Toasteh

Toasteh , 8 months ago to asklemmy in IT Devs of of Lemmy, How do You Cope with Being Forced to Contribute to 'Social Media Pornshow of the Web'™ or Die?

Unfortunately 90% of jobs require contributing to and reinforcing the worst aspects of society.

Toasteh , 8 months ago to asklemmy in [Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?

It makes it too easy to game the system and create gridlock because you only need influence over a bunch of very small percent of the population.

Toasteh , 8 months ago to asklemmy in [Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?

Smaller states should have less of a say. I’m not sure how that seems unreasonable. The people should decide. It doesn’t matter what state they live in. It might have made sense 200 years ago but now I can’t believe people seriously support it.

Toasteh , 10 months ago to technology in OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

Copyright definitely needs to be stripped back severely. Artists need time to use their own work, but after a certain time everything needs to enter the public space for the sake of creativity.

Toasteh , 10 months ago to asklemmy in How is it even possible/practical to obey traffic laws?

Not sure where you live but in America stop signs are everywhere. You can’t go anywhere without hitting multiple.

Toasteh , 11 months ago to videos in The Scheme: a series of speeches given by Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about how the Supreme Court was captured by dark money interests.

We’re already getting pretty horrible rulings. Whats to lose?

Toasteh , 11 months ago to technology in Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks

Hide your shame? Not sure who this appeals to.

Toasteh , 11 months ago to technology in Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can't be trusted to guarantee AI safety

No one can be trusted with AI. Its misuse is inevitable.

Toasteh , 11 months ago to fediverse in Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

This is a constant cycle.

Tech nerds invent new technology/platform>nerds flock to new thing>the masses hear about it and start flooding it>money notices a large user base that isn’t being complete wrung out for money>money destroys the new thing by making it unusable for profit>repeat

Toasteh , 1 year ago to gaming in Starfield - How long until some basic mods?

The mods will come very quickly. I’m sure there will even be a few on launch day. They took a long time to release the creation kit for skyrim which made making mods much more difficult, but the community still put out a lot just using modding tools from previous games.