mPony
@mPony@lemmy.world
- Comment on Work from home 4 hours ago:
but it’s not their money until they coerce people into giving it to them
- Comment on Work from home 4 hours ago:
my company respects my free time
Well that doesn’t sound like a recipe for anyone becoming a billionaire from your labour
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 3 days ago:
just to spite the British
A fine justification, no matter the situation
- Comment on I miss console ads being this weird 1 week ago:
board game baggies usually have a tiny hole in them, to let the air out when you’re packing the game away. not so great if you’re muleing some molly to your weekly game of Wingspan
- Comment on Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95 - Liliputing 1 week ago:
Much respect for the clever name of the company. I hope younger generations still know about Gulliver’s Travels
- Comment on I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity 1 week ago:
you know what, yes, I love this energy and I want more of it. This is how brave people should talk to management, but it’s how everyone should talk to AI hucksters.
- Comment on I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity 1 week ago:
Blank pages are for the young
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 1 week ago:
the article MAY be dubious in origin, but nobody can honestly say that Twitter bots driven by AI aren’t out there
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 1 week ago:
For instance, your punctuation is delightful.
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 1 week ago:
HP’s laptops are complete and utter trash
a) yes b) perhaps that also describes their management
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 1 week ago:
Work anywhere in the country
can you remote while out of the country?
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 1 week ago:
we should fucking hope. Might catch on
- Comment on Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs 1 month ago:
The headline is patently false.
FTA
We do not develop LLMs or other generative models using customer data.
If you want to act like you’re better than Reddit you’re going to have to start actually being better.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
“code is law” can become “might makes right” without oversight. Those who lobby against oversight are a problem.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 1 month ago:
Corporations have also already proved very difficult to actually hold to account. They can basically do as they please, with relative disregard for any consumer protections that may already exist. It’s not good, but it can get worse.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
not exactly the age or attractiveness that most people expect
What gets me is that, for the right style of music, age or attractiveness shouldn’t matter as much as it does. You should be able to create your art, whatever kind of art it is, and have the art itself be judged on its merits. Instead we’ve got a bunch of our culture still somehow wrapped up in these veneers of attractiveness. It’s kind of maddening, to be honest. If you’re in your 50’s and making 90’s style Acid House or 2000’s style Trance it shouldn’t matter what you look like. If you’re a DJ it shouldn’t matter if you look like Shirley Temple or Shirley Manson. And yet here we are.
8 million listens netting you only 40 bucks really is insane, isn’t it? I used to think radio royalties were bad: I remember Sting talking about how every time Roxanne got played on the radio someone somewhere got 3 cents. He didn’t say who got the 3 cents, nor did he say how much of that 3 cents went to him. I’m not 100% sure about those numbers (“my memory is muddy, what’s this river that I’m in?”) but they’re a damn sight more impressive than whatever crumbs the streaming companies are paying, somehow a thousand times less than the radio. Spotify’s announcement last year that they weren’t even going to bother paying for songs with less than 1000 streams per month was a shocker - what stops them from making it 2000, or 10,000?
Still, being a hobbyist isn’t all bad. I’ve been releasing jazz cover-versions of pop songs for about 2.5 years now, and have netted about 25 bucks so far :) Who knew jazz versions of Toxic or Rusted From The Rain could be so popular?
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 month ago:
well, that was last year, right?
I wouldn’t bet on Bing search results having gotten better since then, but I would bet on Google search results having gotten worse since then. - Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 2 months ago:
oh please. if guns became sentient someone would stack three of them in a trenchcoat and give them the right to vote.
- Comment on Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote 2 months ago:
the only massive pile of wank in that equation would be Elon.
- Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? 2 months ago:
only because doing so would cost money and not immediately benefit capitalists.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 months ago:
Coca Cola would never do anything like this.
- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 2 months ago:
It’s not about entirely replacing people
Tell yourself that all you wish. Then maybe go see this thread about Spotify laying off 1500 people and having a bit of a rough go with it. If they could they would try to replace every salaried/contracted human with AI.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 2 months ago:
uh, are graphics cards supposed to be 2500 bucks? (I play boardgames)
- Comment on It is truly magic 2 months ago:
they keep getting progressively more unhinged
Also see: England.
- Comment on It is truly magic 2 months ago:
my favourite thing about Swindon is ~
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
when exactly are we going rise up and demand better
That would be when consumers decide to come together and operate collectively in their own best interests against immense multinational corporations.
Soooooooooo, possibly quite a while. - Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
yeah I can understand the motivation for removing “gun”
but “her boyfriend’s a dick” is a perfectly valid lyric. How in the fuck-flavoured fuck is “dick” so offensive to people? - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I use Windows 11 for work (dev) and gaming and it’s fine
Not to pile-on, but my work laptop runs Win11 and it randomly hangs for ~5 seconds a few times each day. I’m sure not all of the blame should be put on the OS: the 365 office suite is probably coded for shit as well.
- Comment on Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger 2 months ago:
Why post it here
“Everybody’s got to have somebody to look down on Who they can feel better than at any time they please”
Kris Kristofferson
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 2 months ago:
wait, take a breath, do you think someone’s going to get arrested for trying to turn off advertising?
I know America is ever-sliding into Dystopia but that just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.