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- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 day ago:
This thread is actually really depressing.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 day ago:
Wasn’t there an incident where Pelocy was begging for the national guard to be called in? Or maybe one of the cabinet members. And Trump kept declining.
So the only people to do the shooting were the limited number of capital police. I don’t think they’re set up for riot defense and it’s a lot to ask them to individually put their lives on the line by just shooting into the crowd.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 days ago:
Once they are following, I’d think you can begin to convert them to higher tiers of support through private channels?
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 days ago:
It’s all about control of reach.
If I was an influencer and using Patreon (I’m neither), it’s a simple decision:
Total reach * conversion rate * platform commission = income
Apple’s app store has a fuckton of desirable reach - they monopolize (arguably literally) all the easy payments from iphones and kill anybody else who tries to redirect eyeballs. They are too strong. But what else are you going to do if you need Patreons or app customers, etc?
You can’t ignore the reach, and you’d have to pay or work harder to get eyeballs another way too unless you can get free publicity by being crazy or something and pull people into your own payment/ download channels.
- Comment on Selfhosted Jira alternative 1 week ago:
Huly is worth checking out. We’ve been on it for about a year. They’re in super active developments so features are coming rapidly, sometimes breaking or requiring migrations.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 2 weeks ago:
I’d love to see all kinds of resistance to this.
If an armed militia shows up on the same street as ICE, but in greater numbers, there’s a pretty good chance these imposters leave.
I hope somebody’s working on building an app for recording everything possible and centralizing that information - license plates, photos, videos.
Perhaps homemade stingray devices that grab IMEI/IMSI numbers from agent’s phones, so that it’s easier to identify and link these agents between locations.
More people following them around to report on location and activities. Report on where they stay so that protests and obnoxious deterrence can be set up so that fewer businesses are willing to service these people.
There are so many more citizens than there are ICE agents. Doesn’t seem like it takes much to overwhelm them and push them out, so long as it’s coordinated.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 2 weeks ago:
If the country has another federal election, heck… if the country survives past this at all, I think there’s going to be a major conversation about states rights versus federal rights. What we’re seeing in Minnesota is wild, bordering on something that could spark a localized civil war if people start violently standing up against this. The states should be able to come together and defeat the federal government at any point.
The Constitution grants the federal government the right to exist, and it belongs to the people. Not any one leader. Evidently some of that power needs to be pulled back.
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if I’ll soon be able to just lean back and bark orders at my PC.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 3 weeks ago:
I’m no China expert but I lived In South China for a while between 2016 and 2024. The Chinese people I know are mostly hardworking, very motivated to succeed, and well capitalized. In their major cities you might be surprised to learn normal guys who earn half what you do are living a higher quality of life than you are, in terms of access to technology.
Their government is no doubt using uncouth methods to give their country unfair advantages. They don’t play well with others.
But holy shit there is one thing this Chinese government is doing well: effectively driving growth with targeted investments in the economy. They have been focused on that one mission consistently for a long time.
While democracies fuck around trying to decide if they should tax themselves to build public transportation, China installs 10 new ultrafast subway lines in just a few years in every big city. Covers the country in a network of high-speed rail. Drives the price of shipping goods around the country to almost nothing.
A kind of monoparty like China has is very likely a net negative when we look at world history, but for moments of time, if it’s the right one, amazing things can happen.
- Comment on The Commodore 64 is back on the production line for the first time in 30 years 2 months ago:
I love seeing projects like this.
I’m sure this first batch they are shipping will fill a certain niche demand and surely sell out. But after that I’m not so sure what the plan is or how it’s going to work out. Teaching? Retro afficianodos?a revival of commodore basic as a business operating system?
We’ve just come so far with emulators and cheaper, more capable, modern hardware that fits today’s computing world and the future. Learning how we solved computing 30-40 years ago is totally cool and relevant to a specific group but it’s not huge.
It would be awesome to learn that the team has plans to modernize and build on what’s there.
- Comment on ‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails 2 months ago:
Should have been Jeemail. Lost opportunity…
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 2 months ago:
A lot of FOSS projects are freemium based which seems viable for larger more complex projects.
In these projects it’s common to see the developer get paid for adding features on top of the core version, for a SaaS version, for custom development, or for offering support.
Other projects with a lot of community interest - and a good “community manager” style organizer can attract contributors in the form of pulls, bug testing and reports, and widespread use which generates valuable marketing. These projects only exist because of the labor of love from the whole community.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 2 months ago:
I used Waymo half a dozen times or so when traveling to San Francisco this year.
The experience was actually quite good. The cars arrive within a minute or two, they’re clean and high-end (for what amounts to a taxi), and you can set up the atmosphere according to your mood. The driving was smooth and uneventful.
Unless they raise the prices significantly, I would continue to choose Waymo over human drivers.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 2 months ago:
This is something travel agent websites do too.
If you’re logged out, they’ll show you a price that’s really attractive. But if you log in with an account that’s got some history, they’ll suddenly say that price is no longer available now you need to pay the higher price.
Agoda.com I’m looking at you
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 months ago:
I’m not against ads in principle. The advertisers are paying the bill for stuff I consume. Great.
For that effort, they get a chance at my wallet. And to be honest, making me aware of a business or product is indeed a way to get me interested in what they sell. I do prefer the ads to be relevant instead of always useless.
That being said, it’s currently preferable to use a blocker and let the people who don’t know how to use blockers subsidize my ad-free ways.
- Comment on There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America 2 months ago:
Exactly. There’s no demand when the price increases so much.
- Comment on There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America 2 months ago:
Yes we can. That side of the business is growing.
I think a lot of other e-commerce businesses have also shifted away from the US market as well. So US buyers have fewer choices now.
I’ve searched quite a lot and cannot find factories in the US for the kind of goods we sell. I’m sure we could pay somebody considerably more who would do it but then we would have no customers.
- Comment on There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America 2 months ago:
I own an e-commerce business. We make and ship goods directly from China.
Our margins are tight, basically we cannot sell in the USA for a lower price. Our suppliers can give a tiny bit of margin back to us, but same story for them too.
So we have 2 options:
A. Stop selling in the US B. Add a tariff charge, so that if people still want to buy, they can.
We chose option B, direct passthrough of the tariff cost. About 60% still pay, and we lost the rest of our customers.
I don’t know where else they shop, because our competition did the same, but I assume they decided not to buy anything given the higher cost.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 months ago:
AI companies believe the market will give the best rewards for a winner-take-all strategy.
They believe now is the time to accumulate customers.
Their future financing rounds very likely depend on being able to show growth.
Entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors all know it’s not everything it’s cracked up to be (yet). They hope another few billion in cash will get it there. And hope you don’t notice until they already won the market.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 months ago:
Thank you
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 months ago:
I was ready gawk at what ads on my fridge would look like, and then this. I don’t know what I expected.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 3 months ago:
I was at the Canton Fair last week which is a trade show in China where manufacturers display some of their latest technology.
There was a robotics display all where they are showing off how lots of factories, kitchens, another labor-based jobs can be automated with technology.
a robot that can operate a deep fryer in a restaurant
This doesn’t really have a lot to do with AI or LLMs, but the field of robotics is advancing fast and a lot of basic work that humans had to do in the past won’t be needed as much in the future.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 3 months ago:
If your argument attacks my credibility, that’s fine, you don’t know me. We can find cases where developers use the technology and cases where they refuse.
Do you have anything substantive to add to the discussion about whether AI LLMs are anything more than just a tool that allows workers to further abstract, advancing all of the professions it can touch towards any of: better / faster / cheaper / easier?
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 3 months ago:
From the article:
“The thing about that farmer,” Altman said, is not only that they wouldn’t believe you, but “they very likely would look at what you do and I do and say, ‘that’s not real work.'”
I think he pretty much agrees with you.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 3 months ago:
I think your strategy makes sense for all workers. Being aware of your role in the final solution is more important than the steps needed to get there, and tools merely change the process, often improving it in some way.
A guy with a hammer cant automatically build a house without skills, but it sure helps those who have them. A guy with a nail gun can build a house faster and perhaps with less skill, and few argue that it’s not a worthy improvement.
Some types of photographers may no longer need to operate a camera, but instead transition into someone who can knowledgeably ask for the results from an AI that properly captures the mood and tone required for the end result.
We’re changing how it’s done, but not necessarily what is done.
- Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start Withwww.yahoo.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 159 comments
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 months ago:
We’re about to go through about 10 years of vibe coded garbage aren’t we.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Do you remember the era of popups before popup blockers? You’d land on malicious site and have autoplay porn sounds 37 windows deep and just have to long press the power button to get away from the shame. Twas rough then, still rough now.
Unless we’re talking about the days when lynx could render the whole site. Those were days when we didn’t have too many problems like this.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 3 months ago:
This is a case of stupid laws that still don’t understand the internet.
If an http GET request initiated from country A traverses routers and wires around the globe to grab some data from a server in country B, then we have to accept that the owners of the server are not “operating in country A” and in fact the user in country A is responsible for import.
If some laws in country A have a problem with this, then they should unplug their internet wires at the border, or at least learn how to use them and/or govern their citizens.
All that is tongue in cheek to say they can fuck right off.
- Comment on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents 3 months ago:
That was Donnys way to scratch Elon’s back for helping with the campaign. After the back stabbing and subsequent fall out, I’m sure Elon took all his people out.
