circuitfarmer
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- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 6 months ago:
When will people stop supporting this clown?
Remember when some people were like “well, I don’t support him, but I’ve had this Twitter account forever, so I’m not leaving.” This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 6 months ago:
Who saw this coming???
/s
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 6 months ago:
But at a certain point, it’s still a cop out. And part of the trick. If you drown anyone in enough bullshit, you can’t expect it to all get called out – but that doesn’t mean it’s not all bullshit. It is divide and conquer in another form.
- Comment on GTA 6 release date could slip to 2026 under Rockstar "fallback plan", according to reports 7 months ago:
Considering that just about every AAA game is now released as an awful, rushed mess (for $70), I hope they take their time.
- Comment on Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old 7 months ago:
It’s those damn inertial dampeners again
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 7 months ago:
This is the way
- Comment on Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 7 months ago:
This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.
Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.
The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone’s throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.
Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.
The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.
- Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Is a Disaster - IGN 7 months ago:
And not to mention: the original versions actually run fine to this day. Pure money grab and they made the product(s) worse to do it.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Such a weird gatekeepy headline. I’d argue it’s virtually anyone born around 1980.
- Comment on What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets? 8 months ago:
Meh.
It’s not designed for or good for VR gaming. As an AR device, I find it a bit silly since I can just look at a real screen. It would be a novelty at $100, but at the price Apple wants I kind of think of it like a joke.
- Comment on American election season 8 months ago:
I’ve had 2-3 a day for the last few weeks.
- Comment on American election season 8 months ago:
Do you get as many filtered to spam? I think a lot of it comes down to phone number leaks, not spam filtering (and also spam filtering on SMS is dicey, because a false positive can be very costly).
- Comment on New York Times takedown domino effect hits nearly 2000 Wordle clones 8 months ago:
My thoughts exactly. By this reasoning, Candy Crush Saga could get taken down for copying Bejeweled.
- Comment on Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek 8 months ago:
$3000 is way too much for a tarp stapled to the back of an overpriced pile of shit
- Comment on Now that ChatGPT is being trained using Reddit posts 8 months ago:
I’m waiting for it to start using units of banana for all quantities of things
- Comment on Our [Stack Exchange's] partnership with Google and commitment to socially responsible AI 8 months ago:
We paid for the development of the internet. We contributed the content. Now we watch the yacht owners take advantage of both because regulators are
asleep at the wheelowned by corporations. - Comment on Scientists Fear Starfield May Spread Across Multiple Console Generations 8 months ago:
But without the fun
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 8 months ago:
As a renter, I have no way to charge an electric car nightly. The availability of charging infrastructure outside of private homes will be more and more of an issue, unless battery tech significantly improves to be at parity with gas (e.g. I spend 10 minutes at a public charger as if I were filling a gas car).
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
You could simply learn to cook instead of whining about tipping.
Well I guess the whole restaurant industry doesn’t need to exist then.
Reductio ad absurdum.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
Let’s see what Lemmy thinks.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
Show me on the doll where the free market hurt you.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
What advantage does this hold versus the company paying a living wage in the first place?
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
Great argument.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
I’m not sure what isn’t getting across here.
Customers subsidize wages with tipping. The amount is ultimately arbitrary and allows business owners to avoid costs.
The actual cost of the wages is not arbitrary and should be put up by the business first.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
Yes, but one way is on the company first and one isn’t. Would prices go up if these places were paying living wages? Most likely. Many businesses would be insolvent because their business model was simply never designed to pay a living wage to employees. Others could remain solvent, but probably not if they continue to take so much off the top at higher positions.
And that’s exactly it: the market never self-corrects if we throw arbitrary money in excess of listed prices to solve was is ultimately an issue of business solvency and ethics. There is no economic theory that would support such an idea in any industry, but here we are.
The sheer number of businesses out of the space might even drive down rents. That’s the kind of thing I mean by “other actions”. But things cannot continue as they are.
- Comment on Don't tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice 8 months ago:
No shit?
I’ll do one better: don’t tell Google anything personal. Or any company that makes significant revenue off of ad targeting, for that matter.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
The whole damn system exists to place the burden of a living wage on the customer while the company paying peanuts can claim no wrongdoing. And the really sad part is: it has worked.
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 8 months ago:
Most every other social contract has been violated already. If they don’t ignore robots.txt, what is left to violate?? Hmm??
- Comment on The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes 8 months ago:
I’m sure they do. AI regulation probably would have helped with that. I feel like congress was busy with shit that doesn’t affect anything.
- Comment on Confronted With Child Labor in the U.S., Companies Move to Crack Down 8 months ago:
Lol it’s not like the laws changed. Not having illegal child labor is something they’re literally always supposed to be guaranteeing.
A better headline might be: “Companies scramble after regulators discover child labor violations”. The way it’s worded currently makes it sound like companies are being preemptive. If they were actually being preemptive, they wouldn’t be worried about it now.