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They also never knew. They went from being tech nerds dyring a timewhere tech was very expensive and limited to venture capitallists. These were never “normal” people.

Thr functional monopoly does not get to occupy thr “good” column judt because gamers can’t help but fall, hungerly, on billionaire Gabe Newell’s crotch.

No, Ubi is evil. Ubisoft heads believe you have no rights to the game you bought. None whatsoever. Yves has the biggest hardon for cloud streaming you’ve ever seen, because it means a perpetual revenue stream for him, and zero control for you.

Well, most of us know how to deal with all of those, and the vast majority of them haven’t been an issue for the average user for, like, decades now. No one’s fucking with compatubility mode post, like, 2004.

Meanwhile, most of the help you get when trying to solve issues on Linux are command line commands that are not explained by the helper and which we have no idea what they actually do.

The fight I had just to get my printer to work. The fight I’m still having to get my audio interface to work consistently.

It’s not an abstraction of search, though. It’s a conditional regurgitation of the entire Internet with randomization. That is significantly and meaningfully different.

It’s not finding text or context matches and reproducing them, it’s guessing the next word based off of the steaming pile of horse shit people have dumped over the Internet in attempts to garner attention or scam others.

AI is always great at things I don’t know how to do, and right about things I don’t know about, but bad at the things I know how to do (often in ways that are subtle but ultimately catastrophic), and wrong about the things I know about (often in ways that are sneaky or nuanced, but which lead to gross misunderstandings).

Not sure how they managed to tune it to me, *n particular, so precisely, but those geniuses working on it sure do know their stuff!

/s

Oh, I hope this kills them. I’m desperate to never use Confluence or Jira ever again.

That’s because prices don’t reflect costs, but what sellers believe we will pay. If people stopped paying them…

It’s really not that weird. Most people aren’t going to self-host… anything. A news magazine isn’t going to bother covering it, even if it is focused on tech news.

This is the WHOLE point of why these generative models have been pushed so hard the past couple of years. They tested the waters to see if people would accept “it’s the computer’s fault” as an acceptable excuse, and then slammed on the gas.

Accountability sinks, as Dan Davies has named them, are the whole point. It’s everything a slimy corporate CEO or government official has ever wanted.

Being subscribed to those communities (n a single website.

If people would get the fuck off Reddit and decide it was ok to have multiple websites to log into, it would be harder. Internet centralization is a personal security risk.

It’s a lot harder to demand your government ID on a federated platform.

I have a lower-mid-end OnePlus. It is decidedly meh. It’s fine. It cost more than I wanted, has poor finger print reader placement, lacks induction charging, and never got the promised unlocked boot loaders, but it has the 3.5 mm headphone jack and microSD slot that I demanded from a phone.

It sure is a phone.

Oh, that’s actually the opposite of what the headline and article are talking about. It’s discussing how companies who have started using AI - that is, become the “habitualized user” - aren’t seeing any business benefits. Adding the real cost of use on top of that is going to make the decision a significant loss for these groups.

This is good enough for me. This means the Firefox code base will not get so integrated with AI features that forkers cannot remove them, and that was my primary concern.

Librewolf and Waterfox devs have both publicly said they wouldn’t be inclluding the AI stuff. Waiting on Floorp and Zen devs to weigh in still.

Well, with RAM prices already through the roof, and now SSD and GPU prices set to spike, I guess my plans for building a new desktop are out the window for the foreseeable future.

The thing is, they haven’t chosen not to decide, they’ve chosen to hide behind the rhetoric of not choosing. Substack chose the Nazis, fairly explicitly. And I’m sure Sequoia wouldn’t be neutral if the female COO had been making anti-Israel posts.

Weirdly enough, most companies collecting your data are actually really bad at doing so. Business people don’t prioritize data at all, and data collection is a total afterthought, often treated as a major inconvenience. It costs money, and they can’t charge for it.

The reason why there was no fallback is because that would have cost money to implement, and they can’t imagine someone wanting to use their product that way.

No. You don’t get to just decide you have the right to use someone else’s work just because you coudn’t find them to ask, any more than you get to decide that you can use their car. Them not actively selling their works isn’t the equivalent of leaving the car derilict on public property.