This is probably a good time to remind ourselves of the time 23AndMe genetic data got hacked and most likely sold on the dark web. This data is all over the place at this point, and it affects not just the individuals who took the tests but also their relatives.

Open source or not WSL is just a long game embrace, extend, extinguish and particularly designed to stop *NIX OSs gaining a foothold in the enterprise development space.

I’m like 95% sure these VC junk apps just pay influencers to join and everyone else follows. I say 95 because I know other platforms have done it, I’ve just not seen the specific smoking gun for BS yet. But that’s probably just because of NDAs.

Just because it’s not a number, doesn’t mean it’s the same not number. But what if it is? 🙃

Sure we will: we give them gold, they give us golden showers. Piss trickles down fine.

Double standard, doublespeak and hypocrisy all seem applicable. So maybe like chauvinistic double standard or exceptionalist hypocrisy or some combination thereof. It does feel like there’s a lack of terminology with broad appeal in this respect.

Maybe like “state(/applicable noun) sugar coating” gets the message across in a way that even those with the reading age of a 9 year old might get the gist of.

I thought duckduckgo used bing’s API?

Enschuldigung aber mein Deutsche ist schelcht. Lemmy im inglisch bitte?

Billionaires are all bad. That said if some of them want to squabble over who is the least bad billionaire, and that causes a rift between them, so much the better.

Organised gamers are generally speaking a right-wing movement. See: how gamergate turned out. Those guys are all MAGA now.

This is why I “play video games” but would not call myself a “gamer”.

One day there will be a computer with enough ram to run java hello world

Never poo on your lunch break, save it until you’re on the clock

They fixed the visible property damage and that’s apparently what counts

Not really. You’re strongly funnelled down the bluesky owned instance, most uses of ATProto are more or less mere plugins for that main instance. Can I migrate my account to another instance? Unclear.

The VC funding also adds another layer that implies they’re going to trap people into their monetisable market share sooner or later. This seems incompatible with fediverse principles.

So while they present themselves as a more technically refined iteration of the fediverse, the whole thing is a big trap. Enjoy it while it lasts would be my advice, but if you’ve got the sway then try to get those close to you to migrate to mastodon before it goes wrong.

The unfortunate reality is that most jobs linked to humanities are considered “passion jobs” for which there are more applicants than openings by a wide margin. If you don’t have connections that gives you an edge, you’re likely being crowded out by those who do.

This is probably not helped at all by AI/LLM buzz meaning firms are increasingly seeking to automate roles associated with language processing of whatever kind.

So suggestions might be: Widen your net: consider roles like administration, HR, paralegal etc. which generally go to educated people but don’t have specific academic subject requirements.

Retrain in something in demand like a trade, healthcare assistant or similar.

Attempt to leverage your language skills to present yourself as a “prompt engineer”, lean into the AI hype to land a job.

To a large extent people are just the products of their surroundings. Doing the default thing is an energy saving technique, as well as something which people do to prevent being ostracised by their peers. If you’re able to break that in some small way, you’re still doing better than most.

If you want to do more, I guess you have to interrogate why you’re not doing more. Is it fear of rejection? Fear of failure? Lack of time, energy or resources? Dependency on e.g. cars? Lack of confidence in your actions?

Linux is so good today. Windows is increasingly shooting itself in the foot and MacOS requires a huge premium (and also billionaires suck) which is increasingly incompatible with budget conscious sectors like education. Really great stuff if you’re managing to get people to love it there.

News corp. They’re the single most effective driver of fascist influence in the 21st century among the politically passive part of the population. Everything that all these other companies do is underpinned by News Corp outlets like Fox, The Sun, etc. justifying, equivocating, scapegoating and propagandising.

I think for marketing purposes you could have a hot list of marketing terms (presumably these would be scarce so sold to high bidding companies) and match against those which would be a sort of middle ground between the general purpose processing and a single wake word.

You could do it in a cheap (in terms of energy) and sloppy way where it only needs to be correct most of the time of the time to have a net positive impact on ad targeting when reconciled with other user data.

Ah, one of the eagar faces at the Trump inauguration is silently stealing screenshots of peoples’ phones. What could possibly go wrong? Glad I binned that stupid platform.