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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As pointed out elsewhere around these comments, this looks like another classic example of enshittification. Just like everything that’s invented, it often starts out with a fairly solid design–it couldn’t succeed without that. Once the success is captured, they can start dissecting the design and figure out what parts can be made with cheaper materials (common example: replacing metal w/plastic) and/or cheaper tech. From that point it’s iterations of further cuts to material and tech until it’s the cheapest, flimsiest version that can still function well enough to outlast the warranty. I’ve been in my field long enough (appliance repair) to see generations come and go and it often runs that route. Sometimes design flaws get fixed during the process, but rarely does the product itself get better or more durable in the long run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet another fucking cringe name to add to the modern corpo lexicon

  • Bytedance
  • Tencent
  • Xpeng
  • Crunchyroll

  I don’t even know that much about any of these companies or their practices but i just really dislike their names. I genuinely cringe when i read those words, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly what i predict will happen as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Piece Director Megumi Ishitani Calls For Legal Action Against OpenAI: 'Can't Stand Ghibli Being Treated So Cheaply'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just reading this comment, it hit me: nearly every successful capitalist venture in recent times has been managed by cheating. It’s rarely about real ingenuity and more about finding ways to break the laws in subtle ways or attempt to outrun the legal backlash of such ventures (training AI with copyrighted works without permission, for instance).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good enough to get that gov contract $$ though 🤹‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please choose one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear they started off in their parents garage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not original at all but feel a bit amusing about thought somebody takes it to heart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  User name checks out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I first thought the image on the right was Peter Thiel, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess that’s what threw me off. 240v is what our electric (non-gas) appliances use in the States, 380v sounded like it could be commercial-style equipment or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have 380V 16A induction, it’s not even close.

  Is that a common setup? That sounds very high-powered

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would seem almost intentional given the size and success of the company. How do you fuck something like that up so badly? Seems like one of those Embrace, Extend, Extinguish deals or similar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And millions of other people’s $2. Congrats to Nintendo on their newfound wealth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an American, this is wacky to read–but I’m fully in support. What can i say, i think there’s some good ones here but not enough to balance out all the shite ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  It was a good run, i guess? Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, i usually just shut my computer down between xmas and new years–the calendar just can’t take it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s utterly depressing to see the healthcare system (and thus people’s health) circling the drain – yet another cash cow that’s been overfed and overexploited.

  In the wake, a handful of assholes have more money than they can spend while millions of people all get worse–while somehow more expensive-- healthcare. Take note of United Health taking the #2 Shkreli Award this past year, upholding their rep as the scum we know them to truly be.

  I think about all the research, work, advancements, sacrifice, pain, and loss that has ultimately made medical technology so amazing and cutting-edge, yet as it’s gotten more capable it’s become less available. Inevitably it became a money game just like every other industry in existence. Compassion, humanity, care–all these things take back seat to the almighty dollar. The greed and cruelty is disgusting, and it’s only going to get worse. Nothing will change the responsible party’s minds and there are scores of self-important shits waiting to usurp any of the roles responsible for this state of affairs. Just a fucking disgrace and a real ‘fuck-you’ to all the innovators and brilliant individuals that shared their talents to give the rest of us a chance at a longer, healthier life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the boring truth–without getting the rudiments and stick control and proper technique, the drum set is not gonna make you a good drummer. It’s fun as hell to have one to play, no doubt–but if the goal is to be a good drummer you really gotta focus on the basics first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US is currently giving away free COVID tests to all Americans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Government excess i can get behind, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon Approved Funds for MrBeast, Kelly Clarkson, Guy Fieri in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Pentagon also approved funding for content involving YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, who was slated to lead a humanitarian effort in Puerto Rico. “We did complete a PAA for the Social Influencer Mr. Beast, but ultimately did not support the production as he did not go to Puerto Rico for the Hurricane relief, so that PAA is cancelled,” a Pentagon official wrote in an email obtained by Rolling Stone. 

  Guess Jimmy found something more profitable to sink is grubby fingers into.

  We also need to ask why the fuck are we throwing money at people that are ‘planning on’ having a relief effort (as a form of self-promotion, clearly–if he cared that much to help he would have found a way) instead of having a relief effort for the sake of helping people that need help??

  Puerto Rico is part of America for some reason so i have to assume they’re entitled to aid. But I’m sure when PR signed the contract there was probably some gotcha hidden in there that allows America to refuse to help or some other slimy bullshit, lol.

  Is this really where the future of disaster relief is headed? Whoever decides to make a vanity project out of the reconstruction gets government funding? 🤡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine they will finally succeed in having robots running the operations, but there will be a warehouse full of underpaid wage slaves controlling the robots from somewhere in India

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But they’ll have stragglers just the same as any major social media site. Even though many here have standards they won’t easily abandon, there are scores of people that won’t even know if/when AI started being used on the site or would care enough to leave if they did.

  Plus every time we leave a platform we need to find or build a new one. The time it takes to get others to migrate and develop into a worthwhile community is hard to predict and it may not even work out. It sucks social media is such shit anymore, but it seems inevitable that it will remain that way given the landscape of the Internet at this point.

  I say this as someone who’s drifted from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Lemmy over the past 20-25 years 🎈 (zero loyalty as well)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t care where the money comes from, and at this point they know there’s no cost to their reputation for doing shit like this either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protests erupt in Paris over pro-Israel gala organized by far-right figures⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one big, shitty tent with room for as much trash as necessary

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes you think they’d possibly do that?

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ever Happened to Netscape?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you could afford one! CGA/EGA were the best we had for a while. VGA/256 color was the stuff dreams were made of (and boy were we excited to finally get a computer that had it!!!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ever Happened to Netscape?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved Netscape as a kid. I would stare at the little Netscape icon with the shooting stars while waiting for pages to load… Funny how little things like that seemed so magical back then ✨🖥️💖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I lose the spread gun, I start over.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess we’ll never know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  (I too, was disappointed to get a little ways in before hitting that same wall myself)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my favorite comment so far today, thanks for the chuckle 🍻