GeekyNerdyNerd

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For $50,000⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
What else are you gonna call selling someone’s digital identity?

You’re just a PR pawn for Twitter, but you’re not intelligent enough to realize it.

The only person here being an idiot is you and those like you. Y’all think sticking your head in the sand will somehow make it all go away. Like it or not the shithead owns Twitter. Like it or not he’s one of the richest people on the planet. Like it or not that makes his petty ass extremely powerful. Like it or not there are retards who take digital identies seriously and won’t accept the line of “that isn’t me, Twitter must’ve sold my account” as an excuse when a username you use elsewhere suddenly starts spouting neonazi propaganda.

Also I hope y’all are happy with this type of behavior because this kind of toxic behavior will kill lemmy in the long run, just like it killed every other Reddit alternative.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For $50,000⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
What the fuck? What kind of simp would call the person they are allegedly dumping for an asshole?

All I said was that just because we hate him doesn’t make news about him “spam”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For $50,000⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
So you think Musk ordering Twitter to engage in legal identity theft and selling user accounts like a hacker would is somehow a good look?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For $50,000⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The only spam I see are the comments like this underneath every post referring to the one richest douche-bros on the planet. We get it. You hate the dude, but like it or not what he does has actual ramifications on real people and corporations. That makes him and his actions newsworthy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swedish Ports Threaten to Block Teslas From Entering the Country⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Unfortunately the US government already took note ages ago. Cross-Industry and general strikes are illegal in the USA.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I wish it was just the US copyright system that’s the problem, some nations have worse copyright laws. In France for example architecture can have copyright, and renovations have a separate copyright from the original architecture… The lights on the Eiffel Tower have a separate copyright from the Eiffel Tower itself, which is currently in the public domain. So while it’s completely fine to take a photo of the Tower during the day at night you need to have permission from the copyright holder, and they have taken action against people who have taken photos of the Tower at night.

Then there are some nations where there isn’t even a public domain and stuff never loses their copyright.

Many of these worse laws have been driven by US and EU trade policies and Trade Agreements mandating draconian copyright and intellectual property laws.

Copyright laws are just a nightmare writ large.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grayjay - Revolutionizing the Way We Consume Videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
People probably took that as a passive aggressive attack against the app and a show of support for Google/YouTube’s ad blocking policies. Try not to take it personally, people round here and back on Reddit always have their hackles permanently raised when it comes to issues like these.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grayjay - Revolutionizing the Way We Consume Videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
They do. And blocking ads in ad based services also violates the play store ToS… No idea how GreyJey got passed Google’s censors.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

why the hell can’t I watch with subtitles in the same language as the film itself? Holy fuck.

Probably because the subtitles have their own copyright separate from the film itself and Amazon likely doesn’t have the license to the English subtitles outside of the USA.

The copyright system is the biggest problem here. It simply isn’t fit for purpose in the digital age, unless that purpose was to benefit a handful of legacy mega corps while harming independent content creators and stifling culture across the globe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I doubt he’d ever do anything really bad, but I know if they did break up my sister would hold a grudge(she’s a great person but takes breakups pretty hard.), and it would certainly make things extremely awkward between us, at least for awhile.

I’m just glad that so far there’s no indication that they will get to that point. They are pretty good at communicating with each other and they already have a system in place that keeps finances from being a point of contention between them, so the most common causes of a divorce shouldn’t be an issue short of something drastic happening, like my sister or him developing a disability that keeps either of them from being able to work.

It’s just concerning for me because my entire social circle was basically formed thanks to their relationship. Every other friend that I am not quite as close to I met through them and they are closer to him and they are with me, and I know at least a few would sever connections the minute they got divorced as a show of support for him, even if he asked them not to, which knowing him he absolutely wouldn’t want them to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Man this thread just makes me realize how lucky I am that I have a sister who I am close with, and who married a man who shares a ton of my interests and hobbies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI generation is on fast track to kill porn industry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

Personalities of models. Lol, that is some niche market my dude. Never watched a porn a said to myself “wow, I really like her personality”. It’s just smut to beat my meat to, nothing more, nothing less.

That’s the thing though paid porn is niche to begin with, and for people that pay for it there are three groups. Group 1 that cares about production quality, group 2 that has some hyper-niche fetish, and group 3 that wants more than just something to best their meat to, they are looking for a sexual parasocial relationship.

Your future of ai porn of anything and everyone could only address group 2. Group 1 will take quite some time before they are satisfied with generated porn (it would need to be indistinguishable from real 4k porn with high production values.) and group 3 would require the computational power to render it in real time with both a believable personality and high quality graphics.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fighting pedophilia at the expense of our privacy: The EU rule that could break the internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I like Snowden as much as any terminally online person does, but I don’t think his quote is really the best as it supposes there are people with nothing to hide. Everyone has something to hide, if for no other reason than out of embarrassment.

There’s a reason why we close the bathroom door despite the fact that everyone knows we are taking a shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I was a young child during the napster days, and by the time my parents had anything better than dial-up iTunes had already taken off.

Maybe I’m less into music than most people, maybe most are music enthusiasts who actually take full advantage of all the music, all the time, for a low monthly rate thing but i mostly listen to the same small handful of artists with only the occasional breakout towards newer things. If Spotify and YouTube Music were both to die all I’d have to do is spend a larger amount upfront but then I’d be back to pretty much the status quo, and without the monthly bill. So for me any sort of significant changes in price or quality of service completely negate the sole reason I bother with music streaming and that is convenience.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

I mean, this is a nice sentiment in the abstract, but in actuality, we kind of are if we want the product to continue to exist

Except what made the product attractive to the consumer are the very things making it unprofitable. Minimal ads, unlimited streaming of any and all music you want. Without that might as well stick to terrestrial radio, at least that doesn’t use up your mobile data.

What I genuinely don’t understand is how you can simultaneously say that Spotify shouldn’t exist if it’s not economically viable, and at the same time, you’ll also criticize them for any attempt to make it economically viable. If Spotify shouldn’t offer the free tier because it’s not viable, and you’ll also attack them if they stopped offering it, what do you actually want them to do?

The point you dismissed as a “nice sentiment in abstract” applies here: it’s completely irrelevant to the consumer. If Spotify dies we will just go to Apple/Amazon/Youtube Music, and if they all die that’s then iTunes and MP3s get to make a comeback.

Spotify’s profitability is Spotify’s problem.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The only immaturity I see is the person throwing around ageist ad hominems in response to someone making a joke.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The luddites failed and the French revolutions ended poorly for everyone. Not exactly the best examples to draw from if you are trying to encourage violent rebellion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Except for the fact that people literally do change age from day to day. Another day older.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Well if we can’t tax 'em we could always literally eat them, and if we can’t afford food thanks to them killing the good paying jobs then maybe we will just have to eat them literally if we can’t tax them properly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Another thing that would help would be banning shorting stocks. Shorting makes it more profitable for investors to take a stable, profitable company that isn’t experiencing exponential growth and intentionally run it into the ground than it would be to simply let it generate long term revenues.

It’s obscene that we haven’t banned it and acts like it writ large. It simply shouldn’t be legal to sell somebody else’s property that they’ve loaned to you with the intention of buying another one once the price drops. It provides absolutely no value to society, is incredibly risky, and creates perverse market incentives where economic recessions and market crashes can be more profitable for some than the good times.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
We do actually. Just last year new york passed the Concealed Carry Improvement act imposing a background check on ammunition purchases. This bill is completely redundant and unnecessary.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Except for the fact that they aren’t replacing keywords on the user end, simply matching advertiser keywords to a broader range of keywords specifically for the ad results.

Claiming they are replacing user keywords for higher value ones is absolutely incorrect, which is what the article they got that info from specifically claimed before it was retracted.

They aren’t taking watch searches and showing only luxury brand results, they are taking luxury watch searches and showing generic ads for “watches” alongside the relevant search results through the normal Algorithm which ties to find what it thinks is most relevant to those keywords.

That latter one is something all search engines do and without doing so they wouldn’t be very useful to the average person who doesn’t know about search operators and advanced search refining tools.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

but google is editing your queries without your knowledge, so they can milk more money out of their advertisers.

That came from a wired article which was quietly retracted because the author had misunderstood a slide from the Google anti trust trial and had the meaning nearly backwards.

What Google is actually doing is allowing advertisers to match keywords to common synonyms and other relevant keywords. If you search for (insert brandname) infant sleepwear for example Google will also show ads from adverts from companies who selected the keywords “baby pajamas”. And that specific keyword replacement was only relevant to advertising"…

Google has long been transparent about the fact they interpret the meaning of keywords for searches to try to improve their relevance, and if you think about it if Google was replacing low value keywords with higher value ones it would be obvious, as generic searches would only turn up stuff from luxury brands and ads wouldn’t have broad keyword matching.

There are plenty of things to blame Google for, the low return on advertising that publishers get and the increasing need for the entire Internet to be locked behind millions of different paywalls, SEO optimization, click bait bullshit, link farms, but one of them isn’t replacing keywords to maximize value.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The German government literally ruled otherwise. You are objectively, legally, and morally incorrect.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That logic is what will make verification cans a reality.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Do you have Firefox’s tracker blocking enabled? That can block some advertising related code and as such will also get detected as an adblocker. I’ve had that be the issue for other websites that block ad blockers in the past before I stopped being willing to ever turn Ublock Origin off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU warns Musk that X spreading ‘illegal content’ after Hamas attacks on Israel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That’s only really feasible for as long as the corporation has a physical presence in the EU and/or the corporation’s home government is willing to enforce the laws of a foreign government upon their own corporations/citizens.

I know Twitter used to have offices In the EU, but I don’t know if that’s still the case currently. If it’s not then without the cooperation of the US government there’s not much the EU can do if Musk decides to tell them to pound sand.

I’m not saying I think he’s in the right, I just don’t see how it’s possible for any nation to enforce laws outside of their own borders without the co-operation of other governments, and I don’t see how the US government could possibly co-operate to enforce foreign laws that would likely violate the US constitution.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Same reason why oil prices keep going up even as demand drops, the price of oil is largely determined by OPEC+ and they will cut production until prices rise to where they want them, and the more they have to cut production the higher the prices have to be to offset their fixed costs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

It takes a while for various other industries to shift away from burning oil and gas, but when that happens the oil industry will be totally screwed.

I’m not so sure that they’d be necessarily screwed even then, I think it will depend upon what direction plastic demand and plastic production goes in. The majority of plastics still need to be made from petrochemicals, and the majority of plastics have to be virgin simply due to the inherent limitations on their recyclability.

Sure, the industry won’t be as large as today but unless we see bioplastics completely replace petrochemical plastics or simply see plastics completely abandoned (that’ll never happen, plastics are simply too useful to ditch entirely.) It will still exist in some form simply because it will be necessary for plastic production.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
There’s Valve’s custom Distro they built for the steamdeck, unfortunately they haven’t fully released it yet, for the time being it’s only available via steamdeck recovery software.