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by floppiplopp 11mo ago
I really love those weird collections that are open to the public. I wonder how many people out there are obsessively collecting and cataloging that one theme in their basement.
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by floppiplopp 11mo ago
Oh well, I guess we have another once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis ahead of us. Ready your tax dollars, prepare the bailouts! We've got some billionaires to save.
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
I'm sure capitalism will find a solution to the issue it caused, right?
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
The economic bet there are enough mentally ill people who reject reality... looking at the state of affairs in tech and politics this might actually pay off.
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
So, some tech business took something that is practical, robust, and low maintenance, and then added a deteriorating battery, delicate electronics, and the need to constantly charge a f-ing kitchen knife. Bullshit innovation is reinventing
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
"Let's not buy from Russia, it's an overt dictatorship lazily cosplaying as a democracy that's waging wars on other nations and killing innocent civilians."
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Is it autobiographical?
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
"Denmark completely autistic." -Unnamed US federal government secretary
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
I know capitalism and I don't always get along, but it's so good to see its desire for profitability and the need to protect investors actually kill a business that needs killing. Nice.
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
What contemporary economic ideology has taught me: If it sounds too good to be true, it usually isn't. And the Venn diagram of scams and business is almost a circle in a sense that companies and criminals don't have your interests
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Is Web3 just regular internet with ponzi schemes bolted onto it?
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Is it because the creepy breeding kink, drug addict CEO playing a neo nazi edgelord who supports far-right extremist parties all over the world? Or is it the noncompetitive products that were oversold for decades? FSD scam? Humanoid robot s
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Ads are not the problem. It's the ad-tech surveillance and the malvertising. There are ways to show ads that are not a threat. When online services choose to become hostile, adblockers are the defense. I don't mind ads, I don&#x27
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Put at risk, or willfully given to their masters? All the ghouls suckling Yarvin's teats like Thiel want their tech driven tyranny, and SS data will help them on their way.
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
100% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
The US is trying CCP-style state-capitalism? Also, the glorious leader and great GOP chairman Trump gave his owners a great opportunity for insider trade. Last time be publicly bragged about it, too.
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
It's not just the UK, but the whole of Europe. With the rise of literal neo-nazi parties like reform uk, the german afd, the french front national, and whatnot out there, widespread surveillance legislation will be turned against freed
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
In my hobby we have "grognards" - the grumpy old farts that detest everything new and pick on every little change. That opinion piece was written by a full on grognard who cries with bullshit arguments about the collapse of civili
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
The AI hype is probably collapsing soon. But that won't solve the issue. It's basically the only thing that drives the ponzi scheme, sorry, the "stock market growth". It'll end in tears for working people again.
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
"Last week I’m in a café, rewatching the same JavaScript tutorial for the 23rd time. Next to me? A 16-year-old casually building a Discord bot that streams live sports data." You don't learn software development by just looki
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Unsurprising. Your virtual girlfriends are just linear algebra and the ELIZA effect.
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
'Chain-of-thought AI "degrades significantly" when asked to generalize beyond training.' - yeah thanks Captain Obvious.
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
"As a search company, we care passionately — perhaps more than any other company — about the health of the web ecosystem." Yeah, right, complete and utter bullshit. This really reads like the crisis PR of a parasitical ad tech bus
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
The corpos and people lobbying for this "age verification" aren't interested in child protection. They are just abusing child protection for their own gain: data collection. There is safe and secure tech to verify age without
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Well, I was reassured I'm just a cynical old bastard, so that's worth something, I guess. To me all the videos I saw, around a dozen, were all (by accident?) emotional cheap-shots, the low-hanging fruit of manipulation. For exampl
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Advertising is just part of the gospel of the capitalism religion, with its prophets and preachers of the markets, its churches and cathedrals of profit, its dogma and prayers, its even got its cults of crypto currency and the fanatics that
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Whatever the causes, be it cars, industry, certain classes of chemicals and particles, there will be a vicious fight about regulating them, since the ideological divisions are now drawn along the lines of anti-cancer and pro-cancer politics
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Now I'm going to steal even harder from the corpos.
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
The Zuckerbot needs a quite, remote place to hang his skin to dry, or to plot whatever supervillain-y plots the guy is plotting. Probably Metaverse 2.0! With Superintelligence!! And why to tech billionaires all aim to look so much like the
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by floppiplopp 1y ago
Yes, there's "Kegworks". I use it to run the steam edition of dwarf fortress, which mostly works fine on my M4 mac mini.

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