People aren’t saying AI is going to disappear, although that wouldn’t be a bad thing imo. When people talk about an AI crash they’re talking about the trillions in investments by the major companies that have been operating at a loss and have no monetization plan that could feasibly recoup even a fraction of that amount. Open source models are nearly as good as the big guys now, and nobody is going to pay hundreds or thousands a month just to keep using chatgpt or Gemini.
I can’t understand how people use any platforms with ads. Any ads are bad, but audio/video ads are the worst. I refuse to use any platform that tries to hijack my attention like that.
I grew up with nearly every stage and major leap of our modern tech. I saw dialup internet and windows 95 and the major shift to XP. I had an original Nintendo and gameboy, and got to witness the evolution to handheld and 3D gaming. I had a flip phone with T9 texting, and saw the first smartphones come about. For me, tech peaked in like 2012, and hasn’t done anything worthwhile or innovative since, with the exception of the steamdeck. The internet has only gotten shittier since, cell phones and PCs have only gotten more expensive and complex, without any major increase in capability. Sure they’re more powerful, but they can’t really do anything new, and all software has only gotten shittier and less efficient. It’s honestly depressing to think about how much hope I had for the tech space in the 2000s and how far we’ve fallen since then.
People avoiding updating windows because of how long it takes your machine out of commission for and how opaque the process is has been a meme since like Windows XP. It’s never five minutes. Plus the future hours saved not having to deal with windows bullshit.
A $1000 fine is like pennies… How much will it cost to hire a whole cast of performers, vs paying the AI tax? This is a ridiculous performative bullshit law, that even still carves out exceptions for movies and other media. Fuck off with this shit. Do more.
I’d also be an alcoholic if alcohol ads were how things really worked. I am one now, but I still would be also.
I mean, if done properly it is effective, it’s just not 100% effective, but no birth control is. But combining the pullout method with an IUD is going to be much more effective than an IUD alone, even though they’re already near 100%. Same with both control pills. Hell even if you’re raw dogging it with no birth control, it’s definitely a hell of a lot better idea to try to pull out than to just nut inside.
I mean lots of old ladies think it’s perfectly fine to touch other people’s children, tousle their hair, etc. and idk that I necessarily disagree. It’s not something I’d ever do, but aside from making some awkward kids potentially a little uncomfortable it’s not hurting anyone. Intent matters a lot, and if someone was having sexual intentions towards kittens I damn well hope people would stop them.
Also Marilyn Manson’s. And not just piss.
If this becomes widespread, I just won’t use any websites that require it. There will always be ways around it or alternatives for people opposed to losing their privacy. There already are at least 2 Internets. There’s reddit and Facebook and Twitter and all the corporate news sites, and then there’s Lemmy and archive.org and the dark web and dev pages and independent websites and piracy. I find I rarely care about the former anyway. It’ll just mean being blocked off from all the corporate slop, which may be a blessing in disguise.
Yeah fuck food or clean water, let’s read
That’s the opposite of evidence, it’s actually a total lack of evidence… Just because you feel like it should be true doesn’t make it true.
No, if it’s a good blocker it’s blocking all requests and connections to wherever the ads are being served from. There’s usually ALSO a level of cosmetic filtering for things that get past the blocklist or can’t be properly filtered because they’re coming from the same server as stuff you actually want to see, but with ublock origin set to strict and noscript set to allow only whitelisted sites, my page load times are way faster. Sometimes a shitty webpage will still ‘wait around’ for a second to try and get a connection from an ad site but it’s not loading anything into memory.
I mean the headline in your linked article literally calls it the ‘minimum system requirements’ not ‘reccomended’. Games have had two sets of requirements for decades, I don’t see why they couldn’t do the same. Regardless if you need to run Linux on older/less powerful hardware there’s much better choices than Ubuntu, which is designed to be as beginner-friendly as possible at the cost of performance and customizability as is, so in their case I guess it kinda makes sense to dumb it down.
There’s no definitive lethal dose of any medication, but the phrase ‘a lethal dose’ is commonly used and usually understood to mean “a dose that proved lethal for the person that took it”.
Imagine caring about what people think when they’re obsessed with what software you use to text. I’m just fucking annoyed so much of my family uses iphone, and despite being able to be part of their group chat, there’s no way to use RCS or some other message format better than fucking SMS/MMS.
Ew no thanks. Leave the hufflepuff shit on tiktok please.
Yeah honestly I’m pretty okay with things as they are. Lemmy.world is a bit too brain rotted/Redditor energy as is. Everyone in this thread is all ‘lets make things easier for the lowest common denominator’ but if someone can’t take 15 minutes to try to understand what they’re actually signing up for then why do we even want them here?
Por que no los dos?
I mean sure, you can ‘retrieve information’, with no way of knowing where the information came from, whether the source was accurate, or whether what you’ve retrieved is even remotely faithful to the source material. So basically you can’t actually retrieve anything, because it’s just mashing words together in a way that happens to sound correct most of the time.