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A product that I want to buy? You guys running defense for ad-tech are a wild bunch, man. You're going to sit here and pretend like I'm not going to know what a Volkswagen is if Google stops stalking everyone on earth? Get real.

It really is so strange. Huge "daddy longlegs is the most venomous spider on earth" energy lol

By searching of my own volition? Next question

The alternative we're getting isn't that gig-worker enjoying UBI and early retirement, they're getting deported or ground into dust.

> "advertising is not illegal,"

it might not be, but I'd argue it should be, or at least regulated to death. Slavery was once legal, in fact it was integral to the entire US economy. Note I am not saying advertising == slavery, but that the law has historically been a very poor arbiter of morality.

People on this website welcome that future. They are absolutely salivating at the idea of a world full of powerless peasants they can shuffle around like objects in their quest to min/max reality.

> “I was under the impression that I had more rights than the robot did,” Marvin said, laughing.

Its not the robot you have less rights than, but the corporation. Cops' job is to do their bidding.

I'm sorry but this is deranged. The vast majority of people don't give a shit about their human potential, they just want a comfortable life spent with family and friends. If the LinkedIn lunatics and EAs get their vision of the future, the world will be full of poor, downwardly mobile, highly educated people, proletarianizing massive swaths of the developed world, leading to a huge increase of crime and misery. And for what? Number go up? Who fucking cares?

I literally cannot imagine touching my macbook's screen on purpose. Dual screen phone. Touchscreen macbook. Fairy princess UI. Apple used to lead the way in design language and functionality. They're absolutely rizzless nowadays.

where iPhone mini

do it you cowards

The sillyness of LatinX is that there isn't even an "Ecks" sound in Spanish.

> It seems impossible to assess whether one of the two is in fact not guilty of the crimes they were charged for.

It's actually not, a cursory understanding of Brazilian politics is all that's needed to understand this in context. Lula was essentially "acquitted" for his crimes, as it was proved after he served a few years in prison that the charges were brought under false pretenses by partisan operators. (https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/04/brazil-crimi...)

It was also quite convenient for liberals and the right wing at the time to jail Lula, as he was at the apex of his popularity and was making life hard for the Brazilian bourgeoisie. Bolsonarism can essentially be read as a revolt of the Brazilian elite against Lula's economic policies which stepped on the toes of a few powerful sectors of the Brazilian capitalist class.

Lula has a long history of successfully managing capitalism as a socialist. Brazilian politics is extremely corrupt and pay-to-play, and the Bolsonaros are essentially a crime family in their own right. Flavio, the son running for president, has been convicted of embezzlement when he was a state congressman and is literally under investigation right now for money laundering and bank fraud.

I don't know what that means.

Please go outside

nerds really not beating the disgusting misogynist allegations anytime soon huh

What's wrong with the ecosystem? Hardware support is robust. Development is done out in the open and miles more professional than the slop Apple or Microsoft are putting out. Desktop environments, distro defaults and documentation are abundant and varied enough to support most user's needs. Besides hostile proprietary closed source software like Adobe or MS Office (of which alternatives are also abundant), what else could you need?

Hot take: who fucking cares. People need to eat and buy homes. We don't need to optimize ourselves into oblivion for the sake of number go up. Because we sure as hell don't have any sort of social safety net here in the US, and if AI takes as many jobs as these chuds say it will then we're going to have a BIG fucking problem on our hands.

I think it's quite clear to anyone with eyes attached to their brains that we're not getting fully automated gay luxury space communism. The AI will just replace the good jobs and leave us with the service industry wage-slavery. Given the choice, I'd much rather an abundance of bullshit email jobs and people with food than the alternative that's being presented currently.

guy who sells AI says AI is cool

I get it, but everything is ideological -- whether you want to hear about it or not.

In a world where software exerts considerable control and influence over peoples' lives, your ability to insulate yourself from that influence is a priveledge. Software IS ideological. Free software was created so people can have the freedom to share and collaborate on their own terms. There is an extent to which it gets extreme, but without the GPL we would live in an even more monopolistic "free" market hell world than we already do. That's a moral obligation that spawned a practical one. If no one ever took a moral stance because you find it annoying, the world would be an objectively worse place.

You may not, but that entirely comes down to who you're willing to trust. Its certainly not unreasonable for an individual to handle information deemed too sensitive to be allowed to be exfiltrated to a third party. Your use case is not the same as the entire world's.

Almost as if the non-deterministic matrix weight program doesn't take explicit instructions and produce the same answer each time. If only we had some sort of language we could use to "program" something to work that way.

Something about having a bot controlled by a third party comb your entire codebase and make changes on your behalf strikes me as not the most privacy-friendly approach to software. I know your question wasn't being asked in good faith, but I've answered it honestly.

good

I'm sorry, did anyone assume this wasn't the case?

Ligatures suck. That's what Iosevka Fixed is for.

I'm sorry but fairemail has easily the most convoluted UI I have ever had the misfortune to gaze upon in my life. Like seriously what the hell is going on there.

> Agents are the first thing that can lead you directly from "I know what I want my computer to do." to "Actually doing it."

Actually they’re the second thing. The first thing was studying computer science.

I agree, actually. And I’m more than happy to criticize anyone and everyone involved as the state of software is in my opinion a failure of the human race. So I’ll yell at whomever I want, thanks. They’ll be ok.

Be on GNOME

Press super and type “dark mode”

What happens?

I’m not sure I understand the desire to control computers with conversational language. Computers are a collection of on off switches. I personally would much prefer being able to control exactly which on off switches to switch, instead of just telling the black box to do something and for it to make no mistakes. It just doesn’t strike me as a good idea to give the incomprehensible matrix weight the ability to make decisions about what to do on my machine. There’s just far too much ambiguity for my comfort here.

There is a huge difference between mathematical determinism and "it looks like that thing I said." Even the laziest, most superficial analysis must conclude these two things are not the same just because they have vaguely the same shaped shadow.