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Blackmist

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Well the country is built on it.

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Real life Connor Roy soldiers bravely on.

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They always were.

Only now they've agreed to pay Reddit for it. This is what their third party lockdown was really all about.

They're helping themselves to your Lemmy comments for free, as that's just how it's designed. If you post anything publicly anywhere, it's getting slurped up by a bot somewhere.

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Well they've probably got filters that remove all that before it teaches their Ai to swear. So you need to be more subtle for 𝑓ucks sake.

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Well the legality seems to be something you can ignore when you have billions of dollars in VC money to fritter around.

It certainly didn't stop them hoovering up music and movies, and the owners of those have a lot more power than any of us do.

Tech is fast, the law is slow, and you can make many times the cost of lawyers and fines by the time anybody gets around to telling you to stop it.

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Probably injecting ads "naturally" into the conversation.

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Can't wait to take a real life Johnnycab.

Exactly the same price as a normal taxi (if not higher, because there's no competition left), but now all the money goes to needy Silicon Valley trillionaires, rather than some greedy low life taxi driver who just wants to waste that money on food and rent, rather than lovely sustaining growth.

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Coming soon: The all new, all American, COAL powered leaf blower.

Now with a slide whistle and megaphone attachments for extra annoying noises.

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Doesn't sound a huge deal different to High Frequency Trading, and Wall Street nobheads fall over themselves to exploit that.

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Best we can do is a four ton truck.

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I think they're a preference of the motor industry who want you to buy more expensive cars.

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But they don't want to make better products for you. They want China to make products for you that they slap their badge on and sell you at an enormous mark-up.

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Is that because it costs money now?

I lose track of all the Elon madness.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

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I wish they had something between "top songs" and "completely random" when listening to a band.

Like, sure, Sweet Child of Mine, Welcome to the Jungle, and Paradise City are great and all, but there's only so often you can listen to them, and the only alternative is to be reminded that Chinese Democracy exists.

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Apple only do consumer friendly when forced by the EU.

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The sad thing is, it's much better than it was.

You'd see a movie, read the truncated blurb, click into it to see the full details, only to get the exact same text in a bigger font, so you'd actually see less of it.

I cancelled it the day they announced more ads.

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I think that's dependent on a lot of factors. Most of the highest quality webrips are from Amazon. Pretty sure there was less audio compression on their streams as well.

But watching, you'd often see it lose all quality for seemingly no reason at all, and revert to something that wouldn't have looked out of place on RealPlayer on a 56K modem. I had this several times, and only reinstalling their useless app would fix it.

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There's an easy solution for that.

Cancel it. Stop buying things from Amazon. Stop giving that awful company your money.

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It is weird how theyb collect so much data yet know so little about what I want to watch.

I think Disney+ is actually somehow worse in that regard, since they have so much old content that I would doubtless watch when bored, but all they want to push is the latest reality TV shit that I have never once shown any interest in.

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If you saw the build quality of Teslas, and his handling of Twitter, and him calling a diver a paedo, and you still thought "I should let that man perform medical experiments on me", then you probably fucking deserve it tbh.

Just go for it. What's the worst that can happen? You get double brain damage?

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Have you seen how old they are? Doesn't matter for them.

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With the way Modi is running India right now, that's not exactly a glowing recommendation.

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"A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night."

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I'm ten years you'll have people identifying as an AI, and grafting on extra fingers.

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That big list of sites looks suspiciously like the big list of shit I have to scroll past in order to find actually relevant results.

I welcome this change.

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Because money, both from tech hungry but not very savvy consumers, and the inevitable advertisers that will pay for the opportunity for their names to be ejected from these boxes as part of a perfectly natural conversation.

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Why are people continuing to host those on GitHub. MS had shown itself willing to take down anything at the drop of a hat.

If it's on GitHub, it's not yours.

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

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You can also do all these in Windows. They have installers. Recommend Prowlarr for having all your torrent sites in one interface rather than setting them up repeatedly.

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Cool. Would be nice to see the same thing happen with games consoles as well.

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The Pixel fingerprint scanner is so bad, you could end up locking it entirely by accident.

Behind-the-screen fingerprint scanners are an abomination.

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Office suites are a tricky one. The shitstorm when MS changed it to the ribbon UI was insane. Business users really do not like change. That and the minor incompatibilities in document loading to LibreOffice. I mean, it's like 99.9% of the way there, but that 0.1% is guaranteed to be in the middle of one of those massive spreadsheets that absolutely fucking everything hinges on.

Still, Office has been going in-browser for a while now. They might at least get off Windows, even if they're stuck with Office.

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The question isn't "are they safer than the average human driver?"

The question is "who goes to prison when that self driving car has an oopsie, veers across three lanes of traffic and wipes out a family of four?"

Because if the answer is "nobody", they shouldn't be on the road. There's zero accountability, and because it's all wibbly-wobbly AI bullshit, there's no way to prove that the issues are actually fixed.

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Accountability is important. If a human driver is dangerous, they get taken off the roads and/or sent to jail. If a self driving car kills somebody, it's just "oops, oh well, these things happen, but shareholder make a lot of money so never mind".

I do not want "these things happen" on my headstone.

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Because I'm sure that's what corporations are interested in.

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Google. Putting the i in Ads.

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Only the wacky super far left definition of "liberal".

"Moderates" might be a better word for this meme.

To me, liberal is the opposite of authoritarian, which tells me something about the source of their terminology.

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You're talking about neo-liberalism.

They're as similar to liberals as national socialists are to socialists.

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And now ensues an arms race, in which advertisers attempt to plant adverts into comment sections naturally, while reddit attempts to stop them doing it for free.

No company with shareholders can ever avoid enshittification.

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You reckon Apple made money on it's VR division either?

Almost nobody is making big money on VR, because nobody wants to work together to make it into a widely compatible common standard. If you could have one headset that worked on all platforms, for a reasonable price, you'd get a lot more take up, and nicer headsets costing more would make more sense.

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It's strange to see all this whining about electric cars from the US.

In the UK people have been charging cars at home, work, and at car parks for ages, and we've not heard the electric companies whining about infrastructure costs. They've been rubbing their hands at the thought of all that electricity they're going to sell, and got the fuck on with it.

I suspect articles like this are just more pro-oil propaganda.

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The important thing is that it lives on American servers first, where the FBI and NSA can get at it.

If it lives on Chinese servers, the CIA have to get involved.

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Just doesn't sound as sexy as NetFuckerPro Phantom Xtreme. With four ports and speeds up to 100Mbps!

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Fairphone Fairbuds?

https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds

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Sounds a lot like Sharp going "please don't buy OLED panels, we don't make them!"

My 2017 LG OLED is still going strong, looks great, and when it eventually dies, I've seen the 77" model in Costco for just over £2000. For all the chatter about burn in, I've never seen any of it, and that's with heavy gaming use. Not sure I'd use one for desktop PC use, but for everything else, just get OLED.

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Spying on the American people is a bipartisan issue.

If you want to change that, you'll need more than votes.

I'd like to interject for a moment. (lemmy.ml)

What you’re refering to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another closed component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising...

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I'm not completely convinced that isn't Nick Offerman in a wig.

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That's less than a kettle, in the UK at least.

Of course I wouldn't want to be running that all the time, because electric ain't cheap.

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Matter very much seems to be the "there are 14 competing standards" joke personified.

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