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mPony ,

They're removing Wordpad. WORDPAD. because they want people to buy Office 365. The bastards. And they wonder why people turn on them.
It's death by 1000 cuts.

mPony ,

it's like a no-fly list, but for food

mPony ,

like Deadpool did, with a stapler

mPony ,

This movie is goddamn awesome.

It managed to capture the serenity, the adorableness and the utterly uncompromising brutality of the characters as they were originally portrayed in the book.

People should watch this movie. It teaches so many valuable lessons.

mPony ,

oh damn that's funny

mPony ,

the people that payed $90 for this are probably not the sharpest knives in the drawer

maybe, but even stupid people should be protected from being taken advantage of.
They should at least get a refund of 50% of the purchase price.

mPony ,

I believe Vanila Ice already said he would solve it.

mPony ,

Friend, they still have your original comments. and they have sold them all. they're just not viewable to the rest of us.

mPony ,

they don't exist to learn; they exist to generate wealth at any cost.

mPony ,

Google isn’t paying lemmy $60m a year

Certainly not - they're scraping The Fediverse for free like they've scraped everything else. Whether they bother using the scraped data or not is a different story. Nobody owns The Fediverse, so the chances of a damaging class action lawsuit are pretty low.

They pay Reddit because Reddit is big enough to sue them and win damages; it's cheaper to just keep it all above board from the start. Reddit has a TON of data (human-generated and otherwise).

mPony ,

there's always room for HOOV-S

mPony ,

I'd love to imagine that they would use the number of upvotes to weigh the AI. I mean, they won't. but they could.

mPony ,

does an apartment count as a platform?

mPony ,

the word "cesspit" was used elsewhere in this thread and I think it's a remarkably useful word

mPony ,

Lemmy is probably the worst social network in terms of discrimination against Windows users

a) funny
b) were you around for USENET ? it was occasionally troublesome in the same way.

mPony ,

remember how over the past few years almost everything brand new had the word "blockchain" shoehorned into it for no good reason?

This is the same kind of thing. It's an atrocious boondoggle. There must still be a serious amount of cocaine floating around Venture Capitalist parties, because one of those boys is gonna drop 500M on this company and think they bought the dip, when in fact they, themselves, are the dip.

mPony ,

"... wait'll they get a load of me you." - The Joker - 1989

mPony ,

"Thank you for calling FASH-Mobile, how may I direct your call?"

mPony ,

now when have Microsoft ever lied before?
I mean, other than the falsified evidence they submitted during their legal battle with the US Department of Justice.

mPony ,

The headline is patently false.

FTA

We do not develop LLMs or other generative models using customer data.

If you want to act like you're better than Reddit you're going to have to start actually being better.

mPony ,

"code is law" can become "might makes right" without oversight.
Those who lobby against oversight are a problem.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

mPony ,

Corporations have also already proved very difficult to actually hold to account. They can basically do as they please, with relative disregard for any consumer protections that may already exist. It's not good, but it can get worse.

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...

mPony ,

not exactly the age or attractiveness that most people expect

What gets me is that, for the right style of music, age or attractiveness shouldn't matter as much as it does. You should be able to create your art, whatever kind of art it is, and have the art itself be judged on its merits. Instead we've got a bunch of our culture still somehow wrapped up in these veneers of attractiveness. It's kind of maddening, to be honest. If you're in your 50's and making 90's style Acid House or 2000's style Trance it shouldn't matter what you look like. If you're a DJ it shouldn't matter if you look like Shirley Temple or Shirley Manson. And yet here we are.

8 million listens netting you only 40 bucks really is insane, isn't it? I used to think radio royalties were bad: I remember Sting talking about how every time Roxanne got played on the radio someone somewhere got 3 cents. He didn't say who got the 3 cents, nor did he say how much of that 3 cents went to him. I'm not 100% sure about those numbers ("my memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?") but they're a damn sight more impressive than whatever crumbs the streaming companies are paying, somehow a thousand times less than the radio. Spotify's announcement last year that they weren't even going to bother paying for songs with less than 1000 streams per month was a shocker - what stops them from making it 2000, or 10,000?

Still, being a hobbyist isn't all bad. I've been releasing jazz cover-versions of pop songs for about 2.5 years now, and have netted about 25 bucks so far :) Who knew jazz versions of Toxic or Rusted From The Rain could be so popular?

mPony ,

well, that was last year, right?
I wouldn't bet on Bing search results having gotten better since then, but I would bet on Google search results having gotten worse since then.

mPony ,

oh please. if guns became sentient someone would stack three of them in a trenchcoat and give them the right to vote.

Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)

[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”

mPony ,

the only massive pile of wank in that equation would be Elon.

mPony ,

only because doing so would cost money and not immediately benefit capitalists.

mPony ,

Coca Cola would never do anything like this.

mPony ,

remember, " Illegal " means "Something only the truly powerful can get away with."

mPony ,

uh, are graphics cards supposed to be 2500 bucks? (I play boardgames)

mPony ,

stupidass incorrect shit

like scheduling a meeting at 10pm

mPony ,

it's a fad, like medicine

mPony ,

Bob The Boomer may have been passive-aggressively trolling the presenter. "I'm not in here with you, you're in here with me" kind of thing.

mPony ,

"now how did THAT get in there?"

mPony ,

you know who didn't die in a car crash on the way to work this morning? People who WFH

mPony ,

Why post it here

"Everybody's got to have
somebody to look down on
Who they can feel better than
at any time they please"

Kris Kristofferson

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    mPony ,

    I use Windows 11 for work (dev) and gaming and it’s fine

    Not to pile-on, but my work laptop runs Win11 and it randomly hangs for ~5 seconds a few times each day. I'm sure not all of the blame should be put on the OS: the 365 office suite is probably coded for shit as well.

    mPony ,

    that's the code for free gas

    mPony ,

    wait, take a breath, do you think someone's going to get arrested for trying to turn off advertising?

    I know America is ever-sliding into Dystopia but that just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

    mPony ,

    literally write the laws and hand them to legislators who pass them

    Remember, they pass them without reading them.

    Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

    A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

    mPony ,

    a job for the free market

    Hey, as long as there is a way for ordinary people to attend shareholders meetings in person and have direct physical access to the humans who made these decisions, I'm sure everything will work out in the end.

    mPony ,

    Google being forced to

    What an odd phrase

    mPony ,

    then Google tweaks the algorithm

    Well you don't have to read Cory's newest column to understand that Google hasn't been doing that, because they don't have to. They do not care, at least not yet, because they have arguably become too big to care.

    mPony ,

    Nuke them from orbit - it's the only way to be sure

    mPony ,

    for even more of this same kind of joke, but from a totally different angle, may I present the "London To Edinburgh" sketch from Big Train.

    mPony ,

    I’m not made of money

    Capitalism: "Oh, yes, you are."

    mPony ,

    fyi most dairy cows are kept beyond the age of 3. You can see on the World Dairy Expo YouTube channel that there are cows producing up to the age of 6.

    Heifers reach puberty at about 12 months old, but some delay until up to 20 months old. After breeding they gestate for 283 days (almost 9 1/2 months), give birth to their calf and give milk for about 10 months. "Culling" a cow at the age of three would mean only getting 2 full lactation cycles of milk from them, which isn't super economical.

    You're not too far off the mark, though: once any individual animal becomes less profitable than a new one could be, they get culled.

    mPony ,

    I get those about once a week. "Your package cannot be delivered"
    Come on over here you spammy bastards, i'll deliver a package of my goddamn BOOT up the side of your arse! That's what I say. It helps me feel better, because why not feel better?

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