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teawrecks ,

That describes the business model of basically every internet company that survived the dotcom bubble.

teawrecks ,

Google was the first example I thought of, because they were founded in 1998, solidly before the dotcom crash. They survived because they hoarded data.

My point was that every company going into the bubble thought they had a product they could monetize, but virtually all of them failed in favor of just hoarding everyone's data. Amazon and eBay were competing for ecomerce supremacy, but now even they are just privacy violators for various reasons (amazon via AWS and Alexa, eBay in the interest of detecting malicious account behaviour).

MySpace is an example of another unsustainable social media model in the vein of many dotcom era services. They died out as soon as Facebook realized they could hoard everyone's data.

All roads lead to privacy nightmares. It's the fossil fuel of the internet, and enshitification is the climate change.

teawrecks ,

You're right, they weren't a "household name" yet. But they were probably more than a little worried about surviving at the time. Turns out they picked the winning strategy.

teawrecks ,

Because you think the inevitable alternative will somehow be better? I hate Biden as much as the next reasonable human being, but I don't want another 2016 situation. We don't have good options, only least bad ones.

teawrecks ,

No, this just the best strategy in a first pass the post voting system.

teawrecks ,

Yeah, I think this "cartooning of evil" is at the core of American patriotism and entitlement. There are a lot of Americans who legitimately believe that we're immune to certain phenomena "because we're American". It's the same as when people say they're not racist "because they're not trying to be". Or the rich man bankrolling the presidency isn't evil because he doesn't twirl a mustache.

In the same way, this can't be genocide, because we would never do a genocide! We're just doing what we believe needs to be done to maintain our standard of living...

teawrecks ,

Far more success than I'd care to see, imo

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teawrecks ,

So this could go one of two ways, I think:

  1. the "no AI" seal is self-ascribed using the honor system and over time enough studios just lie about it or walk the line closely enough that it loses all meaning and people disregard it entirely. Or,
  2. getting such a seal requires 3rd party auditing, further increasing the cost to run a studio relative to their competition, on top of not leveraging AI, resulting in those studios going out of business.
teawrecks ,

I think the first half of yours is the same as my first, and I think a lot of artists aren't against AI that produces worse art than them, they're againt AI art that was generated using stolen art. They wouldn't be part of the problem if they could honestly say they trained using only ethically licensed/their own content.

teawrecks ,

That's how it would work for a country where the laws actually mean something. In this case, the law is just whatever the Kremlin says.

teawrecks ,

He can spend the time (ghost) writing his book about how unfair the fake news media is toward him. He could literally title it "My Struggle" and his base still wouldn't get it.

teawrecks ,

The difference between this sub and the fuckgrandpajoe sub is that grandpa joe won't ever gain sentience.

teawrecks ,

Seems like a train that uses both sides of the track fulfills different requirements. A train can only be made to go one way at a time, but can hold more people (increased bandwidth), but these smaller half-cars can be moving people in both directions at the same time (lower latency). Seems quite clever if it works out.

teawrecks ,

Sounds like somebody's mommy needs to take their phone away.

teawrecks ,

This tactic—the so-called fire hose of falsehoods—ultimately produces not outrage but nihilism. Given so many explanations, how can you know what actually happened? What if you just can’t know? If you don’t know what happened, you’re not likely to join a great movement for democracy, or to listen when anyone speaks about positive political change. Instead, you are not going to participate in any politics at all.

teawrecks ,

The studio that made it was shut down.

teawrecks ,

If I'm going to game stationary, something with more than 10W of horsepower would be nice.

I agree that the steam machine was too early. People hadn't been fully disillusioned by the planned obsolescence of their console libraries yet. Today, in a world of $600+ consoles that are impossible to find within 2 years of their release, hardly any worthwhile exclusives, and Nintendo trying to make you repurchase the old games at full price again, a steam console could potentially sweep the industry.

teawrecks ,

This seems like something people could get working today, and I'd be all about it. Though I believe there are bandwidth limitations that hamstring performance with this setup. And those external enclosures are as expensive as the GPU that goes in it.

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

teawrecks ,

If someone is leaving windows for privacy reasons, it doesn't make sense to go to Ubuntu.

teawrecks ,

I admit, everything I know about Ubuntu is heresay as I don't use it myself. But I was under the impression that there was a lot of telemetry that they send back, and ads/bloatware they ship with to subsidize their development.

teawrecks ,

Oh yeah, totally agree it's not the same as windows. I said if their concern about windows was privacy, Ubuntu won't feel different. It'll feel like they're letting you use their PC. I still get that sense from all descriptions I hear. I forgot about the ads in the terminal, that's wild.

teawrecks ,

You have better things to do, why are you asking me that?

teawrecks ,

I don't.

Oof, fair enough.

The only part I think I was wrong about was the level of consent requested from the user. I was under the impression that they were kinda like Firefox, opting the user into telemetry sharing by default, making the refusal of data sharing more obtuse or hidden than it should be. But my impression that ubuntu still serves ads and still feels like someone else letting you use their system sounds accurate.

It sounds like you use Ubuntu, so you could probably let me know where I'm wrong.

teawrecks ,

Unfortunately, I think you're a rare breed. I've met people in graphic design and marketing who will actually defend advertising practices in the face of the incontrovertible fact that: I don't like it.

We're past the point of "you just don't know what you want" and well into "we're going to hold you down and shove it down your gd throat" territory.

teawrecks ,

Sounds like nzb with extra steps.

teawrecks ,

Maybe he's looking to retire and the board wants to make whoever follows him look like a godsend.

teawrecks ,

Honestly, I feel like you're being bizarrely calm about the situation. This is so far beyond unacceptable that one or both of them should be immediately fired for this offense, lest you have an open-and-shut hostile work environment lawsuit on your hands.

I would make sure to keep the text as evidence and let HR know about it. If the guys are somehow not fired, and ever approach you again or try to retaliate in any way, go consult a lawyer.

teawrecks ,

Don't delete it, don't act like this is a minor inconvenience, walk directly to HR or your supervisor and tell them what is going on. This is will-not-work-until-this-matter-is-resolved levels of unacceptable.

teawrecks ,

Does it need to be connected to the internet? At that age, I think you could get away with installing stuff locally that they could play with.

IMO you should create guard rails that you intend her to eventually understand and circumvent. Nothing is more empowering for a kid interested in tech than thinking they figured out how to get around the guard rails. Just make sure you can detect when it has happened.

Do something locally on the machine to block internet access. Maybe something as simple as turning off the network adapter. One day she'll either learn enough about the system to remove the guard rails, or she'll find other interests.

teawrecks ,

Sounds like you need to install polkit for the window manager you're using (xfce-polkit or lxqt-policykit on arch). That should enable apps to request root using the login popup.

teawrecks ,

Their post is a bunch of PR hidden by funnyspeak

I disagree, I think they said pretty plainly that they rely on security by obscurity, which is fundamentally at odds with an open platform that gives you control over your hardware. They're not wrong, they can take their shitty anti-cheat arms race and shove it.

teawrecks ,

Just trying to parse your comment, I assume your first "this" and second "this" are referring to different things, right?

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