midnitewarrior

ASUS FTW!

It's terrifying that we live in a world where a legislator saw the need to regulate this while I am not disagreeing with the need for this once brought to my attention.

This is terrifying that we need this kind of regulation.

What if the credentials got checked into GitHub, and GitHub Copilot is auto completing those credentials in random coding sessions? Woof

My alternative is taking a break from Reddit for awhile in support of the protest and to remember what life was like before it took all my attention.

Random Gen Z-er: "Oh look, there's a dead tree version of Wikipedia."

Gen X: Dead stare, mouth open, winces, grips Encarta CDs tightly

"How dare you allow me to use my laziness against myself ChatGPT!"

The way you replace Reddit is by making its business model obsolete with a better model.

The problem with Reddit is that the interests of the users, mods, shareholders, and advertisers are not aligned. Their interests are being pitted against one another in order to generate profit through enshittification.

The way you make a better Reddit is by creating a cooperative model where the users, advertisers, and mods interests are aligned, and there isn't a profit motive for a shareholder group that takes precedence over the quality and governance of the site.

The web site and free app are ad-sponsored. Paid subscriptions first give you an ad-free experience, and secondly, give you and API key you can use in any 3rd party app. 3rd party apps make revenue from the subscriptions, giving them an incentive to create an ever-better user experience.

Mods earn a fee based on traffic and interactions with their subreddit. Not enough to call it a job, but enough for the community to show appreciation.

As a cooperative model, there are no investment shareholders, the site sells bonds to fund it that pay a deferred, fixed yield to get it started. Bondholders, have a vested interest in the success of the site, but have no say in its operation. Without shareholders demanding profits and growth, the interests of the users, the mods, the advertisers, the bondholders and the non-profit that administers the site are aligned.

The best things in this world aren't for profit, the hug of a child, a national park, a sunset and the stars at night. If you want a Reddit-like experience to stay pure, it needs to upset the apple cart and be a tech entity of a completely different model in order to avoid enshittification.

I can't even pronounce the name, how am I going to read it?

Perhaps there will be a Pixel Fold Express (a) or some other moniker for a value-focused foldable that's more easily attainable for the masses? I'm trying to think how much money I'd need to make a year where dropping $1,700 on a device with a 3 year lifespan makes sense. I'm thinking I'd need to be an executive that works around the clock before I could justify that expense. Everyone has different values of course.

Bing Chat searches then summarizes for you. It gets all the latest information, reads the top results and gives you a summary of what you are looking for. It's here today. Also, Bing Chat makes search by humans irrelevant for many things.

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ― Buckminster Fuller

Google needs to move fast.

Considering how few drivers they will have in their cars, they can just capture this data with pen and paper manually.

This sounds like GM is committing brand suicide by actively making itself unappealing to Gen Z.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/06/gen-z-survey-says...

I love Android, but I also know how to read.

Meta delivering an AR and VR experience is a non-starter for me. That environment is extremely immersive and extremely personal. I don't trust the Facebook people with putting things in to my brain, and I don't trust them with what I share through my VR experience.

You can't buy trust, and Facebook / Meta is lacking in that.

Online dating is going to be a nightmare with chatbots flooding the dating sites catfishing everyone. User contrib sites like Reddit will be flooded with bots that keep the conversation going, but drop in sponsored mentions into things for revenue. I think a push for real, verifiable identities and digitally signing content may happen so people can attempt to wade through what is real and what is fake.

The developing world. Lack of birth control + poverty + lower cost of raising children has our population exploding in all the places that haven't developed yet.

I see human-curated, AI-generated images online, but none of it is art, as art is a form of human expression, and AI algorithms are not human.

Carvana lets you test drive your car for 7 days and return it for no fee. What other dealer does that? Yes, you do all the paperwork before you get possession of the car, but you have 7 days to return it for any reason, they even provided a credit towards taking the car to your own mechanic for an inspection if you wanted. I bought from them because they took all the risk out of car buying.

After 2008, I read a story about the first (and only) person to buy a home in a half-built neighborhood. He was fully moved in before the crash. There were abandoned construction sites and empty home there when the developer went bankrupt. He mowed the yards all around him to keep the wildlife away from his home. He was in despair, understanding he could not sell him home to anyone. I assume someone acquired the neighborhood a few years later and completed the project, but it must have been 5 years before any developer started resuming construction at a minimum.

Why would you say it's useless? There will be many Ukrainians looking for work to rebuild Ukraine's economy, many can work remotely for these businesses that can start there with the arrangement. I work with Ukrainians remotely who work between missile strikes, power outages and all the anxiety of what's going on. They cannot fight, so they want to make money and contribute to the army.

Normalizing this will change the industry. How soon until the studios start manufacturing digital actors so they don't have to pay humans? They won't have the star power that human A-listers do, but with enough investment and exposure on screen, they could manufacture a pseudo-B-lister then start printing money.

Just keep smashing the ESC key when loading a NYT page if you want to read it.

You can't fix the code until you fix the team. Do they trust each other? Are they capable / comfortable working together? Is there a process in place that works and they all understand? Are there skills deficiencies? Is the culture bad? Are they afraid to make or admit mistakes due to blame culture? You can't fix anything you fear to acknowledge.

Get the team functioning well, then improve the code.

Whoops 50mb not gb!

Why? I work a tech job and I 50gb connection is more than I need, it's more than most need.

> fungi-based bacon

No.

Solein is air, people!

That's generally the case until the politics target your fellow employees. Abortion is a healthcare issue and an HR issue that may affect any employee, and anti-LGBTQIA politics definitely can affect your co-workers' rights and their healthcare. Religion overstepping in the workplace, especially when laws are involved is another political issue that affects employees' relationship with their employer. These types of politics are difficult to keep out of the workplace because employment law crosses many of these boundaries, and most employees want to see their co-workers prosper.

Why do teenage girls often get the same hairstyles?

I prefer K.I.T.T.