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Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor

  • I can watch two of those per workday, on my bus commute to/from work. Usually end up watching history documentaries instead (currently going through a 6 hours one detailing the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, gonna be an interesting week)

  • it’s just factually incorrect that “The PC is dead”

    I think the author's point on this wasn't so much that "nobody uses PC anymore", but rather the concept of a Personal Computer, which you fully owned. There's also the irony of the first Apple computers being personal computers you could open, fix and modify. Software is where few people feel like they own their computers. Free software being sold to shady companies isn't new, even FOSS projects have been bought. That's the main problem the author wants to point out, which is essentially the same as Cory Doctorow's piece on enshitification.

    The author also left this:

    I’ve shown this editorial to friends, and some people felt that I did not emphasize the benefits of current technology enough. But I argue that my criticism is less about the actual technology and more about how we use it—and how companies make money from it.

  • To me, mostly convenience. I do that with anime and, if the show doesn't grab my attention by halfway of the first episode, I won't feel like I wasted extra time waiting for the full episode to be downloaded only to decide that nah, not worth it.

  • The very first thing that would die is truth. There is no way to solve that without "censoring" or limiting speech.

    Here are some problems that would just rocket their way into everyone's lives

    • Impersonation, made much easier online
    • Scams and frauds would no longer be crimes
    • Unregulated advertising, effectively the same problem as above (this health supplement will cure cancer and make your dick grow!!!!!)
    • Defamation and general reputation killing would happen every 5 seconds
    • Some assholes leaving porn playing on public streets and in front of schools, 24/7, because lulz
    • Same as above, but with disgusting shit like 2girls1cup, goatse and similars
  • YOINK!

  • Pretty sure youtube still runs on deficit. Storage costs alone would probably bankrupt some small countries.

  • Force pushing other people's keyboards so they're always mistyping

  • Can it cross federate? Or at least within pixel fed, how easy is it for instances to federate? I've found that mastodon requires at least one person from a different instance following you before your stuff federates there

  • Maybe it's counted together with mastodon?

  • There are plenty of cliffs in deserts :)

  • I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better

    HAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHHA - wheeeeeeeeeeze - HOOOOOHAHAHAHAHAHA-HA-HAAAAA!!!

    The Meta boss was defiant in downplaying the possibility of a mass exodus of users.

    I mean, he's probably not worrying too much about the US/EU markets, since in terms of MAU, Southeast Asia probably represents over 70% of that. Does anyone know what has been the general reaction to his bullshit over there?

    Mary-Frances Makichen, a Threads user who has 253 followers, lamented that Meta and Zuckerberg “are counting on the fact that it’s too hard for people to leave Threads and IG.”

    Pretty much. It's probably actually impossible to fully delete the accounts, fuckyzucky lives off users' data.

  • It was the worst tech acquisition until Twitter.

    To be fair to the fucking muskrat, he paid 44 billion dollars to have the loudest voice in the world. By chance, he also got a lot of power in US politics. Sure, he's killing twitter in the process, but he can probably recoup the money through other means.

  • Are people who offer work for artists using Pixelfed?

  • Then you took an arrow to the knee

  • Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn’t.

    And why is that?

    Project DIGITS features the new NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, offering a petaflop of AI computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning and running large AI models.

    With the Grace Blackwell architecture, enterprises and researchers can prototype, fine-tune and test models on local Project DIGITS systems running Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS, and then deploy them seamlessly on NVIDIA DGX Cloud™, accelerated cloud instances or data center infrastructure.

    Oh, because it's not a fucking consumer product. It's for enterprises that need a cheap supercomputer

  • Beaker Browser lets you make sites and have people connect to it via P2P https://beakerbrowser.com/ ; it uses the Hypercore protocol - In a way, it's an "easier to get into" attempt, since the browser doubles as a "server"

    There's also I2P that works in a similar manner to Freenet and has much greater focus on privacy

  • Any idea what a molecule like that would be useful for?

  • Carbonated loss

  • From my limited knowledge, you'd need one account on each instance and have all of them boosting the original post, which would make them more visible in their local instances.