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lung , 3 days ago

Old meme, but (1) you don't go to prison for making a mistake on your taxes in America — you have to do a big fraud (2) no, the government doesn't always know how much you owe, they only know stuff like domestic W2s and what banks file. There is a huge amount of ways to make income outside of that

lung , 16 days ago

Miss me with the doomsday news cycle capture, we aren't even close to AI being a threat to ~anything

(and all hail the AI overlords if it does happen, can't be worse than politicians)

lung , 25 days ago

Yeah! Let me repair all my semiautomatic dildos already!!

lung , 1 month ago

Back to Vine we go

lung , 1 month ago

Wait so is... uhhh how? Like you're literally not allowed to live somewhere unless you own it?? What about short term rentals and vacations? Or is the idea that we live in some kinda socialist utopia where homes are just idk assigned to people via lottery?

lung , 1 month ago

Backdoor matador

lung , 2 months ago

I just installed Arch with Wayland and Pipewire & my Chromebook went from barely usable and laggy w/ a Linux VM in it — to running with full fps animations and somehow 3x as many chrome tabs. Also holy shit Pipewire, I didn't know about this, but Linux has finally and conclusively fixed audio/video routing & is now best in class

So yeah fuck ChromeOS w/ it's shitty outdated Linux sandbox

lung , 2 months ago

Ok but that shit with Nvidia is they fault

lung , 3 months ago

Nice ramble, seems about right, though there's always a new investing trend & VCs only slowed down a little, which happens in cycles

We have yet to see AI really transform too much of the economy, largely because of factors like price & being too primitive. I am expecting we will get the price down and various models like video and audio perfected, hospital tools, various analysis devices based on pattern recognition. So we can expect steady gdp gains as people become more efficient at their jobs using faster tools. However this doesn't necessarily mean jobs lost, as productive efficiency is gained every year regardless. Companies can sell more product for lower prices, to new customers enabled by that price point, for example

lung , 3 months ago

He's not actually, and if you read it, he warns that assigning meaning to meaninglessness is a fallacy. People feel bad because there's no meaning but then that's applying meaning to it. Transcendence of meaning frees you from it entirely and leads to Buddhism, which also embraced "emptiness" at the core of reality

lung , 3 months ago

I vote that this is art, it must have taken ages and OP should put it in a gallery in new york

lung , 3 months ago

Those are for messing up image generators and they have already been defeated via de-glazing tools

lung , 3 months ago

Rust grows once it's punctured down, everyone knows this, no? I guess they only test cars in Texas and California. Still like the trukk

lung , 3 months ago

I live rural and driving a big ol electric brick is my dream XD

lung , 3 months ago

clearly never lived in a rural setting

lung , 3 months ago

Cat Quest: one plate of sashimi

Reward: i acknowledge your existence

lung , 4 months ago

Thanos snap those nerds straight to arch

lung , 4 months ago

Whoever collected this data is a real one

lung , 4 months ago

Well, not really, because you could use android, and it commands 70% of the global market share

Also, the way the law is, you have to have both a monopoly & also be causing substantial harm to the public. I.e. you can have a monopoly if it's really nice and more like a public utility. So after the Microsoft antitrust case (for basically same thing), it's been very hard to justify breaking up tech companies or banks

If a company acquires its monopoly by using business acumen, innovation and superior products, it is regarded to be legal; if a firm achieves monopoly through predatory or exclusionary acts, then it leads to anti-trust concern

For example, business can defense that its business conducts bring merits for consumers

(Wikipedia)

What happened with Microsoft browser tie ins antitrust?

Ultimately, the Circuit Court overturned Jackson's holding that Microsoft should be broken up as an illegal monopoly. However, the Circuit Court did not overturn Jackson's findings of fact, and held that traditional antitrust analysis was not equipped to consider software-related practices like browser tie-ins

So in short, Apple's legal / business strategy here is totally solid. Arguably helps users, defended by precedent, and doesn't dominate market share. Of course they have to debate all this

lung , 4 months ago

I'm a digital ~anarchist. All this regulation doesn't help, it just makes the Internet more ridiculous, and raises the barriers to entry - fuck em. Rather than regulating some sane browser features, we left it to every site to implement a cookies popup, and they are unique enough that they aren't easily filtered. So now every site has cringe popups that nobody reads or understands, thanks regulators!! Really solved that shit. I don't trust these assholes, it's all gonna get lobbied weird and big money pretty much always wins

Real open source is the answer. Common goods for common people, not led by capitalism, but led by shared infrastructure needs that benefit all. Protect the rights to anonymity/privacy online, instead of helping big tech deanonymize everyone. Uphold the values of the constitution of the USA, but in the digital space. And otherwise fuck off, govt

lung , 4 months ago

My opinion is that it's super legit, basically the only lasting icon of creativity and freedom of speech. Feels like what the whole internet used to be like, during the golden age before everything was captured by corps that fear brand damage and legal repercussions. People still repost 4chan content to all other media obsessively. Anyway 4chan is where it belongs, in the background. If it was more popular it would get totaled