The problem comes from people responding to them, in communities that are text-first. You can flag a person as a troll… but unless you ban them, then eventually the discussions spill over.

Overwatch doesn’t have that same issue, because text is not at its core; you can mute people, and keep playing the game. Game-disrupting players though, still get banned.

That would work, if it wasn’t individuals who don’t see others as people. The moment someone dehumanizes others, there are dedicated professional who can babysit them back to sanity.

My bad, Kiwix is on IzzyOnDroid. You’re right, F-Droid itself might have a tougher time.

F-Droid does automated patching already, they often remove “anti-features”. The migration is a PITA, but not the end of the world, Kiwix did that recently (split into Play Store and F-Droid versions).

No matter how much epoxy you put on a broken condom, it’s not going to work. The moment ads get sent via the same encrypted “tunnel”/connection as the service, you can no longer separate them at the network level.

I downloaded Sora.

Not Sora, Sora’s app. Sora is a cloud service.

And if the business model of open AI is advertising

It’s not, it’s to sell AI services to other businesses.

Cuz the business model was supposed to be 40% of people lose their jobs

Was not, it was always to sell AI services to other businesses. Marketing hyperbole… that’s marketing for you.

in that world, maybe maybe it’s worth half a trillion dollars. In that world, maybe Nvidia is worth the entire pharmaceutical industry combined.

The largest breakthrough in AI so far, is precisely its use in the pharmaceutical industry.

But Nvidia is definitely not worth the entire pharmaceutical industry combined

No, it’s worth more.

if the business model is making slop talk worse by putting slop advertisements into it.

It’s not. Not to say there won’t be advertisements, and propaganda, and manipulation… that’s just an extra, not the business model.

I’m scrolling Martin Luther King Jr. going 67. Like, that’s got to be illegal somehow. Like, I’m pretty sure that you can’t just do that.

It was not, is not, and public domain is public domain for a reason.
Asking for something else, is censorship, like what Trump is asking for right now.

The friction matters. How easy it is to do this stuff matters.

Censorship talk again.

And then they put like a little watermark here that’s like extraordinarily easy to crop out. It’s never in the middle. It’s always at the top or the bottom.

Plenty of videos out there with the watermark right in the middle.

They shouldn’t be in charge of the kind of thing that could literally by their own admission destroy humanity.

Hook, line, and sinker. More marketing hype.

Update: I see the issue now.

I don’t see the issue:

1. F-Droid compiles the apps
2. F-Droid publishes the apps
3. F-Droid gets registered
4. F-Droid subclasses app identifiers under its own

…and things go back to normal.

You won’t be able to update an F-Droid app with an Obtainium one, but Android is already warning about those, not allowing automatic updates from mixed sources.

$8.76/kWh is a terrible fucking investment

Not kWh, it says watts not watt-hours.

Still a silly way to refer to computing power, though.

Ragebait misinformation video.

Funny that it’s criticizing misinformation, while doing it himself 😒

There is a long history of artists "pushing the envelope… by self-deprecating and making “statements” about how ridiculous the market for art is.

You don’t get to shove Dada, a Campbell’s soup can, canned “artist’s shit”, a black square on a canvas, a pile of trash, a shirt on a coat hanger, a self-shredding copy of a graffiti, and thousands of similar examples, all under the same label as the Louvre, illustrators, writers, etc… then magically have people value all artistic work.

There has been continuous, serious, self-damage done to the concept of “art”, and now come the consequences: the general public, thinks the value of art is close to $0, and that’s what they’re willing to pay.

Coincidentally, AI companies allow anyone to get “better than literal shit” art done for $0… so… 🤷

Customer perception of the value of art in general. You don’t get to call it all art, without muddying the perception.

Rule 1 of crypto: “Not your keys, not your money”

There is a reason why cold wallets are a thing.

“artists don’t deserve a living wage” or “they don’t do real art”

Blame the “Modern Art” movement, where a black square, or canned literal shit, can be worth millions.

At some point, people realized that they don’t need real art, just to decorate an office or house space with “artsy looking” stuff, so they went on a chase to the bottom. That used to be random people from third world countries working for peanuts… now it’s LLMs and GenAI working for fractions of peanuts.

Same thing has been going in all areas. Who needs a slab of real ice (from a mountain) for their fridge, when they can get fake ice much easier, for a fraction of the cost.

Appearances, preconceptions, stereotypes… are shortcuts used to deal with complex issues. Since VCs don’t really care about 90% of the startups, they only need to weed out the worst ideas, in the quickest way possible.

Story time: When I was 20, I had some job interviews lined up, so a family friend helped me pick a decent looking suit and robe that weren’t too expensive. Got offered 3 different jobs in a single week 🤷

As long as you can re-disable it after playing the game…

I know, all background processes get impacted during gameplay, but that was the case already. The popup can explain the tradeoff, and who’s to blame (game dev).

The new kernel.split_lock_mitigate knob, if set to zero, will disable the penalization of processes using split locking (while retaining the warning sent to the system log)

Sounds to me like it’s fixed. WINE could follow dmesg, and show a popup with recommendations when it detects one of its processes is getting throttled.

There are two sides to that story.

There is not enough gold to match the increases in both population and productivity of the last 70 years, and you don’t want just a handful of people holding gold that spikes in value through the roof.

Smart people invest in companies that pay dividends. Speculators invest in… whatever, tulip bulbs.

Q: What do you call a business that destroys itself?
A: Failed business model.

Sometimes, the only way to learn that, is through pain.

Get VC funding… like this:

Schiffmann posits himself as older now, wiser, more experienced than he was when he first debuted the Friend necklace. (He is 22.) He has grown out his hair and cultivated a beard

A wise 22 year old with a beard… 😮‍💨

The VCs are clueless, they jump on a bunch of “feels good” and “disruptive young blood” stuff, hoping that maybe 1 in 10 will not fall and burn.

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