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- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 day ago:
And this is why anybody who made a mistake should be shunned forever, unless they invent a time machine to go back and undo their past misdeeds. They may as well just jump off a bridge and save us the trouble of setting up a firing squad.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 day ago:
Thanks for doing this - it isn’t a proper leftist get-together without some assclown imposing impossible purity tests.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
It is really hard. IME the tactic with the highest success rate is buying older luxury goods - something from the 70s or earlier. Obviously this doesn’t work for clothing, but for things like furniture it’s great, or even houses themselves; those built before the 90s are enormously higher quality than modern “luxury” houses made of OSB and gray-painted cardboard. Clothing is much more difficult, especially outside of Europe, where they still have companies making things with care using high-quality fabric.
I guess the crux of the issue is that luxury used to mean quality, not ostentation. A Mercedes from the 70s doesn’t “seem” luxurious to the modern eye until you start interacting with the switchgear or opening and closing doors. Same thing for the sofa framed with real wood and metal springs and upholstered in outstanding fabric - you can’t tell why it’s better than IKEA by looking at a photo.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Possibly, but the average person is wrong about a lot of things, especially those they aren’t familiar with. The average person is no more an authority on luxury than they are on, to reuse your example, the logistics of running a farm. It’s probbaly also important to draw a distinction between parvenu countries like the USA and China, where “pop luxury” item are considered luxury, and old money countries like France or Switzerland where that’s much less the case.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I’m more partial to their early 90s lineup (E38/39/36) but yes, they used to be understated and elegant. Now they’re loud and brash and gauche, the automotive equivalent of a purse with a repeating logo pattern.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
No, that’s only the particular type of “luxury” slop that multinationals sell. There are lots of “luxury” items that don’t fit that definition: traditionally-made bespoke suits and shoes, for example. There’s a guy in the town next to mine who handmakes leather boots. They cost about $500 and he sells only double digits per year. Luxury? Yes. Made as cheaply as possible and sold through brute-force marketing? No.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Gucci is “luxury” for people with no taste, so their use of AI is rather on point. Their cutomers are the same kind of people who think new BMW’s light-up kidney grille makes them look good.
- Comment on Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40% 6 days ago:
This is really not Hetzner’s fault, it’s AI companies gobbling up all the hardware and driving up prices for everybody else.
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 1 week ago:
JFC this is what we’re destroying the environment for?
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
We already have Interac, a good homegrown solution. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that hard for banks to piggyback on it to make credit transactions rather than debit.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 4 weeks ago:
Oh neat it’s Komorebi dude. I used to use that when I still had Windows.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 4 weeks ago:
They should have called it “du coup” for that authentic frenchness.
- Comment on Tuvix Tricorder - An RSS Button For The Web 5 weeks ago:
Found Captain Janeway’s Lemmy account
- Comment on Tuvix Tricorder - An RSS Button For The Web 5 weeks ago:
Tuvix? Was it created by a transporter accident and will be
murderedseparated into two distinct apps? - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m glad I’m not the only one - the article is sensationalistic garbage, just some rando’s blog.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 month ago:
Hell yes - as long as it still fits in my pocket. That was a prolem with some of the later Blackberry models.
- Comment on New Klingon Bird of Prey Tatoo! 1 month ago:
Sorry to have to tell you this, but the tattoo artist made a terrible mistake - that’s a Romulan warbird.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 months ago:
I’m surprised you didn’t hear about that, because it was a huge controversy. it was limited to a few countries though (or maybe only the UK?)
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 months ago:
The equation they are thinking of, though, is “will the cost of those who actually quit using Windows outweigh the cost of building and maintaining this feature.” Funnily enough the inability to move the taskbar is what finally pushed me to Linux full-time, but the overwhelming majority will complain and stick to Windows.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 months ago:
Default subs were already heavily astroturfed garbage. Smaller subs still generally fly under the radar, for now at least.
- Comment on Rules of acquisition, rule 214. Never begin a business negotiation on an empty stomach. 2 months ago:
It seems to be a term directed at white people, so no, probably not… I don’t speak Hindi, I just remember seeing the etymology of Ferengi a while back.
FERINGHEE - India, usually disparaging : a Eurasian especially of Portuguese-Indian descent www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Feringhee
- Comment on Rules of acquisition, rule 214. Never begin a business negotiation on an empty stomach. 2 months ago:
Pretty odd name for a restaurant – it’s a derogatory term to describe foreigners, like a Greek restaurant named “Barbaros”.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 2 months ago:
I like that phrasing.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 2 months ago:
That’s true, but to reuse my comparison to Romans, we call Augustus “emperor” too despite the term “imperator” being co-opted from an earlier, different meaning. I can see both points of view here, I just don’t feel strongly enough to see it as a red flag. God knows there are lots of other, actual red flags.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 2 months ago:
I know, but convention is to use a person’s final and highest title. Nobody refers to Julius Caesar as “quaestor”.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 2 months ago:
I don’t think the Merkel cmparison is accurate - no one called her Leader, we called her the Chancellor (Kanzler), because that’s the job title. “Chancellor” is a pretty specific word in English with a narrower meaning and clearer connotation than “leader”, which can be used in a huge variety of contexts. The problem is that English doesn’t have a 1:1 translation of Fuehrer as we do with Kanzler.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 2 months ago:
We also use “Dalai Lama”, for example. Changing it to “leader” would lose a lot in translation. There’s a very long list of more problematic things with Musk and this ego project than this particular wording choice.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 3 months ago:
Could be, but Rust has been around long enough that we’d see this already, no?
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 3 months ago:
I feel like I’ve seen an insane number of error messages in various apps and websites around the unwrap method.
I suspect this is related to LLM usage somehow. We’ll probably see a lot more of this type of problem (sudden flareups of a particular bad code implementation)
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 3 months ago:
It’s OK, you’re on Lemmy, we all use Linux here so you’re among friends (or bitter enemies if your distro of choice is Ubuntu)