circuitfarmer

When will people stop supporting this clown?

Remember when some people were like “well, I don’t support him, but I’ve had this Twitter account forever, so I’m not leaving.” This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.

Who saw this coming???

/s

This is the way

+1 for Pop. I fully expected to distro hop but have had it on my main rig for over a year now. Surprisingly pleasant.

This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.

Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.

The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone’s throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.

Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.

The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.

And not to mention: the original versions actually run fine to this day. Pure money grab and they made the product(s) worse to do it.

Meh.

It’s not designed for or good for VR gaming. As an AR device, I find it a bit silly since I can just look at a real screen. It would be a novelty at $100, but at the price Apple wants I kind of think of it like a joke.

Now hiring for an Engineer². Don’t apply if you dont have 20+ years experience with LLMs

The crypto involved can be furnished such that nothing but the issuing authority and the fact “18+” gets transmitted, no name, no id number, no nothing.

This is a best-case-scenario implementation. I just think it is extremely likely that any approach actually implemented would not have the privacy of the user in mind.

The infrastructure to support such things are naturally anti-privacy. Ultimately it requires someone to simply ignore other info that would otherwise be accessible. There could be a unique governing body for that part which is chartered for only sharing appropriate info, but even then, it’s an ask for people to trust that body and that it wouldn’t leak.

My thoughts exactly. By this reasoning, Candy Crush Saga could get taken down for copying Bejeweled.

$3000 is way too much for a tarp stapled to the back of an overpriced pile of shit

I’m waiting for it to start using units of banana for all quantities of things

When did it die?

We paid for the development of the internet. We contributed the content. Now we watch the yacht owners take advantage of both because regulators are asleep at the wheel owned by corporations.

I want both the “iOS ecosystem” and Epic to fail, so I guess I just enjoy this new form of entertainment.

Most of their entire business model relies on collecting data hand over fist, constantly. Hell, even actively not using their products doesn’t even make you safe.

Exactly. Watching this all play out is strikingly similar to watching Trump get away with a mountain of stuff that would have put a poorer person in jail, and yet, no consequences.

I hope you have a great day today.

Many companies are using AI to generate AI training data. Most of them are data brokers where the margins are becoming razor thin. It’s totally a bad idea, but it is definitely happening.