taanegl
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- Comment on Japan's push to make all research open access 20 hours ago:
Why that isn’t the default, I will never get.
For the same reason the copyright and parent system have been gamed, and that’s in service of giant corporations.
The unique distinctiveness that is you will be consolidated.
- Comment on Google releases smart watch for kids 2 days ago:
TraXing, For KidZ™
- Comment on How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations? 2 days ago:
…all of them. Thanks to new public management, I’m now due a couple of million in consultancy fees.
Money please~!
- Comment on Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same 6 days ago:
So basically Google is on the take, because they are literally dependant upon the ad industry.
As such, advertisers don’t want the consumer to be informed, but just to buy whatever they make the most off, and that’s usually subpar crap sold through a chain of fake media outlets. Real closet stuffers.
As such, the AI problem is added on top of the ads based industry basically trying to overrun and take over tech journalism, which is a marketing departments wet dream.
So yeah, the conflict of interests is too great. You can never really trust Google or Bing, but even so Bing is better nowadays than Google.
I just use Qwant instead of DDG because I don’t care who gets the data, even though both are just Bing lol
I think I’m going over to SearXNG - if I’m transitioning to anything, simply because big data vendors and ad agencies should not have control over people’s queries or answers. FFS. I believe the Americans have an idiom, “letting the fox watch the henhouse”? Yes, that.
Let’s not.
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code 2 weeks ago:
Code:
kick().ass(llama);
The legends were true…
- Comment on Damn right 2 weeks ago:
This seems like the people’s choice.
- Comment on A 'plague' comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history 2 weeks ago:
Translation: once government has become so corrupt that they severly screw the pooch regarding politics, economy, disasters and the handling of, society has a tendency to fall apart, mostly due to normalizing bread and circus leads people to become feral.
This isn’t just true for Roman’s, but all of human history - as far back as we can go.
This notion might excite libertarians, except for the fact that a libertarian government would screw the economy even faster. It would be a speed run to the bottom.
Remember: it might have been Nero who burned down Rome, but Caeser handed him the matches.
- Comment on Damn right 2 weeks ago:
Okay, Lemmy. We need a proper dictionary definition for “sidcess”, as apposed to success. Is there a difference, or is it just a synonym?
I define “sidcess” as somebody who finally made a music career out of chip tunes.
- Comment on I'll have whatever he's having 2 weeks ago:
He had the mythical methweed, weed grown out of meth.
- Comment on EU says three Chinese electric vehicle makers have not supplied sufficient information for its anti-subsidy investigation, warns it would "use evidence available elsewhere to compute tariffs" 2 weeks ago:
Don’t blame the Americans. They don’t see that we have our own slow crawl in a race to the bottom. The EU has recognised it and pays lip service, but that organ-grinder gotta spin, spin, spin…
…but yeah, regulation wise Europeans get a ton more representation. In the US representation means which talking mouthpiece is going to serve the instituons today, and then they go do a lil insider trading - as a treat.
- Comment on EU says three Chinese electric vehicle makers have not supplied sufficient information for its anti-subsidy investigation, warns it would "use evidence available elsewhere to compute tariffs" 2 weeks ago:
Show this to someone who believes in the honour system and self regulation… see how they react.
- Comment on Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface 2 weeks ago:
You’ll have to install it onto your soul, once again revolutionising the video game industry - and the world at large.
Gosh darn it, Newell. It’s too much winning. So much good faith. Leave some for the rest of us! Look at Elon! He’s dying over there!
- Comment on Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora 2 weeks ago:
That’s totally gay of Europe
- Comment on GamesIndustry.biz: Microsoft's mystifying mismanagement 2 weeks ago:
Why are people so confused? Microsoft wanted monopoly by acquiring a bunch of companies, to consolidate their intellectual property and shaft it’s employees, the people who created the software in the first place.
Classic Microsoft.
- Comment on 🖩👈 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if I’m mad that it’s a TikTok video, or impressed that you’re using them as a free CDN in the fediverse.
- Comment on Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find 4 months ago:
Is this a great time to remind certain countries that “New public management” is not actually about decentralising power, but to make public prohibitively expensive, so the privatised hospitals can more easily exploit their audience as public hospitals become untenable - largely thanks to “New public management”.
Example: the NHS, which is hanging on by a thread.
- Comment on What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations? 4 months ago:
I’m on my 3rd play through. It’s still janky and buggy in some regards, but my god the theme, the characterisation, the stories, the plot. It’s how you put together an open world game, where immersion relies on the art of story telling.
Someone tell Todd Howard. Maybe the next Bethesda game won’t be so incredibly bland.
- Comment on A$AP Rocky Fires Back At Drake On Kid Cudi 'INSANO' Album After Rihanna Diss 4 months ago:
It to the “corny ass lines rappers think is a punchline” pile.
- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 4 months ago:
Maybe some “Folding@Home” kind of thing, to offload public AI projects. I.e decentralised processing.
- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 4 months ago:
Say it with me now: local AI, local AI… or fuck off.
- Comment on B.G. Disses Lil Wayne on Finesse2Tymes Collab “Gangstafied”: ‘He’s a B*tch and It’s Showing’ 4 months ago:
Yeah, the beef industry killed 2Pac and Biggie. It wasn’t the FBI or the CIA. It was greed. It was blackitalism. It was capitalism.
Fuck beefing. It’s just a marketing tool.
- Comment on FTC offers $25,000 prize for detecting AI-enabled voice cloning 4 months ago:
I also desire, nay; demand a content ID system, whereby my uniquely distinct farts are fingerprinted so that they cannot be used in media without my consent. A fart fingerprint? A fartprint.
The opposite of that would of course be Disney copyrighting and patenting their own fart sounds, which is an added bonus, as we’ve then effectively made fun intellectual property through intellectual property systems.
- Comment on ‘Frasier’ Revival Sets Premiere Date at Paramount+, First Two Episodes to Air on CBS 9 months ago:
…what’s with all the Frasier hate in this thread? Let’s give it a fair run. If it’s not your cup of tea, it’s not your cup of tea. But, if it is shite, it is shite. Judge it upon its merits or just ignore it.
Also; no Niles? Wtf…