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Avid Amoeba

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  • Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy

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  • Unlikely. Their ODM bought them. Our home maps would however become part of their property. While I'm not happy about it, I think I prefer that than Amazon having it tbh.

  • Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy

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  • Yet another example that the firms that actually make the things are the ones that matter in the long run.

    Apparently Picea makes Roomba, Shark, Anker (Eufy). Maybe also some Dyson.

  • Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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  • Oh yeah, we're not in a good place. Neither is Venezuela, and likely neither is Cuba as a result of this shit show. I'm really disheartened at the moment. I think the meme is just cope for me, really hoping this ends up being just another distraction that blows up in their faces before they go through with it. 😔

  • Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • Yes. The way things ate going, at some point it may become less harmful and easier to deal with unwanted Chinese tech than American. Pay much lower profit margins as a bonus.

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • At some point we'd have to start importing TVs from the other side of the Great Chinese Firewall to avoid unwanted US tech. It's getting ridiculous.

  • What are you using n8n for?

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  • Oh that looks like a nice resource.

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • Yes and my point is that even if the corpo pays, which it absolutely should, that's not the end of the economic effect when that resource is used to the limit at the moment. We will end up paying too.

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • The demand for construction workers? If so, it could, if there's enough unemployment. Otherwise workers from some other industry would have to shift to construction. Creating a shortage in that industry. Switching industries is a more difficult process than getting an unemployed worker to work in construction though. But if there's already a labour shortage in the construction industry, then that answers the question. There isn't enough unemployment or shifting from other industries to fill the demand. And there seems to be one.

    If there's underemployment in construction or higher unemployment, then yeah, the construction labour market would likely expand without much effect in housing and infrastructure.

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • When unemployment is low in the construction sector, we can't have them pay. When they pay, they'll outbid us for workers who were previously building homes and public infrastructure. We'd either have to outbid cloud for these workers, or we'd pay by having higher housing prices and crumbling infrastructure, which incurs other social costs. Real resources are finite. The only way for us to not pay is for them to not build the power plants and datacenters. In a truly democratic system we'd be able to say no. In this system, capital outvotes us.

    E: I'm not arguing that the corpos shouldn't pay. They should. I'm arguing the economic effect doesn't stop with that payment and we're still fucked.

  • Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: ‘We See The Direction The Industry Is Headed’

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  • It's also the only way to save it from destruction driven by its major shareholders.

  • Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100

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  • Yup, there's definitely use cases but the battery is a no-no. It has to be replaceable even if it compromises the design a bit.

  • What are you using n8n for?

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  • Are there any a|ternatives to n8n?

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    Lemmy has started blocking VPN and TOR traffic!

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  • Sounds like a problem with the hosting of lemmy.world. I think they're using Hetzner. I don't think Lemmy cares at all what IP you come from.

  • Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]

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  • Yup. I opted for mininally computerized Whirlpool based on some of his stuff in 2020. Mainly because they're simple and there's plenty of parts and repair people who can fix them in Canada.

  • WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

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  • But the top 20% can still spend. That number is going to drop off a cliff when the stock market tumbles, and the spending with it.

  • WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

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  • If you look at the history of capitalism you could observe the stage where capitalism does put profits into R&D is temporary. Eventually capitalists reach enough power that lets them generate profts without significant reinvestment and instead spend them on luxury goods. Happened in the late 19th/early 20th century. It's happening now as well. In-between that there was a massive state intervention that took significant economic power from capitalist class and put it into the state. The period when capitalism worked well for the majority was a deviation from the mean. Relevant.

  • Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port

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  • Chromium was created by the KDE community which needed HTML rendering in.. the 90s? Then it was taken up by MS competitors who wanted to make a rival of Internet Explorer and they "created" WebKit. Nokia, Apple, BlackBerry, later Google and many others contributed to WebKit which became Safari and eventually Chrome. At one point Google broke off from that codebase to create Blink.

    I'll give you that you've got a decent narrative and I wouldn't have objected much if Google was the "Don't be evil" company it used to be in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Which is also when they acquired Danger and released their src as Android. We're not in that world anymore. I don't give a flying fuck where the innovation is because I can rely on GCC being here 50 years from now, when the current corporate players be long gone.

    Again, I really wish we lived in 2015 when people (and I) trusted Google enough to make it trivial for me to advocate for their projects and products.

  • Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port

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  • For sure. I'm considering corpo software as a liability by definition.