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  • The important thing is that musk is a classic libertarian grifter.

    His cars are propped up by government subsidies (or they were, I think he's running into problems), starlink is heavily used by NASA, and the boring company is just another way to extract government money.

    He'll pretend to be a global libertarian, but what he really wants is sky high tarrifs so he doesn't have to compete with Chinese electric cars.

  • It's about generative AI as it is currently used.

    But yeah, the complaints everyone has about Gen AI are mostly driven by speculative venture capital. The only advantage Google and openai can maintain over open source models is a willingness to spend more per token than a hobbyist. So they're pumping cash in to subsidize their LLMs and it carries with it a stupidly high environmental cost.

    There's no possible end game here. Unlike the normal tech monopolies, you can't put hobbiest models out of business, by subsidizing your own products. But the market is irrational and expects a general AI, and is encouraging this behavior.

  • I didn't think so. It's a deliberate design decision by the developers to make it really hard to compute.

    This is actually something where Bluesky is doing more interesting federated things than Lemmy or Mastodon, and let's you use your own algorithm while with both Lemmy and Mastodon you're stuck with standard algorithms.

    None of the alternative algorithms are particularly compelling yet, they're mostly topic feeds, but who knows what'll happen.

  • And yet you're on Lemmy which also has a hot feed.

    The things is you can do both, and it's hard and unrewarding to find interesting things on Mastodon. So I stopped trying.

    The really dumb things is the new feed is also an algorithm. You're just proud that it's not very good.

  • It's just a mathematical inevitablity that it won't work well.

    Most people's posts are not as good as their best ones and if I'm just going to dip into a site I'd like to see things I'm interested in that other people also thought were good.

    Some people don't like to use social media like that though, and more power to you if Mastodon scratches your itch.

  • Yeah but most toots are boring, and the chronological feed, and refusal to even hide repeated posts by the same person, does Masterdon absolutely no favors.

    I think the last time I logged in my new feed was entirely posts by Cory doctro, who just decided to toot an entire article, and after I clicked more posts enough, it was just showing pictures of someone else's cup of tea.

  • Yeah I tried to move to Mastodon but without a hot feed it's just so boring.

    Unfortunately only Bluesky and Lemmy seem to be attempting a decentralized hot feed, and Lemmy is too quiet for niche topics, and Bluesky is only decentralized in theory.

  • That's probably more a stalling tactic then anything else.

    The longer they can run down the clock, the greater the chance is that Trump dismantles the FCC before the case is over, and even if he doesn't do that it lets them keep selling data for longer.

  • The infographic says crop farming. Ireland is green because of the grass which goes with animal farming.

    The chart is lazy nonsense that ignores most of the farming in Ireland.

  • Fucking nailed it. My favorite application of it is to brew espresso at exactly the right temperature.

  • Fuck palantir, I want to know how Sauron is voting.

  • They recommend that you do vote, and don't vote for anyone except Harris.

    But they don't explicitly recommend you vote for Harris.

    This is super serious voting strategy you guys.

  • He fucked up dropping out as well as everything else. People can still vote 🪱 in a bunch of states.

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  • It really comes down to what you're used to. If you use Windows tools then you already know many of the workarounds for Windows and you don't know the tools that haven't been ported there.

    For example, you know not to use Python directly, but that you have to install anaconda instead, or whatever the current problems with Python development on Windows are.

    The big obvious thing that you can't get away from is that you have to do things differently if you have develop for two different OSs with a view to deploying on Linux.

    In particular support for shell scripts is crap on Windows. I could learn powershell or there's workarounds using WSL and a bunch of other stuff that I don't need to care about, but I'd rather not bother.

  • I mean coding is difficult enough as it is, I wouldn't choose to use an OS that makes it even harder.

    I use Linux because it makes my life easier. It has better support for development. Some of the other stuff is maybe not as easy or polished, but the support for dev tools and the ease of deploying to from local machines to servers that are also running Linux makes up for it.

    If I wanted more effort I'd still be using Windows. It would force me to work on cross platform development and deployment. The idea that there's value in making things unnecessarily hard is just weird. I want Linux to be as simple as possible to use, so I can spend that effort on things that actually matter.