Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action....
this is a wake-up call to this industry and any other industry enjoying a glut of "free" (as in beer) proprietary tools owned entirely by private (or worse: public!) organizations.
this will always be the result. every single time. if you think you and your industry are immune to getting bait & switched, you are very wrong.
chaining your livelihood to a for-profit organization is begging to eventually be extorted in this manner. greed is inevitable.
it never ceases to amaze me how stupid we all are as a civilization.
we're opting out of it, but nature will continue. this will be a very curious and fairly hospitable world full of interesting xenoarcheological mysteries... in the distant future, to a visiting spacefaring civilization.
Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police....
Cops are well aware standing in front of a car gives them a free pass killing someone
This "technique" has been demonstrated enough that frankly, I think that any rational person would conclude that in any situation where a cop walks in front of your car, you're better off just gunning it before the cop has a chance to extrajudicially execute you first. If they walk in front of your car, it's clear they're just itching to murder you. The threat has been made, you should fear for your life. It's you or them.
Blizzard has opened up about the impact Overwatch 2 "review bombers" have had on the team, acknowledging that the "dissatisfaction" stems from "the cancellation of the much larger component of PvE that was announced in 2019 [...] that Blizzard ultimately couldn't deliver"....
Developers were right to be in fear of Baldur's Gate 3 resetting expectations. This isn't close to all of the reason for this backlash, but for me it's a notable part.
Here we all have for contrast suddenly an expansive, complete, player-respecting game that isn't trying to squeeze money out of you at every turn... it reminds me of old PC games, before the enshittification of the industry began, before the corporate rot set in. When I bought my copy of Heroes of Might and Magic 3, it was complete. It was expansive. It was before micro-transactions were really a thing, so it was a finished product. BG3 makes me think of those games, but with modern technology. My gaze shifts back to the allegedly "modern" games we have now, to Overwatch 2, and it just feels cheap and disgusting. A minimum-viable pile of gameified gambling covered in greasy MBA penny-pincher fingerprints, shrouded by half-truths from marketers trying to puff it up to look like a complete experience. It is still possible to deliver the better experience. It's clearly just a matter of "want".
I feel like I've just come from a family-owned restaurant on the beach in Cabo and came back home to a McDonald's in a roadside casino, and I've just realized how genuinely shitty it all is.
I think I would actually rather just go outside or start a new hobby than touch "games" like this ever again.
And it would never have gotten completely out of control, if people didn’t use ad-block.
"I wouldn't get so carried away beating you if you didn't make me so much angrier by trying to run when I smack you."
We should never have tried to fund the web with ads in the first place.
I agree. But here we are. And until it's illegal to do so (and, honestly, afterwards too), when a website I'm viewing politely asks me to download toxic ad content filled with psychological manipulation and malware, my computer will politely whisper "no." I might revisit this policy in the future if the entire advertising industry takes a huge step back to tone down their abusive shit, but in the meanwhile, I have no problem blocking malignant content from my presence. No means no.
A business plan that requires psychological abuse and exploitation of your customers is not an ethical, sustainable, or valid plan and the people who push it are not worthy of my consideration.
Wells Fargo are simply criminal, it has been demonstrated again and again. It would not surprise me in the slightest if I were to learn that this was an intentional test to see how many people would notice a missing deposit or two and gauge how often they can simply swipe some deposits "accidentally".
Like, what is wrong with reading something? Is it really that hard?
Half of US adults cannot read a book written at an 8th grade level.
Video is easier and faster for most people, as much as I dislike it. It's a way for a clueless board of MBAs to circumvent the "literacy" problem of more widespread adoption of their service. Lowest-common-denominator corner-shaving ruins everything, as usual.
I live in Oregon. These people are a total joke around here. It's just funny as hell to think that Idaho would want them - their whole counties are net liabilities in the state economy. Yet they stomp around "threatening" to run away from home and go to Idaho like a teenager mad over having to go to summer school. Might want to actually check with Idaho first, idiots.
A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Firstly, they’re classifying the term “grooming” as hate speech. That’s not factual.
I couldn't agree more, I'm glad you said this. See, I personally think all conservatives (presumably such as yourself, but if you're not, you're obviously close enough) are pedophilic sexual predators by nature, which is why they so readily jump to the false conclusion that everyone wants to fuck kids all the time. Normally I wouldn't say this because when I've said so in the past, conservatives have been real mad about it and viewed it as hateful to be associated with something so repulsive merely by way of having a certain political identity, but it's nice to be in a safe space you've created that allows for me to share this decidedly non-hateful speech targeted at conservatives (and you!) that expresses my complete and utter contempt for you and your gross, clearly unsafe way with children. I mean, you willingly force them into churches (a.k.a 'rape factories') all the time. Tells you all you need to know about any conservative. You're obviously complicit.
Justice Samuel Alito said in an interview that Congress does not have the authority to regulate the Supreme Court, pushing back against Democratic efforts to mandate stronger ethics rules for the justices. Alito argued that the Constitution does not give Congress the power to regulate the Supreme Court. While Chief Justice John...
A misplaced comma doesn't trump 240 years of legal precedent, no matter how much Alioto might wish it did.
Fortunately true.
Unfortunately, in the larger court of public opinion, it can very effectively be used as basis to rile up and outrage the domestic terrorists loyal to the corrupted judiciary, so there will most likely be some trepidation about clarifying this.
do I have a case against either my institution, the professor who threw it out or OpenAI?
This all seems like such recent technology, I can not imagine this question being very answerable except via the long way: a courtroom. I suspect it would take someone trying in order to set precedent.
I want to take a moment to wish you luck! I've always believed anyone can program, even if not everyone can program everything. Modern web development can be very profitable, but very overwhelming. It is a constantly-shifting landscape of new standards and practices and tools. It has rebuffed many people due to this, who often become dejected by its complexity and dynamism.
If this is not you, then that's excellent! However, if you feel this way, you should know that a different, slower, more stable version of web development still exists, which more closely mirrors conventional software development and even the shell scripting you have experience with: older style monolithic web applications are everywhere, and more continue to appear. Written in PHP, C#, ASP, even Perl (old!), these older web applications tend to have fairly stable ecosystems and documentation. You rarely find the biggest industry names like Microsoft and Apple and Netflix touting its engineers as having expert level knowledge in these languages and ecosystems, because they're seen as somewhat old-hat, but they have a massive industry presence nonetheless... and fewer and fewer competent programmers exist to maintain and improve these systems.
Facebook is still largely comprised of PHP code, I believe - though they use a different runtime. WordPress is still a staggeringly massive presence on the Internet for anything from business sites to e-commerce shops, and it has a huge (and profitable, if you find a niche!) ecosystem of plug-ins written in PHP and Javascript/CSS/HTML. The new fediverse software (kbin) I am writing this post on is written in PHP! It is still easily possible to make a comfortable living doing nothing but quality PHP, especially if you can find a nice niche. It has a (relatively) undeserved bad reputation amongst modern programmers.
Just being able to tinker is kind of like my stim.
100% agreed. My main computer is a beast of a Linux system that is in a state of continual improvement. If I'm stressed, I just make little fixes here and there.. try new things, create new little tools. It's extremely relaxing to have something to dump one's tinker energy into!
I'm convinced this is a major great filter event for all intelligent species. "Can the natural consolidation of power and resources in the world be sufficiently counteracted to avoid massive cataclysmic population crashes?"
A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.
Any tool for productivity improvement is seen by leadership as a way to heap more work onto each individual worker. More work per worker means more profit per hour the worker is paid.
Our economic reality is diametrically opposed to this concept people seem to naively hold of "automation making things easier", or somehow needing to work less for the same money because "computers are doing it". No, that benefit does not ever visit the worker, it goes right to the owners.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Friday, requesting that an ethics watchdog “immediately” initiate a review of Greene’s conduct after she …
The justice system is reticent to dole out consequences to conservatives because they know that each time they do, there is a fair probability of an uptick in domestic terrorism. We literally let the terrorists win. If we apply the law equally to fascists as we do to the rest of us, they will kill people with no remorse.
Y'all Qaeda is intellectually incapable of differentiating between terrorism and normal protest. This is why they view "left wing" protests about systemic issues as city-razing terrorist attacks that need the military dispatched with blanket kill orders. This is why they don't equate their club shooting, truck crowd-plowing, armed home-invader, electrical substation gunner terrorist friends as being a problem - because theyre just "protesting" like the left. The left is "already doing it" so they can too.
The actual word "terrorist", to them, is a word that means one thing: a filthy middle easterner who wants to blow up buildings to go to a virgin-filled afterlife. There's absolutely no mental space for them to consider their fellow conservatives in the same group or to accept the actual definition.
This is so dangerous. We're already in a trap, even if we turn around now, it hurts a lot. The smart greedy opportunists flock loudly and publicly to conservatism now because they see that they can break the law and get away with it, because of this implied immunity-via-terrorism that may befall us if accountability comes for them in the public eye. But we need to turn around and pull out, because if we get fully trapped, we're all done for good.
Giving reddit exactly what they want, huh, a huge influx of traffic?
They know this shit hypes people up. It gets the app installed... then it's not so bad to just keep it and browse it at that point. Then before you know it, spez was right. It blew over. He can treat his users like shit and they'll just take it like good little idiots.
No thanks. I don't intend to prove that asshole right.
Vicious Delicious is their top album in my opinion, absolutely all bangers. IM in general is never far from the top of my listening stack. Some headphones, a few puffs, and a fun personal project to code are a great combo on a chill weekend.
It’s just a sob story to emotionally manipulate you.
I'm seeing this line of thinking more and more. The echo chambers increase in intensity every day.
"If you have a negative emotional reaction to a news story about your team, ignore it, it's a liberal psyop!" - How miraculously convenient for your average psychopathic conservative. From the same people who espouse "law and order" and "Christian morality" but also "it's not a crime if you're not caught".
Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...
‘Mastermind’ Taylor Swift drives hoards of fans to voter registration site (www.independent.co.uk)
Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action....
Devs on Unity Runtime Fee: "The trust is gone forever" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts (www.bbc.com)
Missing winter sea-ice signals changes in Antarctica that could be "absolute disaster for the world", scientists say.
Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police (www.cnn.com)
Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police....
Trump tests the tolerance of judges and even his own lawyers (www.npr.org)
Former President Donald Trump's rhetoric could be setting him up for an ugly clash with judges overseeing the criminal cases against him.
Blizzard notes Overwatch 2's review bombs but insists players say it's "in the best state it's ever been" (www.eurogamer.net)
Blizzard has opened up about the impact Overwatch 2 "review bombers" have had on the team, acknowledging that the "dissatisfaction" stems from "the cancellation of the much larger component of PvE that was announced in 2019 [...] that Blizzard ultimately couldn't deliver"....
Coming to you soon... (lemmy.world)
Wells Fargo customers scramble after deposits disappear from their accounts (www.nbcnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1089947...
Twitter is pivoting to video, as all dumb websites eventually must (awfulannouncing.com)
The pivot-to-video strategy, which has been attempted and failed at by countless content companies, has its own Wikipedia page.
Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region (www.hcn.org)
Instead of fixing Oregon, the Greater Idaho movement seeks to leave it. White supremacists are on board.
Russia ‘systematically’ forcing Ukrainians to accept citizenship, US report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Ukrainians in occupied territories who refuse Russian passports face threats, intimidation and possible detention or deportation, Yale study says
Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets (apnews.com)
A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Alito says Congress has ‘no authority’ to regulate Supreme Court (thehill.com)
Justice Samuel Alito said in an interview that Congress does not have the authority to regulate the Supreme Court, pushing back against Democratic efforts to mandate stronger ethics rules for the justices. Alito argued that the Constitution does not give Congress the power to regulate the Supreme Court. While Chief Justice John...
OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy” (arstechnica.com)
I have autism (lemmy.world)
I like anime computers and programming my name is autism I am looking for friends or more
Japan’s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time (www.theguardian.com)
'It almost doubled our workload': AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.
Hunter Biden’s attorney files ethics complaint against Marjorie Taylor Greene for showing sexual images (thehill.com)
Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Friday, requesting that an ethics watchdog “immediately” initiate a review of Greene’s conduct after she …
WE NEED MORE SOLDIERS!!!! (lemm.ee)
We have territory given to us by the Fuck Spez Coalition. We just need more soldiers. Come help us spread the word of Lemmy!!...
Intel's First x86 CPU Had Secret Instructions Meant to Catch IP Thievery (www.tomshardware.com)
Expensive transistors meant some security venues were left almost unguarded.
Infected Mushroom - Heavyweight (www.youtube.com)
Texas border agents allegedly laid the wire traps that ensnared a pregnant 19-year-old woman, as part of Greg Abbott's plan to keep migrants out. (jezebel.com)
She had to be cut out of the wire and miscarried soon after.
Exclusive: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say (www.houstonchronicle.com)
Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...