Of course they know. They are knowingly making an addictive product that simulates an agreeable partner to your every whim and wish. OpenAi has a valuation of several hundred billion dollars, which they achieved in breakneck speeds. What’s a few bodies on the way to the top? What’s a few traumatized Kenyans being paid $1.50/hr to mark streams of NSFL content to help train their system?
Every possible hazard is unimportant to them if it interferes with making money. The only reason someone being encouraged to commit suicide by their product is a problem is it’s bad press. And in this case a lawsuit, which they will work hard to get thrown out. The computer isn’t liable, so how can they possibly be? Anyway here’s ChatGPT 5 and my god it’s so scary that Sam Altman will tweet about it with a picture of the Death Star to make his point.
The contempt these people have for all the rest of us is legendary.
Reminds me of all those stupid "cyberpunk 1994, office nights 1998" ai slop playlists on YouTube. They all have a common theme: they don't represent or even remotely sound like the kind of music from the year they claim to take you back to. and the tracks, if one can call them that, are the same repetitive, thoughtless rhythms. If you go to YouTube to find some background music to listen to, these kinds of uploads dominate the search results today. And it's all D-tier shit.
Anubis only does a proof of work challenge if you lack a specific cookie that it gives you. You can temporarily enable JavaScript, pass the challenge, get the cookie, then disable JavaScript.
I use uBlock Origin, btw, to make selectively enabling/disabling JavaScript per domain a simple two-click task.
lie about election results, lie about bombing other country results, lie about employment statistics, lie about genocide, lie about vaccine results, lie about sex traffickers, lie about climate change, lie about crime rates in cities, lie about...
It's a country where the first president was a slave owner, and has slavery embedded into its founding. So you're of course correct. We are just wavering between levels of "awful" and "very awful."
For me the experience is not flawless, but it's not problematic either. For instance, I have never encountered random flickering just because a wrong program was open. In your case if you're using Nvidia as a GPU and are using Wayland as a display compositor that might explain some of your problems like Vivaldi flickering, where it might not be an issue in an Xorg session.
And the fact that you have to be potentially aware of these things is one of the annoying aspects of using Linux.
IME the nicest part of Bazzite is not having to manage it. To that end, it works on my Steam Deck. But that's nothing to do with stability, as you say. In its own ways it's more annoying to use than a regular distro.
Clearly people are finding use for it, but I personally find those annoying aspects needless speedbumps in my own usage. Except for, again, on my Steam Deck.
It's not just who's on there. It's also how the platforms promote content into your feed. When I was on Facebook in 2008 the friend feed was just that. Just people I mutually knew IRL posting. Facebook hadn't yet figured out how to really monetize it. Advertisers were not as on it. SEO wasn't really a thing yet.
Fast-forward 5-6 years and it really grew into an all-encompassing thing. Yeah, more people were on it, but so were the marketable opportunities. So were the suggested posts. So were all the news organizations, the grifters, the advertisers... and Facebook's role in all of that is to promote the most outrageous and engaging content to you to keep you on the site longer than ever before. They have it down to a science.
UBlock on iphone works well and is free but is limited to safari, does not appear to even work with safari used as an in-app browser
This is the most annoying part about "content blockers" on iOS. Works fine in this one narrow context. Otherwise you need DNS filtering. I use PiHole, and I have it set up to VPN back home when I'm away to keep myself covered.
Among those limitless git guis I started trying out sourcegit and it seems pretty good. To date magit is the only other one I’ve tried, and it’s also really good.
