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  • Private jets are awful for the climate. It’s time to tax the rich who fly in them | US Senator Edward J Markey

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  • Why are you angry someone wants to provide a conversation starter to multiple communities where its relevant? If you see something you've already read and you don't want to read it again it takes less than a second to keep scrolling, or to change the sorting algorithm you're using

  • Private jets are awful for the climate. It’s time to tax the rich who fly in them | US Senator Edward J Markey

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  • Socialism for the rich. Capitalism for the rest of us

  • ‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

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  • I'm a DevOps engineer. I work with big technology every day. I am very definitively not a Luddite. But the way the capitalists controlling our economy view and want to use AI is harmful to us, the lower and middle classes. I'm not sure which part of my view is so stupid that it enters into psuedoscience, leading me to not even being wrong

  • ‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

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  • Cool. Using slave labor to train tools to strip the best parts of humanity away from us so that AI can do creative activities like poetry and art while we're more and more stuck in a gig economy.

    Cool cool cool cool.

  • Why do most browser companies opt for a Chromium/Blink base instead of a Firefox/Gecko one?

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  • Blink has a younger code base that's easier to build on. Gecko has been around since the early 90s and has some ancient evils lurking deep within. At least that was the reasoning a while ago. As Mozilla has been putting a heavy emphasis on code correctness for the last few years, that may no longer be the case. Then again, momentum is a big deal, and I still see people saying the don't want to try Firefox because its memory inefficient even though they fixed that bug almost a decade ago now and its less resource hungry and faster than chrome now

  • Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser

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  • I don't think it's coordinated, I think it all starts from the same root cause: Silicon Valley Bank failed. These companies all need to do something they've really not done much of in the past: turn a profit. But these companies are not run by the business geniuses we were once convinced were running the show. Most of them live so far removed from a normal persons life that they don't understand what motivates us, what we want in a platform, and as soon as we provide feedback after they've already made a decision, they decide it's because we don't understand the squeeze they're under to make money.

    • Twitter: Elon Musk thinks he could make more money from subscriptions than advertisements. The whole thing's a disaster because that's really dumb. This case may be a little different though because there's some evidence Musk just wanted more people to see his tweets and to pay people to be his friend
    • Reddit: Spez fails to see that he has multiple revenue sources available to him so long as he keeps his users around. Somewhere, there was the right balance of charging for the API at a reasonable price, performing better market research on his user base to provide a better ad platform, and keeping the Reddit coin system in place as the base liked it because the user base paid more for that than most similar online payment schemes.
    • Google: this is the scary one. This is the one that seems like they know exactly what they're doing. They're ramping up their enshittification following the fall of SVB, but the way they're doing it is both malicious and a minor enough inconvenience that the majority of their users will stay. And they're doing it in small quiet ways. A little bit of tweaking how YouTube bans users here. A little bit of RFCs about DRM on the web there. Some PRs to chromium and android no one will notice. All to squeeze more ads into peoples online experiences. Their search product has been utter shit for about 6 years now, but people still prefer it over Bing or DuckDuckGo (which is a wrapper for Bing). They've learned the following lesson: if you're big enough, the citizens of the web will let you do it

  • To celebrate Slackware turning 30, I put on my 13.37 release t-shirt!

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  • I never want to touch a Slackware box, but I respect the hell out of it, and I'm glad it exists