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- Comment on 9 hours ago:
I frequently add links to a book that I oft recommend, a torrent exposing USA fascists, and a podcast about the housing crisis. It wouldn’t kill me to do two more, but there’s only so much time I’m willing to spend.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Let’s see, that’s like four or five articles with basically the same observation this week? That I’ve seen or read about. There are probably others. The clock is ticking.
For a good ongoing rundown of what a shit hype bubble the industry is in, see the newsletter and podcast of Ed Zitron.
People keep replying to recommendations for Zitron’s work asking for links or thanking people who post them. Can people not search “Ed Zitron newsletter,” or “Ed Zitron podcast”? I’m kinda surprised how much this happens (I promote his work on every story about AI going to shit because he does a great job of breaking it all down).
- Comment on Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs 1 week ago:
One of the reasons I recommend Zitron is because he links all his sources in his show notes (well, links sources in a doc linked in his show notes).
- Comment on Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs 1 week ago:
Nobody is. Every major AI company is losing money.
Anyone interested in this should checkout the newsletter and / or podcast of Ed Zitron.
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 2 weeks ago:
As someone who has worked under NDAs for trade secrets, this is a real stab in the back to fellow employees. As an enemy of capitalism, I don’t feel bad for the corporation. Sucks for the people who were excited about their engineering achievements, though.
- Comment on US | Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for highlighting this. Too bad the link wasn’t between the article and the letter. It’d be more noticeable.
“By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries,” he continued.
Ok, so it sounds like they’ll have a more direct line to government documents, which by law have no copyright because they belong to the people. That’s a good thing.
The Internet Archive has also been targeted by major music labels, including Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, over the Great 78 Project, an initiative to preserve 78 RPM records. Though most of the records are out of print, 4,000 of the 400,000 digitized recordings are copyrighted, including Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas.” The organization could owe upwards of $700 million in damages if the labels win the lawsuit — a financial hit that would threaten to shut it down.
I’ve been aware of this lawsuit for a while. I donated to help the legal battle. It’s absurd that copyright can be flexed against works that are out of print and mostly unavailable. I’ve long argued that we’re going to have a gap in our history between when lots of works went digital-only and when we actually enshrine laws that protect them from disappearing. How large a gap depends on how quickly lawmakers address this issue vs copyright. Given the current climate, important legislation such as this isn’t happening any time soon.
You know how we find stone tablets and ancient scrolls with historical information from thousands of years ago? We even find “nonessential” stuff like recipes and trading documents and tax records. Stuff like that likely won’t be preserved from our modern age if anyone is still around to investigate our times in two thousand years.
- Comment on US | Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library 4 weeks ago:
I’m waiting to learn more about what this means, but I assume it gives the Internet Archive some degree of support from the government. Whether that’s financial or just a protected status I dunno. I tentatively think this is a good thing.
- Comment on DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists 5 weeks ago:
Why would you think they want to help you? Are you a multimillionaire? Do you benefit from cutting social services to fund a tax write off that helps you?
Ordinary people are completely fucked.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 5 weeks ago:
While I’m sad that people will be hurt, I’ll dance when this shit collapses
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 1 month ago:
In my old neighborhood, during the pan and lockdown, I was walking and listening to podcasts every day to kill time. There were Sonic trucks and vans everywhere. I asked a worker if they were laying fiber and he said no. A month later, a knock at the door and a guy wearing a Sonic polo.
“Are you selling fiber?” Yes. Comcast had no hope of keeping me. I’d been a prisoner for years. I don’t have Sonic anymore because I moved, but I still have unlimited fiber.
Go home and die, Comcast. You suck.
- Comment on Graduates From Top MBA Programs Are Struggling to Land Jobs 5 months ago:
I consider MBAs unskilled management, so other than not wishing for human suffering, I don’t care that much.
- Comment on These are the text messages that allegedly got a former Bungie executive fired, according to a court document written by Sony 5 months ago:
“Sony continues to disingenuously cherry pick text messages and alleged conversations,” said Barrett’s legal team in a message to Totilo at Game File. "
Cherry picked? There shouldn’t be anything to cherry pick in the first place. His conduct was gross and was absolutely sexual harassment.
- Comment on Ghostty terminal is out! 7 months ago:
Build failed on my Mac.
There is no XCFramework found at ‘/Users/danyoung/Downloads/ghostty-1.0.0/macos/GhosttyKit.xcframework’.
14.7.1 (23H222) Xcode 16.1 16B40
Anyone else?
- Comment on The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink 11 months ago:
Great, so we’re giving him more money. Gdi.
- Comment on Ireland's privacy watchdog ends legal fight with X over data use for AI after it agrees to permanent limits | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
Time until Lonnie’s company breaks its word… three… two…
- Comment on Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way 11 months ago:
We’re not Texas!
- Comment on Zillow’s upgraded AI search will show you more homes you can’t afford 11 months ago:
Sweet. I’ve already accepted that I’ll never own a home because I don’t want to live in the places where they’re affordable. This affects me exactly zero.
- Comment on New VWs will answer some of your questions with ChatGPT 11 months ago:
Exactly no one asked for this.
- Comment on European Commission to investigate Ticketmaster’s ‘dynamic pricing’ 11 months ago:
Good. Break them up. I think the only other companies as widely disliked are Clear Channel and Comcast.
- Comment on Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable 11 months ago:
holding execs personally liable
DOOOOOOOOO IIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
- Comment on CrowdStrike exec will testify to Congress about July’s global IT meltdown 11 months ago:
I can’t remember who called it, but I think maybe Ed Zitron.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 11 months ago:
I mean, presumably they had to grab office space to make this move since they started during the pan, so maybe not.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 11 months ago:
Nothing CEO Carl Pei suggested that those unable to transition from remote working should leave the company and “find an environment where you thrive.”
Get completely fucked you dismissive shitbag.
Pei said in the email, telling employees who are worried about flexibility that “this is a company for grown ups.”
I’ll say it again. Get completely…
I typically cheer device makers because I want competition to force my preferred device maker to compete on innovation. I had been on the side of Nothing. I now want it to fail. I want this dickfaced asshole executive to find out he ran his company into the ground by pissing off the talented people below him.
- Comment on Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services 11 months ago:
Gross.
- Comment on Asahi Linux on MacBook air questions 1 year ago:
I have an iPad Air tucked into a leather couch pocket for just this reason. I pull it out and jump on Lemmy when we pause for my partner to go to the bathroom or make a snack. Sometimes, you just appreciate a bigger screen.
- Comment on Asahi Linux on MacBook air questions 1 year ago:
I installed it about a year ago. It worked fine in my (extremely) limited testing. I daily-drive MacOS and had recently got a MBP, so I figured why not give it a spin on my old Air as I’ve been supporting the project since its inception. I only used it for maybe five minutes. It seemed reasonably polished to me.
- Comment on Nickelodeon Alums Allege Toxic Environment on Dan Schneider TV Shows in New Doc Trailer 1 year ago:
Holy shit. The wiki entry was pretty brutal.
- Comment on Nickelodeon Alums Allege Toxic Environment on Dan Schneider TV Shows in New Doc Trailer 1 year ago:
Wtf?
- Comment on Gina Carano Sues Disney Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing In Lawsuit Funded by Elon Musk 1 year ago:
Billionaires are assholes.
- Comment on Evan Rachel Wood Still Doesn’t Know ‘Westworld’ Ending After Cancellation: “It Keeps Me Up at Night” 1 year ago:
They could have ended perfectly with s1.