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Buddahriffic

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  • "Capitalism rewards innovation!"

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  • Any kind of power can corrupt. This isn't an argument against trying, but for any systems of power to be built with mechanisms to make it more difficult to entrench that power so it doesn't end up used against those it is intended to help.

    Though I don't know what kind of defense there is against a cult of personality.

  • Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

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  • Yeah, for a while I was looking for any benefits to moving from win 10 to 11. 7 to 10 had kernel and scheduler improvements, for example.

    Only ones I could find were the virtual desktop support (though I had an alternative desktop back in the XP or Vista days that supported that, so not really groundbreaking), and WSL, which I didn't have any use cases for.

    Other than that, it was just shit I didn't want. Copilot, recall, more UI changes that don't really add anything (on my work laptop where I didn't have a choice, first thing I did was go into the UI options and undo as much as I could). One of the things I used to like about windows was that it wasn't a mac, but the UI changes look like that's their inspiration. The inspired folks porbably all left already.

  • And then Princess was the dragon

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  • What?

  • Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

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  • I like that Linux isn't designed for the lowest common denominator. Windows frustrated me as much with the stuff that was designed for the stupid as the stuff that was designed to make them money, just the second one ended up dominating in the end. But I remember the earlier frustrations often having the thought "I bet they just changed this to reduce support calls from people who don't know wtf they are doing".

  • And then Princess was the dragon

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  • It's called a comic, the images are in sequence and tell a brief story, though you do need to know how to read to understand what's going on, so find an adult to read it to you and explain what's going on in the last panel.

  • The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K

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  • I had an upgrade plan for my PC that involved a step up to a 4k monitor, but when the time came, it was hard enough just finding a 4k monitor with decent specs that I stopped to really think about whether I would really benefit from it. I already knew I didn't need it, but I realized that I wouldn't even really gain anything from it. I already used the UI scaling with the one 4k monitor I had at work, so that was a wash. And for games, I didn't really have any times when I wished the resolution was higher than the 1440p I was already using, but I did have times when I wished it would generate the frames faster or more consistently.

    Part of the change was a new GPU to handle 4k better (they were supposed to justify each other), but I ended up just getting an ultrawide 1440p monitor instead.

    I don't think I'll ever bother with higher than 4k for TV or 1440p for PC.

  • Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

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  • That's the closest I've been able to think about for why people turn to puritanical values in the first place: jealousy that others can do fun things they think they can't, plus maybe a second layer of being upset that some aren't also upset about it.

    Oh wait, I almost forgot about the control angle, where if you can convince enough people that some normal and ok aspect about humanity is actually wrong, then you can catch people "slipping" and manipulate them via guilt or blackmail.

  • How is this real?

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  • Should have started with those arguments because they are the good ones. Or how it's being shoehorned into many areas where it's not wanted and likely is there to help improve and disguise data collection. Or how some AI owners are trying to use some of that money to create a computing monopoly to remove alternative options to those unwanted AI-laden products and let them do our computing for us.

    Making jobs obsolete is just what tech does over time. Our economic system is more the issue here and makes these things into a problem in the first place. It did if before AI was a thing, what with all the extra productivity without associated wage gains.

  • How is this real?

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  • You reduced the argument to whether or not someone was getting paid for the art. And I'm just staying consistent: I've never given a fuck about copyright before this and am not going to start because AI has changed the landscape. Especially not for little clip art like this that I wouldn't put much value to in the first place.

    And the whole "whataboutism" thing is a deflection used in the final stages of denial about how horrible american imperialsm has been for certain parts of the world, though it worked because it was deflecting what was already a deflection "if the US gets away with all this, then China should be able to get away with some things, too!" When I always thought neither should get away with it, rather than the "only pay attention to the one thing, let's not talk about that other thing" angle "whataboutism" invokes.

    Technology has always been about making it easier to do things so that a more skilled person doesn't need to be hired to get a better result.

  • Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

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  • Puritanical bs has nothing to do with morals, as much as some like to pretend it does. What harm are you trying to call out or prevent?

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    No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

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  • They make me think of kids who hide food they don't want to eat in stupid places and get all surprised when they realize it makes wherever they were hiding it into a biohazard.

    Or anyone who thinks they are getting a free benefit from using something a certain way and completely ignoring that each use ruins it a bit more.

  • How is this real?

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  • What about all of the other free art out there? People making their own profile pics or just sharing ones for others to use, is that irresponsible art because it does dick all to strengthen the economy?

  • This app to meet new people relentlessly sends you a "redeem your free ticket" notification, sometimes 10 in an hour . With no way to disable this type of notification in-app

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  • Not gonna gatekeep posts, but this one seems more like a bug than asshole design IMO. Though "pay attention to me!"-style notifications existing for the app at all is assholey, so it's probably a bug in their asshole design.

  • How accurate is this?

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  • I bet that the question depends more on management than the customers or type of work.

    Like a good manager that doesn't take shit from customers will be way better than the ones that bend over backwards for any complaint.

    Same thing for the ones who are chill as long as things are getting done vs the one that is more interested in seeing the illusion of work being done even if things are neglected (because all their attention is making sure people look busy rather than really understanding the work to evaluate results).

  • Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

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  • I think the tech industry got used to people not giving a fuck as they shoveled more and more anti-features with weak "feature" reasoning to back it up (like convenience of having all your files in one place to justify continual data transfer between the device and their servers, processing audio remotely to justify sending an audio feed, "you can access your history" to justify saving the history, etc) that they are surprised that there's pushback as it enters this new level.

  • Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

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  • This feels like similar energy to getting outraged about a tan suit.

    Were all involved parties consenting? That's the only thing that matters.

    Plus on the optics side, we've yet to see if being in the Epstein files is bad enough optics for CEOs, so I think "signed something on an adult woman's boobs when she most likely specifically requested/offered it" is entirely a non-issue.

  • How is this real?

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  • My enjoyment of things is not dependent on some financial transaction happening in the background.

  • I'm foss plus steam

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  • I think this can be said about a lot of the groups focused on some ethical viewpoint. They come out with a lot of rage, which might be justified for their viewpoint but does more to generate opposition than support. One of those "you might be right but you're still an asshole" situations even for those who agree with them, but the type that provokes "you don't like that I do this, eh? Well I'm going to do it even more because I don't like you and I want to upset you" kind of responses in those who don't agree.

  • I'm foss plus steam

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  • I don't get why you make such an effort to avoid meat only to seek out vegetables prepared to mimick meat dishes. I'd argue that's not what vegetables are good at. There's plenty of vegetable dishes that are delicious without needing to pretend there's meat involved. Indian cuisine has a ton of them.