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  • Spot the difference

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  • Many of the chronically online social media poster (read: western professional class) are closer to the CEO than they are to any other group. The temporarily embarrassed millionaires as they're also known.

    Statistically a not insignificant number of them are millionaires by net worth. Especially when we consider demographics where it's mainly tech workers. But of course that doesn't count because of some indeterminate line between evil CEO and average Joe who worked hard.

    The cognitive dissonance is that they're all part of the same system. Climbing the same ladder. In any other context these people are bragging about being executive of some random startup or whatever.

  • Contrary to What the Washington Post Says, China is Doing a Huge Amount to Fight Global Warming

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  • The same Washington Post that is a mouth piece for American oligarch Jeff Bezos? I can't imagine why they would have an anti-China slant.

  • Schrödinger China

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  • shunned from international space collaboration makes their own space program nobody notices

    Kinda wild how the west dissociates from China's space program basically in a modern day space race against everyone else. Imagine how much farther along humanity would be without the paranoid sinophobia. Some For All Mankind type of shit. Instead we're getting the Mirror Universe Terran Empire.

  • Done with r/Privacy on Reddit

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  • Reddit basically has a completely new userbase. It's not only by age of user. I don't think people have really appreciated the rate of attrition has been near total. The old userbase of tech savvy STEM college degree holders have effectively abandoned the platform.

    They've managed to sell the platform on a whole new set of users. So it looks like the site has kept on plugging along. But really reddit has successfully relaunched itself. Based on the idiosyncratic lingo I see most often. The bulk of users came from Facebook. They don't know the traditional redditisms so they use vernacular from the platforms they've migrated from.

  • Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

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  • Shit like this is why I use the most generic yankee cowboy aliases online.

  • People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back?

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  • People still gloat about piracy being a hydra where you cut off one head and more pop up. Except it isn't any where close to that. Probably hasn't been in at least 10-15 years. Piracy has been gradually chipped away at. People don't seem to want to admit that. As if that would be siding with anti-piracy or something.

    In its heyday the catalogues of content was immense in breadth and depth. Just about any obscure thing could be found. These days even popular TV shows become more difficult to come by even a short while after the episode has been released. Unless you have access to more private parts of the web then you're left trying to source some low quality trash tier download.

    Which brings me to the next point. Piracy used to be about providing the best possible quality. With popularity the quality got watered down. Opportunists came in trying to monetize it which drew the attention of authorities. Which drew the attention more opportunists which drew the attention of authorities. It snowballed.

    What piracy used to be was the spirit of the original internet. It was the library not just a library but the library of humanity. People catalogued and shared because that's what librarians do.

    If I had the power I'd take away its popularity. Make it obscure again. It was better when it was ruled by snobs and autistic perfectionists.

  • iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron

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  • So basically a copy of the battery pack T12 devices from China. Well done. You fixed an already fixed problem.

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

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  • The internet has been primarily derivative content for a long time. As much as some haven't wanted to admit it. It's true. These fancy algorithms now take it to the exponential factor.

    Original content had already become sparsely seen anymore as monetization ramped up. And then this generation of AI algorithms arrived.

    The several years before prior to LLMs becoming a thing, the internet was basically just regurgitating data from API calls or scraping someone else's content and representing it in your own way.

  • Illegal voting by noncitizens is rare, yet Republicans are making it a major issue this election

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  • The "first they came for..." quote is probably more damaging than people realize. They don't systematically make more different people the problem. Everyone is fair game at all times whenever it's opportune.

  • In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past

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  • From the very beginning

    When is that exactly do you have in mind? I'm talking about automation which roughly around 2010 the discourse was primarily centered around blue collar jobs. The discussion was about these careers becoming obsolete if AI ever advanced to the point where it involved little to no humans to perform the tasks.

    Back then AI with regards to white collar jobs was no where near the primary focus of discourse much less programming.

    Tech nerds back then were all gung ho about it making entire careers obsolete in the near future. Truck drivers were supposed to be a dead career by now. They absolutely do not hold the same enthusiasm right now when it's being said about their own careers.

    Are you seriously trying to imply

    You're way off the mark. Save your outrage.

  • Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments

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  • They appropriated /u/borat. It was an inactive account which was removed and given to the producers of the film to use for an AMA when it was released.

    spez, kn0thin, and reddit the company as a whole have zero scruples. There are no rules but what they say at any given moment. It's subject to change at any time.

  • No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.

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  • It's going to be used prolifically for something much more boring. Embellished product listings and fake reviews. If online shopping is frustrating now. It's probably going to get a lot worse trying to weed out good quality things to buy as photographs are no longer reliable.

  • In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past

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  • The sentiment on AI in the span of 10 years went from "it's inevitable it will replace your job" to "nope not gonna happen". The difference back then the jobs it was going to replace were not tech jobs. Just saying.

  • I have every reason to be unhappy and resentful, how not to be that?

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  • You're so far outside the box that everyone who disagrees is too small to be the big brain like you are.

    Except not. So cut the crap. Downvotes are for said dishonesty.

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  • more efficient and produce less heat

    Which was impossible to do with x86 space heater. Maybe if Intel hadn't sat idle and actually produced more efficient design. We could be reading about Apples own spin of x86 instead of ARM.

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  • It took long enough for the market to wake up to it. They dragged their ass for what like 10 years without much real innovation. And everyone knew it the whole time. Then Apple ditched them. That alone should have been a huge sign. Apple does not fuck around. They definitely knew Intel had been rotting from the inside out.

  • Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of the world?

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  • Technology used to be a thing to be optimistic about. The past 10-15 years or so has been a bit of a let down with capitalism fucking everything up.

  • Donald Trump calls for Taiwan to ‘pay’ for its own defence

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  • Colonialism seems to leave quite a mindfuck on local populations themselves. The young people I knew from Hong Kong (at the time since this was a long time ago) considered themselves British. Ethnically Chinese yeah but if you asked they were British. If the locals can be propagandized by invaders it's pretty easy to convince western zeitgeist that Hong Kong was anything but an occupied region of China.

  • Thailand's economy: factory closures due to cheap Chinese imports with job losses jumping by 80% within one year

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  • Much of the world has gone insane with capitalism. Why am I paying like $10-$20 for friggen USB cables when I can get it from China for a few dollars. Probably the actual cost. A few dollars for the product. And what like $15 to whatever millionaire/billionaire dudes who need keep padding their ridiculous game breaking stats.

    People can't even tell anymore because the goal posts have shifted so far. The anchoring bias has normalized the price to $20. Much lower prices seems like it must be cheating or something right. Has to be the only explanation. Can't be anything else. Nope.