willington

@willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t know. Thanks for saying that.

  So it makes even more sense for the small buinesses to organise online under a special coop charter to fight off the icky monopolies.

  Like small mom and pop grocers could band together to order in volume to get similar discount to walmart. It might be hard to organise this for grocers in meat space, but should be more plausible to set up a coop fediverse site with a highly small bis protective charter written by a lawyer.

  Maybe the way to handle the members that got too big and too successful for the coop network is to celebrate those memberd for a month by promoting them in a farewell promotion, then move them to a harder to acess “alumni” section of the site, instead of instantly and totally cutting them off. Someone more business oriented than me should think about the details.

  My main point is that small anybodies should organise, and not just the workers. Small businesses are routinely oppressed, and should otganise and fight back. If we wait for our billionaire-captured government to bust the trusts, we might have to wait a minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to do way more marketing since you can’t rely on search result hits, right?

  It would be cool if there were a business fediverse type deal where searching worked across all the small business federated web sites. Such a network should putposely exclude or kick out (politely and with a celebration) anyone that got too large, to maintain a small business focus to basically give the little guys a leg up.

  It would be like a fediverse small bis cooperative kinda thing. That way there would be a search box for products and services that everyone could use to search the entire small bis network. And this would bypass monopolies like Google or Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  0if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons

  Oh, this has to be a very common behavior.

  Or making overly strict rules because you plan on selective enforgement from the get go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s corporate speak, imo.

  I hate it too. They also like to call everything “assets.” Not a “picture” or an “image” or a “decoration” or a million other descriptive words. It’s all “assets.” When the corporates talk like that they are emphasizing ownership and profitabiliy. “Put that money-making thing we own there.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ban spears, knives, pipes, cars, fertilizer, aluminum, bows, blowguns, poison, fists.

  Or, just run a decent society where nobody feels opressed, and has no desire to lash out.

  Tax the billionaires out of their billions, or put a tight leash on everyone to allow the billionaires to become trillionaires. Which is it?

  Let’s not forget how Gavin Newsom vetoed universal healthcare in California. Also, Gavin Newsom gave prepaid phones to a bunch of CEOs and told them to call him if the CEOs need anything. Source: politico.com/…/newsom-ceos-burner-phones-00235044

  They will need to ban breathing while poor soon the way they are going.

  Can’t ban your way out of the greatest wealth inequality since the Great Depression. But they will try, won’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Has anyone tried a Murena (/e/os) phone?

  I am thinking about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony is that Google uses FOSS software in a huge way since its founding.

  Free and Open Source Software for me, but not for thee, Europe.

  Fuck Google’s hypocrisy. And fuck Google/Alphabet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never forget for a second that it is because of the billionares, free market fundamentalism, private property fetishism, wealth consolidationism/royalism that the ICE (and many other bad agencies) exists.

  They want us angry at ICE while the consolidationists are trying to convert the world to rent-only slavery, because they want to be trillionaires and make the line go up forever, no matter what.

  Every time I see “ICE” I think fuck all the billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If only instead of each one micromanaging our purchases there could be a system set up to thwart the bad corporate behavior in a broad and systemic way, with the dedicated pros doing oversight professionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the billionaires are hard to target, their help will be easier. Once people learn that associating with the billionaires can be bad for one’s health, two things will happen:

  1. Less available help.
  2. Much more expensive and much more short term help, to make the risk/reward sensible. If I can work for a month doing risky bodyguard duty for a fascist scumbag and get paid 20 mil, if nothing bad happens to me in that month, I am set for life. That kind of calculus can work up to a point. Just imagine managing this process tho, lol, looking for risk-hungry new fools every month. Not fun, not good for the morale.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can make shit that wears out after a week of use. Then we need an endless amount of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Powerless?

  Or is it learned helplessness?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They tend to hire body guards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A saying I love about this:

  “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bigger the asset, the more sacrosanct are that asset’s interests.

  That is a system of nearly unlimited milking of anyone who is not themselves represented through a multi-hundred billion dollar asset.

  Fighting this in the business or legal arena is a complete waste of time. Those battlefields are favorable to the biggest assets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And fixing this problem is going to require a similar attitude from the people tired of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever the current “administration” billionaires touches turns to shit, dies, and rots.

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s winter here, and I wear two or three layers with a sweater on top, because I am saving electricity.

  We’ll have ourselves our first trillionaire, and silly me hates all the people at 500mil+ net worth, and their bootlickers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t triangulation depend on an antenna that broadcasts 360°?

  If the signal is silent in most of the space most of the time, it won’t be easy to find.

  Let’s say it transmits a directed 5° beam to 278° for 1 sec, then random seconds later to 96° for a sec, then after a random interval a beam to 28°, that won’t be fun to look for. Then after an hour of this it rests for 5 (also randomized) hours, while a different transmitter elsewhere takes over.

  Besides nobody says people should just sit passively while someone is triagulating them. We have been damn obedient all this time because we believed in the system. What if that belief goes away? Is everyone going to just volunteer obedience? Even if only a few break the norms, while the majority supports those resisters, at some point it will be too costly for the olygarchs to keep raping their way to trillions damned be the bottom 99.9%. The fucks have been ruling us on the back of a buy in from us. Only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if Elmo owns all the sattelites, then it won’t be the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, yes, yes.

  And drastically redorm or reimagine all the IP laws.

  Copyright: 5 years, one optional 5 year extension.

  Patents: 5 years, no extensions. No business methods, no algorithms, no gene expressions.

  Owned only by individual humans and groups of humans. Cannot be owned by trusts, funds, corporations, estates. Cannot outlive the last human owner in a group.

  All licensing is non-exclusive only! All licensing is irreversible (once you license out the patent non-exclusively, no way to halt midway through the licensing term).

  That way pattents cannot be hoarded by the patent troll entities. Since all exclusive agreements are forbidden, no way to corner the market! Inventors are free to license their inventions all over and cannot be strong armed into an exclusive deal.

  In other words, ownerships, paywalls, and corporate control must be severely curtailed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can get used to the billionaires begging me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Patent trolls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any universe has at least one sentient being.

  Rights aren’t circumstantial. How people are treated IS circumstantial. Rights as a concept is not about outcomes. Rights is what is rightly DUE. Rights get violated all the time. That means we tresspass on the minimums that are due. Someone is due privacy, but we spy/surveil them instead. Rights are worth defending. Without defending, rights will get violated. Whether we defend rights or not, they exist as defined. Anyone can just start defending rights at any time, and it doesn’t mean you’re building rights at that time.

  It’s like counting. Whether you count or not, number 3 exists as a distinct meaning. Rights are like that. Rights exist and have meaning. You can even live a million lifetimes and not know a damn thing about rights in all that time, and this would not negate rights any more than if even every sentient being stopped counting and forgot counting, but counting concepts exist, are real, are ever available, and their use can be resumed at any time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let the unregulated “free” (for some!) market ruled by the winners decide.

  The billionaires are the winners and the deciders that our wonderful free market system has given us.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rights as a concept I described correctly.

  I have my interests and my dignity. I prosecute my interests. Where did I get all that from? Interests and dignity, what is that if not another way to describe rights? The fact that I will prosecute and defend those regardless of your opinion, what is that? Rights again.

  When we say Nature “gives” we don’t mean it transfers something to us. It’s just a way of saying we have some qualities or properties as beings by way of simply us being what we are. In this case “gives” is not literal.

  As for Gods not being real, I won’t bother arguing for God being real in the interests of time. I purposely included Nature as an alternative to God.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s one of the best traders talking about the same issue:

  invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=bMK8ct6ybjQ&t=1918

  It eloquent and funny at the same time.

  I included a timestamp to jump (almost) directly to the most relevant bit (also 33m, but 31m sets up a better context for an extra 2min of time compared to going directly to the 33m mark). But the whole video is worth watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rights always exist. They come from God or Nature. Our fellow men either respect or ignore those rights. But even ignoring a right or disrespecting it doesn’t make the right just vanish.

  It is not our fellows who give us rights. Nor can our fellows take them away.