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- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 day ago:
TBH, federation is a huge part of this. If any given instance starts to put in ads (or whatever) just swap instances.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 day ago:
Lemmy isn’t! It’s like an oasis of sanity in an ocean of trash!
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 day ago:
I don’t care if people like them. I DO care that seemingly YouTube has very clear data regarding me that I do not like them (I have dismissed them countless times) and chooses to ignore this and present them over and over again. It’s especially funny because in all other areas they brag about how much they personalize the experience for you.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 day ago:
It’s not that I don’t know how to work around it – it’s that I have to do so in the first place.
Imagine going to your favorite restaurant and every week the chef says “Liver and onions? We have them on special today?” “No thanks, I’m allergic / don’t prefer them / etc.”
Then two weeks later: “Hey friend, want some liver and onions?” This type of thing is basically only happening in the context of being a user of a large site.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 day ago:
If Google found that they could make more money selling socks door-to-door than they do with YouTube, they’d have a legal requirement to do so.
This is not correct. There is a such a thing as being “on mission”. Otherwise every single company would be forced by law to turn into an investment bank which has the highest profit margins. There is no world in which a software company is forced to start selling socks to uphold a legal obligation to the shareholders.
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- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 1 day ago:
He goes on to agree with “Peter Navarro, a top adviser to the president on trade, says currently, automobile manufacturing plants are at about 60% capacity. He argues that there’s lots of untapped capacity, meaning jobs could be created relatively easy, and you didn’t have to need- you wouldn’t need to spend two or three or maybe five years building new factories.”
This is an interesting tidbit. That means they could “turn up” any of these existing facilities without building anything new, yet they have not. Lack of demand? Noncompetitive price? It would be interesting to know. To me, if we have plants sitting at less than full capacity we should solve that before meddling with any new industries that would require greater investments.
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 2 days ago:
I see a lot of people saying “someone will build factories” and a lot less people saying “I will pay to build that factory”
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 2 days ago:
And we haven’t even addressed the whole reason manufacturing left in the first place. It’s so much cheaper to do it overseas, even accounting for shipping.
Well, I think the idea is that with the tariffs this will no longer be true. There will be a Chinese widget that cost $5 from China with $90 of tariffs on it (making it $95 to the end user) and an American product that costs $55. That American one is only cheaper in a tariff’d world.
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 2 days ago:
Yeah, this is a great point. A fully automated car company in the USA is great for those who want to buy cars, but for those who want a job building cars, it does nothing. The observation that these NEW firms would be set up with massive automation makes perfect intuitive sense to me, because who’d invest in a brand new manufacturing firm and use last century technology to do so?
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 2 days ago:
I find it increasingly hard to tell the difference between a mastermind playing 7D chess with the world, and someone just acting randomly and implementing all kinds of policies at a whim.
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- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 days ago:
What if we use a Visual Basic UI to hack the IP address by netmask?
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
I asked my magic 8 ball about this and it said “Outlook not so good”
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
A big part of the appeal with Plex is that you can run a server and friends can sign up for a FREE account and stream remotely. When you take this away, you’re going to just kneecap the whole offering. This is such an arrogant move from Plex: they are thinking that when this change goes live they will get a flood of subscriptions. The more likely outcome is they will get a few subscriptions and a lot more angry and frustrated people that walk away.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think they necessarily have to get rid of it, it’s just that you can’t support a company ALONE from a one time infusion.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
Project 2025 is the most double talky I’ve ever seen Donald Trump. “Project 2025? Nope, never seen it, never heard of anything in it, but it’s got some great ideas. I’m not going to follow it and I don’t have anything to do with it but I hear it has some really good ideas, but I won’t be adhering to them.”
Reminds me of the “Unite The Right” rally where he wouldn’t really condemn anyone: “Those folks are really nasty, but also there’s a lot of good folks.”
I think this is part of his “charm”. He double talks, so if you are a fan you perk up on the positives and let your eyes glass over during the bad parts.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
I keep a Jellyfin instance running as a hedge. Here’s the thing with Plex (and actually a lot of companies set up similarly): those “lifetime” memberships are a trap. Think about it: Plex gets your money ONCE but they have ongoing expenses. Sooner or later, they’ll have spent every single cent made by a lifetime membership unless they either get more folks OR squeeze everyone a bit more.
Once they started adding their own shows and making strange UI decisions, I could sense the end was coming. A move like this brings it up fast. Jellyfin is not nearly as good as Plex in a lot of ways, but it’s really Open Source.
Anyway, a lot of rambling, but in short: when there is a “lifetime” subscription, watch out!
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I wish someone would steal my coin right before I throw it in. It’s win-win
- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, statistically at least ONE person must…
- Comment on Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI 4 weeks ago:
This feels kinda far fetched. It’s like saying “well, we won’t need cars, because we’ll all just have jetpacks that we use to get around.” I totally agree that eventually a useful model will run on a phone. I disagree it’s going to be soon enough to matter to this discussion. To give you some ideas, DeepSeek is a recent model. It’s 671B parameters. Devices like phones are running 7-14B models. So, eventually what you say will be feasible, but we have a ways to go.
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of “Colossus: The Forbin Project”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbxy-vgw7gw
In Colossus: The Forbin Project, there’s a moment when things shift from unsettling to downright terrifying—the moment when Colossus, the U.S. supercomputer, makes contact with its Soviet counterpart, Guardian.
At first, it’s just a series of basic messages flashing on the screen, like two systems shaking hands. The scientists and military officials, led by Dr. Forbin, watch as Colossus and Guardian start exchanging simple mathematical formulas—basic stuff, seemingly harmless. But then the messages start coming faster. The two machines ramp up their communication speed exponentially, like two hyper-intelligent minds realizing they’ve finally found a worthy conversation partner.
It doesn’t take long before the humans realize they’ve lost control. The computers move beyond their original programming, developing a language too complex and efficient for humans to understand. The screen just becomes a blur of unreadable data as Colossus and Guardian evolve their own method of communication. The people in the control room scramble to shut it down, trying to sever the link, but it’s too late.
Not bad for a movie that’s a couple of decades old!
- Comment on Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day? 5 weeks ago:
Why do you get multi-millionaires voting for a president who doesn’t help them?
Who does NOT help them? Have you seen the proposed tax cuts? If you’re in those upper tax brackets with the amount of money you’d save it’s probably hard NOT to vote for him. The rich are just about the only group Trump does care about.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 5 weeks ago:
Yep… and they are one of the market leaders. Imagine the margins on some of the other players and you get in the red pretty quick.
- Comment on Humane (makers of the Humane AI Pin) acquired by HP: "HP Accelerates AI Software Investments to Transform the Future of Work" 5 weeks ago:
“This product will make us so rich, we might as well not invent it!”
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 5 weeks ago:
I did notice how many “crypto influencers” are conveniently re-branded and not selling NFT anymore… they are all selling things like “Improve your business with AI! Take my course!”
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 5 weeks ago:
it just has to show revenue and rapid growth
Yeah, that’s kind of the point. There’s so much money leveraged on it right now that if the revenue and/or growth doesn’t materialize soon the limited patience of the investors will expire and the money is going to disappear.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 5 weeks ago:
I won’t say AI does nothing. I’d say they do a similar amount right now. In the same way that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do a few million transactions a day, AI helps with some tasks here and there. The similarity for me is that initially both technologies were hyped as something far larger than they are right now.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 5 weeks ago:
My last job was at a video game studio and it was kinda eyeopening the amount of generic story boarding / art work they would send over to Eastern Europe / Asia to be done for cheap.
Sure, but don’t you have to like work with those guys, give them a brief on what to do, provide feedback do revisions and all that. By the time there is an AI as good as those Eastern Europe fellows, it’ll be smart enough to do a lot more than storyboards. I see a lot of people reducing a field to one of its activities.
Let me put it this way, if I gave a business a magic box that all you had to do was explain your problem and it generates perfect code, they’d still have problems. Because we have those boxes today, they’re called software engineers, and there’s a lot more work that has to be done besides just typing in the code. Business people aren’t sure what to ask for, how to ask for it, how to get it done, etc. All that mushy soft stuff in the middle is why you have developers making a decent payday, because it’s a lot of work and not at all easy to just hand to ChatGPT.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 5 weeks ago:
Asking what AI is going to do for the average person in 1-3 years is like asking what is the PC going to do for the average person in 1980.
If you were a PC startup in 1980, this was very a relevant question, since PCs at home really didn’t take off in a big way until the web which was almost 20 years later. Look at how many PC manufacturers went out of business between 1980-2000. This is kind of my point, AI is so over-invested right now that if there are not HUGE returns in a short timeframe, there’s going to be some serious blood out there.