Invertedouroboros

@Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, in my social circle we’re all kinda treating it like this… strange, self-inflicted, natural disaster. Like we can’t even really joke about it, still. It’s like we all know it’s gonna be bad, the only question is how bad it’s going to be. There’s a lot I’m hoping is over-reaction, but honestly that’s a pretty shitty thing to hope for and a hard hope to maintain all things considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was rigged?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can have a little bit of CTE, as a treat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What a brilliant way to put it, “theft from the public domain”. I’m gonna have to remember that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not against nuclear power, but could they have concocted a worse set of motivations? Restarting Three Mile Island to power Microsoft’s AI ambitions? Shit reads like something a super villan would cook up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube has fully blocked Invidious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also ran into some issues simply accessing youtube through my vpn, but that’s been going on for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A message on navigating life's uncertainty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro took a long shower I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. So much of the right wing media space is inhabited by, funded by, and glorifies grifters that they’ve created a constant chunk of their audience that is vulnerable to their tactics. Values or policy prescriptions don’t even really need to come into it, if you are a grifter it’s just a smart business decision to start drifting to the right. It opens up those audiences to you because you are “one of them”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if Biden dies before the next inauguration (see inside)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’d also count as a full term in office so far as the rule against running more than twice goes. So you could run for reelection, but that isn’t a “one werid trick” to getting three terms in office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay Mad⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna be honest, I was thinking of Dracula flow when I posted this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay Mad⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mother fucker could be Dracula for all I care. Still voting for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This… this is news to people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a dumb question. Of the ones you listed I’ve only ever used Obsidian and Notepad++. I’m not sure notepad++ can do that, but Obsidian can I think. Obsidian has a core plugin (expansions made and supported by the developers that ship with the program by default) that allows for audio recording and embedding in your notes. I think that by default you have to go and turn it on in settings, but once you’ve done that you should be good to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m already planning to. I run Windows 10 and as soon as that stops receiveing security support (or really as soon as I have the time) I’m gonna be swapping over to Linux for good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Think that’s where it started actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. As people have said above the infinite free money is drying up. That’s a fact that all these corporations have to contend with. The only difference between Twitter and Facebook or Unity and Google is that Twitter and Unity have made their dumb decisions already. Facebook, Google, and others have navigated this fairly well so far. But they are feeling the same pressures that Reddit and Unity did and eventually they will bend to them too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously not a lawyer, but I’m not 100% certain that the billing terms would stand up to legal scrutiny. It’s been kinda hard to keep up with this story so my apologies if any of this is wrong, but I believe that they said they were wanting to use an “aggregate proprietary model” to determine downloads. What that basically means (I think) is “we’ll tell you how much you have to pay us but we can’t independently justify any individual charge”.

  Again, I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t know of anything off the top of my head that’d make that illegal, but it also doesn’t really feel like it’d square with how things work. I mean if companies could just make up a number and say you owe them that much without being able to say why or whether or not that number comports in any way with reality, then what’s stopping every company from doing that? What’s stopping a magazine for example from coming back to you and saying “Yes, you paid us for the magazine. But our proprietary aggregate model that totally reflects reality promise tm suggests that you might have shown that magazine to two or three other people after you purchased it from us. So that means you have to pay us three instances of the review licence fee.”?

  I don’t know. Obviously this is all scuzzy and morally wrong. It’s just that even factoring in that this is a subscription service and that they are a corporation with an army of lawyers who’ll likely win any challenge to it, I can’t really shake the feeling that there’s something fundamentally legally wrong about that aspect of it in particular that wouldn’t hold up in court. Even for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a part of me that legitimately wonders how far Twitter could go as an influncer bubble. Granted this is unlikely to happen but if everyone who’s not an influencer just left for Mastodon and Twitter just became a hollow shell of influencers trying to sell products to customers who just aren’t there, how far would Twitter’s inerta carry it before anyone realized?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the FTC should be handing out antitrust suits like candy. Late stage capitalism has created a bit of a target rich environment, if only the FTC could take advantage.