago:
Why advocate for trying to stop climate disaster when you can choose to believe that you can both profit off of it and be the hero that saves humanity from it, both at the same time?
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 1 month ago:
There’s a lot of things that LLMs are really good at, or incredibly useful for, such as ingesting large bodies of text, and then analyzing them based on your ability to create well thought out prompts.
That’s the story people tell at least. The weasel phrase at the end is fun, I guess. Leaves a massive backdoor excuse when it doesn’t actually work.
But in practice, LLMs are falling down even at this job. They seem to have some yse in academic qualitaruve coding, but for summarizing novel or extended bodies of text, they struggle to actually tell people what they want to know.
Most people do not give a shit if text contains a reference to X. And if they do, they can generally just CTRL+F “X”.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 1 month ago:
See that it’s never going to make money, go public, hand the keys over to someone else, and then try again with a wallet full of cash and a reputation for making billion dollar businesses.
- Comment on Now Dell sales staff must be onsite five days per week • The Register 1 month ago:
I quit my last job because they pulled us back to the office. That’s going to be a lot harder to do next time becauee of BS like this.
Everyone just has to sit on their hands and strike in-office to drive home the point. Something that’ll never happen in unorganized workplaces.
- Comment on OpenAI planning to become for-profit company, say reports | OpenAI 1 month ago:
The Mozilla trick
- Comment on The Doom mod that turns Margaret Thatcher into an undead cyberdemon has been removed by Bethesda yet again, this time for 'disobeying a ZeniMax employee' 1 month ago:
What’s that? I’m not spending any more money on ZeniMax games? And I’m getting a Margaret Thatcher Doom mod?
What a marvelous day it is!
- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 1 month ago:
Shit, my desk used to be next to the kitchen. I made lunch and ran/emptied the dishwasher at the office and the bosses didn’t whinge about how I spent my time. I also did a bunch of my ideation on the office couch.
But do the same things in my home and it’s a problem? That tells me what the real issue is: the threat of agency.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This. One of the points of this whole endeavour is self-hosting, in the name of resisting centralization.
Imagine if Mozilla had hostes its website on Geocities.
- Comment on Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register 2 months ago:
Nah. So long they remain the largest comoanies in tech, the FAANG companies have an endless buffet of overconfident and naive new grads to feast on. Entitled kids who will excitedly walk through the door and proudly display their comoany golf shirts to anyone they can trap in a corner while explaining how they’re remaking and reinventing ways to squeeze and manipulate customers in the name of shareholder value.
- Comment on The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline 2 months ago:
YouTube has been an alt-right pipeline for a very long time now. If you so much as smell right-leaning content in the next room, it wilk start serving you truck loads of right wing and alt-right recommendations.
- Comment on Nintendo officially places Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom outside series' established timeline 2 months ago:
The canon is anything that appears in the games. There are clear timelines between many of the games, asserted within the game text or game subtext.
Producers have gone on record echoing what’s states in the HH, both before and after it was published.
Do not mistake the canon for something the producers and designers feel in any way bound by. That’s not what the term means when discussing media.
- Comment on Developers reportedly told not to expect Switch 2 to launch before April 2025 [VGC] 3 months ago:
If it’s still 9 months away, there’s no real reason to announce it publicly before the Christmas season. The fact that the original Switch’s sales are flagging is not a reason to announce, since it’s not launching in time for the holidays. Its announcement isn’t going to spurr Switch 1 sales.
When it’s announces will be entirely deoendent on when retailers need to know launch details. Once it’s outside of Nintendo, they’ll have to announce things publicly or risk losing control over the narrative.
- Comment on It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry. 3 months ago:
“The government needs to stop people from doing a capitalism, but it had better not stop anyone from doing a capitalism, that would be tyranny.”
- Comment on Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register 3 months ago:
It’s great for gaslighting people into thinking they don’t know what a bicycle looks like!