The Mr.Beast Movie feels a bit like cotton candy flavoured cotton candy.

Depends on the AI. If you’re selfhosting, no, but some of the big companies watermark their output.

Plus, if they’re actually checking you input, with whatever probably paid service watermark check service, is another question.

Could have been condensed a bit. Like, this has him saying the same thing n times, and that’s nice in that it shows it wasn’t a fluke, but then you run into the risk of TL;DW.

Yes, he was an extremist. And not the kind that’s intellectually honest about it, despite the marketing - you’ll notice he picked who got to ask him anything very carefully.

Of recent assassinations, it’s the least bad one. If you think that’s fucked up, refer to 4:30; it was a taste of his own medicine, at the very least.

If they had just said “men”, “women” and “low-intensity” or something, nobody would have cared. Now, they’ve pissed off every side.

Ah yes, the famous problem of making everyone happy.

Ah, so it’s started a bit now. Good to know!

That has been around for decades.

TIL! Then it’s interesting that it didn’t get bigger faster, since the idea of locking people into your product isn’t new. Like, Dell could have been doing in 2000 what Samsung is now with it’s phones, and Linux would have been dead in the water.

Edit: Oh right, there weren’t any SoCs yet, at least at full scale. At the very least, you could always get out your probes and flash the ROM that way.

Should we ban printers because you may print a news article without buying the rights? Should we ban pen and paper because you could use it to infringe on a trademark by drawing it?

Of course, history is over, and all governments and corporations are 100% trustworthy. We don’t need to consider that opportunity for evil can’t actually be eliminated, just moved around. /s

I mean, it’s a little bit of a funny example when “but child porn” is often the argument for removing all digital freedom.

So now you can be a cyberpunk black market tech peddler for real?

There are devices now that have a SoC that’s completely locked down at the factory, although maybe none are 3D printers. It deserves more attention as the massive threat to digital freedom that it is.

Yes. They should require a certain number of significant digits, as opposed to just the nearest integer. Although someone’s saying that they actually let you round down from as many as 5 to 0, which is insane if true.

WTF. Like, sure, if you say “no decimal calories needed” it would make sense at the time, and could lead to this by accident. But that’s just silly.

They have some of the best accessibility regulations in the world.

Canada, at least, follows the US convention on this one. IIRC serving sizes are set by the government, though, if that’s any different.

The downside there is that if it’s, like, Marmite, you’ll never ever eat 100g in one sitting. So, you have to do a bunch of math to figure out how much salt is in the actual smear you’re using.

Their customers would take bars that cost the same and are imperceptibly smaller. Or, at least, would take it better than a price hike, I’d expect. Then, the Karens would come out.

Translation:

we have made a number of updates to our bar sizes and pack formats to reflect consumer demand

People don’t by Mars because it’s a top-tier, gucci product.

alongside considering wider external factors such as manufacturing costs and the price of cocoa

And if we stayed the same size, it’d be really expensive, because among other things the global climate no longer supports chocolate production.

TBF none of it is a lie. That’s as close as corporate-speak comes to “yup we did that”.

Food products, probably. In clothes or cars, for example, you can’t just make things smaller. With clothes, it seems more like skimpflation - some items definitely had thinner-feeling fabric right after COVID, although it got better again. With cars, they just raise the price, so that’s inflation.

If costs go up you have to do one of the three. You’re probably not getting angry phone calls because your Mars bar went down in size by 1g, but might if it’s more expensive or tastes like shit, so that’s the advantage there.

Lots of things are, decent and not.

The whole idea plastic waste is bad doesn’t seem to have made it over to Asia.