Please support peertube, it’s kind of like the Lemmy of streaming videos in that it’s a federated collection of providers.

A list of instances: https://joinpeertube.org/instances

e.g. peertube.tv

What pisses me off most is that the way the internet works now is that ten years ago, someone who wanted to share about how to service your 90s Volvo that would have written it on a web page with a few photos that would have been quicker, cheaper and easier to write, quicker and easier to read, and cost next to nothing to host.

But because Google control fucking everything, that same person is now heavily incentivized to make it a pointlessly long video instead, that took days to make and edit, and is harder to use while working, and if they don’t do that then they ain’t getting anywhere near the top of the search results and you weren’t going to find it anyway.

It sucks and I can’t wait for people to wake up and tell Google to fuck off and stop ruining the internet.

They’ll do anything to save themselves except for stop being evil.

Sometimes I wonder if those second-tier execs are even more culpable than the CEOs. Like, we expect CEOs to be psychopaths. But those second-tier guys that got a seat further down the table, off the back of a good degree and a few decades of hard work? They know what they’re doing is wrong but choose to go along with it anyway because they’re just following orders.

It’s still up more than 20% above what it spent most of March and April at.

I want to find one of these people who just bought TSLA at $284 and ask them what possible basis do they have for thinking the company’s earnings will grow by the 6,000% that it needs to in order to start returning anything like the industry average.

Tesla could achieve phenomenal unexpected growth and increase their market share by a factor of ten and they’d still have a massively unsustainable PE ratio.

The difference between not being keen on trans people and making a few shitposts versus actively devoting time and money towards oppressing them is HUGE.

This isn’t just someone with an alternative opinion we’re talking about. It’s someone using more wealth than a lot of us will never touch, to fuck over an already marginalised group. She’s pure fucking evil.

Yeah, the second one. It’s the ones prepared to do shit like that who get promoted in the first place.

Good job there’s more than 20 other studies out there for them to p-hack

JFC that fucking pisspoor AI photo they used. I fucking hate the future so much.

The image of China as an uncreative, uneducated backwards nation of drones good only for assembling phones, hasn’t been the reality for at least a decade.

A lot of people in the West don’t realize this because to this day there’s a vicious cycle of people only import cheap Chinese crap because China has a reputation for only making cheap crap because people only import the cheap crap. They don’t realize that China is also making top tier products, because nobody’s trying to import top tier Chinese products.

Same, it’s largely doing pretty much as the article implies, replacing StackOverflow for when I need the correct runes to do something specific.

For real. You can tell how good a programmer someone is, by how good they think an LLM is at programming.

Yup. I once decided to spend an afternoon answering questions on a framework I was expert in, as a kind of profile-building exercise to help with job hunting, and after around the third smug self-satisfied comment picking me up on some piece of irrelevant bullshit I deleted my account.

What’s more, Windows S Mode proved perfectly that you could offer the “safe” functionality that Apple claim they need to protect their customers, without fucking things up for people who wanted to take responsibility for vetting applications themselves.

I’m currently in the long tedious process of replacing all my details for every website and service with an email address at a domain I actually own, before some AI bot at Google decides that some random shit violates their TOC and deletes my Gmail.

Yes. This is basically the core of why capitalism eats itself.

You don’t have to be evil or short-sighted to be a CEO, but if you don’t do evil and short-sighted shit to pump the share price there’s a high probability the board will replace you with someone who will.

This is why I believe the government should hold stock and sit on the boards of any company that gets publicly listed. Much easier than tying yourself in knots with an adversarial system of complex regulations.

I think at least a few of those objections are addressed in the show.

The reason I didn’t like it is that all the previous incarnations of Wednesday had her as vengeful to those who deserved it, but basically decent, if a little sardonic, towards those who didn’t. Whereas this new one was a colossal B to everyone she met by default; made it kind of hard to root for her.

Sure, but they have a crazy large amount of data and an army of Data Science PhDs who sat down and calculated they’d make more money increasing their margins on people who’ll put up with it, than they’d lose pissing the rest of their customers off.

All the rest of us can do is leave our Torrents running and keep our ratios up…

: reads headline

Woo! Good for them! Stick it to The Man!

: reads article body

ahhhh fuck these guys

You started writing that reply before you finished reading my post, didn’t you?

Same. I could probably fill a page of A4 with stuff I know about him because I got fed it by The Algorithm, and yet nowhere on that page would there be the name of one of his songs.