I majored in Philosophy. Though I wouldn't want to be an AI ethics consultant for one of these big companies because I imagine that whatever I write down would have to preserve profits (first and foremost) and then gaslight everyone into thinking it's all perfectly ethical and okay and no one (including mother earth) is being harmed in the process.

You don't need an ethicist if you don't have ethics! /s

I just wish we could put this dumb sentient AI stuff to bed for now. Congrats, you guys built the most powerful (and wasteful) auto-complete. It's not sentient and your marketing doesn't have to be hyperbolic lies.

Ugggghh, I finally got 85% degoogled and the storm clouds in the distance tell me I'm going full Linux on desktops, laptops, tablet, phone, and media boxes in the not so distant future.

That said, fuck Google. If you ask me to leave, I'm leaving.

I've been noticing this too. All the cities are like "Oh you're unhappy with Flock? Okay, we'll pick a new vendor."

No.

We're unhappy with being spied on, tracked, and monetized everywhere we go. We want the cameras down whether they're made by Flock, Meta, Axon, or Fischer Price. Put it back how it was.

Seriously, during the gas crisis, people were dumping used H2s for $10k, and that's what they're asking for this bike. 😦🙎

The most expensive bike I've ever owned was 3-4k USD. I find it unlikely that I'd buy such an expensive bike again, especially considering how much fun I'm having with the budget garage sale recumbent 2-wheeler I recently acquired. Mountain bikes were already pushing several thousand dollars last time I went shopping but I scored a rad deal on a hardcore hardtail for ease of maintenance and lighter weight. If it's expensive enough that it needs to be insured, I'm probably gonna pass.

Would I ride a Levo, hell yeah; would I buy a Levo, hell naw.

With MS enshitifying Windows at an ever increasing pace and the hard work of open source developers, volunteers, advocates, to make Linux better and more approachable, I won't be surprised at all to see that percentage move up.

"You mean its free and doesn't try to sell me other products the whole time I'm using it?"

One $5 donation buys you a decade of nagging donation emails and a bunch of capitulating spineless politicians.

My dream is that when I search something on the web I get results 100% arranged on relevance with no commercially motivated rearranging of results. I also dream about ad free OSs, but that one came true for me back in 2005 (thanks Linux!).

I have a feeling that the YouTube apocalypse will be much harder to watch (as in "more sad/unpleasant") than the Reddit apocalypse.

I'm late to comment, so I may be typing into the void.

I understand the admin's decision to limit their exposure to legal risk. I had similar experiences as a small business owner and you would be surprised how quickly most people's idealism is tempered by the risk of potential legal action. It's totally possible to believe strongly in the legality of something and its benefit to society (in this case piracy) and still choose to limit your own legal exposure. As far as I know, none of us paid to be here, so the polite thing to do is say "thank you for hosting us" and move on if it's not your thing (or just make a second account).

I believe our current copyright/intellectual property scheme is broken at best, and designed to fuck us out of every bit of culture that has ever existed, at worst. Piracy exists because the system is broken and the industry is entrenched and refuses to adapt to customer demands. It screws music fans, artists, and probably the individual low-level employees of many music industry companies and organizations.

Imagine we made this into the privacy key that, by default, launches your distro's privacy settings.

How's that for subverting MS's intent?

I think a few more people "get it" every time the cycle repeats, but also, a sucker is born every minute.

I looked up a similar article without a paywall:

https://www.gamespot.com/...

"Krafton recently declared itself to be an "AI-first company," which led Unknown Worlds to issue a statement indicating that Subnautica 2 will not feature generative AI."

The "AI first" shit is pure gold. I love the instant karma. Why are these CEOs throwing their money, reputation, etc. away on AI? Either they are even stupider than I thought, or the tech bros have some kind of massive blackmail machine they're using to take over everything and puppet all the CEOs.

I had a Google GSuite account from back when they advertised it as a free for life solution for families who wanted to use their own domain. They stopped offering this a long time ago, but kept us around. A few years ago, they tried to end it, but walked that back after facing resistance. We were among the earliest adopters and many of us shilled pretty hard for gmail over the years. Not only would they have gone back on their word, but my app and media purchases would be tied to a crippled no-email account (identity only) because they didn't have a migration path to normal gmail. That means multiple logins. Also, the gsuite inbox doesn't have the inline ads or anything while the regular one does. I've been working to move away from google because I imagine they'll try to end this again later, but also just because we understand better who google really is.

The site the greedy little pigboy runs was instrumental to the resistance but since it's enshittified, we may not be able to resist again. Its fine to say something is for a lifetime, but you have to honor that or you've been dishonest and no one can trusts thing you say.

The only reason I still have google around is android. When we finally get a linux daily driver phone that meets my minimum needs, I'm migrating the remainder of my stuff. I'll happily give up some functionality to do it. I just hope they can keep their free for life promise until then.

Kinky people are still going to be kinky even if they can't post about it on Reddit. Here's to hoping lemmyNSFW gets some of those "niche subs". ;-)

So sick of all the feedback, rate us, try this feature, what's new, turn on feature x, etc. that seems to be a part of everything nowadays, even Linux apps. Linux wasn't this bad only a few years ago and mobile OSs cranked this up to 10.

• If I want to rate an app, I'll look under feedback in the help menu.
• If I want to see what's new, show me the changelog...once, right after I update.
• If I want to turn a feature on/off put descriptive toggles in the settings menu.

Everything that can be seen from the default view should 100% revolve around fulfilling the function of the app for the user. Human attention is a finite thing and we shouldn't be wasting it on shit like this.

I don't like using cashless anything because I know part of the cost is my privacy. Having said that, convenience is a powerful draw and cash can be a pain, especially when you have to find a spot for small coins.

Germany can't decide. Every few weeks I see an article that says "German city/company/institution is Ditching MS for Open Source", and the next article is "Germany Cucked by Microsoft for Ten Billionth Time." Can we just completely ditch all MS and agree to an open standard?

I wanted to have kids my whole life, even through difficult economic times and wars and pandemics. They want me to have kids, but they're doing everything possible to make me not want to ever have kids. I don't want my kids drafted to go fight for Israel. Gonna add that to the cons column.

If someone was to acquire a few hundred gigs of books and feed them to something like paperless-ngx, would it work as a sort of google of books? Are there any software projects better suited for doing thisand understand synonyms and perhaps some context? I guess AI search but guided for the intermediate user.

Google is so bad lately. Basically every result is official sponsored corporate biased BS. It would be nice to be able to instantly query a bunch of ebooks.