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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point, in one sentence:

  If you are the product, not the paying customer, then not only is there no incentive to cater to your needs, there exists incentive to make the product worse for you if it means the paying customer extracts more from you.

  Users of premium software are basically nothing more than willing cattle. Housed and fed for free only to be slaughtered.

  Maybe people just can’t help themselves? I fear we can’t have a fair and free market if people are so easily manipulated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I broadly agree with your sentiment, in particular computing equipment that I purchase and ongoing trends in tech (like smart TVs) that are abusive to consumers.

  However, I find this argument not terribly persuasive in this particular case. The content of a website isn’t an extension of your property. It is not even public property. Visiting a site is voluntary. You clearly didn’t pay for accessing the site, nor was it subsidized through a social program. So exactly how should content (regardless of how trashy it is) be funded? Statements like “rights” (i.e. temporary government-granted privileges) suggest you are espousing libertarian views, but at the same time, you are not expressing willingness to pay for a service privately?

  I dunno, it just comes across as demanding a handout. Meanwhile, not visiting websites that don’t meet your vision for how funding content should be done seems like a perfectly simple and reasonable approach to have for this problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic detail plans for Unreal Engine 6 and share vision of a metaverse spanning "Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I the only one tired by all these franchises constantly rehashed to death?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You would never say

  "What’s YOUR name?

  “How old are YOU?”

  “Where ARE you from?”

  ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cause consumers let them.

  Why do consumers let them? It’s just step one of enshittification : first, be nice to your customers until they become dependent on you and you’re the only game in town…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me take this a step absurdly far:

  You may be slightly more buoyant (and therefore apply less force on a scale) everytime you breath in. It’s not the presence of air that has this effect, it’s the decrease in density of your total body (mass/volume) that has that effect. (Helium just contributes a fractional more difference in density compared to air, but how much you breath in probably matters much more than what you breath)

  Except, maybe not. Because the air you breath in partially dissolves in your blood. Dissolved matter does not decrease density, rather the opposite: it packs tightly into the voids, increasing mass for the same volume.

  How much of an effect this has is hugely debatable, probably depends on a dozen biological and circumstantial factors, and this is where my knowledge ends. But it’s fun to imagine.

  However, if you can imagine inhaling but holding your breath at the same time, creating a vacuum in your lungs, then yes, you would be more buoyant, even more than inhaling helium, and the scale would read slightly less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is a corner with an angle of 180 degrees a corner? If yes, then all shapes have infinite corners and infinite edges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denis Villeneuve Says ‘Dune 3’ Is ‘Not Like a Trilogy’ and Will Be His Last ‘Dune’ Movie: Other Directors Could Take Over So ‘I’m Not Closing the Door’ on the Franchise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds an awful lot like most trilogies out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this a triangle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no rule that the angles of a triangle add to 180 degrees.

  I think this is debatable. If it was not, then the answer to OP’s question would be obvious, and this thread would be uninteresting. The words we use carry a lot of unwritten baggage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do boomers hate squirrels so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-boomer here, I hate squirrels.

  If you try to grow your own vegetables, you too will come grow to hate squirrels. I promise. Ageism need not apply to squirrel hate or vegetable enthusiasm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't everything mouldy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for contributing to make the fediverse a more interesting place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are “regressives”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linguistic Perscriptivists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hard to understand?” Is a question more complex than it might appear on the surface. There are obvious examples of ambiguity in speech which lead to complete misunderstanding.

  But “hard to understand?” may also satisfy the criteria of “effort to understand”. Just because a message was understood does not mean the audience was able to hear it effortlessly. And that boils down to consideration.

  It’s a two way street. Correcting mistakes because of apparent lack of effort is probably not warranted, but a speaker is not entitled to a happy audience either

  As with many online feuds, I think a lot of these problems typically arise because of a lack of operating under the assumption others are acting in good faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linguistic Perscriptivists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there is a very fine line between prescribing language because of a world view that insists on conformity, and correcting Grammer and vocabulary because it’s being clear and understood is kinda the point of language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two slightly off centre parallel universes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this meme would be 450% better with parralax

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it’s unmortgageable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The insulation was supposedly improperly installed. There, saved you a click.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eating healthier is not nearly as complicated as this post makes it sound, unless you have unusual underlying medical issues or are aiming to sculpt your body in a very specific way.

  • To lose weight, eat about 5-10% less than your daily caloric requirement (there are tons of calculators online). Water helps to feel full. Increasing exercise can help if changing dietary habits is a struggle.
  • To eat healthier overall, eat less processed foods, more fresh stuff.

  That’s it. This is all the advice most people need to lose weight/eat better. The hard part is being disciplined about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hermit Crab Housing Market⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. I’m sure there is an argument to be made that a house can be too big. Bigger houses require more maintenance, cleaning, higher taxes. Downsizing a house is also a retirement strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lateness⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of this coming changes radically based on the perception around the word “giving”:

  • Literal meaning of “giving” as in a giving charitably? This implies the freedom to decide to not be charitable. In that light, the comic makes no sense.
  • A slightly less literal meaning of “giving”, as in handing over goods, services, or labour as part of a mutual exchange? In that light the comic comes across as either arrogant or just naive.
  • “Giving” as in giving away under the presumption of coercion? Then yeah, this comic makes a lot of sense.

  I don’t think the last interpretation is going to resonate very well with the people who need to hear the message the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with sleeper ships⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised this isn’t the central plot device of some blockbuster property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there no sense of "camaderie" in the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being friends is off the table, but solidarity among workers is important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take your crab mentality and fuck right off, Kinjil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t sound sustainable at all. A billionaire only needs so much gasoline, food, medicine, TVs…

  Collapse of entire industries will happen way before we even get a chance to see industries reinvent themselves to cater to billionaires. Don’t believe me? Just look at what happened to the economy during the pandemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I was as bold as these authors.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You completely missed the point. The point is people have been lead to believe LLM can do jobs that humans do because the output of LLMs sounds like the jobs people do, when in reality, speech is just one small part of these jobs. It turns, reasoning is a big part of these jobs, and LLMs simply don’t reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is the hysteria behind it, leading people to confuse good sounding information with good information. At least when people generally produce information they tend to make an effort to get it right. Machine learning is just an uncaring bullshitting machine, that is rewarded on the basis of the ability to fool people (turns out the Turing test was a crappy benchmark for AI), and VC money hasn’t reached the “find out” phase of that looming lesson, when we all just get collectively exhausted by how underwhelming the AI fad is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The benefit of AI is overblown for a majority of product tiers. Remember how everything was supposed to be block chain? And metaverse? And web 3.0? And dot.com? This is just the next tech trend for dumb VCs to throw money at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The educated and the well-travelled may have a broader set of view points to see how many different ideas and values work (or don’t work) in practice.

  I don’t disagree on some just lacking empathy. But I also think not all education creates exposure to a wide range of ideas and values that stick (or the education is just too narrow), so you’ll still find plenty of people who are educated on paper, but not cognizant of a broad set of world views. I also think we are too quick to label foreign ideas==bad ourselves. Empathy is a two way street. The key in navigating this may be in identifying when an idea comes in good faith or if it is hostile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The First Borderlands Movie Clip Looks Like An SNL Skit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s being made because there is a successful franchise to be exploited to death for the sake of earning a few more pennies for shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As with most AAA-games, the people that view entertainment as a mere tool for money extraction got involved.

  Support developers that are actually passionate about entertainment. The ghouls that make games as a means of profit seeking (and who exploit the people who are passionate) can wither away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert De Niro has award withdrawn after calling Donald Trump 'monster' outside trial⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rescinding an award named “Service to America” for calling out a wanna be dictator is rich. De Niro should get a second one for this alone.