In every community, there is always another power-hungry asshole ready to jump on the opportunity to have a tiny bit of control over somebody else.

Mods not modding is nothing new to reddit. The only impact they would feel is if users stopped posting. I don’t see that happening though.

If you think that these days resumes actually reach developers, I have an AI company to sell you.

social media should go back to being a purely chronological feed, curated by the users themselves, and cut corporate influence out of the equation.

But then how would they make money if they can’t keep users doomscrolling forever to keep serving them ads? Won’t someone think of the shareholders?!

Rational person… 70 million people are still voting for a serial rapist even after… no, especially after he has been convicted of a felony.

“Just think of how stupid an average person is, and then realise that half of them are stupider than that.” -George Carlin

A highly paid exec is hardly an example of “working class collective”.

Have you tried 15 more reboots?

Louis Rossmann’s 20-minute rant on needless cloudification of shit incoming in 3… 2… 1…

Nothing and I mean nothing will kill this faster than some leaked chats, emails, and browsing history of a few politicians.

Pichai & Co would totally have blocked videos if Hitler demanded it back during WW2. They should embrace their new motto - “Anything for a buck!”

Grow a pair, you spineless shits, and stop kowtowing to brutal dictators!

I’m not your buddy, guy!

https://youtu.be/m1JakODvYhA?t=20s

Nice try, Nick.

You don’t need AI to figure out why people go to a T-Mobile store.

Option A: your service sucks, and the hold time on the phone is over 2 hours.

Option B: the glass sandwitch that you sold me cracked because I looked at it funny, and the fucking manufacturer won’t honor the warranty because they didn’t get enough of my money.

“AI is nowhere near to being ready to replace you at your job. It is, however, ready enough to convince your boss that it’s ready to replace you at your job.”

You mean Cortana which was a rebrand of Clippy.

Alrighty then. If corps want to train their AI on all the content they can scrape without worrying about copyright, then they can’t complain when I torrent their shit without worrying about copyright too! Deal? Somehow I don’t see them taking that deal.

A bit off-topic, but I’d be fine with that. The more mind-numbingly dumb work that computers can do for us, the less time we have to spend doing it ourselves. Administrative jobs holders disagree with this, but so did every person whose job and livelihood was replaced by automation, ever. UBI (universal basic income) is the only answer that will save all of us from starvation when automation eventually replaces us too.

I agree with you on principle. However… How long do you think it will be until these very same “AI” companies copyright and patent every piece of content their algorithms spew out? Will they abide by the same carve-outs they want for themselves right now? Somehow I doubt it.

They want to ignore the laws for themselves, but enforce them onto everyone else. This “Rules for thee but not for me” bullshit can’t be allowed to pass. Let’s then abolish all copyright, and we’ll see how long these companies last when everyone can just grab their stuff “for learning”.

Google has not been interested in providing value to end-users for a while now. They are at the point in the enshittification process where because of their monopoly in search, they are able to stop providing value to their paying customers as well (sites that use AdWords, etc.) and just line their own pockets.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3121736/microsoft-sues-repeat-software-pirate-who-owes-company-12m-from-prior-case.html

Literally first hit on google (after the NYT links).

Do musicians not buy the music that they want to listen to? Should they be allowed to torrent any MP3 they want just because they say it’s for their instrument learning?

I mean I’d be all for it, but that’s not what these very same corporations (including Microsoft when it comes to software) wanted back during Napster times. Now they want a separate set of rules just for themselves. No! They get to follow the same laws they force down our throats.