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theneverfox ,

Can we just take a second to say what utter bullshit it is that “facilitating piracy” is so allowed to be an argument?

How are we in this wacky world where rights holders get to say “what you built allows piracy, we demand total control over you”

theneverfox ,

Here’s the thing… Money is just a points system after you get into the .1%. A billion dollars, with 5% non-compounding interest (ridiculously conservative) would yield $50 million a year. That’s a metric fuckton of money, I can’t imagine a luxury (not based on rarity or shaping society) that you could personally enjoy.

So I agree, we should take all their shit, except a single home and personal possessions, and give them a $50 million dollar stipend each year. Let’s pin that to the minimum wage and call it absolute rich. Hell, let’s let them divide it up between their children… Their family would be set for generations, and any of them could go for the prize to add another one time prize to go even higher. Let’s make it fancy as hell, give them a special card or a jeweled broach they can pull out and buy anything without seeing a price… And let’s make it not roll over, because we want them to be post-money

Now, the finances work out easily if we let the government invest money (crazy that we don’t use that instead of taxes at this point), but the trouble is it’s not about money, they need a new game to play. We want to make sure they fuck off and measure dicks with each other in a way that doesn’t use our species as the playing board. They want to compete with each other for rank and social status, and we want them occupied

I don’t think there’s a one size fits all solution, so I’ll throw out some ideas. A children’s card game, next level Pokemon go battles, a monthly token that can be granted by anyone (with physical proximity) to signify they were helped by an unbillionare, unbillionare exclusive sports (I’d watch), maybe even points for how much of their stipend they don’t spend in a year

We can even let them prestige, and see if with a small gift of $5 million dollars they can do it again… By that point I’m guessing their brains have probably rotted, but I’d like to give them the option

Maybe we give them nicer badges that they can whip out based on points, maybe we make a points store where they can use the emergency alert system or rent out monuments for a pizza party… Just things that money can’t buy and don’t meaningfully hurt the rest of us

Personally, I really love the idea of video game duels and MMA matches (either we laugh or they improve themselves to a point it’s actually impressive, win-win. Let’s stream it)

Let’s bring back the nobility, but in a way that’s fun for us and doesn’t include ownership of people. Hell, let’s add in titles, and let you get in through capitalism, scientific breakthroughs, or social change

theneverfox ,

I’ve heard this over and over…

But people still aren’t getting it (despite increasingly obvious signs this is already causing problems that will soon get much worse), so I guess we need to keep saying it

theneverfox ,

Oh hell yeah… Thank you friend. I immediately downloaded it, and it took me all of 30 seconds to realize this is it

This is what I’ve been looking for, for years now. I even took a crack at it myself several years ago, but then I realized it wasn’t possible without doing an extension (rather than a plug-in) if I wanted to do it right

You have mitigated one of most inconvenient recurring problems in my life. I’m working on a lemmy app right now, and I’m so grateful I’m going to move up the “mark user as friend” feature.

How would you like me to guild your username so I might recognize you in the future? Lit up border? Tiny crown on your avatar? A little lemmy gold symbol next to the score? I’m open to suggestion

theneverfox ,

I definitely noticed, before quantum (like 5 years ago) single page apps and frameworks like react were becoming a thing, and it was noticeably less snappy than chrome

After they announced the rewrite to better handle shadow doms and partial repaints, I switched for everything but development

Since then, they’ve done another rewrite, and the dev tools are closer, so I only open chrome when a site I have to use isn’t working, or by client request

theneverfox ,

In fairness, we queue when bollards are put up, maybe even based on paint on the ground. It must be declared though

We lack the natural instinct to queue though. If you have an ingress or ticket booth, lacking direction, we form a mob that filters in rather than a queue. At best, we might queue at a store opening if there’s many hours to wait

theneverfox ,

I also want to say, if you read the Bible front to back, it’s the story of a people fucking up. The people do terrible things, a hero teaches them to be better, the heroes turn villain (or, rarely, wander off into the sunset when their role is complete), and the institutions rot.

It’s not a story of a better people, it’s a story of people doing better

theneverfox ,

What does that mean??

theneverfox ,

They’re talking about something like top ramen, a very low quality dehydrated shadow of real ramen. It’s just a packet of noodles and a bag of seasoning. It’s pure carbs and not very nutritious, but you could get it for like $0.07 a meal (who knows these days though)

There’s also good instant ramen, which ranges from $1-$5ish, and is much closer in taste to the real thing. It’s not super healthy either, but you might get some dehydrated vegetables, meat, and/or oil to go with the spices

theneverfox ,

Quality instant ramen is pretty delicious, but it’s not that cheap or healthy

Get an appropriately sized rice cooker, it’s a super easy and cheap staple food that’s endlessly versatile.

Want Mexican food? Fry up some beans, veg, and/or eggs with cumin or taco seasoning and you’ve got a burrito bowl. Want fried rice? Toss it in too and season it. Want a simple breakfast meal? Fry an egg sunny side up and toss it on top. Feeling lazy or putting off a grocery store run? Pack it together and you get onigiri

You can even turn it into porridge (I’ve never tried it, my friend said it’s good)

(Sponsored by The Rice Gang🍚)

theneverfox ,

Those weren’t about speed of technology, it was capitalism being capitalism without being held back by regulation or worker protection.

How many people died designing the Internet? How many died to figure out how to land a rocket booster on a barge? How many people died figuring out mRNA vaccines?

theneverfox ,

See how I picked specific, more recent examples? Ones where OSHA existed?

That’s the difference. You can’t just damn the whole tech tree because the primitive precursor came about during WW2.

The turing architecture, which laid the groundwork for everything, wasn’t even about war - it came from a man who was aiming far over the horizon, and used code breaking to fund his dream. His dream was a true AI.

Same with the rocket - it wasn’t created to kill, it became a tool of death first because that’s how it was funded.

We can do technology safely. Capitalism and war are both just incentives to do it recklessly. They also shape the form it takes, usually not for the better

I don’t know why you’re saying technology is responsible for war deaths either… The war drives the technology, not the other way around. Technology changes society and changes war, but you can have both with stagnant technology. At worst, technology magnifies the scale we act on, but it’s not the source.

Technology comes from people who like to push limits. If you give the right type of people the resources they need, they’ll create it.

I’ve watched plenty of YouTube videos about the development of tech. It’s interesting, but I prefer the YouTubers who push the limits in their garage… Especially the things that exist but aren’t economically viable, like paint that passively cools or diy algae bioreactors

theneverfox ,

Gestures at the 1%, who are overwhelmingly descendants of the aristocracy created by Rome and managed by the holy Roman empire

theneverfox ,

… No proof she didn’t? What could possibly prove that?

Can you give me an example of this proof? And if so, is that something reasonable for a student to have?

Seriously, think it through.

theneverfox ,

Ok, and that’s proof of what exactly? That you made the file when you said you did?

Not to mention, you can set those to whatever value you want

I can see how it could be part of a court case, because it’s one more little corroborating detail. It doesn’t prove anything though

theneverfox ,

A quick search shows you can edit this as well… That is interesting though, I didn’t know it existed

Give me a couple hours and I could build something that makes pastes appear to be keystrokes. Give me a weekend, and I can build something mathematically indistinguishable from a human typing that will hold up to intense scrutiny

It still doesn’t prove anything, it’s just one more piece of circumstantial evidence. Still, it’s not unreasonable to paste the full text into it, or mix and match. Maybe you don’t have word installed on your computer - I don’t, I haven’t since I was in school myself. It’s reasonable to use word on school computers but do all of the work on an online text editor, then pasting into word on a school computer

theneverfox ,

I was talking to my handyman the other day, he’s a nice guy and likes to learn. I’m telling him about how much it sucks to grow up in car-centric suburbs, and he told me about childhood.

I told him how the freedom he had now gets people arrested for child neglect, and all of a sudden he goes “yeah it’s so dangerous now with the crisis at the border”

It’s like they’ve been through an “education” camp. You carefully lead them through understanding how the world could be very easily improved, and they’re getting it… Then some phrase reminds them of their conditioning, and they snap back to step one.

It takes months of gently leading them to see that what they’re saying makes no sense… It’s possible, but it’s depressing how many people are falling into the fox newshole

theneverfox ,

I’ve got a suite of plugins that make this essentially anon-issue for me… My browser blocks tracking cookies, and sandboxes by domain

But still, when I see this screen 50/50 if I immediately hit back on principle

theneverfox ,

There’s no mechanism for this. Sure, they could track the referer (if it’s even set - Lemmy apps probably wouldn’t bother, browsers can decide not to as well)

But then what? They send a bill to the Lemmy site? Which would be your instance, not the one where it was posted… Which you could then laugh off and post for content

What you’re describing doesn’t exist, otherwise I could start my own host service and spam posts to Reddit and charge them whatever I want. I could even go to my own content

Now, let’s say they did want to do something like this. They could send a “not allowed” picture instead of what you asked for if you don’t see a valid site. They could then force developers to get a key and proxy the image over from Reddit (if the key leaked, they’d be on the hook, so you’d almost have to do it server-side)

But that’s a bunch of effort on both sides, and people would just reupload somewhere else. It might even lead more people off Reddit

I’m thinking you came to this idea from Reddit saying they started hosting themselves to save money. Here’s some reasons why that situation is different

First, imgur does have a system to restrict outside links. Certain content requires either to see it on their site or to meet criteria, like a referral header.

Second, lemmy is basically leaching off Reddit’s hosting, but does actually have our own image hosting. Imgur was created to serve Reddit - if imgur decided to delete popular Reddit posts, the site would have looked dead. They were already paying imgur for the service

Third, who says Reddit was telling the truth? They’ve been chasing the IPO for a long time now, so of course they’re going to sell every new feature as profitable. In reality, I’m guessing it was a mix of needing something to spend money on to increase their valuation and wanting more control over their content since imgur had grown beyond just serving Reddit

theneverfox ,

Embrace absurdism. Yes, everything sucks and people are suffering, but it’s all for unimaginably stupid reasons.

It’s ok to laugh at the ridiculousness of it, it’s not the same as laughing at the suffering itself

theneverfox ,

It’s funny, I was on Reddit at the time, but I didn’t see the meme.

So the one time I was asked, I didn’t know… The guy went from super excited to crushed and embarrassed

theneverfox ,

There were angles involved - imagine throwing a Frisbee forward and running fast enough to bump into it. Now imagine you throw it up, and you run until it hits you in the back of the head

No matter how fast you’re going forward, it’s still coming at you from an angle you’re not moving

theneverfox ,

I don’t recognize one of those… I’m not going to say which one, because I’m sure I don’t need to know

theneverfox ,

Hundreds. Thousands. Probably not more than a few hundred million

If we could sync memories, I could do everything at once. I could do anything each day. I could learn everything, I could do everything. My sense of self is flexible enough to see my clones as me… In fact I’ve had existential breakdowns over only having the one body. We’d be a single person from day one, hell my morality is based on “if the world was made up of only copies of me, would it be a better place”.

I’d start with a dozen, then scale up as I get more jobs (I could handle 12x my food bill for a while, I mostly eat beans and rice already). I’d rotate between jobs and time the memory syncs to give myself work-life balance.

So my answer is basically “how many can I get?”

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theneverfox ,

But the entire department is a loss for them… Can you tell me the last time you called customer support to give them more money?

It’s two sides of the same coin… It’s as simple as you say, but not as innocent

theneverfox ,

So true. Ideally, ones without shareholders… Once they get in, there’s a constant pressure to grow, take more loans and use it to rapidly scale up.

You can dig in your heels and hold the line, but you can only hold your ground or lose ground until you’re forced to IPO

theneverfox ,

Incorrect. It’s called defenestration. The impressive part is how it happened underground

Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)

They frame it as though it’s for user content, more likely it’s to train AI, but in fact it gives them the right to do almost anything they want - up to (but not including) stealing the content outright.

theneverfox ,

This is a much better take.

Intonation is huge, and something general models tend to have trouble with - especially with something like an audiobook, which is narration - it’s very contextual in a way not found in almost any other form of communication. It even encapsulates every other form of context through dialogue.

And not only that - a lot of audiobooks have versions by multiple voice actors. And they might change a word here or there, but it’s highly structured data - it’s truly a treasure trove

I’d go a step further and say they really want access to the dataset - not just for audiobooks, but because this is a fantastic dataset to train very context aware (and silky smooth) text to voice.

Spotify probably doesn’t have the chops to do this, but they might be trying to leverage the dataset - I’m not sure if they could sell it wholesale or not, but if nothing else they could “partner” with Microsoft or Google to train VTT capabilities into multi-modal LLMs (a pitch with all the buzzwords to make investors need to change their underwear)

theneverfox ,

You can shoot a strong laser and use a super sensitive receiver to a very specific frequency

That argument doesn’t hold up

theneverfox ,

You can shoot a strong laser and use a super sensitive receiver to a very specific frequency

That argument doesn’t hold up

theneverfox ,

Good work life balance? Low stress? Well paid? Not soul crushing?

Nah fam. Pick one, hope to get your second pick, and if you’re lucky, skilled, and play your cards right you can get three. You might get none of them.

No one gets all four… Despite what it sounds like, it’s an inherently creative job where you rarely get to pick your project and are regularly put on an impossible timeline.

Wage suppression is well documented, and for some reason no one gives raises… Despite the fact even the best devs need half a year, bare minimum, to be fully up to speed with a mature system. If you’re lucky, when you jump after 18 months (the optimal time at a place to keep your salary growing, especially in the first decade) you’ll inherit a system in good condition with people who can explain it. If you’re very lucky.

That being said, it’s one of the only middle class industries left. I recommend it to everyone who has the aptitude - it’s one of the most useful skills to have, even if you rarely use it.

theneverfox ,

Well that’s exactly the lie they sold. Reduce? Reuse? Absolutely. No question.

Recycle? If it makes sense. Should you recycle magazines? Sure, I’m sure it’s possible… But that glossy coating means you’d have to put it through a bunch of rounds of chemical baths or something to separate that plastic crap off. Same with cardboard - if it’s glossy, it’s probably not going to turn back into wood pulp, and if it’s oily it’d also ruin the batch (after a certain amount) so no pizza boxes either.

It’s like that for just about anything you want to recycle - you have to look at the cost. And I mean full cost - the energy cost, fossil fuel used to produce required chemicals, the river those chemicals end up eventually, the environmental opportunity cost of bothering with it vs creating it fresh, and finally the man hour and infrastructure costs

Even if we publicly funded it, it’s still an externality to the producer.

And that’s the lie. It’s like bailing out a cruise ship with a drinking cup… Theoretically it seems like “hey, if we can just move faster and we all do it, it could work!” But the numbers won’t work. You can’t scoop water up infinitely fast, and the geometry is going to limit how many people can increase the speed of bailing out water.

The only way this works is by plugging the holes or building enormous systems to offset the water coming in.

Reduce, reuse, recycle is a lie because it was never possible. Not for plastics - paper works pretty well, glass can work (but it’s a lot of energy if you don’t reuse it), metals work if the price is right.

But plastic barely works to create an inferior product (where only a portion of the material is recycled - you always have to add new plastic, sometimes only a few percent, sometimes more than half). You also have to sort it, ship it, wash the crap out of it, and deal with all the micro plastic-infused solvents. Because plastic sheds from heat, cold, UV light, mechanical pressure, and looking at it funny - every step of the process, you’re dusting the surroundings in micro plastics. Even rainwater is full of micro plastics. And generally, it all ends up washed into the nearest body of water and the soil

And what’s worse, is everything is coated in plastic if not made of it originally.

The only answer is to make companies stop wrapping everything in plastic… Yeah, it’s super convenient and cheap, but we could figure out better options.

People are so worried about the AI alignment problem, but the corporate alignment problem is a much bigger threat - we have to make them want it, because the campaign to “reduce, reuse, recycle” bought them 40 years of complacency

theneverfox ,

Magnet atoms magnet at magnet direction. Altermagnet magnet at 90° magnet direction. Antiferrous magnet magnet at 180° direction

(That’s my takeaway at least)

theneverfox ,

Nah, it kind of makes sense for the second guy.

Remember, he’s not getting triggered by the acorn, he’s reacting to his coworker yelling that they’ve been shot and actual gunfire. That’s a justified reason to pull out your weapon IMO

Granted, he should’ve tried to take control of the situation and de-escalate so he could “save” his panicked coworker, but that kind of calmness “under fire” would take actual training

theneverfox ,

I really don’t think you understand what facism really is…I think you’re looking at Republicans flirting with openly enacting facism, and thinking “well, if it’s just to that degree it’ll be ok”

Facism is like this - you have an authoritarian group, and they promise a perfect world if only everyone believed their ideology.

But their ideology is garbage, and so we’re going to have problems. And so they’re going to look around and say “it’s LGBT people, they’re ruining everything!”. Then they’re going to directly or indirectly outlaw their existence, and use that to imprison them.

They’ll milk it for as long as they can… But as this goes on, you get more and more “true believers” who escalate and speed up the process

But that’s not going to fix anything, obviously. So they’ll look around again for people they can declare different… Maybe it’s black people, or Mexicans, or alleged spies from China. Maybe it’s stem workers, or college grads. Maybe it’s just anyone who doesn’t play along hard enough, and we go the ideological purity route

But again, that’s only going to make things worse, so they’ll have to find someone else to target. They require an enemy to blame for everything that goes wrong. And a lot is going to go wrong…

You can say this is all hyperbolic, but it’s really not. The Nazis started just like this, with book bans, control over education, and going after trans people. Then they went after political opposition, then things really got into swing.

theneverfox ,

I’ve literally written expressions of existential horror in commit messages. No one reads past the preview, so just make sure the first couple lines are on topic

theneverfox ,

You’re over engineering this.

Have you ever heard about the guys who brought parachutes up Everest, and just glided back down?

Instead of a heavy trebuchet, you just redesign poop bags to have a little parachute attached to them. Then you release your poop to the winds… Who knows how far your poop might go?

theneverfox ,

Will no one think of the shareholders???

theneverfox ,

In this case, you also need caution tape and something that beeps like a truck backing up

It’s actually PPE and a clipboard, you do need a high vis vest and work boots too. And the more esoteric the activity, the more that strange safety measures will be accepted.

“I’m sorry sir, you can’t get close once that alarm stops beeping. And once we start, we can’t stop - if that tower isn’t in the designed drop off point by the end of the day, we’ll both be shut down for weeks while the feds investigate. Technically, this is classified as a strategic resource… Probably some hold over from the cold war, but they treat it like enriched uranium.

We’re taking it to an unmarked military drop off site, if we’re not pulling in at the right time with a description of our vehicle, they get real jumpy with the guns.

Look, between me and you, here’s what you do.

Here’s the number for Corporal Radnok - he’s got his head on his shoulders, and if you give him a heads up before you go through official channels he’ll help sort out this mess. He’s a real solution oriented guy - he’ll cuss and yell, then he’ll try to work it out quietly. Quietly is good - he’ll do damage control, he’ll pay to get this fixed before it runs up the chain, and that’s how we get you back online next week instead of next quarter.

Call him between 6-8pm, after he gets home and before he’s in bed. This is important - no phones on the base, and he’ll be much less accommodating if you wake him up. Then give him a day to chew out the right people, then go through the official channels and we’ll have you sorted the next day.

If you want to play it by the book, everyone is going to fight you every step of the way, and the blame game is going to go on for weeks, then eventually someone upstairs will hear about it, and it’ll become a whole thing. Maybe you get a few bucks, but it’ll only be a few and it’ll be painful.

All the same to me though - we get paid either way. But if you’re going to go through Radnok I can leave my schedule open”

Rattle off something like that, and you can steal it with the owners watching. No one knows what the laws are, literally no one.

But if you don’t have enough PPE, you’re fucked

theneverfox ,

She might even be doing it to genuinely help, but… Even if I believe she does set the direction with a lot of what she does, there’s more to it

Billionaires aren’t people, they’re basically a company themselves. They all have teams to manage what is too much to keep track of as an individual, including publicists and accountants - and Taylor Swift has a great publicist(s). Her accountant might also encourage it for tax writeoffs

For example, Bill Gates - he likes coming off as a tech guy who retired into philanthropy, but his charities are often used to accomplish political goals and move money around. Even the amounts he’s very publicly decided to give away upon his death are still going to stay in the control of his family. Same with the REI guy.

Jeff bezos likes to come off like a socially awkward sorta cowboy who fell into an obscene amount of money. Mark Zuckerberg likes to come off like a tech bro. The founder of Walmart drove around in a work truck and wore jeans

Even Elon musk, who likes to go off script, goes through great lengths to come off like a futurist. He “officially” lives in a tiny home that he bought and slapped “Tesla” onto. He’s been living in a mansion owned by someone else

Hilariously, Trump used to pose as a member of his own team, and called up newspapers and magazines to brag about himself and to get Forbes to just himself as a billionaire.

So how much is real? Who knows. But whether there’s any truth to it or not, it’s carefully cultivated. I’m inclined to think Swift is closer to genuine than most of them, but her publicist is amazing, so who knows. She’s also a performer, so it’s probably much more important to keep her image pristine than it is for most billionaires

theneverfox ,

It’s restful because you’re not watching… At least without a consent higher than “let’s have sex”

theneverfox ,

You forgot to order by perceived_wealth and attractiveness desc

theneverfox ,

I’m still getting weekly emails (and who knows how many linked in messages) trying to recruit me over a profile I haven’t updated in a decade…aka 2 years after I entered the industry

One of these days, I’m going to set up my AI assistant to respond. Who knows, with an even playing field maybe some of them will be worthwhile

theneverfox ,

Dude made, essentially, a data visualization tool.

No more and no less.

If you want the data to be private, go after that. Stand up in front of us all, and argue “private jets deserve the privacy of any one of us”

Taylor Swift is a public figure that lives like royalty. At the level, I don’t think she gets to live normally. This isn’t even her - this is her publicist and/or lawyers, maybe responding to discomfort she’s personally expressed… I doubt she goes anywhere without bodyguards. I doubt she’s in real danger comparable to even most US politicians - the beetles were small time by her standards. She’s a corporation - she’s just the face of something enormous

theneverfox ,

Dude made, essentially, a data visualization tool.

No more and no less.

If you want the data to be private, go after that. Stand up in front of us all, and argue “private jets deserve the privacy of any one of us”

Taylor Swift is a public figure that lives like royalty. At the level, I don’t think she gets to live normally. This isn’t even her - this is her publicist and/or lawyers, maybe responding to discomfort she’s personally expressed… I doubt she goes anywhere without bodyguards. I doubt she’s in real danger comparable to even most US politicians - the beetles were small time by her standards. She’s a corporation - she’s just the face of something enormous

theneverfox ,

If you own it, presumably you’ve spent more time using it, meaning you both look and drive in a more controlled manner

theneverfox ,

I set up my voice mail more then a decade ago, I was told I needed to in order to get a job

I have regretted this decision ever since. I haven’t checked my voice mail since high school, when it was explained to me. I get voice mails from my parents and from unknown numbers on a weekly basis. I don’t know why my parents leave voice mails - I’ve not once, ever, listened to their voice mails. I’ve informed them that I don’t even know how to access my voicemails at this point

If I don’t pick up, text me or wait for me to call back. Why would I prefer to hear you ramble off the top of your head when you’re put on the spot? Just send over a post-it worth of text about why you’re calling, and I’ll get back to you faster

I used to hope for the day my voicemail filled up, I’m now certain it never will. Maybe one day I’ll work up the motivation to change the message to “don’t leave a message, text me if I know you and email me if I don’t”

theneverfox ,

Sure, but that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about a Corp that frames fair use as a subset of fair use, making allowances only when it’s beneficial to them for marketing

For the most cut and dry example, they allow blog posts praising them… What about a blog post offering a nuanced criticism? What about a satiric post about them?

Those are both undeniably fair use, but by framing it as outside fair use, they’re being shit heels

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